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  Waleran III Count of Ligny

  Waleran III of Luxembourg was the governor of Genoa under French dominion between November 1396 and February 1400.
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  Wallachia

  Wallachia was a Romanian principality in the Middle Ages.
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  ware
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  warriors

  Those trained for or engaged in the physical combat of warfare, especially close hand-to-hand combat, and designated for or sanctioned in that function by the society or group for which they fight, irrespective of membership in an army. Includes men of the warrior age grade in certain pre-literate societies, as for instance, among some East African pastoral societies. For members of an army, whether directly involved in combat or in other duties, use "soldiers."
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  watercraft
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  wax

  Any solid or semi-solid substance that is slightly greasy to touch, usually solid, translucent, and has a low melting point; waxes are not a chemically homogeneous group. Waxes are composed of long chain hydrocarbon compounds, and may contain esters of fatty acids and alcohols, are thermoplastic and melt at low temperatures of between 40 and 100 C. In general, waxes are water-repellent, smooth, soluble in organic solvents, and classified as animal (e.g., beeswax), vegetable (e.g., bayberry), mineral (e.g., paraffin), or synthetic (e.g., polyethylene). Waxes are used for polishes, candles, crayons, sealants, coatings, adhesives, waterproofing, carbon paper, media in encaustic and wax emulsion paintings, and as repellents in wax-resist watercolor paintings.
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  weavers

  People who do weaving, which is the process of interlacing strands or textile or another material to make materials or objects such as cloth, wicker, baskets, and so on.
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  wet nurses
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  wine

  Alcoholic beverage made from fermented grapes. The term has been used for beverages made from other fermented plants.
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  Wolfgang Stromer

  Wolfgang Stromer was a German economic historian active during the twentieth century.
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  wood (plant material)
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  wood workers
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  wool combers

  This refers to those persons whose occupation was to comb wool in order to prepare the fibers for spinning into yarns.
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  wool merchants
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  wool weavers

  Trade- or craftspeople who created cloth by weaving threads together. Wool would be gathered from sheep, cleaned, carded, dyed, and then spun into thread. Weavers would then use a loom to weave the threads together to form fabrics. This generally refers to a trade active from the Middle Ages through the Industrial Revolution when the process was taken up by machine looms.
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  worn costume accessories

  Items that do not form the primary articles of clothing, but are instead the smaller articles of dress, and that are worn on the body, as opposed to being carried.
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  Wrocław

  Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland in historical region of Silesia. It was situated within the Kingdom of Poland during the medieval and early modern eras.
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  Xeni
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  Ximenito de Belprato
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  Zaccaria de Astis
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  Zaccaria de Canobio

  Zaccaria de Canobio was a slaveholder who was active in Genoa during the second half of the fifteenth century.
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  Zaccaria de Sancto Ulcixio
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  Zaccaria Riccio
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  Zaccaria Spinola

  Zaccaria Spinola was a nobleman who was active during the first half of the fifteenth century.
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  Zaccaria Zaccaria