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of the city. The Winged Lion, cast in 1178, is 

 the emblem of Saint Mark; the crocodile, 

 which surmounts the second column, is sacred 

 to Saint Theodore. The Lion of Saint Mark 

 was taken to France by Napoleon in 1797, but 

 was restored in 1815. 



WINGED VICTORY, THE, or NIKE OF 

 SAMOTHRACE, ni'ke, sam'othrays, one of 

 the world's greatest pieces of sculpture, a pos- 

 session of the Louvre, in Paris. The Winged 

 Victory was discovered in 1862 on the island 



THE WINGED VICTORY 



of Samothrace, in the Aegean Sea. It is be- 

 lieved that the statue was one of many erected 

 by the Greeks in honor of their successes in 

 war, to Nike, the goddess of victory and the 

 winged messenger of Zeus and Athene. The 

 goddess is represented as standing at. the prow 

 of a vessel, with her wings outstretched. The 

 strong wind, which alternately wraps portions 

 of her transparent garment closely about her 

 figure and then sways it in the breeze, indi- 

 cates the swiftness of the moving ship. When 

 the statue was discovered the wings were sepa- 

 rated from the body, and later twenty-six other 

 blocks were found, which proved to be the 

 pedestal. Although it is without head or arms, 



the figure still gives an effect of majestic 

 beauty and dignity. 



WIN'IFRED, SAINT, a Welsh heroine of a 

 legend of the seventh century. The story is 

 told that a certain Prince Caradoc courted her 

 unsuccessfully, and, in revenge for her coldness 

 towards him, cut off her head. The head rolled 

 down the hill and into the Church of Saint 

 Bueno, and there a spring appeared. Saint 

 Bueno restored the severed head, and the 

 maiden lived for many years thereafter. The 

 well-known spring of Holywell, in England, is 

 identified with the miraculous spring of the 

 legend. In 1876 the Duke of Westminster 

 leased the spring to the corporation of Holywell 

 for a thousand years. 



WINKELRIED, wingk"lrced, ARNOLD, in 

 Swiss legends a peasant hero through whose 

 bravery Switzerland won its independence. 

 Hundreds of years ago, the story runs, when 

 the Swiss and Austrians were fighting at Sem- 

 pach, the former were hard pressed. Arnold 

 Winkelried commanded his fellow soldiers to 

 form in wedge-shaped lines behind him, and 

 dashing boldly into the Austrian ranks, 

 stretched out his arms, making his body a tar- 

 get for the hostile spears. His followers rushed 

 into the momentary breach in the line, and 

 fighting hand to hand, drove back the enemy, 

 saving the day for Switzerland and thus secur- 

 ing its independence. Many years later a 

 monument was erected on the battle field to 

 the memory of the fallen hero. Since then the 

 sentry's cry, as he calls the hours of the night, 

 has been, "All is well; remember Arnold of 

 Winkelried!" Like the story of William Tell, 

 this legend is by many regarded as purely 

 mythological, but it well illustrates the coura- 

 geous spirit of the Swiss, who are among the 

 bravest people of the world. 



WINNEBAGO, wineba'go, a North Ameri- 

 can tribe of Siouan Indians, part of whom live 

 on a reservation in Northeastern Nebraska. 

 The others are found among the whites in the 

 vicinity of Lake Winnebago, in Wisconsin, 

 where in former days the tribe had its strong- 

 holds. All told, the Winnebago Indians are 

 fewer than 2,000 in number. Originally these 

 Indians depended for food upon wild rice and 

 what they obtained by hunting and fishing. 

 They also practiced farming on a small scale, 

 and knew how to obtain sugar from the maple. 

 The women were skilled in dyeing and weav- 

 ing. These Indians call themselves Hochauka ; 

 Winnebago is an Algonquian name, applied to 

 them by white men. 



