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"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic (born Alfred Matthew Yankovic, 1959) is an American singer and accordionist known for song parodies such as "Eat It" and "Amish Paradise."
"Weird Al" Yankovic discography
"Weird Al" Yankovic discography: 14 studio albums, 1983's "Weird Al" Yankovic to 2014's Mandatory Fun, plus parodies, style parodies, polka medleys, and the first comedy album to debut at Billboard No. 1.
"Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D
"Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D, also In 3-D, is Yankovic's second album, released February 28, 1984 on Scotti Bros., produced by Rick Derringer; its Eat It parody of Michael Jackson's Beat It made him a star.
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is Oasis's second studio album, released 2 October 1995 on Creation Records. Recorded at Rockfield Studios and produced by Noel Gallagher and Owen Morris, it sold 347,000 UK copies in its first week and over 22 million worldwide, featuring Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger.
(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story
(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story, also known as Where Do I Begin, is the vocal version of Francis Lai's theme from the 1970 film Love Story, with lyrics by Carl Sigman; Andy Williams' 1971 recording peaked at UK #4.
[WBN74] NGC 7538 IRS 1
NGC 7538 IRS 1 is a very young embedded O-type massive protostar in the H II region NGC 7538, identified as an infrared source in 1974.
W
W (w), called "double-u", is the 23rd letter of the English alphabet and Latin script, a medieval ligature of two U/V letters created because Latin lacked /w/; encoded at U+0057/U+0077 in Unicode Basic Latin.
W (New York City Subway service)
The W is a New York City Subway service running weekdays between Astoria, Queens and Whitehall Street in Lower Manhattan, shown in yellow on subway maps.
W (더블유) (TV series)
W (더블유, W – Two Worlds Apart) is a 2016 MBC Korean drama, 16 episodes, starring Lee Jong-suk and Han Hyo-joo, written by Song Jae-jung, about a surgeon pulled into a webtoon world; it peaked at 12.9% ratings and won seven 2016 MBC Drama Awards.
W 3
W 3 (Westerhout 3) is a giant molecular cloud and massive star-forming region in Cassiopeia, about 6,000 light years from the Sun, known for its embedded massive stars.
W 43
W 43 (Westerhout 43) is a massive star-forming molecular cloud complex and H II region in the Milky Way, near the junction of the Scutum arm and the Galactic bar.
W 49
W 49 is a bright radio source in the constellation Aquila, discovered by Gart Westerhout in 1958, comprising the star-forming region W49A and the supernova remnant W49B.
W 49b
W49B is a highly distorted core-collapse supernova remnant in Aquila, about 26,000 light years away, whose jets shaped the debris and may have left the Milky Way's youngest black hole.
W 51
Westerhout 51 is a massive star-forming complex about 17,000 light-years from Earth in Aquila, containing star-forming regions W51A and W51B and the supernova remnant W51C, a key cosmic-ray acceleration target.
W and Z bosons
The W and Z bosons, also called weak gauge bosons or intermediate vector bosons, are the massive particles that mediate the weak interaction, discovered at CERN in 1983 and earning the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics.
W Antliae
W Antliae is a variable star whose classification is assessed against the criteria separating the semiregular SRd variables from the RV Tauri variables, two classes whose boundary is known to be indistinct.
W band
The W band is the portion of the microwave spectrum from 75 to 110 GHz, used chiefly for cloud radar, imaging, communication links, and automotive radar.
W Capital Partners
W Capital Partners is a New York private equity firm, founded in 2001, that invests in direct and GP-led secondaries, buying existing stakes in private-equity-backed companies.
W Herculis
W Herculis (W Her) is a Mira variable red giant star in the constellation Hercules, swinging five to seven magnitudes brighter and fainter every 280 days.
W Hotels
W Hotels is a luxury lifestyle hotel brand founded by Starwood in 1998 and owned by Marriott since 2016, known for design and its Whatever/Whenever service.
W Hydrae
W Hydrae, also known as W Hya, is an oxygen-rich red giant about 320 light-years away in Hydra, a nearby example of a star shedding its outer layers.
W Kip Viscusi
W Kip Viscusi (born 1949) is an American economist at Vanderbilt University whose estimates of the value of a statistical life are used throughout the United States federal government.
W Motors
W Motors is a Dubai-based automotive manufacturer founded in 2012 by Lebanese entrepreneur Ralph R. Debbas, known for the Lykan HyperSport and Fenyr SuperSport hypercars.
W National Park
W National Park is a transboundary park in West Africa, named for the W-shaped bend of the Niger River, where Niger, Burkina Faso, and Benin meet.
W postcode area
The W postcode area, also known as the West London postcode area, covers part of central and west London with 26 postcode districts under the single post town LONDON.
W Region Biosphere Reserve (Benin)
The W Region Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in northeast Benin, designated in 2002, forming the Beninese part of the W–Arly–Pendjari complex shared with Burkina Faso and Niger.
W Region Biosphere Reserve (Burkina Faso)
W Region Biosphere Reserve, Burkina Faso, UNESCO MAB site designated 2002, 744,366 ha, part of the W-Arly-Pendjari transboundary complex with Benin and Niger, first transboundary biosphere reserve in Africa.
W Region Biosphere Reserve (Niger)
W Region Biosphere Reserve (Réserve de biosphère transfrontière du W) is Niger's UNESCO MAB site around W National Park; designated 2002 as Africa's first transboundary biosphere reserve with Benin and Burkina Faso, covering 728,000 ha in Niger and holding the last Nigerien giraffes.
W Series (championship)
W Series: all-female single-seater motor racing championship (2019-2023) using Tatuus T-318 cars, won three times by Jamie Chadwick, an F1 support series from 2021, ended in administration June 2023 and succeeded by F1 Academy.