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Waverton Temporary Camp
Waverton Temporary Camp: Roman marching camp in Waverton, Cheshire, found as a crop mark in 1994, c.1.2 ha, on the Whitchurch-Chester route east of the River Dee; scheduled monument 1014115.
Waves (2019 film)
Waves (2019) is an American drama written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, released by A24 on November 15, 2019. It stars Kelvin Harrison Jr., Sterling K. Brown, and Taylor Russell as a South Florida family facing loss; scored by Reznor and Ross.
Waves at Matsushima
Waves at Matsushima (松島図屏風) is a pair of six-panel folding screens painted by Tawaraya Sōtatsu in the 17th century, now held by the Freer Gallery of Art.
Waves in magnetized plasmas
Waves in magnetized plasmas are collective oscillations of a plasma threaded by a magnetic field, which makes the medium anisotropic and splits disturbances into branches like the shear Alfvén and magnetosonic waves.
Waves of democracy
Waves of democracy: Samuel Huntington's 1991 framework of three democratization waves (1828–1926, 1943–1962, from 1974) each followed by a reverse wave, plus scholarly critiques and the current autocratization reversal.
Waves of ideological change
A wave of ideological change is a clustered, transnational period in which one ideology spreads across many countries at once, driven by great-power shocks through coercion, inducement, and emulation.
WAVEWATCH III
WAVEWATCH III is a third-generation spectral wind-wave model developed at NOAA/NCEP, the National Weather Service's operational global wave forecast model since 2000, run as GFS-Wave coupled to the Global Forecast System.
Wavin' Flag
Wavin' Flag: 2009 song by Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan from the album Troubadour, written with Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Jean Daval; reworked as the Coca-Cola Celebration Mix anthem of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and a Haitian charity single.
Wavves
Wavves (also styled Wavvves for the 2009 album) is a San Diego rock band formed in 2008 by Nathan Williams, known for lo-fi surf punk, the Fat Possum albums Wavvves and King of the Beach, and later records through Ghost Ramp.
Wavy Gravy
Wavy Gravy, born Hugh Nanton Romney Jr. (May 15, 1936), American entertainer and peace activist; Hog Farm leader and Woodstock 1969 'Please Force' chief; co-founder of Seva Foundation and Camp Winnarainbow; named by B.B. King.
Wavy the Creator
Wavy the Creator is the stage name of Jennifer Ejoke, a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and photographer in the alté scene, known for 'H.I.G.H', 'Body Deep', and 'Star'.
Waw (letter)
Waw (ו, also called vav; Arabic و wāw) is the sixth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, originally /w/ and now /v/ in modern Israeli Hebrew, with a numerical value of 6.
Wawa (company)
Wawa, Inc. is a privately held American convenience store chain headquartered in Wawa, Pennsylvania, with more than 1,100 stores known for made-to-order food, coffee, and fuel.
Wawalag Planitia
Wawalag Planitia, a 2,600-km-wide volcanic lowland plain on Venus at 30S 217E, IAU-named in 1997 after Arnhemland Yulengor tale heroines; mapped for dyke swarms, lineaments, and shield volcanoes.
Wawat
Wawat is the ancient Egyptian name for Lower Nubia, the Nile Valley between the First and Second Cataracts, later a province of Egypt ruled by a viceroy.
Wawel Castle
Wawel Castle (Zamek Królewski na Wawelu), the former residence of Poland's monarchs on Wawel Hill in Kraków, was rebuilt in Renaissance style after 1504 and is now a museum.
Wawel Dragon
Smok Wawelski, the Wawel Dragon of Kraków legend, lived in a cave under Wawel Hill and died from sulfur-stuffed cattle; first recorded by Kadłubek, commemorated by Chromy's 1972 fire-breathing statue.
Wawilak Sisters
The Wawilak Sisters, also spelled Wawalag or Wagilag, are two ancestral creator women of Yolngu cosmology in Arnhem Land, whose myth anchors ceremonies such as the Djungguwan.
Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki
Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki, Latinized Laurentius Grimalius Goslicius (c. 1530–1607), was a Polish nobleman, bishop, diplomat, and political writer best known for his treatise De optimo senatore (Venice, 1568).
Wax
A wax is a lipid-like solid, malleable near room temperature and water-repellent; strictly an ester of a long-chain fatty acid and alcohol, industrially also hydrocarbon mixtures like paraffin.
Wax and gold
Wax and gold (Amharic: sem-ena-werq) is an Ethiopian poetic tradition in which words carry an apparent meaning, the wax, and a hidden significance, the gold.
Wax biosynthesis
Wax biosynthesis is the enzymatic production of wax esters and related long-chain lipids. Humans use FAR1/FAR2 and AWAT1/AWAT2; plants use FAE elongation with acyl-reduction and decarbonylation branches; bacteria use bifunctional WS/DGAT enzymes.
Wax bullet
A wax bullet is a projectile made from paraffin and other wax preparations, fired by the primer alone for indoor target shooting, fast draw competition, and early 1900s non-lethal pistol dueling.
Wax gourd
The wax gourd, also called winter melon or ash gourd (冬瓜), is an annual climbing gourd cultivated throughout tropical and subtropical Asia for its very large, wax-coated fruit.
Wax oil
Wax oil, known commercially as slack wax, is a semi-solid mixture of crystalline paraffin hydrocarbons and lubricating oil from solvent dewaxing, and the main feedstock for paraffin wax.
Wax Trax! Records discography
The Wax Trax! Records discography surveys releases by the Chicago industrial label founded by Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher, active from 1980 and absorbed by TVT Records in 1992.
Waxahachie, Texas
Waxahachie, Texas: county seat of Ellis County on I-35E, 30 miles south of Dallas; founded 1850, cotton and railroad boomtown, Gingerbread City, 1897 Ellis County courthouse, 2020 population 41,140.
Waxahatchee
Waxahatchee is the alt-country and indie rock project of Alabama singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield, also of Plains and Snocaps; known for American Weekend (2012), Saint Cloud (2020), and the Grammy-nominated Tigers Blood (2024).
Waxaklajuun Ubaah K'awiil
Waxaklajuun Ubaah K'awiil, also known as 18 Rabbit, was the thirteenth Maya king of Copán from 695 to 738, whose reign produced much of the city's monumental sculpture.
Waxed paper
Waxed paper, also called wax paper or paraffin paper, is paper coated with paraffin wax to resist moisture, grease, and odors; it is a kitchen staple but not oven-safe.