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Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is an individually administered intelligence test for children aged 6 to 16, first published by David Wechsler in 1949.
Wechsler Memory Scale
The Wechsler Memory Scale is a battery of subtests measuring memory in adults, in clinical use since 1940 and currently in its fifth edition, published in 2025.
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) is an intelligence test for children aged 2:6 to 7:7, created by David Wechsler in 1967.
WeCrashed
WeCrashed is a 2022 Apple TV+ eight-episode limited series by Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello, based on the Wondery podcast, starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway as Adam and Rebekah Neumann of WeWork.
Weda Bay Nickel
Weda Bay Nickel (PT WBN) is an open-pit nickel mine and nickel pig iron joint venture on Halmahera Island in North Maluku, Indonesia, majority-owned by Tsingshan with Eramet as operator.
Weda Bay power station
Weda Bay power station is a captive coal-fired power station of at least 4,540 MW in Weda, Maluku, Indonesia, serving nickel smelters at the IWIP industrial park.
WEDAL Gas Pipeline
WEDAL (Westdeutschland-Anbindungsleitung) is a 236-kilometer natural gas pipeline in Germany running from Bad Salzuflen to the Belgian border near Aachen, built by WINGAS and completed in 1998.
Weddase Maryam
Weddase Maryam (ውዳሴ ማርያም, "Praise of Mary") is a Ge'ez cycle of seven daily hymns to the Virgin Mary, recited daily in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
Weddell Gyre
The Weddell Gyre is the largest Southern Ocean subpolar gyre, a clockwise circulation spanning about 5.6 million km2 from the Antarctic Peninsula to 30 degrees E, transporting roughly 51-56 Sv and feeding Antarctic Bottom Water formation.
Weddell Polynya
The Weddell Polynya was a huge open-water hole in the winter sea ice of the Weddell Sea near Maud Rise, present 1974–1976, averaging 250,000 km², maintained by deep-ocean convection; smaller Maud Rise polynyas recurred in 2016–2017.
Weddell Sea (landform)
Weddell Sea, large ice-covered embayment of the Southern Ocean named for James Weddell; site of the Weddell Gyre, Antarctic Bottom Water formation, Maud Rise polynyas, and a proposed 2.2 million km2 CCAMLR marine protected area.
Weddell Sea Bottom Water
Weddell Sea Bottom Water (WSBW) is the cold, dense deepest water mass of the Weddell Gyre, formed by mixing Ice Shelf Water plumes with Warm Deep Water; a precursor to Antarctic Bottom Water, produced at roughly 3–8 × 10^6 m³/s and exported via the western boundary current.
Wedding Album
Wedding Album is John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 Apple Records experimental album, third in their trilogy, documenting their Gibraltar marriage and Amsterdam bed-in with heartbeats, interviews, and elaborate John Kosh packaging.
Wedding anniversary
Wedding anniversary: the annual celebration of a wedding, with traditional gift materials such as paper (1st), silver (25th), gold (50th), and diamond (60th/75th); custom traces to 18th-century Germany and was standardized commercially in the US from 1922.
Wedding at Cana
The Wedding at Cana, or Marriage Feast at Cana, is a Gospel of John episode where Jesus turns water into wine at a wedding in Galilee.
Wedding cake
Wedding cake (also bride cake): decorated cake, usually white-iced and tiered, served at weddings. Traces from Roman cake-breaking customs and English bride pies to Victoria's 1840 tiered plum cake and the modern global standard.
Wedding Crashers
Wedding Crashers (2005), also called Los cazanovias, is a David Dobkin R-rated romantic comedy starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as divorce mediators who crash weddings; it grossed $288.5 million worldwide.
Wedding customs by country
Wedding customs by country: cross-cultural marriage practices including bride wealth and dowry, Chinese Six Rites, Punjabi-Chinese ritual homologies, Greek diaspora weddings, same-sex marriage legalization, and the destination wedding industry.
Wedding Daze
Wedding Daze is a 2006 American romantic comedy written and directed by Michael Ian Black, starring Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher as a couple who get engaged on a dare.
Wedding dress
Wedding dress: the garment a bride wears at her wedding ceremony. Also bridal gown. Defined by the white Western tradition since Queen Victoria's 1840 gown, cultural variants such as red Eastern bridal wear, US average cost of $2,100, and a $65.5 billion bridalwear market.
Wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer
Wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer: the ivory silk taffeta gown by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, worn 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral, with a record 25-foot train, Queen Mary's Carrickmacross lace, and over 10,000 sequins and pearls.
Wedding Impossible
Wedding Impossible (웨딩 임파서블) is a 2024 tvN romantic comedy, 12 episodes, starring Jeon Jong-seo and Moon Sang-min, adapted from a web novel about a fake marriage to a gay chaebol heir.
Wedding in Galilee (عرس الجليل)
Wedding in Galilee (عرس الجليل, Urs al-Jalil) is Michel Khleifi's 1987 debut feature, the first Palestinian feature film made in Palestine, about a mukhtar's wedding held past Israeli curfew; it won the 1987 Cannes FIPRESCI Prize.
Wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant
The 2024 wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant: Hindu-Gujarati ceremonies at Mumbai's Jio World Convention Centre, July 12–14, after a Jamnagar pre-wedding; cost estimates disputed from $132 million to over $600 million.
Wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, and Lauren Sánchez, a former television journalist, married on June 27, 2025, in a Venice ceremony that drew roughly 200 guests and protests.
Wedding of Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Jetsun Pema
The 13 October 2011 Buddhist royal wedding of Bhutan's Fifth King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Jetsun Pema at Punakha Dzong, with Je Khenpo-led rites, the Dar Na Nga, Golden Bumpa offering, and her crowning as Druk Gyal-tsuen (Queen).
Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Francis, Dauphin of France
The 24 April 1558 wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots and Francis, Dauphin of France (later Francis II) at Notre Dame, Paris, uniting the Scottish and French crowns until 1560.
Wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles
The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles took place at Windsor Guildhall on 9 April 2005, followed by a blessing at St George's Chapel.
Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
The 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, held 29 July at St Paul's Cathedral, drew 750 million TV viewers, the Emanuel 25-foot-train gown, and the 'wedding of the century' label.
Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson
Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson: the private civil marriage on 3 June 1937 at Château de Candé, France, between the abdicated Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis Warfield, held with about 16 guests and no royals present.