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Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, also the marriage creating the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, was held 19 May 2018 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, drawing nearly 18 million UK and over 29 million US viewers.
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
Marriage of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton, 29 April 2011, 11 a.m., Westminster Abbey, London. About 1,900 guests, Sarah Burton dress, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, up to 2 billion viewers.
Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten
The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten was the marriage of the heir presumptive to the British throne at Westminster Abbey, London, on 20 November 1947, amid postwar austerity.
Wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married July 3, 2026 at Madison Square Garden, announced by Swift's publicist; engaged August 2025. Adam Sandler officiated, Stevie Nicks performed, Dior attire, no photos released.
Wedding reception
Wedding reception: the party held after a marriage ceremony, also called a wedding party or walima in Islamic tradition. Typically the largest wedding expense, averaging 116 US guests, now often part of multiday celebrations.
Wedding ring
Wedding ring: a metal band exchanged to mark marriage, rooted in Roman custom. Key facts: Roman silver/gold gendered rings, Byzantine OMONOIA rings, 1940s double-ring marketing, USD 106.6 billion 2026 market.
Weddings in India
Weddings in India, also called shaadi or vivah, are multi-day religious and regional marriage ceremonies governed by separate personal-law acts, with about 90% arranged, a ₹6.5 lakh crore wedding economy, and strong caste and religious endogamy.
Wedem Asfare
Wedem Asfare, also written Wuden Asferé, is a king of Aksum known only from later king lists, which name him as the maternal grandfather of Queen Gudit.
Wedge (mechanical device)
A wedge is a simple machine, two inclined planes back to back, that converts an applied force into a larger sideways splitting force, as in axes, knives, and nails.
Wedge Antilles
Wedge Antilles, Corellian Rebel starfighter pilot in Star Wars; Red Two at Yavin, Rogue Three at Hoth, Red Leader at Endor; only pilot in both Death Star attacks, later Rogue Squadron leader and Falcon gunner in Episode IX.
Wedge biopsy
A wedge biopsy is a surgical technique that removes a wedge-shaped piece of liver or lung tissue for diagnosis, usually during open surgery, laparoscopy, or VATS.
Wedge Mtn.
Wedge Mtn. (Wedge Mountain), 2,891 m, is the highest peak in Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC, east of Whistler; named 1932 over 'Mount Vancouver', first recorded ascent by Neal Carter and Charles Townsend, 10 September 1923.
Wedge osteotomy
Wedge osteotomy is a procedure that removes or opens a wedge of bone to realign a limb or spine, used most often around the knee for arthritis.
Wedge prism
A wedge prism, also known as an optical wedge, is an optical element that deflects a light beam by a fixed angle, typically used for steering and aligning laser beams.
Wedge resection
Wedge resection is a surgical procedure that removes a small, wedge-shaped portion of an organ, most often the lung, typically with a stapler rather than anatomic dissection.
Wedge-tailed eagle
Wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax), Australia's largest bird of prey, with a 2.3 m wingspan and wedge-shaped tail; feeds on carrion and rabbits; Tasmanian subspecies fleayi is Endangered with under 1000 birds.
Wedging of vertebra
Wedging of vertebra (ICD-11 ME92.0, 楔状椎) is a radiological finding of asymmetric vertebral body height loss, usually anterior. Mild wedging is physiological, greatest at the thoracolumbar junction; marked wedging suggests wedge compression fracture, Scheuermann's disease, or scoliosis.
Wedgwood
Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood & Sons), English fine ceramics maker founded 1759 at Burslem by Josiah Wedgwood I; known for Queen's Ware, Black Basalt, and Jasperware; owned by Finland's Fiskars Group since 2015, producing at Barlaston and Indonesia.
Wednesday
Wednesday, called Budhavāra in Sanskrit tradition, is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday, named for the god Woden as a translation of Latin "day of Mercury".
Wednesday (TV series)
Wednesday is a Netflix dark fantasy comedy-drama created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams at Nevermore Academy; Netflix's most-watched English-language series, with Season 3 wrapped in September 2026.
Wednesday 13
Wednesday 13 is the stage name of Joseph Poole (born 1976, Lexington, North Carolina), horror-punk frontman of Murderdolls with Joey Jordison and solo artist behind Transylvania 90210, Necrophaze, and Mid Death Crisis.
Wednesday Addams
Wednesday Addams is the morbid daughter of Gomez and Morticia in The Addams Family, created in Charles Addams's 1938 New Yorker cartoons, named from the 'full of woe' nursery rhyme in 1964, and played by Lisa Loring, Christina Ricci, and Jenna Ortega in Netflix's record-setting 2022 series Wednesday.
Wednesday Addams (Wednesday)
Wednesday Addams as portrayed in Netflix's Wednesday (2022–), created by Gough and Millar with Tim Burton, starring Jenna Ortega; a psychic teen detective at Nevermore Academy, record-breaking hit, two seasons.
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. is Simon & Garfunkel's 1964 Columbia debut LP, produced by Tom Wilson, a folk-revival album of two voices and a guitar that sold about 2,000 copies until its acoustic 'The Sound of Silence' was electrically overdubbed and hit No. 1.
Wednesday Night Wars
Wednesday Night Wars: 2019-2021 TV ratings rivalry between AEW Dynamite (TNT) and WWE NXT (USA Network) in the Wednesday 8 p.m. slot; ended when NXT moved to Tuesdays in April 2021.
WeDoctor Holdings (微医控股)
WeDoctor Holdings (微医控股) is a Chinese digital-healthcare company based in Hangzhou that grew out of Guahao.com, opened China's first internet hospital in Wuzhen in 2015, and remains private.
Wee Willie Winkie
Wee Willie Winkie is a Scottish nursery rhyme by William Miller, first published in Whistle-Binkie (1841), about a nightgown-clad figure checking that children are in bed by eight o'clock.
Wee-Bey Brice
Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice is a fictional enforcer on HBO's The Wire, played by Hassan Johnson. Chief hitman of the Barksdale organization, sentenced to life without parole in 2002, father of Namond, and source of the wee-bey.gif reaction meme.
WEE1
WEE1 (WEE1 G2 checkpoint kinase, WEE1A) is a human 11p15.4 gene encoding a nuclear kinase that inhibits CDK1/CDK2 via Tyr15 phosphorylation, enforcing the G2/M checkpoint; its inhibitor adavosertib (AZD1775) is the most clinically studied WEE1-targeted cancer drug.
Weebl and Bob
Weebl and Bob (The Everyday Happenings of Weebl and Sometimes Weebl's Friend Bob) is a British Flash cartoon series by Jonti Picking, first uploaded June 6, 2002, about two egg-shaped characters obsessed with pie; licensed by MTV UK as Wobbl and Bob.