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Wellenwerk
Wellenwerk Berlin is an indoor surfing facility in Berlin-Lichtenberg, opened November 2019 in a former waterworks hall, running the citywave standing wave, Berlin's only indoor surf wave, with a 10 × 18 m pool, 1.6 m wave, 27 °C water, and over 50 sessions weekly.
Wellerman
Wellerman (Soon May the Wellerman Come) is a New Zealand whaling song about the Weller Brothers' supply ships. Collected by Neil Colquhoun around 1966 and made a global 2021 hit by Nathan Evans's TikTok video and a 220 Kid x Billen Ted remix.
Welles Crowther
Welles Remy Crowther, the "Man in the Red Bandana," was a 24-year-old equities trader and volunteer firefighter who saved at least 18 people in the World Trade Center South Tower on September 11, 2001, before dying in its collapse.
Wellesley College
Wellesley College, also known historically as Wellesley Female Seminary, is a private liberal arts college for women in Wellesley, Massachusetts, founded in 1870 and enrolling roughly 2,400 undergraduates.
Wellesley family
Wellesley family, Anglo-Irish aristocratic family originally named Colley/Cowley of Rutland, later Wesley, then Wellesley; seat at Dangan Castle, Meath. Known for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and brother Richard, Marquess Wellesley.
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Wellesley, Massachusetts, formerly the West Needham area, is an affluent residential town about 15 miles west of Boston, incorporated in 1881, with 29,550 residents and median household income above $250,000.
Wellfleet Communications
Wellfleet Communications was a networking company in Bedford, Massachusetts, founded in 1986 by Paul Severino, that became the number-two maker of multiprotocol routers behind Cisco.
Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Wellfleet, Massachusetts: Outer Cape Cod town in Barnstable County, incorporated 1763, famous for Wellfleet oysters, whaling and fishing history, and Cape Cod National Seashore lands covering 61 percent of its 13,100 acres.
Wellington
Wellington, in Māori Te Whanganui-a-Tara, is the capital of New Zealand, on the harbor of the same name at the southern end of the North Island; about 211,000 people live there.
Wellington boot
Wellington boot (welly, gumboot): waterproof pull-on boot named for the 1st Duke of Wellington, adapted from the Hessian boot by shoemaker George Hoby; first used 1816, made in rubber from 1856, mass-issued to WWI soldiers in 1916.
Wellington Botanic Garden
Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā, a 25-hectare public garden in Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand; land set aside 1844, established by the Botanic Garden Act 1869 under James Hector, city council managed since 1891.
Wellington College, Berkshire
Wellington College, Berkshire: independent co-educational day and boarding school in Crowthorne, founded 1853 as a memorial to the Duke of Wellington; 18 houses, about 1,100 pupils, notable for its wellbeing curriculum and bursary programs.
Wellington Group
The Wellington Group was a grouping of poets active in Wellington, New Zealand, in the early 1950s, including James K. Baxter, Louis Johnson, and Alistair Te Ariki Campbell.
Wellington Hadley Harbor Investors
Wellington Hadley Harbor Investors is a family of Cayman-domiciled late-stage private equity funds managed by Wellington Management of Boston, buying stakes in private companies one to three years before an IPO or sale.
Wellington Island
Wellington Island (Isla Wellington), a large continental island in Chile's Patagonian archipelago west of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, mostly within Bernardo O'Higgins National Park; its only settlement is Puerto Edén, home to a Kawésqar community.
Wellington Management Legacy Securities Ppif
The Wellington Management Legacy Securities PPIF was a group of four investment funds formed in 2009 by Wellington Management to buy pre-crisis mortgage securities under the US Treasury's PPIP.
Wellington Mara
Wellington Mara (1916–2005), NFL executive and co-owner/president of the New York Giants; son of founder Tim Mara, Hall of Famer (1997), pioneer of league-wide TV revenue sharing, namesake of "The Duke" football.
Wellington Paranormal
Wellington Paranormal is a New Zealand mockumentary comedy horror series by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, a What We Do in the Shadows spinoff following Officers Minogue and O'Leary investigating supernatural cases, aired on TVNZ 2 in four seasons, 2018-2022.
Wellington Phoenix FC
Wellington Phoenix FC, the Nix, New Zealand's premier professional football club in the A-League. Founded 2007 replacing the New Zealand Knights; men's and women's teams; academy since 2013; first NZ A-League grand finalist (women, 2026).
Wellington, Florida
Wellington, Florida: a village in Palm Beach County incorporated December 31, 1995, population about 62,000, built from Charles Oliver Wellington's Flying Cow Ranch and known as a winter equestrian capital hosting the Winter Equestrian Festival.
Wellington, Somerset
Wellington, Somerset: a market town in the Tone vale, chartered in 1215 by the Bishops of Wells, tied to the Duke of Wellington's estates and the Fox Brothers Tonedale Mills and Grade II Tone Works textile sites.
Wellity Lucky
Wellity Lucky (Wellity Lucky Omoruyi), born 2006 in Zaragoza, is a Spanish-born centre-back for Liverpool FC. Joined the academy in 2019, signed professionally in 2023, debuted for the first team in the League Cup in October 2025.
Wellow
Wellow: Roman courtyard villa at Upper Hayes, Somerset, occupied about AD 220-380, famed for mosaics found 1685 and 1737 and engraved by the Society of Antiquaries in 1738.
Wells
Wells, or Lake Wells, is a horseshoe-shaped salt lake in Western Australia's Northern Goldfields, named after explorer Lawrence Wells; its hypersaline brine hosts a 29 Mt sulphate-of-potash resource and an EPA-approved but undeveloped potash project.
Wells (Martian crater)
Wells is a 98.28 km IAU-approved impact crater on Mars at 59.94°S, 122.40°E, named for Herbert G. Wells and approved in 1973, distinct from the separate Orson Welles crater.
Wells Adams
Wells Adams (Wells Richard Adams, born 1984) is an American TV and radio personality, long-running bartender of Bachelor in Paradise since season 4, former Bachelorette season 12 contestant, host of Best in Dough, and husband of actress Sarah Hyland.
Wells Cathedral
Wells Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Andrew, is a Church of England cathedral in Wells, Somerset, and the seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is an American bank holding company in San Francisco, founded in 1852 and the fourth-largest US bank, with about $2.1 trillion in assets.
Wells Gray Provincial Park
Wells Gray Provincial Park, established 1939 near Clearwater, BC, is a 519,357-hectare wilderness in the Cariboo Mountains known as Canada's Waterfalls Park, home to 141 m Helmcken Falls, Murtle Lake (North America's largest canoe-only lake), and the Clearwater River watershed.
Wells score
Wells score: clinical prediction rule estimating pretest probability of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, also called Wells criteria; point-based DVT and PE versions guide D-dimer testing versus imaging in NICE and AHA/ACC pathways.