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Wagga Wagga
Wagga Wagga, colloquially Wagga, is NSW's largest inland city, on the Murrumbidgee River in the Riverina. Wiradjuri country; gazetted 1849, city 1946; population over 64,000; known for the Tichborne claimant, the Chiko Roll and Murrumbidgee flooding.
Waggle dance
Waggle dance: honey bee (Apis) figure-eight dance decoded by Karl von Frisch; waggle-run angle gives direction relative to the sun, duration gives distance, recruiting nestmates to food or nest sites.
Waggoner Ranch
Waggoner Ranch (W.T. Waggoner Estate, Three D Ranch), founded 1849 by Dan Waggoner in North Texas; about 535,000 acres across six counties, largest US ranch under one fence, known for Hereford cattle, quarter horse Poco Bueno, oil, and its 2016 $725 million sale to Stan Kroenke.
Waghäusel
Waghäusel, a Große Kreisstadt in Landkreis Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, formed 1975 from Kirrlach, Waghäusel, and Wiesental; known for the Eremitage palace, the Roman Wagbachkastell, and its 1837–1995 sugar factory.
Wagiman language
Wagiman (Wageman, waq; AIATSIS N27) is a severely endangered Australian Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory's Daly River region, near Pine Creek, apparently Gunwinyguan, with about ten elderly speakers by 2001 and Kriol as the community's daily language.
Wagle Ki Duniya
Wagle Ki Duniya (वागले की दुनिया), an Indian Hindi sitcom based on R. K. Laxman's Common Man, aired on Doordarshan 1988-1990 and was revived on Sony SAB in 2021 as Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey, ending 9 August 2025 after 1362 episodes.
Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey
Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey (वागले की दुनिया) is a Sony SAB Hindi family sitcom (2021–2025, 1362 episodes) starring Sumeet Raghavan, a sequel to the 1988–90 Doordarshan show based on R.K. Laxman's characters.
Wagner
Wagner is a modern two-player graph theory game in the Ludii system, played on the Wagner graph (a Mobius ladder with 8 vertices); players place non-adjacent stones and move them to form one group. Not the RL conjecture framework.
Wagner (Mercurian crater)
Wagner (Mercurian crater): IAU-approved impact crater on Mercury, feature ID 6470, 140 km diameter, centered at 67.4°S, 114.0°E in the planetographic +West system.
Wagner College
Wagner College: private liberal arts college on Grymes Hill, Staten Island, New York; founded 1883 in Rochester, moved 1918; known for the Wagner Plan practical liberal arts curriculum, NCAA Division I Seahawks, and 2026 acquisition of the St. John's University Staten Island campus.
Wagner disease
Wagner disease, also called Wagner syndrome or VCAN-related vitreoretinopathy, is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary vitreoretinopathy caused by VCAN splice-site mutations, producing an optically empty vitreous, myopia, early cataract, chorioretinal atrophy, and retinal detachment.
Wagner Group
Wagner Group (Группа Вагнера), also PMC Wagner, was a Russia-based private military entity founded in 2014 by Dmitry Utkin and financed by Yevgeny Prigozhin; it fought in Ukraine, Syria, and Africa, mutinied in June 2023, and was replaced by the state-run Africa Corps after its leaders died in a plane crash.
Wagner Group rebellion
Wagner Group rebellion: the 23–24 June 2023 armed mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenary company against Russia's military leadership, seizing Rostov-on-Don and advancing toward Moscow before a Lukashenko-brokered deal exiled Prigozhin to Belarus.
Wagner Moura
Wagner Moura (Wagner Maniçoba de Moura), Brazilian actor born 1976 in Salvador, Bahia; star of Tropa de Elite, Narcos (as Pablo Escobar), and O Agente Secreto; first Brazilian nominated for the Best Actor Oscar and winner of the 2026 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama.
Wagner Pina
Wagner Pina (Wagner Fabrício Cardoso de Pina), born 2002 in Lisbon, is a Cape Verdean right-back for Trabzonspor, signed from Estoril in 2025 for €3M; 2026 Turkish Cup winner, 14 Cape Verde caps, 2026 World Cup participant.
Wagner Ruiz
Wagner Alexis Ruiz is a Brazilian technology entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company EBANX in Curitiba in 2012, later serving as chief financial officer and chief risk officer.
Wagner torsion
Wagner torsion is the nonlinear torsional behavior of thin-walled beams with open cross-sections, where inclined longitudinal stresses generate an additional torque, described by Wagner and Pretschner in 1934.
Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement
The Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement is a carbocation skeletal rearrangement in organic chemistry in which an alkyl, aryl, or hydride group migrates to an adjacent electron-deficient carbon.
Wagner's law
Wagner's law, stated by German economist Adolph Wagner in 1883, holds that government spending rises more than proportionally as national income grows over the long run.
Wago
WAGO is a German family-owned manufacturer of electrical interconnect and automation technology, founded in Minden in 1951 and known for its screwless CAGE CLAMP terminal blocks.
Wagon
A wagon is a large four-wheeled vehicle for carrying heavy loads, drawn by two or more draft animals, and the word also denotes uncovered railway freight rolling stock.
Wagon Box Fight
The Wagon Box Fight was an 1867 battle near Fort Phil Kearny, Wyoming, where 32 defenders with breech-loading rifles held off more than 1,000 Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors.
Wagon Master
Wagon Master is John Ford's 1950 black-and-white Western (also styled Wagonmaster) from Argosy Pictures, starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, and Joanne Dru as guides of a Mormon wagon train to Utah, shot near Moab and one of Ford's own favorites.
Wagon Train
Wagon Train (1957-1965) is an American NBC/ABC Western TV series about a caravan from St. Joseph, Missouri, to California, starring Ward Bond and Robert Horton, reaching number one in the 1961-62 Nielsen ratings.
Wagon Wheel (song)
"Wagon Wheel" is a country-folk song co-written by Bob Dylan (1973 chorus "Rock Me Mama") and Ketch Secor; recorded by Old Crow Medicine Show in 2004, and taken to No. 1 and RIAA Diamond certification by Darius Rucker's 2013 cover.
Wagon Wheels
Wagon Wheels: British-Australian marshmallow sandwich biscuit brand invented 1948 by Garry Weston, launched at Olympia Food Fair; UK version made by FBC UK (ex-Burton's) in Llantarnam, Wales; Australian version by Arnott's with jam layer, 48 g.
Wagons East
Wagons East is a 1994 American comedy Western directed by Peter Markle, in which settlers hire John Candy's wagon master to lead them back East; it was Candy's final film.
Wagonway
A wagonway was an early railway of wooden or iron rails on which horse-drawn wagons hauled coal and ore, chiefly in Britain from about 1603.
Wagoto
Wagoto (和事, "soft style") is a kabuki acting style portraying delicate romantic emotion through soft movement and speech, completed in the Genroku era by Sakata Tōjūrō I.
WAGR syndrome
WAGR syndrome (WAGR spectrum disorder, 11p deletion syndrome) is a rare contiguous gene deletion of chromosome 11p13 removing WT1 and PAX6, causing Wilms tumor risk near 50%, aniridia, genitourinary anomalies, developmental delay, and chronic kidney disease.