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Wennefer
Wennefer, also known as Unnefer or Onnophris, was High Priest of Osiris at Abydos under Ramesses II, serving roughly 35 years before his son Hori succeeded him.
WENO scheme
A WENO (weighted essentially non-oscillatory) scheme is a high-order finite-difference or finite-volume method for equations with shocks, first introduced in 1994 and widely used in computational fluid dynamics.
Wenpi Decoction
温脾汤 (Wenpi decoction, Spleen-Warming Decoction), a classic Chinese medicine purgative formula from the Beiji Qianjin Yaofang, composed of rhubarb, ginseng, licorice, dried ginger, and aconite, used for cold accumulation with spleen yang deficiency.
Wenqing Xu
Wenqing Xu is a structural biologist and tenured professor at ShanghaiTech University who studies cell signaling, especially the Wnt pathway, known for the β-catenin/Tcf crystal structure (Cell, 2000).
Wenquxing
Wenquxing (文曲星) is a Chinese electronic dictionary brand created by Beijing Golden Vision, whose CC-100 launched in 1995 and led the market for six years.
Wenshan Cai
Wenshan Cai is a physicist working on plasmonics and optical metamaterials, a full professor at Georgia Tech since 2012 who wrote the 2010 book Optical Metamaterials.
Wenshan City
Wenshan City (文山市) is a county-level city in southeastern Yunnan, China, and the seat of the Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, known nationally as the "Home of Chinese Sanqi".
Wenshou
Wenshou (文绶) was a Qing dynasty official who served the Qianlong Emperor as governor-general of Shaanxi-Gansu, Sichuan, and Huguang between 1771 and 1781, and was three times dismissed for connivance or indulgence.
Wensleydale Beacon
Wensleydale Beacon is a 110 m hill just north of Fumarole Bay on the west side of Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, at 62°57′S 60°42′W, with variant name Wensley Beacon.
Wensleydale cheese
Wensleydale cheese: British crumbly cow's-milk cheese from Wensleydale, Yorkshire Dales; protected version Yorkshire Wensleydale holds UK/EU PGI status; monastic origins around 1150; Hawes creamery, Saputo then Lactalis ownership.
Wentawat (Viceroy of Kush)
Wentawat was an Egyptian official of the late 20th Dynasty who served as Viceroy of Kush, called King's Son of Kush, and also held priestly titles at the Ramesseum.
Wentehebu City Site and Peiyou City Site
The Wentehebu City Site and Peiyou City Site (温特赫部城址与裴优城址) are adjoining ancient city ruins in Hunchun, Jilin, used from the Han through Jurchen eras and protected nationally since 2013.
Wentian
Wentian (问天, "Quest for the Heavens") is the first laboratory module of China's Tiangong space station, launched on July 24, 2022 and dedicated mainly to space life sciences research.
Wentletrap
Wentletraps, family Epitoniidae, are small white high-spired predatory sea snails named for their spiral-staircase shells; they feed on anemones and corals, with hundreds of species worldwide.
Wentworth (TV series)
Wentworth, also known as Wentworth Prison, is an Australian television drama series first broadcast in 2013 on Foxtel's Showcase, reimagining the 1979–1986 prison drama Prisoner in a modern women's prison.
Wentworth Miller
Wentworth Miller (born 1972, Chipping Norton, England) is an American actor and screenwriter, the Michael Scofield of Prison Break, Golden Globe-nominated, writer of Stoker under alias Ted Foulke, who came out as gay in 2013 and disclosed autism in 2021.
Wentworth season 2
Wentworth season 2 (2014): 12-episode second season of the Australian prison drama on SoHo, 20 May to 5 August 2014, introducing governor Joan Ferguson (Pamela Rabe) as Bea Smith's antagonist; Logie-winning, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Wentworth Woodhouse
Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house at Wentworth near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, built from 1725, with over 300 rooms and England's longest domestic façade.
Wentworth: Halfway Home
Wentworth: Halfway Home (also styled Halfway House, working title The Next Chapter) is a 2026 BINGE/Foxtel Australian crime drama spin-off of Wentworth following paroled Boomer Jenkins at Sal's Halfway House, filmed in Melbourne with Rachel Griffiths joining returning stars.
Wenwan walnuts (文玩核桃)
Wenwan walnuts (文玩核桃), also called play walnuts or hand-rolling walnuts, are Chinese collectible walnuts kept for their shells, handled as matched pairs rotated in one hand, and slowly darkened into a patina (baojiang) by years of handling; main production centers on Laishui, Hebei.
Wenxian Tongkao
Wenxian Tongkao (文献通考, Comprehensive Examination of Literature) is a monumental Chinese historiographical work by Ma Duanlin, completed around 1307 or 1322, covering institutions from antiquity to the Southern Song.
Wenxiang
Wenxiang (文祥) was a Manchu statesman of the Qing dynasty who served as a Grand Councillor and founding minister of the Zongli Yamen, the office managing foreign relations, until his death in 1876.
Wenxiang jiao
Wenxiang jiao (闻香教), the Teaching of Smelling the Incense, was a late Ming religious sect founded by Wang Sen, a leatherworker from Jizhou, whose followers raised Xu Hongru's 1622 rebellion.
Wenxin Diaolong
Wenxin Diaolong (文心雕龙, "The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons") is a work of Chinese literary theory by Liu Xie, written around 500 during the Southern Dynasties.
Wenxiu
Wenxiu (文繡, 1909–1953), also Consort Shu, was Puyi's consort, married in the 1922 royal wedding. She divorced him through republican courts in October 1931, the 'Dagfei Revolution,' then ran a school and later married Liu Zhendong.
Wenyan (Chan monk)
Wenyan, also known as Yunmen Kuangzhen (文偃, 864–949), was a Chinese Chan monk from Zhejiang who founded the Yunmen school, one of the Five Houses of Chinese Chan.
Wenyan xiaoshuo
Wenyan xiaoshuo (文言小说, classical-language fiction) is fiction written in classical Chinese, running from Six Dynasties anomaly tales through Tang chuanqi to Pu Songling's Qing masterpieces.
Wenyen Gabriel
Wenyen Gabriel, South Sudanese basketball forward (born 1997, Khartoum), Kentucky Wildcats, undrafted 2018; five NBA seasons including Lakers, top shot-blocker of 2023 FIBA World Cup, Paris 2024 Olympian, later Maccabi Tel Aviv and Bayern Munich.
Wenyi
Wenyi (文益, 885–958) was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk who taught at Qingliang Monastery in Nanjing under the Southern Tang and founded the Fayan school.
Wenyi Wei
Wenyi Wei (魏文毅) is a cancer biologist and professor of pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, known for APC and SCF ubiquitin ligase research.