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West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937): 5–4 Supreme Court ruling upholding Washington's $14.50 weekly minimum wage for women, overruling Adkins v. Children's Hospital, and ending the Lochner era of striking down economic regulation.
West Coast Main Line
The West Coast Main Line is a core UK railway running from London to Glasgow via Crewe and Lancaster, with branches to Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool.
West Coast of the United States
West Coast of the United States: California, Oregon, and Washington (broader definitions add Alaska and Hawaii). Pacific region of 51.6 million people, $4.1 trillion California GDP, dominant US-Asia container ports, and 25 GW offshore wind targets.
West Coast offense
The West Coast offense is an American football offensive philosophy built on short, high-percentage passes, developed by Bill Walsh in Cincinnati and made famous with the San Francisco 49ers in the 1980s.
West Coast Trail
The West Coast Trail (WCT) is a 75 km, 6-8 day backpacking route from Pachena Bay to Gordon River in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Vancouver Island. Formerly the Dominion Life Saving Trail, it has 100+ ladders, cable cars, tide-dependent sections, and a May 1-September 30 season.
West Coast, Gambia
West Coast Region (WCR), formerly Western Division, is a region of The Gambia with centre Brikama; its Brikama LGA covers 1,764 km2 and held 1,151,128 people, 47.5% of the national total, at the 2024 census.
West Coker
West Coker is a village and ancient parish in Somerset, England, 3 miles west of Yeovil, one of the Coker villages. Known for its Domesday manor held by King William in 1086, a Roman villa, St Martin of Tours church, and an 1839 Wesleyan chapel.
West Country
The West Country is an informal region of south-west England, generally covering Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, and often Wiltshire and Gloucestershire; it has no official status.
West Country English
West Country English, the traditional dialect group of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, derives from West Saxon Old English and is marked by rhoticity, voiced fricatives, the Bristol L, and influence on Irish and Newfoundland English.
West County Energy Center
West County Energy Center is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Loxahatchee, Florida, owned by Florida Power & Light and rated at 3,750 MW.
West Covina, California
West Covina is a San Gabriel Valley city in Los Angeles County, California, incorporated in 1923 by 507 residents to block Covina's sewage farm; it boomed after World War II and had 109,501 people in 2020.
West Covington (historical)
West Covington was an independent city in Kenton County, Kentucky, on hills along the Ohio River west of Covington, incorporated in 1858 and annexed by Covington in 1916.
West Dean
West Dean is the name of two villages in southern England: one in West Sussex, home to the West Dean Estate and College, and one on the Hampshire–Wiltshire border.
West Drayton
West Drayton is a town in the London Borough of Hillingdon, west of central London, paired with Yiewsley and served by the Elizabeth line since 2022.
West Edmonton Mall
West Edmonton Mall is a shopping mall and entertainment complex in Edmonton, Alberta, opened in 1981. The largest mall in Canada, it was the world's largest from 1985 to 2004.
West End Girl
West End Girl is Lily Allen's fifth studio album, released 24 October 2025 on BMG. A 14-track concept album about her marriage breakdown with David Harbour, written in 10 days, it peaked at number 2 in the UK and earned a Metacritic score of 83.
West End Girls
West End Girls: Pet Shop Boys synth-pop song by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe; Bobby Orlando 1984 version flopped, Stephen Hague 1985 re-recording hit number 1 in the UK and US, sold 1.5 million, won the 1987 BRIT for Best Single.
West End of London
The West End of London is central London's entertainment and shopping district in the City of Westminster, spanning Soho, Mayfair, Covent Garden and Oxford Street, defined by Theatreland, Regent Street retail, and the pleasure district created between 1800 and 1914.
West End theatre
West End theatre: London's commercial theatre district around Leicester Square and Shaftesbury Avenue, with Broadway the peak of English-language commercial theatre; around 40 major venues, SOLT-run Olivier Awards, substantial overseas ticket sales.
West Estonian Archipelago Biosphere Reserve
West Estonian Archipelago Biosphere Reserve (WEABR), Estonia's only UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve, designated 1990; about 15,600 km2 around Saaremaa, Hiiumaa, Muhu, Vormsi, and Ruhnu with roughly 45,000 residents.
West Falkland
West Falkland (Gran Malvina), second largest Falkland Island, about 4,500 km2, site of the 1690 first recorded landing and the British settlement of Port Egmont (1765); main settlements Fox Bay and Port Howard.
West Fertilizer Company explosion
The West Fertilizer Company explosion: April 17, 2013 detonation of about 30 tons of fertilizer-grade ammonium nitrate in West, Texas, killing 15, injuring 260+, with CSB findings on storage, siting, and regulatory gaps.
West Flemish
West Flemish (West-Vlaams) is a conservative Dutch dialect group spoken in West Flanders, French Flanders, and Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, the most vital and least intelligible of the Flemish dialects for Dutch listeners.
West Florida
West Florida: British (1763-1781) then Spanish Gulf Coast colony with capital at Pensacola, bounded by the Mississippi and Apalachicola rivers; conquered by Gálvez, disputed at the 31st parallel, and annexed by the United States between 1810 and 1819.
West Florida Gulf
West Florida Gulf, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 154, a temperate coastal rivers ecoregion in southern Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle defined by the Perdido, Escambia, Blackwater, Yellow, and Choctawhatchee drainages, with endemic darters and long-leaf pine forests.
West Francia
West Francia (Francia occidentalis), the western third of the Carolingian Empire created by the 843 Treaty of Verdun for Charles the Bald, lasted 843–987 under twelve kings before Hugh Capet's election founded the Kingdom of France.
West Franklin Gas Field
West Franklin is a high-pressure, high-temperature gas-condensate field in the UK Central Graben of the North Sea, about 240 km east of Aberdeen, discovered by Total in 2003.
West Frisian language
West Frisian (Frysk) is a West Germanic, Anglo-Frisian minority language spoken by about 400,000 people in the Dutch province of Fryslân, where it is the second official language; historically closest to English but now converging with Dutch.
West Gate Bridge
The West Gate Bridge is a cable-stayed steel bridge spanning the Yarra River in Melbourne, built 1968 to 1978 to link the city with its western suburbs.
West Gate Tunnel
The West Gate Tunnel is a tolled twin road tunnel in Melbourne, Australia, opened in December 2025 to give a second river crossing and alternative to the West Gate Bridge.