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West–East Gas Pipeline
The West–East Gas Pipeline (西气东输) is a system of natural gas pipelines carrying gas from western China's Tarim Basin and Central Asia to eastern markets including Shanghai.
Westar (satellite)
Westar was a series of geostationary communications satellites owned by Western Union, whose Westar 1, launched in 1974, was the first US domestic communications satellite.
Westat
Westat is an American employee-owned research corporation founded in 1961 that provides survey design, data collection, and statistical analysis, primarily for United States federal government agencies.
Westbahn (railway company)
Westbahn is an Austrian private railway company operating long-distance passenger trains since December 2011, running from Vienna to Salzburg and later to Innsbruck, Munich, and Graz.
Westbam
Westbam, born Maximilian Lenz in 1965, is a German techno DJ who founded Low Spirit Recordings and played every Love Parade from 1989 to 2008.
Westbeck Capital Management
Westbeck Capital Management is a London hedge fund manager focused on energy and the energy transition, founded in 2016 by Will Smith, Jean-Louis Le Mee, and Jon Mellberg.
Westboro Baptist Church
Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an unaffiliated Topeka, Kansas congregation founded by Fred Phelps in 1955, is an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group known for picketing military funerals, its Snyder v. Phelps Supreme Court win, and its post-2014 decline to 60-70 members.
Westbrook Real Estate Partners
Westbrook Real Estate Partners, also known as Westbrook Partners, is a privately-owned real estate private equity firm in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, founded in 1994 and led by Paul Kazilionis.
Westbury White Horse
Westbury (Bratton) White Horse: oldest of Wiltshire's chalk hill horses, on Bratton Down below Bratton Camp hillfort. Current figure cut 1778 by Mr Gee for Lord Abingdon, replacing an earlier south-facing horse; concreted in the 1950s, cleaned 2023.
Westcar Papyrus
The Westcar Papyrus (Papyrus Berlin 3033) is an Egyptian papyrus of wonder tales told at King Khufu's court, copied around 1600 BC and kept in Berlin.
Westchester County Airport
Westchester County Airport, also called White Plains Airport, is a county-owned commercial airport in southeastern Westchester County, New York, serving five airlines and over 2.3 million passengers in 2025.
Westchester County, New York
Westchester County, New York: Hudson Valley county founded 1683, county seat White Plains, 48 municipalities, 2020 population 1,004,457, median household income $118,976, directly north of New York City.
Westchester Knicks
Westchester Knicks, NBA G League team in White Plains, New York; exclusive minor-league affiliate of the New York Knicks since 2014. Plays at Westchester County Center; won back-to-back Winter Showcase titles in 2024 and 2025.
Westclox
Westclox, originally the trade name of the Western Clock Company of Peru and LaSalle, Illinois, is an American clock brand best known for its Big Ben and Baby Ben alarm clocks.
WestCOL
WestCOL (Luis Fernando Villa Álvarez, born 2001) is a Colombian streamer from Medellín, Kick's most-followed streamer (2024), creator of Stream Fighters boxing events and the W Sound music project under his Imperio W brand.
WestConnex
WestConnex is a 33 km tolled motorway network in Sydney, Australia, linking the city's western and south-western suburbs with the CBD and Port Botany, completed in November 2023 and owned by a Transurban-led consortium.
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), also known as West German Radio, is a nonprofit public-law institution. It serves North Rhine-Westphalia and operates radio, television, and digital offerings.
Wester Ross Biosphere Reserve
Wester Ross Biosphere Reserve, formerly Beinn Eighe, is a UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve in northwest Scotland, designated 1976, extended over 100-fold and renamed in 2016, covering 529,904 ha with 8,136 residents.
Westerhout 3
Westerhout 3, or W3, is a giant molecular cloud and massive star-forming region in Cassiopeia about 6,200 light-years from the Sun, named from a 1958 radio survey by Gart Westerhout.
Westerlies
The westerlies, or prevailing westerlies, are the prevailing mid-latitude surface winds that blow from west to east between roughly 30° and 60° latitude in both hemispheres, steered by the jet stream.
Westerlo
KVC Westerlo (Koninklijke Voetbalclub Westerlo) is a Belgian Pro League club from Westerlo, Antwerp province, rooted in a 1917 student team, formed by a 1942 merger, Belgian Cup winner in 2001, playing at Het Kuipje.
Westerlund 1
Westerlund 1 is the most massive compact young star cluster known in the Milky Way, a super star cluster in the constellation Ara discovered by Bengt Westerlund in 1961.
Westerlund 2
Westerlund 2 is a young, heavily obscured star cluster about 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina, roughly 2 million years old and imaged by Hubble for its 25th anniversary in 2015.
Westermarck effect
The Westermarck effect, or reverse sexual imprinting, is the hypothesized sexual aversion between people raised together in early childhood, proposed by Edvard Westermarck in 1891, opposed by Freud, and tested through Taiwan minor marriages and Israeli kibbutzim.
Westermo
Westermo (Westermo Network Technologies AB) is a Swedish manufacturer of rugged Ethernet switches, routers, and wireless products for mission-critical railways, mines, and power grids, founded in 1975.
Western (genre)
The western (Western genre) is a film and television genre built on the American frontier, covering its classic era, spaghetti and revisionist westerns, global variants, and neo-westerns such as Yellowstone-era streaming hits.
Western African Ebola epidemic
Western African Ebola epidemic (2014–2016), the largest Ebola outbreak on record, began in Meliandou, Guinea in December 2013, spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone and seven other countries, causing over 28,600 cases and 11,325 deaths before ending in June 2016.
Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Criswell
Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Criswell is a 1985 US Supreme Court decision holding that mandatory retirement of flight engineers at age 60 violated the ADEA.
Western Airlines Flight 2605
Western Airlines Flight 2605, the "Night Owl", crashed while landing in fog at Mexico City on October 31, 1979, touching down on a closed runway.
Western Allied invasion of Germany
Western Allied invasion of Germany: the 1945 final campaign in which US, British, Canadian, and French forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Oppenheim, Wesel (Operation Plunder), and Worms, encircled the Ruhr, and accepted Germany's surrender on 7 May 1945.