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Wahhabi movement
The Wahhabi movement (الدعوة الوهابية) was a Sunni Islamic reform movement founded in Najd, Arabia, by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, allied with the Al Saud family from 1744.
Wahhabi sack of Mecca
The Wahhabi sack of Mecca was the capture of Mecca in 1803 by the Emirate of Diriyah, the First Saudi State, after which tombs and domes were demolished.
Wahhabi War
The Wahhabi War (الحرب السعودية المصرية) was the 1811–1818 war in which Egyptian armies sent by Muhammad Ali on Ottoman orders destroyed the First Saudi State.
Wahhabism
Wahhabism (Arabic wahhabiyya, وهابية) is a reformist Sunni movement from eighteenth-century central Arabia, founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and tied to the Saudi state since 1744.
Wahiba Sands
The Wahiba Sands, also called the Sharqiya Sands or Ramlat al-Wahiba, is an isolated sand sea of roughly 12,000 km² in northeastern Oman, south of the Eastern Hajar Mountains.
Wahibre Ibiau
Wahibre Ibiau, also known as Ibiau, was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt who reigned about 10 years, 8 months, and 28 days, around 1712-1701 BC.
Wahid Bihbahani
Wahid Bihbahani (الوحيد البهبهاني) was a Twelver Shia jurist based in Karbala who led the revival of the Usuli school against the Akhbaris, dying in the 1790s.
Wahine disaster
The Wahine disaster was the sinking of the New Zealand inter-island ferry TEV Wahine at the entrance to Wellington Harbour on 10 April 1968, in which 53 people died.
Wahka I
Wahka I was a mayor and overseer of priests of the Antaeopolis region during Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, buried in rock-cut tomb 7 at Qaw el-Kebir.
Wahka II
Wahka II was a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian nomarch, or provincial governor, at Qau el-Kebir, owner of tomb 18, the largest private funerary complex of the Middle Kingdom.
Wahka III
Wahka III is the conventional name for a third official named Wahka at Qaw el-Kebir, the cemetery of ancient Antaeopolis, toward the end of the Twelfth Dynasty.
Wahkare Khety
Wahkare Khety, also known as Khety III or Wahkare Akhtoy, was a pharaoh of the Heracleopolitan Tenth Dynasty around 2100–2050 BC, father and predecessor of Merikare.
Wahlburgers
Wahlburgers is a casual burger restaurant and sports bar chain founded by Mark, Donnie, and Chef Paul Wahlberg, first opened in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 2011, known for the Our Burger, Wahl Sauce, its A&E reality series, and its 2025 Hy-Vee split.
Wahneferhotep
Wahneferhotep was a royal prince, titled "king's son", of Egypt's late Middle Kingdom, known from a shabti and miniature coffin held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Wahoo
Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri, also called ono) is a monotypic, worldwide tropical scombrid gamefish reaching 210 cm and 96 kg, caught mainly as longline bycatch; IUCN Least Concern, data-poor stocks.
Wahoo McDaniel
Wahoo McDaniel (Edward Hugh McDaniel, 1938–2002), Choctaw-Chickasaw AFL linebacker for the Broncos, Jets, and Dolphins who became a legendary pro wrestler, five-time NWA United States Champion, and 2019 WWE Hall of Fame Legacy inductee.
Wahroonga
Wahroonga is an Upper North Shore suburb of Sydney in Ku-ring-gai council area, named from an Aboriginal word meaning 'our home', formerly Pearces Corner, developed after the 1890 railway and home to Sydney Adventist Hospital.
Wahtye
Wahtye was a royal purification priest of King Neferirkare Kakai in Fifth Dynasty Egypt, known from his painted rock-cut tomb at Saqqara, discovered by an Egyptian mission in November 2018.
Wahweap Formation
Wahweap Formation: Upper Cretaceous (Campanian, about 82.2 to 77.3 Ma) sandstone and mudstone unit on Utah's Kaiparowits Plateau, overlying the Straight Cliffs Formation, with Diabloceratops, Lythronax, and early hadrosaur fossils.
Wai Yiu Cheung
Wai Yiu Cheung was a biochemist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for discovering calmodulin and winning the 1981 Canada Gairdner International Award.
Wai-Fah Chen (陈惠发)
Wai-Fah Chen (陈惠发) is a Chinese-born American structural engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995, known for applying plasticity theory to steel and soil design.
Waiata
Waiata, the Māori word for song, are sung compositions of Aotearoa New Zealand ranging from ancient laments and love songs to action songs performed in kapa haka today.
Waiata aroha
Waiata aroha are traditional Māori songs of love and longing, composed exclusively by women, that voice the distress of love: absent husbands, lost lovers, desertion, and enforced separation from family or home.
Waiata tangi
Waiata tangi are Māori laments, songs of mourning for the dead performed at tangihanga funeral rites, with distinct laments for peaceful deaths, accidents, and battle deaths.
Waiata-ā-ringa
Waiata-ā-ringa (waiata ā-ringa) is a Māori action song with set actions matching the lyrics, pioneered by Apirana Ngata and first published in the 1908 Young Maori Party conference program.
Waidi Shaibu
Waidi Shaibu (born 1971, Olamaboro, Kogi State) is a Nigerian Army lieutenant general and 25th Chief of Army Staff, appointed by President Tinubu on 24 October 2025 after commanding Operation Hadin Kai in the North-East.
Waif
Waif: a homeless, neglected person, especially a thin child, and in old English law unclaimed property or stray animals; from Anglo-French and Old Norse veif, the source of 'waifs and strays'.
Waifu
Waifu (ワイフ) is anime-fandom slang for a fictional character, usually female, treated as a playful wife; re-borrowed from the Japanese loanword for English "wife," popularized by Azumanga Daioh's "mai waifu" scene.
Waigaoqiao power station
Waigaoqiao power station (申能上海外高桥发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Pudong, Shanghai, on the Yangtze River, built between 1995 and 2008 with at least 5,080 MW capacity.
Waiheke Island
Waiheke Island (Te Motu-arai-roa), reached by ferry from Auckland, is the most populated island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf, home to about 9,500 people and known for vineyards.