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Westerners (Seoin)
The Westerners (Seoin, 서인) were a Joseon political faction formed in 1575 around Sim Ui-gyeom, which returned to power through the 1623 coup deposing Gwanghaegun.
Westernization
Westernization: adoption by non-Western societies of ideas and practices typical of Western Europe and North America. Coined 1873 for Japan; distinct from modernization; tied historically to colonialism and debated within globalization and multiple-modernities theory.
Westernizers
The Westernizers (Западники) were nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals, active in the 1840s and 1850s, who held that Russia should develop along the European path, opposing the Slavophiles.
Westerwaldlied
Westerwaldlied, also "O du schöner Westerwald" or "Westerwaldmarsch": German folk and soldier song about the Westerwald, text 1932 by Willi Münker's FAD camp, march by Joseph Neuhäuser 1935, popular Wehrmacht song, contested in the Bundeswehr songbook.
Westerwanna
Westerwanna (Urnenfriedhof) is a large Saxon urn cemetery around the Gravenberg barrow near Wanna, Lower Saxony, in use 1st-5th century AD; its Buckelurnen also occur in England, and it named a four-sided die type.
Westerwood
Westerwood Roman fort, a small auxiliary fort on the Antonine Wall at Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire; about 0.8 ha, secondary to the Wall, excavated 1932, 1974-75, 1985-88; Silvanus altar find.
Westfalenpark
Westfalenpark is Dortmund's large admission-charging park, created for the 1959 Bundesgartenschau on 60 hectares with 6.8 million visitors, home of the Florianturm tower and events such as Lichterfest and Juicy Beats.
Westfalenstadion
Westfalenstadion, also called Signal Iduna Park, is the football stadium in Dortmund, Germany, home of Borussia Dortmund since 1974. It is Germany's largest stadium.
Westfälische Bucht
Westfälische Bucht (Westphalian Bay, Münstersche Bucht): flat lowland bay in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, core of the Münsterland; a Cretaceous basin bounded by Teutoburg Forest, Egge and Haarstrang, holding 47% of Westphalia's area and 4.9 million people.
Westfalische wilhelms universitat herbarium
Herbarium of Münster University (MSUN), founded 1994, held Apocynaceae, Geraniaceae, and karyological vouchers plus a Daniëls moss-lichen collection; dispersed in 2009 to LWL-Museum herbarium MSTR and Hannover.
Westfield Group
Westfield Group, also known as Westfield Shoppingtowns or Westfield Holdings, was an Australian shopping-center company founded by Frank Lowy and John Saunders in 1959, split in 2014 and sold in 2018.
Westfield London
Westfield London, also known as Westfield London Shopping Centre, is a large shopping center in Shepherd's Bush, west London, opened in 2008 at a cost of £1.6 billion.
Westfield, New Jersey
Westfield is a town in Union County, New Jersey, settled in 1720 as the West Fields of Elizabethtown, incorporated as a township in 1794 and a town in 1903; population 31,032 (2020), a wealthy NYC commuter suburb with an award-winning downtown.
Westfields Sports High School
Westfields Sports High School, Australia's first sports high school, is a NSW government secondary school in Fairfield West, Sydney, with a Talented Sports Program, Olympic Pathway status, and Socceroos and Matildas alumni.
Westgate Las Vegas
Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, formerly the International Hotel, Las Vegas Hilton, and LVH, is a Winchester, Nevada hotel-casino opened July 2, 1969 by Kirk Kerkorian; famed for Elvis residencies, the Ali-Spinks fight, and the SuperBook.
Westgate Resorts
Westgate Resorts is an American timeshare and hospitality company in Orlando, Florida, founded by David A. Siegel in 1982 with 16 villas near Walt Disney World.
Westgate shopping mall attack
The 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack: a four-day al-Shabaab siege of Nairobi's upscale Westgate mall beginning 21 September 2013, killing at least 67 people and wounding over 175 in retaliation for Kenya's intervention in Somalia.
Westhampton (film)
Westhampton is a 2025 American drama, Christian Nilsson's debut feature, starring Finn Wittrock as filmmaker Tom Bell, who returns to his Long Island hometown after a high-school car accident; premiered at Tribeca 2025, released July 10, 2026.
Westies
The Westies were an Irish-American organized crime gang, also called Coonan's Crew, based in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, active from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s under James Coonan, allied with the Gambino family and dismantled by 1988 federal RICO convictions.
Westin Hotels & Resorts
Westin Hotels & Resorts, formerly Western International Hotels, is a premium full-service hotel brand owned by Marriott International since 2016. Founded in 1930, it is known for the Heavenly Bed.
Westinghouse 2-loop PWR
The Westinghouse 2-loop PWR is the smallest of Westinghouse's commercial pressurized water reactors, rated near 500 MWe, with US plants including Ginna, Point Beach, and Prairie Island.
Westinghouse 3-loop PWR
The Westinghouse 3-loop PWR is a pressurized water reactor design from Westinghouse rated around 900 to 1,000 MWe, with three coolant loops, each with a steam generator and pump.
Westinghouse 4-loop PWR
The Westinghouse 4-loop PWR is a pressurized water reactor design with four identical coolant loops sharing one pressurizer, generating about 1,100 to 1,300 MWe per unit.
Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse Electric Company, known as Westinghouse Nuclear, is an American nuclear company founded in 1886 that supplied the first commercial pressurized water reactor in 1957.
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, also known as Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, was founded by George Westinghouse in Pittsburgh in 1886 and made electrical equipment, power generators, and nuclear technology before renaming itself CBS Corporation in 1997.
WestJet
WestJet is a Canadian airline headquartered in Calgary. Founded in 1996 as a low-cost carrier, it is now Canada's second-largest airline, with its main hub at Calgary.
Westlake Corporation
Westlake Corporation is a Houston, Texas-based manufacturer of chemicals, polymers, and building products, founded in 1986 by T.T. Chao and his sons James and Albert Chao.
Westlake High School (Texas)
Westlake High School, also called Austin Westlake, is a public high school in Austin, Texas, established in 1969 as the only high school in Eanes Independent School District.
Westlake Village BioPartners
Westlake Village BioPartners is a life-science venture capital firm and biotechnology incubator founded in 2018 in Westlake Village, California, by former Amgen executives Beth Seidenberg and Sean Harper.
Westlake Village, California
Westlake Village is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, incorporated in 1981 from the LA County half of a 1960s American-Hawaiian Steamship master-planned community; population 8,029 (2020), median household income $179,954.