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Waii
Waii (หวาย), full name Panyarisa Thienprasiddhi, is a Thai pop singer nicknamed "Baby Hiphop Girl" who debuted in 2007 on the Kamikaze label and helped popularize hip-hop-influenced pop in Thailand.
Waikato
Waikato is a region of New Zealand's upper North Island, named after the Waikato River. It leads the country in dairy farming and has its main city in Hamilton.
Waikato Vallis
Waikato Vallis is a Martian outflow channel in southern Hesperia Planum near Hellas, IAU-named in 2010 after New Zealand's Waikato River, formerly Segment 1 of Reull Vallis, active about 3.67–3.52 Ga.
Waike Dacheng
外科大成 (Waike Dacheng), a 1665 four-volume Qing manual of external medicine by court physician Qi Kun (祁坤), organizing surgical disease by body region; model for the Yizong Jinjian surgical section.
Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji
外科证治全生集 (Waike Zhengzhi Quansheng Ji, also 外科全生集), a 1740 Qing Chinese external-medicine manual by Wang Weide (王维德/王洪绪); founded the Quansheng school, created Yanghe Decoction for yin gangrene, advocated dispersion over trusting-out.
Waike Zhengzong
外科正宗 (Waike Zhengzong), Orthodox Manual of External Diseases, a 1617 four-volume Chinese surgical classic by Ming physician Chen Shigong; founding text of the Orthodox School, with 50-plus editions and lasting clinical influence.
Wail al-Shehri
Wail al-Shehri (July 31, 1973 date of birth used) was a Saudi muscle hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 on 9/11; brother of Waleed al-Shehri, from Asir Province, seated 2A first class.
Wail ibn Hujr al-Hadrami
Wail ibn Hujr al-Hadrami (وائل بن حجر الحضرمي) was a companion of Muhammad and a chieftain of Hadramawt, Yemen, who embraced Islam in 630 and settled in Kufa.
Wailadmiki Shylla
Wailadmiki Shylla, born in 1991, is an Indian politician from Meghalaya, a National People's Party cabinet minister holding the health portfolio and representing the Jowai constituency since 2018.
Wainganga
Wainganga River, also Vriddha-Ganga, a major Godavari tributary rising in Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh, flowing about 580-642 km through Maharashtra to join the Wardha and form the Pranahita.
Wainwright Building
The Wainwright Building is a ten-story steel-framed office building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, built in 1890–91 and designed by Adler & Sullivan for the brewer Ellis Wainwright.
Waipawa District
Waipawa District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand: a 1902 parliamentary electorate and later district council descended from Waipawa County (1876), reduced by Patangata (1885) and Waipukurau (1907) counties, merged into Central Hawke's Bay District in 1989.
Waipukurau District
Waipukurau District, a former local government district in central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, successor to Waipukurau County (1907), covering 2031 sq km; merged into Central Hawke's Bay District in the 1989 reforms.
Waira
Waira is a name shared by several unrelated entities: a Spanish water-sports school in Nigran, Pontevedra; PNG Games figures Tabu and Desmond Waira; and Colombian venues Waira Kapa, Waira Restaurante, and Waira Suites Hotel.
Wairākei Power Station
Wairākei Power Station is a geothermal power station in the Taupō Volcanic Zone of New Zealand, commissioned in 1958 as the world's second geothermal power station.
Wairarapa Moana Wetland
Wairarapa Moana Wetland, also called the Wairarapa Moana Wetlands, is a 10,547-hectare Ramsar wetland complex (site 2432, designated 2020) around Lakes Wairarapa and Onoke in New Zealand's southern North Island.
Wairau Affray
The Wairau Affray, also called the Wairau Incident, was a violent 1843 clash between Ngāti Toa and New Zealand Company settlers near modern Blenheim, New Zealand, killing 22 Europeans and four Māori.
Waisea Nacuqu
Waisea Nacuqu, Fijian rugby sevens back born 1993 in Ba; Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold and Paris 2024 silver medallist, 2019 World Rugby Men's Sevens Player of the Year, Fiji series try-scoring record holder; distinct from Waisea Nayacalevu.
Waist
Waist: trunk girth between the lower ribs and iliac crests; measured by WHO/NHLBI protocols; cutoffs 94/80 and 102/88 cm; visceral fat risk indicator; also a fashion-history subject (corsetry).
Waist Circumference
Waist circumference (WC): abdominal tape measurement used as a marker of central adiposity and cardiometabolic risk, with sex- and ethnicity-specific thresholds (e.g., 102/88 cm), recommended alongside BMI and as a clinical vital sign.
Waist-Height Ratio
Waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), waist divided by height, an index of central obesity; boundary value 0.5; predicts mortality, diabetes, and cardiometabolic risk better than BMI in meta-analyses and appears in NICE and ADA guidance.
Waist–hip ratio
Waist–hip ratio (WHR, waist-to-hip ratio) is waist circumference divided by hip circumference, an anthropometric index of abdominal fat. Healthy values are 0.90 or less for men and 0.80 or less for women; elevated WHR predicts cardiometabolic risk.
Waistcoat
The waistcoat, called a vest in American English, is a snug sleeveless garment buttoned down the front, first decreed part of gentleman's dress by Charles II in 1666.
Wait Until Dark (film)
Wait Until Dark (1967) is a Warner Bros. suspense thriller directed by Terence Young, starring Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman terrorized by Alan Arkin's Roat over a heroin-stuffed doll, adapted from Frederick Knott's 1966 Broadway play.
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! is NPR's weekly hour-long news quiz, created by Doug Berman, premiered January 3, 1998, hosted by Peter Sagal, Peabody-winning, with Not My Job celebrity segment.
Waitai Miyao
外台秘要 (Waitai Miyao), also Waitai Miyao Fang, a 40-juan Tang medical formulary by Wang Tao, completed 752, 1,104 divisions, 6,000+ formulas, moxibustion only, key source for lost pre-Tang medical books.
Waitākere Ranges
Waitākere Ranges: forested Auckland hills to 450 m, heart of the 27,720 ha heritage area and 17,000 ha regional park, Auckland's water catchment since 1902, protected under the 2008 Act and closed to most walkers since 2018 for kauri dieback.
Waitaki River
Waitaki River: South Island New Zealand river, about 68 miles long, catchment second only to the Clutha; heavily developed for hydroelectricity from the 1928 Waitaki Dam onward, birthplace of NZ social security.
Waitaki Whitestone UNESCO Global Geopark
Waitaki Whitestone UNESCO Global Geopark, New Zealand's first and only UNESCO Global Geopark, endorsed May 2023; 7,214 km² in the Waitaki District, South Island, with over 40 geosites including the Moeraki Boulders.
Waitangi Day
Waitangi Day, New Zealand's national public holiday on 6 February, commemorates the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (te Tiriti o Waitangi); made a holiday in 1973, renamed by the 1976 Act, Mondayised since 2013.