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Whisky a Go Go
The Whisky a Go Go is a 500-capacity rock nightclub at 8901 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, opened January 1964 by Elmer Valentine after a Paris discotheque. Birthplace of go-go dancing, home of The Doors' 1966 residency, Rock Hall inductee 2006.
Whisky Galore!
Whisky Galore! (1949), also released as Tight Little Island, is Alexander Mackendrick's Ealing Studios comedy debut based on Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel about Hebridean islanders salvaging whisky from a shipwreck, inspired by the 1941 SS Politician wreck off Eriskay.
Whisky War
The Whisky War was the Canada–Denmark dispute over Hans Island (Tartupaluk) in Nares Strait, marked from 1984 by flag-planting and liquor bottles, ended by the June 14, 2022 Ottawa treaty dividing the island and settling Arctic maritime boundaries.
Whisper
Whisper is an open-source automatic speech recognition model family from OpenAI, released in September 2022, trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual audio, and robust to accents and noise.
Whisper (app)
Whisper, also known as Whisper.sh, was an anonymous social networking app launched in 2012 where users posted short texts overlaid on photos without their real identities.
Whisper (귓속말) (TV series)
Whisper (귓속말, Gwitsotmal) is a 2017 SBS Korean legal thriller, 17 episodes, written by Park Kyung-soo, starring Lee Bo-young and Lee Sang-yoon, finale rated 20.3% nationwide.
Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば)
Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば, Mimi o Sumaseba) is Studio Ghibli's 1995 animated film directed by Yoshifumi Kondo, scripted by Hayao Miyazaki from Aoi Hiiragi's manga, about reader Shizuku and Seiji Amasawa in Tama, Tokyo.
Whispering gallery
A whispering gallery is a curved, domed architectural space in which a whisper near the wall carries around the curve; the namesake example is St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Whispering Smith
Whispering Smith is Frank H. Spearman's 1906 railroad-detective character, adapted into films from 1916 (J. P. McGowan, Helen Holmes) through the 1948 Alan Ladd Technicolor Paramount Western, plus a 1952 RKO film and 1961 Audie Murphy NBC series.
Whispering-gallery wave
A whispering-gallery wave, acoustic or optical, travels along a curved boundary's concave inner surface by repeated reflection, named after London's St Paul's Cathedral; optical versions are used in microresonator sensors and lasers.
Whispers of Fate (水龙吟)
Whispers of Fate (水龙吟, Shui Long Yin) is a 2025 Chinese fantasy wuxia drama adapted from Teng Ping's novel Qianjie Mei, starring Luo Yunxi as Tang Lici, directed by Chen Zhoufei and Qian Jingwu, premiered October 24, 2025 on MangoTV and Migu Video in 40 episodes.
Whispovirus xiabaidian
Whispovirus xiabaidian, formerly White spot syndrome virus (WSSV), is the ICTV species name of the large dsDNA nimavirus causing white spot disease in farmed shrimp; renamed for binomial format, approved February 2026.
Whist
Whist: classic four-player partnership trick-taking card game, 52-card deck, turned trump card, 1 point per trick above six, game to 5 points; ancestor of bridge, still played in British whist drives.
Whistle (2025 film)
Whistle (2025) is a Corin Hardy supernatural horror film, written by Owen Egerton, starring Dafne Keen and Sophie Nélisse; teens find an Aztec death whistle that accelerates their fated deaths. TIFF premiere, 2026 release, mixed reviews.
Whistle (music)
"Whistle" (휘파람) is a 2016 song by South Korean girl group BLACKPINK, released with "Boombayah" on their debut single album Square One and a number-one hit in Korea.
Whistle Down the Wind
Whistle Down the Wind: 1961 British film directed by Bryan Forbes, produced by Richard Attenborough, from Mary Hayley Bell's story, in which Lancashire children mistake fugitive Alan Bates for Jesus; also a 1996 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Whistle register
Whistle register (M3), also called flageolet or flute register, is the highest human vocal register, sustained pitched tones above about 1000 Hz. Imaging shows vocal folds vibrating, not an aeroacoustic whistle; sopranos use it above C6.
Whistle Sports / Team Whistle
Team Whistle, originally Whistle Sports, is a New York sports media company founded by John West in 2014 and acquired by DAZN in 2023 after ELEVEN Sports bought it in 2021.
Whistleblower Protection Act
The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, a US federal statute, protects most federal employees from retaliation for reporting illegality, waste, and corruption; it was strengthened in 2012.
Whistleblowing
Whistleblowing: reporting suspected organizational wrongdoing to internal channels, regulators, or the public. Key frameworks include the US False Claims Act (1863), Sarbanes-Oxley (2002), Dodd-Frank SEC awards of 10-30%, OSHA anti-retaliation enforcement, and EU Directive 2019/1937.
Whistler Blackcomb
Whistler Blackcomb, in Whistler, British Columbia, is North America's largest ski resort: Whistler Mountain (opened 1966) and Blackcomb (1980), merged 1997 under Intrawest, now Vail Resorts; 8,171 acres, 37 lifts, PEAK 2 PEAK Gondola, 2010 Olympic alpine venue.
Whistler Pipeline
The Whistler Pipeline is a 450-mile, 42-inch natural gas pipeline in Texas moving Permian Basin gas to Agua Dulce, in full service since July 2021.
Whistler Sliding Centre
Located on Blackcomb Mountain, Whistler Sliding Centre is a non-profit venue for bobsleigh, skeleton, and luge. Built for the 2010 Winter Olympics, it hosts training and public activities.
Whistler wave
A whistler wave is an electromagnetic plasma wave of magnetized plasma, heard as the descending tone lightning clicks make as they disperse through Earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere.
Whistler, British Columbia
Whistler is a resort municipality in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, 140 km north of Vancouver and Host Mountain Resort of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Whistler's Mother
Whistler's Mother, properly Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, is James McNeill Whistler's 1871 oil portrait of his mother Anna McNeill Whistler, painted in London, bought by France in 1891, and held at the Musée d'Orsay.
WhistlinDiesel
WhistlinDiesel, Cody Shane Detwiler, is an American YouTuber known for automotive videos and durability tests. In 2025, he was indicted for tax evasion over a Ferrari F8 Tributo.
Whit Bissell
Whit Bissell (Whitner Nutting Bissell), American character actor (1909-1996) of film and television, known for 1950s sci-fi mad-scientist roles in I Was a Teenage Werewolf and Creature from the Black Lagoon, and as Lt. Gen. Heywood Kirk in The Time Tunnel.
Whit Merrifield
Whit Merrifield (Whitley David Merrifield), MLB second baseman and utility player for Royals, Blue Jays, Phillies, Braves; led AL in steals three times, led Majors in hits 2018-19, three-time All-Star.
Whit Monday
Whit Monday, also known as Pentecost Monday, is the day after Pentecost, falling between 11 May and 14 June, and remains a public holiday across much of Europe.