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Wichita Confederacy
The Wichita Confederacy, self-named Kitikiti'sh, was a loose alliance of Caddoan-speaking Native American peoples of the Southern Plains whose descendants are the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes of Oklahoma.
Wichita County, Texas, United States
Wichita County, Texas (FIPS 48485), a north central Texas county on the Oklahoma border with county seat Wichita Falls; created 1858, organized 1882, oil boomtown and home of Sheppard Air Force Base; 2020 population 129,350.
Wichita Falls Independent School District
Wichita Falls Independent School District (WFISD) is a North Texas public school district in Wichita County, incorporated 1908, serving over 12,000 students; led by Superintendent Donny Lee, it opened Memorial and Legacy high schools in 2024 and avoided a TEA takeover in 2026 via a Third Future Schools partnership.
Wichita Falls, Texas
Wichita Falls, Texas: county seat of Wichita County in north central Texas, founded 1876, railroad and oil boomtown, home of Sheppard Air Force Base; 2020 population 102,316.
Wichita Lineman
Wichita Lineman: 1968 Jimmy Webb song recorded by Glen Campbell, produced by Al DeLory; No. 3 US pop, No. 1 country and adult contemporary, UK No. 7, National Recording Registry inductee.
Wichita Massacre
Wichita Massacre (Carr brothers case), December 2000 crime spree in Wichita, Kansas, in which Reginald and Jonathan Carr robbed, raped, and executed five people on a soccer field, killing four; death sentences upheld after Kansas v. Carr (2016).
Wichita State Shockers men's basketball
Wichita State Shockers men's basketball: NCAA Division I program of Wichita State University, American Conference member since 2017-18, home at 10,506-seat Charles Koch Arena ("the Roundhouse"), two Final Fours (1965, 2013) and a 34-0 2014 season.
Wichita State University
Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, founded as Fairmount College in 1895, a municipal university from 1926, and a Kansas state university since 1964, governed by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Wichita Thunder
Wichita Thunder: professional ECHL ice hockey team in Wichita, Kansas, founded 1992 as an original Central Hockey League franchise, two-time CHL champion (1994, 1995), ECHL member since 2014, playing at INTRUST Bank Arena with San Jose Sharks affiliation.
Wichy Camacho
Wichy Camacho, born Luis "Wichy" Camacho, is a Puerto Rican salsa singer born in 1956, known as "la voz cristalina" and among the island's most in-demand session vocalists.
Wick
Wick: English place-name from Old English wic, denoting farm, trading settlement, or Romano-British site; found in Wick, Wickham, Wickford, Wicken, and Heddington Wick across England.
Wick Haxton
Wick Haxton is an American theoretical physicist, a professor at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, known for work on the solar neutrino problem and supernova neutrinos.
Wick Is Pain
Wick Is Pain (2025) is a Jeffrey Doe-directed Lionsgate documentary about the making of the John Wick films, covering the Scorn script, financing crises, and Keanu Reeves' physical toll; 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Wick product
The Wick product is a specific multiplication of random variables or quantum field operators. It removes deterministic contractions from the ordinary product, resulting in zero expectation.
Wick rotation
Wick rotation is a quantum field theory method that relates real-time (Lorentzian) and Euclidean theories by analytically continuing time, t → −iτ, introduced by Gian Carlo Wick in 1954.
Wickaninnish Beach
Wickaninnish Beach, at the south end of Long Beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve near Tofino and Ucluelet, BC; home of the Kʷisitis Visitor Centre, surfed year-round, with restored sand dunes threatened by invasive beachgrass.
Wickard v. Filburn
Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), Supreme Court case holding Congress may regulate home-consumed wheat under the Commerce Clause via the aggregation principle; unanimous opinion by Justice Jackson, later narrowed by Lopez but relied on in Raich.
Wicked (2024 film)
Wicked (2024 film), also called Wicked: Part One, is Jon M. Chu's Universal adaptation of the Broadway musical's first act, starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande; it grossed $758.9M worldwide and won two Oscars.
Wicked (Maguire novel)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is Gregory Maguire's 1995 adult novel retelling Baum's The Wizard of Oz from the Witch Elphaba Thropp's perspective; source of the 2003 Broadway musical and 2024 films.
Wicked (musical album)
Wicked: Original Broadway Cast Recording, the 2003 Decca Broadway cast album of Stephen Schwartz's musical Wicked with Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel; 2005 Grammy winner, RIAA double platinum.
Wicked (musical)
Wicked the musical: Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman's 2003 Broadway show based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 Oz novel, fourth-longest-running Broadway show, three Tonys, over $5-6 billion in global sales, two-part film 2024-2025.
Wicked Bible
The Wicked Bible (Adulterous or Sinners' Bible), a 1631 octavo King James Bible by royal printers Barker and Lucas, omitted 'not' from Exodus 20:14 and printed 'great-asse' in Deuteronomy 5:24; printers fined, copies destroyed, about 25 survive.
Wicked City (1987 film)
Wicked City (妖獣都市, Yoju Toshi) is a 1987 Japanese animated horror film by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, adapted from Hideyuki Kikuchi's novel, about Black Guards Taki and Makie protecting envoy Giuseppe Mayart for a human-demon peace treaty.
Wicked Game
"Wicked Game" is a 1989 song by American singer Chris Isaak, from his album Heart Shaped World, known for its haunting guitar and falsetto chorus.
Wicked Lester
Wicked Lester, also known by its original name Rainbow, was Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley's pre-Kiss New York band; its 1971-1972 Epic album, recorded at Electric Lady Studios, was rejected, bought back in 1977, and remains officially unreleased.
Wicked Little Letters
Wicked Little Letters (2023) is a Thea Sharrock comedy-mystery starring Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley, based on the 1920s Littlehampton poison-pen letter scandal; premiered at TIFF 2023, released 2024 by Sony Pictures Classics.
Wicked Pictures
Wicked Pictures is an American adult film production studio, founded in 1993 by Steve Orenstein, known for its narrative feature films and contract performers, the "Wicked Girls."
Wicked problem
Wicked problem: a social or policy problem resistant to definition and lacking verifiable solutions, coined by Rittel and Webber in 1973 against 'tame' problems; now widely used, criticized, and reframed in policy and design.
Wicked Tuna
Wicked Tuna is a National Geographic reality series (2012-2024, 13 seasons) following Gloucester, Massachusetts captains competing for Atlantic bluefin tuna by rod and reel, with the Outer Banks spin-off; canceled August 2024.
Wicked Wisdom
Wicked Wisdom, also known as Wicked Evolution, is a Los Angeles nu metal and heavy metal band fronted by actress Jada Pinkett Smith as Jada Koren, formed around 2002-2003, which opened for Britney Spears in 2004, played Ozzfest 2005's second stage, and released My Story (2004) and Wicked Wisdom (2006).