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Wakhi people
Wakhi people: an Indo-Iranian, East Iranian-speaking ethnic group of the Pamirs, living in Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor, Tajikistan, Pakistan's Hunza, and Xinjiang; traditionally Ismaili agropastoralists with transhumance to high pastures.
Waki'
Waki' (وكيع) was a Baghdadi hadith master and judge who died in 306 AH (918 CE); his Akhbar al-Qudat, an early history of Islamic judgeship, survives.
Waki' ibn Jarrah
Waki' ibn Jarrah (وكيع بن الجراح) was a Kufan hadith scholar of the second Islamic century, ranked the leading hadith specialist of Iraq, who taught Ahmad ibn Hanbal.
Waking Life
Waking Life (2001) is Richard Linklater's rotoscope-animated drama starring Wiley Wiggins as a man in a lucid dream, animated with Bob Sabiston's Rotoshop software; released by Fox Searchlight, grossing $2.9M, scoring 81% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Waking Ned
Waking Ned, released in the US as Waking Ned Devine, is Kirk Jones's 1998 debut comedy in which two elderly Irish villagers impersonate a friend who died of shock after winning a nearly £7 million lottery jackpot, filmed on the Isle of Man.
Waking the Dead (TV series)
Waking the Dead: BBC One British police procedural crime drama (2000–2011) created by Barbara Machin; 92 episodes, 9 series; Trevor Eve as DSU Peter Boyd leading a London cold-case unit; spin-off The Body Farm.
Waking the Fallen
Waking the Fallen is Avenged Sevenfold's second studio album, released August 26, 2003 on Hopeless Records. The melodic metalcore record, first with Synyster Gates and Johnny Christ, produced by Andrew Murdock, went RIAA platinum in 2021.
Wakisaka Yasuharu
Wakisaka Yasuharu (脇坂安治, 1554–1626) was a Japanese daimyo and naval commander of the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Edo periods, one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake, who held Sumoto and Ōzu Domains.
Wakizashi
Wakizashi (脇差, わきざし): Japanese short sword with a 30–60 cm blade, worn with the katana as the daishō pair; Edo-period samurai status sword, seppuku blade, forged like katana, regulated under Japan's Firearms and Swords Control Law.
Wakokin baka
Wakokin baka, Hausa for oral songs, is the tradition of orally composed Hausa poetry and song, one of two Hausa poetic traditions alongside written poetry.
Wakokin gargajiya
Wakokin gargajiya, Hausa for traditional songs, are the oral and written songs of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria, spanning praise poetry, satire, and didactic verse.
Wakokin siyasa
Wakokin siyasa are Hausa-language political songs, descended from the praise singing of Hausa griots, used to praise or attack politicians and parties during elections in northern Nigeria.
Wakokin yabo
Wakokin yabo, Hausa praise songs, are a traditional poetry form in which a singer praises a patron's status or worth; court singers serve an Emir while freelancers sing for anyone.
Wakoklon Heelel Thilel Salai Amailon Pukok
Wakoklon Heelel Thilel Salai Amailon Pukok is a sacred puya manuscript of the Sanamahi religion of Manipur, dealing with the origin of the universe and the seven Meitei clans.
Wakonda (crater on Rhea)
Wakonda is a 123-km-wide IAU-approved impact crater on Saturn's moon Rhea, centered at 48.60°N, 269.70°W, named for the Sioux great creator, approved April 23, 2010.
Wal Wal incident
The Wal Wal incident was a 1934 clash between Italian and Ethiopian forces in the Ogaden Desert that Italy used as a pretext to invade Ethiopia.
Wala Dorsa
Wala Dorsa is a 500-km-diameter dorsum (ridge) on Venus at 17°S, 62°E, IAU-approved in 1997, named with the Fox (US Plains) word for the dawn; it bounds a studied ridge-belt region near Dylacha Dorsa.
Walace
Walace, full name Walace Souza Silva, is a Brazilian defensive midfielder born in 1995 in Salvador who won Olympic gold in 2016 and plays for Vitória on loan from Cruzeiro.
Walafrid Strabo
Walafrid Strabo, also Walahfrid (c. 807–849), was a Benedictine theologian, poet, and hagiographer who was abbot of Reichenau and is best known for the garden poem Hortulus.
Walang Sugat
Walang Sugat, an 1898 Tagalog sarswela by Severino Reyes with music by Fulgencio Tolentino, premiered June 14, 1902 at Teatro Libertad, Manila. Depicting lovers Julia and Tenyong during the 1896 Philippine Revolution, it founded the sarswela's Manila dominance and inspired the PETA musical Walang Aray.
Walashma dynasty
The Walashma dynasty, also known as Walasma, was a Muslim ruling house that governed the sultanates of Ifat and then Adal in the Horn of Africa from about 1285 to 1520.
Walbeck (Weferlingen) Formation
Walbeck (Weferlingen) Formation: Maastrichtian quartz arenite (WAu, WAo) at Walbeck near Weferlingen, Saxony-Anhalt, in the Aller Valley Structure; a glass sand overlying Zechstein salt, distinct from the Paleocene Walbeck fossil fissure site.
Walbert Ureña
Walbert Jhoel Ureña (born 2004, Mao, Dominican Republic) is a Los Angeles Angels right-handed pitcher; signed for $140,000 in 2021, debuted March 26, 2026, and went 9-11 with a 2.97 ERA as a rookie.
Walburga Oesterreich
Walburga "Dolly" Oesterreich (1880-1961), American housewife of the 1922 "lover in the attic" murder case: kept Otto Sanhuber hidden in her attics; both escaped conviction for husband Fred's killing.
Wald entropy
Wald entropy is the formula Robert M. Wald defined in 1993 for a stationary black hole's entropy as a Noether charge, reducing to the area law in Einstein gravity.
Wald test
The Wald test, also known as the Wald statistic, is a statistical test of hypotheses about model parameters, introduced by Abraham Wald in 1943 and widely used for regression coefficient p-values.
Walda Heywat
Walda Heywat (Wäldä Ḥəywät) was a seventeenth-century Ethiopian philosopher, the student of Zara Yacob, and author of the Hatata Walda Heywat, a precursor of written philosophy in Ethiopia.
Waldbühne (Berlin open-air)
The Waldbühne is an open-air amphitheatre in a wooded hollow near Berlin's Olympiastadion, built for the 1936 Olympics and seating about 22,000. It is Germany's largest natural theater.
Waldemar
Waldemar, Scandinavian form Valdemar, is a masculine given name from Old High German walt (power) and mari (famous), also a Germanic counterpart of Slavic Vladimir. Borne by Danish kings including Valdemar the Great, it is popular again in Denmark.
Waldemar Adam
Waldemar Adam, full name Waldemar Adam Leder, is an American organic chemist who held the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg from 1980 to 2002.