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Wilhelmsaue
Wilhelmsaue is the name of three related places in Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany: a street and green preserving old Wilmersdorf's village green, a Letschin village, and an ancient grave field.
Wilhelmshaven
Wilhelmshaven is a seaport city in Lower Saxony, Germany, founded as a Prussian naval base and now the site of Germany's only deep-water container terminal.
Wilhelmshaven FSRU
The Wilhelmshaven FSRU is Germany's first LNG import terminal, a floating regasification unit moored off Wilhelmshaven, inaugurated by Chancellor Olaf Scholz in December 2022 to replace Russian gas supplies.
Wilhelmus
The Wilhelmus (Wilhelmus van Nassouwe) is the national anthem of the Netherlands, written in the voice of William of Orange during the Dutch Revolt and official since 1932.
Wilkes Expedition
The Wilkes Expedition, formally the United States Exploring Expedition, was a U.S. Navy voyage of 1838 to 1842 commanded by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes that circumnavigated the globe.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Wyoming Valley city on the Susquehanna River, founded 1769 and named for John Wilkes and Isaac Barré; anthracite coal hub, devastated by 1972 Tropical Storm Agnes flooding.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, AHL team in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Penguins affiliate since 1999; three Calder Cup Finals (2001, 2004, 2008), no title; 2025-26 Eastern Conference Final run under Kirk MacDonald.
Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer, friend of Dickens and master of the sensation novel; author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, pioneer of full-length detective fiction.
Wilking Sisters
The Wilking Sisters, Miranda and Melanie Wilking of Michigan, were a TikTok dance duo (@wilkingsisters) with over 3 million followers by 2020. The duo ended when Miranda joined 7M Films and Shekinah Church, becoming estranged from her family, the subject of Netflix's Dancing for the Devil.
Wilkins Coast
Wilkins Coast: section of the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, from Cape Agassiz to Cape Boggs at 69°40'S 63°00'W, named for aviator Sir Hubert Wilkins after his 1928 Antarctic flight.
Wilkins Sound
Wilkins Sound is a sound in the Bellingshausen Sea off the Antarctic Peninsula, between Alexander, Charcot, Latady, and Rothschild islands, named 1961 for explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins and largely filled by the retreating Wilkins Ice Shelf.
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was a NASA observatory that mapped the cosmic microwave background from 2001 to 2010, measuring the universe's age and composition.
Wilkinson power divider
The Wilkinson power divider is a passive three-port microwave circuit that splits an input signal into equal-amplitude, equal-phase outputs isolated from each other, introduced by Ernest J. Wilkinson in 1960.
Wilkinson's catalyst
Wilkinson's catalyst, also known as Wilkinson's complex or Wilkinson's compound, is a square-planar rhodium(I) compound, RhCl(PPh3)3, that made homogeneous alkene hydrogenation practical under mild conditions and was reported in 1966.
Wilko Johnson
Wilko Johnson (John Peter Wilkinson, 1947-2022), Canvey Island guitarist and Dr Feelgood founder whose choppy rhythm-and-lead style shaped punk; later a Blockhead, Game of Thrones executioner, and pancreatic cancer survivor.
Wilkomirski syndrome
Wilkomirski syndrome names the uncritical acceptance of fabricated victim testimony, from the 1995 fraudulent Holocaust memoir Fragments by Bruno Dössekker (Binjamin Wilkomirski), exposed in 1998 and investigated by Stefan Mächler.
Wilks' theorem
Wilks' theorem is a mathematical statistics result stating that, for nested models, the likelihood ratio test statistic follows an asymptotic chi-square distribution, established by Samuel S. Wilks in 1938.
Will (TV series)
Will is the 2017 TNT drama series, created by Craig Pearce, starring Laurie Davidson as young William Shakespeare in 1589 London; one 10-episode TV-MA season, 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, canceled after a single run.
Will & Grace
Will & Grace is an American NBC sitcom (1998–2006, revived 2017–2020) created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, starring Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, and Megan Mullally; the first hit sitcom with gay leads, winner of 18 Emmys.
Will & Harper
Will & Harper is a 2024 Josh Greenbaum Netflix documentary following Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, his SNL collaborator who came out as a trans woman in 2022 at 61, on a 16-day New York-to-LA road trip; Sundance premiere, 99% Tomatometer, 2024 Peabody winner.
Will Ahmed
Will Ahmed, also known as William Ahmed, is an American entrepreneur who founded the wearable company WHOOP in 2012 while at Harvard and leads it as chief executive.
Will Ainsworth
Will Ainsworth is an American politician serving as Lieutenant Governor of Alabama since 2018, where he serves as President of the Alabama Senate, after serving in the Alabama House of Representatives from 2014.
Will and testament
Will and testament: a legal document stating a testator's wishes for distributing their estate after death. Covers formalities, capacity, Roman origins, the Statute of Wills 1540, probate, and forced heirship versus testamentary freedom.
Will Anderson Jr.
Will Anderson Jr., also known as William Anderson Jr., is an American football defensive end for the Houston Texans, drafted third overall in the 2023 NFL Draft out of Alabama.
Will Arnett
Will Arnett (William Emerson Arnett), Canadian-American actor and comedian born 1970 in Toronto, known as Gob Bluth in Arrested Development, voice of BoJack Horseman and Lego Batman, SmartLess cohost, and star of Is This Thing On? (2025).
Will Ashley (actor)
Will Ashley De Leon is a Filipino actor who began on GMA at age 11 (Villa Quintana, Alyas Robin Hood), broke through in Balota and Bar Boys: After School, won EDDYS and Urian Best Supporting Actor, and starred in PBB Celebrity Collab Edition.
Will Atkinson
Will Atkinson is a Scottish trance and hard trance producer and DJ from Orkney, based in Glasgow, active since 2008 and known for a harder, genre-refusing take on trance.
Will Barclay
Will Barclay is an American Republican politician who has represented New York's 120th Assembly district since 2002 and led the Assembly Minority Conference from 2020 until stepping down in 2026.
Will Barfoot
Will Barfoot is an American politician and attorney who serves as a Republican member of the Alabama Senate from District 25, first elected in 2018, and chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Will Barton
Will Barton (William Denard Barton, born 1991) is an American former basketball guard who played 11 NBA seasons, best known for his years with the Denver Nuggets.