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Walking Man I
Walking Man I (L'Homme qui marche I) is a life-size bronze sculpture of a striding man by the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, made in Paris in 1960.
Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring
Walking on a Mountain Path in Spring is a Southern Song silk painting by Ma Yuan of a scholar strolling with a zither-carrying servant boy, held in Taipei.
Walking on Sunshine (film)
Walking on Sunshine is a 2014 British jukebox musical rom-com directed by Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini, set in Puglia, Italy, starring Annabel Scholey, Hannah Arterton, and Giulio Berruti in a sister-fiance love triangle set to 1980s pop hits.
Walking on Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves song)
"Walking on Sunshine" is a 1985 pop hit by Katrina and the Waves, written by Kimberley Rew and sung by Katrina Leskanich. First recorded in 1983 for a Canada-only debut, the Scott Litt-mixed 1985 re-recording reached No. 8 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.
Walking on Thin Ice (TV series)
Walking on Thin Ice (은수 좋은 날, Eun-Soo's Good Day) is a 2025 KBS2 Korean crime thriller, 12 episodes, starring Lee Young-ae, Kim Young-kwang, and Park Yong-woo, about a housewife selling found drugs.
Walking Purchase
The Walking Purchase was a fraudulent 1737 land transaction in which Pennsylvania proprietors used an unsigned 1686 deed to take roughly 1,200 square miles from the Lenape.
Walking stick
A walking stick, also called a walking staff, is a single rod with a handgrip used for balance and support while walking, by hikers and people with painful joints or impaired balance.
Walking Tall (1973 film)
Walking Tall (1973) is a Phil Karlson biographical action drama starring Joe Don Baker as Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser; a $500,000 Bing Crosby Productions film that grossed tens of millions, spawned sequels and a 2004 remake, and whose hero was implicated in 2025 in his wife's 1967 murder.
Walking Tall (2004 film)
Walking Tall (2004) is a Kevin Bray action film starring Dwayne Johnson as Chris Vaughn, a remake of the 1973 Buford Pusser story, set in Washington state, grossing $45.9 million with 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Walking the plank
Walking the plank is a form of execution in which a captive is forced off a plank into the sea, famous as a pirate punishment despite little historical evidence.
Walking with Dinosaurs
Walking with Dinosaurs: British BBC natural-history-style dinosaur documentary series (1999, six parts, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, producer Tim Haines), Emmy-winning, with spin-offs, a 2013 film, and a 2025 PBS/BBC revival narrated by Bertie Carvel.
Walking with Dinosaurs (2025 TV series)
Walking with Dinosaurs (2025) is a six-part BBC Studios dinosaur documentary series for BBC One, PBS, ZDF, and France Télévisions, narrated by Bertie Carvel, covering Triceratops, Spinosaurus, Gastonia, Albertosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, and Lusotitan.
Walking with Dinosaurs (film)
Walking with Dinosaurs (film) is a 2013 family adventure directed by Barry Cook. It uses computer-animated dinosaurs against live-action landscapes to tell the story of Patchi.
Walkman
Walkman, also known as Sony Walkman and sold as Soundabout in the US, is a Sony brand of portable audio players first sold in Japan in 1979.
WalkMe
WalkMe is an Israeli digital adoption platform company founded in 2011 whose software overlays enterprise applications to provide in-app guidance and analytics; SAP acquired it in 2024 for about $1.5 billion.
WalkON Suit
The WalkON Suit is a South Korean powered exoskeleton developed at KAIST that lets people with complete paraplegia stand, walk, and climb stairs, winning Cybathlon gold in 2020 and 2024.
Walks plus hits per inning pitched
Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP) is a baseball pitching statistic, (BB+H)/IP, invented by Daniel Okrent in 1979 for fantasy baseball; league average is about 1.30, with Pedro Martinez's 0.74 (2000) the modern single-season low.
Walksnail Avatar HD
Walksnail Avatar HD is a digital high-definition FPV video transmission system made by Walksnail, the digital brand of Caddx, announced in May 2022 to compete with DJI and HDZero.
Wall
A wall is a vertical building element that encloses or divides space or carries structural load, ranging from ancient defensive ramparts to thin non-structural office partitions.
Wall clock
A wall clock is a timekeeper designed to be hung on a wall, ranging from eighteenth-century French cartel clocks and American banjo clocks to today's quartz models.
Wall cloud
A wall cloud, or pedestal cloud, is a localized, often rotating lowering from a thunderstorm's rain-free base; rotating ones usually develop before strong or violent tornadoes.
Wall Drug
Wall Drug, also known as Wall Drug Store, is a drugstore-turned-roadside attraction in Wall, South Dakota, founded in 1931 and famous for free ice water, 5-cent coffee, and hand-painted billboards.
Wall of Eyes
Wall of Eyes is the 2024 second album by the Smile, the trio of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner, released on XL Recordings; eight tracks, produced by Sam Petts-Davies, Metacritic 83.
Wall of Jericho
The Wall of Jericho is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic fortification wall at Tell es-Sultan, ancient Jericho, radiocarbon-dated to about 8300–7800 BC and paired with the nearby Round Tower.
Wall of Media
Wall of Media (Median Wall): ancient baked-brick defensive wall between Sippar and Opis in northern Babylonia, described by Xenophon in the Anabasis, built by Nebuchadnezzar II, identified with the ruins Ḥabl aṣ-Ṣaḫr near Baghdad.
Wall of Nineveh
The Wall of Nineveh is the fortified circuit of Nineveh, the Neo-Assyrian capital at modern Mosul, rebuilt by Sennacherib around 12 km long with 18 gates.
Wall of Sound
Wall of Sound, also called the Spector sound: a 1960s pop production style Phil Spector developed at Gold Star Studios with Larry Levine and the Wrecking Crew, layering doubled instruments in heavy echo, exemplified by "Be My Baby" and distinct from the Grateful Dead's live sound system of the same name.
Wall of Sound (record label)
Wall of Sound is a London independent record label founded in the mid-1990s by Mark Jones, named after Phil Spector's production style. Its big beat roster included Propellerheads, Röyksopp, and The Wiseguys; it merged with PIAS UK in 2006. Unrelated: a 2020 Jeddah label and a Leeds record shop share the name.
Wall of the Amorites
The Wall of the Amorites, called Muriq-Tidnim or Wall of Shu-Sin, was a defensive barrier built by King Shu-Suen of Ur against the Amorites around 2035 BC.
Wall of Voodoo
Wall of Voodoo, Los Angeles new wave band active 1977–1988 with a brief 2006 return, founded as Acme Soundtracks by Stan Ridgway and Marc Moreland; known for the 1983 MTV hit 'Mexican Radio' and the album Call of the West.