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Wall plate (electrical)
A wall plate, also called a faceplate, switch plate, or outlet cover, is the flat protective cover fitted over an electrical switch, receptacle, or data port in a wall.
Wall Street
Wall Street: eight-block lower Manhattan street named for a 1653 Dutch stockade; metonym for US finance, home of the NYSE (Buttonwood Agreement, 1792), Federal Hall, and the 1929, 1987, and 2008 crashes.
Wall Street (1987 film)
Wall Street (1987) is Oliver Stone's drama starring Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko and Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, released 11 December 1987; Douglas won the Best Actor Oscar, and "greed is good" became its famous mantra.
Wall Street bombing
The 1920 Wall Street bombing: a wagon bomb exploded outside J.P. Morgan's offices on September 16, killing 38; unsolved, attributed to Galleanist Italian anarchists, worst US terror act until 1995.
Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was the collapse of US stock prices in late October 1929, when the Dow fell 89 percent, not recovering until 1954.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, also known as Wall Street 2, is a 2010 drama film directed by Oliver Stone, with Michael Douglas returning as Gordon Gekko.
Wall stud
A wall stud is a vertical framing member in a building wall that carries structural loads and provides the frame for sheathing, siding, and interior finish.
Wall to Wall (제 로퍼) (film)
Wall to Wall (84제곱미터, 84 Square Meters) is a 2025 South Korean Netflix psychological thriller directed by Kim Tae-joon, starring Kang Ha-neul as a homeowner driven to breakdown by mysterious inter-floor noise, debt, and hostile neighbors; released July 18, 2025.
WALL-E
WALL-E (WALL·E) is Pixar's 2008 G-rated computer-animated sci-fi film directed by Andrew Stanton, about a lonely trash-compacting robot and the probe EVE; it won the Best Animated Feature Oscar and grossed $535 million.
Wall's (ice cream)
Wall's is an ice cream brand (Heartbrand, aka Algida, Langnese, Ola, Kibon) founded as a 1786 London butcher's shop; ice cream began 1922 at Acton with 'Stop me and buy one' tricycles, now sold in over 52 countries under The Magnum Ice Cream Company.
Walla Walla, Washington
Walla Walla, Washington: county-seat city in southeastern Washington named from Sahaptin for "many waters." Founded 1862, once largest city in Washington Territory, now a wine and college town of about 34,000.
Wallabia
Wallabia (swamp wallaby genus, Trouessart 1905) is a monotypic macropodid genus containing Wallabia bicolor of eastern Australia; phylogenomics nests it within a paraphyletic Macropus, sister to Notamacropus.
Wallabout (historical)
Wallabout, a historic Brooklyn neighborhood around Wallabout Bay (Waal-bogt), settled by Walloons from 1624, site of British Revolutionary prison ships, the 1801 Brooklyn Navy Yard purchase, and Wallabout Market (1884-1941).
Wallaby
Wallaby: informal common name for around 30 smaller macropod species of Australia and New Guinea across genera Notamacropus, Petrogale, and Wallabia; distinguished from kangaroos by size convention, not taxonomy; swamp wallaby uniquely shows superfetation.
Wallace (footballer, born 2004)
Wallace (Wallace Gomes da Silva dos Santos, born 2004) is a Brazilian defender for Grêmio, squad number 82; distinct from the 2004-born Madureira midfielder Wallace Camilo dos Santos Leandro.
Wallace (Martian crater)
Wallace is a 110.90-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 170.78°E, 52.48°S, officially named in 1973 by the IAU for Alfred Russel Wallace, the British biologist who argued in Is Mars Habitable? (1907) that Mars was not habitable.
Wallace (The Wire)
Wallace is a fictional teenage drug dealer in HBO's The Wire (2002), in the Barksdale Organization under D'Angelo Barksdale, played by Michael B. Jordan; he cares for orphans in a vacant and is killed in the season 1 finale.
Wallace & Gromit
Wallace & Gromit, Nick Park's British stop-motion clay-animation series from Aardman Animations, stars an eccentric inventor and his silent dog. Known for A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, three Oscars, and Vengeance Most Fowl.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 British-American stop-motion comedy directed by Nick Park and Steve Box, the duo's first feature film.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is Aardman's 2024 stop-motion comedy, the duo's second feature, in which Feathers McGraw returns after The Wrong Trousers and hijacks Wallace's robotic gnome Norbot. Directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham, it streamed on BBC iPlayer and Netflix and won the 2025 BAFTA for Best Animated Film.
Wallace A. Jones
Wallace A. Jones (1931–2011) was an American physician specializing in liver disease at Massachusetts General Hospital, best known for his 1961 review of external cardiac massage.
Wallace Aristide
Wallace Aristide is a Haitian American educator and Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 107, winning the 2024 primary with 44.8 percent of the vote.
Wallace B. Behnke
Wallace B. Behnke was an American engineer with Commonwealth Edison, where he was Vice Chairman from 1980, and chaired the consortium managing the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project.
Wallace Beery
Wallace Beery (Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, 1885-1949), American MGM character star, Oscar winner for The Champ (1931, tied with Fredric March), known for Min and Bill, Treasure Island's Long John Silver, and over 250 films.
Wallace Broecker
Wallace Broecker (1931–2019) was an American geochemist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, called the "grandfather of climate science," who coined "global warming" in 1975 and proposed the Great Ocean Conveyor.
Wallace Carothers
Wallace Carothers (1896–1937) was an American organic chemist who led fundamental research at DuPont from 1928, invented neoprene and nylon, and founded condensation polymerization theory.
Wallace Chung (钟汉良)
Wallace Chung (钟汉良, 鍾漢良, Chung Hon-Leung), born 1974 in Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong actor and singer. TVB dancer turned Taiwanese pop idol with the 1995 album OREA, then a mainland drama star known for My Sunshine, Too Late to Say I Love You, and Three.
Wallace Clement Sabine
Wallace Clement Sabine (1868–1919) was an American physicist at Harvard University who founded architectural acoustics, devised the reverberation-time formula still used in room design, and served as acoustical consultant for Boston's Symphony Hall.
Wallace Collection
Wallace Collection: national museum of fine and decorative arts at Hertford House, Manchester Square, London. Formed by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, bequeathed to the nation by Lady Wallace in 1897, opened 22 June 1900, free entry, 5,637 works.
Wallace D. Hayes
Wallace Dean Hayes (1918–2001) was an American theoretical aerodynamicist and Princeton professor known for the supersonic area rule, the Hayes equivalence principle in hypersonic flow, and sonic boom theory.