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Wilmanns Neopunic inscriptions
The Wilmanns Neopunic inscriptions are a group of Neo-Punic texts from Tunisia whose squeezes Gustavus Wilmanns took in 1873–74, including the dedication to Baal Hamon from Althiburus.
Wilmar International
Wilmar International (SGX:F34), founded 1991 in Singapore by Kuok Khoon Hong and Martua Sitorus, is Asia's leading agribusiness group: over 1,000 plants in 36 countries, ~279,000 ha oil palm, FY2025 revenue US$70.42 billion, world's largest palm biodiesel and oleochemicals producer.
Wilmer Flores
Wilmer Flores (Wilmer Alejandro Flores, "Catire"), born 1991 in Valencia, Venezuela, is a Venezuelan MLB infielder (Mets 2013-18, Diamondbacks 2019, Giants 2020-25) who debuted on his 22nd birthday, won the 2022 Willie Mac Award, and joined Toros de Tijuana in 2026.
Wilmer Valderrama
Wilmer Valderrama, American actor born 1980 in Miami and raised in Venezuela, played Fez on That '70s Show (1998–2006) and Special Agent Nick Torres on NCIS since 2016; also voiced Handy Manny and Encanto's Agustín.
Wilmette, Illinois
Wilmette is a village in Cook County, Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan north of Chicago, one of the North Shore suburbs, named for the Ouilmette family, with a 2020 population of 28,170.
Wilmington Oil Field
The Wilmington Oil Field is a giant oil field beneath Long Beach and San Pedro Bay, California, discovered in 1932 and the third-largest in the United States by cumulative production.
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington, Delaware, the state's largest city (70,898 in 2020) and New Castle County seat, founded as Swedish Fort Christina in 1638, chartered 1739, an industrial and du Pont chemical center turned corporate and banking capital.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina: coastal port city in New Hanover County on the Cape Fear River, eighth largest NC city, population about 126,800 (2025). Known for its Civil War blockade-running port, the 1898 coup, UNCW, and hurricane and flood exposure.
Wilmot H. Bradley
Wilmot H. Bradley (1899–1979) was an American geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, best known for decades of research on the Green River Formation's oil shale and trona deposits.
Wilmot N. Hess
Wilmot N. Hess (1926–2004) was an American physicist who led radiation-belt research at NASA Goddard, Apollo science in Houston, Project Plowshare, and NCAR from 1980 to 1986.
Wilmot Proviso
Wilmot Proviso, 1846 amendment by Pennsylvania congressman David Wilmot to a $2 million appropriations bill, banning slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico; passed the House, failed in the Senate, never enacted.
Wilms' tumor
Wilms' tumor (nephroblastoma) is the most common childhood kidney cancer, treated by COG upfront surgery or SIOP preoperative chemotherapy; 93% five-year survival in the US, driven by WT1, CTNNB1, and WTX alterations.
Wilmslow
Wilmslow: mainly residential commuter town in Cheshire East, England, near Manchester; key service centre, population about 24,600, around 22 minutes by train to Manchester, known for affluence, quality shopping, and Green Belt surroundings.
Wilnelia Merced
Wilnelia Merced (Wilnelia Merced Cruz), born 1957 in Caguas, Puerto Rico, is a philanthropist and model crowned Miss World 1975, the first Puerto Rican winner; later Lady Forsyth, wife of Bruce Forsyth, and holder of the Miss World Puerto Rico franchise.
Wilo
Wilo, formally WILO SE, is a German pump manufacturer headquartered in Dortmund, founded in 1872 as a copper and brass works and now about 90 percent owned by the founding Opländer family's Wilo-Foundation.
Wilpattu Ramsar Wetland Cluster
Wilpattu Ramsar Wetland Cluster (Ramsar Site no. 2095), Sri Lanka's sixth Ramsar site, designated 2 February 2013; 165,800 ha in North Western and North Central Provinces encompassing Wilpattu National Park, its villus, estuaries, and 21 endemic vertebrates.
Wilpena Pound
Wilpena Pound (Ikara, "meeting place") is a 17 by 8 km natural amphitheatre of quartzite walls in South Australia's Flinders Ranges, within Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park, with St Mary Peak at 1,166 m and Adnyamathanha co-management.
Wilpinjong Coal Mine
The Wilpinjong Coal Mine is an open-cut thermal coal mine near Wollar, New South Wales, owned by Peabody Energy. Opened in 2006, it supplies domestic power stations and export markets through Newcastle.
Wilshire Grand Center
Wilshire Grand Center, also known as Wilshire Grand Tower, is a 73-story, 1,100-foot skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, opened in 2017 as the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.
Wilson (1944 film)
Wilson (1944) is Darryl F. Zanuck's Twentieth Century-Fox Technicolor biopic of Woodrow Wilson, directed by Henry King, starring Alexander Knox; it won 5 of 10 Oscars but flopped, earning $2 million on a $5.2 million budget.
Wilson & Co.
Wilson & Co. was a Chicago meatpacking company renamed in 1916 under Thomas E. Wilson, one of America's Big Five packers, and the namesake of Wilson Sporting Goods.
Wilson A. Smith
Wilson A. Smith is an electrochemist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder with a joint appointment at NREL, known for work on carbon dioxide reduction on gas-diffusion electrodes.
Wilson action
The Wilson action, also called the Wilson gauge action, is the lattice gauge action introduced by Kenneth Wilson in 1974, built from traces of plaquette products of link variables.
Wilson Bethel
Wilson Bethel (Stephen Wilson Bethel, born 1984) is an American actor known for Wade Kinsella on Hart of Dixie, Mark Callan on All Rise, and Bullseye/Benjamin Poindexter in Daredevil and Daredevil: Born Again.
Wilson Carlile
Wilson Carlile (1847–1942) was a Church of England clergyman who founded the Church Army in 1882, a Salvation Army-style lay evangelistic organization working under Anglican parish control.
Wilson Chandler
Wilson Chandler (born 1987, Benton Harbor, Michigan) is a former NBA forward, also known as Ill Will, drafted 23rd overall by the Knicks in 2007 out of DePaul; 12 seasons, 676 games, 8,463 points, later traded to Denver in the Carmelo Anthony deal.
Wilson coefficients
Wilson coefficients are the couplings multiplying local operators in an operator product expansion, carrying the short-distance effects of heavy fields and parametrizing physics beyond the Standard Model.
Wilson County, Tennessee, United States
Wilson County, Tennessee: Middle Tennessee county established 1799 from Sumner County, seat Lebanon, named for David Wilson; fast-growing Nashville suburb, 147,373 people in 2020.
Wilson Cruz
Wilson Cruz (born 1973, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor and GLAAD national spokesperson; the first openly gay actor as an openly gay network-TV series regular, known for Rickie Vasquez in My So-Called Life and Dr. Hugh Culber on Star Trek: Discovery.
Wilson cycle
The Wilson cycle is a geodynamic model in which ocean basins open by rifting and close by subduction until continents collide, proposed by J. Tuzo Wilson in 1966.