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Winchester Model 1897
The Winchester Model 1897 is a pump-action shotgun designed by John Moses Browning and made from 1897 to 1957, its trench gun variant famed in World War I.
Winchester Model 1907
The Winchester Model 1907 is an American blowback-operated semi-automatic rifle chambered for the .351 Winchester Self-Loading, made from 1907 to 1957 and used by police and WWI air forces.
Winchester Model 1912
The Winchester Model 1912, later the Model 12, is a hammerless pump-action shotgun Winchester produced from 1912 to 1964, called the "Perfect Repeater" and selling more than two million.
Winchester Model 70
Winchester Model 70, also known as "The Rifleman's Rifle," is a centerfire bolt action rifle introduced in 1936. It has been made in over 40 chamberings.
Winchester Mystery House
The Winchester Mystery House, or Winchester Mansion, is a Victorian mansion in San Jose, California, built and continually remodeled by heiress Sarah Winchester from 1886 until 1922.
Winchester Psalter
The Winchester Psalter, also called the Psalter of Henry of Blois, is an illuminated Romanesque psalter made at Winchester around 1150, famous for its 38 full-page miniatures.
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company, founded by Oliver Winchester in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1866, made lever-action rifles including the Model 1873 and Model 1894.
Winchester rifle
The Winchester rifle is a family of lever-action repeating rifles first produced in 1867 in New Haven, Connecticut, best known through the Model 1873, "the gun that won the West."
Winchester South Coal Mine
Winchester South Coal Mine is a proposed open-cut metallurgical coal mine in Queensland's Bowen Basin near Moranbah, developed by Whitehaven Coal for up to 11 Mtpa of product coal.
Winchester, Virginia
Winchester, Virginia: independent city and Frederick County seat at the northern Shenandoah Valley entrance; founded 1744 by James Wood; most contested Civil War town (~70 changes of hands); 28,120 people (2020); Apple Blossom Festival since 1924.
WinCo Foods
WinCo Foods, formerly Waremart, is an employee-owned, no-frills supermarket chain founded in Boise, Idaho, in 1967, with 140+ stores in ten states and one of the largest employee stock ownership plans in the United States.
Wincobank hill fort
Wincobank hill fort: Iron Age slight univallate hillfort, c. 1.1 ha, on a sandstone hill in northeast Sheffield overlooking the Don valley; scheduled 1927; 1899 Howarth excavation; Roman Ridge earthwork nearby.
Wind
Wind is air in motion relative to Earth's surface, driven by uneven heating between the equator and poles and by Earth's rotation, shaping weather and ocean currents.
Wind & Wuthering
Wind & Wuthering, Genesis's eighth studio album (Charisma, December 1976/January 1977), recorded in the Netherlands; second post-Gabriel LP, last with Steve Hackett, UK No. 7, final fully progressive Genesis album.
Wind and Truth
Wind and Truth (Viento y Verdad) is Brandon Sanderson's fifth Stormlight Archive novel, published December 6, 2024 by Tor. At about 491,000 words it closes the series' first five-book arc around Dalinar's contest of champions against Odium, debuted at #1 on the NYT list, and is the series' most divisive entry.
Wind Beneath My Wings
Wind Beneath My Wings, by Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley, is a 1982 country ballad made famous by Bette Midler's Beaches version, a 1989 Hot 100 #1 and 1990 Grammy Song and Record of the Year winner.
Wind bracing
Wind bracing is the system of secondary members in a bridge superstructure, such as cross-frames, diaphragms, and lateral diagonal bracing, that stabilizes the structure against wind and torsional loads.
Wind Cave
Wind Cave is a large limestone cave in the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, known for boxwork found there more abundantly than in all other caves combined.
Wind Cave bison herd
Wind Cave bison herd: American bison herd in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, founded 1913 with 14 Bronx Zoo bison plus 6 Yellowstone bison in 1916; about 350-450 animals, among the most genetically diverse US conservation herds.
Wind Cave National Park
Wind Cave National Park, in South Dakota's southern Black Hills, established January 9, 1903 as the world's first cave national park, protects a 167-mile maze cave famed for holding more boxwork calcite formation than all other caves combined.
Wind chill
Wind chill, also called the wind chill factor, is the perceived drop in air temperature on exposed skin caused by wind; it cannot cool objects below the actual air temperature.
Wind chime
A wind chime, also known as a wind-bell, is a percussion instrument of suspended tubes, rods, or bells rung by the wind and hung outside buildings as ornament.
Wind direction
Wind direction is the direction from which the wind blows at a given location, measured clockwise from true north, reported in degrees alongside wind speed.
Wind erosion
Wind erosion (aeolian soil erosion) is the detachment and transport of soil by wind via saltation, surface creep, and suspension. It begins above roughly 6 m/s over dry soils, strips fine particles and organic matter, and is controlled by cover, roughness, and windbreaks.
Wind farm
A wind farm, also called a windpark or windmill farm, is a group of wind turbines at one location that generate electricity for the power grid.
Wind farm control
Wind farm control is the coordinated operation of turbines across a wind power plant, chiefly wake steering, to increase energy production, manage structural loads, and support the electrical grid.
Wind farm layout optimization
Wind farm layout optimization is an engineering method that places turbines within a wind farm to maximize energy production or economic return while accounting for wakes.
Wind God and Thunder God Screens
Wind God and Thunder God Screens (Fūjin Raijin-zu byōbu) is a pair of 17th-century gold-leaf screens by Tawaraya Sotatsu, held at Kennin-ji temple in Kyoto.
Wind in the Pines Among Ten Thousand Valleys
Wind in the Pines Among Ten Thousand Valleys (萬壑松風圖) is a monumental 1124 landscape hanging scroll by the Song painter Li Tang, held in Taipei.
Wind instrument
Wind instrument: any instrument sounding by a vibrating air column, divided into woodwinds (flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone) and brasses by sound production, not material; bore physics, three exciter types, and 35,000-year-old flutes distinguish it.