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Windsor Star
The Windsor Star is the daily newspaper of Windsor, Ontario, founded in 1888 as the Windsor Record, renamed Border Cities Star (1918), Windsor Daily Star (1935), and The Windsor Star (1959), now owned by Postmedia Network.
Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn
Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in northwestern Brooklyn, New York City, on a narrow strip between Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, developed from 1849.
Windsor-style pizza
Windsor-style pizza is Windsor, Ontario's regional pizza, distinct from Detroit-style: medium-thin cornmeal crust, Galati mozzarella, shredded pepperoni, canned mushrooms, born at Volcano Pizzeria (1957).
Windsor, Berkshire
Windsor, Berkshire: Thames-side English town about 20 miles west of London, site of Windsor Castle, founded by William the Conqueror around 1070, the world's largest occupied castle, home of the Order of the Garter and a planned 12th-century town.
Windsor, New South Wales
Windsor, NSW: historic Hawkesbury River town about 50 km northwest of Sydney, formerly Green Hills, renamed by Macquarie in 1810 as one of five Macquarie towns; noted for colonial heritage and severe flooding.
Windsor, Ontario
Windsor, Ontario: Canada's southernmost city, on the Detroit River across from Detroit; automotive capital since 1904, busiest Canada-US commercial border crossing, Gordie Howe bridge opened 2026, population 229,660.
Windstream
Windstream is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, offering Kinetic fiber broadband in 18 states and enterprise services, formed in 2006 from Alltel's wireline business.
Windstruck (내 여자 친구를 소개합니다)
Windstruck (내 여자친구를 소개합니다, Nae yeojachingureul sogae habnida) is a 2004 South Korean romantic drama by Kwak Jae-yong starring Jun Ji-hyun and Jang Hyuk; a police officer falls in love with a teacher who dies mid-film, released June 3, 2004, companion to My Sassy Girl.
Windsurf
Windsurf, also known as Devin Desktop, is an AI-native code editor forked from VS Code, launched in 2024 and owned by Cognition AI since 2025.
Windsurf And Kite Spot
Windsurf and kite spot, a named windsurfing and kitesurfing location near Colola in Iglesia Department, San Juan Province, Argentina, at about -30.1770, -69.0996, a year-round flat-water venue near the Cuesta del Viento Dam.
Windsurf Kitesurf Spot
Windsurf Kitesurf Spot is an OpenStreetMap node (12982032627, sport=surfing) in Fryslân, Northern Netherlands, at 53.49162°N, 6.14573°E, a mapped launch point for windsurfing and kitesurfing near Opduin.
Windsurf School Brouwersdam
Windsurf School Brouwersdam, founded by Uwe Jendrusch and Pieternel van der Linde as a mobile school in the 1980s, is a large windsurfing school in Ouddorp, the Netherlands.
Windsurf Station
Windsurf Station: family-owned windsurfing school and rental at Školjić beach, Cape Kamenjak, Premantura, Istria, Croatia; VOWS-certified instructors, courses from €70, Bura/Jugo/Mistral winds; distinct from namesake stations in Mallorca, Ammersee, and Rhodes.
Windsurfclub Bremervorde E. V.
Windsurfclub Bremervörde e.V. (WSCB), wscb.de, a windsurfing club at the Vörder See in Bremervörde, Lower Saxony, offering club equipment, SUP, a school windsurf AG since 2005/06, and free taster courses at the Vörder Seefest.
Windsurfing
Windsurfing, also called boardsailing, is a water sport in which a sailor stands on a board and holds a sail mounted to it, invented in 1967.
Windsurfing Und Segelclub Wetter 76 E. V. Bernd Barenberg
Windsurfing und Segelclub Wetter 76 e.V. Bernd Barenberg, a German windsurfing and sailing club in Wetter (Ruhr), NRW, listed at Wilhelmstraße 12 with contact Bernd Barenberg, sailing on the Harkortsee reservoir.
Windsurfvereniging Zegerplas
Windsurfvereniging Zegerplas (WSV Zegerplas) is a Dutch windsurfing and SUP club on the Zegerplas lake in Alphen aan den Rijn, founded 30 October 1979, known for the annual 2 uur van Alphen marathon and the Holland Windsurfing series.
Windtalkers
Windtalkers is a 2002 American war drama directed by John Woo, starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach as a Marine and the Navajo code talker he guards on Saipan in 1944.
Windward & Leeward Islands
Windward & Leeward Islands (FEOW ecoregion 216) is a freshwater ecoregion of tropical and subtropical coastal rivers covering the Lesser Antilles from Anguilla to Barbados, marked by windward-leeward rainfall contrasts and a single endemic freshwater fish.
Windward and leeward
Windward and leeward are directional terms, originating in sailing, for the sides of an object relative to the wind: windward faces into the wind, and leeward is the sheltered downwind side, where rain shadows form.
Windward Bio
Windward Bio is a Basel, Switzerland-based clinical-stage biotech founded in 2024 by Luca Santarelli, developing long-acting antibody therapies for immunological and respiratory conditions like asthma and COPD.
Windward Islands
The Windward Islands are the southern Lesser Antilles group: Dominica, Martinique, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada, with Barbados often included. Named for trade-wind exposure, they form a volcanic island arc where the Atlantic plate subducts beneath the Caribbean plate.
Windy City (nickname)
Windy City is Chicago's famous 19th-century nickname. Its origin is disputed: literal Lake Michigan winds, boastful "windbag" politicians, or both; the Charles Dana 1890 editorial story is unverified, and Chicago's 10.3 mph average wind is unremarkable.
Windy Oaks
Windy Oaks Opportunities, also known as Windy Oaks Opportunities, L.P., is a venture capital fund formed in Delaware in April 2025 and based in Santa Monica, California.
Wine
Wine: alcoholic beverage from fermented grapes or must, at least 8.5% vol per the OIV definition. Covers fermentation chemistry, history, classification, 2025 sector data (227 mhl production, 208 mhl consumption), and health risks.
Wine (music)
Wine, or winin', is a rotating hip-and-waist dance central to dancehall, soca, and calypso across the Anglophone Caribbean, known regionally as despelote in Cuba, gouyad in Haiti, and wukkin'-up in Barbados.
Wine (software)
Wine, short for "Wine Is Not an Emulator," is a free, open-source compatibility layer that runs Windows applications on Linux, macOS, and BSD by translating Windows API calls into POSIX calls.
Wine bottle
Wine bottle: the standard ~750 ml glass container for wine, developed from 14th-century glass to the 1820s cylindrical mold; sealed by cork, screw cap, or synthetic stopper; glass dominates wine packaging though LCAs favor bag-in-box and refillable formats.
Wine cooperative
Wine cooperative: a grower-owned winemaking firm (cave coopérative, cantina sociale) where members deliver grapes to a jointly owned cellar under one-member-one-vote governance; by the 1980s cooperatives made over half the wine of France, Italy, and Spain.
Wine Country (film)
Wine Country is a 2019 Netflix comedy, Amy Poehler's feature directorial debut, starring SNL alumni Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, and Emily Spivey on a Napa 50th-birthday trip; released 2019 in theaters and May 10 on Netflix.