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Wine Cup of Jahangir
A wine cup of Jahangir is a drinking vessel made for the Mughal emperor, mostly carved from nephrite jade and inscribed with his titles, dates, and verses.
Wine glass
A wine glass is a stemmed drinking vessel with a bowl, rim, stem, and foot, shaped to let a drinker see, swirl, smell, and taste wine.
Wine gum
Wine gums (winegums) are chewy, firm British pastille sweets with no alcohol, introduced by Maynards in 1909. Made from starch and gelatine, stamped with drink names like Port and Sherry; vegan variants exist.
Wine Institute
Wine Institute is the public policy advocacy association of California wineries, founded in 1934 after Prohibition's repeal; it represents nearly 1,000 wineries at state, federal, and international levels.
Wine monopoly (quejiu)
Wine monopoly (quejiu) (榷酒) was the Song dynasty state monopoly over wine and yeast, a fiscal mainstay yielding over fourteen million strings of cash yearly and, in the Southern Song, over half of state revenue.
Wine museum
A wine museum is an institution dedicated to collecting and displaying the material culture of vines and wine, from archaeological ceramics to vineyard tools and label archives.
Wine rating systems
Wine rating systems are numeric or symbolic scoring schemes critics and publications use to judge wine quality, with scores above 90 points driving marketing and sales.
Wine tasting descriptors
Wine tasting descriptors are the vocabulary for describing wine's appearance, aroma, taste, and mouthfeel, organized by systems such as the WSET SAT, the CMS deductive grid, and Noble's Aroma Wheel.
Winejok
Winejok, also spelled Wanyjok, is a city located in Aweil East County, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan, serving as the county headquarters since 1993.
Winemaker
Winemaker: the professional who directs wine production from grape processing through fermentation, aging, and bottling; related to the enologist (wine chemistry) and viticulturist (vineyard); central process is alcoholic fermentation of grape sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide.
Winemaking
Winemaking: production of wine by fermenting grape sugars into ethanol and carbon dioxide, spontaneously or with selected yeasts. Covers maceration, carbonic maceration, ancestral versus traditional sparkling methods, vessels, and OIV-regulated practice.
Winery
Winery: a facility producing wine from grapes via crushing, fermentation, aging, and bottling. Covers winemaking process, US history from Prohibition to all 50 states, stainless-steel innovation, water, energy, wastewater, and tourism.
Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's short story cycle of small-town life, unified by George Willard and the grotesques; published by B. W. Huebsch, it influenced Hemingway, Faulkner, Welty, and Steinbeck.
Wineville Chicken Coop murders
The Wineville Chicken Coop murders were 1928 California child killings by Gordon Stewart Northcott at his Wineville ranch; convicted of three murders, executed 1930; town renamed Mira Loma.
Winfield House
Winfield House, Regent's Park, London: official residence of the US Ambassador to the Court of St James's. Neo-Georgian mansion built 1936 for Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton, donated to the US for one dollar after WWII; Grade II listed; 12.5-acre garden.
Winfield massacre
The Winfield massacre was the August 13, 1903 mass shooting in Winfield, Kansas, in which Gilbert Twigg fired a 12-gauge shotgun into Camon's Band concert crowd at Ninth and Main, killed about nine and wounded about twenty-five, then killed himself after leaving a letter showing he had planned the attack.
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott, known as Old Fuss and Feathers, was an American army general who served over fifty years, captured Mexico City in 1847, and proposed the Anaconda Plan.
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock (1824–1886), nicknamed "Hancock the Superb," was a Union Civil War general who led the II Corps at Gettysburg during Pickett's Charge, later commanded the Fifth Military District, and narrowly lost the 1880 presidential election as the Democratic nominee to James A. Garfield.
Winford Casino
Winford Casino, formally the casino of Winford Resort & Casino Manila, is a PAGCOR-licensed casino in Sta. Cruz, Manila, opened in 2017 on the former San Lazaro Hippodrome site.
Winfred Yavi
Winfred Mutile Yavi, Kenyan-born Bahraini 3000m steeplechase runner (born 1999, Nairobi). Olympic champion Paris 2024 (8:52.76 OR), world champion Budapest 2023, Asian record 8:44.39; switched allegiance from Kenya at 15.
Winfried Denk
Winfried Denk, born 1957 in Munich, is a German physicist and neuroscientist known for co-inventing two-photon microscopy and developing serial block-face electron microscopy at Max Planck.
Winfried Edelmann
Winfried Edelmann is an American molecular geneticist and professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, known for mouse models of DNA mismatch repair genes.
Wing
A wing is the lifting surface of an aircraft, an airfoil-shaped structure that turns airflow to produce lift and carries the control surfaces, fuel, and structure of the airplane.
Wing (beatboxer)
WinG (윙, Kim Geonho, born 1997) is a South Korean beatboxer, first Korean Asia Beatbox champion (2018), BEATPELLA HOUSE member, creator of the viral 45-million-view track 'Dopamine', and GBB 2025 solo runner-up.
Wing (singer)
Wing (Wing Han Tsang, 曾詠韓) is a retired Hong Kong-born New Zealand singer of ABBA, Elvis, and musical-theater covers, a 2005 South Park guest star, active roughly 2005 to 2015, distinct from the band Winger and the band Virginia Wing.
Wing Chun
Wing Chun (詠春, Ving Tsun), southern Chinese close-range martial art from Guangdong, ~300 years old; three empty-hand forms, chi sao, wooden dummy; spread globally by Ip Man (1893–1972) and Bruce Lee; effectiveness debated versus MMA.
Wing Chun (咏春) (1994 film)
Wing Chun (咏春, aka 红粉金刚) is a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts comedy directed by Yuen Woo-ping, starring Michelle Yeoh as wing chun founder Yim Wing-chun and Donnie Yen; famous for its tofu fight, it grossed HK$4,151,747.
Wing Commander (film)
Wing Commander is a 1999 American science fiction war film directed by Chris Roberts. It is known as the first Hollywood movie based on a space video game.
Wing Commander (franchise)
Wing Commander is a space combat simulation franchise created by Chris Roberts at Origin Systems and first published in 1990, in which players fly for the Terran Confederation against the Kilrathi.
Wing configuration
Wing configuration is the overall arrangement and shape of an aircraft's wing: its planform, aspect ratio, sweep, dihedral, and fuselage position. These choices trade lift, drag, weight, stability, and cost.