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Wallada bint al-Mustakfi
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (ولادة بنت المستكفي) was an Andalusi princess and poet of Cordoba, daughter of the Umayyad caliph Muhammad III al-Mustakfi, known for her literary salon and love affair with the poet Ibn Zaydun.
Wallaman Falls
Wallaman Falls is a 268-meter single-drop waterfall on Stony Creek in Girringun National Park, 51 km south-west of Ingham, Queensland, and Australia's tallest single-drop waterfall.
Wallander (British TV series)
Wallander is a British crime drama adapted from Henning Mankell's novels, with Kenneth Branagh as Swedish detective Kurt Wallander; it ran on BBC One from 2008 to 2016.
Wallander (Swedish TV series)
Wallander (Swedish TV series): Swedish feature-length crime films about Henning Mankell's Ystad detective Kurt Wallander. Best known is the Krister Henriksson series (2005–2013, 32 films, TV4/Yellow Bird), distinct from the Rolf Lassgård series, the BBC Branagh version, and the Gustaf Skarsgård reboot.
Wallasey
Wallasey is a town on the Wirral, Merseyside, opposite Liverpool; recorded in Domesday 1086, a dormitory town grown around the Seacombe, Egremont and New Brighton Mersey ferries and New Brighton resort.
Wallbox (company)
Wallbox is a Spanish electric vehicle charging company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Barcelona, known for its Pulsar Plus home charger and Quasar 2 bi-directional charger.
Walldorf
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg town in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis near Heidelberg; first mentioned 770, town rights 1901, birthplace of Johann Jakob Astor, and worldwide headquarters of SAP SE; distinct from Mörfelden-Walldorf and Walldürn.
Walldürn
Walldürn, a town in Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on the UNESCO-listed Upper German-Raetian Limes; site of Kastell Walldürn (ORL 33), a mid-2nd-century Roman fort of about 160 men, a row-type Roman bath, and a 2.2 km Limes trail.
Walle Nauta
Walle Nauta (1916–1994) was a Dutch-born American neuroanatomist at MIT who developed the Nauta silver staining method for tracing degenerating nerve fibers, helping establish modern neuroscience.
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's Palace and Maiden Tower (Icheri Sheher, Qız qalası): UNESCO World Heritage site in Azerbaijan, inscribed 2000, criterion (iv), 21.5 ha, in Danger 2003–2009.
Walled villages of Hong Kong (香港围村)
Walled villages of Hong Kong (香港圍村, wai) are fortified single-surname lineage settlements in the New Territories, built by Punti and Hakka clans against pirates and bandits; examples include Kat Hing Wai, San Wai, Lo Wai, and Hakka Lai Chi Wo.
Wallemia sebi
Wallemia sebi is a xerophilic, air-borne fungus that grows on low-moisture foods like salted dried fish, cereals, and spices, and is linked to allergies and asthma.
Wallemiomycetes
Wallemiomycetes is a 2005 class of xerophilic basidiomycete fungi containing the genus Wallemia and order Wallemiales, placed in subphylum Wallemiomycotina as sister to Agaricomycotina; includes the most halophilic known fungus, Wallemia ichthyophaga.
Wallenberg family
The Wallenberg family is a Swedish banking and industrial dynasty that controls a large share of Swedish industry through foundations and the holding company Investor AB, founded in 1916.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen
Wallenius Wilhelmsen is a Norwegian-Swedish provider of roll-on/roll-off shipping and vehicle logistics, headquartered in Oslo and formed in 2017 by combining the Wallenius and Wilhelmsen shipping families.
Wallenstein
Wallenstein is a dramatic trilogy by Friedrich Schiller, first performed at Weimar in 1798 and 1799, dramatizing the final months of the imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein.
Waller Air Force Base
Waller Air Force Base, also known as Waller Field, was a US air base in northeastern Trinidad, a major World War II refueling stop on the South Atlantic ferry route.
Wallerawang power station
Wallerawang power station was a coal-fired power station at Wallerawang, near Lithgow, New South Wales, with two 500 MW units and a combined capacity of 1,000 MW, shut down in 2014.
Wallerian degeneration
Wallerian degeneration, described by Waller in 1850, is the programmed degeneration of axons distal to nerve injury, driven by NMNAT2 loss and SARM1-mediated NAD+ depletion; the WldS mouse mutation delays it, and the pathway is a drug target in neurodegenerative disease.
Wallern
Wallern chiefly means SV Zaunergroup Wallern, a 1972-founded Austrian football club from Wallern an der Trattnach, Upper Austria, famed for five straight titles (2007/08–2011/12) to the Regionalliga; distinct from USC Wallern of Burgenland.
Walles T. Edmondson
Walles T. Edmondson (1916–2000) was an American limnologist at the University of Washington known for the Lake Washington eutrophication study and the egg ratio method.
Wallet
A wallet, also called a billfold, is a small folding case of leather or fabric used to carry paper money, cards, and identification in a pocket or bag.
Walleye
Walleye (Sander vitreus), also yellow walleye or walleyed pike, a North American freshwater perch-family game and food fish with light-adapted eyes, canine teeth, and spring spawning at 42-50 F.
Walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus
Walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus (WEHV1, WEHV2; Epsilonretrovirus walepihyp1/2) are fish retroviruses causing walleye discrete epidermal hyperplasia, a seasonal skin disease of walleye across North America.
Wallis and Futuna
Wallis and Futuna, a French overseas collectivity (collectivité d'outre-mer) in the South Pacific near Fiji and Samoa, comprises Wallis, Futuna, and Alofi, three customary kingdoms, 11,151 inhabitants (2023), and a 1961 statute under Article 74.
Wallis and Futuna Protectorate
The Wallis and Futuna Protectorate was the French protectorate governing Wallis, Futuna, and Alofi from 1887 until 1961, established at the request of the islands' own rulers.
Wallis Day
Wallis Day (born 1994) is a British actress known as Holly Cunningham in Hollyoaks, Nyssa-Vex in Krypton, and Kate Kane in Batwoman, replacing Ruby Rose; also Infinite, Sex/Life, and Red Sonja's Annisia.
Wallis Group
Wallis Group is a privately owned Hungarian investment group founded by Tibor Veres around 1990, active in real estate, automotive, and industry across 18 European countries.
Wallis Simpson
Wallis Simpson (Bessie Wallis Warfield, 1896–1986), American socialite and Duchess of Windsor, twice divorced, whose relationship with Edward VIII prompted his 1936 abdication; they married in France in June 1937 and lived in exile, amid later Nazi-sympathy allegations.
Wallonia
Wallonia (Wallonie), the Walloon Region, is the French-speaking federal region of southern Belgium with 3,688,733 inhabitants (2024), capital Namur, institutions created in 1970 and established in 1980, five provinces and 261 municipalities.