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Winmau World Masters
Known as the World Masters, this major darts tournament was first held in 1974. It was sponsored by the dartboard manufacturer Winmau for over 40 years.
Winn-Dixie
Winn-Dixie is an American supermarket chain founded in Miami, Florida, in 1925 by William Milton Davis and his four sons, peaking at 1,153 stores in 2001.
Winnaretta Singer
Winnaretta Singer, Princesse Edmond de Polignac (1865–1943), American Singer sewing-machine heiress, Paris salonnière and mécène who commissioned Satie, Stravinsky, Weill and others and founded the Fondation Singer-Polignac in 1928.
Winneba
Winneba, traditionally known as Simpa, is a historic coastal fishing town in Ghana's Central Region between Accra and Cape Coast, famous for the Effutu people's Aboakyer deer-hunting festival.
Winnebago
Lake Winnebago is a large, shallow freshwater lake in east-central Wisconsin, the largest inland lake entirely within the state, known for its lake sturgeon and February spearing season.
Winnebago County, Illinois, United States
Winnebago County, Illinois: northern Illinois county established January 16, 1836, named for the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) people; county seat Rockford since 1839; 2020 population 285,350; FIPS 17201.
Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States
Winnebago County, Wisconsin: east-central county with county seat Oshkosh, established 1840 from Brown County, population 171,730 (2020), home to Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin's largest inland lake.
Winnebago Industries
Winnebago Industries is an American manufacturer of recreational vehicles and boats, founded in 1958 and headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with brands including Winnebago, Grand Design, and Newmar.
Winnebago Trickster cycle
The Winnebago Trickster cycle comprises sacred narratives of the Ho-Chunk people about the trickster Wakdjunkaga, published by Paul Radin in 1956 with essays by Kerényi and Jung.
Winnemucca, Nevada
Winnemucca, Nevada: county seat of Humboldt County on the Humboldt River and I-80, named for a Paiute chief, railroad town since 1868, population 8,431 (2020), known for its Basque community and Humboldt Museum.
Winner (Better Call Saul)
Winner is the season 4 finale of Better Call Saul (S4E10), written by Peter Gould and Thomas Schnauz, directed by Adam Bernstein. Jimmy wins reinstatement as Saul Goodman with a faked speech about Chuck; Mike kills Werner Ziegler for Gus.
Winner (విన్నర్) (2017 film)
Winner (విన్నర్, Hindi dub Shoorveer) is a 2017 Telugu action-romance film directed by Gopichand Malineni, starring Sai Dharam Tej and Rakul Preet Singh, released 24 February 2017 with about 30 crore pre-release business.
Winner (위너) (band)
WINNER (위너) is a YG Entertainment boy group formed by winning the 2013 show WIN: Who Is Next? and debuting August 17, 2014 with 2014 S/S; hits include Empty and Really Really; now a four-member group after Nam Tae-hyun's 2016 exit.
Winner Is King (烽火流金)
Winner Is King (烽火流金), formerly Sha Po Lang (杀破狼), is an unaired 40-episode Chinese steampunk historical drama adapted from Priest's novel, starring Tan Jianci and Chen Zheyuan, licensed in 2021 but shelved by China's danmei-drama restrictions.
Winner Takes All (大赢家)
Winner Takes All (大贏家) is a 2000 Hong Kong comedy directed by Clifton Ko, starring Sam Hui as conman Wong Tai-chin, Karl Maka as the bald detective, Nicholas Tse, Ruby Lin, Alec Su, and Joey Yung; released 29 January 2000, 91 minutes, HK$10,030,582 box office. Distinct from the 2020 Chinese film of the same Chinese title.
Winner's curse
The winner's curse is the tendency of the winning bidder in a common value auction to overpay, because winning selects the most optimistic estimate, producing below-normal or negative profits.
Winners and Sinners (奇谋妙计五福星)
Winners and Sinners (奇謀妙計五福星), also released as The 5 Lucky Stars, is Sammo Hung's 1983 Golden Harvest action comedy about five ex-convicts running a cleaning company who stumble into a Triad counterfeit-plate war, with Jackie Chan as a guest cop; it won the 1984 HK Film Award for Best Action Choreography.
Winnetka, Illinois
Winnetka is an incorporated 1869 village in Cook County, Illinois, on Lake Michigan's North Shore, platted 1854 by Peck and Gurnee, population 12,744 (2020), median household income $250,000+, served by Winnetka District 36 and New Trier High School.
Winnetou
Winnetou is Karl May's fictional Mescalero Apache chief, hero of the 1893 trilogy (volumes 7-9 of the Gesammelte Reiseromane) and blood brother of Old Shatterhand; staged at Bad Segeberg since 1952.
Winnetou – 1. Teil
Winnetou – 1. Teil (1963) is a Harald Reinl Karl May western, first of the trilogy, with Pierre Brice as Winnetou and Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand, filmed in Yugoslavia and the top German film of 1963/64.
Winnetou – 2. Teil
Winnetou – 2. Teil (English title: Winnetou: Last of the Renegades) is a 1964 West German Western directed by Harald Reinl, starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker.
Winnetou – 3. Teil
Winnetou – 3. Teil (The Desperado Trail) is a 1965 West German-Yugoslav Karl May western directed by Harald Reinl, starring Pierre Brice and Lex Barker, in which Winnetou dies from Rollins' bullet, ending the trilogy.
Winnie Brinks
Winnie Brinks is an American Democratic politician representing Grand Rapids in the Michigan Senate, the Senate Majority Leader since 2023, and the 2026 Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Michigan.
Winnie Harlow
Winnie Harlow, born Chantelle Brown-Young (1994, Toronto), also known as Chantelle Winnie, is a Canadian model with vitiligo who rose via America's Next Top Model cycle 21, walked Victoria's Secret, founded Cay Skin, and is engaged to Kyle Kuzma.
Winnie Holzman
Winnie Holzman (born 1954) is an American TV, stage, and screen writer, Princeton '76 and NYU Musical Theatre MFA, creator of My So-Called Life and book writer of the musical Wicked, later co-writer of its films.
Winnie Mandela
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela), South African anti-apartheid activist, ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, ANC Women's League president, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture; banned, imprisoned, banished to Brandfort; died 2 April 2018.
Winnie the Pooh (2011 film)
Winnie the Pooh (2011) is Walt Disney Animation Studios' 51st animated feature, a hand-drawn musical comedy directed by Stephen J. Anderson and Don Hall, based on A.A. Milne's stories, released July 15, 2011, and the studio's last 2D theatrical film.
Winnie the Pooh (Disney character)
Disney's Winnie the Pooh, the animated adaptation of A.A. Milne's 1926 bear, beginning with the 1966 featurette Honey Tree, the 1977 compilation feature, and the 2011 film, distinct from the public-domain original since 2022.
Winnie the Pooh (franchise)
Winnie the Pooh franchise: media property based on A.A. Milne's 1926 book Winnie-the-Pooh, illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Disney acquired rights in 1961; the 1926 book entered the US public domain January 1, 2022, enabling works like Blood and Honey.
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is Disney's 1966 animated featurette, the studio's first Pooh film, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, voiced by Sterling Holloway, released February 4, 1966 with The Ugly Dachshund.