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Winter Garden Theatre
Winter Garden Theatre: Shubert-owned Broadway house at 1634 Broadway, New York, opened 1911 in a converted American Horse Exchange; home of Cats, West Side Story, Mamma Mia!; distinct from the 295-seat Garden Theatre on Plant in Winter Garden, Florida.
Winter Haven, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida: Chain of Lakes City in central Polk County, incorporated 1911 (town) and 1923 (city). Population grew from 33,874 (2010) to an estimated 62,313 (2025); known for its canal-connected lakes, citrus heritage, LEGOLAND, and logistics growth.
Winter Hill Gang
Winter Hill Gang: Irish-American organized crime group from Somerville, Massachusetts, also called the Irish Mob, led successively by Buddy McLean, Howie Winter, and Whitey Bulger; fought the McLaughlin Gang in the 1960s and collapsed after Bulger's 1994 flight and 2011 arrest.
Winter Hill transmitting station
Winter Hill transmitting station is a major British TV and radio broadcast site in Lancashire, serving North West England since 1956 from the UK's highest transmitter antennas.
Winter in the Blood
Winter in the Blood is a 1974 novel by James Welch about an alienated Blackfeet man on a Montana reservation, a key work of the Native American Renaissance.
Winter Is Coming
Winter Is Coming: first episode of HBO's Game of Thrones (April 17, 2011), written by Benioff and Weiss, directed by Tim Van Patten; adapts the prologue and opening of Martin's A Game of Thrones; 2.2 million initial viewers, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Winter Light
Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna, 1963) is Ingmar Bergman's black-and-white Swedish drama, middle film of the faith trilogy with Through a Glass Darkly and The Silence, starring Gunnar Björnstrand as a doubting pastor, shot by Sven Nykvist in natural winter light.
Winter Military World Games
The Winter Military World Games are a multisport competition for military athletes, organized by CISM every four years and first held in Italy in 2010.
Winter Morning
Winter Morning (Зимнее утро) is a lyric poem by Alexander Pushkin, begun 3 November 1829, in which the speaker wakes his beloved to admire a sunlit winter landscape after a blizzard.
Winter of Discontent
The Winter of Discontent was a wave of more than 2,000 strikes in Britain in the winter of 1978–79 against the Labour government's 5 percent pay cap.
Winter Olympic coins
Winter Olympic coins: commemorative coins issued for the Olympic Winter Games, beginning with Austria's 1964 Innsbruck 50 schilling; first gold issues at Sarajevo 1984; US programs for Albertville 1992 and Salt Lake City 2002.
Winter Olympic Games
Winter Olympic Games: IOC multi-sport competition on snow and ice, first held as the 1924 Chamonix International Winter Sports Week, retroactively named first Winter Olympics in 1925; Milano Cortina 2026 is the current edition.
Winter Palace (Зимний дворец)
The Winter Palace (Зимний дворец) is the former residence of the Russian emperors in Saint Petersburg, built 1754–1762 and now the main building of the Hermitage Museum.
Winter Palace Hotel
The Winter Palace Hotel, also known as the Sofitel Winter Palace, is a historic Edwardian hotel on the Nile corniche in Luxor, Egypt, opened in 1907.
Winter Paralympic Games
The Winter Paralympic Games are a four-yearly international competition for athletes with disabilities, governed by the International Paralympic Committee.
Winter Paralympic Games medal tables
Winter Paralympic Games medal tables rank national teams by medals won from 1976 through 2022, with Norway leading in golds and the United States in total medals.
Winter Park, Florida
Winter Park, Florida: a city in Orange County about three miles north of Orlando, founded 1887 by Loring Chase and Oliver Chapman, home to Rollins College, a chain of lakes, Park Avenue, and the 1981 sinkhole.
Winter pentathlon
Winter pentathlon: five-event demonstration sport at the 1948 St. Moritz Winter Olympics (cross-country and downhill skiing, shooting, fencing, horse riding); 14 men from 5 nations, Swedish-dominated, staged once only, succeeded by biathlon.
Winter Sleep (film)
Winter Sleep (Kış Uykusu) is Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 196-minute 2014 Turkish drama, adapted from Chekhov stories, about hotelier Aydın in Cappadocia; it won the 2014 Cannes Palme d'Or, the second Turkish film to do so after Yol.
Winter Soldier Investigation
The Winter Soldier Investigation, also called the Winter Soldier hearings, was a January 31 to February 2, 1971 VVAW war-crimes hearing in Detroit where over one hundred Vietnam veterans testified to atrocities, later entered into the Congressional Record.
Winter solstice
The winter solstice, also called midwinter's day, is when a hemisphere is tilted farthest from the Sun, giving the shortest day and least daylight of the year.
Winter Sonata (겨울연가)
Winter Sonata (겨울연가) is a 2002 KBS 2TV Korean drama, 20 episodes, directed by Yoon Seok-ho, starring Bae Yong-jun and Choi Ji-woo. The second of the Endless Love seasonal quartet, it is credited with launching the Korean Wave in Japan and the Yon-sama craze.
Winter sports
Winter sports: competitive and recreational activities on snow or ice, including skiing, skating, sledding, snowboarding, biathlon, and curling; Olympic Winter Games since Chamonix 1924, now facing climate pressure.
Winter squash
Winter squash: mature-harvested Cucurbita fruit (butternut, acorn, hubbard, kabocha, spaghetti, pumpkins) from C. maxima, C. moschata, and C. pepo; hard rind, cured and stored 1-6 months, about 65 calories per half-cup serving.
Winter storm
A winter storm, also called a snow storm, is an atmospheric disturbance producing dangerous snow, ice, blowing snow, and wind chills, including snowstorms, blizzards, and ice storms.
Winter Storm Elliott
Winter Storm Elliott was a historic December 2022 winter storm and Arctic outbreak that brought blizzard conditions, record cold, and widespread power outages to the United States and eastern Canada.
Winter storm warning
A winter storm warning is an alert issued by the National Weather Service when a winter storm is producing or forecast to produce heavy snow or significant ice.
Winter universiade
Winter Universiade (FISU World University Games Winter since 2020): biennial odd-year multi-sport games for university student-athletes run by FISU; first held Chamonix 1960, 29 winter editions, Torino 2025 was 32nd, Changchun 2027 next.
Winter Universiade sports
The Winter Universiade sports are the winter sports contested at the Winter Universiade, the FISU event for university athletes first held in Chamonix, France, in 1960.
Winter villages of the Northern Paiute
Winter villages of the Northern Paiute were cold-season Great Basin camps, from Owens Valley in California to southeastern Oregon, where several families lived in mat-covered dome houses until spring.