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Winter War (Зимняя война)
The Winter War (Зимняя война, talvisota), 30 November 1939 to 13 March 1940: Soviet invasion of Finland after failed base negotiations; Finnish defence on the Mannerheim Line ended in the Moscow Peace Treaty ceding Karelia and Vyborg.
Winter weather advisory
A winter weather advisory is a National Weather Service alert for snow, sleet, or freezing rain that warrants caution but falls below winter storm warning criteria.
Winter wheat
Winter wheat is autumn-sown wheat requiring vernalization (0-7 degrees C for 30-60 days) to flower; it makes up nearly 70 percent of U.S. wheat production, mainly as Hard Red Winter and Soft Red Winter classes.
Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland: 1934 American popular song, music by Felix Bernard, lyrics by Richard B. Smith (Dick Smith), first recorded by Richard Himber; a Christmas-season standard whose lyrics never mention Christmas.
Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone is a 2010 Debra Granik film adapted from Daniel Woodrell's 2006 Ozarks novel, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly, who searches for her missing father to save the family home; it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and earned two Oscar nominations.
Winter's Tale (film)
Winter's Tale (2014) is Akiva Goldsman's directorial debut, a fantasy romance adapted from Mark Helprin's 1983 novel, starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, and Will Smith as Lucifer; it grossed $30.8 million worldwide and holds 12% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Winteraceae
Winteraceae R.Br. ex Lindl., the winter's bark family, is a magnoliid family in Canellales with five genera and c. 90 species of vesselless, peppery-aromatic trees and shrubs, from Mexico and Papuasia to southern South America; best-known genus Drimys.
Wintergreen
Gaultheria procumbens (American wintergreen, eastern teaberry, checkerberry) is a low evergreen Ericaceae shrub of northeastern North America; its gaultherin-rich extracts are anti-inflammatory, and its wintergreen oil is 96.9–100% methyl salicylate.
Wintering Out
Wintering Out is a 1972 poetry collection by the Northern Irish poet Seamus Heaney, known for the place-name poems 'Anahorish' and 'Broagh' and for 'The Tollund Man'.
Winterland Ballroom
Winterland Ballroom was a 5,400-seat San Francisco rock venue at Post and Steiner Streets, a 1928 ice rink run by Bill Graham from 1966 to 1978, site of The Last Waltz, the Sex Pistols' final US show, and 59 Grateful Dead concerts; demolished 1985.
Winternag
Winternag ("Winter's night") is a poem by the South African writer Eugène N. Marais, first published in 1905 and widely treated as the first fully achieved literary poem in Afrikaans.
Winterreise
Winterreise (Winter Journey), D 911, Op. 89: Franz Schubert's 1827 cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano setting Wilhelm Müller's poems, following a rejected wanderer through a winter landscape; among the most performed and recorded of all song cycles.
Wintershall Aktiengesellschaft
Wintershall Aktiengesellschaft was a German oil and gas exploration and production company founded in 1894 and owned by BASF from 1969, merging with DEA in 2019 to form Wintershall Dea.
Wintershall Dea
Wintershall Dea is a German oil and gas company formed in 2019 from the merger of Wintershall Holding and DEA Deutsche Erdoel, owned by BASF and LetterOne.
Wintersun
Wintersun is a Finnish symphonic melodic death metal band founded by ex-Ensiferum multi-instrumentalist Jari Mäenpää. Known for the debut (2004), Time I (2012), The Forest Seasons (2017), and the twelve-year-delayed Time II (2024), crowdfunded with over a million euros.
Winterthur
Winterthur, Switzerland's sixth-largest city in canton Zurich, had 122,758 residents at end-2025. Known as Vitudurum in Roman times, a former industrial city now a museum and education center near Zurich.
Winterton
Winterton Roman Villa, North Lincolnshire, England; also Winterton village site; large Romano-British villa compound with Orpheus mosaic, hypocaust, excavated 1958-1967 by the Ministry of Public Building and Works under threat of opencast ironstone mining.
Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout
Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout (1871–1964) was an American general physiologist who co-founded the Journal of General Physiology in 1918 and succeeded Jacques Loeb at the Rockefeller Institute in 1925.
Winthrop Rockefeller
Winthrop Rockefeller was an American philanthropist who served as the 37th governor of Arkansas from 1967 to 1971, the first Republican in that office since 1872.
Winton Group (David Harding)
Winton Group, formerly Winton Capital Management, is a London-based quantitative investment manager founded by David Harding in 1997, known for systematic trend following in global futures markets.
Winton, Queensland
Winton, Queensland: outback town and shire seat in Central West Queensland on the Landsborough Highway, birthplace of Waltzing Matilda and Qantas, home to the Australian Age of Dinosaurs museum and Lark Quarry dinosaur stampede site.
Wintrust Arena
Wintrust Arena, opened October 2017 in Chicago's South Loop, is a 10,387-seat MPEA-owned event center, home of DePaul basketball and the Chicago Sky, distinct from the United Center.
Wintry Groves and Layered Banks
Wintry Groves and Layered Banks (寒林重汀圖, Kanrin jūtei zu) is a hanging scroll of ink and light color on silk attributed to the Five Dynasties painter Dong Yuan.
Winx (horse)
Winx is an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, foaled 2011, trained by Chris Waller, who won 37 of her 43 starts, including a world record 25 Group 1 victories.
Winx Club
Winx Club is an Italian animated TV series for girls created by Iginio Straffi, premiered on Rai 2 on 28 January 2004 and produced by Rainbow; 9 series, 234 episodes, films, Fate: The Winx Saga, and 500+ licenses in 150 countries.
Winx Club: The Magic Is Back
Winx Club: The Magic Is Back is a 2025 CGI-animated reboot of Winx Club by Iginio Straffi's Rainbow with Rai Kids, following 16-year-old fairy Bloom at Alfea across 26 episodes, premiered on CBBC, Rai 2, Netflix, and TF1, with a 2026 console game and second season.
Winyah Generating Station
Winyah Generating Station is a coal-fired power plant in Georgetown, South Carolina, owned by Santee Cooper, with four coal units totaling about 1,150 MW built between 1975 and 1981.
WinZO
WinZO (Winzo Pvt. Ltd.) is an Indian online gaming platform founded in 2018 by Paavan Nanda and Saumya Singh Rathore, hosting 100+ games with 250 million claimed users.
WinZO Games
WinZO Games, legally Tictok Skill Games Private Limited, is an Indian real-money gaming platform founded in 2018 in New Delhi by Paavan Nanda and Saumya Singh Rathore.
WION
WION (World Is One News) is an Indian international English-language news channel in Noida, owned by Zee Media (Essel Group). Launched 2016, India's first global English news channel, known for Gravitas and a South Asian perspective.