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Without Me (Halsey song)
"Without Me" is a 2018 standalone single by American singer Halsey, premiered on Beats 1, co-written with Amy Allen, Delacey, and Louis Bell, interpolating "Cry Me a River"; her first solo Billboard Hot 100 number 1.
Without Remorse
Without Remorse: 1993 Tom Clancy thriller in the Jack Ryan universe, the origin story of Navy SEAL John Kelly becoming John Clark; loosely adapted into the 2021 Michael B. Jordan Prime Video film directed by Stefano Sollima.
Without Remorse (film)
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse (2021) is a Prime Video action thriller directed by Stefano Sollima, starring Michael B. Jordan as Navy SEAL John Kelly/John Clark; loosely adapted from Clancy's 1993 novel, with a planned Rainbow Six sequel.
Without Warning (1994 film)
Without Warning (1994) is a CBS TV movie by Robert Iscove, written by Peter Lance and David Seltzer (as Jeremy Thorn), simulating a live newscast of alien asteroid strikes, echoing Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast.
Without You (Badfinger song)
"Without You" is a 1970 ballad by Badfinger's Pete Ham and Tom Evans from No Dice, made famous by Harry Nilsson's 1971 number-one cover and Mariah Carey's 1994 UK number-one version.
Without You (Mariah Carey recording)
Without You (Mariah Carey recording): Carey's 1994 cover of the Badfinger song written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans, modeled on Harry Nilsson's version, from Music Box; US number three, first UK number one.
Witi Ihimaera
Witi Ihimaera, born in 1944, is a New Zealand writer of Māori descent, the first Māori author to publish a story collection, Pounamu, Pounamu, and a novel.
Witiko
Witiko is a historical novel in three volumes by the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, published in 1865–67, about a young noble's rise in 12th-century Bohemia.
Witness (1985 film)
Witness (1985) is a Peter Weir thriller-romance starring Harrison Ford as detective John Book, who hides among the Amish after Lukas Haas's character witnesses a murder; it won two of eight Oscars.
Witness (Katy Perry album)
Witness is Katy Perry's fourth major-label studio album, released June 9, 2017 on Capitol Records. Self-styled "purposeful pop" with singles Chained to the Rhythm, Bon Appétit, and Swish Swish; debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 180,000 first-week units.
Witness for the Prosecution (1957 film)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) is Billy Wilder's courtroom mystery adapted from Agatha Christie's 1953 play, starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, and Charles Laughton; six Oscar nominations, twist-ending secrecy campaign, United Artists release.
Witness protection
Witness protection safeguards people at risk of serious harm for their role in criminal justice, from courtroom measures to relocation under a new identity. The U.S. WITSEC, run by the U.S. Marshals Service since 1971 under the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, has protected over 19,250 participants.
Witness: The Tour
Witness: The Tour was Katy Perry's fourth concert tour, supporting her 2017 album Witness. It ran September 2017 to August 2018 from Montreal to Sydney, grossing $28.1 million in 2017 per Pollstar.
Witney Carson
Witney Carson McAllister (born 1993), American ballroom dancer and choreographer from American Fork, Utah; SYTYCD season 9 top 6, two-time Dancing with the Stars Mirrorball champion (season 19 with Alfonso Ribeiro, season 34 with Robert Irwin), Emmy-nominated choreographer.
Witold F. Krajewski
Witold F. Krajewski is an American hydrologist at the University of Iowa known for radar rainfall estimation and for co-founding the Iowa Flood Center in 2009.
Witold Filipowicz
Witold Filipowicz, born 1943, is a Polish-born biochemist and molecular biologist known for characterizing human Dicer and microRNA function, leading a group at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel from 1984 to 2012.
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), Polish novelist and playwright, author of Ferdydurke, Trans-Atlantyk, Pornografia, Cosmos and the Diary; themes of form, immaturity and identity; 24-year exile in Argentina; critic of Sartre's committed literature.
Witold K. Surewicz
Witold K. Surewicz is a biophysicist and Robert F. Bennett MD Professor at Case Western Reserve University who studies protein misfolding in prion and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Witold Pilecki
Witold Pilecki (1901–1948), Polish cavalry officer and resistance leader, volunteered into Auschwitz in 1940 as inmate 4859 under the name Tomasz Serafiński, organized camp resistance, escaped in 1943, and was executed by communist Poland in 1948.
Witold Woyda
Witold Woyda (1939–2008) was a Polish foil fencer who won four Olympic medals, including individual and team foil gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics, plus ten World Championship medals.
WiTricity
WiTricity is an American company co-founded in 2007 by MIT physicist Marin Soljačić that develops magnetic resonance wireless charging, letting parked electric vehicles charge from a ground pad without cables.
Wits University Press
Wits University Press is the scholarly publishing house of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the oldest university press in sub-Saharan Africa, marking its centenary in 2022.
Witt algebra
The Witt algebra, also called the centerless Virasoro algebra, is an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra of vector fields with basis l_n and bracket [l_n, l_m] = (n − m) l{n+m}.
Witt family
The Witt family is an S-type asteroid family in the central main belt, fragments on similar orbits from the collisional disruption of its parent asteroid 2732 Witt.
Witt group
The Witt group of a field is the abelian group of nondegenerate quadratic forms over it modulo hyperbolic forms, under orthogonal sum; with tensor product it becomes the Witt ring.
Witt vector
A Witt vector is an infinite sequence from a ring A given unusual addition and multiplication, introduced by Ernst Witt as a tool in p-adic Hodge theory.
Witt vectors
Witt vectors are a construction turning a commutative ring R into a ring W(R) of sequences, built from universal integer polynomials; for finite fields they yield p-adic integers.
Witte's gold standard reform
Witte's gold standard reform (Денежная реформа Витте 1897 г.) was the 1895–1897 monetary reform by which Finance Minister Sergei Witte made Russia's credit notes freely exchangeable for gold, giving the empire a convertible currency until 1914.
Witten
Witten is a city in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, in the southern Ruhr Metropolis. First recorded in 1214, it became a metal-industry center and hosts Germany's first private university, Witten/Herdecke.
Witten index
The Witten index is a signed trace over the states of a supersymmetric quantum system, introduced by Edward Witten in 1982, that detects whether supersymmetry is broken.