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Wally Pipp
Wally Pipp (Walter Clement Pipp, 1893–1965), Yankees first baseman 1915–1925, AL home-run leader 1916–17, .281 career average, 90 HR; lost his job to Lou Gehrig on June 2, 1925, giving English 'Wally Pipped.'
Wally Ris
Wally Ris (Walter Stephen Ris, 1924–1989), American freestyle swimmer; double gold medalist at the 1948 London Olympics in the 100 m freestyle (57.3 OR) and 4×200 m relay (8:46.0 WR); University of Iowa, ISHOF 1966.
Wally Schirra
Wally Schirra, born Walter Marty Schirra Jr., was an American naval aviator and NASA astronaut, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts selected in 1959.
Wally Szczerbiak
Wally Szczerbiak, born 1977 in Madrid, is a former NBA guard-forward drafted sixth overall in 1999 by Minnesota, a 2002 All-Star, and a 1999 Sweet 16 star at Miami (Ohio), now a CBS analyst.
Wally West
Wally West (Wallace Rudolph West) is the DC Comics speedster created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino, debuting as Kid Flash in The Flash #110 (1959) and becoming the third Flash in Crisis on Infinite Earths (1986), the first Flash tied to the Speed Force.
Wally Wittmann
Wally "Gundel" Wittmann (1905–1990), German sprinter, javelin thrower, and handball player of SC Charlottenburg and SC Brandenburg; 1924 German javelin champion, 1926 women's 100 m world record holder (12.4 s), three 4 × 200 m relay world records, honored by Berlin's Wally-Wittmann-Sportanlage.
Wally Wolf
Wally Wolf (Wallace Perry Wolf Jr., 1930-1997), American Olympic swimmer and water polo player; gold medalist in the 4x200 m freestyle relay at 1948 London, four-time Olympian, later a Los Angeles entertainment attorney. Not the baseball pitcher Walter Beck Wolf.
Walmart
Walmart Inc. is an American multinational retail corporation running discount stores, supercenters, and Sam's Club, with about 2.1 million employees and roughly 20% of all US grocery sales.
Walmart Canada
Walmart Canada (Wal-Mart Canada Corp.), the Canadian subsidiary of Walmart Inc., launched March 17, 1994 via 122 Woolco stores; 401 units, 100,000+ associates, Mississauga HQ, CEO Venessa Yates, 8% grocery share, $6.5B expansion.
Walmart+
Walmart+ is Walmart's paid membership program, launched in the United States on September 15, 2020, at $98 per year, combining free delivery and shipping, fuel discounts, and streaming perks.
Walmu
Walmu was a king of Wilusa, a Late Bronze Age kingdom of western Anatolia generally identified with Troy, deposed by a relative and slated for Hittite restoration.
Walney Extension
Walney Extension is a 659 MW offshore wind farm in the Irish Sea off Barrow-in-Furness, England, opened in 2018 as the world's largest offshore wind farm.
Walnice Nogueira Galvão
Walnice Nogueira Galvão (born 1937) is a Brazilian literary critic and professor emerita at the University of São Paulo, known for critical editions of Os Sertões.
Walnut
Walnut (Juglans regia, Persian or English walnut): a long-lived wind-pollinated tree native from Xinjiang to the Caucasus, spread by humans since the Bronze Age; major nut crop (2.67 M MT in-shell 2023/24, China 51%) rich in polyunsaturated fats.
Walnut blight
Walnut blight, bacterial blight of English walnut caused by Xanthomonas arboricola pv. juglandis; overwinters in dormant buds, spreads by rain and pollen, black nut lesions, copper resistance, XanthoCast spray timing.
Walnut Creek, California
Walnut Creek, California: an East Bay city in Contra Costa County about 25 miles from San Francisco, incorporated 1914, population about 70,000, known for Broadway Plaza shopping, the Lesher Center for the Arts, and over 3,000 acres of preserved open space.
Walnut cultivars
Walnut cultivars are named, propagated selections of the Persian or English walnut tree, judged for kernel color, shell seal, and harvest date; 'Chandler' alone accounts for 74.2% of Californian production.
Walnut Grove, Minnesota
Walnut Grove, Minnesota: small city (808 people) in southwest Redwood County, founded 1870s on Plum Creek; childhood home of Laura Ingalls Wilder, setting of the Little House TV series, home to the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum.
Walpurgis Night
Walpurgis Night (Walpurgisnacht) is the night of 30 April to 1 May, kept in Germany and Central Europe with bonfires and legends of witches gathering on the Brocken.
Walrinvax
Walrinvax (Walrinvax®) is a bivalent HPV 16/18 vaccine made by Yuxi Zerun Biotechnology (Walvax), China; licensed 2022, WHO-prequalified 2 August 2024, the fifth prequalified HPV vaccine.
Walrus
The walrus, or walrus dog, is an informal name for the Ba-Shar, an American cross between the Basset Hound and Chinese Shar-Pei, known for its wrinkled face and stocky build.
Walrus optimization algorithm
The Walrus Optimization Algorithm (WaOA) is a population-based metaheuristic for continuous optimization, introduced by Pavel Trojovský and Mohammad Dehghani in Scientific Reports in 2023, mimicking walrus feeding, migration, and predator-escape behaviors.
Walsall
Walsall, a West Midlands market town in the Black Country, England, famed for saddlery and leather goods; also called the home of The Saddlers. Known for its leather museum, medieval market, and Sister Dora statue.
Walsall F.C.
Walsall F.C., known as the Saddlers, is an English football club founded in 1888 in the town of Walsall, West Midlands, which has played in League Two, the fourth tier, since 2019.
Walser German
Walser German (Walserdeutsch) is a group of Highest Alemannic dialects from Upper Valais, Switzerland, carried by Walser settlers across the Alps from the 12th century; marked by s-to-sch pronunciation, about 10,000 speakers, endangered, not intelligible with Standard German.
Walser people
Walser, who are a group of Alemannic-speaking Alpine people, originated in Switzerland's Upper Valais. They colonized high mountain valleys across the Alps starting in the 12th century.
Walsh McDermott
Walsh McDermott (1909–1981) was an American infectious disease physician-scientist at Cornell University Medical College, known for tuberculosis research and the Many Farms experiment on the Navajo Nation.
Walshy Fire
Walshy Fire (Leighton Walsh) is a Jamaican-American DJ, MC, and producer who serves as MC of Major Lazer and came up in Miami's Black Chiney Sound System.
Walsin Lihwa
Walsin Lihwa Corporation (华新丽华) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of wires, cables, and stainless steel, founded in 1966 as a power wire maker and now a leading cable company in Greater China.
Walsrode Bird Park
Weltvogelpark Walsrode (Walsrode Bird Park), founded 1962 by Fritz Geschke in Lower Saxony, is the world's largest bird park: 24 ha, about 4,000 birds of 650 species, EAZA-accredited, known for first breedings and its 1968 walk-through Paradieshalle.