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Wojciech Szczęsny
Wojciech Szczęsny is a Polish goalkeeper born in 1990 in Warsaw who played for Arsenal and Juventus, retired in 2024, then won a treble with Barcelona.
Wojciech Zaręba
Wojciech Zaręba is a cardiologist at the University of Rochester and inaugural David Mortara Endowed Professor in Cardiology, known for noninvasive electrocardiology and the MADIT-CRT and MADIT-RIT trials.
Wojciech Zaremba
Wojciech Zaremba is a Polish computer scientist and OpenAI cofounder who led its robotics team, built the Dactyl hand, and worked on Codex and Copilot.
Wojna chocimska
Wojna chocimska is a Polish Baroque epic by Wacław Potocki, written about 1670, describing the 1621 battle of Chocim; it is the largest seventeenth-century Polish epic.
Wojsko kwarciane
Wojsko kwarciane, meaning 'quarter army,' was the standing army of the Crown of Poland from 1563 until 1652, when it was merged into the wojsko komputowe.
Wojtek (bear)
Wojtek (1941/42–1963), Syrian brown bear adopted in Iran in 1942 by soldiers of Anders' Army's 22nd Artillery Supply Company, 2nd Polish Corps; enlisted as a private, carried ammunition at Monte Cassino, later lived at Edinburgh Zoo.
Wok
A wok is a deep, bowl-shaped pan of Chinese origin with a round bottom, a staple of the Chinese kitchen since the Han dynasty and used chiefly for high-heat stir-frying.
Wok of Love (기름진 멜로)
Wok of Love (기름진 멜로, Gireumjin Mello) is a 2018 SBS Monday-Tuesday romantic comedy about a fallen Michelin-starred Chinese-cuisine chef, a bankrupt heiress, and a former gangster running the Hungry Frying Pan restaurant, starring Lee Junho, Jung Ryeo Won, and Jang Hyuk, written by Seo Sook-hyang, condensed from 40 to 38 episodes and ending July 17, 2018.
Woke
Woke: adjective from African American English meaning aware of racial and social injustice (first recorded 1924), mainstream via Black Lives Matter from 2014, now also a right-wing pejorative for extreme progressivism.
Woke (2020 TV series)
Woke is a Hulu live-action/animation hybrid comedy (2020-2022, 16 episodes) created by Keith Knight and Marshall Todd, starring Lamorne Morris as cartoonist Keef Knight, cancelled after two seasons.
Woke Up This Morning
"Woke Up This Morning" (Chosen One Mix) is a 1997 song by the English band Alabama 3 from Exile on Coldharbour Lane, inspired by the Sara Thornton case and famous as The Sopranos' opening theme from 1999.
Woken Furies
Woken Furies is Richard K. Morgan's 2005 science fiction novel, third in the Takeshi Kovacs series after Altered Carbon and Broken Angels, set on Harlan's World where Kovacs hunts a misogynist cult while a younger copy of himself hunts him.
Woking
Woking, Surrey, is a commuter town about half an hour from London by rail, home to Britain's first purpose-built mosque and first crematorium, with 103,900 people at the 2021 census.
Woking F.C.
Woking F.C., the Cards, an English National League (fifth tier) club formed in 1887, playing at the Laithwaite Community Stadium, Kingfield; FA Amateur Cup 1958, three FA Trophy wins, 9,026-seat stadium redevelopment plans.
Wokolo (crater on Umbriel)
Wokolo is the largest named impact crater on Umbriel, a dark moon of Uranus: 208 km across, centered at 30 degrees south, 1.8 degrees east, IAU-approved in 1988 and named for a Baramba (West Africa) devil spirit.
Wokou (倭寇)
Wokou (倭寇; Japanese wakō, Korean waegu), "Japanese pirates," raided China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries; the mid-Ming Jiajing-era bands were mostly Chinese smugglers driven by the haijin sea ban, suppressed by Qi Jiguang.
Wokou invasions of Korea
The wokou invasions of Korea (왜구 침입) were large-scale raids by Japanese pirate fleets against the Goryeo kingdom from 1350 to 1392, peaking in the 1370s and 1380s.
Wokou pirate raids of the Jiajing era
The Wokou pirate raids of the Jiajing era (嘉靖倭亂) were pirate attacks on China's southeast coast from 1552 to 1565, the greatest military calamity of the Jiajing reign.
Wola massacre
The Wola massacre (Polish: Rzeź Woli) was the killing of 30,000 to 50,000 civilians by German SS, police, and Wehrmacht units in Warsaw's Wola district in early August 1944.
Wola, Mazovia
Wola (Wielka Wola), a Warsaw district in Mazovia: former royal election village, 19th-century industrial center, site of the 1905 revolution and the 1944 Wola Massacre, now a business district.
Wolayita Zone
Wolayita Zone, also spelled Wolaita Zone, is an administrative zone in southern Ethiopia, the homeland of the Wolayta people, with its capital at Wolaita Sodo.
Wolbachia
Wolbachia (Wolbachia pipientis) is a maternally inherited intracellular bacterium infecting 25-70% of insect species and filarial nematodes, manipulating host reproduction via cytoplasmic incompatibility, parthenogenesis, feminization, and male killing, and used in dengue control.
Wolcott-Rallison syndrome
Wolcott-Rallison syndrome (WRS, OMIM 226980), a rare autosomal recessive disease from EIF2AK3/PERK mutations, causing permanent neonatal diabetes, epiphyseal dysplasia, and recurrent acute liver failure.
Wolde Selassie
Wolde Selassie was an Ethiopian statesman and warlord of the Zemene Mesafint who ruled Tigray and Enderta and rivaled Ras Gugsa for control of the Gondar court.
Woldeab Woldemariam
Woldeab Woldemariam (1905–1995) was an Eritrean teacher, journalist, and politician, editor of the first Tigrinya-language newspaper, who campaigned for independence and survived seven assassination attempts.
Woldemar Mobitz
Woldemar Mobitz (1889–1951) was a German internist and cardiologist, born in St. Petersburg, who in 1924 classified second-degree AV block into the two types that still carry his name.
Woldemar Voigt
Woldemar Voigt was a German theoretical physicist who held the chair of theoretical physics at Göttingen from 1883 to 1914, known for his 1887 transformations foreshadowing the Lorentz transformation.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka), Nigerian playwright, poet, novelist, and activist born 13 July 1934 in Abeokuta; first African Nobel Literature laureate (1986), author of Death and the King's Horseman, The Interpreters, and Aké.
Woleebee Creek-Ross-Kathleen-Cam-Mamdal Gas Field
The Woleebee Creek-Ross-Kathleen-Cam-Mamdal gas field is a coal seam gas field in the Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia, operated by QGC and supplying Queensland Curtis LNG.
Wolf
Gray wolf (Canis lupus), largest wild member of the dog family and ancestor of the domestic dog; pack-hunting carnivore, IUCN Least Concern, with recovering European and US populations and ongoing livestock conflict.