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Wolf (1994 film)
Wolf (1994 film) is an American werewolf film directed by Mike Nichols. It stars Jack Nicholson as a New York editor who is bitten by a wolf in Vermont.
Wolf (Tyler, the Creator album)
Wolf (2013) is Tyler, the Creator's third LP and second major-label album, released April 2, 2013 on Odd Future Records; 18 tracks including "Answer", "Rusty", and "Lone", UK Albums Chart peak No. 17, over 1 billion Spotify streams.
Wolf 1061
Wolf 1061 (GJ 628), nearby M3 red dwarf about 4.3 parsecs away in Ophiuchus, hosts three super-Earth planets found by radial velocity in 2015; planet c orbits near the habitable zone's inner edge.
Wolf 1069
Wolf 1069 (GJ 1253) is a nearby M5.0 V red dwarf 9.6 pc away with one confirmed planet, Wolf 1069 b, an Earth-mass, likely tidally locked world on a 15.6-day orbit inside the star's conservative habitable zone, discovered with CARMENES radial velocities in 2023.
Wolf 359
Wolf 359 (CN Leonis) is a faint red dwarf star in the constellation Leo, about 7.9 light-years from the Sun and one of its nearest neighbors.
Wolf algorithm
The Wolf algorithm is a 1985 method by Wolf, Swift, Swinney, and Vastano for estimating the largest Lyapunov exponent of a dynamical system from a time series.
Wolf Alice
Wolf Alice: English alternative rock quartet from North London (Rowsell, Oddie, Ellis, Amey), formed 2010. Four albums; Mercury Prize 2018, Brit Best Group 2022, four Mercury nominations; fourth album The Clearing (2025, Columbia) hit UK No 1.
Wolf Among Wolves
Wolf Among Wolves (German: Wolf unter Wölfen) is a 1937 novel by Hans Fallada, published by Rowohlt Verlag in Berlin and set during the German hyperinflation of 1923.
Wolf and Sheep
Wolf und Schaaf (Wolfsspiel), a traditional German asymmetric hunt board game: four sheep block one wolf on the dark squares of a draughts board; sheep move forward only, the wolf also backward, no capture; recorded from 1811 and Alvensleben 1853.
Wolf Blitzer
Wolf Blitzer, CNN anchor, host of The Situation Room (since 2005), lead political anchor; joined CNN 1990 as Pentagon military-affairs correspondent; former Jerusalem Post and Reuters reporter.
Wolf Children
Wolf Children (Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki) is a 2012 Japanese animated film by Mamoru Hosoda, the first made by Studio Chizu, about Hana raising wolf-human children Yuki and Ame; it earned 4.22 billion yen and won a Japan Academy Prize.
Wolf communication
Wolf communication: how gray wolves (Canis lupus) signal through sound (howls, barks, whimpers, growls), scent marking with urine and scats, and body language; howls encode caller identity and context, and howling rates drop where human density is high.
Wolf Creek (film)
Wolf Creek (2005) is Greg McLean's Australian outback horror debut starring John Jarratt as killer Mick Taylor, inspired by the Ivan Milat and Bradley Murdoch cases, banned briefly in the Northern Territory, and now a franchise with a sequel, TV series, and third film Wolf Creek: Legacy.
Wolf Creek (franchise)
Wolf Creek is an Australian horror franchise created by Greg McLean, starring John Jarratt as outback killer Mick Taylor: films Wolf Creek (2005) and Wolf Creek 2 (2013), a two-season Stan TV series (2016-2017), and the third film Wolf Creek: Legacy, set for release 19 March 2027.
Wolf Creek (TV series)
Wolf Creek (TV series), Australian Stan horror thriller (2016-2017) created by Greg McLean; John Jarratt reprises Mick Taylor; two six-episode seasons about Eve's revenge and a tourist-coach massacre.
Wolf Creek 2
Wolf Creek 2 is a 2013 Australian horror film directed by Greg McLean, starring John Jarratt as serial killer Mick Taylor and Ryan Corr, classified MA15+ after an R18+ rating, released in US theaters May 16, 2014.
Wolf Creek Dam
Wolf Creek Dam is a Corps of Engineers dam on the Cumberland River near Jamestown, Kentucky, completed in 1952, impounding Lake Cumberland for flood control and hydropower.
Wolf Creek Generating Station
Wolf Creek Generating Station is a nuclear power plant near Burlington, Kansas, operating a single Westinghouse pressurized water reactor, the only nuclear power reactor in Kansas.
Wolf distribution
Wolf distribution is the geographic range of the gray wolf, once the most widespread mammal, now spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa.
Wolf family murders
Wolf family murders: the April 22, 1920 killings of eight members of a German-Russian farm family near Turtle Lake, North Dakota; baby Emma survived, neighbor Henry Layer confessed and died in prison in 1925, and the case remains disputed.
Wolf Frommer
Wolf B. Frommer is a German plant molecular biologist and Humboldt Professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, best known for discovering the SWEET family of sugar transporters.
Wolf Girl and Black Prince (オオカミ少女と黒王子)
Wolf Girl and Black Prince (Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji) is a Japanese shojo manga series by Ayuko Hatta, serialized in Bessatsu Margaret from 2011 to 2016 and adapted into anime and film.
Wolf H. Fridman
Wolf H. Fridman, born 1945, is a French physician-scientist in tumor immunology, Emeritus Professor at Université Paris Cité, based at the Cordeliers Research Centre in Paris.
Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall is Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize-winning historical novel about Thomas Cromwell's rise under Henry VIII, told in present tense; first of a trilogy adapted by the BBC and RSC.
Wolf Hall (TV series)
Wolf Hall is a BBC historical drama adapted by Peter Straughan and directed by Peter Kosminsky from Hilary Mantel's Cromwell novels, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis; six parts aired on BBC Two in 2015, winning a Golden Globe and BAFTA, with a second season in 2024–2025.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is the BBC's six-part 2024 drama adapting the final novel of Hilary Mantel's Cromwell trilogy, with Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, written by Peter Straughan and directed by Peter Kosminsky.
Wolf Hollow II power station
Wolf Hollow II power station is a 1,231 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle power plant in Hood County, Texas, about 45 miles southwest of Fort Worth, operating since June 2017.
Wolf in sheep's clothing
Wolf in sheep's clothing: English idiom for someone hiding malicious intent behind a friendly appearance, from Matthew 7:15, first in English in Wycliffe's 1382 Bible; the Aesop fable attribution is disputed.
Wolf King
Wolf King is a 2025 British Netflix animated fantasy series adapted from Curtis Jobling's Wereworld novels, following 16-year-old Drew Ferran, the last werewolf heir fighting the Lionlords; two seasons, 16 episodes, ended September 2025.
Wolf Like Me (TV series)
Wolf Like Me is an Australian Stan/Peacock comedy-drama series (2022–2023) by Abe Forsythe, starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad, in which new love interest Mary is secretly a werewolf; two seasons, six and seven episodes, filmed in NSW.