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Wolf Man (2025 film)
Wolf Man is a 2025 American horror film directed by Leigh Whannell, in which a family man slowly transforms into a werewolf at his rural Oregon childhood home.
Wolf Mountain Coal-Spring Creek Mine
The Wolf Mountain Coal-Spring Creek Mine is a surface coal mine near Decker, Montana, the state's largest, producing about 12 million tons of low-sulfur coal a year.
Wolf number
The Wolf number, also called the relative sunspot number, is a daily index of solar activity computed from sunspot counts, devised by Rudolf Wolf in 1848.
Wolf outdoor enclosure
Wolf outdoor enclosure: fenced zoo habitat for gray wolves (Canis lupus), built for digging, running, and pack behavior; features buried anti-escape barriers, enrichment programs, and EAZA or statutory design standards.
Wolf Pack (TV series)
Wolf Pack (TV series), Paramount+ supernatural teen drama created by Jeff Davis from Edo van Belkom's novels, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar; one season of 8 episodes aired January–March 2023 and it was canceled in January 2024.
Wolf Prize in Physics
The Wolf Prize in Physics is an annual international award given by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation since 1978, regarded as second in prestige only to the Nobel Prize.
Wolf Reik
Wolf Reik is an epigeneticist, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Director of the Altos Cambridge Institute of Science, known for discovering global epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development.
Wolf River (Tennessee)
Wolf River (Tennessee): ~100-mile Mississippi River tributary rising at Baker's Pond, Mississippi, flowing through Fayette and Shelby counties to Memphis; lower 22 miles channelized in 1964; wetlands recharge the Memphis Sand Aquifer; distinct from Mississippi's Gulf Coast Wolf River.
Wolf Rüdiger Hess
Wolf Rüdiger Hess (1937–2001), Munich engineer and architect, only son of Rudolf and Ilse Hess; led the release campaign for his Spandau-imprisoned father, chaired the Rudolf Hess Society, and wrote books claiming his father was murdered.
Wolf Singer
Wolf Singer is a German neurobiologist, born 1943 in Munich, known for the binding-by-synchrony hypothesis and for directing neurophysiology at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt.
Wolf spider
Wolf spiders (Lycosidae) are a worldwide family of about 2,478 species of ground-hunting spiders with eight eyes in three rows, no capture webs, and females that carry egg sacs and young on their bodies.
Wolf spiders of Australia and Oceania
The wolf spiders of Australia and Oceania are ground-living hunting spiders of the family Lycosidae, with about 150 Australian species, many burrowing, and females carrying young on their backs.
Wolf Totem (狼图腾)
Wolf Totem (狼图腾, Lang tuteng) is Jiang Rong's 2004 semi-autobiographical novel about a Beijing student among Inner Mongolian herders during the Cultural Revolution; China's no. 2 bestseller, adapted into Jean-Jacques Annaud's 2015 film.
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, in Vienna, Virginia, is the only U.S. national park dedicated to the performing arts, established 1966 from Catherine Filene Shouse's gift, home to the Filene Center.
Wolf Warrior
Wolf Warrior (战狼) is a 2015 Chinese military action film directed by and starring Wu Jing, with Yu Nan and Scott Adkins. Made for about 10 million RMB, it earned 545 million RMB and launched the record-setting Wolf Warrior series.
Wolf Warrior 2 (战狼2)
Wolf Warrior 2 (战狼2) is Wu Jing's 2017 Chinese military action sequel set in Africa, starring Leng Feng; it grossed 5.689 billion yuan in mainland China, becoming China's then highest-grossing film and a nationalist blockbuster landmark.
Wolf Wilhelm Graf von Baudissin
Wolf Wilhelm Graf von Baudissin (1847–1926) was a German Protestant theologian who held chairs of Old Testament exegesis at Strassburg, Marburg, and Berlin, and studied ancient Semitic religion.
Wolf-Dietrich Hardt
Wolf-Dietrich Hardt is a biochemist and microbiologist who has been a professor at ETH Zurich since 2001, best known for his 1998 Cell paper on how Salmonella invades host cells.
Wolf-Dietrich Woggon
Wolf-Dietrich Woggon is a Swiss bioorganic chemist, emeritus professor of organic chemistry at the University of Basel, known for discovering tocopherol cyclase and synthesizing vitamin E.
Wolf‐Dietrich Heyer
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer is a Swiss-trained molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis known for discovering the nuclease Mus81 and defining multi-invasion-induced rearrangement, a source of chromosomal translocations.
Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome
Wolf–Hirschhorn syndrome (WHS, 4p- syndrome) is a rare contiguous gene deletion disorder from a 4p16.3 deletion, causing Greek warrior helmet facies, growth delay, intellectual disability, and seizures; 85–90% de novo, prevalence about 1 in 50,000.
Wolf–Rayet nebula
A Wolf–Rayet nebula is a shell of gas around a Wolf–Rayet star, either stellar ejecta or interstellar gas swept up by its fast wind, recording earlier mass loss.
Wolf–Rayet star
A Wolf–Rayet star (WR star) is a hot, evolved massive star with broad emission lines from a dense wind, first identified by Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet in 1867.
Wolf's Lair
Wolf's Lair (Wolfsschanze, Wilczy Szaniec) was Hitler's main Eastern Front headquarters in East Prussia, now Poland, where he spent 800 days, ordered the Holocaust, and survived Stauffenberg's 20 July 1944 bomb.
Wolf's Lair (Los Angeles)
Wolf's Lair is a Norman Revival castle-style residence built in 1927 by Hollywoodland developer L. Milton Wolf in Beachwood Canyon, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, overlooking the Hollywood Sign.
Wolf's Rain (ウルフズレイン)
Wolf's Rain (ウルフズレイン), a 2003 Bones anime series created by Keiko Nobumoto and directed by Tensai Okamura: 26 Fuji TV episodes plus 4 OVAs, wolves seeking Paradise, four recap episodes 15-18, music by Yoko Kanno.
Wolfblood
Wolfblood is a British CBBC/ZDF children's fantasy drama (2012–2017, five series, 62 episodes) created by Debbie Moon, about teenage part-wolf shape-shifters Maddy Smith and Rhydian Morris who keep their abilities secret; it won RTS and BAFTA children's awards.
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory is an Apple TV+ 2D animated series (2021-2022) created by Toff Mazery and Edward Jesse, developed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's HITRECORD, about a masked boy who finds the Spryte realm creating everything on Earth.
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920–1989) was a German writer and co-founder of the Gruppe 47, best known for short stories of war, guilt, and ruined postwar Berlin.
Wolfdog
Wolfdog, also called wolf-dog hybrid, is a canid with recent wolf ancestry from crossing Canis lupus with domestic dogs; includes FCI breeds Czechoslovakian and Saarloos Wolfdog, wolf-content classification, and hybrid identification genetics.