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Woodhouses Hill Fort
Woodhouses Hill Fort (Woodhouse hillfort), an Iron Age or Late Bronze Age univallate hillfort on the sandstone ridge at Frodsham, Cheshire; 1.52 ha interior, scheduled monument NHLE 1013297, Woodland Trust owned.
Woodie Flowers
Woodie Flowers was an American mechanical engineer and MIT professor who transformed hands-on design education through his robot competition course and co-founded the FIRST Robotics Competition with Dean Kamen.
Woodin cardinal
A Woodin cardinal is a type of large cardinal in set theory, isolated by W. Hugh Woodin, defined by strong cardinals below it and central to determinacy axioms.
Woodland
Woodland: open-canopy tree vegetation with broken tree crowns and grassy understory, distinct from closed-canopy forest; also FAO "other wooded land" (5-10% tree cover) and US FIA woodland species groups.
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
Woodland Hills is a neighborhood in the southwest San Fernando Valley, City of Los Angeles (ZIPs 91364/91367/91371, ~65,000 residents). Founded 1922 as Girard, renamed 1941; anchored by Warner Center, Westfield Topanga, and Ventura Boulevard.
Woodlands (New Westminster)
Woodlands (New Westminster), also called Woodlands School, was a British Columbia institution operating 1878 to 1996, first as an insane asylum, then a custodial school for people with developmental disabilities; abuse findings led to a 2009 class settlement and demolition.
Woodlands, Singapore
Woodlands is a northern Singapore planning area and HDB town, the site of the Causeway to Johor Bahru, the Woodlands Regional Centre (100 ha), and the RTS Link terminus at Woodlands North, targeted for end-2026 service.
Woodlark Basin
Woodlark Basin: small ~500-km ocean basin between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands where seafloor spreading began ~6 Ma and propagates westward at ~14 cm/yr into continental crust while its eastern end subducts beneath the Solomon arc.
Woodlawn (film)
Woodlawn (2015) is a faith-based sports drama by the Erwin brothers, starring Sean Astin, Caleb Castille, and Jon Voight, about the 1973 spiritual revival of Birmingham's desegregated Woodlawn High School football team and star Tony Nathan.
Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York: 400-acre non-sectarian cemetery founded 1863, over 310,000 interments, National Historic Landmark since 2011, notable burials include Celia Cruz, Miles Davis, Farragut.
Woodlouse
Woodlouse (Oniscidea), also called pillbug, sowbug, slater, or roly-poly: a terrestrial isopod crustacean with seven leg pairs, a decomposer of leaf litter, and a bioindicator of heavy metals and soil health.
Woodlouse spider
The woodlouse spider, also called the pillbug hunter (Dysdera crocata), is a six-eyed spider native to the Mediterranean that hunts woodlice at night using greatly enlarged fangs.
Woodmancote Roman villa
Woodmancote Roman villa (Ditches), North Cerney, Gloucestershire: a minor 1st-3rd century corridor villa with cellar built inside an Iron Age hillfort enclosure near Bagendon, scheduled as NHLE 1003448.
Woodpecker
Woodpecker, family Picidae (Picinae, Picumninae, Jynginae), about 183 true woodpecker species; zygodactyl climbing birds with barbed tongues, stiff tails, cavity nesting, and Old World origin per molecular phylogenies.
Woodring E. Wright
Woodring E. Wright (1949–2019) was an American cell biologist and professor at UT Southwestern in Dallas, known for more than three decades of telomere and telomerase research.
Woodrow A. Myers Jr.
Woodrow A. Myers Jr. is an American physician-executive who served as health commissioner of Indiana and New York City and as WellPoint's chief medical officer.
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), 28th US president (1913–1921), Princeton president, New Jersey governor, and political scientist. Led America into World War I, proposed the Fourteen Points and League of Nations, signed the Federal Reserve Act, and expanded federal segregation.
Woodrow Wilson Bridge
The Woodrow Wilson Bridge, formally the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge, carries Interstate 95 and the Capital Beltway over the Potomac River between Alexandria, Virginia, and Prince George's County, Maryland.
Woods Air Movement
Woods Air Movement is a British manufacturer of axial fans and ventilation systems, founded in 1909 and headquartered in Colchester, England, part of Samsung Electronics since 2025.
Woods and Valleys of Yushan
Woods and Valleys of Yushan (虞山林壑图) is a hanging scroll by the Yuan dynasty painter Ni Zan, painted in 1371 and held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Woods Cross refinery
The Woods Cross refinery is a petroleum refinery in Woods Cross, Utah, near Salt Lake City, owned by HF Sinclair with a capacity of 45,000 barrels per day.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a non-profit ocean research organization in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, founded in 1930, operating research ships and the deep-sea submersible Alvin.
Woods–Saxon potential
The Woods–Saxon potential is a mathematical form for the nuclear mean field, falling smoothly from a constant value inside the nucleus to zero outside, introduced in 1954 by Woods and Saxon.
Woodsia
Woodsia (cliff ferns) is a genus of small to medium sized ferns in the family Aspleniaceae, comprising 52 accepted species, first published by Robert Brown in 1810.
Woodside Energy
Woodside Energy is an Australian petroleum exploration and production company headquartered in Perth, which established Australia's LNG industry and became the largest energy company on the ASX after merging with BHP's petroleum business in 2022.
Woodside Energy Group
Woodside Energy Group is an Australian petroleum exploration and production company operating LNG, gas, and oil assets in Australia, the US Gulf Coast, and Senegal.
Woodside, California
Woodside, California: a rural residential town in San Mateo County on the San Francisco Peninsula, incorporated November 16, 1956; about 5,309 residents across 11.47 square miles, known for equestrian heritage, country estates, and redwood-lumber history.
Woodson Bradley
Woodson Bradley is an American politician and Democrat serving in the North Carolina State Senate from District 42, previously a Charlotte real estate agent and small business owner.
Woodstock
Woodstock, billed as the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, was a 1969 music festival on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, drawing about 450,000 people.
Woodstock '94
Woodstock '94, also called Mudstock, was the 25th-anniversary rock festival held August 12-14, 1994 in Saugerties, New York, with about 300,000 attendees, $135 tickets, PolyGram backing, pay-per-view broadcast, and famous mud chaos.