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Woody Strode
Woody Strode (Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode, 1914-1994), American football player and character actor. One of the first Black NFL players with the 1946 Los Angeles Rams; starred in Sergeant Rutledge, Spartacus, and John Ford Westerns.
Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker, also El Pajaro Loco, is Walter Lantz's anthropomorphic woodpecker cartoon character, debuting 1940 in the Andy Panda short Knock Knock, voiced by Mel Blanc then Gracie Lantz, over 250 Universal cartoons.
Woody Woodpecker (2017 film)
Woody Woodpecker is a 2017 live-action/computer-animated family comedy directed by Alex Zamm, released in Brazil as Pica-Pau: O Filme, in which Woody defends his forest from a lawyer's mansion.
Woody Woodpecker (2018 TV series)
Woody Woodpecker (2018 TV series), also called Pica-Pau, is an American animated web series rebooting Walter Lantz's classic shorts, released on official YouTube channels in Portuguese, Spanish, and English from 2018 to 2023, with Eric Bauza voicing Woody.
Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp
Woody Woodpecker Goes to Camp (2024) is a Netflix live-action/animated family comedy sequel to the 2017 Woody Woodpecker film, directed by Jon Rosenbaum, with Eric Bauza voicing Woody at Camp Woo Hoo.
Woofferton transmitting station
Woofferton transmitting station, near Ludlow, Shropshire, is the UK's last shortwave broadcasting site. Opened by the BBC on 17 October 1943 with six RCA 50 kW transmitters, it became a VOA relay and is now run by Encompass Digital Media.
Woojin Kim
Kim Woojin (김우진, born 1992), South Korean recurve archer; five Olympic golds (Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020, three at Paris 2024), most successful Olympic archer ever; 700/720 Rio ranking-round world record; world champion 2011, 2015, 2021. Not the judoka, taekwondo athlete, or esports players of similar names.
Wook Hyun Kwon
Wook Hyun Kwon is a South Korean control theorist at Seoul National University who introduced receding horizon control and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
Wookey Hole Caves
Wookey Hole Caves: show cave and SSSI in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, on the River Axe. Also the birthplace of British cave diving (1935, Balcombe and Powell), with 3,659 m mapped, eight show chambers, and the Witch of Wookey stalagmite.
Wookiee
Wookiees ('People of the Trees' in Shyriiwook) are Star Wars' tall, furry humanoid species from the forest planet Kashyyyk, famous through Chewbacca, enslaved by the Empire; the word itself was coined in THX 1138.
Wool
Wool, also called sheep's wool, is the natural protein fiber from the fleece of sheep, composed mainly of keratin; sheep are shorn seasonally, making wool renewable and biodegradable.
Woollim Entertainment (울림엔터테인먼트)
Woollim Entertainment (울림엔터테인먼트) is a Seoul-based K-pop label founded in 2003, home to INFINITE, Golden Child, and DRIPPIN, merged into SM C&C in 2013 and spun off as an independent corporation in 2016.
Woolly hair
Woolly hair, also hereditary or familial woolly hair syndrome, is a rare congenital scalp hair abnormality with extreme kinkiness; isolated forms involve LIPH, LPAR6, KRT74, KRT71, and syndromic forms link to Naxos disease and Carvajal syndrome cardiomyopathy.
Woolly hair-palmoplantar keratoderma syndrome
Woolly hair-palmoplantar keratoderma syndrome (KWWH type IV, OMIM 616099) is a very rare autosomal recessive KANK2-related disorder with woolly sparse hair, leukonychia, and striate palmoplantar keratoderma, without cardiomyopathy.
Woolly mammoth
Woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), extinct cold-adapted elephant of Arctic steppe-tundra; arose in northeast Siberia ~800 ka BP, last survived on Wrangel Island ~4,000 years ago; genome, extinction, and de-extinction research.
Woolly mouse
Woolly mouse: CRISPR-edited laboratory mice made by Colossal Biosciences (announced March 2025) with seven gene edits giving mammoth-like long, wavy golden fur and altered fat metabolism, a model for mammoth de-extinction.
Woolly rhinoceros
The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) was an extinct, cold-adapted rhinoceros with dense fur and a shoulder hump that ranged from Western Europe to Siberia until about 14,000 years ago.
Woolsey Fire
The Woolsey Fire, also called the Woolsey wildfire, burned 96,949 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California, in November 2018, destroying 1,643 structures and killing three civilians.
Woolstone
Woolstone, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire): village below White Horse Hill with a Roman villa found in 1844, mosaics, Saxon burials, a 1086 Domesday manor of Roger of Ivry and the Bishop of Winchester, and the Ridgeway trackway. Distinct from Woolaston, Gloucestershire.
Woolwich
Woolwich: southeast London town on the Thames in Greenwich borough, home of the Royal Dockyard (1510s), the Royal Arsenal, and the founding of Arsenal F.C. in 1886; now a major regeneration and Elizabeth line hub.
Woolwich Arsenal
Woolwich Arsenal, formally the Royal Arsenal, was the British government's principal complex of ordnance factories, stores, and research establishments at Woolwich on the Thames in southeast London, closed in 1994.
Woolwich foot tunnel
The Woolwich foot tunnel is a 504-meter pedestrian tunnel beneath the Thames in London, opened in 1912 to connect Woolwich with North Woolwich through Grade II listed red-brick entrance rotundas.
Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building, also known as Woolworth Tower, is a 792-foot neo-Gothic skyscraper at 233 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, the world's tallest building from 1913 to 1930.
Woolworths Group (Australia)
Woolworths Group Limited (ABN 88 000 014 675), Australian retailer founded with its first Sydney store in December 1924, renamed from Woolworths Limited in 2017; holds 38% of Australian supermarket grocery sales per the ACCC 2025 inquiry.
Woolworths Supermarkets
Woolworths Supermarkets, the Fresh Food People brand of Woolworths Group, is Australia's largest supermarket chain: founded 1924 in Sydney, 38% grocery market share, 1,112 Australian and 181 New Zealand stores, subject to the mandatory Grocery Code and ACCC pricing proceedings.
Wooly Bully
Wooly Bully: 1964 novelty rock and roll song by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, written by Domingo Samudio, based on "Hully Gully Now". Hit No. 2 on the Hot 100 yet was Billboard's No. 1 song of 1965; three million sold, Grammy Hall of Fame 2009.
Woomera (rocket range)
Woomera, also known as the Woomera Test Range, is a rocket, missile, and weapons testing range in outback South Australia, established in 1947 and operated by the Royal Australian Air Force.
Woomera, South Australia
Woomera, South Australia: remote township built from 1947 beside the Woomera Rocket Range, once the world's second-busiest launch site after Cape Canaveral, home of WRESAT-1 and the ELDO Europa flights.
Woongjin Playdoci
Woongjin Playdoci (웅진플레이도시) is an indoor urban leisure theme park in Bucheon, South Korea, opened in 2009 with a water park, hot-spring spa, indoor ski slope, and golf driving range.
Woonhak
Woonhak (김운학), full name Kim Woon-hak, is a South Korean singer and songwriter, the youngest member of KOZ Entertainment's boy group BOYNEXTDOOR, which debuted in 2023.