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World Wide Fund for Nature
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), formerly World Wildlife Fund, is a conservation NGO founded 1961 in Morges, Switzerland, known for its panda logo and Living Planet Report on wildlife declines.
World Wide Lightning Location Network
The World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) is a global VLF radio network run by the University of Washington that has located lightning worldwide in near real time since 2004.
World Wide Technology
World Wide Technology is a privately held technology solutions provider and systems integrator in St. Louis, Missouri, co-founded in 1990 by David Steward and Jim Kavanaugh.
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web, or WWW, is an information system of interlinked resources accessed by browsers over the Internet, invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989.
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international non-profit organization founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994 that develops open web standards such as HTML and CSS.
World Wireless System
The World Wireless System was Nikola Tesla's proposed global network to transmit telecommunications and electrical power without wires, using the Earth itself as the transmission medium.
World Without End (Follett novel)
World Without End is Ken Follett's 2007 Kingsbridge novel, a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth set in 1327-1361, following four children bound by a witnessed killing through the Black Death and Hundred Years War.
World Without End (miniseries)
World Without End is an eight-part 2012 miniseries adapted from Ken Follett's 2007 Kingsbridge novel, a sequel to The Pillars of the Earth. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones, it stars Cynthia Nixon, Ben Chaplin, and Charlotte Riley in 14th-century Kingsbridge during the Hundred Years' War and Black Death.
World Wonder Ring Stardom
World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom, 株式会社スターダム) is a Tokyo-based all-women's Japanese joshi puroresu promotion running since July 2011, owned by Bushiroad since 2019, home of the World of Stardom Title and 5★STAR GP.
World Youth Chess Championship
World Youth Chess Championship, FIDE world championship for young players in Open and Girls U14, U16, U18; 11-round Swiss, 90/40+30 time control; 2026 edition in Montesilvano, Italy, drew 758 players from 84 countries.
World Youth Day
World Youth Day (WYD) is a Catholic gathering of young people instituted by Pope John Paul II in 1985, held annually and internationally about every three years.
World Youth Day 2027
World Youth Day 2027 (WYD Seoul 2027), the 41st World Youth Day, is a Catholic youth gathering in Seoul, South Korea, August 3–8, 2027, themed on John 16:33, preceded by Days in the Dioceses and the second WYD in Asia after Manila 1995.
World-Check
World-Check is a commercial risk-intelligence database used by banks, governments, and police for sanctions screening, PEP monitoring, and anti-money-laundering checks. Founded in 2000, it now belongs to London Stock Exchange Group.
World-systems theory
World-systems theory, or world-systems analysis, is Immanuel Wallerstein's sociological framework (1970s) treating the capitalist world as one historical system divided into core, semi-periphery, and periphery, distinct from modernization and dependency theories.
World's Biggest Gang Bang
The World's Biggest Gang Bang (世界第一群交會) is a 1995 John T. Bone pornographic video starring Annabel Chong (Grace Quek), billed as 300 men but actually about 70 participants and 251 sex acts in 10 hours; she was never paid the promised $10,000.
World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, commemorated the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival. Held in Jackson Park's White City, it drew 27.5 million visitors, debuted the Ferris wheel, and founded the Field Museum.
World's End Harem (終末のハーレム)
World's End Harem (終末のハーレム, Shūmatsu no Hāremu) is a LINK-written, Kotaro Shono-illustrated sci-fi erotic thriller manga serialized on Shonen Jump+ from May 2016 to May 2023 in 18 volumes, about the MK virus killing 99.9% of men; adapted into an 11-episode 2022 anime.
World's End Murders
World's End Murders: 1977 killings of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie, 17, after leaving the World's End pub, Edinburgh. Killer Angus Sinclair convicted at 2014 retrial under the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011 after a 2007 acquittal, jailed 37 years.
World's fair
World's fair (World Expo, Exposition universelle): large international exhibition of nations in themed pavilions, begun with London's 1851 Great Exhibition and regulated since 1928 by the Paris-based BIE; World Expos run six months every five years, next Riyadh 2030.
World's Finest Comics
World's Finest Comics: DC's 1941–1986 Superman/Batman anthology and team-up series (322 issues), and the name inherited by the 2022 ongoing Batman/Superman: World's Finest by Mark Waid and Dan Mora.
World's Gone Wrong
World's Gone Wrong is Lucinda Williams' 16th album, released January 23, 2026 on Highway 20 Records; 10 songs, 47 minutes, with guests Mavis Staples, Norah Jones, and Brittney Spencer, titled after a Mississippi Sheiks blues.
World's Greatest Dad
World's Greatest Dad is a 2009 American dark comedy written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, starring Robin Williams as a teacher who fakes his son's suicide note; Sundance premiere, Magnolia Pictures, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
World's littlest skyscraper
The World's littlest skyscraper, formally the Newby-McMahon Building, is a 40-foot, four-story red brick building in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, completed in 1919 as a tourist attraction.
World's longest domestic flight
The world's longest domestic flight is flown within France: record nonstop Tahiti–Paris flights in 2020 reached over 16,129 km, while the longest scheduled domestic route links Paris with Réunion.
World's Strongest Man
World's Strongest Man (WSM) is the annual international strongman competition founded in 1977 by Trans World International for CBS; athletes score points across carrying, lifting, and Atlas Stones events, qualifying via Giants Live's tour.
World's tallest waterfalls
The world's tallest waterfalls are ranked by total height and by tallest single drop; Angel Falls in Venezuela holds both records, with Tugela Falls in South Africa as challenger.
World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji
World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji is a 2020 Amazon Prime Video 10-episode reality series, hosted by Bear Grylls and produced by Mark Burnett, documenting the 2019 revival of the Eco-Challenge adventure race: 66 teams racing 671 km non-stop across Fiji for 11 days.
World's Ugliest Dog Contest
World's Ugliest Dog Contest, an annual California fair event since the 1970s, formerly at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, now at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa; promotes dog adoption; 2026 winner was rescue pug Jinny Lu.
Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding (conworlding) is constructing an imaginary world or fictional universe for novels, games, RPGs, film, foresight, or its own sake. Key ideas: Tolkien's subcreation, transmedia worlds, game narrative techniques, and LLM-assisted world generation.
WorldCat
WorldCat, also known as OCLC WorldCat or WorldCat.org, is the union catalog of OCLC, merging catalog records from more than 10,000 libraries worldwide since 1971 for interlibrary loan and discovery.