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Wrestling mask
A wrestling mask is a fabric hood worn by a professional wrestler as part of a ring character, and the defining emblem of Mexican lucha libre.
Wrestling Revolver
Wrestling Revolver (Pro Wrestling REVOLVER) is an American independent wrestling promotion owned by Sami Callihan, started from Des Moines, Iowa, known for hardcore and intergender matches, five titles, and TrillerTV/IWTV streaming.
Wrestling weight classes
Wrestling weight classes are body-mass divisions ensuring evenly matched bouts. UWW runs 10 categories per style, 6 at the Olympics; NCAA uses 10 classes with 5% body fat minimum; high school uses 12-14 classes.
Wretch 32
Wretch 32 (Jermaine Scott Sinclair), Tottenham-born English rapper and former grime MC; 2011 hits Traktor (No. 5), Unorthodox (No. 2), Don't Go (No. 1); Black and White topped UK R&B chart; 2025 album HOME?; Creative Director at 0207 Def Jam.
Wrexham
Wrexham (Wrecsam) is a city in north-east Wales, Wales's seventh city since September 2022, county borough population about 135,100, known for Wrexham AFC, the Racecourse, and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
Wrexham A.F.C.
Wrexham A.F.C., founded 1864, is the third-oldest professional football club and the oldest in Wales, based at the Racecourse Ground. Owned by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney since 2021, it won three straight promotions to the Championship.
Wrexham County Borough
Wrexham County Borough (Bwrdeistref Sirol Wrecsam) is a unitary authority in North East Wales, population about 135,100 (2021), governed from Wrexham city by Wrexham County Borough Council, established 1996, with a manufacturing-based economy and Wrexham Industrial Estate.
WRF-Chem
WRF-Chem is the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with chemistry, a regional modeling system that simulates atmospheric gases and aerosols together with the meteorology that carries them.
WRF-Hydro
WRF-Hydro is an open-source hydrological modeling system developed at NCAR that simulates land surface fluxes, overland and subsurface flow, and channel and reservoir routing, either standalone or coupled to models like WRF.
WRF-SFIRE
WRF-SFIRE is an open-source coupled atmosphere-wildland fire model combining the WRF numerical weather prediction model with the SFIRE fire-spread module, so fire and weather evolve together in one simulation.
WRFDA
WRFDA, formerly known as WRF-VAR, is the data assimilation system for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, developed by NCAR and supporting global and regional 3D- and 4D-Var analysis.
Wriddhiman Saha
Wriddhiman Saha, born 1984, is an Indian former cricketer and wicketkeeper-batsman who kept wicket in 40 Tests from 2010 to 2021 and was rated the world's best by Virat Kohli.
Wright (Martian crater)
Wright is an official IAU-recognized impact crater on Mars, 113.78 km wide, centered at 58.51°S 208.99°E; named for William H. Wright and approved in 1973, cataloged in the USGS Gazetteer.
Wright brothers
Wilbur and Orville Wright, bicycle makers from Dayton, Ohio, made the first powered, controlled airplane flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and developed the first practical airplane.
Wright Brothers Day
Wright Brothers Day is a United States national observance held every December 17, marking the Wright brothers' first successful powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
Wright Brothers Medal
The Wright Brothers Medal is an annual SAE International award honoring the author of the best technical paper on aircraft or spacecraft, first presented in 1928.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
The Wright Brothers National Memorial is a National Park Service site in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, preserving where the Wrights made the first powered flight in 1903.
Wright brothers' first flight
The Wright brothers' first flight was the first controlled, powered airplane flight, flown by Orville Wright for 12 seconds over 120 feet near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Wright County, Minnesota, United States
Wright County, Minnesota: East Central Minnesota county established 1855, named for Senator Silas Wright; seat Buffalo; 17 cities, 18 townships; 141,337 people in 2020, 157,559 in 2025; Minnesota's fastest-growing county.
Wright Flyer
The Wright Flyer, also called Flyer I, was the first heavier-than-air powered aircraft to make a controlled flight, flown by Wilbur and Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
Wright Flyer III
Wright Flyer III, also known as Flyer III, was the Wright brothers' third powered airplane, flown at Huffman Prairie, Ohio, in 1905 and the first practical airplane.
Wright Inlet
Wright Inlet, also called Wright, ensenada, is an ice-filled inlet on the Lassiter Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, between Cape Wheeler and Cape Little, photographed in 1940 and subject to episodic ice-tongue loss.
Wright Island
Wright Island, Antarctica: ice-covered island 65 km long on the Bakutis Coast, Marie Byrd Land, at 74°02'S 116°50'W; named by US-ACAN for Admiral Jerauld Wright; distinct from Wright Islands in British Columbia, Ontario, Tennessee, and Oregon.
Wright Mons
Wright Mons, a ~150 km wide, 4–5 km high mountain south of Sputnik Planitia on Pluto, is a candidate cryovolcano likely built from merged icy domes, per New Horizons data.
Wright Opera House Block
Wright Opera House Block (Alma Opera House Block), an 1880 three-story cream-brick Italianate commercial block in Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan, built for lumberman Ammi W. Wright, with an opera house later used as a Masonic Temple; NRHP-listed 2013, NRIS 13000443.
Wright Patman
Wright Patman (John William Wright Patman, 1893-1976), Texas Democrat in the U.S. House 1929-1976, chaired Banking and Currency and the Joint Economic Committee, and was the Federal Reserve's leading congressional critic.
Wright R-1820 Cyclone
The Wright R-1820 Cyclone, also marketed as the Cyclone 9, is a nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engine built by Wright Aeronautical from 1930 until 1964.
Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone
The Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone was an American 18-cylinder radial aircraft engine built by Wright Aeronautical from 1940 to 1960, best known for powering the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
Wright State University
Wright State University is a public university in Dayton, Ohio, named for the Wright brothers. Opened 1964 as an OSU-Miami branch campus, independent 1967; Carnegie R2; Boonshoft School of Medicine; 12,157 students in fall 2026.
Wright StreetDeck
The Wright StreetDeck is a low-floor double-decker bus produced by Wrightbus of Ballymena, Northern Ireland, since 2014, available as a diesel, hybrid, battery-electric, or hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle.