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Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi (Áísínai’pi) is a UNESCO World Heritage sacred landscape in Alberta's Milk River Valley, with thousands of Blackfoot petroglyphs and pictographs at over 138 sites, inscribed in 2019 under criterion (iii).
Writing's on the Wall (Sam Smith song)
"Writing's on the Wall" is Sam Smith's 2015 theme song for the James Bond film Spectre, co-written with Jimmy Napes with additional production by Disclosure; it was the first Bond theme to top the UK chart and won the 2016 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
Writings of Cicero
The writings of Cicero (106–43 BCE): speeches, letters, poetry, and philosophical and rhetorical treatises of the late Roman Republic, including De Re Publica, De Legibus, De Oratore, and the Academica, composed in Latin dialogue form.
Written & Directed by God
Written & Directed by God (എഴുതിയതും സംവിധാനം ചെയ്തതും ദൈവം) is a 2025 Malayalam comedy-fantasy directed by Febi George Stonefield, starring Saiju Kurup as filmmaker Jijo and Sunny Wayne as God; released 5 June 2025, streaming on Manorama Max from 20 March 2026.
Written Chinese
Written Chinese (中文, hànzì 汉字) is the morphosyllabic logographic script recording the Chinese languages since Shang oracle-bone writing, evolving through Bronze, Seal, Clerical, and Regular stages into modern simplified and traditional standards.
Written exposure therapy
Written exposure therapy (WET) is a brief, five-session psychotherapy for PTSD in which the patient writes about one traumatic event each session, with no homework.
Written in My Own Heart's Blood
Written in My Own Heart's Blood (MOBY) is the eighth Outlander novel by Diana Gabaldon, published June 10, 2014, set in 1778 during the American Revolution, a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car (כתוב בעיפרון בקרון החתום) is a six-line Hebrew poem by the Israeli poet Dan Pagis, first published in 1970 in his collection Gilgul.
Written on the Wall of Xilin Temple
Written on the Wall of Xilin Temple (题西林壁, Ti Xilin bi) is a seven-character philosophical quatrain inscribed by the Song poet Su Shi on Mount Lu in 1084.
Written on the Wind
Written on the Wind: 1956 Douglas Sirk Technicolor melodrama (Universal-International, Albert Zugsmith) about a decaying Texas oil dynasty, starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Oscar winner Dorothy Malone.
Written on Water
Written on Water (流言, Liuyan) is the first essay collection by the Chinese writer Eileen Chang, published in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in December 1944, at the height of her fame.
WRKY protein domain
The WRKY protein domain, also called the WRKY domain, is a mainly plant-specific DNA-binding domain of about 60 amino acids that binds W-box elements in gene promoters.
WRKY transcription factor
WRKY transcription factors: large plant TF family defined by the WRKYGQK motif and zinc-finger WRKY domain, binding W-box (TTGACC/T) elements; first found in sweet potato 1994, regulating stress, immunity, and development.
Wrocław
Wrocław (German: Breslau), capital of Lower Silesia, Poland, on the Oder; fourth/third-largest Polish city, ~672,600 registered (2025). Bohemian, Habsburg, Prussian, German, then Polish since 1945; 1997 flood, Centennial Hall UNESCO site, major IT and business hub.
Wrocław Airport
Wrocław Airport (Port Lotniczy Wrocław), also called Copernicus Airport Wrocław, is an international airport serving Wrocław in southwestern Poland; in 2025 it handled a record 4.9 million passengers.
Wrocław Jewish Cemetery (Białystokers and others)
The Wrocław Jewish Cemetery on Ślężna Street is a 19th-century Jewish burial ground used from 1856 to 1942, now preserved as the Museum of Cemetery Art with about 12,000 tombstones.
Wrocław-Zakrzów
Wrocław-Zakrzów is a district in northeastern Wrocław, Poland, best known for three richly furnished Roman-period Przeworsk-culture princely graves discovered in 1886–1887 and excavated by Wilhelm Grempler.
Wroetoshaw
Wroetoshaw, also W2S, is the handle of British YouTuber Harry Christopher George Lewis (born 1996, Guernsey), a FIFA content creator and the youngest member of the Sidemen, with 16.3 million main-channel subscribers.
Wrong Reasons
Wrong Reasons: 2022 American dark comedy thriller, also billed as a punk rock thriller, directed by Josh Roush, his feature debut. A bear-masked man (James Parks) kidnaps punk singer Kat Oden (Liv Roush), triggering a police investigation (Ralph Garman) and media circus; executive produced by Kevin Smith.
Wrong Turn (2003 film)
Wrong Turn is a 2003 American horror film directed by Rob Schmidt and starring Desmond Harrington and Eliza Dushku, about travelers stalked by cannibals in West Virginia.
Wrong Turn (2021 film)
Wrong Turn (2021) is a horror reboot directed by Mike P. Nelson, written by original creator Alan B. McElroy, starring Charlotte Vega and Matthew Modine; hikers on the Appalachian Trail cross into The Foundation's territory, the seventh franchise film with no cannibal villains.
Wrong Turn (film series)
Wrong Turn is an American slasher film series created by Alan B. McElroy, beginning with the 2003 West Virginia backwoods cannibal film and spanning seven entries including prequels and the 2021 Foundation reboot.
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End is a 2007 direct-to-video horror sequel directed by Joe Lynch, starring Henry Rollins as reality-show host Dale Murphy, hunted with contestants by West Virginia cannibals; RT 67%, IMDb 5.5.
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead is a 2009 direct-to-video slasher, the third Wrong Turn film, directed by Declan O'Brien, starring Tom Frederic and Janet Montgomery, with Three Finger hunting bus-crash survivors in West Virginia.
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011) is a direct-to-video slasher prequel written and directed by Declan O'Brien, the fourth Wrong Turn film, showing how cannibals Three Finger, One Eye, and Saw-Tooth escaped a 1974 sanatorium and stalk college students there in 2003.
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines is a 2012 direct-to-video slasher, the fifth Wrong Turn film, directed by Declan O'Brien, starring Doug Bradley as Maynard, filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria, rated 4.1/10 on IMDb.
Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort
Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort (Wrong Turn VI: Last Resort) is a 2014 direct-to-video American slasher, the sixth Wrong Turn film, directed by Valeri Milev, about Danny inheriting the Hillicker cannibal family's Hobb Springs resort; recalled in Ireland in 2014.
Wrongful conviction of David Camm
David Camm, a former Indiana State Police trooper, was convicted of the 2000 Camm family murders. The case is a cited example of a wrongful conviction based on flawed bloodstain pattern analysis.
Wrongful conviction of Peter Sullivan
Peter Sullivan was wrongly convicted in 1987 of the 1986 murder of Diane Sindall in Bebington, Merseyside, based on bite mark and circumstantial evidence. His conviction was quashed on 13 May 2025 after DNA testing excluded him, after 38 years in prison.
Wrongful death claim
Wrongful death claim: statutory civil action by survivors or a decedent's estate against one whose wrongful act, neglect, or default caused a death; distinct from survival actions and criminal prosecution, from Lord Campbell's Act 1846 to US state statutes.