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WXXX
WXXX, also known as WXXX-FM, is a commercial top 40 radio station licensed to South Burlington, Vermont, serving the Champlain Valley since signing on in 1984.
Wya Point Surf Shop Cafe
Wya Point Surf Shop Cafe, a surf shop and cafe at 2201 Pacific Rim Highway, Ucluelet, BC, opened Aboriginal Day 2011; rents boards and wetsuits, offers lessons with Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ First Nations instructors, part of the Wya Point Resort venture.
Wyandot people
Wyandot (Wendat, Huron) Iroquoian-speaking people of southern Ontario; dispersed after 1649-50 defeat by the Iroquois, with descendants today at Wendake, Quebec, and Wyandot nations in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Michigan.
Wyandotte chicken
Wyandotte chicken, an American dual-purpose chicken breed from New York, first standardized in 1883 as the Silver Laced (formerly American Sebright); rose-combed, cold-hardy, nine APA large-fowl varieties, about 200 brown eggs a year.
Wyandotte County
Wyandotte County, Kansas: county established January 29, 1859, named for the Wyandot tribe; seat Kansas City, Kansas; site of the 1859 Wyandotte Constitutional Convention; Unified Government since 1997; 169,245 people (2020).
Wyangala Dam
Wyangala Dam is a major water storage on the Lachlan River in Central West New South Wales, Australia, built between 1928 and 1935 and enlarged between 1961 and 1971.
Wyatt Allen
Wyatt Allen, American rower born 1979 in Baltimore, Olympic gold medalist in the men's eight at Athens 2004 (world-record heat) and bronze at Beijing 2008; now Dartmouth men's heavyweight rowing head coach.
Wyatt Anderson
Wyatt Anderson (1939–2023) was an American population geneticist who founded the University of Georgia's genetics department, served as Franklin College dean, and studied natural selection in Drosophila.
Wyatt Cenac
Wyatt Cenac (born 1976) is an Emmy-winning American comedian and writer, a Daily Show correspondent 2008-2012, creator and host of HBO's Problem Areas, star of People of Earth and Medicine for Melancholy, and Grammy-nominated stand-up album maker.
Wyatt Creech
Wyatt Creech is a New Zealand politician and businessman who was National MP for Wairarapa from 1988 to 2002 and Deputy Prime Minister from 1998 to 1999.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (1848-1929), American frontier gambler and lawman of Wichita, Dodge City, and Tombstone, Arizona; famous for the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight, acquitted of murder, and later mythologized by Stuart Lake's 1931 biography.
Wyatt Earp (film)
Wyatt Earp (1994) is Lawrence Kasdan's Western biopic starring Kevin Costner as the lawman, with Dennis Quaid as Doc Holliday. Released June 24, 1994, six months after Tombstone, it cost $63 million and grossed about $25 million domestically.
Wyatt Flores
Wyatt Flores, also styled as a red dirt country and Americana singer-songwriter, is a Mexican American Oklahoma artist born 2001 in Stillwater, known for "Please Don't Go" (2x Platinum) and the albums Welcome to the Plains (2024) and Scared of Heights (2026).
Wyatt Hendrickson
Wyatt Hendrickson (born 2001, Newton, Kansas), nicknamed Captain America, is an Air Force WCAP wrestler and 2025 NCAA 285-pound champion for Oklahoma State who upset Gable Steveson 5-4 and won the Dan Hodge Trophy.
Wyatt Korff
Wyatt Korff is a neuroscientist at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, Senior Director of Project Teams since 2023 and coauthor of the fast jGCaMP8 calcium indicators.
Wyatt Nash
Wyatt Nash, stage name of Matthew Wyatt Elrod (born 1988, Nashville, Tennessee), is an American actor and former Survivor: Redemption Island contestant who later played Nigel Wright, Kurt Fletcher, and Charles Smith on television.
Wyatt Olds
Wyatt Olds (Christopher Wyatt Olds), American MLB relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox; born 1999 Oklahoma City, drafted 7th round 2021 from Oklahoma, debuted August 17, 2026, 1.15 ERA rookie season.
Wyatt Russell
Wyatt Hawn Russell (born 1986) is an American actor and former professional hockey goaltender, son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn; known for Lodge 49, Overlord, and John Walker in the MCU's Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Thunderbolts.
Wybalenna Aboriginal Establishment
Wybalenna was a government-run Aboriginal settlement on Flinders Island, established in 1833 to hold Tasmanian Aboriginal people removed from their homelands; most died there before its 1847 closure.
Wybo Veldman
Wybo Veldman (Gerard Wybo Veldman), born 1946 in Padang, Indonesia, is a New Zealand rower and Whakatane Rowing Club member who won gold in the men's eight at Munich 1972 after finishing fourth at Mexico City 1968, and held 21 national titles.
Wybutosine
Wybutosine (yW) is a hypermodified fluorescent guanosine derivative at position 37 of eukaryotic and archaeal phenylalanine tRNA, made by Trm5 and TYW1-TYW4 from SAM and pyruvate, stabilizing the reading frame; TYW2 loss causes frameshifting in colorectal cancer.
Wyc Grousbeck
Wycliffe "Wyc" Grousbeck, American venture capitalist, was lead owner, governor, and CEO of the Boston Celtics from 2002, winning NBA titles in 2008 and 2024 before a record $6.1 billion sale to Bill Chisholm's group.
Wyche Fowler
Wyche Fowler (William Wyche Fowler Jr., born 1940) is an American Democratic politician and diplomat: Georgia congressman 1977-86, U.S. senator 1987-93, and ambassador to Saudi Arabia 1996-2001, defeated by Paul Coverdell in the 1992 Georgia Senate runoff.
Wycinanki
Wycinanki, pronounced vee-chee-non-kee, are Polish folk papercuttings, colored designs cut with sheep shears to decorate rural cottages, developed from the 19th century in several regions.
Wyck Island
Wyck Island is a small Antarctic island at 64°39'S 62°05'W, near Brooklyn Island in Wilhelmina Bay off Graham Land, discovered by the 1897-99 Belgian expedition under Gerlache; also recorded as Van Wyck Island.
Wyckoff, New Jersey
Wyckoff is a township in northwest Bergen County, New Jersey, incorporated under that name in 1926 from Franklin Township, with about 16,600 residents, a five-member Township Committee, and 6.6 square miles 25 miles from Manhattan.
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean (Nelust Wyclef Jean), Haitian-American rapper, singer, guitarist, and producer; Fugees member behind The Score (1996); solo hits The Carnival, Gone till November, Hips Don't Lie; founded Yele Haiti; 2010 Haitian presidential bid; 2026 Quantum Leap seven-album project.
Wycliffe (TV series)
Wycliffe: British ITV detective drama (1993–1998) based on W. J. Burley's novels, starring Jack Shepherd as a Cornish Detective Superintendent; 36 episodes filmed in Cornwall, HTV production, ended after a cast illness dispute.
Wycliffe's Bible
Wycliffe's Bible, also called the Wycliffite or Middle English Bible, is the first complete English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate c. 1382-1395 in a literal Early Version and idiomatic Later Version, surviving in about 250 manuscripts.
Wycombe Abbey
Wycombe Abbey: independent girls' boarding and day school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, founded 23 September 1896 by Frances Dove; selective, ages 10-19, on a Grade II Wyatt Gothic estate.