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Wynonna Earp (TV series)
Wynonna Earp is a Canadian-American supernatural Western TV series (Syfy, 2016-2021, four seasons, 49 episodes) created by Emily Andras from Beau Smith's IDW comic, starring Melanie Scrofano as Wyatt Earp's demon-hunting great-great-granddaughter in Purgatory, revived by the 2024 Tubi special Vengeance.
Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Judd, born Christina Claire Ciminella (1964), American country singer; half of the Judds with mother Naomi (14 No. 1 singles, five Grammys), then a platinum solo artist; 2026 album The Hard Truth.
Wynter Crawford
Wynter Algernon Crawford (1910–1993 or 1994) was a Barbadian journalist and politician who founded the Barbados Observer in 1934 and served as Deputy Premier under Errol Barrow.
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis (born 1961, New Orleans) is an American jazz and classical trumpeter, composer, and Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Pulitzer winner for Blood on the Fields and a central, debated figure in jazz traditionalism.
Wyo Point
Wyo Point is a beginner-rated beach break surf spot near Ucluelet in the Alberni–Clayoquot Regional District, British Columbia, at 48.99276° N, 125.59014° W, with A-frame waves, surf lessons, camping, and nearby Wickaninnish and Long Beach breaks.
Wyomia Tyus
Wyomia Tyus, American sprinter (born 1945, Griffin, Georgia), first person to win Olympic 100m gold at consecutive Games (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968, world record 11.08); Tigerbelle under Ed Temple, three golds and one silver, 1968 black-shorts protest.
Wyoming
Wyoming, the Equality State and Cowboy State, is a Rocky Mountain U.S. state admitted in 1890, the 44th state; ninth largest by area, least populous, top coal producer since 1988, no income tax, capital Cheyenne.
Wyoming Cowboys football
Wyoming Cowboys football is the University of Wyoming's college football program in Laramie, competing in the Mountain West Conference at the NCAA Division I FBS level since 1893.
Wyoming Democratic Party
Wyoming Democratic Party (WDP), Cheyenne-based state affiliate of the Democratic Party chaired by Lucas Fralick; runs caucus-convention delegate selection, county central committees, and a 2024 platform; Democrats are about 12.3% of Wyoming voters.
Wyoming Department of Transportation
The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) is the Wyoming state agency responsible for the state highway system, the Highway Patrol, driver licensing, and vehicle registration.
Wyoming toad
Wyoming toad (Anaxyrus baxteri, formerly Bufo baxteri), a two-inch toad endemic to Wyoming's Laramie Basin; listed endangered in 1984, IUCN Extinct in the Wild, survives via captive breeding and refuges like Mortenson Lake and the Wyoming Toad Conservation Area.
Wyoming-class battleship
The Wyoming class was a class of two US Navy dreadnought battleships, USS Wyoming and USS Arkansas, completed in 1912 and armed with twelve 12-inch guns, the last American battleships to carry that caliber.
Wyompont
Wyompont is a hamlet of Erneuville, Tenneville, in Luxembourg province, Belgium, on the left bank of the western Ourthe. It is known for a Gallo-Roman building (villa or vicus) and an engineered schist-slab ford on the Arlon-Tongres Roman road, excavated from 1851 to 2001.
Wyperfeld National Park
Wyperfeld National Park, in semi-arid north-west Victoria, is Australia's first mallee national park (reserved 1909, permanent 1921), 357,017 ha, third-largest in Victoria, with Outlet Creek lake beds and Wotjobaluk co-management.
Wyrd
Wyrd is the Old English concept of fate, literally "what has happened", from weorþan "to become"; cognate with Norse urðr (the Norn Urd) and ancestor of modern English "weird".
Wyrd Mons
Wyrd Mons is a 150-km-diameter mountain on Venus at 14.0°N, 247.2°E, IAU-approved in 2003 and named for the Anglo-Saxon weaving goddess; its mapped unit is digitate high-backscatter deposits.
WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG, an acronym for what-you-see-is-what-you-get, is an editing interface showing content as its final appearance rather than markup; the first was Bravo, built at Xerox PARC around 1974.
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering is a Harvard research institute in Boston that develops nature-inspired technologies, founded in 2009 with Hansjörg Wyss's $125 million gift.
Wyszembork
Wyszembork is a village on the shore of Lake Salęt in Gmina Mrągowo, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northern Poland, known for archaeological sites including a fully excavated Bogaczewo culture cremation cemetery.
Wytch Farm Oil and Gas Field
Wytch Farm is an onshore oil field on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England, and the largest onshore oil field in the UK and western Europe.
Wytch Hazel
Wytch Hazel are an English hard rock and heavy metal band from Lancaster, formed in 2011, known for a devotional, medieval-styled take on 1970s rock, with five albums on Bad Omen Records.
Wythenshawe
Wythenshawe is a planned Garden City district of south Manchester, begun in the 1920s under Barry Parker as Britain's first municipality-owned satellite suburb; it became Europe's largest council estate and is undergoing a £500m town centre regeneration.
Wyvern
Wyvern: a legendary two-legged, winged dragon with a barbed tail, distinguished from the four-legged dragon in English heraldry; from Old French wivre (Latin vipera), codified in 16th-17th century English heraldic manuals and common in modern fantasy.
Wyze Labs
Wyze Labs, also known as Wyze, is an American smart-home company in Kirkland, Washington, founded in 2017 by former Amazon employees and known for low-priced security cameras.
WZ Sge
WZ Sagittae (WZ Sge) is an eclipsing dwarf nova in Sagitta, the prototype of the WZ Sagittae stars, which erupt every few decades; it last erupted in 2001.
Wʿrn Ḥywt
Wʿrn Ḥywt, also written Waren Ḥywt, was the earliest inscribed ruler of the Ethio-Sabaean world in northern Ethiopia, around the 7th or 6th century BC.