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Waltz with Bashir (ואלס עם באשיר)
Waltz with Bashir (ואלס עם באשיר) is Ari Folman's 2008 Israeli animated documentary about recovering suppressed memories of the 1982 Lebanon War and the Sabra and Shatila massacre; Golden Globe winner, Oscar-nominated, restored in 4K in 2026.
Waltzes from Vienna
Waltzes from Vienna, also released as Strauss' Great Waltz, is Alfred Hitchcock's 1934 Gaumont-British musical comedy, his only musical, a fictional account of Johann Strauss II composing The Blue Danube, based on the 1930 operetta Walzer aus Wien.
Waltzing Matilda
Waltzing Matilda, Australia's unofficial national anthem, is an 1895 folk song with lyrics by Banjo Paterson and melody attributed to Christina Macpherson, written at Dagworth Station near Winton, Queensland, and recorded over 600 times.
Waluigi
Waluigi (ワルイージ) is a Nintendo character created by Camelot, debuting in Mario Tennis 64 as Wario's partner and Luigi's rival; playable only in Mario spinoff sports and party games, never a mainline title.
Waluscha De Sousa
Waluscha De Sousa (birth name Waltraudt) is a Goan-Indian actress and former model, debut opposite Shah Rukh Khan in Fan (2016) as Bela Khanna, later known for OTT roles Garima Kalra in Crackdown and Zainab Riaz in Tanaav.
Walvax/Abogen XBB.1.5 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
The Walvax/Abogen XBB.1.5 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, code RQ3033, is a Chinese monovalent mRNA vaccine against Omicron XBB.1.5, approved for emergency use in China in December 2023.
Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay (Whale Bay) is Namibia's principal deep-water port city on the Atlantic coast. British-annexed 1878, transferred to Namibia 1994; gateway via the Trans-Kalahari Corridor to landlocked SADC trade.
Walvis Ridge
Walvis Ridge: ~3,300 km aseismic seamount chain in the Southeast Atlantic from the Namibian margin to Tristan da Cunha and Gough, the Tristan-Gough hotspot track beginning with the ~132 Ma Paraná-Etendeka flood basalts, paired with the Rio Grande Rise.
Walvis Sinus
Walvis Sinus is the largest of Titan's 28 named sinūs, a 253 km bay-shaped feature at 58.2°N, 324.1°W in the north polar hydrocarbon seas, IAU-approved January 19, 2015 and named for Walvis Bay, Namibia.
Walwaziti
Walwaziti was chief scribe at the Hittite capital Ḫattuša in the second half of the 13th century BC, serving King Ḫattušili III and probably Tudḫaliya IV.
Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp (United Kingdom)
Walwick Fell Roman temporary camp, Warden, Northumberland: a small square Roman marching camp, 75 m across and 0.5 ha, 230 m south west of Hadrian's Wall vallum near Milecastle 29; Scheduled Monument 1010935, at risk from plant growth and forestry.
WAM-V
WAM-V (Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel) is a catamaran-hulled unmanned surface vehicle with articulating suspension and inflatable hulls, developed by Marine Advanced Robotics and sold by Ocean Power Technologies for survey and research missions.
Wamda Capital
Wamda Capital is a Dubai-based venture capital firm investing in technology companies across the Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, and Turkey, known for backing Careem and Tabby.
Wamiqa Gabbi
Wamiqa Gabbi (born 1993, Chandigarh) is an Indian actress in Punjabi, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Telugu films; debuted in Jab We Met (2007), known for Godha, Jubilee, Khufiya, and a dense 2026 slate including DC.
Wampanoag
Wampanoag (Wôpanâak): Indigenous people of southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island, led historically by Massasoit Ousamequin, parties to the 1621 Plymouth harvest event and King Philip's War (1675–1676), with the Mashpee and Aquinnah tribes federally recognized today.
Wampum
Wampum (sewant, zewant): tubular purple and white shell beads of the Eastern Woodlands, made from whelk and quahog, used in diplomacy belts, as mnemonic treaty records, and as colonial currency.
Wampus cat
Wampus cat: a fearsome cat-like creature of Appalachian and Ozark folklore, also called gallywampus or whistling wampus. Documented from catawampus slang and early-1900s newspapers; its Cherokee origin story is a late-20th-century construction, and no specimen exists.
Wamyō Ruijushō
Wamyō Ruijushō (和名類聚抄, also written 倭名類聚鈔 and known as Wamyōshō) is a Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters compiled by the scholar Minamoto no Shitagō around 934.
Wan
Wan (Tongyi Wanxiang) is a family of video generation models from Alibaba's Tongyi Lab, first released as open weights under Apache 2.0 in February 2025.
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (Wan Azizah binti Wan Ismail), Malaysian physician-politician, first female Deputy Prime Minister (2018-2020), PKR president 1999-2018, Anwar Ibrahim's wife, unbeaten in seven elections.
Wan F.A. Jusoh
Wan F.A. Jusoh (Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh) is a Malaysian firefly taxonomist, senior lecturer at Monash University Malaysia, and IUCN Firefly Specialist Group co-chair who described Luciola singapura.
Wan Hai Lines
Wan Hai Lines (万海航运) is a Taiwanese container shipping line founded in 1965 that specializes in intra-Asia short-sea services while also running transpacific, Middle East, and South America routes.
Wan Hongwei
Wan Hongwei (万宏伟, born 1973) is a Chinese businessman, second son of Shuanghui founder Wan Long, who became chairman of Shuanghui Development, China's largest pork processor, in 2024.
Wan Jianhui
Wan Jianhui (萬建輝, born 1975) is a Chinese lightweight weightlifter and coach: two World Championship bronzes (1997, 1998), a 163.0 kg snatch world record, 7th at Atlanta 1996, and coach of Lin Qingfeng at London 2012.
Wan Ki Bae
Wan Ki Bae (배완기) is a South Korean materials chemist and associate professor at Sungkyunkwan University since 2018, working on colloidal quantum dots for light-emitting displays.
Wan Li (万里)
Wan Li (万里, 1916–2015), Chinese Communist Party leader; Anhui first secretary whose tolerance of household farming launched the household responsibility system; later vice-premier and chairman of the NPC Standing Committee 1988–1993.
Wan Long (Chinese businessman)
Wan Long (万隆, born 1940) is a Chinese executive who built Shuanghui into WH Group, the world's largest pork producer, and led its 2013 acquisition of Smithfield Foods.
Wānaka
Wānaka, formerly Pembroke, is a lakeside South Island New Zealand town of about 9,000 at the southern end of Lake Wānaka, a base for Mt Aspiring National Park, Treble Cone, and Cardrona, named from wānanga, place of learning.
Wanakbori Thermal Power Station
Wanakbori Thermal Power Station is a coal-fired power station near Sevaliya in Kheda district, Gujarat, India, owned by GSECL, with a design capacity of 1,470 MWe across seven units.
Wanamaker's
Wanamaker's, also known as John Wanamaker's, was a Philadelphia department store chain founded by John Wanamaker in 1861, known for its Grand Court, bronze eagle, and the Wanamaker Organ.