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War Room (podcast)

War Room (Bannon's WarRoom) is Stephen K. Bannon's political talk show, launched October 2019 as War Room: Impeachment, now a four-hour, six-day-a-week podcast and live stream on Real America's Voice, Rumble, and other platforms.

War Scare of 1927

The War Scare of 1927 (Военная тревога 1927 года) was a panic in the Soviet Union over feared invasion, triggered by Britain's rupture of relations in May 1927.

War scythe

A war scythe (Kosa bojowa) is a polearm made by re-hafting a scythe blade axially on a straight haft so it can thrust and slash like a glaive.

War Thunder

War Thunder is Gaijin Entertainment's free-to-play cross-platform vehicular combat MMO (formerly World of Planes), with over 2,500 aircraft, tanks, ships, and helicopters, Arcade, Realistic, and Simulator modes, and a module-based damage model.

War to the Death campaign

The War to the Death campaign (Guerra a Muerte) was a phase of the Venezuelan War of Independence from 1813 to 1820, begun by Bolívar's execution decree.

War Trash

War Trash is a 2004 novel by Chinese-born American writer Ha Jin, a fictional memoir of a Chinese officer captured during the Korean War that won the 2005 PEN/Faulkner Award.

War with the Newts

War with the Newts (Válka s mloky) is Karel Čapek's 1936 satirical science fiction novel about intelligent giant salamanders exploited as labor, told through newspaper reports and documents, ending with newts reshaping the world's coastlines.

War-time electoral pact

War-time electoral pact refers chiefly to the 1914 British electoral truce, in which Liberal, Conservative, and Labour Chief Whips agreed uncontested by-elections, and the 1918 Conservative–Lloyd George Liberal 'coupon' pact, which reshaped the party system.

Wara Coal Mine

Wara Coal Mine is a large open-pit thermal coal mine in Tabalong regency, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, operated by PT Adaro Indonesia. It began commercial production in 2010 and yielded 7.0 million tonnes in 2024.

Warabandi

Warabandi, meaning "taking turns," is a rotational water-distribution method used in canal irrigation systems of northwestern India and Pakistan, giving each farmer the channel's full flow on a fixed schedule.

Warad-Kubi

Warad-Kubi, son of Gu-ilishu, was a Babylonian soldier of King Ammi-ditana's reign, known only from a tablet recording that his 12-iku field at Sippar-Amnanum was redistributed after his death.

Warad-Sin

Warad-Sin (Warad-Sîn) was king of Larsa, a city-state in southern Mesopotamia, reigning about 1834–1823 BC; a son of Kudur-Mabuk, he built temples at Ur and Nippur and was succeeded by his brother Rim-Sin I.

Warangal (వరంగల్)

Warangal (వరంగల్), historically Orugallu, is a major city in Telangana, India, former Kakatiya capital (12th–14th centuries), a 2016 Smart City, home to UNESCO-listed Ramappa Temple nearby, with 1.08 million district population (2011).

Warangal Rural

Warangal Rural, a district in Telangana, India, formed 11 October 2016 from the bifurcated Warangal district; headquarters at Nakkalagutta, Hanamkonda; 1,766 sq km, 13 mandals, agriculture-dominated economy.

Waraqah ibn Nawfal

Waraqah ibn Nawfal (ورقة بن نوفل) was a learned Christian of Mecca's Quraysh tribe, Khadija's paternal cousin, who affirmed Muhammad's first revelation and died shortly after it.

Waray language

Waray (Winaray, Waray-Waray, Lineyte-Samarnon) is an Austronesian Bisayan language of Samar, northern and eastern Leyte, and Biliran in the Philippines, with about three million speakers, seven KWF-listed dialects, and a documented record dating to a 1663 grammar.

Warbird

A warbird is a former military aircraft, whether an original survivor, restored airframe, or reproduction, operated by civilians, museums, or government agencies for historical preservation and living history.

Warbird and heritage flying organizations

Warbird and heritage flying organizations are membership groups, type clubs, and foundations that keep former military and vintage aircraft restored, airworthy, and on public display.

Warbird ownership and operations

Warbird ownership is the private, civilian possession and operation of former military aircraft, from $125,000 T-6 trainers to P-51 Mustangs costing over $1.5 million, flown for airshows and exhibition.

Warble fly

Warble fly, genus Hypoderma (H. bovis, H. lineatum), Oestridae botflies whose larvae migrate through cattle for about 10 months and form breathing-holed warbles on the back; controlled by macrocyclic lactones and eradicated in much of Europe and North America.

Warbreaker

Warbreaker is Brandon Sanderson's 2009 standalone Cosmere fantasy novel set on Nalthis, following princesses Vivenna and Siri, the God King Susebron, the god Lightsong, and Vasher, with BioChromatic Breath magic.

Warburg effect (oncology)

Warburg effect (oncology): aerobic glycolysis, the tendency of cancer cells to take up glucose and produce lactate even with oxygen available; described by Otto Warburg in the 1920s, named by Efraim Racker in 1972, exploited in FDG-PET imaging.

Warburg family

The Warburgs are a German-Jewish banking dynasty whose Hamburg bank, M.M.Warburg & Co., founded in 1798, rose to influence on both sides of the Atlantic.

Warburg Pincus

Warburg Pincus is a New York-based global private equity firm, founded in 1939, that has raised over $120 billion and invested in more than 1,000 companies.

Warby Parker

Warby Parker is an American vertically integrated eyewear retailer founded in 2010 by four Wharton classmates, selling glasses starting at $95 online and in stores.

WARC (file format)

WARC (Web ARChive) is an ISO 28500 file format that combines web crawler harvests and metadata into one archival file, generalizing the Internet Archive's earlier ARC format.

Warcraft

Warcraft is a fantasy media franchise created by Blizzard Entertainment, starting with the 1994 real-time strategy game Warcraft: Orc's Humans and evolving into MMORPG, card game, and novel series.

Warcraft (film)

Warcraft is a 2016 American-British fantasy action film directed by Duncan Jones, starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, and Toby Kebbell, based on Blizzard's Warcraft games.

Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans

Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, a cancelled 1996-1998 Blizzard point-and-click adventure about Thrall's origin, outsourced to Animation Magic, cancelled May 22, 1998; its story became Christie Golden's novel Lord of the Clans and shaped Warcraft III.

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995) is Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy sequel to Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, with Horde and Alliance campaigns, land-sea-air combat, fog of war, seven-player multiplayer, and the Beyond the Dark Portal expansion.