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Warcraft III: Reforged
Warcraft III: Reforged is Blizzard's 2020 PC remaster of Warcraft III and The Frozen Throne, with overhauled graphics and Battle.net features. Its launch drew a record-low 0.5/10 Metacritic user score; later patches, Patch 2.0, and the 2026 Forsaken Kingdom DLC followed.
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002), Blizzard's RTS for PC/Mac, introduced heroes, four races, and the World Editor; it sold over 1 million copies, scored 92 on Metacritic, and spawned DotA and the MOBA genre.
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne (TFT) is Blizzard Entertainment's July 1, 2003 expansion to Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, adding a fourth hero per race, new units, naval units, an expanded World Editor, and selling over 7 million copies.
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, the first game in the Warcraft franchise, is a 1994 real-time strategy game by Blizzard Entertainment that sold about 400,000 units and helped define the genre.
Ward (electoral subdivision)
Ward (electoral subdivision): a subdivision of a local government area with roughly equal electorates that elects councillors; also called district or precinct. Boundaries are periodically reviewed to preserve electoral equality, within tolerances of about 10 percent.
Ward (law)
Ward (law): a person, usually a child, under the legal care of a court or guardian (wardship). Covers modern ward of court/state status and English feudal wardship, the Court of Wards (1540–1646), Magna Carta clauses, and wardship versus guardianship.
Ward Bond
Born Wardell Edwin Bond, Ward Bond was an American character actor known for his more than 200 roles in over 30 years, collaborating with directors John Ford and Frank Capra.
Ward Breeze
Ward H. Breeze is an American attorney who serves as General Counsel of Addition, a New York venture capital firm, and directs the general partners of its funds.
Ward Cunningham
Ward Cunningham, born Howard G. Cunningham in 1949, is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, coined technical debt, and co-authored the Agile Manifesto.
Ward Goodenough
Ward Hunt Goodenough (1919–2013) was an American cultural anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania, known for componential analysis of kinship terms and for defining culture as knowledge needed to communicate.
Ward identities
Ward identities are relations among correlation functions in a quantum field theory that encode a classical symmetry at the quantum level, first derived by J. C. Ward in 1950.
Ward No. 6 (Палата)
Ward No. 6 (Палата № 6) is an 1892 Chekhov novella in which Dr Ragin preaches Stoic indifference to suffering, befriends patient Gromov, is committed to his own asylum ward, and dies after a beating; read as a critique of Tolstoy and adapted to film in 2004 and 2009.
Ward Plummer
Ward Plummer (1940–2020) was an American condensed-matter physicist who pioneered electron spectroscopy of surfaces, held posts at Penn, Tennessee, and LSU, and joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2006.
Ward Weaver III
Ward Weaver III, Oregon City murderer convicted of killing schoolgirls Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis in 2002; son of death-row killer Ward Weaver Jr.; serving life without parole.
Ward Whitt
Ward Whitt is an operations researcher known for queueing theory and stochastic-process limits; his 1981 paper initiated the Halfin–Whitt regime, and his 2002 book won the Lanchester Prize.
Ward's method
Ward's method is a hierarchical clustering algorithm that merges the two clusters whose union adds the least to within-cluster variance, described by Joe H. Ward Jr. in 1963.
Warda Al-Jazairia
Warda Al-Jazairia (وردة الجزائرية), born Warda Ftouki (1939/1940-2012), was an Algerian singer of Egyptian song, star of 'Al Watan al Akbar', wife of composer Baligh Hamdi, with about 300 songs and 100 million albums sold.
Wardenclyffe Tower
Wardenclyffe Tower, also known as Tesla Tower, was a 187-foot wireless transmitting tower and laboratory Nikola Tesla built at Shoreham, New York, between 1901 and 1905, dismantled in 1917.
Warder
Warder: town in Ethiopia's Somali Region near the Somalia border, a pastoralist market center in the Dollo/Doolo zone with a hot desert climate, chronic water-supply gaps, and major drought-resilience programs.
Warder Clyde Allee
Warder Clyde Allee (1885–1955) was an American zoologist and ecologist whose experiments showed animals in groups often survive better than isolated individuals, the Allee effect.
Wardian case
Wardian case, invented by Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward in 1829, a sealed wood-and-glass plant transporter and terrarium forerunner that enabled global plant transfer, including tea, rubber, and cinchona, from 1833 until the 1960s.
Wardlow (wrestler)
Wardlow (Michael Austin Wardlow, born 1988) is an American professional wrestler signed to AEW, a former MJF enforcer, three-time AEW TNT Champion known for the Powerbomb Symphony.
Wardogs (video game)
WARDOGS is a 100-player, three-faction King of the Hill FPS by Bulkhead and Team17, Steam Early Access 10 September 2026 at $39.99, with a persistent cash economy, Control Zone mode, and Season 2 bonuses for the blue Lonestar team.
Wardown Park Museum
Wardown Park Museum, formally Wardown House, Museum and Gallery, is a free local history museum in a Grade II listed Victorian mansion in Wardown Park, Luton, a museum since 1931, known for its hat, Bedfordshire lace, and regimental collections.
Wardriver
Wardriver is a 2026 American neo-noir cyber-heist thriller directed by Rebecca Thomas, written by Daniel Casey, and starring Dane DeHaan, Sasha Calle, Mamoudou Athie, and Jeffrey Donovan; it won Best Thriller Feature at Cinequest 2026.
Wardriving
Wardriving, also called access point mapping, is scanning for and logging Wi-Fi networks from a moving vehicle with GPS-tagged stumbler tools such as Kismet; coined by Pete Shipley in 2000 from war dialing, distinct from piggybacking or intrusion.
Wardrobe malfunction
Wardrobe malfunction: an accidental (or supposedly accidental) clothing failure exposing private body parts. Coined in 2004 by Justin Timberlake after Janet Jackson's Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime incident; FCC fined CBS $550,000, later overturned.
Wardroom
Wardroom: the officers' mess of a warship, also called the Naval Officers' Mess; a dining and social space in Royal Navy use since about 1750, run by a mess president, treasurer, and caterer under codified etiquette.
Wardruna
Wardruna is a Norwegian dark Nordic folk group from Bergen founded by ex-Gorgoroth drummer Einar "Kvitrafn" Selvik with Gaahl and Lindy-Fay Hella. Known for the Runaljod trilogy on the 24 Elder Futhark runes, ancient instruments, and music for Vikings and Assassin's Creed Valhalla; sixth album Birna released January 2025.
Wardum
Wardum was the Akkadian term for a slave or servant in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, the lowest of three status terms in the Laws of Hammurabi, entered mainly through debt.