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Warith Deen Mohammed
Warith Deen Mohammed, also known as Wallace D. Muhammad, was an African American Muslim leader who moved the Nation of Islam toward Sunni Islam after 1975.
Wariʼ
The Wariʼ, also called the Pakaa Nova after the Pacaas Novos river, are an indigenous people of Rondônia, Brazil, first recorded in 1798 and known for funerary cannibalism.
Warka Vase
The Warka Vase, also known as the Uruk Vase, is a carved alabaster ritual vessel from the temple of Inanna at Uruk in southern Iraq, around 3000 BC.
Warkings
Warkings are an Austrian-led power metal band formed in 2018, whose members perform in costume as ancient warriors, releasing five albums on Napalm Records, including Armageddon in 2025.
Warkworth, New Zealand
Warkworth (Puhinui) is a historic town at the head of the Mahurangi River in North Auckland, New Zealand, founded by John Anderson Brown around a water-powered sawmill and serving as the hub of the Matakana Coast.
Warli painting
Warli painting: tribal wall-painting tradition of the Warli Adivasi tribe of the North Sahyadri Range, Maharashtra and Gujarat; white rice-paste geometric figures on cow-dung walls; GI-tagged since 2014; Jivya Soma Mashe brought it to world galleries.
Warlley Alves
Warlley Alves (Warlley Alves De Andrade), Brazilian MMA fighter, TUF Brazil 3 middleweight winner, UFC record 8-8, pro 14-8, four-fight losing streak through May 2024.
Warlock (1959 film)
Warlock is a 1959 American Western directed by Edward Dmytryk for Twentieth Century-Fox, starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, and Anthony Quinn as figures brought in to tame a mining town.
Warlock (1989 film)
Warlock (1989) is a Steve Miner horror film, written by David Twohy, starring Julian Sands, Lori Singer, and Richard E. Grant; a 1691 warlock escapes to 1980s Los Angeles seeking the Grand Grimoire, delayed until a 1991 Trimark release.
Warlock (band)
Warlock was a German heavy metal band from Düsseldorf, formed late 1982, fronted by Doro Pesch. Four studio albums through Triumph and Agony (1987), Monsters of Rock 1986, disbanded over name rights; Pesch continued as Doro.
Warlock (Dungeons & Dragons)
Warlock (Dungeons & Dragons): a D&D class gaining magic via a pact with an otherworldly patron (Archfey, Fiend, Great Old One, Celestial). Defined by Pact Magic, few same-level short-rest spell slots, Eldritch Invocations, and pacts of Blade, Tome, or Chain.
Warlock (New Mutants)
Warlock (New Mutants) is a Marvel Comics techno-organic alien of the Technarchy, first appearing in New Mutants #18 (August 1984); a compassionate mutant who joined the New Mutants, bonded with Cypher, and was cut from the 2020 film.
Warlord
Warlord: a military commander ruling territory through personal control of armed force outside central state authority, seen in Republican China, medieval Europe, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Sudan.
Warlord (DC Comics)
Warlord (Travis Morgan) is a DC Comics sword-and-sorcery hero created by Mike Grell, debuting in 1st Issue Special #8 (November 1975); a Vietnam-veteran USAF pilot stranded in the hollow-Earth realm Skartaris, he headlined 133 issues (1976–1988) plus later revivals.
Warlord Era
The Warlord Era, also called Warlord China, was the period from 1916 to 1928 when the Republic of China split among rival military cliques, ending with the Northern Expedition's reunification.
Warlugulong
Warlugulong is a series of five monumental acrylic paintings made from 1976 to 1979 by Western Desert artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, depicting the Bushfire Dreaming story of Lungkata.
Warm and Cozy (맨도롱 또똣)
Warm and Cozy (맨도롱 또똣, Jeju Island Gatsby) is a 2015 MBC 16-episode romantic comedy by the Hong sisters starring Yoo Yeon-seok and Kang So-ra, set on Jeju Island; title is Jeju dialect for pleasantly warm, premiere rating 6.3%.
Warm Bodies (film)
Warm Bodies (2013) is an American zombie romantic comedy-horror film written and directed by Jonathan Levine from Isaac Marion's 2011 novel, starring Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer; it opened number one February 1, 2013 and grossed about $115 million worldwide.
Warm conveyor belt
The warm conveyor belt is a warm, moist airstream rising from an extratropical cyclone's warm sector into the upper troposphere, producing most of its cloud and precipitation.
Warm dark matter
Warm dark matter is a class of dark matter models whose particles move fast enough in the early universe to erase density fluctuations below a characteristic scale.
Warm dense matter
Warm dense matter is a state of matter at near-solid densities and temperatures of a few to hundreds of electronvolts, found in giant planet interiors and fusion experiments.
Warm front
A warm front is the boundary at the leading edge of an advancing warm air mass replacing cooler air, marked on weather maps by a red line with semicircles.
Warm inflation
Warm inflation is a class of cosmological inflation models in which the inflaton dissipates energy into a thermal bath, proposed by Arjun Berera in 1995.
Warm Ischemia
Warm ischemia: tissue oxygen deprivation at or near body temperature when blood flow stops. In transplantation it spans donor (retrieval) and recipient (implantation) periods; 30 minutes of warm ischemia damages an organ more than over 24 hours of cold ischemia.
Warm line
A warm line is either a telephone feature that dials a preprogrammed number after an off-hook delay, or a peer-run non-emergency mental health support line.
Warm mix asphalt
Warm mix asphalt (WMA) is asphalt pavement produced and compacted at temperatures 30 to 120 °F below conventional hot mix asphalt, cutting fuel use and emissions.
Warm on a Cold Night (九霄寒夜暖)
Warm on a Cold Night (九霄寒夜暖) is a 2023 Chinese costume fantasy mystery romance television series starring Li Yitong and Bi Wenjun, streamed on iQIYI from February to March 2023.
Warm rain
Warm rain is precipitation formed entirely in clouds warmer than 0 °C when droplets collide and coalesce into raindrops, with no ice phase involved; it dominates in the tropics.
Warm-blooded
Warm-blooded animals combine endothermy (internal heat generation) and homeothermy (stable body temperature), as in birds and mammals. It evolved independently at least twice, costs 10 to 20 times more energy than ectothermy, and first appeared in dinosaurs around 180 to 250 million years ago.
Warm-hot intergalactic medium
The warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) is diffuse, highly ionized gas at 10^5 to 10^7 K in cosmic-web filaments, proposed to hold half the universe's missing ordinary matter.