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Wabash College
Wabash College, founded November 21, 1832 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, is a private, independent all-male liberal arts college granting the Bachelor of Arts, with about 900 students, the Gentleman's Rule conduct code, comprehensive senior exams, and the Monon Bell football rivalry with DePauw.
Wabash National Corporation
Wabash National Corporation is an American manufacturer of semi-trailers and truck bodies headquartered in Lafayette, Indiana. Founded in 1985, it is known for its DuraPlate composite trailer panels.
Wabash River Generating Station
Wabash River Generating Station is a power station in Terre Haute, Indiana, known for hosting one of two IGCC demonstration plants in the United States.
WABC-TV
WABC-TV, also called ABC 7 New York and ABC7 Eyewitness News, is an ABC-owned television station serving New York City since 1948, producing the Eyewitness News format.
Wabi-sabi (侘寂)
Wabi-sabi (侘寂, わび・さび) is a Japanese aesthetic of imperfection and impermanence, formed through Zen-influenced wabi-cha tea ceremony under Sen no Rikyū, and consolidated as a label for Japanese beauty only in the late twentieth century.
WABIAN
WABIAN (WAseda BIpedal humANoid) is a series of life-size biped humanoid robots developed at Waseda University in Tokyo from 1996, built to study human-like walking.
Wable
Wable (와블) is a South Korean female ballad duo of sisters Lee Kirim and Lee Pureum, first seen on Superstar K 5 in 2013 and officially debuted in 2016.
WABOT-2
WABOT-2 was a full-scale humanoid robot built at Waseda University in Tokyo between 1980 and 1984, designed to read musical scores and play an electronic organ.
Wabtec
Wabtec (Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation) is an American Fortune 500 supplier of freight rail and passenger transit equipment, formed in 1999 and expanded by acquiring GE Transportation in 2019.
WAC Corporal
Developed by JPL for the U.S. Army, the WAC Corporal was a liquid-propellant rocket, and its Bumper variant became the first object to enter space in 1949.
WAC-related facial dysmorphism-developmental delay-behavioral abnormalities syndrome
WAC-related facial dysmorphism-developmental delay-behavioral abnormalities syndrome, also called DeSanto-Shinawi syndrome (DESSH, OMIM 616708), is a rare autosomal dominant intellectual disability syndrome caused by loss-of-function WAC gene variants at 10p12.1, with hypotonia, dysmorphism, and ADHD-type behavior.
WACA Ground
The WACA Ground, or Western Australia Cricket Association Ground, is a cricket stadium in East Perth, opened in 1890 and famous for its fast, bouncy pitch.
Wace
Wace, born on Jersey around 1100 and a canon of Bayeux, was a Norman poet whose Roman de Brut (1155) gives the first French account of King Arthur.
Wachau Cultural Landscape
Wachau Cultural Landscape: UNESCO World Heritage Site (2000, criteria ii and iv) covering the Danube valley between Melk and Krems, Lower Austria, about 36 km long, with medieval vine terraces, Melk and Göttweig abbeys, and 18,462 ha inscribed area.
Wachirayan Warorot
Wachirayan Warorot (1860–1921) was a Siamese prince and son of King Mongkut who, as the tenth Supreme Patriarch, founded Mahamakut Buddhist University and wrote the Sangha Act of 1902.
Wachovia
Wachovia Corporation was a Charlotte-based bank holding company formed in the 2001 First Union merger, the fourth-largest US bank before collapsing in the 2008 financial crisis.
Wachtberg-Berkum
Wachtberg-Berkum (Berkum), district and administrative seat of Wachtberg in Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Germany; documented by 856, with Roman quarries on the 263 m Hohenberg whose trachyte built Cologne Cathedral.
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (WLRK) is a New York corporate law firm founded in 1965, known for takeover defense, the poison pill invented by Martin Lipton, and leading profits per equity partner among US firms.
WACK
WACK is a Japanese idol management and production company founded by Junnosuke Watanabe in 2014, known for the alternative idol scene groups BiSH and GANG PARADE.
Wack 100
Wack 100 (Cash Jones) is a Pacoima, California music manager and label owner behind 100 Entertainment, known for managing The Game and Blueface, releasing "Eazy" as a Spotify exclusive, and his trucking-to-mogul career.
Wack Pack
The Wack Pack, also called The Whack Pack, is the group of recurring guests and callers on The Howard Stern Show with signature traits or distinctive appearances.
Wacken Open Air
Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a heavy metal festival held each August in the village of Wacken in northern Germany, founded in 1990 and among the world's largest.
Wacker process
The Wacker process, also called the Wacker or Wacker–Tsuji oxidation, is an industrial palladium-catalyzed reaction converting ethylene to acetaldehyde, developed by Hoechst and Wacker in Germany around 1960.
Wackestone
Wackestone is a mud-supported carbonate rock, usually a limestone, with more than 10 percent grains floating in carbonate mud, defined in Robert Dunham's 1962 classification between mudstone and packstone.
Wacky Races (1968 TV series)
Wacky Races (1968) is a Hanna-Barbera/Heatter-Quigley CBS animated series, 17 episodes, in which 11 cars including Dick Dastardly and Muttley's Mean Machine race across America; Dastardly never wins, and two spin-offs followed in 1969.
Wacław Leszczyński
Wacław Leszczyński (1605–1666) was a Polish Catholic cleric who served as Bishop of Warmia from 1644 and, from 1658 until his death, as Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland.
Wacław Potocki
Wacław Potocki (1621–1696) was a Polish Baroque poet, satirist, and moralist who lived near Biecz in Lesser Poland and wrote the epic The Chocim War Transaction.
Wacław Sierpiński
Wacław Sierpiński, fully Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński, was a Polish mathematician (1882–1969) who worked in set theory and number theory, founded the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae, and gave his name to the Sierpiński triangle and carpet.
Waclaw Szybalski
Waclaw Szybalski (1921–2020) was a Polish-American molecular biologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who performed the first gene transfer into mammalian cells and coined gene therapy and synthetic biology.
Wacław Żenczykowski
Wacław Aleksander Żenczykowski (1897–1957) was a Polish structural engineer and professor at Warsaw University of Technology who designed about forty monumental interwar buildings and drafted Poland's postwar building norms.