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Waterford
Waterford (Port Láirge) is a city on Ireland's south-east coast at the head of the River Suir estuary. Founded by Vikings in 914, it is Ireland's oldest city and home of Waterford Crystal.
Waterford Crystal
Waterford Crystal, also known as Waterford Glass, is an Irish luxury crystal drinkware and giftware brand founded in 1783 by George and William Penrose in Waterford, Ireland.
Waterford Flight
The Waterford Flight is a set of five consecutive high-lift locks, numbered E2 through E6, on the Erie Canal at Waterford, New York, raising vessels 169 feet.
Waterford Nuclear Generating Station
Waterford Nuclear Generating Station, known as Waterford 3, is a nuclear power plant in Killona, Louisiana, west of New Orleans, operated by Entergy and generating about 1,152 MW since 1985.
Waterfowl garden
Waterfowl garden (水禽園, suikin-en): a zoo section or facility for displaying waterbirds on ponds. Best known from Wakayama Castle Park Zoo's Suikin-en, opened 1970, with a 476 m2 pond island representing the castle.
Waterfox
Waterfox is a free, open-source web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko engine, founded in 2011 by Alex Kontos and independently developed since 2023, with no telemetry, built-in ad blocking, and interface customization.
WaterGAP
WaterGAP (Water – Global Assessment and Prognosis) is a global hydrological model developed at the University of Kassel since 1996 to assess water resources and stress.
WATERGATE (NMR)
WATERGATE, short for WATER suppression by GrAdient-Tailored Excitation, is an NMR spectroscopy technique introduced by Piotto, Sklenár, and colleagues in 1992 to suppress the water signal in protein spectra using pulsed magnetic field gradients.
Watergate complex
The Watergate complex is a residential, hotel, and office development on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., known for the 1972 break-in that led to Nixon's resignation.
Watergate salad
Watergate salad, also called Pistachio Delight or Green Fluff, is a no-cook American dessert salad of pistachio pudding mix, crushed pineapple, whipped topping, marshmallows, and pecans, created by Kraft in 1975 and renamed after the Watergate scandal era.
Watergate scandal
Watergate scandal: 1972-1974 US political scandal from the DNC headquarters break-in at the Watergate complex through Nixon's cover-up, Senate Ervin Committee hearings, tapes, and August 9, 1974 resignation.
Watergen
Watergen is an Israeli company founded in 2009 by former IDF officer Arye Kohavi that makes drinking water from air, with deployments in more than 90 countries as of 2025.
Waterhole
Waterhole: a natural depression or enlarged river-channel segment holding standing water in non-perennial watercourses, especially in arid Australia (also gnamma holes, billabongs); vital drought refugia and Aboriginal cultural sites.
Waterhole #3
Waterhole #3 (also Waterhole No. 3) is a 1967 Paramount comedy Western directed by William A. Graham, starring James Coburn as gambler Lewton Cole chasing stolen Army gold near the town of Integrity, produced by Joseph T. Steck as a Blake Edwards production, with Roger Miller ballad narration.
Waterjet machining
Waterjet machining is a cutting process in which a high-pressure water jet, usually with abrasive particles, erodes metals, stone, glass, and composites up to 24 inches thick.
Waterlily
Waterlily is an ethnographic novel by the Dakota anthropologist Ella Cara Deloria, written in the 1940s and published posthumously in 1988, portraying Dakota kinship and ceremonies through a young woman's life.
Waterline
A waterline is the line where the water surface meets the hull of a floating vessel, used in naval architecture and marked on ships by the Plimsoll load line.
Waterline (Austin)
Waterline is a 74-story, 1,025-foot mixed-use supertall skyscraper in downtown Austin, Texas, and the tallest building in the state, opened in September 2026 with offices, 352 residences, and a hotel.
Waterloo
Waterloo, battle of 18 June 1815 near Brussels, also called La Belle Alliance, where Wellington's Anglo-Allied army and Blücher's Prussians defeated Napoleon's 72,000-man French army, ending the Napoleonic Wars and his rule.
Waterloo (1970 film)
Waterloo (1970), Sergei Bondarchuk's Italian-Soviet epic produced by Dino De Laurentiis with Mosfilm, depicts Napoleon's return from Elba and defeat by Wellington, staged with 17,000 Red Army extras in Ukraine; a box-office failure later prized for its battle spectacle.
Waterloo (album)
Waterloo is ABBA's second studio album, released 4 March 1974 on Polar Music and the first under the ABBA name; its title track won Eurovision 1974 in Brighton with 24 points, launching the group internationally.
Waterloo & City line
The Waterloo & City line, nicknamed the Drain, is the shortest London Underground line, running between Waterloo and Bank since 1898 with no intermediate stops.
Waterloo Bridge
Waterloo Bridge is a road bridge across the River Thames in central London, built 1939 to 1945 and nicknamed the Ladies' Bridge for its wartime women workers.
Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road is a BBC One British school drama created by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus, first broadcast in 2006, set in a failing comprehensive, running ten series to 2015 before a 2023 revival after lockdown iPlayer success.
Waterloo Road series 17
Waterloo Road series 17: seventeenth BBC school drama series, 8 episodes aired 6–27 January 2026 on BBC One and iPlayer; Darius (Jon Richardson) arrested in the finale, NSPCC-backed grooming storyline, last series filmed at Nicholls Campus.
Waterloo, Belgium
Waterloo, Belgium, is a Walloon municipality about 16 km south of Brussels, best known as the site of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
Waterloo, Iowa
Waterloo, Iowa: county seat of Black Hawk County on the Cedar River, twin city of Cedar Falls in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls metro. About 67,000 residents, historic manufacturing center (John Deere, Rath Packing), 9th-largest Iowa city.
Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo, Ontario: city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Canada, home of the University of Waterloo (founded 1957) and a dense tech economy; village 1857, town 1876, city 1948; population about 154,900 in 2025.
Waterlooville
Waterlooville, Hampshire town in Havant borough, founded 1815 around the Heroes of Waterloo inn on the Portsmouth–Petersfield turnpike; grew fastest in Britain 1958–1973, no rail access, about 31,000 people.
Waterman (lunar crater)
Waterman is a 74.91 km impact crater on the Moon's far side at 25.70°S, 128.18°E, south of Tsiolkovsky, Nectarian in age, named for American physicist Alan Tower Waterman and IAU-approved in 1970.