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Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park, Waterton-Glacier, WGIPP: transboundary protected area formed in 1932 from Waterton Lakes National Park (Alberta) and Glacier National Park (Montana), the world's first International Peace Park and a 1995 UNESCO World Heritage Site of 457,614 ha.
Waterton Lakes National Park
Waterton Lakes National Park: national park in southwestern Alberta, Canada, established May 30, 1895 as a Dominion Forest Park; Canada's 4th national park, smallest in the Canadian Rockies at 505 sq km; part of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.
Waterton Oil and Gas Field
The Waterton oil and gas field is a petroleum development in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Alberta, site of Western Canada's first producing oil well in 1902.
Waterton Precious Metals
Waterton Precious Metals is a Toronto-based precious metals private equity business that invests through loans, joint ventures, and equity stakes, raising $1.016 billion for its 2014 Fund II.
Watertown, Massachusetts
Watertown, Massachusetts: a Middlesex County city six miles northwest of Boston on the Charles River, founded 1630, provisional Massachusetts capital in 1775, site of the Treaty of Watertown, population 35,329 (2020).
Watertown, SD Micro Area
Watertown, SD Micro Area (CBSA 47980) is a micropolitan statistical area covering Codington and Hamlin counties in northeastern South Dakota, centered on Watertown; about 32,000 residents, manufacturing-heavy economy, distinct from Watertown-Fort Drum, NY.
Watervliet Arsenal
Watervliet Arsenal, established in 1813 during the War of 1812, is the Army-owned factory in Watervliet, New York, that produces cannons, mortars, and the M1 Abrams main gun tube.
Waterway
A waterway is a river, canal, lake, or other stretch of water suitable for navigation by boats or ships, including navigable rivers, lakes, canals, and estuaries.
Waterworks Festival
Waterworks Festival is a one-day electronic music festival held each September in Gunnersbury Park, West London, founded by Team Love and Percolate, with its first edition in 2021.
Waterworld
Waterworld (1995) is a Kevin Reynolds post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film starring Kevin Costner as a gilled Mariner on a flooded Earth. Green-lit at $100 million, it cost up to $235 million, grossed $264 million worldwide, and later turned a profit.
Watford
Watford: town and non-metropolitan district (E07000103) in South West Hertfordshire, north of London. Population ~102,200 (2021), +13.2% since 2011; 12th-century market charter, railway since 1837, elected-mayor borough to merge in 2028.
Watford F.C.
Watford F.C., the Hornets, English club founded 1881 as Watford Rovers, playing at Vicarage Road (22,220). Golden era under Elton John and Graham Taylor: top-flight runners-up 1983, FA Cup finals 1984 and 2019.
Wathiqat ahl al-Sudan
The Wathiqat ahl al-Sudan (وثيقة أهل السودان) is an open letter composed by Shehu Uthman dan Fodio around 1806, read as the declaration of independence of the Sokoto Caliphate.
Wati B
Wati B is a French independent hip-hop label founded in Paris in 1999 by Dawala, best known as the home of Sexion d'Assaut, Maître Gims, and Black M.
Watkin Tudor Jones
Watkin Tudor Jones, known as Ninja or Waddy, is a South African rapper and performance artist, frontman of the rap-rave group Die Antwoord. Earlier projects include Max Normal, The Constructus Corporation, and Original Evergreens.
Watkin's Tower
Watkin's Tower, also called Watkin's Folly or the Great Tower of London, was Sir Edward Watkin's unfinished iron lattice tower at Wembley Park, meant to top the Eiffel Tower; only its 155 ft first stage was built before demolition in 1907.
Watkins Glen International
Watkins Glen International, also called The Glen, is a NASCAR-owned road course in Watkins Glen, New York, with 2.45-mile and 3.377-mile layouts, hosting the Go Bowling at The Glen Cup race and IMSA's Sahlen's Six Hours since the 1948 street races.
Watkins Glen State Park
Watkins Glen State Park, a Finger Lakes state park at Seneca Lake's southern end in Watkins Glen, NY, where Glen Creek descends 400 feet through a narrow gorge with 19 waterfalls, an 832-step Gorge Trail, camping, and a pool.
Watkins Island
Watkins Island, formerly Mikkelsen Island, is one of the largest of the Biscoe Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula at 66°22'S 67°05'W, surveyed by the BGLE 1935-36 and renamed for Arctic explorer Gino Watkins (1907-32).
WATL
WATL is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station in Atlanta, Georgia, broadcasting on virtual channel 36 from a tower in DeKalb County, first on air in 1954 and owned by Tegna.
Watling Lodge
Watling Lodge, Falkirk, Scotland: site of a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall guarding the only road crossing of the frontier besides fort gates, garrisoned by about 30 soldiers from Rough Castle, excavated 1972–74.
Watling Street
Watling Street is a Roman road in Britain running from the Kent ports through London to Wroxeter, built after AD 43 and now followed by the A2 and A5.
WATS study
WATS study (NCT03891511), a Chilean observational MRI trial by Universidad de los Andes, showing the T1 WATS 3D SPGR sequence detects TMJ fibrocartilage in ~98% of fossae versus 4-22% for conventional sequences.
Watson (TV series)
Watson is a CBS medical drama (2025-2026) created by Craig Sweeny, starring Morris Chestnut as Dr. John Watson, who treats rare diseases in Pittsburgh while Moriarty plots; canceled after two seasons.
Watson and the Shark
Watson and the Shark is an 1778 oil painting by John Singleton Copley depicting the rescue of fourteen-year-old Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana Harbor in 1749.
Watson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp.
Watson v. Employers Liability Assurance Corp., 348 U.S. 66 (1954), Supreme Court case upholding Louisiana's direct action statute against Equal Protection, Contract Clause, Due Process, and Full Faith and Credit challenges to an out-of-state policy with a no-action clause.
Watsonia family
Watsonia family: central main-belt, high-inclination asteroid family named after (729) Watsonia, an L-type group near the 5/2 Jupiter resonance, the main repository of Barbarian asteroids with spinel-rich, CAI-abundant surfaces, age about 0.8-1.2 Gyr.
Watsons (屈臣氏)
Watsons (屈臣氏) is the Hong Kong-based health and beauty retail chain of AS Watson Group, dating to 1841, with over 17,000 stores across 31 markets.
watsonx
watsonx is IBM's enterprise AI and data platform, launched in 2023, for training, tuning, and deploying foundation models and machine learning models, combining IBM's Granite models with third-party models and integrated data storage and AI governance.
Watsuji Tetsurō
Watsuji Tetsurō (和辻哲郎, 1889–1960) was a Japanese moral philosopher and historian of ideas who taught ethics at Kyoto and Tokyo Imperial Universities and wrote Fūdo (1935) and Rinrigaku (1937–1949).