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Wally Amos
Wally Amos (Wallace Amos Jr., 1936–2024), American entrepreneur, first Black talent agent at William Morris (signed Simon & Garfunkel), founder of Famous Amos cookies in 1975; lost the brand, later founded Uncle Wally's Muffin Co. and literacy advocacy.
Walmart Canada
Walmart Canada (Wal-Mart Canada Corp.), the Canadian subsidiary of Walmart Inc., launched March 17, 1994 via 122 Woolco stores; 401 units, 100,000+ associates, Mississauga HQ, CEO Venessa Yates, 8% grocery share, $6.5B expansion.
Walt Flanagan
Walt Flanagan (Walter Flanagan), American comic shop manager of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash since 1997, Comic Book Men cast member, Tell 'Em Steve-Dave podcaster, and artist of Batman: Cacophony and Cryptozoic Man.
Wampum
Wampum (sewant, zewant): tubular purple and white shell beads of the Eastern Woodlands, made from whelk and quahog, used in diplomacy belts, as mnemonic treaty records, and as colonial currency.
Wang Shusheng
Wang Shusheng (王树森; 1917–1989), courtesy name Shaozhi, was a Chinese jade carver from Beijing, one of the "Four Talents of Northern Jade" and leader of the "86 Project."
War bonnet
War bonnet (warbonnet, Cheyenne mȧmaa > ėstse): a Plains Indian ceremonial headdress of golden eagle feathers earned through brave deeds, not a generic Native costume; two main forms, eagle-feathered and split-horned, with NAGPRA repatriation issues.
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.
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.
Warehouse club
Warehouse club (wholesale club, membership warehouse): a members-only retailer selling bulk goods at discount from large no-frills stores. Founded as Price Club, 1976; main US chains Costco, Sam's Club, BJ's; membership fees drive profits.
Wari tapestry weaving
Wari tapestry weaving is the elite textile tradition of the Wari Empire (c. 600–1000 CE), centered near Ayacucho, Peru, and expressed in prestigious tapestry-woven men's tunics.
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.
Warner Bros. Museum
The Warner Bros. Museum, opened 1996 in Burbank, is a 7,000-square-foot exhibit space on the VIP Studio Tour, distinct from the WB Archives and the London Harry Potter tour, displaying costumes, props, Batmobiles, and Oscars.
Warping (weaving)
Warping is the weaving process of measuring, arranging, and mounting the lengthwise yarns, the warp, onto a loom, including beaming, threading the heddles, and sleying the reed.
Washi (和紙)
Washi (和紙) is Japan's traditional paper, made from kōzo, mitsumata, and gampi bark fibers by hand papermaking since around 610; paper from 702 survives in the Shōsōin, and three techniques were inscribed by UNESCO in 2014.
Wassail
Wassail: English midwinter custom, drink, song, and ceremony from the toast 'waes hael' (be in good health). Two forms: orchard wassailing on Old Twelfth Night with cider libations and noise to bless apple trees, and house-to-house wassailing with a communal bowl.
Wassailing
Wassailing is an English midwinter custom of singing to apple trees, pouring cider on their roots, and hanging toast in their branches on Twelfth Night, or of door-to-door singing for food and drink; the word comes from Old English was hal, "be of good health", and the custom has revived strongly since the early 2000s.
Water bottle
Water bottle: a container for drinking water, either a single-use PET package or a durable reusable vessel in plastic, stainless steel, aluminum, or glass; distinguished by LCA showing reuse beats single-use after a payback period, and by FDA and EU packaging regulation.
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.
Weaving
Weaving: interlacing warp and weft yarns on a loom to make cloth. Also called loom or textile weaving. Defined by shedding, picking, and beating in; plain, twill, and satin structures; handloom versus powerloom.
Weaving cooperatives
Weaving cooperatives are member-owned enterprises in which hand-weavers jointly own the business, elect leadership, and share surplus, ranging from village societies of a few dozen women to Indian state federations with over 20,000 members.
Weaving in Goryeo
Weaving in Goryeo was the textile production of the Korean Goryeo dynasty, centered on hemp, ramie, and silk and organized through state artisan offices, temple workshops, and peasant households.
Wedding cake
Wedding cake (also bride cake): decorated cake, usually white-iced and tiered, served at weddings. Traces from Roman cake-breaking customs and English bride pies to Victoria's 1840 tiered plum cake and the modern global standard.
Wedding dress
Wedding dress: the garment a bride wears at her wedding ceremony. Also bridal gown. Defined by the white Western tradition since Queen Victoria's 1840 gown, cultural variants such as red Eastern bridal wear, US average cost of $2,100, and a $65.5 billion bridalwear market.
Wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer
Wedding dress of Lady Diana Spencer: the ivory silk taffeta gown by David and Elizabeth Emanuel, worn 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral, with a record 25-foot train, Queen Mary's Carrickmacross lace, and over 10,000 sequins and pearls.
Wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married July 3, 2026 at Madison Square Garden, announced by Swift's publicist; engaged August 2025. Adam Sandler officiated, Stevie Nicks performed, Dior attire, no photos released.
Wedgwood
Wedgwood (Josiah Wedgwood & Sons), English fine ceramics maker founded 1759 at Burslem by Josiah Wedgwood I; known for Queen's Ware, Black Basalt, and Jasperware; owned by Finland's Fiskars Group since 2015, producing at Barlaston and Indonesia.
Weetabix
Weetabix: British wholegrain wheat breakfast cereal brand, founded 1932 at Burton Latimer by Osbourne and MacFarlane, renamed Weetabix Limited 1936; flagship of Weetabix Food Company, a Post Holdings subsidiary since 2003, and the UK's number one cereal brand.
Wegmans
Wegmans Food Markets, founded 1916 in Rochester, New York, by Walter and John Wegman as the Rochester Fruit & Vegetable Company, is a private family-owned East Coast supermarket chain with 114 stores and over 55,000 employees, known for high satisfaction ratings and Fortune best-workplace honors.
Weighted-knuckle glove
Weighted-knuckle glove, also called sap glove or law enforcement glove: a leather glove with lead or steel shot sewn over the knuckles to add punch force; regulated or banned as a weapon in many jurisdictions.
Weimar culture
Weimar culture: the arts, media, and design of Germany's Weimar Republic, 1918-1933, centered on Berlin; known for the Bauhaus, New Objectivity, Brecht, and film, ended by Nazi cultural control in 1933.