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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Watermelon Pictures

Watermelon Pictures is a Chicago-based American film production and distribution company founded in April 2024 by Palestinian-American brothers Hamza and Badie Ali, a unit of MPI Media Group, releasing Palestinian and marginalized-community films and running the Watermelon+ streaming service.

Watermelon Sugar

"Watermelon Sugar" is a song by English singer Harry Styles from his 2019 album Fine Line, re-released as a single in 2020 and winner of the 2021 Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance.

Waterpark Simulator

Waterpark Simulator is a first-person waterpark management simulation by CayPlay, in Steam Early Access from 22 August 2025 and released 31 July 2026 on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with co-op, ragdoll physics, and 96% positive Steam reviews; distinct from Waterpark Simulator 2025 by Aldi Pratama.

Waterparks (band)

Waterparks (Parx) is an American pop-rock trio from Houston, Texas, formed in 2011: Awsten Knight, Geoff Wigington, Otto Wood. Six albums from Double Dare (2016) to JINX (2026), genre-hopping pop-punk with charting Billboard albums.

Watership Down

Watership Down, Richard Adams's 1972 novel of rabbits fleeing their destroyed warren for a Hampshire hill, won the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Award, sold over 50 million copies, and inspired the 1978 Martin Rosen film, 1999 TV series, and 2018 BBC/Netflix miniseries.

Watership Down (film)

Watership Down (1978 film), Martin Rosen's British animated adaptation of Richard Adams' 1972 novel; 92 minutes, John Hurt as Hazel, "Bright Eyes" a 1979 UK No. 1, BFI 4K restoration released 2024.

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.

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.

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.

Watto

Watto is the Toydarian junk dealer and slave owner in Mos Espa, Tatooine, in Star Wars Episodes I and II, voiced by Andrew Secombe; he lost Anakin Skywalker to Qui-Gon Jinn in the Boonta Eve podrace bet and was later killed by Darth Vader in the Legacy of Vader comic.

Watts Towers

Watts Towers, also called Nuestro Pueblo or the Towers of Simon Rodia, are 17 interconnected folk-art sculptures in Watts, Los Angeles, built alone by Italian immigrant Sabato Rodia from 1921 to 1954, tallest 99.5 feet, now a National Historic Landmark.

Wattstax

Wattstax: 1973 Mel Stuart documentary of the August 20, 1972 Stax Records benefit concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the 'Black Woodstock' with 100,000-plus attendees, Jesse Jackson's 'I Am Somebody' speech, and Richard Pryor.

Wave Makers (人选之人-造浪者)

Wave Makers (人選之人—造浪者) is a 2023 eight-episode Taiwanese political workplace drama on Netflix by DaMou Entertainment and PTS, following fictional campaign staffers; it won four Golden Bell Awards and helped spark Taiwan's #MeToo movement.

Wave to Earth

Wave to Earth (웨이브투어스) is a three-piece South Korean indie rock band from Seoul, formed in 2019, best known for the viral 2020 song "seasons" and over a billion streams.

Wave-Gotik-Treffen

The Wave-Gotik-Treffen (WGT) is the world's largest gothic/black-scene festival, held each Pentecost weekend since 1992 at about 50 venues across Leipzig, drawing roughly 20,000 visitors and including the Victorian Picnic and medieval markets.

Waverley

Waverley is an 1814 novel by Sir Walter Scott following a young Englishman's involvement in the Jacobite rising of 1745, generally regarded as the first historical novel in English.

Waves (2019 film)

Waves (2019) is an American drama written and directed by Trey Edward Shults, released by A24 on November 15, 2019. It stars Kelvin Harrison Jr., Sterling K. Brown, and Taylor Russell as a South Florida family facing loss; scored by Reznor and Ross.

Waves at Matsushima

Waves at Matsushima (松島図屏風) is a pair of six-panel folding screens painted by Tawaraya Sōtatsu in the 17th century, now held by the Freer Gallery of Art.

Wavin' Flag

Wavin' Flag: 2009 song by Somali-Canadian rapper K'naan from the album Troubadour, written with Bruno Mars, Philip Lawrence and Jean Daval; reworked as the Coca-Cola Celebration Mix anthem of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and a Haitian charity single.

Wavves

Wavves (also styled Wavvves for the 2009 album) is a San Diego rock band formed in 2008 by Nathan Williams, known for lo-fi surf punk, the Fat Possum albums Wavvves and King of the Beach, and later records through Ghost Ramp.