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Works and Days

Works and Days (Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι) is an 828-line didactic poem traditionally ascribed to Hesiod and dated to around 700 BCE, urging his brother Perses toward justice and honest labor.

Works based on the Amityville haunting

Works based on the Amityville haunting: books, films, and TV derived from the 1974 DeFeo murders and the Lutz family's claimed haunting at 112 Ocean Avenue, starting with Jay Anson's 1977 book and the 1979 film, plus dozens of sequels, remakes, and name-only titles.

Works by Jesse Eisenberg

Works by Jesse Eisenberg: filmography and creative output of American actor-filmmaker Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born 1983), known for The Social Network, Zombieland, Lex Luthor, and his writer-director films When You Finish Saving the World and A Real Pain.

Works of Rabindranath Tagore

Works of Rabindranath Tagore (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর): the Bengali polymath's output of nearly 60 verse volumes, 2,265 songs in Gitabitan (Rabindrasangit), 14 novels including Gora and Ghare-Baire, plays, and essays; Gitanjali (1912 English) won the 1913 Nobel Prize.

World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman (聖剣使いの禁呪詠唱〈ワールドブレイク〉)

Seiken Tsukai no World Break (聖剣使いの禁呪詠唱〈ワールドブレイク〉), also titled World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman, is a 22-volume GA Bunko light novel series by Akamitsu Awamura and refeia about dual past-life saviors, adapted into a 2015 Diomedéa anime.

World Breaker

World Breaker (Worldbreaker; Разрушитель миров) is a 2026 sci-fi action horror film by Brad Anderson starring Luke Evans, Billie Boullet, and Milla Jovovich; a father trains his daughter on an island against Breaker monsters after a dimensional tear.

World Central Kitchen

World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 2010 by chef José Andrés after the Haiti earthquake, serving chef-prepared meals in disaster and war zones, including Ukraine and Gaza, where seven workers were killed in April 2024.

World Choir Games

The World Choir Games, also known as the Choir Olympics, are a biennial international choir competition run by Interkultur since 2000, billed as the Olympic Games of choral music.

World cinema

World cinema: film regarded globally rather than through the Hollywood lens, an academic field alongside national cinema, encompassing Third Cinema, transnational production, and 9,628 feature films made worldwide in 2024.

World Cinema Project

The World Cinema Project, founded by Martin Scorsese in 2007 under The Film Foundation, restores and preserves neglected films from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East; 72 films from 34 countries restored, released via Criterion box sets.

World Circuit (record label)

World Circuit is a London-based independent record label specializing in Cuban and West African music, founded in 1986 and known for the Grammy-winning, 8-million-selling Buena Vista Social Club album.

World Clash

World Clash is an international sound system clash competition organized by Irish and Chin from 1998 to 2022, called the "Super Bowl" of sound clash.

World Class Wreckin' Cru

World Class Wreckin' Cru, a Compton electro-hop group formed in 1983 by Alonzo "Lonzo" Williams, featured Dr. Dre and DJ Yella before N.W.A and hit the Hot 100 in 1988 with "Turn Off the Lights".

World Cup (Champions)

World Cup (Champions), also released as Champions (WC 26), is a June 1, 2026 song by streamer IShowSpeed for the 2026 FIFA World Cup; FIFA later added it to the official album, and it became the tournament's unofficial anthem.

World DJ Festival

World DJ Festival (월드 디제이 페스티벌) is an annual electronic dance music festival in South Korea, first staged in 2007 and now held at Seoul Land in Gwacheon.

World Downfall

World Downfall is the debut album by the American grindcore band Terrorizer, released by Earache Records in 1989 and widely regarded as a defining landmark of late-1980s grindcore.

World Enough and Time (Doctor Who)

World Enough and Time is Doctor Who Series 10 Episode 11 (BBC One, 24 June 2017), written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay. On a 400-mile colony ship near a black hole, time dilation lets Bill Potts be converted into a Mondasian Cyberman; John Simm's Master is revealed as Razor.

World Famous Lover (వర్ల్డ్ ఫేమస్ లవర్)

World Famous Lover (వర్ల్డ్ ఫేమస్ లవర్) is a 2020 Telugu romantic drama written and directed by Kranthi Madhav, starring Vijay Deverakonda, Raashi Khanna, Aishwarya Rajesh, Catherine Tresa, and Izabelle Leite; released 14 February 2020, it was a critical and box-office failure.

World Festival of Black Arts

The First World Festival of Negro Arts was a 1966 festival of African and diaspora art held in Dakar, Senegal, initiated by President Léopold Sédar Senghor.

World Food Day

World Food Day, observed 16 October since 1981, was established by FAO Conference Resolution 1/79 in 1979 to mark FAO's 1945 founding and promote action against hunger, with annual themes in about 150 countries.

World Government (世界政府) (One Piece)

World Government (世界政府, Sekai Seifu) is the One Piece fictional union of 170+ nations founded by twenty royal families, headquartered at Mary Geoise, publicly led by the Five Elders but secretly ruled by Imu on the Empty Throne.

World Health Day

World Health Day, observed 7 April since 1950, marks the 1948 founding of the WHO; each year has a theme, such as 2025's maternal health focus and 2026's Stand with science.

World is Mine

"World is Mine" (officially "THE WORLD IS MINE") is a Vocaloid song composed by ryo of supercell and sung by Hatsune Miku, uploaded to Niconico on May 31, 2008.

World Is Yours (ワールドイズユアーズ) (album)

World Is Yours (ワールドイズユアーズ) is the second album by Japanese rock band MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS, released 21 January 2009 on AVOCADO Records (XQEH-1004); six tracks, about 22 minutes, Oricon peak No. 44, now streamed via Universal Music Artists.

World literature

World literature (Weltliteratur) is literature circulating beyond its culture of origin, chiefly in translation, and the field studying that circulation; coined by Goethe in 1827 and redefined by Damrosch in 2003 as a mode of reading, it is debated for Eurocentrism and translation dependence.

World music

World music: a label for non-Western popular and traditional music. Coined by Robert E. Brown at Wesleyan in the early 1960s; adopted as a marketing category by 11 London labels in 1987.

World News (band)

World News are a London four-piece jangly indie rock band formed as Tinman in Brighton in 2018 by brothers Alex and Rory Evans; debut album In Purgatory (2026) on their Pie & Mash label.

World of A Song of Ice and Fire

The World of A Song of Ice and Fire, or Game of Thrones, is the fictional setting for George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series.

World of Art

World of Art (Mir iskusstva) was a St. Petersburg artistic and literary movement of the late 1890s and early 1900s, centered on Alexander Benois and Sergei Diaghilev.

World of Dance (TV series)

World of Dance was an NBC dance competition series (2017-2020), the TV version of the World of Dance live brand, judged by Jennifer Lopez, Derek Hough, and NE-YO, with a $1 million prize, five-round format, and 100-point scoring; canceled after four seasons with MDC 3 as final champion.