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Wealth and religion
Wealth and religion: the reciprocal link between economic conditions and religiosity. Wealthier countries score lower on prayer, attendance, and religion's importance (correlation about -0.80); income gains causally reduce attendance, while religious affiliation and belief shape wealth accumulation.
Web survey
A web survey is a self-administered questionnaire completed in an internet browser with no interviewer, emerging in the mid-1990s and becoming the dominant survey mode by the mid-2010s.
Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence
The Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI) is a brief standardized test estimating intellectual functioning in ages 6 to 90, in about 15 to 30 minutes.
Wechsler Memory Scale
The Wechsler Memory Scale is a battery of subtests measuring memory in adults, in clinical use since 1940 and currently in its fifth edition, published in 2025.
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) is an intelligence test for children aged 2:6 to 7:7, created by David Wechsler in 1967.
Wedding anniversary
Wedding anniversary: the annual celebration of a wedding, with traditional gift materials such as paper (1st), silver (25th), gold (50th), and diamond (60th/75th); custom traces to 18th-century Germany and was standardized commercially in the US from 1922.
Wedding customs by country
Wedding customs by country: cross-cultural marriage practices including bride wealth and dowry, Chinese Six Rites, Punjabi-Chinese ritual homologies, Greek diaspora weddings, same-sex marriage legalization, and the destination wedding industry.
Wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant
The 2024 wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant: Hindu-Gujarati ceremonies at Mumbai's Jio World Convention Centre, July 12–14, after a Jamnagar pre-wedding; cost estimates disputed from $132 million to over $600 million.
Wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, and Lauren Sánchez, a former television journalist, married on June 27, 2025, in a Venice ceremony that drew roughly 200 guests and protests.
Wedding of Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Jetsun Pema
The 13 October 2011 Buddhist royal wedding of Bhutan's Fifth King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Jetsun Pema at Punakha Dzong, with Je Khenpo-led rites, the Dar Na Nga, Golden Bumpa offering, and her crowning as Druk Gyal-tsuen (Queen).
Wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles
The wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles took place at Windsor Guildhall on 9 April 2005, followed by a blessing at St George's Chapel.
Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
The 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, held 29 July at St Paul's Cathedral, drew 750 million TV viewers, the Emanuel 25-foot-train gown, and the 'wedding of the century' label.
Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson
Wedding of Prince Edward and Wallis Simpson: the private civil marriage on 3 June 1937 at Château de Candé, France, between the abdicated Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, and Wallis Warfield, held with about 16 guests and no royals present.
Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, also the marriage creating the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, was held 19 May 2018 at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, drawing nearly 18 million UK and over 29 million US viewers.
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
Marriage of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton, 29 April 2011, 11 a.m., Westminster Abbey, London. About 1,900 guests, Sarah Burton dress, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, up to 2 billion viewers.
Wedding reception
Wedding reception: the party held after a marriage ceremony, also called a wedding party or walima in Islamic tradition. Typically the largest wedding expense, averaging 116 US guests, now often part of multiday celebrations.
Wedding ring
Wedding ring: a metal band exchanged to mark marriage, rooted in Roman custom. Key facts: Roman silver/gold gendered rings, Byzantine OMONOIA rings, 1940s double-ring marketing, USD 106.6 billion 2026 market.
Weddings in India
Weddings in India, also called shaadi or vivah, are multi-day religious and regional marriage ceremonies governed by separate personal-law acts, with about 90% arranged, a ₹6.5 lakh crore wedding economy, and strong caste and religious endogamy.
Week
The week is a seven-day time cycle standing between day and month. It derives from Babylonian lunar divisions and the planetary week, was standardized in Rome and adopted by Constantine in 321 CE, and is numbered today under ISO 8601 (Monday first, 52 or 53 weeks).
Weinstein effect
Weinstein effect: wave of sexual misconduct accusations, dismissals, and legal action following the October 2017 Harvey Weinstein exposés and viral #MeToo movement, distinct from Tarana Burke's earlier 2006 Me Too campaign.
Well-being
Well-being is a person's overall experience of how life is going, spanning hedonic mood, eudaimonic meaning, and objective conditions; measured via tools like the WHO-5 and OECD's 11-dimension framework.
Welsh people
Welsh people are the people of Wales, UK; in Census 2021 55.2% had a Welsh-only identity, 17.8% spoke Welsh, 93.8% were White, and identity is shaped by the Welsh language, St David's Day, eisteddfodau, rugby, and a diaspora with hiraeth.
Wembley Point Woman
Wembley Point Woman is an unidentified black woman, aged 20-40, who fell from the 21st floor of Wembley Point tower, London, on 29 October 2004, leaving a bus pass, £5.20 and an oil painting; still unidentified.
Wendat people
Wendat (Huron, Huron-Wendat, Ouendat), an Iroquoian-speaking people of south-central Ontario at early 17th century contact; horticultural-hunting villages, ossuary burials, French alliances, epidemics; today the Huron-Wendat Nation at Wendake, Quebec.
Wendy Mitchell (activist)
Wendy Mitchell (1956-2024), English dementia activist diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer's and vascular dementia at 58, author of Somebody I Used to Know and two further bestsellers, NHS worker, blogger, and assisted-dying advocate.
Werner Erhard
Werner Erhard, also known as John Paul Rosenberg, was an American businessman who developed est Training. He created the experiential philosophy in San Francisco in 1971.
Werner Goldberg
Werner Goldberg, a German Mischling of half-Jewish ancestry, served briefly as a Wehrmacht private in World War II; his 1939 Berliner Tageblatt photo as "The Ideal German Soldier" was used in recruitment posters before his discharge.
West African migration to the Canary Islands
West African migration to the Canary Islands is the sea route from West African coasts to Spain, one of the longest and deadliest irregular migration journeys to Europe.
West Slavs
West Slavs: western branch of the Slavic peoples in east-central Europe, ancestors of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Sorbs, and extinct Polabian and Pomeranian groups; Lechitic and Czech-Slovak language groups, settled from the sixth century.
Westboro Baptist Church
Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an unaffiliated Topeka, Kansas congregation founded by Fred Phelps in 1955, is an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group known for picketing military funerals, its Snyder v. Phelps Supreme Court win, and its post-2014 decline to 60-70 members.