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The Watson Twins The Watson Twins are an American musical group based in Los Angeles with country and folk influences. Named for identical twin sisters Chandra and Leigh Watson, the band includes contributions from Aram Arslanian, Russ Pollard, Jason Soda, and Jenny Lewis.
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 is a 1995 book written by Christopher Paul Curtis about an African American family living in Flint, Michigan who go to their relative's home in Birmingham in the year 1963, hence the title. The book was Curtis' first novel, and received a Newbery Honor.
The Watts Prophets The Watts Prophets are a group of musicians and poets from Watts, Los Angeles, California. Like their contemporaries, The Last Poets, the group combined elements of jazz music and spoken word performance, making the trio one that is often seen as a forerunner of contemporary Hip hop music.
The Wave (book) The Wave is a young adult novel by Todd Strasser (under the pen name "Morton Rhue"). It is a fictionalized account of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in a Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California.
The Waverly School The Waverly School (often called simply Waverly) is a small, alternative, private school in Pasadena, California. The school has two buildings, one of which houses young kindergarten through eighth grade, and one of which contains ninth through twelfth grades.
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Co. The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Co. was established as a farmers' mutual insurance carrier in 1896 in Wawanesa Manitoba under the laws of Canada and was subsequently incorporated by an Act of Parliament on May 1, 1929.
The Way (Church) The Way (道会, Michikai) is an indigenous Japanese "church" movement that was founded by Matsumura Kaiseki in 1907. Matsumura originally called his movement the One Heart Association, but in 1907 renamed it the Church of Japan and rented quarters to hold regular meetings.
The Way Ahead The Way Ahead is a British Second World War drama released in 1944. It stars David Niven and Stanley Holloway, and follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army to fight in North Africa.
The Way It Is (Snowy White album) The Way It Is is the comeback album by blues guitarrist Snowy White, featuring his band, The White Flames, with two new 2004 members: Max Middleton & Richard Bailey, released in 2005 by his Record Company: White Flames Records. It was recorded between 2001 & 2005, featuring early White Flames drummer Juan Van Emmerloot and keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick, .
The Way of a Man with a Maid The Way of a Man with a Maid by 'Anon' is a classic work of Victorian erotica. The story concerns the forcible seduction of a girl called Alice by a Victorian gentleman called Jack, who has converted one of the rooms in his house into a kind of erotic torture chamber:called 'the Snuggery'.
The Way of a Pilgrim The Way of a Pilgrim is the English title of an 19th century anonymous Russian work, detailing the narrator's journey across the country while discovering practicing the Jesus Prayer devoutly, with the help of a prayer rope, and studying the Philokalia.
The Way of All Flesh (film) The Way of All Flesh is a 1927 film that was written by Lajos BirĂł, Jules Furthman, Julian Johnson and Ernest Maas from a story by Perley Poore Sheehan. The film was directed by Victor Fleming and is unrelated to Butler's novel The Way of All Flesh.
The Way of the Exploding Fist The Way of the Exploding Fist is a beat 'em up for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and Commodore 16. It was released in 1985 and was one of the first games to include realistic graphics and movements.
The Way of the Master The Way of the Master is a Christian evangelism training ministry, created in 2002 and headed by Kirk Cameron and evangelist Ray Comfort, though there are several other key figures within the organization. Key aspects include a TV show, radio broadcast, numerous books, online school, small group training courses, and Web site of the same name.
The Way of the Master Television Show The Way of the Master television show is one of the media ministries of The Way of the Master, an evangelical Christian organization. First debuted in December 2003, it is hosted by evangelist and author Ray Comfort, alongside actor Kirk Cameron.
The Way of the Master Training Courses Beginning in March 2006, the ministry of The Way of the Master released three series of training courses for small groups, Sunday school classes, and churches to train Christians in their concept of "Biblical Evangelism". The video portions include clips from selected episodes of The Way of the Master television show.
The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Orczy, is another sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. First published in 1933, it is 6th in the series and one of the shorter Scarlet Pimpernel books.
The Way of the Warrior "The Way of the Warrior" is a feature-length episode of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It is the season premiere of the fourth season and marks the arrival of Worf as a permanent crew member aboard Deep Space Nine.
The Way Of All Flesh (band) The Way Of All Flesh is a gothic rock band based in Sheffield, England, originally formed in the mid 1990s. The original lineup consisted of Steve Jackson (Lead Guitars), Kathryn Rennie (Keys), Jasper Fisher (Bass) and Dave Redford (Rhythm Guitars) all students at the University of Sheffield and was completed with the addition of Simon Clifton (Vocals).
The Way Out: The Gay Man’s Guide to Freedom, No Matter if You’re in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out, or Been Around the Block The Way Out: The Gay Man’s Guide to Freedom, No Matter if You’re in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out, or Been Around the Block (HCI Press, May 2006, ISBN 0-7573- 0392-7) is the first work of "self realization" – aka spirituality – that speaks directly to gay men. It is written by a New York journalist named Christopher Lee Nutter.
The Way Recording Studio London The Way Recording Studio, London, is a high-end London based recording studio that has in its ranks a most rare vintage custom Neve 8078 40-channel deck. The console was originally hand-built by Neve in 1978 for CBS Sony's main studio in Japan.
The Way the World is The Way the World is: Christian Perspective of a Scientist is a book first published in 1983 by the Rev Dr John Polkinghorne, who was a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. It has sold over a million copies (including a second edition in 1992), although was superseded to a degree by The Faith of a Physicist published in 1994.
The Way to Eden "The Way to Eden" is a third season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, and was broadcast February 21, 1969. It is episode #75, production #75, written by Arthur Heinemann, based on a story by Arthur Heinemann and Michael Richards, and directed by David Alexander.
The Way to Happiness The Way to Happiness Foundation International is a Scientology-related non-profit corporation founded in 1984. Headquartered at at 201 East Broadway, Glendale, California, it coordinates the activities of the The Way to Happiness international network, including continental and national officies, associates and local groups.
The Way to Wealth "The Way to Wealth" is an essay written by Benjamin Franklin in 1757. It is a collection of adages and advice presented in Poor Richard's Almanac during its first 25 years of publication, organized into a speech given by "Father Abraham" to a group of people.
The Way Things Work (album) The Way Things Work is the debut album by American improvisational band Unknown Instructors, featuring Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges, Dos, Banyan), George Hurley (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Red Krayola), Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of), Jack Brewer (Saccharine Trust), and poet Dan McGuire.
The Way To A Girls Heart Is Through Her Boyfriends Stomach The Way To A Girls Heart Is Through Her Boyfriends Stomach is the first full length CD from the Massachusetts based technical punk / rock / melodic hardcore band A Wilhelm Scream before they changed their name from Smackin' Isaiah. This album is the follow up to their split CD release that they did along with Moronique and Merrick entitled 6:6:6.
The Way We Live Now (short story) The Way We Live Now is a short story by Susan Sontag which was published to great acclaim on November 26, 1986 in The New Yorker. The story describes the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s, as the disease began to claim members of the New York cultural elite.
The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR's Fresh Air The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR's Fresh Air is a collection of essays by Geoffrey Nunberg about the effect of language on contemporary culture. Most of the essays are based on segments from the NPR radio program Fresh Air.
The Way We Were The Way We Were is a 1973 film which tells the story of an intense Jewish woman who marries a carefree WASP following World War II. Fundamental differences in the way they engage the world – as revealed in their responses to the rise of McCarthyism – eventually pull them apart.
The Way We Were (song) "The Way We Were" is the title song to the 1973 movie The Way We Were, starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. The song was written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman; and scored by Marvin Hamlisch.
The Way You Are 'The Way You Are' was recorded by Agnetha and Ola HĂĄkansson from Secret Service in 1986 to promote Sweden as a candidate for the Olympic Winter Games in Falun in 1992. However, Falun didnot get the Games but the song became a big hit in Sweden.
The Way You Do the Things You Do "The Way You Do the Things You Do" is a 1964 hit single by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers, the single was The Temptations' first charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking in the Top 20 at number 11.
The Way You Love Me (Karyn White song) "The Way You Love Me" was the first single from R&B singer Karyn White's self-titled debut album. Reaching the #7 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, it was one of her biggest hits.
The Wayfaring Stranger (1944 Burl Ives album) The Wayfaring Stranger (Asch 345) is an album consisting of three 10-inch records by Burl Ives. It was released in 1944, but it should not be confused with The Wayfaring Stranger (Columbia C-103), which was also released in 1944 but contains different songs.
The Wayne Brady Show The Wayne Brady Show was a variety show hosted by Wayne Brady that originally ran from August 8 2001 to March 11 2002 on ABC. Due to cancellation and low ratings, the show was eventually picked up for syndication and it changed to a talk show format.
The Wayne Review First published in Spring, 2004, The Wayne Review is a student-run newspaper at Wayne State University that is a response to the liberal bias in the university-sponsored paper, The South End. Funded independently through private donations and advertising, it is distributed monthly and has a growing circulation.
The Wayside Folk Museum The Wayside Folk Museum is a small private museum situated in Zennor, Cornwall, UK. The exhibition within the museum concentrates on the past lives, traditions and practices of the people of Zennor and Penwith.
The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth The Wayward Sons of Mother Earth is the first album by British folk metal group Skyclad, and is thus probably the first ever folk metal album, with the track "The Widdershins Jig" in particular pointing the way for the genre.
The WB 100+ Station Group The WB 100+ Station Group was a group of primarily non-broadcast local cable television outlets for The WB Television Network, for markets below the top 100 television media markets in the United States. Dayparts with no WB programming were programmed by the network.
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (ISBN 0-393-04017-8), published in 1998 (with an epliogue added to the 1999 paperback edition), is a book by David Landes, currently Emeritus Professor of Economics and former Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard University. In it, Landes attempts to explain the 'European Miracle', or why European societies experienced a period of explosive growth when the rest of the world did not.
The Wealth of Nations An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, published on March 9,1776 during the Scottish Enlightenment. It is a clearly written account of political economy at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and is widely considered to be the first modern work in the field of economics.
The Wearing of the Green "The Wearing of the Green" is an anonymous Irish street ballad dating to 1798. It was not, in fact, written by Dion Boucicault (1822-1890), despite many assertions to this effect, as he was not born for another 24 years.
The Wearing of the Grin The Wearing of the Grin is a Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese where Porky Pig spends a night in a castle inhabited by leprechauns. It was released theatrically on July 14, 1951.
The Weasels The Weasels are a rock band based in Albany], [[New York. The group has been active in either studio or live incarnations since the mid-1980s and includes three long-standing core members: Doctor Fun (vocals, saxophones, keyboards, Onoyodel), Roy Weasell (electric and acoustic guitars, vocals, keyboards, trombone, roto-vibe, mandolin) and Chris Graf (keyboards, vocals, bass guitar, samples, E-flat horn, trumpet, musique concrete, gadgets).
The Weather Company The Weather Company is the main provider of weather services to Australian television stations and weather-related websites. It specializes in converting data from the Bureau of Meteorology into more user-friendly formats.
The Weather Channel The Weather Channel (TWC) is a cable and satellite television network that broadcasts weather and weather-related news 24 hours a day. The Weather Channel is headquartered in Cumberland, a district of Atlanta.
The Weather Underground The Weather Underground is a 2002 documentary film based on the rise and fall of the American radical organization The Weathermen. The group's goal was to "bring the [Vietnam] War home" through acts of domestic terrorism.
The Weathermen (Hip-Hop group, bros' for life) The Weathermen (Hip-Hop group, bros' for life), an underground hip-hop supergroup consisting of Aesop Rock, Tame One, Breeze Brewin, El-P, Cage, Copywrite, Vast Aire, Jakki Tha Mota Mouth, Camu Tao and Yak Ballz took their name from the revolutionary organization, and sometimes refer to themselves as the New Left.
The Weavers The Weavers were an immensely popular and influential folk music quartet from Greenwich Village, New York, United States. They sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, folk, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs.
The Web of Fear The Web of Fear is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February 3 to March 9, 1968. This serial marked the return of the Yeti and is the sequel to The Abominable Snowmen (1967).
The Weber Group The Weber Group was a PR agency specialising in servicing the technology sector, founded by Laurence 'Larry' Weber in 1987 in Cambridge, Mass. By the late 1990s the company had offices in Palo Alto Ca, Cambridge Mass and a European office in Covent Garden London founded by Greg Levendusky.
The Wedding The Wedding is a romance novel written by American writer Danielle Steele and published in April of 2000. Set in Los Angeles, against a star-studded backdrop, it follows a busy career woman as she meets the man of her dreams, falls in love and plans her wedding.
The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle is one of several versions of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages; an earlier version appears as "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales,The Canterbury Tales, pp. 258–292.
The Wedding Planner The Wedding Planner is a romantic comedy released in 2001 starring Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey. Lopez plays a wedding planner, Maria 'Mary' Fiore, who is too consumed with planning others' events to worry about her personal life until her life is saved by Dr.
The Wedding Present The Wedding Present is a rock group based in Leeds, England, that was formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. Their music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four, to more varied forms.
The Wedding Singer The Wedding Singer is a 1998 romantic comedy film written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Frank Coraci that stars Adam Sandler as Robbie Hart, a wedding singer, and Drew Barrymore as Julia Sullivan, the object of his affections.
The Wedding Singer (musical) The Wedding Singer is a Broadway musical based upon the film The Wedding Singer, written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Frank Coraci. The musical opened on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on April 27, 2006 and closed on December 31, 2006.
The Wedge (border) The Wedge (or Delaware Wedge) is the portion of the border between Delaware and Pennsylvania, between the Twelve-Mile Circle and the intersection of the north-south and east-west portions of the Mason-Dixon Line. Ownership of this land was in dispute until 1921, when Delaware's ownership was confirmed by Pennsylvania.
The Wedge (Canadian TV show) The Wedge is the title of an hour-long, weekly indie music program airing Fridays at 11:30 PM on Canadian music TV station MuchMusic. The program, which debuted in 1992 as a daily series, was originally hosted by Simon Evans.
The Wedge (surfing) The Wedge is a world-famous surfing, bodyboarding and bodysurfing spot located at the extreme south end of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California. When supplied with a south swell of the proper size and direction, it can produce shore break waves as spectacular and intimidating as any in Hawaii, Tahiti, or Australia.
The Wednesday Play The Wednesday Play was a British television drama anthology series, which ran on BBC1 from 1964 to 1970. Every week a different play, usually written directly for television although adaptations from other sources were not uncommon, would be presented.
The Wee Cock Sparra A Scottish ditty, of traditional origin, that was made legendary by the actor Duncan MacRae. He performed it ("sang it" doesn't quite capture the essence) and enchanted the nation, on a BBC Hogmanay broadcast of "The White Heather Club" show at some time in the late 1950s:
The Week The Week is the name taken by three weekly newsmagazines founded in the United Kingdom. All three iterations of the magazine were noted for a witty, trenchant and political review of events, and employed an approach that summarizes and contextualizes news and opinion writing from other publications.
The Weekend Economist The Weekend Economist is an interactive web space aimed at being both a source of information and a place for discussion on developing stories related to Economics, Business, Finance, Technology and Geopolitics.
The Weekend Web The Weekend Web is a weekly feature on the popular internet website Something Awful that occurs on Sundays. It features websites, which are usually user forums that have been selected due to their awfulness, which is at the standard where people can laugh at them with no need to supply actual jokes, but captions are added before screenshots to add to the humor.
The Weekly Maqam In Sephardic Middle Eastern Jewish prayer services, each Shabbat the congregation conducts services using a different maqam. A maqam (مقام), which in Arabic literally means 'place', is a standard melody type and set of related tunes.
The Weekly Observer The Weekly Observer is a national newspaper in Uganda. The paper was first published on 25 March 2004, and has established itself as an informed and daring newspaper, breaking and publishing stories that other media in Uganda will not cover.
The Weekly Week The Weekly Week was a short-lived satirical tabloid newspaper published bi-weekly in the Boston area from Fall 1997 to Spring 1999, with a free circulation of 25,000. Billing itself "Boston's Only Redundant News Source for News" and publishing contributions from numerous local stand-up comedians of the time, it parodied a wide range of social, political and cultural topics in much the same manner as the better known publication The Onion, but with a predominantly local focus.
The Weinstein Company The Weinstein Company is an independent American film studio founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein in 2005 after the pair left the Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979. The Dimension Films label of Miramax followed the brothers to their new company.
The Weird Lovemakers The Weird Lovemakers were a punk band based in Tucson, Arizona from 1994 to 2000. Since their breakup, Willis and Schumacher have continued playing together in The Knockout Pills, while Petix formed The Cuntifiers.
The Weirdness The Weirdness is the fourth studio album - and first formal non-live release since 1973's Raw Power - by influental protopunk band The Stooges, featuring founding members Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, and Scott Asheton along with new bassist Mike Watt (Minutemen/fIREHOSE) and Fun House saxophonist Steve MacKay. It is set for a March 20, 2007 release.
The Weirdos The Weirdos were a punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band was fronted by John Denney with his brother Dix on guitar, bassist Dave Trout, drummer Nickey "Beat" Alexander and another guitarist Cliff Roman.
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is a fantasy story by the author Alan Garner, first published in 1960. It is set in and around Macclesfield and Alderley Edge, Cheshire, and tells the story of two children, Colin and Susan, who are staying there whilst their parents are overseas.
The Welding Institute The Welding Institute, sometimes known as TWI or World Centre for Materials Joining Technology, is a nonprofit distributing independent research and technology organization based near Cambridge, UK. It conducts research on technologies for joining materials, such as welding, brazing and adhesive bonding through its trading arm TWI Ltd.
The Well at the World's End The Well at the World's End is a fantasy book by British artist and author William Morris, published in 1896 and reprinted a number of times since, most notably in two volumes as part of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August and September 1970.
The Well of Loneliness The Well of Loneliness is a 1928 lesbian novel by the English author Radclyffe Hall. It follows the life of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family whose "sexual inversion" (that is, homosexuality) is apparent from an early age.
The Well of Lost Plots The Well of Lost Plots is the third book by Jasper Fforde and the continuation of the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next from The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book. Published in 2003, the book is set entirely within the jurisdiction of JurisFiction, the police force of fiction.
The Well of the World's End The Well of the World's End is a Scottish fairy tale, from the Lowlands, collected by Joseph Jacobs in English Fairy Tales. His source was The Complaynt of Scotland, and he notes that the tale's similarity to the German Frog Prince.
The Well-Mannered War The Well-Mannered War is a Virgin Missing Adventures original novel written by Gareth Roberts based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K-9.
The Well-Tempered Critic (Davies) The Well-Tempered Critic: One man's view of the theatre and letters in Canada is a collection of essays by Canadian novelist and journalist Robertson Davies. The collection was edited by Judith Skelton Grant and published by McClelland and Stewart in 1981.
The Wendell Baker Story The Wendell Baker Story is the first movie directed by actor Luke Wilson and his eldest brother Andrew Wilson, which premiered at the 2005 South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas in March, 2005. The film stars Luke Wilson, who also wrote the screenplay, as an ex-con working in a retirement home, and Luke's other brother, actor Owen Wilson as the home's head nurse.
The Wenlock Arms The Wenlock Arms is a public house in London which reopened on Friday 14 January 1994. The pub is located half way between Old Street and Angel Islington just off the City Road and the City Road Basin and Wenlock Basin on the Regent's Canal.
The Wenvoe Arms The Wenvoe Arms is a small village pub in Wenvoe (near Cardiff in South Wales, UK). Dating back to the late eighteenth century, the pub has been a focal point of the village for many years (although it was bought by S A Brain sometime in the mid 1980s, which was viewed at the time as the final step in the corporatization of Wales' small rural communities) - from its days as a tight-knit farming community, through the population explosion in the 1960s (due to both government and private property development) to the present day.
The West Australian The West Australian (often simply called The West) is Perth's only locally edited daily newspaper, and is owned by ASX-listed West Australian Newspapers Limited. The second-oldest continuously produced newspaper in Australia, it has been published since 1833.
The West Wind The West Wind is Cranston High School West's award-winning, student-produced newspaper. It features 8 issues per school year, one for each month, though September and October are combined into one issue, as well as May and June.
The Westcoast Reader The Westcoast Reader is an award-winning literacy newspaper for beginning adult readers in British Columbia, Canada. Its purpose is to help English as a second language (ESL) and adult literacy learners develop reading skills, while providing interesting and relevant information with an adult focus.
The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism is the Protestant Christian church (a combination of Presbyterianism and Lutheranism) attended by the Simpson family on the animated American television program The Simpsons. The only known congregation is the First Church of Springfield, which most Springfielders attend.
The Western Star The Western Star is Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper and second oldest of any sort after the daily Chillicothe Gazette. It is published Thursdays at Lebanon, the seat of Warren County, by Cox Enterprises, the communications company founded by former Ohio Governor James Middleton Cox.
The Western State Hurricanes While attending classes at the University of Washington, and performing with his little-known band the Bun Family Players, John Roderick had the opportunity to network with fellow musicians in other Seattle-local bands, such as This Busy Monster and Harvey Danger. At the penultimate Bun Family Players show, John met Algae front-woman and guitarist Stephanie Wicker.
The Westfield Group The Westfield Group is a multinational company that owns shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Westfield shopping centres are typically branded with the name Westfield or Westfield Shoppingtown in their name.
The Westland School (Los Angeles) The Westland School is an independent private coeducational nonsectarian elementary day school located in the Bel-Air community of Los Angeles, California, serving students from kindergarten through sixth grade. The school is located on Mulholland Drive across from the Bel Air Presbyterian Church.
The Wetlands Institute The Wetlands Institute is a non-profit organization started in 1969 by WWF executive director Herbert Mills. The Wetlands Institute sits on 6,000 acres (24 km²) of protected wetlands in Stone Harbor, New Jersey.
The Wharf (Holdings) The Wharf (Holdings) Limited (九龍倉集團), or Wharf (九倉) in short, () is a company founded in 1886 in Hong Kong. As its name suggests, the company's original business was in running wharfage and dockside warehousing, and it was known as The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited and renamed to the current title in 1986.
The Whartons Studio The Whartons, Incorporated was an early silent film production company operating in the small town of Ithaca, New York from 1914 to 1919. The Ithaca Studio was established by brothers Theodore and Leopold Wharton on the shores of Cayuga Lake, at the site of what is now Stewart Park.
The Wheal/Keelhauler The Wheal/Keelhauler was a 7" vinyl single by Coil originally packaged along with initial copies of the first pressing of Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders. In 1996, 23 signed and numbered copies were sold through rec.
The Wheat Committee The Wheat Committee, an American study group on the establishment of accounting principles, was brought into being in 1971 in order to examine the operation of the Accounting Principles Board (APB). It was headed by Francis Wheat.
The Wheat Field The Wheat Field is a series of oil paintings executed on size 30 canvases in Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence by Vincent van Gogh. All of them depict the view Van Gogh had from the window of his bedroom on the top floor of the asylum: a field enclosed by stone walls just beneath his window and excluded from normal life by the rear wall of the asylum grounds; beyond this enclosure farm land, accompanied by olive groves and vineyards, ran up to the hills at the foot of the mountain range called Les Alpilles.
The Wheatley School The Wheatley School is a public high school serving grades 8 through 12 located in Old Westbury, Long Island, New York. The school district encompasses all of East Williston and parts of Mineola, Albertson, Williston Park, and Roslyn Heights in its district.
The Wheel in Space The Wheel in Space is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from April 27 to June 1, 1968. This serial is the first appearance of Wendy Padbury as the companion Zoe Heriot.

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