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Wabash Heritage Trail The Wabash Heritage Trail is a hiking trail running from Fort Ouiatenon to the Tippecanoe Battlefield Park in Battle Ground, Indiana. It is approximately 13 miles long and passes along the cities of West Lafayette and Lafayette, Indiana.
Wabash National Wabash National is one of the largest manufacturers of semi-truck trailers in the world. Founded only in 1985, the company experienced explosive growth during the 1990s, and now manufactures more than 50 thousand units per year, with over one billion dollars in sales.
Wabash Railroad The Wabash Railroad was a Class I railroad that operated in the mid-central United States. It served a large area, including trackage in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri and Ontario.
Wabash River The Wabash River is a 475 mi (765 km) long river in the eastern United States that flows southwest from northwest Ohio near St. Henry, Ohio across northern Indiana to Illinois where it forms the southern Illinois-Indiana border before draining into the Ohio River, of which it is the largest northern tributary.
Wabasha Street Caves The Wabasha Street Caves is an event hall built into the sandstone caves located on the south shore of the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. The caves have been home to mobsters, speakeasies and, today, a popular "Swing Night" on Thursday nights with live big-band music.
Wabi-cha Wabi-cha (わび茶、侘茶、侘び茶）is a style of Japanese tea ceremony particularly associated with Sen no Rikyu and Takeno Jōō that emphasises simplicity. The term came into use in the Edo era, prior to which it was known as wabi-suki (侘数寄).
Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador Wabush is a small town in the western tip of Labrador, known for transportation and iron ore operations for over three decades (1967 to 2006). Wabush is the twin city of Labrador City and at its height, the region boasted a population of just over 22,000 (late-1970s).
Waccamaw Neck The Waccamaw Neck is a long narrow peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the Waccamaw River in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The town of Pawleys Island is located on the Waccamaw Neck, as well as the mainland area, also called Pawleys Island, which is unincorporated.
Waccamaw River The Waccamaw River is a river, approximately 140 miles (225 km) long, in southeastern North Carolina and eastern South Carolina in the United States. It drains an area of approximately 1110 square miles (2886 km²) in the coastal plain along the eastern border between the two states into the Atlantic Ocean.
Waccamaw Siouan Waccamaw Siouan Indians are one of eight state recognized Native American tribal nations in North Carolina. Located predominantly in the southeastern North Carolina counties of Bladen and Columbus, in the communities of St.
Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park is a 30,784 acre salt marsh that stretches from Cedar Key and Yankee Town, and is only accessible by boat. Some access points are from County Road 40 in Yankee Town, County Road 326 in Gulf Hammock, and Cedar Key.
Wacdaan Wacdaan or Wacdaan Cismaan is a Somali Clan that is member of the Hawiye, that inhabits Lower Shabelle and Banaadir regions of Somalia. In the past the Wacdaan clan was one of the most powerful clan in southern Somalia.
Wacken (town) Wacken is a small town (population 1,750) near the city of Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Wacken was first mentioned in 1148, but there were probably some settlements before, which is proven by the trove of Germanic artefacts.
Wackenhut The Wackenhut Corporation is a United States-based private security and investigation firm, and is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Wackenhut was founded in 1954, in Coral Gables, Florida, by George Wackenhut and three partners, all former FBI agents.
Wacker Drive Wacker Drive is a major street in Chicago, Illinois, United States, running along the downtown side of the Chicago River. The vast majority of it is double-decked; the upper level is intended for local traffic, and the lower level for through traffic and trucks servicing buildings on the road (and originally a dock).
Wacker process The Wacker process or the Hoechst-Wacker process (named after the chemical companies of the same name) originally referred to the oxidation of ethylene to acetaldehyde by oxygen in water in the presence of a palladium tetrachloride catalyst Translated in part from :de:Wacker-Verfahren.. The same basic reaction is currently used to produce aldehydes and ketones from a number of alkenes.
WackoWiki WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable, multilingual Wiki-engine based on Wakka Wiki written in PHP, which uses MySQL to store pages. WackoWiki has an WYSIWYG-like editor, easy installer, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache levels, design themes (skins) support, XHTML compliance, page rights (ACLs), and page comments.
Wacky neighbor The wacky neighbor is a stock character in popular fiction, particularly in situation comedy. This character is usually (but not always) male, lives close to the main character, and is highly eccentric, or just not very bright.
Wacky Races Wacky Races is an American animated television series from Hanna-Barbera Productions, about a group of 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies, with each driver hoping to win the title of the "World's Wackiest Racer." The cartoon was unusual in the large number of regular characters, twenty-three in total.
Wacky Wheels Wacky Wheels is an MS-DOS arcade kart racing videogame released by Apogee Software in 1994, with the emphasis on fun over realism both in looks and gameplay. The game strongly resembles Super Mario Kart from the Super Nintendo, but the eight playable characters are animals from a zoo.
Wacky Worlds (Mega Drive/Genesis) Wacky Worlds is a children's video game for the Mega Drive/Genesis, released in the mid-1990s. In it, the player has a choice six different Wacky Worlds in which he or she can place animated "stickers", creating a two-dimensional diorama, of sorts.
Wackyparsing In Kibology, wackyparsing is the practice of misreading text to humorous effect (perhaps deliberately), especially in line with traditional absurdist Kibological humor. The term has its origins in the computer science term parsing, and is a compound of that term and [wackyparsing as a concept probably originated on alt.
Wacław Jędrzejewicz General Wacław Jędrzejewicz (Ukraine, January 29, 1893 — November 30, 1993, Cheshire, Connecticut, USA) was a Polish Army officer and diplomat and subsequently an American college professor. He was co-founder and long-time president of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America.
Wacław Martyniuk Wacław Martyniuk (born November 10, 1949 in Bytom) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005, receiving 11,339 votes in the 29th Gliwice district, running on the Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej list.
Wacław Przeździecki Wacław Przeździecki (1883-1964) was a Polish military commander and Brigadier General of the Polish Army. During the Invasion of Poland in 1939, he was the commanding officer of the reserve Wołkowysk Cavalry Brigade that fought in the battle of Grodno.
Wacław Rzewuski Wacław Rzewuski (1705-1779) was a Polish drama writer and poet as well as a military commander and a Grand Crown Hetman. As a notable nobleman and magnate, Rzewuski held a number of important posts in the administration of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Wacław Sierpiński Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (March 14, 1882 — October 21, 1969), a Polish mathematician, was born and died in Warsaw. He was known for outstanding contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions and topology.
Wacław Sobieski Wacław Sobieski (October 10, 1872 in Lwów – April 3, 1935 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish historian, professor of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, member of the Polish Academy of Skills (Polska Akademia Umiejętności (PAU), and author of many works on the history of Poland especially of the 17th century. He was a descendant of King Jan III Sobieski.
Waco Siege On February 28 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) raided the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel, a property located 9 miles east-northeast of Waco, Texas. The raid resulted in the deaths of four agents and six Davidians.
Waco, Texas Waco is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 113,726 (however, 2005 estimates place the population at 120,465It is the 26th largest city] by population in Texas, and 195th in the US.
Waco: The Rules of Engagement Waco: The Rules of Engagement is a 1997 documentary directed by William Gazecki about the conflict in 1993 between the Branch Davidians, an unorthodox Christian group, and the FBI. It was nominated for an Academy Award.
Wacom () is the industry standard company for graphics tablets, headquartered in Otone, Saitama, Japan. It is one of the major graphics tablet producers today and is extremely popular with artists, graphic designers, architects and cartoonists.
Waconda Spring Waconda Spring, or Great Spirit Spring, was a natural artesian aquifer located in Mitchell County, near the towns of Glen Elder and Cawker City in Kansas. It was a sacred site for Native American tribes of the Great Plains and, for a time, became the site of a health spa for American settlers.
Wada Ei Wada Ei (1857-1929) textile worker and memoirist during the Meiji Era in Japan, daughter of samurai Sinshu Matsushiro. She is known for writing a memoir called the "Tomioka Diary" (Tomioka Nikki) in which she chronicled her life among the female workers in the Tomioka silk mill.
Wadada Leo Smith Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (18 December 1941 in Leland, Mississippi) is a trumpeter and composer working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He started out playing drums, mellophone and French horn before he settled on the trumpet.
Wadai War The Wadai War occurred from 1909 to 1911 between France and the Ouaddai Kingdom, located in what today would be eastern Chad and central Sudan. The French annexed the kingdom and kept it as part of their empire until 1960.
Wadayama, Hyogo Wadayama (和田山町; -cho) was a town located in Asago District, Hyogo, Japan. On April 1, 2005 the town merged with the other three towns in the district forming the city of Asago and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Wadcutter A wadcutter is a bullet specially designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and with significantly subsonic velocities under 800 ft/s (244 m/s) such as are found in handgun and airgun competitions. A wadcutter has a flat or nearly flat front, which acts to cut a very clean hole through the target, making it easier to score and ideally reducing errors in scoring to the favor of the shooter.
Waddell and Reed Waddell & Reed, founded in 1937, is one of the oldest mutual fund complexes in the United States, having introduced the Waddell & Reed Advisors Group of Mutual Funds in 1940. The headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri
Waddell Creek Waddell Creek is the name given to both the creek and the watershed that run through Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Santa Cruz County, California. There are actually several smaller creeks including both East and West Waddell Creeks which become Waddell Creek halfway through the park before reaching Waddell Beach and emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
Wadden The Wadden is a coastal region stretching from the north-west of the Netherlands through Germany to the west of Denmark. It consists of the Wadden Sea, large parts of which fall dry during low tide, and the Wadden islands, a string of islands that shields this sea from the North Sea.
Wadden Sea The Wadden Sea (Waddenzee in Dutch, Waadsee in Frisian, Wattensee in Low German, Wattenmeer in German, Vadehavet in Danish) is the name for a body of water and its associated coastal wetlands lying between a section of the coast of northwestern continental Europe and the North Sea.
Waddesdon Waddesdon is a village in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England, 6 miles from Aylesbury on the A41 road. The centre of a civil parish, including the hamlets of Eythrope, Westcott, Wormstone and Woodham, Waddesdon was an agricultural settlement with milling, silk weaving and lace making enterprises.
Waddesdon Manor Waddesdon Manor is a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. The house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898).
Waddesdon Manor railway station Waddesdon Manor railway station was a station serving the village of Waddesdon and its manor, to the north of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England. The station is not to be consfused with Waddesdon Road Station at the other end of the Waddesdon Manor estate on the Brill Tramway.
Waddington Range The Waddington Range is a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. It is only about 4000 sq km (1545 sq mi) in area, but it is the highest area of the Pacific Ranges and of the Coast Mountains, being crowned by its namesake Mount Waddington 4019 m (13186 ft).
Waddington, Lincolnshire Waddington (population of 6086 at Census 2001) is a large rural commuter village in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. Situated approximately 6km (4 miles) south of Lincoln on the A607 Lincoln to Grantham road.
Waddliaceae Waddliaceae is a family of bacteria in the order Chlamydiales, class Chlamydiae, phylum Chlamydiae, domain Bacteria. Species in this family have a chlamydia-like cycle of replication and their ribosomal RNA genes are 80–90% identical to ribosomal genes in the Chlamydiaceae.
Waddon Waddon is a place in the London Borough of Croydon, to the south west of central Croydon on the borders of the London Borough of Sutton. Waddon has an older area with 19th century properties, some even older, close to central Croydon.
Wade Avenue Wade Avenue (western segment also known as Raleigh-Chapel Hill Expressway or Wade Avenue Extension) is a major road in the The Triangle region of North Carolina that links Interstate 40, Interstate 440 (Cliff Benson Beltline), and downtown Raleigh. The western segment of this road is a four-lane freeway and the eastern segment is an urban boulevard; I-440 beltway splits the segments.
Wade Boggs Wade Anthony Boggs (born June 15 1958 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball, primarily with the Boston Red Sox, whose hitting in the 1980s and 1990s dominated the American League in much the same way as his National League contemporary Tony Gwynn. Boggs was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005.
Wade Brookbank Wade Brookbank (born on September 29, 1977 in Lanigan, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a Canadian professional hockey defenceman. He currently plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins' American Hockey League affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
Wade College Wade College is a specialized college located in Dallas, Texas that provides a dual associate degree in merchandising and design. Founded in 1962 as Miss Wade's Fashion Merchandising College, and renamed Wade College in 1999, the educational program emphasizes the importance of both general education and specialized study.
Wade Davis Edmund Wade Davis (born December 14 1953 in Smithers, British Columbia, Canada) is a noted anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose work has usually focused on the observation and analysis of the customs, beliefs, and social relations of indigenous cultures in North and South America, particularly the traditional uses and beliefs associated with plants with psychoactive properties. Among Davis' many books are The Serpent and the Rainbow (about the process of zombiefication in Haiti) (1986), Passage of Darkness (1988), One River (1996), and Shadows in the Sun (1998).
Wade Dubielewicz Wade Dubielewicz (born January 30, 1979 in Invermere, British Columbia), is a Canadian ice hockey goaltender who plays for the New York Islanders of the NHL. Dubielewicz went undrafted and was signed as a free agent by the New York Islanders on May 26, 2003.
Wade Flaherty Wade Flaherty (born January 11 1968 in Terrace, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who has played in the National Hockey League for the San Jose Sharks, New York Islanders, Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Panthers and the Nashville Predators. Flaherty was drafted 181st overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft.
Wade Flemons Wade Flemons (born 25 September 1940, Coffeyville, Kansas and died 13 October 1993, Battle Creek, Michigan), was an American Soul Singer. He began recording solo work as early as 1958, but is best remembered for his work as a musician and vocalist in the pop group Earth, Wind & Fire between 1970 and 1973.
Wade Hall Wade Hall is a large council housing estate situated in south Leyland. It can be traced back to the 1960's when the South Ribble Borough Council required more homes for the working class citizens as well as 'overspill' population from other towns in Lancashire.
Wade Hampton I Wade Hampton (1752-February 4, 1835) served in the American Revolution and was a member of Congress for South Carolina from 1795-1797 and from 1803-1805, and a presidential elector in 1801. He was a colonel in the United States Army in 1808, and was promoted to brigadier-general in 1809.
Wade Hampton II Wade Hampton II (April 21, 1791-February 10, 1858) was an American plantation owner and soldier in War of 1812. He bacame lieutenant of the dragoons in 1811, and was acting inspector-general and aide to General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans during 1815.
Wade Hayes Wade Hayes (born on April 20, 1969 in Bethel Acres, Oklahoma) is a country music singer best known for a string of hits in the 1990s including "Don't Stop," "On a Good Night," and "Old Enough to Know Better". Wade was a student at and graduated from Bethel High School in 1987.
Wade Hemsworth Albert Wade Hemsworth (1916-January 21, 2002) was a Canadian songwriter. Although he was not a prolific composer, having written only about 20 songs during his entire career, several of his songs (most notably "The Wild Goose", "The Blackfly Song" and "The Log Driver's Waltz") are among the most enduring classics in the history of Canadian folk music.
Wade House The Wade House, located in Greenbush, Wisconsin, was a stagecoach inn that provided lodging and meals to travelers in 19th Century Wisconsin. The three story wooden Greek Revival building was built by Sylvanus Wade in 1850, and quickly gained landmark status for its large size and stylish appearance.
Wade Keller Wade Keller is a wrestling columnist. He runs the Pro Wrestling Torch newsletter, widely regarded as one of the most influential newsletters in professional wrestling, along with Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer newsletter.
Wade McCollum Wade McCollum is a American film actor, stage actor and musician, and is a member of the Actors' Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild. He currently resides and appears in Los Angeles, CA and New York, New York.
Wade Miller Wade Miller (born September 13, 1976 in Reading, Pennsylvania) is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Chicago Cubs. From 1999 through 2004, Miller played for the Houston Astros and in 2005 for the Boston Red Sox.
Wade Phillips Wade Phillips (born June 21, 1947 in Orange, Texas) is the current defensive coordinator for the National Football League's San Diego Chargers and the former head coach of the Denver Broncos where his record was 16-16, and the Buffalo Bills where he was 29-19 and led the Bills to the playoffs in 2 out of 3 seasons. His winning percentage as a head coach is 56.
Wade Redden Wade Redden (born June 12 1977, in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a professional ice hockey defenceman for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League. Redden was involved in the filming of the television show, Road Hockey Rumble this summer in his hometown.
Wade Seccombe Wade Anthony Seccombe (born October 30, 1971 in Murgon, Queensland) was an Australian first-class cricketer representing the state of Queensland. A wicket-keeper, he made his first-class debut against a touring English team at Caloundra's Roy Henzall Oval in the season of 1992–93, claiming three catches and a stumping in England's first innings.
Wade Simmons 'Wade Simmons is a mountain biker from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada who has won the Red Bull Rampage Utah 2001 and placed second in the same year in the Red Bull Rampage Australia. He is now currently on the Rocky Mountain bicycles factory team
Wade Townsend Wade Daniel Townsend (born February 22, 1983 in Austin, Texas) is a minor-league baseball pitcher in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization. He was the Devil Rays' first-round draft pick out of Rice University in 2005, signing for a $1.
Wade Trophy Wade Trophy is an award presented annually to the best women's college basketball player in NCAA Division I. The Wade Trophy, named after the late, three-time national champion, Delta State University coach Lily Margaret Wade.
Wade Watts Wade Watts (September 23, 1919–December 131998) was an African-American gospel preacher and civil rights activist from Oklahoma. He served as the state president of the Oklahoma chapter of the NAACP for sixteen years,The GOP's Great Black Hope by Amy Waldman Washington Monthly challenging the Ku Klux Klan through Christian love doctrine.
Wade Welles Wade Kathleen Welles, a fictional character on the show Sliders played by Sabrina Lloyd, is from San Francisco, and worked at Doppler Computer Store while attending North Shore Junior College. She was studying literature and poetry.
Wade Wilson (athlete) Charles Wade Wilson (born February 1, 1959 in Greenville, Texas) is a former American Football quarterback who played for the Minnesota Vikings, the Atlanta Falcons, the New Orleans Saints, the Dallas Cowboys and the Oakland Raiders in a seventeen year career from 1981 to 1998 in the National Football League.
Wade's Causeway Wade's Causeway was a Roman road in England. Very few Roman roads have survived in anything like their original condition, and even then only for very short stretches - Wade's Causeway is widely regarded as the best-preserved in Britain.
Wade-Davis Bill The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. In contrast to President Abraham Lincoln's more lenient Ten percent plan, the bill made re-admittance to the Union almost impossible since it required a majority in each Southern state to swear the Ironclad oath to the effect they had never in the past supported the Confederacy.
Wade-Giles Wade-Giles (), sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system (phonetic notation and transliteration) for the Chinese language based on the form of Mandarin used in Beijing. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Wade in the mid-19th century, and reached settled form with Herbert Giles's Chinese-English dictionary of 1892.
Wadena, Saskatchewan Wadena is a town in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, located east of Saskatoon and north-west of Yorkton on the eastern shore of the Quill Lakes. The town is known for its birdwatching opportunities, and hosts the Shorebirds and Friends Festival every year.
Wader Waders, called Shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading birds such as storks and herons), are members of the order Charadriiformes, excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups. The latter are the skuas (Stercoraracidae), gulls (Laridae), terns (Sternidae), skimmers (Rhynchopidae), and auks (Alcidae).
Waders (footwear) Waders refers to a waterproof boot extending from the foot to the chest, traditionally made from vulcanised rubber, but available in more modern PVC, neoprene and Gore-Tex variants. Waders are generally distinguished from counterpart waterproof boots by shaft height; the hip boot extending to the thigh and the Wellington boot to the knee.
Wadham College, Oxford Wadham College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, located at the southern end of Parks Road in central Oxford. It was founded by Nicholas and Dorothy Wadham, wealthy Somerset landowners, during the reign of King James I.
Wadhurst railway station Wadhurst railway station is on the Hastings Line in East Sussex in England, and serves the town of Wadhurst. The station is at the bottom of a fairly steep hill, with the town centre about a mile away at the top.
Wadi Al Abyadh One of the Al Batinah region's best loved valleys is Wadi Al Abyadh which lies some 30 km away from Muscat-Sohar highway, Oman. With a four-wheel drive vehicle, it will be a memorable experience to explore this wadi, which is vested in green vegetation and white boulders and rocks, from which the wadi probably takes its name.
Wadi Al-Hitan Wadi Al-Hitan (, Whale Valley) is a palaeontological site in the Al Fayyum Governorate of Egypt. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2005 for its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest whale forms, the archaeoceti.
Wadi Halfa Wadi Halfa (Arabic: وادي حلفا) is a town in the northern Sudanese state of Northern on the shores of Lake Nubia (the Sudanese section of Lake Nasser). It is the terminus of a rail line from Khartoum and the point at which goods are transferred from rail to ferries going down the Nile River.
Wadi Salib events The Wadi Salib events were a series of street demonstrations and acts of vandalism in the Wadi Salib neighborhood of Haifa in 1959. Those events were a social rebellion against ethnic discrimination, and against the Mapai (Labor party) establishment that ruled in Israel at that time.
Wadi-us-Salaam Wadi-us-Salaam (Arabic; Valley of Peace) is the largest Islamic cemetery, and one of the largest cemeteries in the world. Located in Najaf, Iraq (one of Shiite Islam's holies cities), this cemetery holds the graves of many Prophets, and is located near the Imam Ali Mosque, the resting place of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first Shia Imam and fourth Sunni Caliph.
Wadia Group The Wadia Group is one of the oldest conglomerates of corporate India founded by Sir Neville Wadia, before the independence of the subcontinent in 1947. Sir Neville was married to Dina, daughter of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
Wadih el-Hage Wadih el-Hage () (b. 1960) also known as Abd'al Sabur (, "servant of the most patient"), also known as the Manager, is a member of Al-Qaida who was arrested, tried, and convicted of conspiracy to kill nationals of the United States in the 1998 U.
Wading River (New Jersey) The Wading River is a tributary of the Mullica River, approximately 20 mi (32 km) long, in southern New Jersey in the United States. The river drains a rural forested area of the Pinelands, one of the most pristine areas along the coast of the northeastern United States.
Wadjet In Egyptian mythology, Wadjet (also spelt Wadjit or Wedjet, and in Greek, Udjo, Uto, Edjo and Buto) was originally the local goddess of the city of the same name, Per-Wadjet, named after her. As the patron goddess, she was associated with the land, and so became considered a snake, usually a cobra, which were omnipresent around the area.
Wadla Wadla is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Wollo Zone, Wadla is bordered on the south and east by Dawuntna Delant, on the west by the Debub Gondar Zone, and on the north by Meket.
Wadokai Wadokai (和道会) is the name of the organization within the Japan Karate Federation (JKF) which practices the Wadoryu style of karate. According to Ishizuka Akira, a veteran figure in the Japanese karate world, the term "Wado Kai" was in general use as early as the 1940's, but it was only in 1967 that the name was adopted formally.
Wadowice Wadowice (pronounced "vah-doh-vee-tzeh", ) is a town in southern Poland, 50km from KrakĂłw with 19,500 inhabitants (2001), situated on the Skawa river, confluence of Vistula, in the eastern part of Silesian Plateau (PogĂłrze Ĺšlaskie). Wadowice was the birthplace of Pope John Paul II (1920).
Wadsley Bridge Station Wadsley Bridge Station was a station in Sheffield on the Great Central Railway. It opened on 14 July 1845 on what was then the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway, on a route from Bridgehouses (soon superseded by Sheffield Victoria) to Manchester London Road.
Wadsworth Falls State Park Wadsworth Falls State Park or simply Wadsworth Falls is a Connecticut state park located in Middlefield, Connecticut. The park lies in the North-East corner of the town bordering Middletown with the main entrance on Rte.
Wadsworth Institute Wadsworth Institute was a Mennonite seminary in Wadsworth, Ohio, from 1868 to 1878. Officially named Christian Educational Institution of the Mennonite Denomination, it accepted men aged 18 to 35 for a three-year program centering around biblical studies and other topics relevant to training pastors and mission workers.
Wae Gong Wae Gong (왜공), which translates from Korean as External Power, is the development of physical combat skills which takes the form of offensive and defensive techniques, kicking combinations in both hard/linear and soft/circular movements. The achievement of complete physical control.
Wael Kfoury Wael Kfoury () (born Michael Emile Kfoury, ميشيل اميل كفوري, on May 15, 1974) is a Lebanese singer who rose to fame after performing in the LBC program Studio El Fan. He is one of the most popular Arabic singers.

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