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Woodstock II Woodstock II is an unofficial name most commonly associated with the Woodstock '94 festival, a major concert with commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Woodstock festival. However it can also -- and technically more correctly -- refer to Woodstock '89, a lesser-known festival which was a spontaneous commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Woodstock, but had fewer attendees and featured lesser-known acts than Woodstock '94.
Woodstock Nation The term Woodstock Nation refers specifically to the attendees of the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival that took place from August 15-17 on the farm of Max Yasgur in Bethel, New York. It derives from the title of a paperback written by Abbie Hoffman, published in 1969, describing his experiences at the festival.
Woodstock of physics The term "woodstock of physics" is the expression often used by physicists (and was originally dubbed as such by an article in the New York Times) to refer to the celebrated session of the American Physical Society’s March meeting in 1987 which led to a "marathon" of presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors.
Woodstock Palace Woodstock Palace was a royal residence in the English town of Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The title of "palace" was first used to refer to it during the 12th century, when it was favoured by King Henry I of England.
Woodstock Pub The Woodstock Pub is a pub located on Thonglor soi 13 in the Thonglor district of Bangkok. Although the pub only opened in November 2005 at its current location, it has a rich history and is a very well known place for many expatriates in Bangkok.
Woodstock Road Woodstock Road is a major road in Oxford, England, running from St Giles' to the south, north towards Woodstock through the leafy suburb of North Oxford and Summertown. Parallel and to the east is the Banbury Road, which it meets at the junction with St Giles'.
Woodstock Square Historic District The Woodstock Square Historic District is located in the county seat of McHenry County, Illinois, which is Woodstock. The district is located in downtown Woodstock and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982.
Woodstock, Alabama Woodstock, Alabama, is the current name of an incorporated town in Bibb County, Alabama formerly known as North Bibb. By referendum in August 2000, the town adopted the name of a long-established local unincorporated community and as of October 1 2000 is now known officially as "Woodstock".
Woodstock, Ontario Woodstock (2005 population: 34,000) is a city and the county seat of Oxford County in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Woodstock is located 80 miles southwest of Toronto, north off the 401, along the historic Thames River.
Woodstock, Portland, Oregon The Woodstock neighborhood of Portland, Oregon is located in the city's inner southeast section. It is bounded on the north by SE Holgate Avenue, west by SE 39th Avenue, east by SE 60th and SE 45th, and south by Johnson Creek.
Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District The Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District is a comprehensive regional public school district serving students in Kindergarten through twelfth grade form five communities in Salem County, New Jersey, United States. The district serves over 1,700 students from Woodstown and Pilesgrove Township for K-12, along with students from neighboring Alloway Township, Oldmans Township and Upper Pittsgrove Township who attend the district's high school as part of sending/receiving relationships.
Woodswallow Woodswallows are soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds found in Australia and the islands nearby. Given their moderate size—about the same as a Common Starling—and dull plumage, they are amongst the easiest of birds to observe and recognise.
Woodsworth College Woodsworth College, named after politician and clergyman James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942), is a college within the University of Toronto. It is the largest college in the Faculty of Arts and Science on the St.
Woodturning Woodturning is a form of woodworking that is used to create wooden objects on a lathe. Woodturning differs from most other forms of woodworking in that the wood is moving while a (relatively) stationary tool is used to cut and shape it.
Woodville Football Club Woodville Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League from 1964 to 1990, when it merged with the West Torrens Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles.
Woodville Gardens, South Australia Woodville Gardens is a north-western suburb of Adelaide 10km from the CBD, in the state of South Australia, Australia and falls under the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is adjacent to Woodville North, Mansfield Park, Ferryden Park, and Kilkenny.
Woodville Historic District Rosemont Plantation is located in Wilkinson County and the town of Woodville, Mississippi. Samuel and Jane Davis settled in Woodville and built Rosemont Plantation in 1810 with their children—the youngest being Jefferson Davis.
Woodville Karst Plain The Woodville Karst Plain is a 450 square mile karst area that runs from Tallahassee, Florida, USA to the Gulf of Mexico and includes numerous first magnitude springs, including Wakulla Springs, and the Leon Sinks Cave System, the longest underwater cave in the United States extending some 18 miles and ranks #90 among the top 100 deepest caves in the world.
Woodville Karst Plain Project The Woodville Karst Plain Project or WKPP, grew out of a cave diving research and exploration group established in 1985 (by Bill Gavin and Bill Main, later joined by Parker Turner, Lamar English and Bill McFaden, at the time the chairman of the NACD Exploration and Survey Committee) to map the underwater cave systems underlying the Woodville Karst Plain, a 450 square mile area that runs from Tallahassee, Florida, USA to the Gulf of Mexico and includes numerous first magnitude springs, including Wakulla Springs, and the Leon Sinks Cave System, the longest underwater cave in the United States.
Woodville Latham Major Woodville Latham (1837-1911) was an ordnance officer of the Confederacy during the American Civil War and professor of chemistry at West Virginia University. He was significant in the development of early film technology.
Woodville Oval Woodville Oval is primarily an Australian rules football oval found on Oval Avenue in Woodville, South Australia. It is the home of SANFL club Woodville-West Torrens Eagles and the former home of the Woodville Football Club.
Woodville-West Torrens Football Club Woodville-West Torrens Eagles is an Australian rules football club playing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). It was formed in 1990 from an amalgamation of the neighbouring Woodville and West Torrens football clubs and played its inaugural game in 1991.
Woodward & Bernstein Woodward & Bernstein refers to a pair of investigative journalists noted for disclosing the story of the Watergate break-in while working at The Washington Post, which led to the infamous Watergate scandal and the resignation of U.S.
Woodward Dream Cruise The Woodward Dream Cruise is a classic car festival held annually on the third Saturday of August. The festival spans much of Woodward Avenue from Pontiac through Ferndale in Oakland County, Michigan, all the way to the State Fair Grounds inside the Detroit city limits, just south of 8 Mile Road.
Woodward Governor Company The Woodward Governor Company is the world's oldest and largest independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of energy control solutions for aircraft engines, industrial engines and turbines, power generation and mobile industrial equipment.
Woodward's building The Woodward's building was a historic building in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The original portion of the building was constructed in 1903 for the Woodward's Department Store.
Woodward-Hoffmann rules The Woodward-Hoffmann rules devised by Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann are a set of rules in organic chemistry predicting the stereochemistry of pericyclic reactions based on orbital symmetry. These include electrocyclic reactions, cycloadditions, and sigmatropic reactions.
Woodwardia areolata Woodwardia areolata (Netted Chain Fern) is a species of fern native to eastern North America. It is usually treated in the genus Woodwardia, but sometimes transferred to the monotypic genus Lorinseria as Lorinseria areolata (L.
Woodwind instrument A woodwind instrument is a wind instrument in which sound is produced by blowing through a mouthpiece against an edge or by a vibrating reed, and in which the pitch is varied by opening or closing holes in the body of the instrument. As the name implies, such instruments were originally made of wood, but some modern woodwinds, such as the saxophone, are made of other materials.
Woodworking for Women Woodworking for Women is the name of a magazine designed to help and encourage women in woodworking. The magazine publishes articles on woodworking projects, information on tools and advice on techniques, including basic how-to guides for novice woodworkers.
Woodworm Cricket Company Woodworm Cricket Company is a company which designs and markets cricket bats and other cricket equipment. The company's stated goal is "to create a revolutionary bat, one which not only would appeal to the eye as something entirely new, but offer real playing and performance benefits".
Woodworm Records Woodworm Records was a record label set up in 1979 to enable Fairport Convention to release "Farewell, Farewell". This was a farewell concert in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, (an event that was to grow into the Cropredy Festival) because the band had decided to break up after Dave Swarbrick was advised to save his hearing by not playing amplified music.
Woodworth, Wisconsin Woodworth is a small unincorporated village in southeastern Kenosha County, Wisconsin, and is located on Kenosha County Highway MB at 82nd Street in the town of Bristol. The Kenosha and Rockford Railroad (the KD Line) brought prosperity and activity to Woodworth, and a U.
Woody Bay Three miles West of Lynton and eight East of Combe Martin on the North Devon coast of England, stoney-beached Woody Bay nestles among the steep cliffs of the rugged coast below the heights of Exmoor. Although now a relatively remote and unspoilt corner of Devon, at the edge of the Exmoor National Park and a waypoint on the South West Coast Path, there were once plans to develop the area to become a busy holiday resort to rival the nearby Victorian "Little Switzerland of England".
Woody Bay railway station Woody Bay, within the Exmoor National Park, is a station on the former Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a famously scenic narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon. The station was situated inland, about 2km from Woody Bay itself.
Woody Durham Woody Lombardi Durham (born August 8, 1941 in Mebane, North Carolina), known as "The Voice of the Tar Heels", is the veteran and legendary play-by-play radio announcer for University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football and basketball teams. He graduated from UNC in 1963 with a Bachelors degree in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures.
Woody English Elwood George (Woody) English (March 2, 1906 - September 26, 1997) was a shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs (1927-36) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1937-38). English batted and threw right handed.
Woody Evans (writer) Woody Evans (born in 1971) is a writer from the State of Mississippi, United States of America. He writes fiction and non-fiction, and his non-fiction centers on the fields of libraries and information science.
Woody Guthrie Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912–October 3, 1967) was a highly influential and prolific American folk musician noted for his identification with the common man, and for his abhorrence of fascism, politicians, hypocrisy and economic exploitation. He is best known for his song "This Land Is Your Land".
Woody Harrelson Woodrow Tracy Harrelson (born July 23, 1961), better known as Woody Harrelson, is an American television and film actor. While Harrelson is best known for his role in the popular 1980s situation comedy Cheers, he has also acted in films such as as Natural Born Killers, The People vs.
Woody Hayes Wayne Woodrow “Woody” Hayes (February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987) was a college football coach who is best remembered for his 28-year tenure at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, from 1951-1978.
Woody Hayes Athletic Center The Woody Hayes Athletic Center is an indoor athletics training facility of the Ohio State University. Dedicated in November of 1987 in memory of the late Woody Hayes, Ohio State's legendary football coach, the facility is one of the best indoor facilities of its kind in college athletics.
Woody plant A woody plant is any vascular plant that has a perennial stem that is above ground and covered by a layer of thickened bark - that is, the stem supports continued vegetative growth above ground from year to year.
Woody Rock Woody Rock (born James Green on September 10 1978 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an African-American gospel and R&B singer. Woody is best known as one of the founding members of multi-platinum R&B act Dru Hill, a group for which he has written and sung lead on songs such as "5 Steps", "April Showers", and "Angel".
Woody Williams Gregory Scott "Woody" Williams (born August 19, 1966 in Houston, Texas) is a Major League right-handed pitcher who currently plays for the Houston Astros. He made his major league debut for the Toronto Blue Jays on May 14, 1993.
Woody Woodpecker Woody Woodpecker is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic woodpecker who appeared in short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Studios. Though not the first of the "screwball" characters that became popular in the 1940s, Woody is perhaps the most indicative of the type.
Woody Woodward William Frederick "Woody" Woodward (born September 23, 1942, in Miami, Florida, is a retired player and general manager in Major League Baseball. He played for the Milwaukee & Atlanta Braves (1963-1968) and the Cincinnati Reds (1968-1971) and was later the general manager of the New York Yankees (1985-1988) and the Seattle Mariners (1989-1999).
Woofing Woofing, (or woofin'), is a form of verbal intimidation which can threaten physical violence or boast of physical prowess. The term springs from the African-American tradition of "selling woof tickets," or, outside the African-American community, wolf tickets.
Wooing of Emer Tochmarc Emire, the Wooing of Emer, is one of the longest stories in the Ulster Cycle and concerns the efforts of Cúchulainn to marry Emer, a character who appears as his wife in later events of the cycle such as Táin Bó Cúailnge.
Wookey Hole Wookey Hole is a tourist cave in Somerset, England, on the southern edge of the limestone Mendip hills named for the adjacent village of Wookey and 3 km from Wells. It was formed by the action of the River Axe.
Wookieepedia Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki is a wiki for information on the Star Wars saga, including information on all six films, as well as the Expanded Universe. The name Wookieepedia is a pronunciational portmanteau of Wookiee and Wikipedia, because of the pronunciation similarity of Wookiee and wiki.
Wool Wool is the fibre derived from the fur of animals of the Caprinae family, principally sheep, but the hair of certain species of other mammals such as goats, alpacas and rabbits may also be called wool. This article deals explicitly with the wool produced from domestic sheep.
Wool alien The term wool alien is used for any plant species whose occurrence at a particular site is due to its having been transported there as a result of the making of wool products, the most common process being that the seed of this plant will have become attached to a sheep or other wool-producing animal, the animal shorn and the raw wool transported to a mill where it is refined, and the impurities discarded, including the seed, which then successfully germinates. Typical sites where wool-aliens are found are waste ground near woollen mills, but wool cleanings have also been used as soil conditioners in orchards and fields, and such species have been found there too.
Wool bale A wool bale is a package of wool typically compressed by mechanical means. This is the preferred method of packaging and transportation for wool to keep it uncontaminated so information about the individual producer can be retained.
Wool Bay, South Australia Wool Bay () is a small town on the east coast of southern Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. Wool Bay is 215 kilometres by road from Adelaide and approximately 70 kilometres west of Adelaide across Gulf Saint Vincent.
Wool classing Wool Classing is a profession designed for the sole purpose of grading the spinning capacity or designated purpose for the wool produced. This is carried out by examining the characteristics of the wool in its raw state.
Wool, Dorset Wool is a village in the Purbeck district of Dorset, England. The village has a population of 4,118 (2001), though the population has fluctuated over the past 15 years, due to the proximity of military institutions, reaching a high of 4,300 in 1992.
Woolamai railway station, Victoria Woolamai was a railway station on the Wonthaggi line located on the Bass Coast, Victoria, the station operated until the line's closure in 1978. The platform mound and a nearby level crossing are the only remains of the railway in this area.
Woolaroc Woolaroc is located in the Osage Hills of Northeastern Oklahoma Oklahoma State Highway 123 about 19 km (12 miles) southwest of Bartlesville, Oklahoma and 72 km (45 miles) north of Tulsa, Oklahoma., Woolaroc was established in 1925 as the ranch retreat of oilman Frank Phillips.
Wooldale Co-operative Society The Wooldale Co-operative Society is a small consumer co-operative based in the West Yorkshire village of Wooldale. The Society operates three convenience stores in the Holme Valley villages of New Mill, Thongsbridge and Wooldale.
Wooler (motorcycles) Wooler was a UK manufacturer of motorcycles and other vehicles, founded by engineer John Wooler in 1911. The company became known for its unconventional designs which included several fore-and-aft twins, a vertical camshaft single cylinder machine, a transverse-four beam engine, and a transverse flat four.
Woolf Barnato (Joel) Woolf Barnato (27 September 1895 – 27 July 1948) was a British financier and racing driver, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s. He achieved three consecutive wins out of three entries in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race.
Woolfardisworthy Woolfardisworthy is the name of two villages in Devon, one being in the northwest of the county, between Barnstaple/Bideford Bay and the Kernow (Cornwall Border); the other lies in mid Devon between Tiverton and Crediton.
Woolgoolga, New South Wales Woolgoolga or 'Woopi' as it is known to locals, is a town on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, 25km north of Coffs Harbour in the City of Coffs Harbour. It is on the Pacific Highway and has a beach on the Pacific Ocean.
Woolim Woolim is a young prince of Joseon who was killed by the Han years after Hae Mosu was killed by the Grand Imperial Prince of Buyeo. He was aired in South Korea's ZBC television network where he was first on air.
Wooling Wooling (actually: WOOLING) is a German student magazine, which is published at Oberland-Gymnasium Seifhennersdorf high school in the state of Saxony in Germany. It was awarded by the Saxon Youth Journalist Award in 2005 and 2006 for best student magazine on high school ("Gymnasium") and WOOLING.
Woollahra Public School Woollahra Public School, previously known as Woollahra Demonstration School for many years, is a main school located in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia in the suburb of Woollahra. As well as containing classes from kindergarten to year 6, it has offered education for Opportunity Classes of year 5 and 6 since the early 1960s.
Woollahra, New South Wales Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 5km east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woollahra.
Woolley Hall Woolley Hall, Woolley, West Yorkshire, belonged to the Woodrove family, (or Woodroffe/Woodruff; from ‘wood-reeve’) who have owned land in the West Yorkshire village as far back as the year 1377, for over one hundred years. The Hall was significantly changed towards the end of the 15th century, probably by Sir Richard Woodroffe, when he purchased the land from the Rilston family in 1490.
Woolloomooloo, New South Wales Woolloomooloo is a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located in a low-lying, former docklands area at the head of Woolloomooloo Bay, on Sydney Harbour, about 1.
Woolly Flying Squirrel The Woolly Flying Squirrel (Eupetaurus cinereus) is the sole species placed in the genus Eupetaurus. Until recently scientific knowledge of this rare species was limited to 11 skins collected in the late nineteenth century.
Woolly Mammoth The wooly mammoth, also called the tundra mammoth, is an extinct species of mammoth. This animal is known from bones and frozen carcasses from Ireland to the east coast of North America with the best preserved carcasses in Siberia.
Woolly Mouse Opossum The Long-furred Woolly Mouse Opossum (Micoureus demerarae) is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its range includes Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil, and eastern Paraguay.
Woolly Rhinoceros The Woolly Rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that lived during the Pleistocene epoch, but survived the last ice age. The woolly rhinoceros is a member of the Pleistocene megafauna.
Woolly Wolstenholme Stuart John Wolstenholme was born in Chadderton, Oldham, Lancashire on April 15th, 1947, and went to school at North Chadderton Secondary Modern. His first instrument was a tenor banjo, which he took up at the age of twelve, and he also played tenor horn for the Delph band.
Woollybear Festival The annual Woollybear Festival occurs every mid-October in Vermilion, Ohio. The one-day, family event, which began in 1973, features a woolly bear costume contest in which children, even pets, are dressed up as various renditions of the woolly bear caterpillar.
Woolong In the science fiction anime television series Cowboy Bebop, the woolong is the universal currency used by humans in the Solar system. It is usually transacted directly from one account to another using portable electronic devices which can network to ATMs and each other, and only rarely carried as actual paper currency.
Wooloowin, Queensland Wooloowin is an inner-north suburb of Brisbane, Australia located approximately 5-6 km north of the city's central business district. The suburb derives its name from a local Indigenous Australian term for "pigeon".
Woolsack The Woolsack is the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of Parliament in the United Kingdom. From the Middle Ages until 2006, the presiding officer in the House of Lords was the Lord Chancellor and the Woolsack was usually mentioned in association with the office of Lord Chancellor.
Woolsthorpe Manor Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, was the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton on December 25, 1642 (old calendar). At that time it was a yeoman's farmstead, principally rearing sheep (hence the wool reference in the name — thorpe comes from a Danish/Viking word meaning farmstead).
Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir Woolsthorpe, also known as Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, is a small village in the English county of Lincolnshire, about 5 miles (8 kilometres) from the town of Grantham. It adjoins the county border with Leicestershire; the neighbouring village of Belvoir lying on the other side of the border.
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is a hamlet at , in the parish of Colsterworth, in the English county of Lincolnshire, best known as the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton. It is not to be confused with the village of Woolsthorpe-by-Belvoir, generally known just as Woolsthorpe, which is also in Lincolnshire but about 8 miles (13 kilometres) to the north-west.
Woolston Eyes The Woolston Eyes is a Site of Special Scientific Interest located in the town of Warrington in the North West of England. The eyes themselves are used for the dumping of dredgings from the Manchester Ship Canal.
Woolton pie "Woolton" pie was an adaptable dish of vegetables, created at the Savoy Hotel in London, which was one of a number of recipes commended to the British public by the Ministry of Food during the Second World War to enable a nutritional diet to be maintained despite shortages and rationing of many types of food. It was named after Frederick Marquis, 1st Lord Woolton (1883-1964), who became Minister of Food in 1940.
Woolverstone Hall Woolverstone Hall is a large country house five miles south of the centre of Ipswich, Suffolk, England and is set in 80 acres on the banks of the River Orwell. Built in 1776 by William Berners, it is one of the finest examples of Palladian architecture in England.
Woolwich Woolwich is a suburb in south-east London, England in the London Borough of Greenwich, on the south side of the River Thames, though the tiny exclave of North Woolwich (which is now part of the London Borough of Newham) is on the north side of the river.
Woolwich (UK Parliament constituency) Woolwich was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until 1918 and revived again for a short time from 1983 to 1997. It was based around Woolwich, now in the London Borough of Greenwich in south-east London.
Woolwich East (UK Parliament constituency) Woolwich East was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1983. It was based around Woolwich, now in the London Borough of Greenwich in south-east London.
Woolwich foot tunnel The Woolwich foot tunnel is a tunnel crossing under the River Thames in east London from Woolwich in the London Borough of Greenwich to North Woolwich in the London Borough of Newham. The tunnel offers pedestrians an alternative way to cross the river when the Woolwich Ferry service is not operating.
Woolwich Ferry The Woolwich Ferry is a service across the River Thames linking Woolwich in the London Borough of Greenwich with North Woolwich in the London Borough of Newham. It also links two ends of the inner London orbital routes: the North Circular and the South Circular.
Woolwich Steam Packet Company The Woolwich Steam Packet Company was established in 1834 to provide services from central London to Woolwich, which were later extended to the Kent and southern Essex coasts along the Thames Estuary. A London to Ipswich packet service was operated and it was this service which inaugurated calls at Clacton in 1871.
Woolwich West (UK Parliament constituency) Woolwich West was a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1983. It was based around Eltham, now in the London Borough of Greenwich in south-east London.
Woolworth Building The Woolworth Building, at fifty-five stories, is one of the oldest — and one of the most famous — skyscrapers in New York City. More than ninety years after its construction, it is still one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States as well as one of the twenty tallest buildings in New York City.
Woolworth Store, Toronto Woolworth store at Dundas Street West and Yonge Street pre-dates the Toronto Eaton Centre. Built in 1895 to replace the Jamieson store, it was restored in the 1990s with a sports store and gym as the main tenants.
Woomelang, Victoria Woomelang is a town in the Mallee region of Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Sunraysia Highway, 359 kilometres north west of the state capital, Melbourne, 183 kilometres south east of Mildura and 154 kilometres north of Horsham.
Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre The Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre (IRPC) was an Australian immigration detention facility near the village of Woomera in South Australia (). It was opened in November 1999 in response to an increase in unauthorised arrivals, which had exceeded the capacity of other detention facilities.
Woomera Instrumented Range The Woomera Test Facility (formerly known as the Instrumented Range) is an aerospace testing facility located near Woomera, South Australia. The facility forms part of the Woomera Prohibited Area and is operated by the Royal Australian Air Force's Aerospace Operational Support Group (formerly known as the Aircraft Research and Development Unit).
Woomera Prohibited Area Woomera Prohibited Area is a weapons testing range located in central South Australia. The Woomera Prohibited Area currently has an area of 127,000 square kilometres making it the largest land-based defence and aerospace range in the world This makes it roughly the size of England].
Woonasquatucket River The Woonasquatucket River (pronounced woon-AHS-kwa-tuk-it, Algonquian for "where the salt water ends") is a river in Providence County, Rhode Island flowing 19 miles (31 km) through Providence County, Rhode Island and draining a watershed of 50 square miles (130 km²). Together with the Blackstone River to the north, the Woonasquatucket was designated an American Heritage River in 1998.
Wooper is one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise – a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Wooper in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.

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