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World Wrestling Association (Indianapolis) The World Wrestling Association was an Indianapolis-based pro wrestling promotion which was operated by Dick Afflis (better known as Dick the Bruiser) and his business partner Wilbur Snyder. The WWA was affiliated with the larger American Wrestling Association and recognized its champions, though the WWA also had its own champions.
World Wrestling Entertainment roster This is a list of people employed by and/or contracted to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), including its developmental territories Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) and Deep South Wrestling, LLC (DSW). This is with the exception to the wrestlers who make "special appearances".
World Wushu Championships The World Wushu Championships (WWC) () are held every two years and are organised by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF). This official international wushu competition sees many countries from around the world participating.
World Xtreme Wrestling World Xtreme Wrestling (WXW) is an independent professional wrestling promotion that has held events across the United States, American Samoa, Guam, and many other countries. WXW is owned and operated by Afa Anoai, otherwise known as Afa "The Wild Samoan.
World Year of Physics 2005 The year 2005 has been named the World Year of Physics in recognition of the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's "Miracle Year," in which he published three landmark papers, and the subsequent advances in the field of physics.
World Youth Day World Youth Day (WYD) is a gathering of Catholic young people, initiated by Pope John Paul II in 1984 "to consolidate the ordinary youth ministry by offering new encouragement for commitment, objectives which foster ever greater involvement and participation" (Letter from Pope John Paul II - Seminar on WYD 1996). Occurring every three years it is celebrated on a diocesan level annually, and at a week-long international level every two to three years at different locations, attracting hundreds of thousands of youths from almost every country on the planet.
World Youth Day 2002 The 17th World Youth Day 2002 (WYD2002) was a Catholic youth festival held from 23 July to 28 July 2002 in Toronto, Canada. World Youth Day is a celebration of faith begun by the late Pope John Paul II held on an international level every two to three years, and WYD2002 was the tenth such event.
World Youth Day 2005 The 20th World Youth Day 2005 was a Catholic youth festival that started on August 16 and continued until August 21, 2005 in Cologne, Germany. It was the first World Youth Day and foreign trip of Pope Benedict XVI, who joined the festival on August 18.
World Youth Day 2008 In 1986, Pope John Paul II invited the youth of the Catholic Church to gather in St Peter's Square on Palm Sunday to celebrate their faith. This began a journey of faith for all young people of the world and the concept of pilgrimage towards World Youth Day was born.
World Youth Scrabble Championships The first World Youth Scrabble Championships were held in Wollongong, Australia 2006. Competitors from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, England, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Oman, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand competed.
World Zionist Organization The World Zionist Organization, or WZO, was founded as the Zionist Organization, or ZO, on September 3, 1897, at the First Zionist Congress held in Basel, Switzerland. The ZO served as an umbrella organization for the Zionist movement.
World Zone World Zone is a satellite radio channel carried across the eastern hemisphere by WorldSpace Satellite Radio, and through the US on XM Satellite Radio's online service and DirecTV package. The channel was once available in the United States via the XM satellites, but to satisfy Canadian content regulations, the channel was deleted in favor of a French language channel entitled Air Musique.
World's biggest cricket bat The world's biggest cricket bat is a title that has been sought by the constructors of at least two bats. These bats were both built to commemorate the games of the Cricket World Cup for the year they were constructed.
World's busiest airports by passenger traffic The thirty world's busiest airports by passenger traffic are measured by number of total passengers (data provided by Airports Council International). One passenger is described as someone who arrives in, departs from, or transfers through the airport on a given day.
World's busiest port The world's busiest port is contested by several ports around the world, as there is as yet no standardised means of evaluating port performance and traffic. Most keenly fought over this for the past decade was between the Port of Rotterdam and the Port of Singapore, with both ports claiming the busiest port title.
World's Best 10K Race The World's Best 10K Race (WB10K) is a road race of 10 kilometers celebrated in San Juan, Puerto Rico every year. It is certified by the Association of International Marathons and Road Races (AIMS) and by the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF).
World's Best Reading The basic values of Reader’s Digest publications are individual achievement, optimism, and family values. These values are evident both in title and content of the popular World’s Best Reading book series.
World's Biggest Bookstore The World's Biggest Bookstore is a bookstore owned by Indigo Books and Music in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located at 20 Edward St, just north of the Toronto Eaton Centre, it was unquestionably the biggest bookstore in the world when it first opened in 1980 in a converted bowling alley.
World's Biggest Gang Bang The World's Biggest Gang Bang was an event staged in a Hollywood studio starring pornographic actress Annabel Chong whereby she attempted to have sex with 300 men. In reality, only seventy or so participants turned up and engaged with Annabel in 251 sex acts.
World's End (Hingham) World's End is a conservation area and an adjacent neighborhood located on a peninsula in Hingham, Massachusetts. The peninsula is bordered by the Weir River to the North and East and Hingham Harbor (part of Hingham Bay, and Boston Harbor) to the West.
World's End Girlfriend World's End Girlfriend is the musical project of Katsuhiko Maeda. Placing the Japanese band's music into one well-defined genre is difficult, as it blends elements of electronica and post-rock to create a unique style.
World's funniest joke The world's funniest joke is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research. For his experiment, he created a website where people could submit and rate over 10,000 jokes Purposes of the research included discovering the joke that had the widest appeal and understanding among different culture]s, [[demographics and countries.
World's Fair World's Fair is any of various large expositions held since the mid-19th century. The official sanctioning body is the Bureau of International Expositions (usually abbreviated BIE, from the organization's name in French, Bureau International des Expositions).
World's Finest Comics World's Finest Comics was a comic book series published by DC Comics from 1941 to 1986. The series was initially titled World's Best Comics for its first issue; issue #2 (1941) switched to the more prominent name.
World's Greatest Actor The World's Greatest Actor was broadcast on the UK television channel Channel 4 on Sunday 12 March 2006. The choices were made by other actors unlike the channel's 100 Greatest Actors list which was voted for by the public.
World's largest universities This list of world's largest universities by enrollment includes total active enrollment across all campuses (including off campus study). Enrollment numbers listed are the sum of undergraduate and graduate students.
World's longest cricket marathon The World's Longest Cricket Marathon is a world record that is held by Cheriton Fitzpaine Cricket Club in Devon, England (ratified by Guinness World Records on 19 September 2006) standing at 27 hours 34 minutes, set on 24 and 25 June 2006. It was previously held by Cricket Club des Ormes in France.
World's Largest Texas Flag The World's Largest Texas Flag is a Texas flag used by the Alpha Rho chapter of Alpha Phi Omega (ΑΦΩ or APO) at the University of Texas at Austin in displays at football pre-game shows, at pep rallies, or for other purposes. There are actually three flags that are generally called by this name.
World's Largest Tuned Musical Windchime The World's Largest Tuned Musical Windchime was erected by windchime artist, Ranaga Farbiarz, in the parking area of Celestial Windz Harmonic Bizaar, south of Eureka Springs, Arkansas on Thursday, November 4, 2004.
World's Most Amazing Videos World's Most Amazing Videos is a reality television show similar to Real TV and Maximum Exposure. Like these shows, it showcases accidents, disasters, police chases and other extraordinary events that are caught on video camera.
World's Most Livable Cities The World's Most Livable Cities is an informal name given to any list of cities as they rank on a reputable annual survey of living conditions. The two best-known are the Mercer Quality of Living Survey and the Economist's Worlds Most Livable Cities.
World's Smallest Political Quiz The World's Smallest Political Quiz is a 10-question quiz designed as an outreach and educational tool by the Advocates for Self-Government, created by Marshall Fritz. It places the quiz-taker into one of five categories: Libertarian, Left-Liberal, Centrist, Right-Conservative, or Statist.
World's Strongest Tag Team League The World's Strongest Tag Team League (世界最強タッグ決定リーグ戦, Sekai Saikyō Taggu Kettei Rīgu-sen), more commonly known in the West as the Real World Tag League, is a professional wrestling tournament run yearly by All Japan Pro Wrestling since 1977. The tournament is usually run on the first weeks of December.
World's Strongest Woman World's Strongest Woman was an annual strongwoman contest organized by the International Federation of Strength Athletes (IFSA). The format was similar to the World's Strongest Man contest, but with lighter weights.
World's tallest freestanding structure on land The world's tallest freestanding structure on land is defined as the tallest self-supporting man-made structure that stands above ground. This definition does not count structures that are built underground or on the seabed, such as the Petronius Platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
World's Wildest Police Videos World's Wildest Police Videos is a reality crime TV series which shows video footage including chases involving police cars, store theft/breaking and entering incidents, and riots. Most of the videos are from U.
World's Worst Driver World's Worst Driver follows the formula of Britain's Worst Driver, but it includes contestants from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Thailand and New Zealand. At the end of each episode, the most improved driver wins a car.
World-Point Academy of Tourism The Akademi Pelancongan World-Point (World-Point Academy of Tourism) is an institute of higher education in Malaysia focusing in the fields of tourism and management.It is located at 15C,Jalan Wawasan 4/1, Bandar Baru Ampang,68000 Ampang Selangor,Malaysia.
World-systems theory World-systems analysis is not a theory, but an approach to social analysis and social change developed principally by Immanuel Wallerstein, with major contributions by Samir Amin, Giovanni Arrighi and Andre Gunder Frank. World-systems analysis is derived from two key intellectual sources, the neo-Marxist literature on development and the French Annales School and Fernand Braudel.
World-Spectator The World-Spectator is a weekly newspaper in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, serving the communities of Moosomin, Rocanville, Wapella, Wawota Langbank, Kelso, Welwyn, Spy Hill, Tantallon, Fleming, Fairlight and Maryfield.
World-Wide Web Worm The World-Wide Web Worm (WWWW) was one of the first search engines for the World-Wide Web, being developed in September 1994 by Oliver McBryan at the University of Colorado. The worm created a database of 300000 multimedia objects which could be obtained or searched for keywords via the WWW.
World3 The World3 model was a computer simulation of interactions between population, industrial growth, food production and limits in the ecosystems of the Earth. It was originally produced and used by a Club of Rome study that produced the model and the book Limits to Growth.
World3 nonrenewable resource sector The world3 nonrenewable resource sector is the portion of the world3 model that simulates the nonrenewable resources. The World3 model was a simulation of human interaction with the environment designed in the 1970s to predict population and living standards over the course the next 100 years.
World66 World66 was a Dutch company which embraced the open content idea and tried to transform it into a profitable business. It is now owned by El Segundo, California, based Internet Brands, Inc which acquired it in April 2006.
WorldArt Kiosk The WorldArt Kiosk is a web-based educational photo archive of artwork from around the world. The project is directed by Professor Kathleen Cohen of San Jose State University's Art Department though many of the archive's photos are contributed by other faculty and students.
Worldbeat In popular music, worldbeat refers to any style of music which fuses folk music from non-traditional sources (essentially, outside the Appalachian folk and Celtic traditions) with Western rock or other pop influences.
Worldbridges Worldbridges is as a network of homegrown webcasting. It in the early stages of development and its immediate goals are to experiment with webcasting possibilities and support those interested in doing the same.
Worldbuilding Worldbuilding is a technique widely used by authors to create diverse and believable constructed worlds in which to base their stories, the process usually involves the creation of maps, listing the backstory of the world and the people of the world, amongst other features.
Worldcon Worldcon, or more formally The World Science Fiction Convention, is the longest running science fiction convention, having been held from 1939 to 1941 and, after the interruption of World War II, every year since 1946.
WorldCat WorldCat is the world's largest bibliographic database, built and maintained collectively by libraries that participate in the OCLC global cooperative. Created in 1971, WorldCat catalogs the content of more than 50,000 libraries in 90-plus countries.
WorldDMB The WorldDMB (formerly World DAB Forum) is an international non-governmental organisation which defines the standards for Digital audio broadcasting. It represents 120 organisations (mainly broadcasters and manufacturers) from more than 30 countries.
WorldFish Center The WorldFish Center (originally International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management or ICLARM) is an international research center specializing in fisheries and related aquatic resources. Its mission is to reduce poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture and improving livelihoods of the 200 million employed in fishing and related activities worldwide.
WorldForge The WorldForge project is producing an open source framework for massively multiplayer online role-playing games. WorldForge's objective is to be for games what GNU and Debian have been for general purpose computer software.
Worldchanging WorldChanging is a bright green environmentalism blog which covers environmental, humanitarian and design issues. It is "solutions-based journalism" covering "tools, models and ideas" for building a better future and eschewing traditional news and criticism.
Worldloppet Ski Federation The Worldloppet Ski Federation is a federation of long distance cross-country skiing events whose aim is to promote cross-country skiing through various ski races. The federation was founded in 1978 in Uppsala, Sweden.
WorldLingo Translations LLC WorldLingo Translations LLC is a Las Vegas, Nevada based company that specialises in interlanguage translation by humans and machines. It offers both pay-for services, in addition to a free online translation service capable on translating between 15 common languages.
WorldMUN Harvard World Model United Nations (WorldMUN) is the most diverse college-level Model UN conference in the world, and the largest outside of North America. This year, more than 1,800 college students from over 43 countries will attend WorldMUN in Geneva, Switzerland.
Worldpersia WorldPersia is Europe's biggest Persian/English website and virtual community for persian people all around the world but especially for people living in The Netherlands. The website contains content like news, downloads, forum and many more.
Worldport (UPS air hub) Worldport is the worldwide air hub for UPS (United Parcel Service) located at the Louisville International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky. Although UPS has had a hub at Louisville since 1980, the term was not used officially by the company until 2002, after a $1 billion, five-year expansion.
Worlds Apart EP 7" vinyl EP released on 21 November 2005 on LO-MAX Records in the UK only. Contains a collaboration with Sushil K Dade alternately known as Future Pilot AKA along with other songs recorded at the Oceans Apart sessions.
Worlds Collide "Worlds Collide" is a three-part (fifty-seventh through fifty-ninth) episode of the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), which originally aired on October 30, 2004, November 6, 2004 and November 13, 2004.
Worlds Finest Rolla German Band The World's Finest Rolla Geman Band (WFRGB) is non-profit organization consisting of musicians wishing to encourage musical appreciation. It is based in Rolla, Missouri and performs for benefit events and for parties and usually performs in the Mid Missouri area.
Worlds of Power The Worlds of Power books are a series of novelizations of video games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The books are characterized by the fact that they often retcon their source material, usually include game hints written upside down at the end of chapters (some also had a tear-out "trading card" in the middle with a tip in mirror writing on the back) and are written in a simplistic, easy-to-read style.
Worlds of Wonder Worlds of Wonder was a 1982 multi-genre role-playing game produced by Chaosium. It was a boxed set consisting of four 16-page booklets: Basic Role-Playing, Magic World, Superworld, and Future World, an even shorter pamphlet on joining the settings together, a sheet of cardboard figures for each setting, and dice.
Worldspan Worldspan is a technology company with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia that specializes in travel related software and systems. Its primary system is commonly known as a Global distribution system (GDS) that is a software used by travel agents and travel related websites to book airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, and associated products.
WorldTeach WorldTeach is a Non-governmental organization devoted to the need for educational assistance in developing nations. Founded in 1984 by a group of Harvard University students, WorldTeach places volunteer educators in communities throughout the world for 2-12 month terms.
Worldwar: Striking the Balance Worldwar: Striking the Balance is an alternate history and science fiction novel by Harry Turtledove. It is the fourth and final novel of the Worldwar series, as well as the fourth installment in the Tosev timeline.
Worldwaterpark World Waterpark is a large, 5-acre waterpark located at the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta. It is the largest indoor waterpark in North America, and features many waterslides and water-based attractions.
Worldways Canada Worldways Canada was a Canadian airline that started in 1973 and ceased its operations on October 11, 1990 which went out of business in 1991. Their fleet consisted of McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 and Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar.
Worldwide Attack Matrix The Worldwide Attack Matrix is a document describing covert anti-terrorism operations in 80 countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa created in the wake of September 11, 2001. The matrix was presented by CIA director George J.
Worldwide Developers Conference The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, commonly abbreviated WWDC, is a conference held annually in California by Apple Inc. The conference is primarily used by Apple to showcase its new software and technologies for developers.
Worldwide etiquette As expectations regarding good manners differ from person to person and vary according to each situation, no treatise on the rules of etiquette nor any list of potential faux pas can ever be complete. To avoid giving offense, it is best to use a conservative and observant approach in any social situation where one is unfamiliar with cultural expectations.
Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support The Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support (WINGS) is a a global network of grantmaker associations and support organisations. WINGS supports its members to create opportunities to learn from and support one another, to develop modes of communication and collaboration among themselves, and to contribute to the strengthening of philanthropy worldwide.
Worldwide molecular matrix The worldwide molecular matrix (WWMM) is an electronic repository for unpublished chemical data. First proposed in 2002 by Peter Murray-Rust and his colleagues in the chemistry department at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, WWMM provides a free, easily searchable database for information about thousands of complicated molecules, data that would otherwise remain inaccessible to scientists.
Worldwide Marriage Encounter Marriage Encounter is a weekend program designed to help married couples improve their marriage and solve problems before they escalate into divorce or separation. The Worldwide Marriage Encounter organization operates on a mission of renewal in church and seeks to change the world by assisting couples and priests to develop fully intimate and responsible relationships.
Worldwide MediaWorks Worldwide MediaWorks, LLC (also known as MediaWorks) is a marketing company that provides ecommerce and distribution to numerous large and small Internet companies. The company imports products that are used as give-aways for promotional offerings.
Worldwide Protein Data Bank The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) consists of organizations that act as deposition, data processing and distribution centers for PDB data. The founding members are RCSB PDB (USA), MSD-EBI (Europe) and PDBj (Japan).
Worldwide Soccer Worldwide Soccer is a football video game franchise by Sega initially released for the Sega Saturn in the Christmas of 1996, and later followed by three more titles: Worldwide Soccer '98 still on the 32-bit console and two editions of Worldwide Soccer 2000 for the Dreamcast.
Worldwide Universities Network The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is an invitation-only group of seventeen research-led universities which have agreed to carry out research and research training on a collaborative basis. The WUN provides financial and infrastructural support to member universities to allow student and staff exchanges, development of international training programs and collaborative research work.
Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering The Worldwide Youth in Science and Engineering Academic Challenge is a high school academic competition run in Illinois and Missouri by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Missouri–Rolla, respectively. The team competition consists of 14 team members from multiple high schools each taking two exams.
Worm A worm is an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animal. The best-known is the earthworm, a member of phylum Annelida, but there are hundreds of thousands of species that live in a wide variety of habitats other than soil.
Worm (breakdancing move) The Worm is a move often associated with breakdancing and funk subculture in which the subject lies on the ground and forms a rippling motion through his body. This can be done if one of two ways, either forward or backwards, either shifting your weight from the upper body to the lower body (backwards) or vice-versa for forwards.
Worm (marketing) The "worm" is a market research analysis tool developed by Roy Morgan Research, with the purpose of gauging an audience's reaction to some visual stimuli over some time period. The name "worm" describes its visual appearance - as a line graph snaking up or down.
Worm gear A worm gear, or worm wheel, is a type of gear that engages with a worm to greatly reduce rotational speed, or to allow higher torque to be transmitted. The image shows a section of a gear box with a bronze worm gear being driven by a worm.
Worm hotel Worm Hotel is a wacky sketch show by UK-based comedy writers Chris Hayward & Nat Saunders. As a writing team, the pair have contributed to shows such as Big Train and Smack the Pony, but Worm Hotel is a labour of love that so far has successfully avoided being commissioned for television (despite appearing on BBC shows such as The Money Programme and News 24).
Worm snake Worm snake is the common name sometimes given to several genera of snakes. They share the characteristics of small size, primarily subterranean habitat, non-functioning or small eyes, and varying resemblance to earthworms.
Worm survival Worms survival in your garden can change the way you grow plants,Recent studies have suggested that intracellular Wolbachia spp. endobacteria are necessary for the reproduction and survival of filarial nematodes.
Worm theology Worm Theology is a term used for a system of belief in Christian culture that a feeling and expression of low self worth means God is more likely to show mercy and compassion. The name comes from a line in the Isaac Watts hymn Alas!
Worm, parcel and serve To worm, parcel and serve a line is to apply a multi-layered protection against chafe and deterioration. It is a technique not usually used on modern small boats, but is found extensively on traditionally-rigged sailing ships.
Wormburner An Indie Rock five-piece from New York City, Wormburner plays rootsy, lyrical Powerpop with Punk and New Wave ingredients. Wormburner began releasing EPs and CD singles in 2004, playing a steady schedule of NorthEast shows that would earn them their reputation as one of New York's most exciting live bands.
Wormhole In physics, a wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature of spacetime that is essentially a "shortcut" through space and time. A wormhole has at least two mouths which are connected to a single throat.
Wormhole routing Wormhole routing is a system of simple flow control in computer networking based on known fixed links, typically with a short address. The name plays on the way packets are sent over the links: the address is so short that it can be translated before the message itself arrives.
Wormholes in fiction Wormholes are a popular feature of science fiction as they allow interstellar travel within human timescales. While it is common for the creators of a fictional universe to decide that faster-than-light travel is either impossible or that the technology does not yet exist, they also use wormholes as a means of allowing humans to travel long distances in short time periods.
Wormhoudt massacre The Wormhoudt massacre was an atrocity against soldiers hors de combat in World War II that occurred on Tuesday 28 May 1940 when the German Infantry Regiment Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler under the command of Sepp Dietrich, and allegedly specifically the 2nd Battalion controlled by HauptsturmfĂĽhrer Wilhelm Mohnke, killed about 80 British prisoners of war (POWs). The men killed were soldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, the Cheshire Regiment, and Royal Artillery as well as French solders in charge of a military depot in a nearby farm.
Wormian bones In addition to the usual centers of ossification of the cranium, others may occur, giving rise to irregular isolated bones termed sutural or Wormian bones. They occur most frequently in the course of the lambdoidal suture, but are occasionally seen at the fontanelles, especially the posterior.
Wormit Wormit is a small town located on the banks of the Firth of Tay in north east Fife, Scotland. It is most famous for its railway station (dismantled and rebuilt at Bo'ness) at the southern end of the Tay Rail Bridge and claims to be the first Scottish village to install electricity.
Worms Blast Worms Blast is a puzzle/action game for the PC, PlayStation 2, Game Cube, Game Boy Advance and Mac released in 2002, developed by Team17, and published by Ubisoft (except for the Mac version, which was developed and published by Feral Interactive).
Worms Cathedral The spacious Cathedral of St Peter (the Wormser Dom) is the principal church and chief building of Worms, and ranks beside those of Speyer and Mainz among the finest Romanesque churches of the Rhine. This magnificent basilica, with four round towers, two large domes, and a choir at each end, has a specially imposing exterior, though the impression produced by the interior is also one of great dignity and simplicity, heightened by the natural color of the red sandstone of which it is built.
Worms HD Worms HD, now simply renamed to Worms (but still featuring HDTV support) is a turn-based strategy game developed by Team17 and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox Live Arcade. Its first official public demonstration was on the showroom floor of the 2007, Consumer Electronics Show.
Worms of the Earth (band) Worms of the Earth is an industrial/ebm band created in 2003. The music began as something similar to dark/minimalist ambient, and as time went on the band grew towards a harder and significantly more evil electro style.

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