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Wambaya language Wambaya is an Australian Aboriginal language, the traditional language of the Wambaya people of the Barly Tablelands region of the Northern Territory. It is no longer in general use, known today only by half a dozen elderly people.
Wamberal, New South Wales Wamberal is a suburb located on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia, as part of the Gosford City Council local government area. Just an hour of so north of Sydney, it is a popular place for commuters.
Wambierzyce Wambierzyce (German Albendorf), the 'Silesian Jerusalem', is one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in southern Poland. The village is situated at an altitude of 370–410 m in the picturesque Cedron valley at the eastern slopes of Góry Stołowe mountains in the Lower Silesian Voivodship.
Wambrechies Wambrechies is a commune of the Lille Metropole. Situated to the north of the city, it is bordered by the neighbouring communes of Marquette-lez-Lille (to the southeast), Saint André-lez-Lille (to the south), La Drève (to the northwest) and Bondues (to the northeast).
Wambule language Wambule is the language of the Wambule Rai, one of the Kiranti tribes of eastern Nepal. Wambule is spoken by more than 5,000 people living around the confluence of the Sunkosi and Dudhkosi rivers near Kui-Bhir Hill.
Wamoon, New South Wales Wamoon is a small town in Leeton Shire in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Wamoon is located 8km from Leeton along the Irrigation Way to the Leeton CBD and Henry Lawson Drive to the Leeton suburb of Wattle Hill.
Wampanoag The Wampanoag, Wôpanâak in their language, are a Native American people. In 1600 they lived in southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, in an area also encompassing Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and the Elizabeth Islands.
Wampum Wampum is a string of white shell beads fashioned from the North Atlantic Whelk shell also known as the Knobbie and is traditionally used by Indigenous Americans, First Nations peoples, Native Americans, hobbyists, business people, traders, who regard it as a sacred and/or money object. Wampum is also used for engagement, marriage, and betrothal agreements, as well as for ceremony and condolence ceremonies.
Wampus Multimedia Wampus Multimedia is an American media company founded by artist and producer Mark Doyon. Wampus has released modern rock and folk albums internationally from Arms of Kismet, tvfordogs, Cafebar 401, Amateur God, Alice Despard, Casey Abrams, Johnny J.
Wamsutta Club The Wamsutta Club is an exclusive club in New Bedford, Massachusetts, founded in 1866. It was a club for the affluent members of New Bedford's community, which at the time, was supported by the flagging whaling industry as well as the up-and-coming textiles.
Wamsutta Company Wamsutta Company, also known as Wamsutta Mills, was located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a port known for its whaling ships. The company was named for Wamsutta, the son of an Native American chief who negotiated an early alliance with the English settlers of the Plymouth Colony in the 17th century.
Wamsutta Oil Refinery Wamsutta Oil Refinery was established around 1861 in McClintocksville in Venango County near Oil City, Pennsylvania in the United States. It was the first business enterprise of Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840-1909), who became a famous capitalist, businessman, industrialist, financier, and philanthropist.
WaMu Center WaMu Center is the newest and largest skyscraper to mark Seattle's skyline in nearly 15 years, and is the city's 6th tallest building, at 182 meters (598 feet), with 42 floors. Construction ended in early 2006, and tenants from Washington Mutual began to move in to the tower in March of 2006.
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (born 1952) is an ethnic Malay politician and the president of the Malay-majority Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party), which she founded, in Malaysia. She is also the wife of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, whom she married in 1980.
Wan Exiang Wan Exiang (Chinese: 万鄂湘; Pinyin: Wàn Èxiāng; born 1956) is a professor of international law at Wuhan University, vice president of the Supreme People's Court of China, and vice president of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang.
Wan Fulin Wan Fulin (万福麟) (1880 - 1951) was the military governor of Heilongjian province from 1928, and part of the Fengtian clique. On Dec 29th 1928, Wan Fulin along with Zhang Xueliang, son of late Zhang Zuolin, together with Zhang Zuoxiang, against Japanese threats and coercion, declared in a public wire that the four provinces of Feng [Liaoning], Ji [Jilin], Hei [Heilongjiang], & Ri [Rehe] would change the flag to that of the Republic of China, and obey the National Government.
Wan Guo Gong Bao A Review of the Times– Traditional Chinese: 萬國公報; Simplified Chinese: 万国公报; Hanyu Pinyin: Wan Guo Gong Bao; Wade-Giles: Wan Kwoh Kung Pao; Literally: "The Ten Thousand Nations' Common Newspaper"
Wan Chai Wan Chai, or Wanchai, is an area situated at the western part of the Wan Chai District, in northern Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong, China. It is bounded by Canal Road in the east, Arsenal Street in the west and Bowen Road in the south.
Wan Chai Cargo Handling Basin The Wan Chai Cargo Handling Basin (灣仔北貨物裝卸區) is situated in Wan Chai North, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. A prime site along Victoria Harbour, it is adjacent to the Wan Chai Sports Ground and located between the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club.
Wan Chai District The Wan Chai District (, literally "Cove District", Population(2000): 190,300) is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong, located in the north of Hong Kong island. It is also affluent, with one in five persons having liquid assets of more than 1 million HKD.
Wan Chai Pier The Wan Chai Pier () , often called "Wan Chai Ferry", is a pier at the coast of Wan Chai North on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. The pier is operated by Star Ferry, and provides ferry services to Tsim Sha Tsui and Hung Hom.
Wan Chai Sports Ground Wan Chai Sports Ground (Chinese: 灣仔運動場) is located in Wan Chai North, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. It is a government-run sports ground primarily used by local schools for sports day and other athletic activities.
Wan Jifei Wan Jifei (b: 1948), is the current Vice-Chairman of the China International Trade Promotion Committee and China International Commerce Chamber. He is a graduate of Beijing University's Politics and Administration Management Department.
Wan Laiming Wan Lai-Ming (Chinese: 万籁鸣, January 18, 1900 - October 7, 1997) was born in Nanjing, China. He was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animations industry, and became China's first animator.
Wan Li Wan Li (Traditional Chinese: 萬里; Simplified Chinese: 万里) (born December, 1916) was the Chairman of the National People's Congress before his retirement in 1993, and was generally considered to be a moderate. He was born in Dongping, Shandong province of China.
Wan Rong Gobelo, the Xiaoke Empress (Chinese: 孝恪愍皇后郭博勒氏); also known as Empress Wan Rong (Chinese: 婉容皇后) (13 November 1906 - 20 June 1946) was the last Empress Consort of the Qing Dynasty in China, and later Empress of Manchukuo (also known as the Manchurian Empire).
Wan Tsai Wan Tsai (灣仔) is a peninsula between Hoi Ha Wan and Long Harbour in north-western Sai Kung Peninsula, Hong Kong. With a narrow neck, Lan Lo Au between Nam Fung Wan and an unnamed bay of Hoi Ha Wan connecting to mainland of Sai King Peninsula, Wan Tsai is hilly with two hills Tai Leng Tun and Nam Fung Shan.
Wan-Hoo (crater) Wan-Hoo is a lunar crater that is located on the Moon's far side, and it can not be viewed directly from the Earth. It lies to the southwest of the huge Hertzsprung impact feature, within the outer skirt of ejecta.
Wana (Pakistan) Wana (Urdu: وانا) is the capital town of South Waziristan in Pakistan's FATA (Federaly Administrated Tribal Area). It is currently in the eye of a storm because of ongoing joint operations by Pakistan and U.
Wanadoo Wanadoo is the former name of the ISP division of Orange SA, which is a subsidiary of France Télécom. It operates in France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Mauritius, Madagascar, Lebanon & Jordan.
Wanake Camp Wanake is a camp and retreat center in Beach City in northeast Ohio. Begun in 1946 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, it is presently owned and operated by the East Ohio Annual (Regional) Conference of the United Methodist Church.
Wanamaker Elementary School, Marion County, Indiana Wanamaker Elementary School is located in Franklin Township, Marion County, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It is the elementary school under the responsibility of the Franklin Township Community School Corporation.
Wanamaker Organ The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest operational Although the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, Atlantic City, New Jersey) is arguably larger than the Wanamaker organ (it has almost 5,000 more pipes), that organ is currently in a state of disrepair and is not functional. The Wanamaker organ is almost fully restored and operational (approximately 92% of it is in working order, and work is progressing on the remaining 8%), making it the largest operational organ in the world.
Wanamaker's Wanamaker's department store was the first department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of the first department stores in the United States. It was renowned for its honest reputation and for innovating many retailing firsts in America.
Wananchi Wananchi is a Kiswahili word for citizens. Swahili is primaily used in Eastern Africa see Kiswahili various companies have taken the name and used it for their business names for example a leading Internet Service provider Wananchi Online.
Wanapum The Wanapum Indian tribe formerly lived along the Columbia River from above Priest Rapids down to the mouth of the Snake River in what is now the State of Washington. About 60 Wanapum still live near the present day site of Wanapum Dam.
Wanapum Dam Wanapum Dam is a hydroelectric project located on the Columbia River downstream from Vantage, Washington where Interstate 90 crosses the Columbia. It is owned by the Grant County, Washington Public Utility District.
Wanbang gardens Wanbang Gardens is a huge multi-storeyed apartment complex in Shanghai situated opposite to the Longyang Road subway station on Line 2. This apartment complex is in the news as the Chinese government may destroy a portion of it to extend the Shanghai Maglev line till Hongqiao Airport.
Wanborough railway station Wanborough railway station is situated in Flexford in Surrey, England and serves the village of Normandy to the north and Wanborough to the south. The station is served by South West Trains, who manage the station, and by First Great Western.
Wanborough, Surrey Wanborough is a small hamlet in Surrey approximately 6 km west of Guildford on the northern slopes of the Hog's Back with geographic coordinates of . The hamlet has grown up around and to service Wanborough Manor.
Wand A wand consists of a thin, straight, hand-held stick of wood, ivory, or metal. Generally, in modern language, wands are ceremonial and/or have associations with magic but there have been other uses, all stemming from the original meaning as a synonym of rod and virge, both of which had a similar development.
Wand Records Wand Records was started by Florence Greenberg in 1961 as a subsidiary of Scepter Records. In 1976 Florence Greenberg decided to retire from the business and sold her record labels to Springboard International.
Wanda Beach Murders The Wanda Beach Murders is the collective term by which the murders of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock are known. Murdered at Sydney's Wanda Beach on 11 January 1965, their partially buried bodies were discovered the next day.
Wanda Jackson Wanda Jackson (born Wanda Jean Jackson, on October 20, 1937, in Maud, Oklahoma) was the first female rock and roll singer in the United States, releasing her debut record in 1956. She is often hailed as the "Queen Of Rockabilly.
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz, (1886-1968), code name “Alinka"” or “Alicja”, was a leading figure in Warsaw's underground resistance movement throughout the years of German occupation during World War II in Poland. As the well-connected wife of a former ambassador to Washington, she used her contacts with both the military and political leadership of the Polish Underground to materially influence the underground's policy of aiding Poland's Jewish population during the war.
Wanda Landowska Wanda Landowska (July 5, 1879 – August 16, 1959), harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of that instrument in the early 20th century. She was the first person to record Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord (1931).
Wanda Łyżwińska Wanda Łyżwińska (born July 09, 1953 in Piaseczno) is a Polish politician. She was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7842 votes in 17 Radom district, candidating from Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej list.
Wanda Panfil Wanda Marianna Panfil-Gonzales (born January 26, 1959 in TomaszĂłw Mazowiecki) is a former long-distance runner from Poland, who won the world title in the women's marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, Japan.
Wanda Tinasky Wanda Tinasky, ostensibly a bag lady living under a bridge in the Mendocino County area of Northern California, was the pseudonymous author of a series of playful, comic and erudite letters sent to the Mendocino Commentary and Anderson Valley Advertiser between 1983 and 1988. These letters were later collected and published as The Letters of Wanda Tinasky.
Wanda Toscanini Wanda Giorgina Toscanini (December 7, 1907 – August 21, 1998) was the daughter of the famous Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini and the wife of Ukrainian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz, whom she married in 1933. Following Horowitz's death in 1989, Wanda bought the home "Pinci's Acres" (Pinci was Wanda's nickname for Horowitz) in Ashfield, Massachusetts, and stocked it with American antiques and Horowitz memorabilia.
Wande Abimbola Professor Wande Abimbola, is the Awise Awo Agbaye ("World Spokesperson for Ifa and Yoruba Religion"). From 2003—2005, he was the Special Adviser on Cultural Affairs and Traditional Matters to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Wandel In linguistics, the German word Wandel ("change, mutation") is used to designate a fronting of a vowel caused by assimilation to a following nasal or w. This is the same effect as umlaut, but the cause is different.
Wander In telecommunication, wander are long-term random variations of the significant instants of a digital signal from their ideal positions. Phase variations with a frequency content above 10 Hz are considered jitter, while those with a frequency below 10 Hz are referred to as wander.
Wanderer (sailing dinghy) The Wanderer is a 14 foot Fiberglass hull Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy designed by Ian Proctor. One of the main objectives of the design was to produce a robust safe and versatile dinghy that could be used for knockabout day sailing and cruising as well as racing, but was light enough to be handled ashore.
Wanderers (comics) The Wanderers were a fictional group of super-heroes appearing in comics published by DC Comics. They first appeared as allies of the Legion of Super-Heroes in Adventure Comics #375 written by Jim Shooter, illustrated by Win Mortimer with a cover by Neal Adams.
Wanderers F.C. The Wanderers Football Club were an amateur football club based in Battersea, Wandsworth, London, and were one of the leading clubs in English football in the 1860s and 1870s. They are chiefly noted for winning the first-ever FA Cup final, held at the Kennington Oval, London, on March 16, 1872.
Wanderers F.C. Dublin Wanderers is Ireland's second oldest rugby club having been founded in 1870 by some former members of Dublin University F C., who up to that time had to seek opponents outside of Ireland, as there were no other Irish club at that time.
Wandering Albatross The Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans), is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean. It was the first species of albatross to be described, and was long considered the same species as the Tristan Albatross and the Antipodean Albatross (in fact a few authors still consider them all subspecies of the same species).
Wandering set In those branches of mathematics called dynamical systems and ergodic theory, the concept of a wandering set formalizes a certain idea of movement and mixing in such systems. When a dynamical system has a wandering set of non-zero measure, then the system is a dissipative system.
Wandering star "Wandering star" is an archaic (and therefore, poetic) term for planet, which is itself from Greek planasthai "to wander". This page refers only to the term, "wandering star", and its usage.
Wandering Scribe Wandering Scribe is the internet name of a blogger who claims to be a homeless woman. She came to the attention of the public in April 2006, when her blog was featured in an article in the New York Times and by the BBC in their online magazine.
Wandering Sun was a televised anime series created, written and directed by Kaisuke Fujikawa, and which ran for 26 episodes in 1971. Both Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yasuhiko Yoshikazu were involved in the production of Wandering Sun, and would later team up for the ground-breaking and genre defining series Mobile Suit Gundam.
Wanderlei Silva Wanderlei Silva, pronounced Vanderlay Silva, (born on July 3,1976) is a Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter, currently competing in Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships. He trains under Rudimar Fedrigo at the Chute Boxe Academy in Curitiba, Brazil.
Wanderlust Wanderlust (Middle High German: wandern, to wander, and Lust, desire) is a German loanword. It is commonly defined as a strong desire to travel, or by having an itch to get out and see the world Some consider it to be a simple linguistic compound] of [[wander and lust.
Wanderly Wagon Wanderly Wagon was an Irish educational children's television series which aired on RTÉ from 1968 until 1982. Wanderly Wagon followed human and puppet characters as they travelled around Ireland visiting interesting locations, rescuing princesses and generally doing good.
Wandervogel Wandervogel is the name adopted by a popular movement of German youth groups from 1896 onward. The name can be translated as migratory bird and the ethos is to shake off the restrictions of society and get back to nature and freedom.
Wanderwort A Wanderwort (plural Wanderwörter, German for "wandering word" ) is a word that was spread among numerous languages and cultures, usually in connection with trade, so that it becomes impossible to establish its original etymology, or even its original language. The separation of wanderwörter from loanwords is not unambiguously possible, and they may be considered a special class of loanwords.
Wandflower The Wandflower (Sparaxis tricolor), also known as the Harlequin flower or Sparaxis, is a perennial bulb that grows in well-drained sunny soil. It gained its name from its extremely colorful flowers which are bi or tri-coloured with a golden centre and a small ring of brown surrounded by another colour.
Wandhama massacre Wandhama massacre refers to the murder of Kashmiri Hindus in the town of Wandhama on January 1998.It was one of the worst incidence of violence against Kashmiri Pandits being carried out by terrorists in Kashmir.
Wando (horse) Wando (born 2000) is a Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Canadian Triple Crown in 2003. The chestnut stallion, raced with moderate success as a four-year-old then was retired on the 12th of May of 2005 to stand at stud at Lane's End Farm near Lexington, Kentucky.
Wandong, Victoria Wandong, Victoria () is a town 50 kilometres north of Melbourne on the Hume Highway. It is located right next to the town of Heathcote Junction, and the two towns have a combined population of approximately 1,500.
Wandsbek Hamburg-Wandsbek (Map) is the largest of seven districts that make up the city of Hamburg (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany), covering 147,5 km² with 406,802 inhabitants as of 2005. The district is mostly suburban: Only three quarters in the core precinct of Wandsbek (Eilbek, Wandsbek, Marienthal) are urban and part of the city's economic and cultural core.
Wandsworth Wandsworth is a largely middleclass area by the River Thames in south-west London. It is at the centre of the London Borough of Wandsworth, made up of Balham, Battersea, Clapham Junction, Earlsfield, Nine Elms, Putney, Roehampton, Southfields, and Tooting.
Wandsworth (HM Prison) HM Prison Wandsworth Gaol is a British prison in the Wandsworth-area of South London whose former inmates include writer Oscar Wilde, mobster Ronnie Kray and Ronnie Biggs], a participant in the [[Great Train Robbery (1963)|Great Train Robbery, who successfully escaped from the prison in 1965 from which he eventually was able to flee the country.
Wandsworth Bridge Wandsworth Bridge crosses the River Thames in London in a North-West to South-East direction. It joins the areas of Battersea, near Wandsworth Town Station, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, on the South of the river, to the areas of Sands End and Parsons Green, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, on the North side.
Wandsworth Demons The Wandsworth Demons are an Australian Rules Football club who play in the British Australian Rules Football League. They are a founding member of the league and have been based at Clapham Common in south London since 1990.
Wanessa Camargo Wanessa Camargo (born on December 28, 1982 in Goiânia) is a popular Brazilian singer with a style initially similar to Mariah Carey's (nowaday, similar to Madonna's). She is the daughter of Brazilian country singer Zezé di Camargo.
Waneta Hoyt Waneta Hoyt was a mother with a tragic history: her five biological children died, supposedly of Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS, or "crib death"). In fact, she and her family were the subject of a classic paper in the Journal of Pediatrics in 1972, used as evidence that SIDS runs in families.
Wang Anshi Wáng Ānshí () (1021 - May 21, 1086 6th day of the 4th month of Yuanyou 1 (元祐元年四月六日), which corresponds to May 21, 1086 in the Julian calendar.) was a Chinese economist, statesman, chancellor and poet of the Song Dynasty who attempted some controversial, major socioeconomic reforms.
Wang Anyi Wang Anyi (王安忆, born in Tong'an in 1954) is a Chinese writer, and currently the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan, and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised in a oughfare, Huaihai Road.
Wang B-machine As proposed by Hao Wang (1954, 1957): his basic machine B is an extremely simple computational model equivalent to the Turing machine. It is "the first formulation of a Turing-machine theory in terms of computer-like models" (Minsky (1967) p.
Wang Bingzhang Wang Bingzhang (王炳章) was born on December 30, 1947, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. Having been a doctor for eight years after graduation from Beijing Medical University, he went to McGill University, Canada to pursue his further study from 1979 and obtained his Ph.
Wang Can Wang Can (王粲)(177 – 217) was a politician, scholar and poet during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms Period in ancient China. He contributed greatly to the establishment of laws and standards during the founding days of the State of Wei – predecessor to the later Kingdom of Wei – under Cao Cao.
Wang Dan Wang Dan (Chinese: 王丹; Pinyin: Wáng Dān) (born February 26, 1969), a leader of the Chinese democracy movement, was one of the most visible of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Then a freshman at the Peking University, he was arrested and sentenced twice, in 1989 and 1995, for conspiring to overthrow the Communist Party of China.
Wang Dao Wang Dao (王導) (276-339), courtesy name Maohong (茂弘), formally Duke Wenxian of Shixing (始興文獻公), was a Jin Dynasty (265-420) statesman who served important roles in the administrations of Emperor Yuan, Emperor Ming, and Emperor Cheng, including as Emperor Cheng's regent. His governance style was to be lenient with the laws, and he handed out few punishments -- which stabilized the Jin regime greatly, but which also led do extensive, if moderate, corruption and incompetence in the Jin regime, making it difficult for Jin armies to recapture northern China.
Wang Dun Wang Dun (王敦) (266-324), courtesy name Chuzhong (處仲), was a Jin Dynasty (265-420) general and later warlord with paramount authorities, having brought Emperor Yuan (Sima Rui) to submission with his military force. However, although he later appeared to intend to seize the Jin throne by force, he grew ill in 324 and died as his forces were being repelled by Emperor Ming.
Wang Fang Wang Fang (王方) was an officer under Dong Zhuo in the Three Kingdoms period of China. After Dong Zhuo's death, he made a secret pact with Dong Zhuo's remnant loyalists who had advanced on Chang'an, opening the gates for them to enter.
Wang Guangmei Wang Guangmei (Chinese: 王光美; Pinyin:Wáng Guāngmĕi, 26 September 1921 - 13 October 2006) was the wife of Liu Shaoqi, who briefly served as the President of the People's Republic of China before the Cultural Revolution. Described as a sophisticated woman, Wang Guangmei spoke French, English and Russian.
Wang Guangyi Wang Guangyi (1956/7 – ), is a Chinese artist known for being the leader of the New Art Movement circles that erupted out of China after 1989 and most famous for his Great Criticism series of paintings. Using the images of propaganda from the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and contemporary brand names from western advertising, Wang Guangyi was the founder of Political Pop Art in China.
Wang Guowei Wang Guowei (Chinese: 王國維 courtesy name: Jing'an 靜安 or Baiyu 伯隅) (1877 - 1927) was a Chinese scholar and poet. A versatile and original scholar, he made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy, philology, vernacular literature and literary theory.
Wang Hao (chess) Wang Hao (born 1989) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. His first major tournament win was Dubai 2005, he was untitled at the time and finished clear first with 7 out of 9 points, finishing ahead of 53 grandmasters and 30 international masters.
Wang Hong Wang Hong (王弘) (379-432), courtesy name Xiuyuan (休元), formally Duke Wenzhao of Huarong (華容文昭公), was a high level official of the Chinese dynasty Liu Song. He served during the administrations of Emperor Wu (Liu Yu), Emperor Shao, and Emperor Wen of Liu Song, becoming prime minister during Emperor Wen's reign.
Wang Hsing-ching Wang Hsing-ching (王杏慶/王杏庆 Wáng Xìngqìng) (born in 1946), who has a pseudonym of Nanfang Shuo (南方朔 Nán Fāngshuò), is a journalist, political commentator, and cultural critic. Today, he is the chief editor and writer of The Journalist magazine (《新新聞週刊》), with commentaries on current issues in major newspapers.
Wang Hung-hsiang Wang Hung-hsiang is a Taiwanese pocket billiards player. During the 2006 Men's World 9-Ball Championship he survived the group stages and the round of 64, but was eliminated in the round of 32 by Wu Chia-ching.
Wang Chang Wang Chang an officer of the Three Kingdoms Period that led over some 10,000 of men in a certain invasion of the southern district of Wu. He changed his mind however, concluding that is wasn't the right time to attack Ding Feng, so he retreated.
Wang Chen-Yee Wang Chen-Yee is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Belgian writer-artist Hergé. He is a Chinese leader of the Sons of the Dragon brotherhood, opposed to the Japanese occupation of China.
Wang Chien-shien Wang Chien-shien (王建煊 Pinyin: Wáng Jiànxuān) (born August 7, 1938) is a founder of the New Party. He was a finance minister of the Republic of China and is the chairman of the Chinese Management Association (since 1990).
Wang Chongyang Wang Chongyang (11 January 1113 – 22 January 1170) [Chinese calendar: 宋徽宗政和二年十二月廿二 – 金世宗大定十年正月初四] (Traditional Chinese: 王重陽; Simplified Chinese: 王重阳; pinyin: Wáng Chóngyáng) was a Song Dynasty Taoist who was one of the founders of Quanzhen Taoism in the twelfth century. He is one of the Five Northern Patriarchs of that school of Taoism.
Wang Jian (Former Shu) Gaozu of Former Shu ((前)蜀高祖) (847-918) is the posthumous name of the founding emperor of the Former Shu kingdom which was created from the ashes of the Later Tang Dynasty in 907. He was known as Wang Jian (王建) at birth and held the courtesy name of Guangtu (光圖).
Wang Jian (Qin) Wang Jian (;)(year of birth and death unknown),an outstanding military leader of Qin (state) in the Warring States Period. He was born in Guanzhong county, city of Pinyang, Dongxiang village (now as the northeast of Fuping in Shǎnxī Province).

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