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Warrendale Warrendale is a 1967 documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Allan King. It was originally produced for broadcast on CBC Television, but was never shown due to King's refusal to edit out the copious profanity in the footage.
Warrenpoint Warrenpoint ( - alternatively Rinn Mhic Giolla Rua meaning "the promontory/point of the red-haired servant") is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, lying on Carlingford Lough. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 7,000.
Warrenpoint Ambush The Warrenpoint Ambush, also known as the Narrow Water Attack or the Warrenpoint massacre Soldiers die in Warrenpoint massacre — BBC News On This Day feature, on August 27 1979 was an ambush that resulted in the British Army's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Warrens Bakery Warrens Bakery are family-owned chain of bakeries from St Just, Cornwall. They are among the best known makers of Cornish pasties and Cornish saffron cake in the county, and have over 80 shops throughout the south-west of England.
Warrens, Saint Michael, Barbados The town of Warrens located in the parish of Saint Michael is one of the fastest developing areas in the country of Barbados. In the span of a few short years beginning around the year 2000, the Warrens, Saint Michael area has become synonymous with new money flowing into the country and for the development in the form of newly constructed tall buildings.
Warrimoo, New South Wales Warrimoo (elevation: 273 metres) is a small village in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, 75 kilometres west of Sydney, Australia. Warrimoo borders the townships/suburbs of Blaxland, Mount Riverview, Sun Valley, Valley Heights and Yellow Rock.
Warring States Period The Warring States Period () covers the period from some time in the 5th century BC to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC. It is nominally considered to be the second part of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, following the Spring and Autumn Period, although the Zhou dynasty itself ended in 256 BC, 35 years earlier than the end of the Warring States period.
Warringah Council Warringah is a local council area in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, Australia. The Warringah Council overlaps with a number of suburbs from the Manly Council area to the south and the Pittwater Council are to the north.
Warringah Freeway The Warringah Freeway (also known as the Warringah Expressway and the M1/M2) is a major road in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The freeway links the northern ends of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Harbour Tunnel to the Gore Hill Freeway.
Warringah Rugby Club Warringah Rugby Club are a rugby union club based in the northern beachside suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. The club currently competes in the New South Wales Rugby Union competitions, the Shute Shield and Tooheys New Cup.
Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation The Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation was a Development Corporation formed in the 1980s by the merger of the Warrington Development Corporation and the Runcorn Development Corporation, which covered two adjacent areas.
Warrington bomb attacks The Warrington bomb attacks took place in Warrington, England in 1993. The first attack, on a gasworks, created a huge fireball but no casualties (however a police officer was shot and injured after stopping a van),Hansard - Terrorist Incidents but the second attack on Bridge Street killed two children and injured many other people.
Warrington Central railway station Warrington Central railway station is one of two main railway stations serving the town of Warrington in the north-west of England. It is located on the southern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line (the former Cheshire Lines Committee route between Liverpool and Manchester), and is situated around halfway between the two cities.
Warrington College of Business The University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business (WCB) offers a wide array of programs with approximately 8,000 students enrolled in classes including undergraduate, graduate, PhD, and exchange students. WCB's undergraduate programs include accounting, computer & information sciences, decision & information sciences, economics, finance, management and marketing.
Warrington Hudlin Warrington Hudlin is an American film director, producer, and actor. His younger brother, Reginald Hudlin, is also a director and producer, together the Hudlin bothers have produced films such as House Party and Bebe's Kids.
Warrington Transporter Bridge The Warrington Transporter Bridge (or Bank Quay Transporter Bridge) across the River Mersey has a span of 187 feet (57 m). It was built in 1916 and, although it has been out of use since circa 1964, it is still extant.
Warrington Wizards Warrington Wizards are a British rugby league team. They were first invited into the league by the RFL in 2003, on the creation of the new National League Three, the 4th tier of British Rugby League, which they won in its inaugural year.
Warrington Wolves Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league team in the town of Warrington, Cheshire in England. In the past the club have been nicknamed "The Wire" or "Wires", in reference to the strength of the wire-pulling industry in Warrington.
Warrington, New Zealand Warrington is a small settlement on the coast of Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located close to the northern shore of Blueskin Bay, an area of mudflats to the north of Dunedin, and is administered as part of the Dunedin City.
Warrior (wrestler) Warrior (born Bryan Barry James Hellwig on June 16 1959) is a former American professional wrestler known to many as The Ultimate Warrior, and is one of the most controversial performers in the history of the wrestling industry. He legally changed his name to Warrior in 1993.
Warrior Beasts The Warrior Beasts (youkikaiju), also known as Battle Beasts (sentoujuu), were the monsters and evil mecha from the anime and manga series Great Mazinger by Go Nagai. Great Mazinger was the sequel to the wildly popular Mazinger Z.
Warrior Blade Rastan Saga Episode III Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III is an arcade game released by Taito Corporation in 1991. It is a weapons brawler similar to Golden Axe, and its main feature is the use of dual screens to depict the action.
Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga III Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III is an arcade game released by Taito Corporation in 1991. It is a weapons brawler similar to Golden Axe, and its main feature is the use of dual screens to depict the action.
Warrior class battleship The two-ship Warrior class was a revolutionary British Royal Navy battleship design of the mid 19th century. They were the second type of ocean going iron-armored warships ever constructed, after the French Gloire, and were the most powerful naval vessels afloat at the time of their launch.
Warrior Diet The Warrior Diet is a controversial diet created by former Penthouse (magazine) editor and former Israeli Special Forces soldier Ori Hofmekler and marketed by Dragon Door. He created it based upon his own personal experiences, expanded upon by his opinions of how warriors ate (namely the Romans, similar to Spartan Health, though others are referred to), why their methods were effective, how these methods can be adapted to the modern age, and reasons he thinks these methods are more effective than the more scientific and common methods of dieting.
Warrior gene A version of the primate monoamine oxidase-A gene has been referred to as the warrior gene, initially in monkeys then in humans. Several different versions of the gene are found in different individuals, although a functional gene is present in most humans (except in a few individuals with Brunner syndrome).
Warrior Leader Course Warrior Leader Course (or WLC), formerly Primary Leadership Development Course (PLDC), is the first course of study in the US Army Non-Commissioned Officer Education System. It is open to specialists, corporals and sergeants.
Warrior of Hirschlanden The Warrior of Hirschlanden is a statue of a nude ithyphallic warrior made of sandstone, the oldest known Iron Age life-size anthropomorphic statue north of the Alps. It was a production of the Hallstatt culture of the early Iron Age (800-475 BC).
Warrior princess The concept of warrior princesses is relatively new in fiction but it became increasingly popular with the feminist movement's successes in female empowerment, gradually pushing the stereotype of a "damsel in distress" to the background. A warrior princess usually incorporates a strong female personality determined in pursuit of her goals and unabashed by the typical "man's work" like fighting wars or performing manual labour.
Warrior Soul Warrior Soul is the name of a hard rock/punk band formed in 1988 by lead singer Kory Clarke, guitarist John Ricco, bassist Pete McLanahan, and drummer Paul Ferguson (later replaced by Mark Evans and then Scott Duboys). Often cited as one of the most underrated bands of the time, they were signed to Geffen Records from 1989 to 1994.
Warrior Tracked Armoured Vehicle The FV510 Warrior tracked vehicle family, are a series of British armoured vehicles originally developed to replace the older FV430 series of armoured vehicles. The Warrior started life in the MCV-80 project that was first approached in the 1970s, GKN Sankey won the production contract in 1980.
Warrior Woman Warrior Woman (Freida Ratsel) was a fictional Nazi supervillain from Marvel Comics' first Invaders series. She was given a super-strength formula similar to the one used on Master Man, but Warrior Woman's version seemed to be more stable.
Warriors cricket team The Fidentia Warriors is the name used by the combined Eastern Province and Border first class cricket teams in South Africa. The home venues of the Warriors are St George's Park, Port Elizabeth and Mercedes Benz Park, East London.
Warriors of Fate Warriors of Fate is the English adaptation of the Japanese arcade game, , which uses Romance of the Three Kingdoms as the background, and also the sequel of Dynasty Wars (Tenchi wo Kurau in Japan). It was released by Capcom in 1992, an era in which they also published several similar horizontal-scrolling action games such as Captain Commando, King of Dragons, and Knights of the Round.
Warriors of the Boer Nation The Warriors of the Boer Nation (Afrikaans: Boerevolk-Krygers) is a suspected but unsubstantiated South African Boer terrorist group aimed at Boer separation which based on unauthenticated letters sent to pro government Afrikaans newspapers in 2002 purportedly claimed responsibility for a series of bombings which started in the black township of Soweto, South Africa and later spread to other areas of the country. They were later linked by police to another unsubstantiated group called the Boeremag (Boer Force' or 'Farmers' Force' in Afrikaans).
Warriors of the Deep Warriors of the Deep is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from January 5 to January 13, 1984. This story kicked off the 21st season of the classic Doctor Who series and it marked the return of the Silurians and the Sea Devils, both of which had not been seen since the Third Doctor's era in the early 1970s.
Warriors' Gate Warriors' Gate is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 3 to January 24, 1981. The serial is the last of three loosely connected serials known as the E-Space Trilogy and the last to feature Romana and K-9 as companions.
Warriparinga Warriparinga (meaning Windy Place in local Kaurna language) is the beginning of Tjilbruke's Trail, a Kaurna ceremonial meeting place and European early settlement site. It is situated in the metropolitan suburb of Marion, South Australia and is bordered by Marion Road and South Road.
Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education was an independent higher education institution that began operating in 1970 in the city of Warrnambool on the South-West Coast of Victoria. It offered undergraduate and postgraduate programs in acquaculture, arts, business, nursing, municipal engineering, and teaching.
Warrnambool, Victoria Warrnambool is a regional city of around 32,000 people on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia, located in the municipality City of Warrnambool. It is at the western end of the Great Ocean Road, but is more quickly reached along the Princes Highway, 265 kilometres and 3 hours from Melbourne by road or rail.
Warrumbungle National Park Warrumbungle National Park is located in central northern New South Wales (Australia), 352 km northwest of Sydney. Outside of the Sydney metropolitan area parks, it is the most-visited national park in New South Wales.
Warrungu Warrungu (or Warrangu, Warrango) is an Australian Aboriginal language, one of the dozen languages of the Maric branch of the Pama-Nyungan family. It was formerly spoken in the area around Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Warryn Campbell Warryn Campbell (nicknamed "Smiley" or "Baby Dubb") is a successful African-American record producer, specializing in gospel music and R&B. His past and current work includes production and songwriting credits for Yolanda Adams, Kierra Sheard, Brandy, Dave Hollister, Men Of Standard, Mario, Shanice, Dru Hill, Coko, and more.
Wars in Lombardy The wars in Lombardy between Venice and Milan, lasted from 1425 to the signing of the Treaty of Lodi in 1454. During their course, the political structure of Italy was transformed: out of a competitive congeries of communes and city-states, emerged the five major Italian territorial powers that would make up the map of Italy until the Italian Wars.
Wars of Castro The Wars of Castro describe a series of events in the mid-seventeenth century revolving around the ancient city of Castro (located in present-day Lazio, Italy), which eventually resulted in the city's destruction on September 2, 1649. The conflict was a result of a power struggle between the papacy — represented by members of two deeply entrenched Roman families, the Barberini Pope Urban VIII and then the Pamphili Pope Innocent X — and the Farnese dukes of Parma, who controlled Castro and its surrounding territories.
Wars of Hindu Mythology The Wars of Hindu mythology depict great heroes and demons in battles of celestial proportions, filled with the awesome force of celestial weapons, religious mysticism, magic, celestial and supernatural beings.
Wars of In-laws Wars of In-Laws (Chinese: ć‘çš„é‡Žč »ĺĄ¶ĺĄ¶) is an ancient-comedy jointly produced by TVB and an independent production company, starring Liza Wang, Myolie Wu, Bosco Wong and Shek Sau. It was aired on TVB Jade in 2005 and was well received by viewers.
Wars of Light and Shadow The Wars of Light and Shadow is a series of fantasy books by Janny Wurts. When completed it will consist of five story arcs, with the first two arcs complete and the last book of the third arc, Stormed Fortress currently underway.
Wars of national liberation Wars of national liberation are conflicts fought by indigenous military groups against an imperial power in the name of self-determination, thus attempting to remove that power's influence, in particular during the decolonization period. They are often founded in guerrilla warfare or asymmetric warfare.
Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1485) was a series of civil wars fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. Both houses were branches of the Plantagenet royal house, tracing their descent from King Edward III.
Wars of the Three Kingdoms The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (sometimes known as the Wars of the Three Nations) were an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 at a time when these countries had come under the Personal Rule of the same monarch. The best known of these conflicts is the English Civil War.
Warsangeli Daraawiish The Dervish ideal was a nationalistic cause that sought to integrate Somalis and unite Somali territories into a one centralized administration. Although it had foibles and major victories, its credit and “worth causes” should not be given away without an understanding.
Warsaw Warsaw (, , in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland, its largest city, and a gamma world city. It is located on the Vistula river roughly 370 km from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains.
Warsaw Citadel Cytadela (Polish for Citadel) is a 19th-century fortress in Warsaw, Poland. It was built by order of Tsar Nicholas I after the suppression of the 1830 November Uprising in order to bolster imperial Russian control of the city.
Warsaw Concerto The Warsaw Concerto is a piano concerto written by British composer Richard Addinsell for the 1941 film, Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later re-title Suicide Squadron). While Addinsell created the melodic motives, the fine orchestration was by Roy Douglas, whose contribution is rarely acknowledged.
Warsaw Confederation (1573) The Warsaw Confederation (January 28, 1573), an important development in the history of Poland and Lithuania, is considered the formal beginning of religious freedom in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. While it did not prevent all conflict based on religion, it did make the Commonwealth a much safer and more tolerant place than most of contemporaneous Europe, especially during the subsequent Thirty Years' War.
Warsaw Derby The Warsaw Derby is a race for three-year-old Thoroughbred race horses first run in 1874 at a racetrack in Warsaw, Poland. In addition to the purse money, the race winner receives the Prize of the President of the Republic of Poland.
Warsaw Fire Guard Warsaw Fire Guard () was a fire fighting unit in the city of Warsaw. Formed as Warsaw's first permanent fire service in 1834, it remained an independent and city-owned venture until its nationalization by the Nazi German authorities during the occupation of Poland following the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. In the three years of its existence, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the ghetto from an estimated 450,000 to 37,000.
Warsaw Metro The Warsaw Metro (Polish: Metro Warszawskie) is one of Europe's newest metro systems and Poland's first. It was opened in 1995 and consists of a single north-south line, still partly under construction that links central Warsaw with its densely populated southern suburbs.
Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact or Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially named the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance (), was an organization of Central and Eastern European communist states. It was established on May 1, 1955 in Warsaw, Poland to counter the alleged threat from the NATO alliance.
Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science The Palace of Culture and Science (Polish: Pałac Kultury i Nauki, also abbreviated PKiN) in Warsaw is the tallest building in Poland and the world's 164th tallest building. The building was originally known as the Joseph Stalin Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki imienia Józefa Stalina), but in the wake of destalinization the dedication was revoked; Stalin's name was hastily removed from the interior lobby and one of the building's sculptures.
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra (Polish: Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej w Warszawie), one of Poland's premier musical institutions, was established in 1901 on the initiative of an assembly of Polish aristocrats and financiers, not to mention musicians. Between 1901 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939, a rollcall of virtuoso- and conductor-composers regularly performed their works with the orchestra, including Grieg, Honegger, Leoncavallo, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Richard Strauss, and Igor Stravinsky.
Warsaw School of Mathematics "Warsaw School of Mathematics" is the name given to a group of mathematicians who worked at Warsaw, Poland, in the two decades between the World Wars, especially in the fields of logic, set theory, point-set topology and real analysis. They published in the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae, founded in 1920 — one of the world's first specialist pure-mathematics journals.
Warsaw Trolleybuses After World War II most of the communication network in Warsaw was destroyed. The streets were filled with rubble, and the streetcar infrastructure was either transported to Germany by the Wehrmacht or destroyed.
Warsaw University of Technology Warsaw University of Technology is the largest academic school of technology in Poland, and one of the largest in East Europe, employing 2,000 professors. The number of students is 31,000 (as of 2004), most of them study full-time.
Warsaw Uprising (1830) The Warsaw Uprising of 1830, otherwise known as the November Night () was an armed uprising of a small group of Polish non-commissioned officers against the Russian garrison of Warsaw, then the capital of the Kingdom of Poland, dependent on Russia. The uprising, started in the late hours of November 29, 1830, soon spread to all parts of the city and became the spark that ignited what became known as the November Uprising.
Warsaw Voice Warsaw Voice: Polish and Central European Review is an English language newspaper printed in Poland, concentrating on news about Poland and its neighbours. First released in October 1988, it is a general news magazine with sections on political, economic, social and cultural news and with opinions sections.
Warsaw-Vienna Railway The Warsaw-Vienna Railway () was a historic railway system which operated in Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire, from 1845 until 1912, when it was nationalized by the Russian government. The main component of its network was a line 327,6 km in length from Warsaw to the station Maczki (today a suburb of Sosnowiec) on the border with the Austrian Empire, from 1867 known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Warship Preservation Trust The Warship Preservation Trust is based in Birkenhead, England and hosts Europe's largest collection of preserved warships. The fleet consists of the ships HMS Plymouth and the submarine HMS Onyx from the Falklands War; the minehunter HMS Bronington; the German U-Boat U-534 and LCT 7074, the last surviving landing craft tank that took part in D-Day.
Warship Support Agency The Warship Support Agency (WSA) was a non-executive agency within the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) of the UK Ministry of Defence. It was created on 1 April 2001 from the amalgamation of the "Naval Bases and Supply Agency" and the "Ship Support Agency" and had its headquarters initially in Bath, England, but later moved to the MoD Abbey Wood site in Bristol.
Warschauer Kniefall Warschauer Kniefall is a German term meaning "The Warsaw Genuflection (kneeling)", which refers to the incident on December 7, 1970, in which social democratic Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt, while visiting a monument to the Nazi-era Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the then communist Peoples Republic of Poland, very surprisingly, and to all appearances spontaneously, knelt.
Warstein Warstein is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located at the north end of the Sauerland, at . Population: 29,567 (2005). Area: 157.91 km². The highest elevation with 581 m is in the south of the city near Stimm Stamm, the lowest elevation with 220 m is in Niederbergheim in the northwest. The city belongs to the district Soest.
Warstone Lane Cemetery Warstone Lane Cemetery, (), also called Brookfields Cemetery, or Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery, is a cemetery (1847) in Birmingham, England. Located in Hockley, the city's Jewellery Quarter, it is one of two cemeteries (the other being Key Hill Cemetery): the only open spaces in Jewellery Quarter.
Warszawa Gdańska station Warsaw Gdańska station (Warszawa Gdańska or Dworzec Gdański in Polish) is a railway station in the northern part of the city of Warsaw. It is located on the so-called Northern Line, a railway running between the Warsaw's central area and the borough of Żoliborz.
Warszawa Śródmieście WKD Warszawa Śródmieście WKD is the city terminal station of the Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa (WKD) suburban light rail line in Poland's capital city of Warsaw. It is situated on Aleje Jerozolimskie (Jerusalem Avenue) immediately to the south-west of Warszawa Centralna station.
Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa (Warsaw Suburban Railway, WKD) is a suburban light rail line in Poland's capital city of Warsaw. The line, together with its two branches, links Warsaw with the municipalities of Michałowice, Pruszków, Brwinów, Podkowa Leśna, Milanówek and Grodzisk Mazowiecki to the south-west of Warsaw.
Wartburg Castle Wartburg Castle is situated to the southwest of and overlooking the town of Eisenach in Thuringia, Germany, on a 1230-foot (410 m) precipitous hill. In 1999, Wartburg Castle was selected to the World Heritage List as an "Outstanding Monument of the Feudal Period in Central Europe" and is linked to "Cultural Values of Universal Significance".
Wartburg College Wartburg College is a four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Waverly, Iowa. Wartburg also operates a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado referred to as Wartburg West.
Wartburgkreis Wartburgkreis is a Kreis (district) in the west of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) the districts Unstrut-Hainich, Gotha, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, and the districts Fulda, Hersfeld-Rotenburg and Werra-MeiĂźner in Hesse.
Wartime (Doctor Who) Wartime is the title of a short science fiction film, produced direct-to-video in 1987 by Reeltime Pictures. It was the first professionally produced, authorized independent spin-off of the long-running TV series Doctor Who, and the only such production to be made while the originating TV series was still on the air (it ended in 1989).
Wartime Elections Act The Wartime Elections Act was a bill passed on September 20, 1917 by the Liberal-Conservative government of Robert Borden, and was instrumental in pushing Liberals to join the Liberal-Conservatives in the formation of the Canadian Unionist government. While the bill was an explicit attempt to get more votes for the government, it was also the first act giving women the vote in federal elections.
Wartime radio Wartime radio is a genre of music that was enjoyed during the late 1930s through mid 1940s. After the end of World War II, this music exploded until the paranoia of the Cold War made this kind of music irrevelevant after the Soviet menace replaced the Nazi menace.
Wartling Wartling is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is located between Bexhill and Hailsham, 10 miles (16km) west of the latter, and at the northern edge of the Pevensey Levels.
Warton, Fylde Warton is a village on the Fylde peninsula, and the borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England, approximately six miles from Preston and eight from Blackpool. The village is located on the banks of the River Ribble, close to its entry into the Irish Sea.
Warton, Lancaster Warton is a village on the border of Lancashire and Cumbria, in the north-west of England, with a population of around 2,000. It is a village steeped in history, it's earliest recording as a settlement is made in The Doomsday Book written in 1086.
Wartortle are 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. Wartortle are famous for evolving from one of the three species of Pokémon the player can choose at the start of their adventure in Pokémon Red and Blue.
WaruSeadramon WaruSeadramon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Ultimate Level Sea Animal Digimon, the evil digivolved form of Seadramon. This Digimon never appeared in the show, however, it appears in several Digimon video games.
Warwick Warwick (pronounced ) is the historic county town of Warwickshire in England and has a population of 25,434 (2001 census). The town lies upon the River Avon and is located 18 km (11 miles) south of Coventry and 4 km (2.
Warwick Agreement The Warwick Agreement is the name of a document agreed in July 2004 to the 2005 General Election between many of Britain's main trade unions and the Labour Party, which helped form Labour's 2005 election manifesto.
Warwick Armstrong Warwick Windridge Armstrong (born May 22, 1879 in Kyneton, Victoria, died July 13 1947 in Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer. He captained the Australian cricket team in two Ashes series in Australia and England in 1920-21 and 1921, winning both.
Warwick Avenue tube station Warwick Avenue tube station is a London Underground station near Little Venice in inner north-west London. The station is on the Bakerloo Line, between Paddington and Maida Vale stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.
Warwick Conferences Warwick Conferences provides conference services using the facilities of the University of Warwick. It is a fully owned subsidiary of the University and was the first venture of its kind by a UK higher education institution.
Warwick International Development Summit The Warwick International Development Summit (WIDS) is an annual three-day conference held at the University of Warwick. The event aims to bring together some of the leading actors and thinkers to raise awareness of the issues and problems associated with international development.
Warwick Line Warwick Line (also known as the Warwick-Yorktown line) was a defensive works across the Virginia Peninsula maintained along the Warwick River by Confederate General John B. Magruder against much larger Union forces under General George B.
Warwick Manufacturing Group The Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), part of the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick, is one of Europe's leading manufacturing groups and is involved in publicly and privately funded research on innovation in products and in manufacturing processes. In all of its activities WMG adopts a partnership approach, involving industry closely in the delivery of its extensive research, technology transfer and training programmes.
Warwick McKibbin Warwick McKibbin (born 21 April 1957 in Sydney) is an Australian Professor of economics at the Australian National University who works across a wide range of areas in applied policy. He has published more that 200 scholarly articles and several books and is internationally known for his contribution to global economic modeling.
Warwick Medical School The Warwick Medical School is unique in that it accepts applications only from those who hold a good (upper second and above) bioscience degree. Most medical students in the UK are accepted directly from school on the basis of their A-level grades.
Warwick Neck, Rhode Island Warwick Neck is a part of the City of Warwick in Rhode Island, United States. This section of city was first settled in 1660's and played a prominent part of the early history of Rhode Island including colonist skirmishes with the native American chief called King Philip.
Warwick New York Hotel The Warwick New York Hotel is located at 65 West 54th Street, off the Avenue of Americas in Manhattan, New York City. The Warwick Hotel was originally commissioned by William Randolph Hearst in 1926 as a guesthouse for his Hollywood and theatrical friends.
Warrenpoint Warrenpoint ( - alternatively Rinn Mhic Giolla Rua meaning "the promontory/point of the red-haired servant") is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, lying on Carlingford Lough. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 7,000.
Warrenpoint Ambush The Warrenpoint Ambush, also known as the Narrow Water Attack or the Warrenpoint massacre Soldiers die in Warrenpoint massacre — BBC News On This Day feature, on August 27 1979 was an ambush that resulted in the British Army's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Warrens Bakery Warrens Bakery are family-owned chain of bakeries from St Just, Cornwall. They are among the best known makers of Cornish pasties and Cornish saffron cake in the county, and have over 80 shops throughout the south-west of England.
Warrens, Saint Michael, Barbados The town of Warrens located in the parish of Saint Michael is one of the fastest developing areas in the country of Barbados. In the span of a few short years beginning around the year 2000, the Warrens, Saint Michael area has become synonymous with new money flowing into the country and for the development in the form of newly constructed tall buildings.
Warrimoo, New South Wales Warrimoo (elevation: 273 metres) is a small village in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, 75 kilometres west of Sydney, Australia. Warrimoo borders the townships/suburbs of Blaxland, Mount Riverview, Sun Valley, Valley Heights and Yellow Rock.
Warring States Period The Warring States Period () covers the period from some time in the 5th century BC to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC. It is nominally considered to be the second part of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, following the Spring and Autumn Period, although the Zhou dynasty itself ended in 256 BC, 35 years earlier than the end of the Warring States period.
Warringah Council Warringah is a local council area in the Northern Beaches region of Sydney, Australia. The Warringah Council overlaps with a number of suburbs from the Manly Council area to the south and the Pittwater Council are to the north.
Warringah Freeway The Warringah Freeway (also known as the Warringah Expressway and the M1/M2) is a major road in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The freeway links the northern ends of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Sydney Harbour Tunnel to the Gore Hill Freeway.
Warringah Rugby Club Warringah Rugby Club are a rugby union club based in the northern beachside suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales. The club currently competes in the New South Wales Rugby Union competitions, the Shute Shield and Tooheys New Cup.
Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation The Warrington and Runcorn Development Corporation was a Development Corporation formed in the 1980s by the merger of the Warrington Development Corporation and the Runcorn Development Corporation, which covered two adjacent areas.
Warrington bomb attacks The Warrington bomb attacks took place in Warrington, England in 1993. The first attack, on a gasworks, created a huge fireball but no casualties (however a police officer was shot and injured after stopping a van),Hansard - Terrorist Incidents but the second attack on Bridge Street killed two children and injured many other people.
Warrington Central railway station Warrington Central railway station is one of two main railway stations serving the town of Warrington in the north-west of England. It is located on the southern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line (the former Cheshire Lines Committee route between Liverpool and Manchester), and is situated around halfway between the two cities.
Warrington College of Business The University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business (WCB) offers a wide array of programs with approximately 8,000 students enrolled in classes including undergraduate, graduate, PhD, and exchange students. WCB's undergraduate programs include accounting, computer & information sciences, decision & information sciences, economics, finance, management and marketing.
Warrington Hudlin Warrington Hudlin is an American film director, producer, and actor. His younger brother, Reginald Hudlin, is also a director and producer, together the Hudlin bothers have produced films such as House Party and Bebe's Kids.
Warrington Transporter Bridge The Warrington Transporter Bridge (or Bank Quay Transporter Bridge) across the River Mersey has a span of 187 feet (57 m). It was built in 1916 and, although it has been out of use since circa 1964, it is still extant.
Warrington Wizards Warrington Wizards are a British rugby league team. They were first invited into the league by the RFL in 2003, on the creation of the new National League Three, the 4th tier of British Rugby League, which they won in its inaugural year.
Warrington Wolves Warrington Wolves are a professional rugby league team in the town of Warrington, Cheshire in England. In the past the club have been nicknamed "The Wire" or "Wires", in reference to the strength of the wire-pulling industry in Warrington.
Warrington, New Zealand Warrington is a small settlement on the coast of Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located close to the northern shore of Blueskin Bay, an area of mudflats to the north of Dunedin, and is administered as part of the Dunedin City.
Warrior (wrestler) Warrior (born Bryan Barry James Hellwig on June 16 1959) is a former American professional wrestler known to many as The Ultimate Warrior, and is one of the most controversial performers in the history of the wrestling industry. He legally changed his name to Warrior in 1993.
Warrior Beasts The Warrior Beasts (youkikaiju), also known as Battle Beasts (sentoujuu), were the monsters and evil mecha from the anime and manga series Great Mazinger by Go Nagai. Great Mazinger was the sequel to the wildly popular Mazinger Z.
Warrior Blade Rastan Saga Episode III Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III is an arcade game released by Taito Corporation in 1991. It is a weapons brawler similar to Golden Axe, and its main feature is the use of dual screens to depict the action.
Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga III Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode III is an arcade game released by Taito Corporation in 1991. It is a weapons brawler similar to Golden Axe, and its main feature is the use of dual screens to depict the action.
Warrior class battleship The two-ship Warrior class was a revolutionary British Royal Navy battleship design of the mid 19th century. They were the second type of ocean going iron-armored warships ever constructed, after the French Gloire, and were the most powerful naval vessels afloat at the time of their launch.
Warrior Diet The Warrior Diet is a controversial diet created by former Penthouse (magazine) editor and former Israeli Special Forces soldier Ori Hofmekler and marketed by Dragon Door. He created it based upon his own personal experiences, expanded upon by his opinions of how warriors ate (namely the Romans, similar to Spartan Health, though others are referred to), why their methods were effective, how these methods can be adapted to the modern age, and reasons he thinks these methods are more effective than the more scientific and common methods of dieting.
Warrior gene A version of the primate monoamine oxidase-A gene has been referred to as the warrior gene, initially in monkeys then in humans. Several different versions of the gene are found in different individuals, although a functional gene is present in most humans (except in a few individuals with Brunner syndrome).
Warrior Leader Course Warrior Leader Course (or WLC), formerly Primary Leadership Development Course (PLDC), is the first course of study in the US Army Non-Commissioned Officer Education System. It is open to specialists, corporals and sergeants.
Warrior of Hirschlanden The Warrior of Hirschlanden is a statue of a nude ithyphallic warrior made of sandstone, the oldest known Iron Age life-size anthropomorphic statue north of the Alps. It was a production of the Hallstatt culture of the early Iron Age (800-475 BC).
Warrior princess The concept of warrior princesses is relatively new in fiction but it became increasingly popular with the feminist movement's successes in female empowerment, gradually pushing the stereotype of a "damsel in distress" to the background. A warrior princess usually incorporates a strong female personality determined in pursuit of her goals and unabashed by the typical "man's work" like fighting wars or performing manual labour.
Warrior Soul Warrior Soul is the name of a hard rock/punk band formed in 1988 by lead singer Kory Clarke, guitarist John Ricco, bassist Pete McLanahan, and drummer Paul Ferguson (later replaced by Mark Evans and then Scott Duboys). Often cited as one of the most underrated bands of the time, they were signed to Geffen Records from 1989 to 1994.
Warrior Tracked Armoured Vehicle The FV510 Warrior tracked vehicle family, are a series of British armoured vehicles originally developed to replace the older FV430 series of armoured vehicles. The Warrior started life in the MCV-80 project that was first approached in the 1970s, GKN Sankey won the production contract in 1980.
Warrior Woman Warrior Woman (Freida Ratsel) was a fictional Nazi supervillain from Marvel Comics' first Invaders series. She was given a super-strength formula similar to the one used on Master Man, but Warrior Woman's version seemed to be more stable.
Warriors cricket team The Fidentia Warriors is the name used by the combined Eastern Province and Border first class cricket teams in South Africa. The home venues of the Warriors are St George's Park, Port Elizabeth and Mercedes Benz Park, East London.
Warriors of Fate Warriors of Fate is the English adaptation of the Japanese arcade game, , which uses Romance of the Three Kingdoms as the background, and also the sequel of Dynasty Wars (Tenchi wo Kurau in Japan). It was released by Capcom in 1992, an era in which they also published several similar horizontal-scrolling action games such as Captain Commando, King of Dragons, and Knights of the Round.
Warriors of the Boer Nation The Warriors of the Boer Nation (Afrikaans: Boerevolk-Krygers) is a suspected but unsubstantiated South African Boer terrorist group aimed at Boer separation which based on unauthenticated letters sent to pro government Afrikaans newspapers in 2002 purportedly claimed responsibility for a series of bombings which started in the black township of Soweto, South Africa and later spread to other areas of the country. They were later linked by police to another unsubstantiated group called the Boeremag (Boer Force' or 'Farmers' Force' in Afrikaans).
Warriors of the Deep Warriors of the Deep is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from January 5 to January 13, 1984. This story kicked off the 21st season of the classic Doctor Who series and it marked the return of the Silurians and the Sea Devils, both of which had not been seen since the Third Doctor's era in the early 1970s.
Warriors' Gate Warriors' Gate is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 3 to January 24, 1981. The serial is the last of three loosely connected serials known as the E-Space Trilogy and the last to feature Romana and K-9 as companions.
Warriparinga Warriparinga (meaning Windy Place in local Kaurna language) is the beginning of Tjilbruke's Trail, a Kaurna ceremonial meeting place and European early settlement site. It is situated in the metropolitan suburb of Marion, South Australia and is bordered by Marion Road and South Road.
Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education was an independent higher education institution that began operating in 1970 in the city of Warrnambool on the South-West Coast of Victoria. It offered undergraduate and postgraduate programs in acquaculture, arts, business, nursing, municipal engineering, and teaching.
Warrnambool, Victoria Warrnambool is a regional city of around 32,000 people on the south-western coast of Victoria, Australia, located in the municipality City of Warrnambool. It is at the western end of the Great Ocean Road, but is more quickly reached along the Princes Highway, 265 kilometres and 3 hours from Melbourne by road or rail.
Warrumbungle National Park Warrumbungle National Park is located in central northern New South Wales (Australia), 352 km northwest of Sydney. Outside of the Sydney metropolitan area parks, it is the most-visited national park in New South Wales.
Warrungu Warrungu (or Warrangu, Warrango) is an Australian Aboriginal language, one of the dozen languages of the Maric branch of the Pama-Nyungan family. It was formerly spoken in the area around Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Warryn Campbell Warryn Campbell (nicknamed "Smiley" or "Baby Dubb") is a successful African-American record producer, specializing in gospel music and R&B. His past and current work includes production and songwriting credits for Yolanda Adams, Kierra Sheard, Brandy, Dave Hollister, Men Of Standard, Mario, Shanice, Dru Hill, Coko, and more.
Wars in Lombardy The wars in Lombardy between Venice and Milan, lasted from 1425 to the signing of the Treaty of Lodi in 1454. During their course, the political structure of Italy was transformed: out of a competitive congeries of communes and city-states, emerged the five major Italian territorial powers that would make up the map of Italy until the Italian Wars.
Wars of Castro The Wars of Castro describe a series of events in the mid-seventeenth century revolving around the ancient city of Castro (located in present-day Lazio, Italy), which eventually resulted in the city's destruction on September 2, 1649. The conflict was a result of a power struggle between the papacy — represented by members of two deeply entrenched Roman families, the Barberini Pope Urban VIII and then the Pamphili Pope Innocent X — and the Farnese dukes of Parma, who controlled Castro and its surrounding territories.
Wars of Hindu Mythology The Wars of Hindu mythology depict great heroes and demons in battles of celestial proportions, filled with the awesome force of celestial weapons, religious mysticism, magic, celestial and supernatural beings.
Wars of In-laws Wars of In-Laws (Chinese: ć‘çš„é‡Žč »ĺĄ¶ĺĄ¶) is an ancient-comedy jointly produced by TVB and an independent production company, starring Liza Wang, Myolie Wu, Bosco Wong and Shek Sau. It was aired on TVB Jade in 2005 and was well received by viewers.
Wars of Light and Shadow The Wars of Light and Shadow is a series of fantasy books by Janny Wurts. When completed it will consist of five story arcs, with the first two arcs complete and the last book of the third arc, Stormed Fortress currently underway.
Wars of national liberation Wars of national liberation are conflicts fought by indigenous military groups against an imperial power in the name of self-determination, thus attempting to remove that power's influence, in particular during the decolonization period. They are often founded in guerrilla warfare or asymmetric warfare.
Wars of the Roses The Wars of the Roses (1455 - 1485) was a series of civil wars fought over the throne of England between adherents of the House of Lancaster and the House of York. Both houses were branches of the Plantagenet royal house, tracing their descent from King Edward III.
Wars of the Three Kingdoms The Wars of the Three Kingdoms (sometimes known as the Wars of the Three Nations) were an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 at a time when these countries had come under the Personal Rule of the same monarch. The best known of these conflicts is the English Civil War.
Warsangeli Daraawiish The Dervish ideal was a nationalistic cause that sought to integrate Somalis and unite Somali territories into a one centralized administration. Although it had foibles and major victories, its credit and “worth causes” should not be given away without an understanding.
Warsaw Warsaw (, , in full The Capital City of Warsaw, Polish: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa) is the capital of Poland, its largest city, and a gamma world city. It is located on the Vistula river roughly 370 km from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains.
Warsaw Citadel Cytadela (Polish for Citadel) is a 19th-century fortress in Warsaw, Poland. It was built by order of Tsar Nicholas I after the suppression of the 1830 November Uprising in order to bolster imperial Russian control of the city.
Warsaw Concerto The Warsaw Concerto is a piano concerto written by British composer Richard Addinsell for the 1941 film, Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later re-title Suicide Squadron). While Addinsell created the melodic motives, the fine orchestration was by Roy Douglas, whose contribution is rarely acknowledged.
Warsaw Confederation (1573) The Warsaw Confederation (January 28, 1573), an important development in the history of Poland and Lithuania, is considered the formal beginning of religious freedom in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. While it did not prevent all conflict based on religion, it did make the Commonwealth a much safer and more tolerant place than most of contemporaneous Europe, especially during the subsequent Thirty Years' War.
Warsaw Derby The Warsaw Derby is a race for three-year-old Thoroughbred race horses first run in 1874 at a racetrack in Warsaw, Poland. In addition to the purse money, the race winner receives the Prize of the President of the Republic of Poland.
Warsaw Fire Guard Warsaw Fire Guard () was a fire fighting unit in the city of Warsaw. Formed as Warsaw's first permanent fire service in 1834, it remained an independent and city-owned venture until its nationalization by the Nazi German authorities during the occupation of Poland following the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. In the three years of its existence, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the ghetto from an estimated 450,000 to 37,000.
Warsaw Metro The Warsaw Metro (Polish: Metro Warszawskie) is one of Europe's newest metro systems and Poland's first. It was opened in 1995 and consists of a single north-south line, still partly under construction that links central Warsaw with its densely populated southern suburbs.
Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact or Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially named the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance (), was an organization of Central and Eastern European communist states. It was established on May 1, 1955 in Warsaw, Poland to counter the alleged threat from the NATO alliance.
Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science The Palace of Culture and Science (Polish: Pałac Kultury i Nauki, also abbreviated PKiN) in Warsaw is the tallest building in Poland and the world's 164th tallest building. The building was originally known as the Joseph Stalin Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki imienia Józefa Stalina), but in the wake of destalinization the dedication was revoked; Stalin's name was hastily removed from the interior lobby and one of the building's sculptures.
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra (Polish: Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej w Warszawie), one of Poland's premier musical institutions, was established in 1901 on the initiative of an assembly of Polish aristocrats and financiers, not to mention musicians. Between 1901 and the outbreak of World War II in 1939, a rollcall of virtuoso- and conductor-composers regularly performed their works with the orchestra, including Grieg, Honegger, Leoncavallo, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Saint-Saëns, Richard Strauss, and Igor Stravinsky.
Warsaw School of Mathematics "Warsaw School of Mathematics" is the name given to a group of mathematicians who worked at Warsaw, Poland, in the two decades between the World Wars, especially in the fields of logic, set theory, point-set topology and real analysis. They published in the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae, founded in 1920 — one of the world's first specialist pure-mathematics journals.
Warsaw Trolleybuses After World War II most of the communication network in Warsaw was destroyed. The streets were filled with rubble, and the streetcar infrastructure was either transported to Germany by the Wehrmacht or destroyed.
Warsaw University of Technology Warsaw University of Technology is the largest academic school of technology in Poland, and one of the largest in East Europe, employing 2,000 professors. The number of students is 31,000 (as of 2004), most of them study full-time.
Warsaw Uprising (1830) The Warsaw Uprising of 1830, otherwise known as the November Night () was an armed uprising of a small group of Polish non-commissioned officers against the Russian garrison of Warsaw, then the capital of the Kingdom of Poland, dependent on Russia. The uprising, started in the late hours of November 29, 1830, soon spread to all parts of the city and became the spark that ignited what became known as the November Uprising.
Warsaw Voice Warsaw Voice: Polish and Central European Review is an English language newspaper printed in Poland, concentrating on news about Poland and its neighbours. First released in October 1988, it is a general news magazine with sections on political, economic, social and cultural news and with opinions sections.
Warsaw-Vienna Railway The Warsaw-Vienna Railway () was a historic railway system which operated in Congress Poland, a part of the Russian Empire, from 1845 until 1912, when it was nationalized by the Russian government. The main component of its network was a line 327,6 km in length from Warsaw to the station Maczki (today a suburb of Sosnowiec) on the border with the Austrian Empire, from 1867 known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Warship Preservation Trust The Warship Preservation Trust is based in Birkenhead, England and hosts Europe's largest collection of preserved warships. The fleet consists of the ships HMS Plymouth and the submarine HMS Onyx from the Falklands War; the minehunter HMS Bronington; the German U-Boat U-534 and LCT 7074, the last surviving landing craft tank that took part in D-Day.
Warship Support Agency The Warship Support Agency (WSA) was a non-executive agency within the Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) of the UK Ministry of Defence. It was created on 1 April 2001 from the amalgamation of the "Naval Bases and Supply Agency" and the "Ship Support Agency" and had its headquarters initially in Bath, England, but later moved to the MoD Abbey Wood site in Bristol.
Warschauer Kniefall Warschauer Kniefall is a German term meaning "The Warsaw Genuflection (kneeling)", which refers to the incident on December 7, 1970, in which social democratic Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt, while visiting a monument to the Nazi-era Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the then communist Peoples Republic of Poland, very surprisingly, and to all appearances spontaneously, knelt.
Warstein Warstein is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located at the north end of the Sauerland, at . Population: 29,567 (2005). Area: 157.91 km². The highest elevation with 581 m is in the south of the city near Stimm Stamm, the lowest elevation with 220 m is in Niederbergheim in the northwest. The city belongs to the district Soest.
Warstone Lane Cemetery Warstone Lane Cemetery, (), also called Brookfields Cemetery, or Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery, is a cemetery (1847) in Birmingham, England. Located in Hockley, the city's Jewellery Quarter, it is one of two cemeteries (the other being Key Hill Cemetery): the only open spaces in Jewellery Quarter.
Warszawa Gdańska station Warsaw Gdańska station (Warszawa Gdańska or Dworzec Gdański in Polish) is a railway station in the northern part of the city of Warsaw. It is located on the so-called Northern Line, a railway running between the Warsaw's central area and the borough of Żoliborz.
Warszawa Śródmieście WKD Warszawa Śródmieście WKD is the city terminal station of the Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa (WKD) suburban light rail line in Poland's capital city of Warsaw. It is situated on Aleje Jerozolimskie (Jerusalem Avenue) immediately to the south-west of Warszawa Centralna station.
Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa Warszawska Kolej Dojazdowa (Warsaw Suburban Railway, WKD) is a suburban light rail line in Poland's capital city of Warsaw. The line, together with its two branches, links Warsaw with the municipalities of Michałowice, Pruszków, Brwinów, Podkowa Leśna, Milanówek and Grodzisk Mazowiecki to the south-west of Warsaw.
Wartburg Castle Wartburg Castle is situated to the southwest of and overlooking the town of Eisenach in Thuringia, Germany, on a 1230-foot (410 m) precipitous hill. In 1999, Wartburg Castle was selected to the World Heritage List as an "Outstanding Monument of the Feudal Period in Central Europe" and is linked to "Cultural Values of Universal Significance".
Wartburg College Wartburg College is a four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Waverly, Iowa. Wartburg also operates a satellite campus in Denver, Colorado referred to as Wartburg West.
Wartburgkreis Wartburgkreis is a Kreis (district) in the west of Thuringia, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) the districts Unstrut-Hainich, Gotha, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, and the districts Fulda, Hersfeld-Rotenburg and Werra-MeiĂźner in Hesse.
Wartime (Doctor Who) Wartime is the title of a short science fiction film, produced direct-to-video in 1987 by Reeltime Pictures. It was the first professionally produced, authorized independent spin-off of the long-running TV series Doctor Who, and the only such production to be made while the originating TV series was still on the air (it ended in 1989).
Wartime Elections Act The Wartime Elections Act was a bill passed on September 20, 1917 by the Liberal-Conservative government of Robert Borden, and was instrumental in pushing Liberals to join the Liberal-Conservatives in the formation of the Canadian Unionist government. While the bill was an explicit attempt to get more votes for the government, it was also the first act giving women the vote in federal elections.
Wartime radio Wartime radio is a genre of music that was enjoyed during the late 1930s through mid 1940s. After the end of World War II, this music exploded until the paranoia of the Cold War made this kind of music irrevelevant after the Soviet menace replaced the Nazi menace.
Wartling Wartling is a village and civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England. It is located between Bexhill and Hailsham, 10 miles (16km) west of the latter, and at the northern edge of the Pevensey Levels.
Warton, Fylde Warton is a village on the Fylde peninsula, and the borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England, approximately six miles from Preston and eight from Blackpool. The village is located on the banks of the River Ribble, close to its entry into the Irish Sea.
Warton, Lancaster Warton is a village on the border of Lancashire and Cumbria, in the north-west of England, with a population of around 2,000. It is a village steeped in history, it's earliest recording as a settlement is made in The Doomsday Book written in 1086.
Wartortle are 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. Wartortle are famous for evolving from one of the three species of Pokémon the player can choose at the start of their adventure in Pokémon Red and Blue.
WaruSeadramon WaruSeadramon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise, a Ultimate Level Sea Animal Digimon, the evil digivolved form of Seadramon. This Digimon never appeared in the show, however, it appears in several Digimon video games.
Warwick Warwick (pronounced ) is the historic county town of Warwickshire in England and has a population of 25,434 (2001 census). The town lies upon the River Avon and is located 18 km (11 miles) south of Coventry and 4 km (2.
Warwick Agreement The Warwick Agreement is the name of a document agreed in July 2004 to the 2005 General Election between many of Britain's main trade unions and the Labour Party, which helped form Labour's 2005 election manifesto.
Warwick Armstrong Warwick Windridge Armstrong (born May 22, 1879 in Kyneton, Victoria, died July 13 1947 in Sydney, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer. He captained the Australian cricket team in two Ashes series in Australia and England in 1920-21 and 1921, winning both.
Warwick Avenue tube station Warwick Avenue tube station is a London Underground station near Little Venice in inner north-west London. The station is on the Bakerloo Line, between Paddington and Maida Vale stations, and is in Travelcard Zone 2.
Warwick Conferences Warwick Conferences provides conference services using the facilities of the University of Warwick. It is a fully owned subsidiary of the University and was the first venture of its kind by a UK higher education institution.
Warwick International Development Summit The Warwick International Development Summit (WIDS) is an annual three-day conference held at the University of Warwick. The event aims to bring together some of the leading actors and thinkers to raise awareness of the issues and problems associated with international development.
Warwick Line Warwick Line (also known as the Warwick-Yorktown line) was a defensive works across the Virginia Peninsula maintained along the Warwick River by Confederate General John B. Magruder against much larger Union forces under General George B.
Warwick Manufacturing Group The Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), part of the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick, is one of Europe's leading manufacturing groups and is involved in publicly and privately funded research on innovation in products and in manufacturing processes. In all of its activities WMG adopts a partnership approach, involving industry closely in the delivery of its extensive research, technology transfer and training programmes.
Warwick McKibbin Warwick McKibbin (born 21 April 1957 in Sydney) is an Australian Professor of economics at the Australian National University who works across a wide range of areas in applied policy. He has published more that 200 scholarly articles and several books and is internationally known for his contribution to global economic modeling.
Warwick Medical School The Warwick Medical School is unique in that it accepts applications only from those who hold a good (upper second and above) bioscience degree. Most medical students in the UK are accepted directly from school on the basis of their A-level grades.
Warwick Neck, Rhode Island Warwick Neck is a part of the City of Warwick in Rhode Island, United States. This section of city was first settled in 1660's and played a prominent part of the early history of Rhode Island including colonist skirmishes with the native American chief called King Philip.
Warwick New York Hotel The Warwick New York Hotel is located at 65 West 54th Street, off the Avenue of Americas in Manhattan, New York City. The Warwick Hotel was originally commissioned by William Randolph Hearst in 1926 as a guesthouse for his Hollywood and theatrical friends.
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