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Wedgwood, Seattle, Washington Wedgwood is a very middle class residential neighborhood of northeast Seattle, Washington, with a modest commercial strip. Wedgwood is located about two miles (3 km) north, and slightly east, of the University of Washington; it is about six miles (10 km) northeast of Downtown.
Wedmore Wedmore – often called the Isle of Wedmore – is a thriving village, with a population of 3145 according to the 2001 census, in the English county of Somerset. It includes doctors, dentist, butchers, post-office, village store, 3 pubs and a number of other small shops.
Wednesbury Oak Primary School Wednesbury Oak Primary School is a primary school located in Tipton, West Midlands, England. It was constructed in 1972 to serve the recently-built Wednesbury Oak housing estate, and most of the school's pupils attend Willingsworth High School after finishing their primary education.
Wednesbury unreasonableness In English law, Wednesbury unreasonableness is unreasonableness of an administrative decision that is so extreme that courts may intervene to correct it. The term derives from Associated Provincial Picture Houses v.
Wednesday Night Baseball Wednesday Night Baseball is a live game telecast of Major League Baseball that airs every Wednesday night on ESPN and is also available in high definition on ESPN HD. The game starts at 7pm ET, following SportsCenter, and usually lasts around three hours with an hour long Baseball Tonight after the game leading up to the 11pm ET SportsCenter.
Wednesday Night Heroes Wednesday Night Heroes (aka WNH) are a punk band from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The WNH sound is likened to old school English punk bands: like GBH, the Clash, Slaughter and the Dogs and the Ejected real punk sound .
Wednesdays in Mississippi Wednesdays in Mississippi - Part of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Northern women of different races and faiths traveled to Mississippi to develop relationships with their southern peers and to create bridges of understanding across regional, racial, and class lines.
Wee Cooper O'Fife "Wee Cooper O'Fife" is a well-known Scottish folk song about a cooper who beats his wife because she will not cook, clean, and sew. It was recorded by Burl Ives on 11 February 1941Naxos: link for his debut album Okeh Presents The Wayfaring Stranger.
Wee dram A wee dram is a Scottish euphemism for a shot of Scotch Whisky -- a single malt Scotch, for example from the fragrant far north-east North Sea coast distillery of Glenmorangie or the peaty south west-coast Atlantic Laphroaig -- or indeed a dozen or more other famous single malt brands from Orkney to Islay -- but more likely a central belt Whisky blend like Famous Grouse or Black Bottle. Given to guests and visitors, it is a typically Scottish gesture of hospitality, camaderie, national pride and Adam Smith (spookily, see other famous Kirkcaldy MP, New Labour Chancellor Gordon Brown) economics -- hopefully the imbiber won't be able to tell the difference between a single malt and a whisky blend!
Wee Cho Yaw Mr Wee Cho Yaw (）aged 76, is the incumbent Chairman and CEO of the United Overseas Bank Group (UOB), one of the leading financial institutions in Asia, providing a wide-ranging services in finance, supported by her global network of branches and associates.
Wee Chong Jin Wee Chong Jin (Chinese: 黄宗仁, 1917–June 5, 2005) was the former Chief Justice of Singapore from 1963–1990. A third-generation Chinese, he is known for the fact that both his paternal and maternal grandfathers came from China during the 19th century.
Wee Jas In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting and the default pantheon of deities for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Wee Jas is the Suel goddess of Magic, Death, Vanity, and Law. She makes her home on the layer of Acheron known as Ocanthus, where she dwells in an elegant castle of black ice known as the Cabal Macabre.
Wee Shu Min elitism scandal The Wee Shu Min elitism scandal was a Singaporean scandal in October 2006 in which Wee Shu Min, daughter of parliament member Wee Siew Kim and then-eighteen year-old student on Raffles Junior College's scholarship programme, found herself in controversy after posting on her blog what were viewed by some Singaporeans to be elitist,"Time to learn that sorry isn't the hardest word to say", Ong Soh Chin, The Straits Times (Saturday Review), 28 October 2006, p. S10 naive, and insensitive statements against heartlanders.
Wee Siew Kim Wee Siew Kim (born 19 August 1960) is a current Member of the Parliament of Singapore in the Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (Jalan Kayu) since 2001, representing the current ruling People's Action Party. He is currently serving through his second term after winning in the 2006 general elections.
Wee Waa, New South Wales Wee Waa () is a town of approximately 2500 people located in central northern New South Wales, Australia in Narrabri Shire Council. It is located on the Namoi River and lies 571 kilometres northwest of Sydney on the Kamilaroi Highway.
Wee Willie Winkie Wee Willie Winkie is the bedtime figure characterised in the Scottish nursery rhyme of the same name which was written by William Miller in 1841. Wee Willie Winkie is also a book by Rudyard Kipling, a 1937 film with Shirley Temple, and a character in the children's educational weekly Treasure.
Wee-Bey Brice Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice is a fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire played by actor Hassan Johnson. Wee-Bey was the Barksdale organization's most trusted soldier before being sentenced to life imprisonment for multiple homicides.
Weebill The Weebill, Smicrornis brevirostris is a small, up to 9cm long, olive yellow songbird with a grey bill, brown wings, pale yellow eye and grey feet. Its tail feathers are brown with black bar and white spot on tip of all inner webs but the central pairs.
Weeble Weebles are a line of children's toys originating in Hasbro's Playskool division on July 23, 1971. Shaped like eggs with a weight at the fat, or bottom, end, they wobble when pushed, but never fall completely over, hence the name.
Weed A weed is a plant that is considered to be a nuisance in a garden, lawn, or other agricultural development. Weeds may be unwanted because they are unsightly, or because they choke out the growth of other plants by overcrowding, blocking the light, or using up nutrients from the soil.
Weed and Seed Indianapolis Weed and Seed is the name of a crime control/prevention initiative that serves several Indianapolis neighborhoods. The organization was founded by the City of Indianapolis in the 1990's as a way to address the crime issues that plague inner-city areas.
Weed control Weed control is the botanical component of pest control, stopping weeds from reaching a mature stage of growth when they could be harmful to domesticated plants and livestock by physical and chemical methods. In order to reduce weed growth, many "weed control" strategies have been developed in order to contain the growth and spread of weeds.
Weed music distribution service The Weed music distribution service, invented by Shared Media Licensing in 2003, combines aspects of peer-to-peer filesharing and multi-level marketing in order to maximize the distribution of copyrighted music while at the same time providing income to the music's owners.
Weeden Island culture The Weeden Island Culture is one of the many archaeological cultures that existed during the Late Woodland period of the North American Southeast. The name for this culture was derived from the Weedon Island site (despite the dissimilar spellings) in Old Tampa Bay in Pinellas County.
Weedle 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. The purpose of Weedle in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Weedy species In ecology, a weedy species is a species that lives in a wide variety of ecologies, including unstable ones and those damaged by humans. It refers to both plants (not quite the same as the definition of a weed proper) and animals.
Weehawken Cove (North Hoboken Harbor) Weehawken Cove (also known as North Hoboken Harbor, Hoboken Cove and Hoboken's Inner Harbor), is a small body of water in New Jersey, USA that extends westward from the Hudson River. The cove straddles the boundary between Hoboken to the south and Weehawken to the north.
Weehawken High School Weehawken High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Weehawken, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Weehawken School District.
Weehawken School District The Weehawken School District is a comprehensive community public school district serving students in kindergarten through twelfth grade from the Township of Weehawken, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.
Weehawken Street (Manhattan) Weehawken Street is a short street located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City's Greenwich Village, one block from the Hudson River, between Christopher Street and West 10th Street. During the colonial era it was the site of a ferry landing and market where fresh produce was brought to Manhattan from farms across the river.
Week End (song) "Week End" is the fifth single by the Japanese band X Japan and was released on April 21, 1990. Differences between the single edit and the album edit found on Blue Blood include an alternate guitar solo and an additional piano bridge (both passages would remain subject to change during future concerts).
Week End Tour Week End Tour was the name given to French pop singer Lorie's second concert tour, inspired by her hit single Week End. On the 4th of October, 2004, a live recording of the show was released in two versions, as with the famous singer's previous live effort, Live Tour: a regular jewel case release containing the CD and a DVD and a limited edition cardboard box also containing a poster and a watch featuring the blonde songstress during her performances.
Week of Modern Art The Week of Modern Art (Semana de Arte Moderna) was an arts festival in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, from February 11 to February 18, 1922. Historically, the Week marked the start of Modernismo, Brazilian Modernism; though a number of individual Brazilian artists were doing modernist work before the Week, it coalesced and defined the movement and introduced it to Brazilian society at large.
Weekend at Bernie's Weekend at Bernie's is a comedic American motion picture released in 1989. Directed by Ted Kotcheff, it stars Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as a couple of young executives who must create the illusion that their murdered boss, Bernie Lomax, is alive in order to avoid being questioned about it.
Weekend at Bernie's II Weekend at Bernie's II is a comedic motion picture released in 1993 by TriStar Pictures. It's the sequel to the 1989 comedy Weekend at Bernie's and continues the misadventures of two young executives, Larry Wilson (Andrew McCarthy) and Richard Parker (Jonathan Silverman), and their deceased boss, Bernie Lomax (Terry Kiser).
Weekend in New England "Weekend in New England" was a song written by Randy Edelman, and released by Barry Manilow in his 1976 album This One's For You. The song was successful, and it was released as a single in 1976 where it soared to the #1 spot on the U.
Weekend Jazz Weekend Jazz is a student produced show on KBYI from Rexburg, Idaho. Each week the show takes on different themes ranging from tribute shows about Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles, to shows centered on Gypsy jazz, or topics such as Blue Collar work, Film Noir and Dixieland music.
Weekend Love "Weekend Love" was set to see as the second single throughout Asia. However due to the fact that Virgin UK and Melanie B, Emma Bunton, Victoria Beckham and Melanie C had decided to cancel all plans with any further released from Forever, Virgin Asia released the promotional single of Weekend Love.
Weekend Update Weekend Update is a Saturday Night Live sketch which comments on and parodies current events. It is the show's longest running recurring sketch, having been on since the show's first broadcast, and is typically presented in the middle of the show immediately after the first musical performance.
Weekender The Weekender is a free weekly newspaper covering Torbay and South Devon, published by the Westcountry Publications. The paper is published in two editions; the Torbay edition covers Torquay, Paignton, and Brixham, while the Newton & Teignbridge edition covers Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton.
Weeki Wachee Springs Weeki Wachee Springs is a Weeki Wachee, Florida tourist attraction where underwater performances by mermaids, women dressed with fins about their legs as well as other fancy outfits, can be viewed in an aquarium-like setting. A water park, Buccaneer Bay, and boat rides are also part of the attraction.
Weekly Dearest My Brother is a series of six bishĹŤjo-centered manga booklets that were released weekly for a short time in Japan. The manga would come packaged with a limited edition plastic-figure assembly kit, designed by Ohshima Yuki, of the featured character of the week.
Weekly freekly Weekly Freekly is a news show available online that reports about news and upcoming events involving ICP and other artists signed with Psychopathic Records. I tends to focus mainly on "The Gathering of the Juggalos" but other events, such as JCW, and ICP interviews are also featured.
Weekly Gendai Weekly Gendai (週刊現代 Shūkan Gendai) is a weekly magazine published since 1959 by Kodansha. Published simultaneously with Weekly Post (another weekly magazine published by Shogakukan), it includes articles about political scandals, sports and celebrities; nude photos; movie information; book reviews; and other articles of interest to middle-aged salarymen.
Weekly Hill News Weekly Hill News is a four page weekly newspaper published in Murree Hills, Circle Bakote, Gullies and Kotly Sattian. This paper was founded by journalist and historian Mohammed Obaidullah Alvi and Allah Ditta Abbasi.
Weekly Markets in Munich The Weekly Markets in Munich are an important art of city's food supply. The population of Munich is provided with an entire range of fresh groceries by 41 weekly markets, including farmers’ markets and organic-food markets on a daily basis.
Weekly Morning Weekly Morning (週刊モーニング, Shūkan mōningu) is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha, aimed at adult men. It was born in 1982 as Comic Morning (コミックモーニング, Komikku mōningu).
Weekly newspaper A weekly newspaper, or semi-weekly newspaper is usually a smaller publication than a larger, daily newspaper (such as one that covers a metropolitan area). Unlike these metropolitan newspapers, a weekly newspaper will cover a smaller area, such as one or more smaller towns or an entire county.
Weekly Reader Weekly Reader is a weekly educational classroom magazine designed for children in grades Pre-K–6. The editions cover curriculum themes in the younger grades and news-based, current events and curriculum themed issues in the older grades.
Weekly Reader Publishing Weekly Reader Publishing is a publisher of educational materials in the United States that has been in existence for over 100 years. It provides teaching materials to elementary and secondary schools that are used by more than 90 percent of that country's school districts.
Weekly ST A weekly newspaper published by The Japan Times for learners of English language. It is originally titled as Student Times, but changed to the current one to reflect the fact that a significant portion of its readers are not students.
Weekly Volcano Weekly Volcano is a weekly entertainment newspaper in the South Puget Sound, based in Tacoma, Washington. Noted for its combination of spunky columnists, vivid profiles and sassy commentary on the culture scene that keeps the South Sound percolating, the Weekly Volcano lives as a kind of collective urban diary.
Weekly Worker The Weekly Worker is a weekly newspaper published by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee). Published since 1993, the paper developed out The Leninist, a publication inside the old Communist Party of Great Britain which was banned by the leadership.
Weeks manifold In mathematics, the Weeks manifold, sometimes called the Fomenko-Matveev-Weeks manifold, is a closed hyperbolic 3-manifold obtained by (5,2) and (5,1) Dehn surgeries on the Whitehead link. It has volume approximately equal to .
Weeksville Heritage Center The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that was an important 19th century free black community, whose residents established schools, churches and benevolent associations and were active in the abolitionist movement.
Weeksville, Brooklyn Weeksville was a village founded by African American freedmen on Long Island, New York in the area of what is now the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It was named after James Weeks, a African American freedman who purchased land there in 1838.
Weeley railway station Weeley railway station is on the Sunshine Coast Line from Colchester to Clacton, formerly known as the Tendring Hundred Railway, and serves the village of Weeley in Essex, England. It is operated by 'one' with one train to Colchester and one to Walton-on-Naze each hour.
Weelsby Weelsby is located in the eastern part of Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. Previously separate from Grimsby, it extends from the eastern side of Peoples Park to Love Lane Corner, at the junction of Clee Road (A46) and Humberston Road (A1031) and takes in part of Weelsby Road (A46).
Weems-Botts Museum Weens-Botts Museum is a small, professionally directed museum that features the history of Virginia's oldest chartered town (Dumfries, VA) and two of the more colorful personalities to have lived there: the Rev. Mason Locke Weems and attorney, Benjamin Botts.
WeeMee A WeeMee is a premium avatar for Skype & Windows Live Messenger. WeeMees can be customized on the WeeWorld site; customizations available are similar to those on other avatar sites and include facial features, clothing, and accessories.
Weenen massacre An event in South African history in which Voortrekkers camped along the Blaukraans River, Natal were massacred by Zulus on February 16, 1838. 300 civilians had been killed, including 41 men, 56 women and 185 children.
Weep hole Weep holes or "weeper holes" are small openings left in the outer walls of masonry construction as an outlet for water inside a building to move outside the wall and evaporate. The term was coined by archaeologist C.
Weepecket Islands The Weepecket Islands are a group of three islands which are part of the Elizabeth Islands of Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA. They are located off the north shore of Naushon Island, the largest of the Elizabeth Islands.
Weepinbell 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. The purpose of Weepinbell in the games, anime and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon, untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments, and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Weepul The weepul (also known as a weeple or wuppie) is a small, spherical and fluffy toy without limbs, with large, plastic googly eyes and comes in various different colors. Usually weepuls possess antennae and also large paper feet, which, when a plastic layer is peeled off of them, will act like a sticker.
Weequahic, Newark, New Jersey Weequahic (pronounced WEEK-wake or wee-KWAY-ic) is a neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey's south ward. It is separated from the central ward by Hawthorne Avenue on the north, and bordered by the townships of Irvington and Hillside on the west, Newark Liberty International Airport on the east, and the city of Elizabeth on the south.
Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya Weera Wickrama Vibhushanaya() Medal and Bar are the third highest Sri Lanakan military decoration that is presented to officers and other ranks as a reward for individual acts of gallantry and conspicuous bravery which is of a military nature of a high order in the face of the enemy, carried out voluntarily whilst on active service without any consideration of his own security with the prime intention of safeguarding the lives of his comrades or facilitating the operational aim of his force or for a highly commendable act or a series of acts of a human nature of high order shown in saving life from drowning, fire and rescue operations in mines, floods and similar calamities under circumstances of bodily injury or danger to the life of the rescuer. The degree of courage and promptitude displayed will be taken into concern.
Weerman degradation The Weerman degradation is an organic reaction in carbohydrate chemistry in which an aldonamide (derived from an aldonic acid) is degraded by sodium hypochlorite forming a new sugar with one less carbon. The reaction is named after R.
Weerodara Vibhushanaya The Weerodara Vibhushanaya(වීරෝධාර වීභූෂණය) Medal and Bar are the second Highest Sri Lankan military decoration that is presented to soldiers as a reward for their individual acts of gallantry and prominent bravery of a most exceptional order performed which is of a non military nature of their own accord without any regard to the threat to his own life and security with the prime intention of saving or safeguarding the life or lives of a person or persons imperiled by death or for an extremely commendable act or a series of acts of human nature of an outstanding order shown in saving life from drowning, fire and rescue operations in mines, floods and similar calamities under circumstances of Grave Bodily Injury or great danger to the life of the rescuer. The degree of courage and promptitude shown will be taken into concern.
Weet-Bix Weet-Bix is the name of high-fibre breakfast cereal biscuits manufactured in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa by the Sanitarium Health Food Company. The name is probably a derivative of wheat biscuits.
Weetabix (food company) Weetabix Limited is a food processing company that is responsible for the production of breakfast cereal brands. Weetabix is also the name of one of the company's products, a wheat-based breakfast cereal in the form of relatively large biscuits.
Weeton, East Riding of Yorkshire Weeton is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 1 mile south east of the village of Welwick on the B1445 road from Patrington to Easington.
Weevil (Torchwood) Weevils are a fictional extraterrestrial species from the British science fiction television series Torchwood, first appearing in the episode Everything Changes. As Jack Harkness explains in that episode, the name "Weevil" is applied to them by Torchwood, but as communication with them is limited, the true name of their race is not known.
Weeze The Municipality of Weeze is situated in the Lower Rhine (Niederrhein) region, in the north-western part of North Rhine-Westphalia, and is one of the towns and municipalities of the District of Cleves in the administrative region of DĂĽsseldorf.
Wefri Warsay Yika'alo The Wefri Warsay Yika'alo (WWY) or Warsay Yika'alo Program of Eritrea is an ambitious project of post-war recovery. It is similar to other economic recovery programs, and is often compared to the Marshall Plan.
Wegde Wegde is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Debub Wollo Zone, Wegde is bordered on the south by the Oromia Region, on the west by the Abay River which separates it from the Misraq Gojjam Zone, on the north by Debre Sina, and on the east by Kelala.
Wegera (woreda) Wegera or Wogera is one of the 105 woredas in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Wegera is named for the former province Wegera, which was located roughly in the same location, and was later made part of the province of Semien.
Wehnelt cylinder A Wehnelt cylinder is an electrode in the electron gun assembly, used for focusing and control of the electron beam. It is named after Arthur Rudolph Berthold Wehnelt, a German physicist, who invented it during the years 1902 and 1903.
Wehni Wehni is the name of one of the mountains of Ethiopia where most of the male heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia were interned, usually for life. It was the last one the three such mountains -- or amba -- said to have been used for this purpose, the other two being Debre Damo and Amba Geshen.
Wehrkreis XIII Wehrkreis was in Germany starting from the Weimar Republic the nomination of the governmental agencies / institutions to recrute and form new soldiers for parts of the Reichswehr and later Wehrmacht. Another objective
Wehrmacht Wehrmacht ("armed forces", literally "defence force(s)") was the name of the armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. During World War II, the Wehrmacht consisted of the army (Heer), the navy (Kriegsmarine), the air force (Luftwaffe), and de facto- Waffen SS.
Wehrsdorf Wehrsdorf is a small village in a valley of the "Lausitzer Bergland" in the region of Upper Lusatia (Oberlausitz) in Saxony, Germany. It has about 1,776 inhabitants and belongs to an administrative community of three different villages, with Sohland an der Spree (Sohland at the river Spree) and Taubenheim.
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or WAIS is a general test of intelligence (IQ), published in February 1955 as a revision of the Wechsler-Bellevue test (1939), standardised for use with adults over the age of 16.
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), developed by David Wechsler, is an intelligence test for children between the ages of 6 and 16 inclusive that can be completed without reading or writing. The WISC generates an IQ score.
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence The Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) is an intelligence test designed for children ages 2 years 6 months to 7 years 3 months developed by David Wechsler in 1967. It is a descendent of the earlier Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children tests.
Wechtar of Friuli Wechtar or Wechthari, a Lombard from Vicenza, was the Duke of Friuli from 666 to 678. He took control of Friuli at the command of King Grimoald following the rebellion of Lupus and Arnefrit and the invasion of the Avars.
Wechterswinkel Abbey Wechterswinkel Abbey (Kloster Wechterswinkel) was a Cistercian nunnery in the small village of Wechterswinkel, a part of Bastheim in the mountainous region of the Rhön in Bavaria, Germany, in the Bishopric of Würzburg.
Wei (Dingling) Wei () was a state of Dingling ethnicity that existed during China's Sixteen Kingdoms period -- specifically, from 388 to 392. Its founder Zhai Liao had previously been vacillating between being a vassal of Later Yan, Western Yan, or Jin Dynasty (265-420), and in 388, after his last overture to reconcile with Later Yan's emperor Murong Chui was rejected by Murong Chui, he declared his own state, over the territory of modern central and eastern Henan.
Wei (state) The Wei (Traditional Chinese: 魏; Simplified Chinese: 魏; pinyin: Wèi) was a state during the Warring States Period in China. Its territory lay between the states of Qin and Qi and included modern areas in Henan, Hebei and Shanxi and Shandong.
Wei Hai Wei Hai, is perhaps the oldest wargame, attributed as being invented in 5th century BC by Sun Tzu, the Chinese philosopher and military leader, author of the famous The Art of War. Wei Hai is played with colored stones representing armies and stresses the movements of large units.
Wei Huang Gong Wei Huang Gong (Chinese: 伪皇宫) also known as Puppet Emperor's Palace was created by the Japanese Army for China's last emperor Puyi to live in as part of the Japanese colonialism in Manchukuo. The palace is located in the northeastern corner of Changchun, China.
Wei Hui Zhou Wei Hui （周卫慧） (born Ningbo, 1973) is a young Chinese writer. Her novel Shanghai Baby (上海宝贝) (2000) was banned and publicly burned in the People's Republic of China as "decadent".
Wei Jingsheng Wei Jingsheng (魏京生：Wèi Jìngshēng) (born May 20, 1950) is an activist in the Chinese democracy movement, most prominent for authoring the document, Fifth Modernization. Although they could not bring any formal charges against him for his attacks on the Communist system, the government exaggerated his correspondence with foreigners about the Chinese-Vietnamese War and charged him with treason.
Wei Li-huang Wei Li-huang (衛立煌, 卫立煌) (1897-1955) was a Chinese general who served the Nationalist government throughout the Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War as one of China's most successful military commanders.
Wei Man Wei Man (Wiman on Korean) came from the State of Yan of China who established a kingdom around Liaoning in 195 BCE. The Records of the Grand Historian simply calls him Man, so the surname Wei was probably added later.
Wei Miao Wei Miao an officer under the Kingdom of Wu during the Three Kingdoms Period of China. Through the orders of the current emperor of Wu, Sun Xiu, Wei Miao cooperated along with the long living Ding Feng in the capturing of the entire family of Sun Chen following the year of 258.
Wei Shuo Lady Wei Shuo () (272-349), commonly addressed just as Lady Wei (衛夫人; Wei Furen), was a calligrapher of Eastern Jin Dynasty China who established consequential rules about the Regular Script. A famous disciple of hers is Wang Xizhi.
Wei Wei Wèi Wéi (魏巍) (born on January 16, 1920), originally known as Hong Jie (鴻傑), has been a poet, a prose writer, a literary report writer, a journalist, a vice-editor-in-chief and the editor in various newspapers in China and a propagandist. His works are highly noticed for patriotism, communism and nationalism.
Wei Xiaokuan Wei Xiaokuan (韋孝寬) (509-580), formal personal name Wei Shuyu (韋叔裕) (but went by the courtesy name of Xiaokuan), known by the Xianbei name Yuwen Xiaokuan (宇文孝寬) during late Western Wei and Northern Zhou, formally Duke Xiang of Xun (勛襄公), was a general of the Chinese/Xianbei states Western Wei and Northern Zhou. He first became a prominent general during Western Wei as he defended the fortress of Yubi (玉壁, in modern Yuncheng, Shanxi) against a vastly larger army commanded by rival Eastern Wei's paramount general Gao Huan, and he eventually contributed greatly to the destruction of Eastern Wei's successor state Northern Qi by Northern Zhou.
Wei Xu Wei Xu was a military officer under the minor warlord LĂĽ Bu during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era in ancient China. In 198, when rival warlord Cao Cao besieged LĂĽ Bu in Xiapi, Wei Xu and his colleagues Hou Cheng and Song Xian kidnapped LĂĽ Bu's chief advisor Chen Gong and defected.

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