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Weldiya Weldiya (also spelled Woldia) is a hillside market town and woreda in northern Ethiopia. Located north of Dessie and southeast of Lalibela in the Semien Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region (or kilil), this town has a longitude and latitude of .
Weldon Humble Weldon Humble (April 24, 1921 - April 14, 1998) was an American football offensive linemen who was named to the College Football Hall of Fame, in addition to receiving a distinguished military honor. He was born Nixon, TX and attended Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, Texas.
Weldon Nathaniel Edwards Weldon Nathaniel Edwards (1788 - 1873) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Gaston, North Carolina, January 25, 1788; attended Warrenton Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Warrenton, North Carolina; member of the State house of representatives in 1814 and 1815; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Nathaniel Macon; reelected as a Republican to the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Congresses, elected as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress; and served from February 7, 1816, to March 3, 1827; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Eighteenth Congress), Committee on Public Expenditures (Nineteenth Congress); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1826; returned to his plantation; member of the State senate 1833-1844; member of the State constitutional convention in 1835; again el
Weldon Park Academy Weldon Park Academy was a private school located at 451 Ridout Street North in London, Ontario that closed down in 2004. The school offered students a contiguous education from Montessori Casa up to OAC and was a member of the Conference of Independent Schools and the International Baccalaureate Organization.
Weldon Wyckoff John Weldon Wyckoff (February 19, 1892 - May 8, 1961) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1913-1916[start]) and Boston Red Sox (1917[end]-1918). Wyckoff batted and threw right handed.
Weldon, Saskatchewan Weldon is a small parkland community in the mixed wood central farm belt of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. The village is located 2 km north of Highway #3 at the midway point between the cities of Prince Albert and Melfort, Saskatchewan.
Weldrick (VIVA) Weldrick, or Weldrick Road, is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on September 4, 2005, at the intersection of Weldrick Road and Yonge Street in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Welf VI Welf VI (1115 – 15 December 1191) was the margrave of Tuscany (1152–1162) and duke of Spoleto (1152–1162), the third son of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, and a member of the illustrious Italo-German family of the Welf.
Welf, Duke of Carinthia Welf III (died 13 November 1055), as he is numbered in the genealogy of the Swabian line of the Elder House of Welf, was the duke of Carinthia and margrave of Verona from 1047. He was the only son of Welf II, Count of Altdorf, and Imiza.
Welfare (financial aid) Welfare is financial assistance paid by the government to certain entities or groups of people who are unable to support themselves, and determined to be able to function more effectively with financial assistance. Some welfare is general, while some are specific and can only be invoked under certain circumstances, such as a scholarship.
Welfare capitalism Welfare capitalism refers to the practice of businesses providing welfare-like services to employees. Welfare capitalism was centered in high wage industries (not in the industries characterized by low pay, high turnover, child labor, or dangerous working conditions.
Welfare Cadillac Welfare Cadillac is a political phrase used in the United States for an anecdote intended to illustrate a case of a person or group receiving public benefits where the benefits are not actually needed by the recipient or are obtained by fraud.
Welfare definition of economics Alfred Marshall, a pioneer neoclassical economist, reoriented economics towards the study of humanity and provided economic science with a more comprehensive definition. Marshall, in his famous book Principle of Economics published in 1890, defines economics as follows:
Welfare economics Welfare economics is a branch of economics that uses microeconomic techniques to simultaneously determine the allocational efficiency of a macroeconomy and the income distribution associated with it. It attempts to maximize the level of social welfare by examining the economic activities of the individuals that comprise society.
Welfare fraud Welfare fraud refers to various intentional misuses of state welfare systems by withholding information or giving false or inaccurate information. This may be done on in small, uncoordinated efforts, or in larger, organized criminal rings.
Welfare Party The Welfare Party (Refah Partisi) (RP) in Turkey was founded by Ahmed Tekdal in Ankara in 1983 as heir to two earlier parties, Milli Nizam Partisi (National Order Party, MNP) and Milli Selamet Partisi (National Salvation Party, MSP), which were banned from politics. The RP participated in mayoral elections at that time and they won in three cities- Konya, Şanlıurfa, and Van.
Welford Road Stadium Welford Road is a stadium used for rugby in general, and union in particular, located between Aylestone Road and Welford Road in Leicester, England, on the edge of the city centre. The stadium, mostly built in the 1930s, is home to one of England's traditional rugby union powers, Leicester Tigers, and has a capacity of 16,815, making it the largest purpose-built club rugby ground in England.
Welham Girls Welham Girls School (also known as Welham Girls High School and Welham) is a boarding school for girls located at the foothills of the Himalayas in Dehradun, India. It has progressed from being a school for a privileged girls to being a school that prides itself in encouraging students from across the length and breadth of India and members of the Indian diaspora.
Welch Allyn Welch Allyn, Inc. was founded in 1915 and is today a leading manufacturer of innovative medical diagnostic and therapeutic devices, cardiac defibrillators, patient monitoring systems, and miniature precision lamps.
Welch Island (Antarctica) Welch Island is an island, one mile long with a prominent pinnacle rock of 130 m, lying north of Rouse Islands and one mile off the shore in the eastern side of Holme Bay. Welch Island is located at and has an elevation of 130 m.
Welch Regiment The Welch Regiment (or "The Welch") was a British army regiment. It was formed as part of the wholesale Cardwell Army reforms in 1881 as The Welsh Regiment (41st Foot in British infantry seniority), recruited generally from South West Wales, and remained so until it was amalgamated with the South Wales Borderers (24th Foot) into the Royal Regiment of Wales in 1969.
Welch Suggs Welch Suggs is a sportswriter chiefly covering American collegiate sports. He is Associate Director for the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and a graduate student at the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia.
Welch's Regiment of Militia Welch's Regiment of Militia also known as the 10th New Hampshire Militia Regiment was called up at Candia, New Hampshire on September 27, 1777 as reinforcements for the Continental Army during the Saratoga Campaign. The regiment marched quickly to join the gathering forces of Gen.
Welch-Monticello Welch-Monticello is the designation of a HVDC back-to-back station located between the power stations Welch and Monticello in norteastern Texas. It went in service in 1998 and it can transfer a maximum power of 600 megawatts.
Welch-Satterthwaite equation The Welch-Satterthwaite equation is used to calculate the effective degrees of freedom, in uncertainty analysis for use with the Student's t-distribution when combining a number of standard uncertainties with different degrees of freedom.
Welche Welche is a Gallo-Romance dialect of Lorrain spoken in Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin in the western Alsace in France. The varieties of this dialect are the variety of Bruche, the variety of Villé, the variety of Lièpvre, the variety of Kaysersberg and the variety of Orbey.
Welchia The Welchia worm, also known as the "Nachia worm," is a computer worm that exploits a vulnerability in the Microsoft Remote procedure call (RPC) service similar to the Blaster worm. However unlike Blaster, it tries to help the user by downloading and installing security patches from Microsoft, so it is a helpful worm.
Welikada prison massacre The Welikada prison massacre happened during the 1983 Black July pogrom against the Sri Lankan Tamil minority in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 53 political prisoners were killed inside a high security prison with senior prison officials' collusion.
Well control Well control is the management of the dangerous effects of unexpected high pressures on the surface equipment of drilling rigs searching for oil and/or gas. Some type of drilling fluid is generally used to aid in well control.
Well dressing Well dressing is a custom practised in rural England in which wells are decorated with designs created from flower petals. The custom is most closely associated with the the Peak District of the English Midlands,
Well drilling Well drilling is the process of drilling a hole in the ground for the extraction of a natural resource such as ground water, natural gas, or petroleum. Drilling for the exploration of the nature of the material underground (for instance in search of metallic ore) is best described as borehole drilling, or 'drilling'.
Well Hung Jury Well Hung Jury (also referred to as WHJ or The Jury) was a professional improvisational comedy troupe based in Austin, Texas that performed regularly from 1998 to 2003 and that greatly contributed to the improvisational performance boom in Austin during the early 21st century.
Well logging Well logging is a technique used in the oil and gas industry for recording rock and fluid properties to find hydrocarbon zones in the geological formations within the Earth's crust. A logging procedure consists of lowering a 'logging tool' on the end of a wireline into an oil well (or hole) to measure the rock and fluid properties of the formation.
Well of Mimir In Norse mythology, the Well of Mimir (so named for the god charged with guarding it) granted the power to see the future. Odin desired the power of Mimir's Well, and the price for a draught from the well was an eye.
Well of Souls The Well of Souls (Arabic:Bir el- Arweh) is the name of a natural cave located immediately beneath the Sakhrah in the Dome of the Rock. In addition to a small well shaped hole in the Sakhrah that looks into the cave, there is also an entrance on the southern side, via a set of steps passing through a gap between the Sakhrah and the surrounding bedrockThe cave takes the form of a moderately sized room[http://www.
Well of Urd The Well of Urd or Well of Urth (ON: UrĂ°arbrunnr) is from Norse Mythology as the well in Asgard which fed one of the roots of the Yggdrasil. Also near the well in a hall are three Norns (or Nornir) that tend the well - Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, personifications of fate.
Well of Yanayacu The Well of Yanayacu is in the radio Urban of the locality of Chachapoyas, its construction dates of the colonial epoch. Up to 3 decades ago it supplied water to the population of the Quarter of Luya Urco, The well is related to a myth of place that counts in colonial times in this quarter a strong drought that happened and for this reason the holy clergyman Toribio de Mogrovejo had struck 3 times a rock of the one that sprouted Water, it is by it that the well is constructed in this place.
Well poisoning Well-poisoning (the malicious manipulation of potable water resources to cause illness or death) is potentially the gravest of three accusations historically brought against Jewish people as a whole (the other two being host desecration and blood libel.)
Well smack A well smack is a type of fishing boat with a well amidship that was filled with water that ciculated external water allowing live fish to be kept until they were delivered to be sold. It is a specially modified form of a type boat called a smack.
Well temperament Well temperament (also circular or circulating temperament) is a type of tempered tuning described in twentieth-century music theory. The term is modelled on the German word wohltemperiert which appears in the title of J.
Well to hell hoax The "Well to hell" hoax is a popular urban legend that has been circulating on the internet for over ten years. Its provenance is older than that, however, with the tale first appearing in English through a 1989 dispatch created by the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Well Travelled Love One of the best unknown albums in country music history is a good way to describe Well Travelled Love, the début from the young rockabilly Texan. She has more heart and soul than any of the music found on today's country radio playlists.
Well-behaved Mathematicians (and those in related sciences) very frequently speak of whether a mathematical object — a number, a function, a set, a space of one sort or another — is "well-behaved" or not. While the term has no fixed formal definition, it can have fairly precise meaning within a given context.
Well-defined In mathematics, the term well-defined is used to specify that a certain concept (a function, a property, a relation, etc.) is defined in a mathematical or logical way using a set of base axioms in an entirely unambiguous way.
Well-field system The well-field system () was a Chinese land distribution method since at least 9th century BC (late Western Zhou Dynasty). It is named after the Chinese character for well (井 jǐng), which looks like the # symbol and represents the theoretical appearance for a piece of land under such an organization: the eight surrounding outer blocks being private (私田; sītián), and the central one block being communal or public (公田; gōngtián).
Well-founded phenomenon Well-founded phenomena (Latin: phenomena bene fundata), in the philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz, are ways in which the world falsely appears to us, but which are grounded in the way the world actually is (as opposed to dreams or hallucinations, which are false appearances that are not thus grounded).
Well-founded relation In mathematics, a binary relation, R, is well-founded (or wellfounded) on a class X if and only if every non-empty subset of X has an R-minimal element; that is, for every non-empty subset S of X, there is an element m of S such that for every element s of S, the pair (s,m) is not in R.
Well-Made Play The Well-Made Play is a genre of theatre from the 19th century, codified by Eugène Scribe and taken further by Zola arguing that plays could construct accurate models of life, for the purpose of analysing the 'cause and effect' of human behavior.Elsom, John.
Well-Schooled in Murder Well-Schooled in Murder is a crime novel by Elizabeth George first published in 1990. Set in the late 1980s at an elite public school in the South of England founded in 1489, the book, which is a mystery novel in the tradition of the whodunnit, revolves around the strict yet unwritten code of behaviour prevalent at independent schools which says that under no circumstances must pupils ever tell on their schoolmates, no matter what they have done.
Well-Tempered Clavier The Well-Tempered Clavier (in the original German: Das wohltemperierte ClavierIn the German of Bach's time the "Clavier" was a generic name meaning "keyboard instrument," most typically the harpsichord or clavichord--but not excluding the organ, either. Bach's Clavier compositions are now usually played on the piano or harpsichord.
Welland (electoral district) Welland is a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1988, and since 2004. The current representative to Ottawa is Liberal MP John Maloney.
Welland Park School Welland Park Community College, or Welland Park School as it is better known is a Secondary School in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. Whilst it caters for pupils aged 11 to 14, it also works with different community groups providing facilities.
Welland Recreational Waterway The Welland Recreational Waterway is a water channel in the city of Welland, Ontario, Canada. It is an old alignment of the Welland Ship Canal that has been abandoned after the construction of the Welland By-Pass in the 1970s.
Welland River The Welland River is a river in the Niagara Region of southern Ontario which flows from its headwaters south of Hamilton, Ontario to empty into the Niagara River near the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario. It drains an area of 880 km².
Wellcome Wellcome ( in Hong Kong; 頂好 in Taiwan) is a supermarket chain owned by Jardines via its Dairy Farm subsidiary. The Wellcome chain is the second largest supermarket chain in South China, behind its rival PARKnSHOP.
Wellcome Trust The Wellcome Trust is a United Kingdom-based charity established in 1936 to administer the fortune of the American-born pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome. Its income was derived from what was originally called Burroughs Wellcome & Co, later renamed in the UK as the Wellcome Foundation Ltd (Wellcome plc).
Wellesbourne Wellesbourne is a large village and civil parish in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of the UK. In the 2001 census the parish, which also includes the village of Walton, had a population of 5,691.
Wellesbourne Campus Wellesbourne Campus, is one of 3 campus's used by Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (BCUC) which are based in and around the High Wycombe area. The campus was orignally a secondary school and there are still signs to indicate this around the campus such as boards naming previous sports captains.
Wellesley College Wellesley College is a women's liberal arts college that opened in 1875, founded by Henry Fowle Durant and his wife Pauline Fowle Durant. Today, the mission of the college is to "provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.
Wellesley College (New Zealand) Wellesley College is a boys-only independent primary school in Days Bay, Eastbourne, New Zealand. The original building in Days Bay (known as Days Bay House) was built for the Wellington Steam ferry company in 1903.
Wellesley Islands The Wellesley Islands are a group of islands off the coast of north Queensland, Australia, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. They were named by Matthew Flinders in honour of Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley.
Wellesley Tudor Pole Wellesley Tudor Pole is an intriguing figure crossing from the world before the World Wars to well after and played particular roles in various ways through the period as well as authoring several books detailing many aspects of what he had seen and done across the years. There is no published biography known but he is mentioned in many works.
Wellesley, Ontario The Township of Wellesley is the rural, north-western township of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. It encompasses about 276 square kilometres and its current population is approximately 10,100.
Wellesley, Ontario (community) Wellesley is a community in the Township of Wellesley, Ontario, Canada with a population of about 1,600. The township was the last in the region to be settled as it resided in a mainly unopened territory known as the "Queen's Bush" which is a name one of the main streets now bears.
Wellfield Middle School Wellfield Middle School is a middle school in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside serving the areas of Wellfield, Earsdon and West Monkseaton. It currently has about 230 pupils on its roll from the ages of 9 up to 13.
Wellfleet, Massachusetts Wellfleet is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. Located halfway between the "tip" and "elbow" of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the town of Wellfleet occupies 35.4 square miles (91.6 km²). It had a year-round population of 2,749 according to the 2000 US Census, which swells nearly sixfold during the summer. Nearly half of the land area of Wellfleet is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore and a total of 70% of the town's land area is in some form of protection, with land owned by the town, the conservation commission and the Audubon Society. Wellfleet is famous for its eponymous oysters and cranberries. Additionally the town has the second greatest concentration of art galleries on Cape Cod, right after Provincetown.
WellChoice WellChoice, Incorporated is the parent company of Empire Blue Cross-Blue Shield of New York, created when Empire became a publicly traded company in 2003. WellChoice is listed on the Fortune 500 with revenues of over US$5,000,000,000.
Wellie wanging Wellie wanging, or wellie throwing, is a freestyle sport that originated in Britain, most likely in the county of Yorkshire. Competitors are required to hurl a Wellington boot as far as possible within boundary lines, from a standing or running start.
Wellington Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke in Māori) is the capital of New Zealand, the country's second largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. It is in the Wellington region at the southern tip of the North Island, near the geographical centre of the country.
Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay Regiment The Wellington (City of Wellington's Own) and Hawke's Bay Regiment is a Territorial Force unit of the New Zealand Army. It was formed in 1964 during the reorganisation of the army by the amalgamation of two separate regiments:
Wellington (Shropshire) (UK Parliament constituency) Wellington (Shropshire) is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency, formally known as The Mid (or Wellington) Division of Shropshire. It was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 to 1918.
Wellington (VIVA) Wellington is a Vivastation on York Region's Viva bus rapid transit system, north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It opened on November 20, 2005, at the intersection of Wellington Street and Yonge Street in Aurora, Ontario.
Wellington 500 The Wellington 500 was a 500 km street race for touring cars which took place at Wellington City in Wellington, New Zealand. The race was first proposed in 1984 and first took place a year later with a different layout from that to the original proposal.
Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company The Wellington and Manawatu Railway (WMR) was a railway between Thorndon in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, and Longburn, near Palmerston North in the Manawatu. Unlike many other early railways in New Zealand, it was privately owned.
Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust The Wellington and Manawatu Railway Trust is a railway preservation society based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It possesses the only recovered remains of a locomotive that operated on the Wellington and Manawatu Railway (No.
Wellington Arch Wellington Arch, also known as Constitution Arch or (originally) the Green Park Arch, is a triumphal arch located to the south of Hyde Park in central London. The arch, and Marble Arch close by, were both planned in 1825 by George IV to commemorate Britain's victories in the Napoleonic Wars.
Wellington Arts Centre The Wellington Arts Centre (61-69 Abel Smith Street, Te Aro, Wellington), is the New Zealand capital's primary creative production facility and support complex. It was established between 2003-2005, and was formally opened by Mayor Kerry Prendergast in July 2005.
Wellington boot The Wellington boot, also known as a willy, a wellie, a topboot, a gumboot or a rubber boot, is a type of boot based upon Hessian boots. It was worn and popularised by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and fashionable among the British aristocracy in the early 19th century.
Wellington Cable Car The Wellington Cable Car is a funicular railway in Wellington, New Zealand. It carries passengers between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn, a suburb in the hills overlooking the central city, rising 120 m over a length of 612 m.
Wellington City Wellington city is the area of New Zealand administered by the Wellington City Council, one of several territorial authorities in the Wellington region. Wellington city extends as far north as Linden, and includes the rural areas of Makara and Ohariu.
Wellington College, Berkshire Wellington College, the national monument to the Duke of Wellington, is an English public school, located in the Berkshire village of Crowthorne. The school was granted its royal charter in 1853 as the Royal and Religious Foundation of The Wellington College, and was opened in 1859.
Wellington Cricket Club Wellington Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club in Wellington, near Telford in Shropshire. Their 1st XI currently plays in the Birmingham and District Premier League premier division, which they won in 2003 and 2004.
Wellington drive technologies Wellington Drive Technologies Ltd (WDT) is a New Zealand based company that supplies electricity-saving, electronically commutated (EC) motors and fans worldwide. Their focus is on advanced motors, electronics and software that save power.
Wellington District, Ontario The Wellington District was a historic district in Upper Canada which existed until 1849. It was formed in 1838 from parts of Huron County, Ontario in the Gore District, Simcoe County in the Home District and Huron County from the London District.
Wellington Dukes The Wellington Dukes are a Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey team from Wellington, Ontario, Canada. They are in the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League and used to be a part of the Metro Junior A Hockey League.
Wellington East Girls' College Wellington East Girls' College is on the lower slopes of Mount Victoria. It was built on reserve land bordering Wellington College in 1925, to cope with the demand for female education in Wellington at the time.
Wellington Firebirds The Wellington Firebirds are a New Zealand first-class cricket team based in Wellington. It competes in the State Championship first class competition, the State Shield domestic one day competition and the State Twenty20 Cricket Tournament.
Wellington green gecko The Wellington green gecko (Naultinus elegans punctatus) is a subspecies of gecko found only in the southern half of the North Island of New Zealand. The other subspecies, the Auckland green gecko, is found in the northern half of the North Island (except north of Whangaroa) and the two ranges do not overlap.
Wellington Hay Francis Wellington Hay (1864-1932) was a grain merchant and Canadian politician. He served as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in the provincial legislature from 1921 to 1923 but resigned after the one election campaign he led the party through saw the Liberals drop in representation from 27 to 14 seats.
Wellington Church Wellington Church, located on University Avenue, Glasgow, opposite the University of Glasgow, is a parish church in the Church of Scotland. It was designed by the architect Thomas Lennox Watson and built in 1883-4 for the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland ("U.
Wellington Improvisation Troupe The Wellington Improvisation Troupe (WIT) is Wellington’s not-for-profit, community-based improvisational theatre group. WIT performs and teaches the skills of improvisational theatre at community venues around the Wellington region.
Wellington Koo Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo (Chinese: 顾维钧；Pinyin: Gù Wéijūn; Wade-Giles: Ku Wei-chün) (January 29, 1887 - November 14, 1985) was a Chinese diplomat and a representative to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
Wellington Mara Wellington Timothy Mara (August 14 1916 – October 25, 2005) was the owner of the NFL's New York Giants from 1959 until his death and one of the most influential and important figures in the history of the National Football League. He was the younger son of Tim Mara, who founded the Giants in 1925.
Wellington Monument The Wellington Monument refers to monuments to Duke of Wellington, a Briton who was a leading political and military figure of the 19th Century, particularly noted for his defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo.
Wellington Monument, Dublin Often incorrectly called the Wellington Monument, the Wellington Testimonial is an obelisk located in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland. A Testimonial is erected to a living person, as Wellington was when it was put up.
Wellington North, Ontario The Corporation of the Township of Wellington North was formed by the amalgamation of the Township of Arthur, Arthur Village, the Township of West Luther and the Town of Mount Forest, effective January 1, 1999.
Wellington Pereira do Nascimento Wellington Pereira do Nascimento or simply Wellington Paulista born April 22, 1984 in São Paulo, is a striker. He currently plays for struggling Spanish Second Division club Alavés after a move from Juventus-SP in December 2006.
Wellington Santos da Silva Wellington Santos da Silva or simply Wellington born August 17, 1985, in Porto Alegre, Brazil is a Brazilian left-wingback who plays for Corinthians on loan from GrĂŞmio. Bought from UniĂŁo SĂŁo JoĂŁo in May 2006, on a 4 year deal, he is 1st choice left-back, with a buy-out clause of ÂŁ5.
Wellington Sevens The Wellington Sevens or The AXA New Zealand International Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament held in Wellington, New Zealand. The tournament, part of the IRB Sevens World Series, is played at Wellington's Westpac Stadium.
Wellington School, Somerset Wellington School, Somerset, is a co-educational public school catering for both boarders and day pupils. It should not be confused with the better-known Wellington College, or with a large number of schools worldwide which are also called "Wellington School", or those in other locations called "Wellington".

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