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Western Airlines Western Airlines was a large airline based in California, with operations throughout the Western United States, and hubs at Los Angeles International Airport and Salt Lake City International Airport. Western Airlines used the IATA code WA.
Western Allies The Western Allies were the democracies and their colonial peoples, within the broader coalition of Allies during World War II. The term is generally understood to refer to the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations (from 1939), exiled forces from Occupied Europe (from 1940), the United States, (from 1941), Italy (from 1943), and a few other countries.
Western Apache language The Western Apache language is a Southern Athabaskan language spoken by the Western Apache peoples living primarily in east central Arizona. Goodwin (1938) claims that Western Apache can be divided into five dialect groupings:
Western Approaches The Western Approaches is a rectangular area of the Atlantic ocean lying on the western coast of Great Britain. It is roughly the same height as the west coast of Britain, starting directly on the coast and ending in the Atlantic roughly at Iceland.
Western Argentine GuaranĂ­ Western Argentine GuaranĂ­ is a Guaranean language spoken by 36,917 in Bolivia, 15,000 in Argentina, and 304 in Paraguay. In Bolivia it is spoken in the south-central Parapeti River area, and the city of Tarija, while in Argentina it is spoken in the provinces of Jujuy and Salta and in Paraguay in the Chaco.
Western Armed Forces The Western Armed Forces (Forces Armées Occidentales or FAO) is a rebel insurgent group active in Chad during the civil war. An offshoot of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Chad (Movement Populaire pour la Libération du Tchad or MPLT) born in 1979, the FAO recruited its forces mainly among the Kanembu group located along the shores of Lake Chad and enjoyed support from some political elements in Nigeria.
Western Armenia Western Armenia (or Ottoman Armenia) is a term coined following the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 to refer to the Armenian-populated historical region that remained under Ottoman rule after the eastern part (Armenian Highland) was ceded to the Russian Empire.
Western Armenian language Western Armenian is one of the two modern dialects of Armenian, an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian diaspora, mainly in North America, Europe and most of the Middle East except for Iran. It is also spoken in limited pockets of Turkey.
Western Army (Russia) Western Army (Западная Армия) was created on November 15, 1918 by RSFSR with the purpose of moving westwards after the retreating German forces in order to establish Soviet governments in Belarus and Ukraine. It was also known as the 16th army.
Western Arrernte Western Arrernte refers to Arrernte (pronounced aRUNda) people who traditionally live in Arrernte lands west of Alice Springs, out as far as Mutitjulu and King's Canyon. It also refers to a dialect of the Arrernte language that is spoken in this area.
Western Association of Schools and Colleges The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is one of six official academic bodies responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in the United States and foreign institutions of American origin. The Western Association of Schools and Colleges has jurisdiction over the states of California and Hawaii, territories of Guam, American Samoa, Micronesia, Palau, Northern Marianas Islands, Pacific Rim, East Asia and areas of the Pacific and East Asia where American schools or colleges may apply to it for service.
Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (commonly referred to as the WAC, pronounced "whack") was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I-A. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the Western United States, with member institutions located in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
Western Athletic Conference Football Title Game The Western Athletic Conference staged a conference title football game during the three years the league consisted of sixteen members. During this time, the league was split into two divisions, Pacific and Mountain, with eight teams in each division.
Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament The Western Athletic Conference has held a postseason tournament to crown a men's basketball champion every year since 1984. At first the regular season champion hosted it but at its height, the tournament was held at larger urban venues.
Western Atlas Western Atlas was formed in 1987 through the merger of Western Geophysical (owned by Litton Industries) and Dresser Atlas. The resulting company was a joint venture of Litton and Dresser Industries until it was spun off as a publicly traded company in 1994.
Western Australia Western Australia is Australia's largest state in area, covering the western third of the mainland, and is bordered by South Australia and the Northern Territory. It is, after the Sakha Republic in Russia, the largest subnational entity (statoid) in the world.
Western Australia Police Tactical Response Group The Tactical Response Group (TRG) is a specialist unit of the Western Australia Police which comes under the the Counter-Terrorism Coordination Command. The TRG are part of Australian Governments National Anti-Terrorism Plan which requires since 1978 each State Police Force to maintain a specialist counter-terrorist and hostage rescue unit with specialist capabilities.
Western Australia Rugby League The Western Australia Rugby League (WARL) is responsible for administering the game of rugby league in Western Australia. The WARL was formed in 1948 with Fremantle, Perth, South Perth and Cottesloe as the foundation clubs.
Western Australia School of Mines The Western Australian School of Mines (WASM) is a department of the Curtin University of Technology, located on the Kalgoorlie Campus, in the heart of Australia's mining industry. Since its foundation in 1902, it has earned a reputation for excellence in mining education and research, both locally and internationally.
Western Australia State League The Western Australia State League (which, for sponsorship reasons, is known as the Vodafone State League is the highest State level football (soccer) competition in Western Australia. Nationally, it is one grade lower than the A-League and Perth Glory is the team that represents the State in the league.
Western Australian Certificate of Education The Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) is the credential given to students who have completed Year 11 and Year 12 of their secondary schooling in the state of Western Australia, Australia. It will be the Western Australian certificate within the Australian Certificate of Education, part of the Australian Qualifications Framework.
Western Australian English Western Australian English, or West Australian English, is the collective name given to the variety or varieties of English spoken in the Australian state of Western Australia (WA). As with the other regional varieties within Australian English, these have distinctive vocabularies.
Western Australian Herbarium The Western Australian Herbarium is a herbarium in Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia. It is part of the State government's Department of Environment and Conservation, and has responsibility for the description and documentation of the flora of Western Australia.
Western Australian Heritage Icons 2004 The Western Australian Heritage Icons were announced in 2004 to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the founding of Western Australia. The list was compiled by the Western Australian Government and the National Trust of Australia (WA).
Western Australian Institute of Sport The Western Australian Institute of Sport (commonly known as WAIS) is an elite sports institute set up in 1983 by the Government of Western Australia to support athletes in Western Australia. Previously, if elite athletes from Western Australian needed to train or receive coaching at an international level they had to move to one of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) campuses which were generally based in the eastern states.
Western Australian Legislative Council The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly.
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards The Western Australian Premier's Book Awards is an award for books and scripts written by Western Australians or about Western Australia. Awards are provided by the Government of Western Australia, and the awards process is managed by the State Library of Western Australia.
Western Australian Youth Chorale The Western Australian Youth Chorale (shortened to WAYC) is an elite SATB Chorale singing group formed by the Western Australian Youth Music Association, that aims to help young musicians aged 16-25 perform at the highest level. Intended to bridge the gap between school and community choirs, the choir includes young people in Secondary and Tertiary studies, and those who are in the workforce.
Western betrayal Western betrayal is a popular term in several Central European nations (including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Baltic States) which refers to the foreign policy of several Western countries during the period from the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 through World War II and to the Cold War, as rooted in hypocrisy and betrayal.
Western boundary current A western boundary current is a warm, deep, narrow, and fast flowing current that occurs on the west side of an ocean basin. They are important in climate control by bringing warm water from the equator northward.
Western Band Association Western Band Association (WBA) is a nonprofit organization that promotes high school music education in California, Arizona and Nevada. Specifically, the WBA organizes many marching band competitions for high school students.
Western Basin of Lake Erie The Western Basin of Lake Erie is the shallow flat basin that comprises the western third of the lake. Even with average depths of less than 25 feet, this part of the lake contains world famous walleye fishing grounds with numerous charter fishing boats operating out of the U.
Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI) The Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI) was founded in 1958, in La Jolla, California, as an independent, nonprofit organization devoted to research, education and advanced study in human affairs. Its early studies included research on the leadership of small groups, communication in large organizations, international negotiation, simulation studies of deterrence strategies for defense, building educational games, studies of self-directed therapeutic groups, crime and violence prevention, and policy studies in poverty, race relations, education, and family life.
Western Bloc The Western Bloc during the Cold War refers to the powers allied with the United States and NATO against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. The latter were referred to as the Eastern Bloc, a more common term in English than Western Bloc, because the governments and press of the Western Bloc were more inclined to refer to themselves as the Free world.
Western Bloc of the FARC-EP The Western Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is believed the smallest of the blocs in size, but not in military capability. It is routinely held responsible for terrorist attacks that occur in Cali and its surroundings.
Western Blue-eyed Grass The Western Blue-eyed Grass or Californian Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium bellum, is the common blue-eyed grass of California and Oregon west of the Sierra Nevadas, its range extending south into Baja California. It grows as a perennial plant in open places where there is some moisture, particularly grassy areas, though it can also be found in woodlands and at altitudes up to 2400 metres.
Western Branch High School Western Branch High School (WBHS) is a comprehensive high school of over 2200 students in grades 9 through 12. The school is located in Chesapeake, Virginia, a rapidly growing suburban community in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area.
Western Branch, Virginia Western Branch is a community located in the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia (formerly Norfolk County) in the United States. It is located in the South Hampton Roads region and consists of generally low-lying sandy terrain of the coastal plain.
Western Bug The Bug or Buh River, called Western Bug to distinguish it from Southern Bug, flows from central Ukraine to the west, forming part of the boundary between Ukraine and Poland, passes along the Polish-Belarusian border, within Poland, and empties into the Narew river near Serock (actually to the artificial Zegrze Lake). The part between the lake and the Vistula River is sometimes referred to as Bugo-Narew.
Western Bulldogs The Western Bulldogs, formerly known, and occasionally still referred to, as the Footscray Football Club, is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based at the Whitten Oval in Footscray, an inner western suburb of Melbourne. The club draws its supporter base from this traditionally working class area and plays its home matches at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne Docklands, also in the city's inner west.
Western canon The Western canon is a term used to denote a [of book]s, and, more widely, [[European classical music|music and art, that has been the most influential in shaping Western culture. It asserts a compendium of the greatest works of artistic merit.
Western carp gudgeon The western carp gudgeon, Hypseleotris klunzingeri, is a carp gudgeon of the Eleotridae family. Carp gudgeons are small perciform fish (similar in size, shape and colour) found in the Australian Murray-Darling river system, mainly in lowland environments, but some have been observed in upland environments.
Western concert flute The Western concert flute or C flute (most flutes are tuned to the key of C) is a transverse (or side-blown) flute, a musical instrument of the woodwind family. A musician who plays the flute is generally called a flautist or flutist.
Western conifer seed bug Western conifer seed bugs (Leptoglossus occidentalis) do not bite, but they do sting, however the sting is a little different than you would be thinking. They do not have jaws to bite with, so they use the organ they have to stick into trees for sap and prick you on the finger or whatever it is you are using to pick one up.
Western culture Western culture or Western civilization is a term used to refer to the cultures of the people of European origin and their descendants. It comprises the broad heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs (such as religious beliefs) and specific artifacts and technologies as shared within the Western sphere of influence.
Western Canada Western Canada, also known as the Western provinces or simply the West, is a region of Canada normally including all parts of Canada west of the province of Ontario. From west to east, this comprises four provinces:
Western Canada Concept The Western Canada Concept was a Western Canadian political party founded in 1980 to promote the separation of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia and the Yukon and Northwest Territories from Canada in order to create a new nation.
Western Canada Concept Party of British Columbia The Western Canada Concept Party of BC is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. It was the British Columbia branch of the Western Canada Concept, a political party that operated at the federal level, advocating the separation of the four western provinces of Canada and the formation of a new country comprising British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Western Canada Concept Party of Saskatchewan The Western Canada Concept Party of Saskatchewan was a provincial political party that was the Saskatchewan, Canada branch of the Western Canada Concept, a federal political party that advocated the separation of the four western provinces of Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba) to form a new country.
Western Canada For Us Western Canada For Us (WCFU) was an Alberta-based white nationalist group founded by Glenn Bahr and Peter Kouba in early 2004. The WCFU was formally dissolved on May 11, 2004, four days after Bahr's residence in Edmonton, Alberta, was raided by members of the Edmonton Hate Crimes division .
Western Canada Hockey League The Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), founded in 1921, was a major professional ice hockey league originally based in the prairies of Canada. After World War I, the National Hockey League started to become the most dominant hockey league in North America and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) was starting to lose ground.
Western Canada Independence Party The Western Canada Party (WCP) is a Canadian political party that advocates the separation from Canada of the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba as well as the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut to form a new country.
Western Canada Senior Hockey League The Western Canada Senior Hockey League was an ice hockey league that played six seasons in Alberta and Saskatchewan, from 1945 to 1951. It was founded as a four team league featuring teams in Calgary, Edmonton, Regina and Saskatoon.
Western Canada Youth Parliament The Western Canada Youth Parliament (WCYP) is a bi-ennial event that brings together delegations from the British Columbia Youth Parliament (BCYP), the TUXIS Parliament of Alberta, the Saskatchewan Youth Parliament (SYP) and the Youth Parliament of Manitoba (YPM) for a four-day parliamentary session, usually during the Victoria Day long weekend. The hosting for the WCYP rotates amongst these four youth parliaments.
Western Carolinas League The Western Carolinas League was a Class D (1948-52, 1960-62) and a low Class A (1963-79) full-season league in American minor league baseball. The WCL changed its name prior to the 1980 season and has been known since as the South Atlantic League, a highly successful low Class A circuit with teams up the Eastern Seaboard from Georgia to New Jersey.
Western Catalan Western Catalan is a set of Catalan language dialects spoken in western Catalonia, La Franja, part of Andorra and Valencian Country. Their most noticeable characteristic is that unstressed [a], [e] or [o] phonemes are not changed to others such as [É™] or [u], as is common in Eastern dialects.
Western Caucasus The Western Caucasus is a natural UNESCO World Heritage Site situated 50 km to the north from the Russian resort of Sochi and comprising the extreme western edge of the Caucasus Mountains. As stated by the UNESCO specialists, it is the only large mountain area in Europe that has not experienced significant human impact.
Western Civ Western Civ is an indie rock band based in Florence, Alabama and consisting of Rich Henderson (guitar, lead vocal; born December 8, 1973), Bryan Cabler (drums, backing vocals; born July 12, 1974), Jason Briggs (bass, keyboard, backing vocals; born October 7, 1973) and Jason Hall (guitar, misc. instruments, backing vocals; born April 3, 1977).
Western Coal Fields [of Kentucky, with the Western Coal Fields shown in brown]The Western Coal Fields of Kentucky compose an area in the west-central part of the state, bounded by the Dripping Springs Escarpment. This area is bordered on three sides by the Pennyroyal Plateau and to the north by the Ohio River.
Western College Program The Western College Program was created in 1974 when the Western College for Women merged with Miami University. The Western College Program consists of an interdisciplinary living/learning community with small class sizes and student-designed focuses.
Western Collegiate Hockey Association The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as a hockey-only conference.
Western Colorado Botanical Gardens The Western Colorado Botanical Gardens 12 acres (49,000 m²) are botanical gardens located at the southern end of 7th Street in Grand Junction, Colorado, USA. The gardens are public, and financed by admission fees and donations.
Western Colorado Community College Western Colorado Community College (WCCC) is a branch of Mesa State College specializing in vocational studies. Unlike other institutions deemed "community college," the WCCC is not a separate entity from its parent institution.
Western Communities The Western Communities is a term used to describe municipalities and unincorporated districts west of Esquimalt Harbour and Portage Inlet, and south of the Malahat in the Capital Regional District (CRD) of British Columbia, Canada. It is an area of growing residential subdivisions, although farmland and substantial tracts of wilderness still predominate.
Western Congolian swamp forests The Western Congolian swamp forests are an ecoregion of the Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Together with the adjacent Eastern Congolian swamp forests, it forms one of the largest continuous areas of freshwater swamp forest in the world.
Western Connecticut State University Western Connecticut State University (Western, WestConn or WCSU) is a public university in Danbury, Connecticut. Founded in 1903, WestConn has an arts and sciences curriculum, a business school, and several professional programs, including elementary and secondary education, nursing, music performance, and social work.
Western Courier The Western Courier serves more than 14,000 students, faculty, and staff at Western Illinois University, publishing each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during the academic year, excluding holidays and breaks. Summer publication is on Thursdays.
Western Cree syllabics Western Cree syllabics are a variant of Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics used to write Plains Cree, Woods Cree and the western dialects of Swampy Cree. It is used for all Cree dialects west of approximately the Manitoba-Ontario border in Canada.
Western Crowned Pigeon The Western Crowned Pigeon, Goura cristata is a huge, turkey-sized, up to 75cm long, blue-grey pigeon with elegant blue lacy crests over the head and dark blue mask feathers around its eyes. Both sexes are similar but males are often larger than females.
Western Cwm Often called the "Valley of Silence," the Western Cwm (cwm, pronounced coom, is Welsh for "valley") is a broad, flat, gently undulating glacial valley basin terminating at the foot of the Lhotse Face, traversed by climbers of Everest using the southwest route. The central section is cut by massive lateral crevasses which bar entrance into the upper Western Cwm.
Western Daily Press The Western Daily Press is a regional newspaper covering South West England, and is published Monday to Saturday in Bristol, UK. The majority of its readers are in rural areas, small towns and villages throughout the region and the paper's coverage of rural, agricultural and countryside issues is particularly strong.
Western Derby The Western Derby is the name given to the Australian Football League match between the Fremantle Dockers and West Coast Eagles football clubs. As both teams are based in Western Australia, the derby term is used to describe the match.
Western Desert cultural bloc The Western Desert cultural bloc is a cultural region in Australia covering about 600 000 square kilometres, including the Gibson Desert, Great Victoria Desert and the Great Sandy Desert in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia.
Western Desert Force The Western Desert Force, during World War II, was a British Commonwealth Army unit stationed in Egypt. At the start of the war, the Force consisted of the 7th Armoured Division and the Indian 4th Infantry Division.
Western Design Center The Western Design Center (WDC), located in Mesa, Arizona, USA, is a company developing and manufacturing MOS 65xx-based microprocessors, microcontrollers (µCs), and related support chips. WDC was founded in 1978 by co-holder of the MOS Technology 6502 patent, Bill Mensch, himself a former MOS employee.
Western Digital Media Center In computers, the Media Center, branded by Western Digital, is a 7,200-rpm hard drive (either 160GB or 250GB), combined with a reader of CompactFlash Type I and II, Microdrive, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MultimediaCard, Secure Digital, and SmartMedia media. It can use either FireWire or USB to interface with a personal computer (Farrance, 2004).
Western Distributor The Western Distributor is a primarily elevated small freeway in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that links Victoria Road, White Bay (Rozelle), with the Bradfield Highway at the southern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It is part of Metroad 4.
Western District of The Wire The Western District of Baltimore is the city's most violent district and centered in the middle of West Baltimore at 1034 North Mount Street. It is the most looked at unit on The Wire as that is epicenter of the main investigations that occur.
Western Division (New South Wales) Legally, the state of New South Wales is divided into three divisions: the Eastern Division, the Central Division, and the Western Division. These were established for the purposes of the management of the lease of Crown land to private persons.
Western Division Board The Western Divisional Board of the North American GAA colloquially San Francisco GAA is the governing body of hurling, camogie, and gaelic football in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is affiliated to the North American Board.
Western Divisional Board The Western Canada Divisional Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association is part of the Canadian County Board and is responsible for Gaelic Games in Western Canada. The county board is also responsible for the football, hurling, camogie and ladies football teams.
Western equine encephalitis virus Western equine encephalitis (WEE) is a relatively uncommon viral infection caused by the WEE virus, an Alphavirus of the family Togaviridae. WEE virus is an arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus) transmitted by mosquitoes of the genera Culex and Culiseta.
Western Electric Western Electric (sometimes abbreviated WE and WECo) was an American electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T from 1881 to 1995. It was the scene of a number of technological innovations and also some seminal developments in industrial management.
Western Electric rules The Western Electric Rules are general rules for detecting "out-of-control" or non-random conditions for data plotted on a run chart (plot of data as a function of time). Statistically calculated upper and lower control limits, when placed on a run chart, transform it into a control chart.
Western Electricity Coordinating Council The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) was formed on April 18, 2002, from the merger of the Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC) which itself was formed on August 14, 1967, the Southwest Regional Transmission Association (SWRTA), and Western Regional Transmission Association (WRTA). WECC is one of nine regional electric reliability councils under North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) authority.
Western Environmental Law Center The Western Environmental Law Center is a public-interest, nonprofit organization headquartered in Eugene, Oregon, that was started in the early 1990s by public interest attorneys Michael Axline and John Bonine. It grew out of the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Oregon.
Western Europe Western Europe in its most common understanding is a socio-political concept coined and used during the Cold War. Its boundaries were effectively forged during the final stages of World War II and came to encompass all European countries which were not occupied by the Soviet army and subsequently did not fall under control of communist regimes.
Western European broadleaf forests This palaearctic ecoregion covers a large area in Western Europe (France, Austria and Germany), with in particular Central Massive, Jura, Central German Uplands, Bavarian Plateau and Bohemian Massive. It is essentially lowland and altimontane beech and mixed beech forests.
Western Extension Area Western Extension Area, commonly known as WEA, is a near by residential area to the main Ajmal Khan market in Karol Bagh, New Delhi. Houses are distributed in the form of blocks, 11a, 12a,5a,6a and so on, each having a close to a hundred houses in them.
Western Eye Hospital The Western Eye Hospital (WEH) includes the only 24-hour Emergency Ophthalmology Department in West London and treats a wide range of eye conditions from glaucoma to wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a major cause of blindness.
Western Federation of Miners The Western Federation of Miners (WFM) was a radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mine fields of the western United States. Its efforts to organize both hard rock miners and smelter workers in the Western Rocky Mountains states brought it into sharp conflicts – and often pitched battles – with both employers and governmental authorities.
Western Ferries Western Ferries is a private ferry company with its Headquarters in Dunoon, Argyll. It currently operates on the River Clyde running a year-round, high frequency service between Dunoon and Gourock in Renfrewshire.
Western Force Western Force is a rugby union team based in Perth, Western Australia playing in the international Super 14 competition. It commenced competing in the 2006 season and finished with the wooden spoon in their first year.
Western Francia Western Francia was the land under the control of Charles the Bald after the Treaty of Verdun of 843, which divided the Carolingian Empire of the Franks into an East, West, and Middle. It is the precursor of modern France.
Western Freeway, Brisbane The Western Freeway is a 5 km long freeway in western Brisbane that runs from Milton Road in Toowong to the western side of Indooroopilly where the freeway becomes the Centenary Freeway. The freeway bears the symbol and forms part of Metroad 5.
Western Front Western Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the "contested armed frontier" between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West. A "contested armed frontier" during a war is called a "front".
Western Front (band) Western Front was a band formed in 1985 in Portland, Oregon consisting of Fred Cole on vocals and guitar, Kevin Conner on bass, and Jeff Evans on drums. Cole had been in the garage rock band The Lollipop Shoppe and the punk rock band The Rats, among others.
Western Front (Frankreich) Area (Luftflotte 3, France) This Luftwaffe detachment was based in German-occupied Northern France, Netherlands, Belgium, and Vichy France, to support the Axis power's forces in area. Its command offices were in Paris, France (on June 26, 1944).
Western Front Society The Western Front is an artist-run centre located in Vancouver, Canada. It was founded in 1973 by a multidisciplinary group of artists who purchased the former Knights of Pythias lodge hall in which the centre still resides.
Western Fruit Express Western Fruit Express (WFE) was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company formed by the Fruit Growers Express and the Great Northern Railway on July 18, 1923 in order to compete with the Pacific Fruit Express and Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch in the Western United States. The arrangement added 3,000 cars to the FGE's existing equipment pool.

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