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Wide receiver The wide receiver (WR) position in American and Canadian football is the pass-catching specialist. Wide receivers (also referred to as wideouts or simply receivers) are among the fastest and most agile players in the game, and they are frequent highlight-reel favorites.
Wide release Wide release is a term in the American motion picture industry for a motion picture that is playing nationally (as opposed to a few theatres in cities such as New York and Los Angeles) and on 600 screens or more in the United States and Canada.
Wide Right "Wide Right" is a term in American football used to denote an extra point or field goal attempt that the kicker misses to the right of the field goal posts. In the history of both NCAA and NFL football, the term is often associated with these two separate teams/events:
Wide Right (Buffalo Bills) Wide Right is the term for Scott Norwood's missed 47-yard field goal attempt that would have most likely won Super Bowl XXV for the Buffalo Bills. There were 8 seconds left and the Bills were behind by only a single point.
Wide Right (Florida State) "Wide Right" is a term used to describe the series of losses by the Florida State University Seminoles football team to its rival, the University of Miami Hurricanes, resulting largely or in part from missed field goal attempts. This was the case in the games played in 1991, 1992 and 2000.
Wide XGA Wide XGA (WXGA) is a set of non standard resolutions derived from the XGA display standard by widening it to a wide screen aspect ratio. Usually WXGA is understood to refer to a 1366 x 768 resolution with an aspect ratio of 16:9.
Wide-angle lens In photography and cinematography, a wide-angle lens is a lens whose focal length is substantially shorter than the focal length of a normal lens for the image size produced by the camera, whether this is dictated by the dimensions of the image frame at the film plane for film cameras (film format)The term "image frame" as used here means the the opening at the film plane through which the film is exposed. It is used hereafter instead of the term "film format" because it eliminates the potential ambiguity of whether reference is being made to the film size, e.
Wide-Boy 64 The Wide-Boy 64 is a rather obscure Nintendo 64 accessory that was unreleased to the public. A device similar to the Super Game Boy and Game Boy Player, the Wide-Boy 64 allows videogame developers to play Game Boy Color games on the television screen.
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer WISE or Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer is a NASA-funded scientific research project that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies.
Wideawake Wideawake is an American alternative rock band from Austin, Texas. Their songs have been heard on Dawson's Creek and The Ring, and the band has opened for Switchfoot, Third Eye Blind, Vertical Horizon, Sister Hazel, and Gavin DeGraw.
Wideband In communications, wideband is a relative term used to describe a wide range of frequencies in a spectrum. A system is typically described as wideband if the message bandwidth significantly exceeds the channel's coherence bandwidth.
Wideband materials Wideband material refers to material that can convey microwave signals (light/sound) over a variety of wavelengths. These materials possess exemplary attenuation and dielectric constants, and are excellent dielectrics for semiconductor gates.
Widecombe Fair Widecombe Fair takes place annually on the second Tuesday in September, attracting thousands of visitors to the tiny Dartmoor village of Widecombe-in-the-Moor. It is well known as the subject of the folk song of the same name, featuring Uncle Tom Cobley and his friends.
Widemouth Bay Widemouth Bay is a bay and beach on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, UK, approximately 3 miles (5km) south of Bude. This stretch of coast is steeped in the smuggling history of times before, and not far south of Widemouth bay can be found many little inlets and coves.
Widened mediastinum Widened mediastinum' is a mediastinum with a measured width greater than 8 cm on chest X-ray. A widened mediastinum can be indicative of several important pathologies, such as aortic aneurysm and hilar lymphadenopathy.
Widener Handicap The Widener Handicap at Hialeah Park in Miami, Florida was a Grade I stakes race for 4-year-old and up Thoroughbred racehorses run over a distance of 1ÂĽ miles (10 furlongs). Initially called the Widener Challenge Cup Handicap, the race was named for Hialeah Park owner Joseph E.
Widener Library The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, commonly known as Widener Library, is the primary building of the library system of Harvard University. Located on the south side of Harvard Yard directly across from Memorial Church, Widener serves as the centerpiece of the 15.
Widening participation Widening participation in Higher Education is a major component of government education policy in the United Kingdom. It consists of an attempt to increase not only the numbers of young people entering higher education, but also the proportion from so-called "under-represented groups" (those from lower income families, people with disabilities and some ethnic minorities).
Wideopen Wideopen is a village in North Tyneside, north of Gosforth and five miles from Newcastle upon Tyne city centre. The spelling as one word is the currently approved form, but Wide Open is still found on maps and other sources, including the signs at either end of the village.
Widerøe 933 On March 11, 1982, Widerøe flight 933, a Widerøe Twin Otter, registration number LN-BNK, crashed into the sea near Mehamn, killing all fifteen on board. More than twenty years and four rounds of investigation later, this incident remains highly controversial in Norway.
Widerøe destinations The Norwegian airline Widerøe has flights to the following destinations. The Dash 8 aircraft operated by Widerøe are well-suited for many of the smaller regional airports in Norway which have short runways and limited airport facilities.
Widescreen A widescreen image is a film, computer, or television image with a wider aspect ratio than the standard Academy frame developed during the classical Hollywood cinema era. Silent film was projected at a ratio of four units wide to three units tall, often expressed as 4:3 or 1.
Widescreen display modes Widescreen televisions provide several modes for displaying video from 4:3 (standard aspect ratio) sources. These modes may be selected manually from a remote control, or automatically if an Active Format Descriptor is available.
Widescreen signaling In television technology, widescreen signaling (WSS) is a digital stream embedded in the TV signal describing qualities of the broadcast, in particular the intended aspect ratio of the image. This can be used by a widescreen TV to switch to the correct display mode.
Widespread Bloodshed Love Runs Red Widespread Bloodshed Love Runs Red is the first and only album released by the Venice, California Thrash metal band No Mercy. "Master of No Mercy," "Controlled by Hatred," "My Own Way of Life" and "Waking the Dead" were re-recorded by Suicidal Tendencies for their Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...
Widespread Panic Widespread Panic is a southern rock and jam band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell, bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring.
WideStudio WideStudio is an open source, Integrated Development Environment for desktop applications purely made in Japan. This enables you to develop GUI applications that can run on Windows95/98/Me/NT/2000/Xp, WindowsCE, Linux, FreeBSD, SOLARIS, MacOSX(w/X11), BTRON, T-Engine, mu-CLinux(wo/X11) in various programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Python,Objective Caml
Widget (beer) The "floating widget" found in cans of beer is a hollow sphere, 3 cm in diameter. The can is pressurised by adding liquid nitrogen, which vaporises and expands in volume after the can is sealed, forcing gas and beer into the widget's hollow interior through a tiny hole – the less beer the better for subsequent head quality.
Widget (computing) In computer programming, a widget (or control) is an interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box. Widgets are sometimes qualified as virtual to distinguish them from their physical counterparts, e.
Widget (video game) Widget was a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System created in 1992 by the company Atlus, it was based on the short lived cartoon Widget the World Watcher. It also had a sequel by the name of Super Widget on the Super NES.
Widin Widin was the last attested Ostrogothic noble in Italy. After Teia's defeat at the hands of the Byzantine eunuch general Narses at the Battle of Mons Lactarius, south of present-day Naples, in October 552 or early 553, organized Ostrogothic resistance ended.
Widlar current source A Widlar current source is a current source attributed to the late Bob Widlar, in which an emitter degeneration resistor is only applied to Q2 (designated as R2 in the schematic). This has the effect of turning off Q2 relative to Q1.
Widmannstätten (crater) Widmannstätten is a lunar crater in the southern part of the Mare Smythii, near the eastern limb of the Moon. The rim of this crater has a wide gap along the western side, where it is joined to the larger Kiess crater.
Widmanstätten pattern Widmanstätten patterns, named after Count Alois von Beckh Widmanstätten, are unique structures of long nickel-iron crystals, found in the octahedrite iron meteorites. They consist of a fine interleaving of kamacite and taenite bands or ribbons called lamellae.
Widom scaling Widom scaling is a hypothesis in Statistical mechanics regarding the free energy of a magnetic system near its critical point which leads to the critical exponents becoming no longer independent so that they can be paramaterized in terms of two values.
Widow (typesetting) In typesetting, a widow occurs when the majority of a paragraph appears on one page with the last line of that paragraph flowing to the top of the following page. Because the entire papragraph did not fit in its entirety on one page, its last line of text was forced to "continue on its own" as a widow on the following page.
Widow inheritance Widow inheritance, also known as bride inheritance, is a type of marriage in which a widow marries a kinsman of her late husband, often his brother. It can have various forms and functions in different cultures, serving in relative proportions as a social protection for, and control over, the widow and her children.
Widow maker A Widow maker is the nickname for a left anterior descending artery stenosis. It is caused by a build-up of cholesterol plaque, also known as atherosclerosis, within the left main coronary artery, which severely reduces the blood flow to the left ventricular heart muscle.
Widow spider The widow spiders are members of the spider genus Latrodectus, in the family Theridiidae. Latrodectus includes approximately 31 recognized venomous species, with the black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans) being the best known member of the group.
Widow's man A Widows' Man is a fictitious seaman kept on the books of British ships in the Georgian era for accounting purposes. The wages of these men were paid to the widows of seamen who were killed, as such widows were often left destitute by the death of their husband.
Widow's walk A widow's walk (or roofwalk) is a railed rooftop platform, typically on a coastal house, originally designed to observe vessels at sea. The name comes from the wives of mariners who would watch for their spouses to return.
WidowPC WidowPC, Inc. is a privately held company based in Austin, Texas and recently shipped the world's first dual-core CPU laptop based on the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and debuted at the AMD press-only event at CES 2005 in Las Vegas.
Widows Creek Power Plant Widows Creek Power Plant (also known as the Widows Creek Fossil Plant) is a coal-fired power station at Stevenson, Alabama USA. The plant, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, generates about nine billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year.
Widsith Widsith is an Old English poem of 144 lines that appears to date from 9th century, drawing on earlier oral traditions of Anglo-Saxon tale singing. The only text of the fragment is copied in the Exeter Book, a manuscript of Old English poetry compiled in the late 10th century.
Widukind Lenz Widukind Lenz (1919-1995) was a distinguished German pediatrician, medical geneticist and dysmorphologist who was among the first to recognize the thalidomide syndrome in 1961 and alert the world to the dangers of limb and other malformations due to the mother's exposure to this drug during pregnancy.
Widukind of Corvey Widukind of Corvey was a Saxon historical chronicler, named after (and possibly a descendant of) the Saxon duke and national hero Widukind who had battled Charlemagne. Widukind the chronicler was born in 925 and died after 973 at the Benedictine abbey of Corvey in Lower Saxony.
WiDEN Wideband Integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network, or WiDEN, is a software upgrade developed by Motorola for its iDEN enhanced specialized mobile radio (or ESMR) wireless telephony protocol. WiDEN allows compatible subscriber units to communicate across four 25 kHz channels combined, for up to 100 kbit/s of bandwidth.
Wie weit/How far/En Vie Wie Weit/How Far/En Vie is a single by Apocalyptica, featuring Marta Jandová and Manu (Emmanuelle Monet). First released under the title of Wie Weit on February 14th, 2005 and again under the title of How Far on February 23rd, 2005, both with different song line up.
Wiebo Ludwig Wiebo Ludwig (born December 19 1941) is the leader of a religious commune in Alberta, Canada, who is best known for his legal problems arising from his conflict with the oil and gas industry. Ludwig has been accused of being an eco-terrorist for sabotaging oil and gas wells.
Wied-Neuwied (state) Wied-Neuwied was a German statelet of northeastern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, located northeast of the Rhine River, north and inclusive of Neuwied. Wied-Neuwied was a partition of Wied, and was raised from a County to a Principality in 1784.
Wiedehopf Im Mai - Sandie Shaw Singt Auf Deutsch Wiedehopf Im Mai - Sandie Shaw Singt Auf Deutsch is a compilation album by 1960s British girl singer Sandie Shaw featuring all her German-language recordings, many of which are versions of her hits. The album was released in 2004 by EMI.
Wiedergutmachung The German word Wiedergutmachung after World War II refers to the reparations that the German government agreed to pay to the direct survivors of the Holocaust, and to those who were made to work as forced labour or who otherwise became victims of the Nazis.
Wiedingharde Wiedingharde (Wiedingharde North Frisian: Wiringhiird) is an amt (collective municipality) in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the North Sea coast and on the border with Denmark.
Wiedingharde Frisian Wiedingharde Frisian (Wiringhiirder freesk) is a dialect of the North Frisian language spoken in the German amt of Wiedingharde south of the border to Denmark in North Frisia (historic south of the river Widau). The dialect forms part of the mainland group of North Frisian dialects.
Wieferich prime In mathematics, a Wieferich prime is a prime number p such that p² divides 2p − 1 − 1; compare this with Fermat's little theorem, which states that every odd prime p divides 2p − 1 − 1. Wieferich primes were first described by Arthur Wieferich in 1909 in works pertaining to Fermat's last theorem.
Wieger Mensonides Wieger Emile Mensonides (born July 12, 1938 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland) is a former Dutch swimmer, who won the bronze medal in the 200 Metres Breaststroke at the 1960 Summer Olympics. For forty years he was the only Dutch swimmer who had won an olympic medal.
Wiehl Wiehl is a Northrhine-Westfalian municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in Germany which lies in about 41 km to the east of Cologne by air. The neighbouring municipalities Reichshof, Waldbröl, Nümbrecht, Much, Engelskirchen and Gummersbach border on the town.
Wieland Wagner Wieland Wagner (January 5, 1917 – October 17, 1966) was one of two sons of Siegfried Wagner and grandson of composer Richard Wagner. He is credited with ushering in a new post-modern style to Wagnerian opera as director of the Bayreuth Festival.
Wieland-Miescher ketone The Wieland-Miescher ketone is a bicyclic di-ketone and a starting compound for many natural product syntheses especially because it is available in an enantiomeric pure form. Examples of syntheses performed using this ketone as a starting material are that of ancistrofuran and in the Danishefsky Taxol total synthesis.
Wielbark (Warmian-Masurian Voivodship) Wielbark (; ) is a village in Poland, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in Szczytno County, in Wielbark Commune. It is located in southern Masuria, Poland, about 15 km south of Szczytno and 5 km north of the former southern border of East Prussia to Poland.
Wielbark culture Wielbark culture (, , ) was an archaeological culture identified with the Goths which appeared during the first half of the 1st century AD. It replaced the local Oksywie culture which was part of the Przeworsk culture.
Wieliczka Wieliczka is a town (2006 population: 18,849) in southern Poland in the KrakĂłw metropolitan area, and situated (since 1999) in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, previously (1975-1998) in KrakĂłw Voivodeship. The town was founded in 1290 by Duke Premislas II of Poland.
Wieliczka Salt Mine The Wieliczka Salt Mine, in the town of Wieliczka, in Poland's KrakĂłw metropolitan area, has been in continuous operation since the 13th century, and still produces table salt. It is one of the world's oldest operating salt mines (the oldest is at Bochnia, Poland, 20 kilometers from Wieliczka).
Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN (Great Universal Encyclopedia PWN) was, until 2005, the largest Polish encyclopedia ever written. It was published between 1962 and 1970 by Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe (State Scientific Publishers, PWN) in Warsaw.
Wielki Krzek Wielki Krzek is a Polish island in the Szczecin Lagoon, near Wolin, at the mouth of Stara Ĺšwina, east of KarsibĂłr (Kaseburg). Wielki Krzek is uninhabited and is under natural protection on account of its many species of animals.
Wielki Szyszak Wielki Szyszak (Czech Vysokè Kolo, German Hohes Rad, literally Big Helmet) is a mountain in Poland, close to the border with Czech Republic. It is situated in the central (Silesian) part of the main mountain range of the Karkonosze, right above the village of Jagniątków.
Wielkopolski The Wielkopolski is a breed of horse that was originated in Central and Western Poland in 1964, so it is still relatively young. It was developed by crossing two now extinct Polish breeds, the Pozan (bred at the Posadowo, Racot and Gogolewo studs) and the Masuren (bred at the Liski stud), so it is also referred to as the Mazursko-Poznanski.
Wien approximation The Wien's approximation (also sometimes called Wien's law or the Wien distribution law) is a law of physics used to describe the spectrum of thermal radiation (frequently called the blackbody function). This law was first derived by Wilhelm Wien in the 1890's.
Wien Nord-Praterstern Wien Nord-Praterstern (German for Vienna North-Praterstern) is one of Vienna's main railway stations, being used by 35,000 people daily. It is located on the roundabout Praterstern in Leopoldstadt, in the north of the city.
Wiencke Island Wiencke Island () is an island 16 miles long and from 2 to 5 miles wide, about 67 km in area, the southernmost of the major islands of the Palmer Archipelago, lying between Anvers Island to its north and the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Wiener Blut (operetta) Wiener Blut ('Viennese Blood' or 'Viennese Spirit') is the name of an operetta named after the "Wiener Blut" waltz with music by the composer Johann Strauss the Younger, who did not live to witness the première. Such was the popularity of the original 'Wiener Blut' op.
Wiener deconvolution Wiener deconvolution is an application of the Wiener filter to the noise problems inherent in deconvolution. It works in the frequency domain, attempting to minimize the impact of deconvoluted noise at frequencies which have a poor signal to noise ratio.
Wiener Library The Wiener Library is the world's oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. Founded in 1933 as an information bureau that informed Jewish communities and governments worldwide about the persecution of the Jews under the Nazis, it was transformed into a research institute and public access library after the end of World War II.
Wiener Moderne The Wiener Moderne () or Viennese Modern Age is a term describing the culture of Vienna in the period between approximately 1890 and 1910. It refers especially to the development of modernism in the Austrian capital and its effect on the spheres of philosophy, literature, music, art, design and architecture.
Wiener Nationals The Wiener Nationals are the United States national dachshund racing championships sponsored by Wienerschnitzel. Regional qualifiers are held in the Southwestern United States (California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada), with the final 8 Dachshunds racing for the national title every December in San Diego as part of the Holiday Bowl.
Wiener schnitzel Wiener schnitzel (from the German Wiener Schnitzel, meaning Vienna-style veal cutlet) is one of the most, if not the most, famous of traditional Austrian dishes. Possibly originating in Northern Italy (as cotoletta alla milanese), the recipe may have appeared in Vienna during the 15th or 16th century.
Wiener Sportclub The Wiener Sportclub, commonly referred to simply as WSC, was established in 1883 playing in club colours of black and white. One of Vienna's oldest athletics clubs, their traditional home is in the Dornbach quarter of the city.
Wiener Stadtbahn The Wiener Stadtbahn (German for "Vienna City Railway") was a public transportation system that operated from 1898 to 1989. Today, the Vienna U-Bahn (subway) lines U4 and U6 and the Vienna S-Bahn ("fast train") run along its former lines.
Wiener Takes All: A Dogumentary Wiener Takes All: A Dogumentary is a documentary film that chronicles the lives of America's top competitive dachshunds and their owners. Directed by Shane MacDougall, the film follows five competitors in the Wienerschnitzel "Wiener Nationals" dachshund racing circuit, from the scandal of the 2003 Wiener Nats, through to the 2005 championships this December in San Diego.
Wiener Werkstätte Style With the foundation of the Wiener Werkstätte in 1903, a new artistic style was born that came to be known as the Wiener-Werkstätte-Stil (literally, the Vienna Workshops Style). Beginning with the 14th Exhibition of the Vienna Sezession in 1902, the radical distinctiveness of certain Viennese artists began to emerge, setting a foundation for the widespread Modernist movement.
Wiener Zeitung The Wiener Zeitung is an Austrian newspaper founded in 1703 under the name Wiennerisches Diarium. The first issue appeared on August 8, 1703 which makes the Wiener Zeitung one of the oldest, still published newspapers in the world.
Wiener's tauberian theorem In mathematics, Wiener's tauberian theorem is a 1932 result of Norbert Wiener. It put the capstone on the field of tauberian theorems in summability theory, on the face of it a chapter of real analysis, by showing that most of the known results could be encapsulated in a principle from harmonic analysis.
Wiener-Ikehara theorem The Wiener-Ikehara theorem can be used to prove the prime number theorem (see Chandrasekharan's book Introduction to Analytic Number Theory). It was proved by Norbert Wiener and his student Shikao Ikehara in 1932.
Wiener–Khinchin theorem The Wiener–Khinchin theorem (also known as the Wiener–Khintchine theorem and sometimes as the Khinchin–Kolmogorov theorem) states that the power spectral density of a wide-sense-stationary random process is the Fourier Transform of the corresponding autocorrelation function.
Wienerschnitzel Wienerschnitzel is an American fast-food chain founded in 1961 as "Der Wienerschnitzel" that specializes in hot dogs. The chain's advertising mascot is a hot dog that runs from people who want to eat him.
Wienerwald The Wienerwald (German for Vienna woods) is a low, wooded section of the Alps in eastern Lower Austria and Vienna, covering over 1,000 square kilometres and including the northernmost parts of the entire Alpine chain. The Wienerwald may be defined as that group of hills bounded by the rivers Triesting, Gölsen, Traisen and Danube, and is a favourite outdoor destination for the densely-populated area around Vienna .
Wiergate, Texas Wiergate, Texas is a small town in far east Texas situated in Newton County, Texas, United States, approximately 70 miles northeast of Beaumont near Highway 63 and Highway 87. Its population today hovers around 450 (recorded as 461 in the 1990 US Census).
Wieringen Wieringen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It consists of a former island, also named Wieringen, and there are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer.
Wies church The pilgrimage church of Wies (German: Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann, who spent the last eleven years of his life in a nearby dwelling. It is located in the foothills of the Alps, the Steingaden municipality of the Weilheim-Schongau district, Bavaria, Germany.
Wiesbaden Army Airfield Wiesbaden Air Base is located southeast of the city of Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. It was selected as the site for Headquarters, United States Air Forces in Europe on 28 September 1945, in large part due to its proximity to Frankfurt am Main, where the U.
Wiesbaden-Biebrich Biebrich is a borough of the city Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, located in the Rhine-Main-Area near Frankfurt, opposite of Mombach. Biebrich was an independent city until it was incorporated into Wiesbaden in 1926.
Wiesel Commission The Wiesel Commission is the common name given to the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania, which was established by former President Ion Iliescu in October 2003 to research and create a report on the actual history of the Holocaust in Romania and make specific recommendations for educating the public on the issue. The Commission, which was led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, released its report in late 2004.
Wiesław Andrzej Szczepański Wiesław Andrzej Szczepański (born June 01, 1960 in Chrośnica) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 8253 votes in 36 Kalisz district, candidating from Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej list.
Wiesław Jędrusik Wiesław Jędrusik (born November 27, 1945 in Dąbrowa Górnicza) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 9761 votes in 32 Sosnowiec district, candidating from Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej list.
Wiesław Kilian Wiesław Kilian (born July 25, 1952 in Ząbkowice Śląskie) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 7524 votes in 3 Wrocław district, candidating from Prawo i Sprawiedliwość list.
Wiesław Woda Wiesław Woda (born August 17, 1946 in Paleśnica) is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on September 25, 2005 getting 8818 votes in 15 Tarnów district, candidating from Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe list.
Wife Swap Wife Swap is a reality television program, produced by UK independent TV production company RDF Media. It first aired in 2003 on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and since 2004 has also aired in the US on the ABC network.
Wife-selling The old custom of wife-selling in provincial England provided a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage by mutual agreement. By registering as a marketplace seller and parading his wife with a halter about her neck, a husband could auction her to the highest bidder.
Wifebeater (shirt) "Wife beater", also wifebeater, and sometimes abbreviated as simply beater, is a controversial, sometimes pejorative slang term used in parts of North America, Australia and various other places to refer to a sleeveless undershirt. Other terms are an A-shirt, tank top, singlet, or "muscle shirt" when worn as a sole, outer layer as opposed to being worn under another shirt.
Wifey (novel) Wifey is a 1978 novel by Judy Blume. The story follows the life of bored 1970s New Jersey housewife Sandy Pressman who decides to reinvigorate her life by having an extra-marital affair with an old high school boyfriend.

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