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Wifey's World Wifey's World is a pornographic website, founded in 1998 and maintained by an American couple. The "star" of the website is Sandra Otterson, who is known as "Wifey," She and her husband, Kevin, known as "Hubby" started the site after overwhelming response to a nude Polaroid of Wifey on Usenet by Hubby.
Wiffleball Wiffleball is a variation of the sport of baseball designed for indoor or outdoor play in confined areas. It is played using a plastic perforated ball and a long, plastic (typically yellow) bat, generally on a triangular playing field.
Wifipicning The term "Wifipicning", a combination of the words WiFi, picnic, and happening, describes a social gathering of people, similar to the flashmobs or other social networks born out of new communication technologies.
Wifredo Lam Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla (林飛龍, pinyin: Lín Fēilóng) (December 2 1902, Sagua La Grande, Villa Clara Province—September 11 1982, Paris), better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist. He was predominantly a painter but he also worked with sculpture and ceramics.
WiFi phone A WiFi phone is a wireless telephone that looks similar to a mobile phone but places calls via a combination of voice over IP and WiFi rather than via a cellular network. Current WiFi phones use Skype or Vonage for their voice over IP service.
Wig A wig or toupee is a head of hair—human, horse-hair or synthetic—worn on the head for fashion or various other aesthetic and stylistic reasons, including cultural and religious observance. The word wig is short for periwig and first appeared in the English language around 1675.
Wig in a Box Wig in a Box is a charity tribute album featuring versions of songs from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It was released in 2003 through Off Records, and proceeds benefited the Hetrick-Martin Institute, which is the home of the Harvey Milk School, a school for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.
Wig wag (truck braking systems) In truck braking systems, one type of warning for low air pressure in an air brake system of commercial trucks is called the wig wag. This device drops a mechanical arm into your view when the pressure in the system drops below 60 p.
Wig-wag (automobile) A wig-wag is a device for flashing an automobile's headlights at a preset rate. Traditionally, the wig-wag will flash the right and left headlights (often the high-beams) alternately, but some designs will flash both headlights on and off together.
Wig-wag (sound stage) A wig-wag is the red light (also known as a "red-eye") near each door of a motion picture sound stage. It flashes to indicate that cameras are rolling inside the stage and all people and vehicles outside should remain quiet.
Wigand of Marburg Wigand of Marburg (Note that von Marburg is a purely descriptive title added to his original name of Wigand by later historians, rather than a proper surname. Also the von should not be confused with a preposition used in later times to denote someone's noble status) was a herald of the Teutonic Order of Prussia and one of the notable chroniclers of the Middle Ages.
Wigand Wirt Wigand Wirt (1460-1519} was a German theologian who is most well known for his polemic writings attacking the Catholic doctrine of the immaculate conception. In 1506, the Archbishop of Mainz forbade the reading of certain of Wirt's works, and in 1512, the Vatican officially decided against him.
Wigbert Saint Wigbert, born in Wessex around 670, was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk from the monastery of Glastonbury and a missionary and disciple of Saint Boniface who traveled with the latter in Frisia and northern and central Germany to convert the local tribes to Christianity. When Boniface had felled Thor's Oak near Fritzlar in northern Hesse in 723, he built a wooden chapel from the oak's wood and in 724 established a Benedictine monastery in Fritzlar.
Wigeric of Lotharingia Wigeric or Wideric () (died before 923) was the count of the Bidgau (pagus Bedensis) and held the rights of a count within the city of Trier. He received also the advocacy of the abbey of Saint Rumbolds at Malines from Charles III of France.
Wigger Wigger (alternatively spelled wigga or whigger or whigga) is a slang term that refers to a white person who emulates mannerisms, slangs and fashions stereotypically associated with urban African Americans; especially in relation to hip hop culture.
Wiggins (Sherlock Holmes character) Wiggins (he has no first name in the stories) is a street urchin in London and head of the Baker Street Irregulars in some of the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His first appearance is in "A Study in Scarlet" (1886).
Wiggle Diskette The Wiggle Diskette was an early flexidisc recording by the band They Might Be Giants, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music). The A-side of the single was "Everything Right is Wrong Again", later re-recorded and released on their first LP, 1986's They Might Be Giants.
Wiggle matching Wiggle matching is a method of determining an accurate date by comparing radiocarbon dates and growth rings (such as a tree or any other materiel with annual growth rings). The method is called "Wiggle Matching" because of the use they make of the form of the calibration curve.
Wiggler is the caterpillar-like creature in the Mario series of games. It made its first appearance in Super Mario World, where it first displayed its trademark characteristic of becoming red and enraged when jumped on by Mario, Luigi,Yoshi,etc.
Wiggler (synchrotron) An wiggler is an insertion device in a synchrotron. It is a series of magnet designed to deflect ('wiggle') a beam of charged particles (invariably electrons or positrons) inside a storage ring of a synchrotron.
Wiggler (tool) A wiggler, edge finder, center finder or sticky pin refers to a tool used in the rotating spindle of a machine such as mill or drill. The device is used to accurately determine the edge or center of a workpiece during the setup phase of a machining operation.
Wigglytuff is one of fictional species of Pokémon in the Pokémon franchise, and evolves from the popular Pokémon Jigglypuff. The name, Wigglytuff is a portmanteau wiggly referring to this Pokémon's wiggliness and tuff which could be a deliberate misspelling of tough or tuft or merely a deliberately made-up word that rhymes with puff in Jigglypuff, its devolved form.
Wight Wight is an obsolete word for a human or other intelligent "being" and derives from the same root as forms of to be, such as was and were. (Modern German "Wicht" is a cognate, meaning "small person, dwarf", and also "unpleasant person").
WightCable WightCable is a provider of commercial and residential cable television, telephone and broadband internet services in the United Kingdom. Along with Kingston Communications it is one of the last remaining cable companies not owned by NTL who, from March 2006, operate more than 95% of cable services in the UK.
Wightman axioms In physics the Wightman axioms are an attempt at a mathematically rigorous formulation of quantum field theory. Arthur Wightman formulated the axioms in the early 1950s but they were first published only in 1964, after Haag-Ruelle scattering theory affirmed their significance.
Wighton Wighton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is situated some 6 km south of the town of Wells-next-the-Sea, 12 km north of the town of Fakenham, and 45 km north-west of the city of Norwich.
Wightwick Manor Wightwick Manor () is a Victorian manor house located in Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, and one of only a few surviving examples of a house built and furnished under the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was originally built by the Mander family, who were successful 19th-century industrialists in the area.
Wiglaf of Mercia Wiglaf, son of the late king Beornwulf, was King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death in 840. His rule coincided with the continued rise of the rival Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex under Egbert.
Wigmund of Mercia Wigmund may have briefly reigned in Mercia in about 840, in succession to his father, Wiglaf of Mercia. He may, on the other hand, have predeceased his father and never been anything more than a co-ruler with him.
Wigner D-matrix The Wigner D-matrix is a matrix in an irreducible representation of the groups SU(2) and SO(3). The complex conjugate of the D-matrix is an eigenfunction of the Hamiltonian of spherical and symmetric rigid rotors.
Wigner's friend Wigner's friend is a thought experiment proposed by the physicist Eugene Wigner; it is an extension of the Schrödinger's cat experiment designed as a point of departure for discussing the mind-body problem as viewed by the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Wigner-Eckart theorem The Wigner-Eckart theorem is a theorem of representation theory and quantum mechanics allowing operators to be transformed from one basis to another. These transformations involve the use of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients.
Wigner-Seitz cell The Wigner-Seitz cell is a geometrical construction which helps in the study of crystalline material in solid-state physics. The unique property of a crystal is that the atoms comprising it are arranged in a regular, 3-dimensional array, which is called a lattice.
Wigstock: The Movie Wigstock: The Movie is a 1995 documentary film focusing on Wigstock, the annual drag music festival that had been held New York City's East Village through the 1980s and 1990s. The film presents a number of performances from the 1994 festival, including Crystal Waters, Deee-Lite, Jackie Beat, Leigh Bowery, Joey Arias and the Dueling Bankheads.
Wigtown & Bladnoch F.C. Wigtown & Bladnoch Football Club are a football (soccer) club from the town of Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Formed in 1880, they play their home matches at Trammondford Park, which has room for 1,500 spectators, more than room enough for the crowds they attract.
Wigtown (UK Parliament constituency) Wigtown Burghs, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885. It was represented by one Member of Parliament.
Wigtownshire The County of Wigtown, or Wigtownshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhaile na h-Uige) is a registration county in the south west of Scotland. It borders Ayrshire to the north, and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright to the east.
Wigtownshire (UK Parliament constituency) Wigtownshire, was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It was represented by one Member of Parliament.
Wigwag (railroad) Wigwag is the nickname given to a type of early 20th century railroad grade crossing signal, so named due to the pendulum-like motion it used to signal the approach of a train. It is generally credited to Albert Hunt, a mechanical engineer at Southern California's Pacific Electric (PE) interurban streetcar railroad, who invented it in 1909 out of the necessity for a safer railroad grade crossing.
Wigwam (progressive rock) Wigwam is a Finnish progressive rock band formed in 1968, after the split of the seminal Blues Section, with whom drummer Ronnie Ă–sterberg had played before. He formed the band as a trio, but soon brought in British expatriate singer/songwriter Jim Pembroke (also in BS) and organist Jukka Gustavson.
Wigwam Motel The 15 concrete and steel "wigwams" known as the Wigwam Motel, are distinctive landmarks on historic Route 66, and are still visible from the current Interstate 40 as it passes through Holbrook, AZ. The motel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 2002 under the official designation of Wigwam Village #6.
WigWam Wigwam is a duo comprising Alex James, the bassist from Blur and vocalist Betty Boo. With record producer Ben Hillier, and former Boo collaborators Beatmasters, WigWam are creating an album which they describe as "experimental yet accessible 21st century pop".
Wich towns Wich and wych are names used to denote brine springs or wells. By the 11th century use of the 'wich' suffix in placenames associated towns with salt production; six English towns/cities carry the suffix: Droitwich in Worcestershire, four Cheshire 'wiches' of Middlewich, Nantwich, Northwich and Leftwich, a small village south of Northwich, and the city of Norwich in Norfolk.
WichĂ­ The WichĂ­ are an indigenous people of South America. They are a large group of tribes with very primitive material culture, ranging about the headwaters of the Bermejo River and the Pilcomayo River, in Argentina and Bolivia.
Wichita Art Museum The Wichita Art Museum is an art museum located in Wichita, Kansas. It was established in 1915, when Louise Murdock’s Will created a trust to start a collection of art works by “American painters, potters, sculptors, and textile weavers.
Wichita Falls Metropolitan Planning Organization The Wichita Falls Metropolitan Planning Organization (WFMPO) was established by the federal government to ensure that transportation decisions within the MPO area are performed in a continuing, comprehensive and cooperative process. The MPO is responsible for creating, developing and reviewing transportation plans, which include the long-range, 25-year Metropolitan Transportation Plan, the short-range, 3-year Transportation Improvement Program, the annual Unified Planning Work Program, travel models, thoroughfare plans, transit plans, and bicycle/pedestrian plans.
Wichita Falls Wildcats The Wichita Falls Wildcats are a Junior A ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League's South Division. Originally known as the Wichita Falls Rustlers (and before this, the Butte Irish of Butte, Montana), the franchise was a part of the America West Hockey League prior to 2003, and became an NAHL team after the two leagues merged.
Wichita High School East Located near the center of Wichita, Kansas, Wichita High School East has a population of 2,257 students and is the largest high school in Kansas . Originally known as Wichita High School, East was the first of eight traditional public high schools to be built in USD 259, Wichita's Unified School District.
Wichita Lineman "Wichita Lineman" is a popular song written by Jimmy Webb in 1968, first recorded by Glen Campbell and widely covered since. Campbell's version, which appeared on his 1968 album Wichita Lineman, reached #3 on the US charts, remaining in the Top 100 for 15 weeks.
Wichita Mountains The Wichita Mountains are an ancient mountain range located in southwestern Oklahoma. The Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge, a favorite for Southwest Oklahoma hikers and mountain climbers, is located adjacent to Medicine Park, Oklahoma and 25 miles northwest of Lawton, Oklahoma.
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Established in 1901, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is one of more than 530 refuges throughout the United States managed by the Fish and Wildlife Service. The 59,020 acre Refuge hosts a rare piece of the past - a remnant mixed grass prairie, an island where the natural grasslands escaped destruction because the rocks underfoot defeated the plow.
Wichita Recordings Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, England. Its most notable signees are The Cribs, Bloc Party, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Her Space Holiday.
Wichita State University Wichita State University (WSU) is an American state-supported university located in the middle-size city of Wichita, Kansas, in the south central part of the state. WSU is one of six state universities governed by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Wichita Wings The now-defunct Wichita Wings were a professional indoor soccer franchise based in Wichita, Kansas. The Wings became an expansion team of the Major Indoor Soccer League, later known as the Major Soccer League (MSL), on 21 August 1979.
Wii gaming Wii Gaming is a new phenomenon developed in 2006 on the campus at the University of Chicago. It combines the popular concept of pre-gaming, in which individuals drink alcohol before attending a party, and the nintendo wii; unique among video game consoles in that participation requires the active use of eye-hand coordination.
Wii homebrew Wii homebrew refers to the reuse of Nintendo's Wii game console hardware, accessories and software for purposes outside of those intended by the manufacturer. Key objectives are to provide open source tools to expand or alter the capabilities provided "out of the box".
Wii Channels The Wii Channels collectively form the top level menu interface of the Wii game console from Nintendo. Separate channels are graphically displayed in a grid, and are navigated using the pointer capability of the Wii Remote.
Wii Points Wii Points is a payment system that Nintendo uses for its Wii console through the Wii Shop Channel. Consumers can purchase points by an online credit-card transaction or by purchasing a "Wii Points Card" at retail.
Wii Remote The Wii Remote, also nicknamed "Wiimote," is the primary controller for Nintendo's Wii console. The main feature of the Wii Remote is its motion sensing capability, which allows the user to interact with and manipulate items on screen via movement and pointing, as well as its expandability through the use of attachments.
WiiConnect24 WiiConnect24 is a feature of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for Nintendo's Wii that was announced at E3 2006. It will enable some of the system's features to work while the console is on stand-by; for example, a friend might be able to visit another player's town and leave that player messages in Animal Crossing without him or her being present.
Wij houden van Oranje Wij houden van Oranje (We love Orange), is the title of a Dutch football song, written by the Dutch singer André Hazes. It is based on the melody of the well-known Scottish song Auld Lang Syne written by Robert Burns.
Wijan Ponlid Wijan Ponlid (born April 26, 1976) is an Thai boxer who competed in the Flyweight (51 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal. He returned to Thailand to a hero's welcome: honored with a new house, over 20 million baht, a job promotion (as a police officer in Suhkhothai), and paraded at the front of a procession of 49 elephants through the city of Bangkok.
Wijdefjord Wijdefjord is the longest fjord in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Wijdefjord is located in the northern portion of the island of Spitsbergen, which lies in the Arctic Ocean about midway between Norway and the North Pole, and is the largest island in the archipelago.
Wijit Srisa-arn Wijit Srisa-arn is a former Thai politician and was appointed Minister of Education in 2006 by a military junta following a successful military coup. As Education Minister, he has cancelled several key Thai Rak Thai-government policies like Thailand's participation in the One Laptop Per Child program and plans to install broadband internet connections in all Thai schools.
Wijk aan Zee Wijk aan Zee (pronounced: whyk aahn zeh) is a small town on the coast of the North Sea in the municipality of Beverwijk in the province of North Holland of the Netherlands. The prestigious Corus chess tournament formerly called Hoogovens tournament takes place there every year.
Wik and the Fable of Souls Wik and the Fable of Souls is a game developed by Reflexive Entertainment. The main character, Wik, is a strange frog-man who uses a combination of jumping and his long, grapple-like tongue to navigate the world.
Wik Mungkan Wik Mungkan is an aboriginal language of northern Cape York, Queensland, Australia. Recent surveys indicate that there are 400 native speakers of Wik Mungkan, and 600 members of other aboriginal groups who speak it as a second language.
Wik peoples The Wik peoples are an Indigenous Australian group of people from an extensive zone on western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, of several different language groups. They are from the coastal flood plains bounding the Gulf of Carpentaria lying between Pormpuraaw (Edward River) and Weipa, and inland the forested country drained by the Archer, Kendall and Holroyd rivers.
Wik Peoples v Queensland The Wik Decision is a decision of the High Court of Australia in Wik Peoples v. The State of Queensland in December 1996, regarding the right of access by the Wik peoples of Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland to Crown land held under pastoral leases for cattle grazing.
Wiki A wiki (IPA: <WICK-ee> or <WEE-kee>according to Don Perrin) is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change available content, and typically without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.
Wiki database A wiki-based database is a collection of wiki files that can be accessed using SQL-like commands. The first (and, as of 2006, the only) such system was designed and developed by Reliable Software as part of their P2P version-control system, Code Co-op, which features a Peer-to-peer wiki system.
Wiki González Wiklenman Vicente (Wiki) González (born May 17, 1974, Aragua State, Venezuela) is a catcher who plays for the Chicago White Sox organization. Previously, González played with the San Diego Padres (1999-2003) and Seattle Mariners (2005).
Wiki wiki dollar A wiki wiki dollar was a giveaway promotion in the United States from the Chevron gasoline company during the 1960s. The advertising campaign featured a wiki wiki girl, played by dancer Irene Tsu, dressed in a grass skirt and performing a brisk hula while standing on a gasoline pump.
Wiki Wiki Shuttle The Wiki Wiki Shuttle is a famous Hawaii native bus system that transports people from airplanes to passenger loading terminals at the Honolulu International Airport on Oahu. The free shuttle arrives every 20 to 25 minutes carrying people and baggage among three terminals.
Wikileaks Wikileaks is a purported untraceable website running on modified Mediawiki software which will allow whistleblowers to anonymously release government and corporate documents, allegedly without possible retribution. The site and its project were themselves secret, pre-launch, until their existence was leaked and disclosed on the Cryptome website"Wikileaks Leak", Cryptome, January 11, 2007..
Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is the parent organization of the Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks (including Wikijunior), Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, Wikiversity, and Meta-Wiki collaborative projects.
WikiMapia WikiMapia is an online map resource that combines Google Maps with a wiki system, allowing users to add information (in the form of a note) to any location on the globe. Created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev, the project was launched on May 24, 2006 and is aiming towards "describing the whole planet Earth".
Wikindx WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of operating systems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.
Wikinoid A pedantic sociopath who argues based solipsisms of their own creation designed existentially, subjectively, arbitrary and capricious, to suit demogoguely their feelings or thoughts based of circumstances of the times and the moment without any real historic meaning or context that can not be changed when ever the politics changes.--Andrew Zito 02:11, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
Wikinomics (term) Wikinomics is a term relating to the theory and practice of harnessing the power of mass collaboration. It is the subject of the 2007 book, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony D.
Wikipedia in popular culture References to Wikipedia in popular culture have increased as more people learn about and use the online encyclopedia project. Many parody Wikipedia's openness, with characters vandalising or modifying articles.
Wikipedia in web comics On May 7, 2005, the comic strip FoxTrot showed one character appending his older sister to unflattering Wikipedia articles. In a similar joke, the web comic Penny Arcade also satirized Wikipedia with a comic strip depicting Skeletor vandalizing the He-Man article.
WikiPing WikiPing is an open standard for broadcasting changes made in a wiki and publish them on remote servers. The name derives from ping, the famous tool used on the internet to test whether a particular host is reachable on the network.
WikiServer WikiServer is a WikiEngine that is completely self-contained - it includes its own HTTP server, and so does not require CGI support, Perl, or even a separate Web server such as Apache or IIS. As such, it is one of the easiest ways to install and run a wiki; even people without any knowledge about the system can set up a wikiserver without many problems.
Wikitorial A wikitorial is a term coined by the Los Angeles Times to describe a traditional editorial that can be edited in the fashion of a wiki (computer software that allows users to edit text and make changes to one document). On June 17 2005 the Los Angeles Times wrote the first Wikitorial, entitled: War and Consequences.
Wikitravel Wikitravel is a project to create an open content, complete, up-to-date, and reliable world-wide travel guide. Although it uses a wiki model to create the guide and to deliver it on the World Wide Web, the project is also aimed towards production of printed guides.
Wikocracy Wikocracy is an internet wiki which allows users to re-write the Constitution of the United States of America, the USA PATRIOT Act, Roe v. Wade, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or any law they feel needs changing.
Wiktionary Wiktionary (from wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. Unlike standard dictionaries, it is written collaboratively by volunteers using wiki software, allowing articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the Web site.
Wiktor Ormicki Wiktor Ormicki (born Wiktor Rudolf Nusbaum, 1898-1941) was a Polish geographer and cartographer, a university professor. A specialist in economical geography and demography, he served at various posts in the Jagiellonian University, Wolna Wszechnica, Higher Trade School of KrakĂłw and LwĂłw University.
Wiktor Poliszczuk Wiktor Poliszczuk (born 10 October 1925 in Dubno near Rivne) is an amateur Canadian politologist of Ukrainian descent, specialising in Ukrainian nationalism issues. Assistant professor (humanities), jurist, politologist; a member of Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada.
Wiktor Thommée Wiktor Thommée (1881-1962) was a Polish military commander and a Brigadier General of the Polish Army. A veteran of the Great War and the Russian Civil War, he is best known for his command over Piotrków Operational Group and the battle of the Bzura during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
Wikus van Heerden Wikus van Heerden (born 25 February, 1979 in Johannesburg) is a South African rugby union footballer who plays as a Flanker, currently signed to play for the Blue Bulls in the Currie Cup, and the Bulls in the international Super 14 competition. Van Heerden has also played for the national team, the Springboks.
Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve (usually known as Wikwemikong, or Wiky) is an Indian reserve in the north-eastern section of Manitoulin Island in Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada. Wikwemikong is the only unceded indian reserve in Canada, which means that it has not "relinquished title to its land to the government by treaty or otherwise.
Wil Cordero Wilfredo Cordero Nieva (aka "Coco") (born October 3, 1971 in MayagĂĽez, Puerto Rico) is a left fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1992 through 2005, Cordero has played for the Montreal Expos (1992-95, 2002-03), Boston Red Sox (1996-97), Chicago White Sox (1998), Cleveland Indians (1999, 2000-02), Pittsburgh Pirates (2000), Florida Marlins (2004) and Washington Nationals (2005).
Wil Harris Wil Harris (born September 20, 1982) is a technology writer and entrepreneur based in Oxford, UK. He is the Editor in Chief of the Bit-tech enthusiast website and also contributes to sister title TrustedReviews.
Wil McCarthy Wil McCarthy (born September 16, 1966, Princeton, New Jersey) is a science fiction novelist, Chief Technology Officer for Galileo Shipyards (an aerospace research corporation), and the science columnist for the Sci Fi Channel (United States) (example below). He currently resides in Colorado.
Wil Nieves Wilbert "Wil" Nieves (born September 25, 1977 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a catcher for the New York Yankees. He was acquired by the team from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for pitcher Bret Prinz.
Wil O'Neal Wil O'Neal, who grew up in Berkeley, California, is a former senior editor at CNET and a fill-in co-host for G4's Attack of the Show with Kevin Pereira, Olivia Munn, Zach Selwyn, and Layla Kayleigh. He is mainly a technology correspondent on said show.
Wil Ohmsford Wil Ohmsford is a fictional character from the Shannara series by Terry Brooks. He is the grandson of Shea Ohmsford and the grand nephew of Flick Ohmsford (though not by blood, since Shea is Flick's adopted brother).
Wil Tower The Wil Tower is a 37-m-high wooden observation tower which was built in 2006 in the forest of Wil in Switzerland. From the slender wooden construction only the uppermost observation deck is visible from a distance.

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