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Wil Wheaton Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972 in Burbank, California) is an American writer and actor. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation ("ST:TNG"), as Gordie LaChance in the film Stand By Me, and as prep-school rebel Joseph 'Joey' Trotta in Toy Soldiers.
Wilamowice Wilamowice is a small town in southern Poland, situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (since 1999, previously in Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship, 1975–1998). The endangered language of Wymysorys is spoken here by about 100 native speakers, the majority of them elderly.
WilanĂłw Palace WilanĂłw Palace at WilanĂłw in Warsaw is, together with its park and other buildings, one of the most precious monuments of Polish national culture. It survived the time of partitions and wars and preserved its authentic historical qualities.
Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December 1997 The Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 30 December, 1997 were probably the single bloodiest day of killing in the Algerian conflict of the 1990s. 78 people (initial official estimate), 252 people (according to Le Matin and El Watan, quoting hospital sources), 272 people (according to the Algerian government's statement to the UN Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.
Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 The Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January, 1998 took place in three remote villages around Oued Rhiou about 150 miles (240 km) west of Algiers, during the Algerian conflict of the 1990s. At least 172 villagers were killed in a single day of Ramadan:
Wilayah A wilāyah (Arabic: ولاية), vilâyet (ولایت) in Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and Malay) is an administrative division, usually translated as "province." The word derives from the Arabic root w-l-y, meaning "to govern": a wali 'governer' governs a wilayah 'that which is governed'.
Wilber B. Huston Wilber Brotherton Huston (October 2, 1912 – May 25, 2006) was an American scientist and NASA mission director. He was the Deputy Project Manager of the Nimbus program and served as mission director for seven satellite launches.
Wilber Marion Brucker Wilber Marion Brucker (June 23, 1894–October 28, 1968 was an American Republican politician. Born in Saginaw, Michigan, he served as a Republican governor of Michigan from 1931 to 1933 and as the United States Secretary of the Army between 1955 and 1961.
Wilber Marshall Wilber Buddyhia Marshall (born April 18, 1962 in Titusville, Florida) is a former American football player. Marshall played linebacker in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears, the Washington Redskins, the Houston Oilers, the Arizona Cardinals, and the New York Jets.
Wilberforce (cat) Wilberforce was a cat who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987 and served under four British Prime Ministers: Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Jim Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher. His chief function was to catch mice, in which role he was the successor to Petra.
Wilberforce Forum The Wilberforce Forum is a conservative Christian political and social think tank and action group particularly active in the promotion of Intelligent Design in education and in biotechnology and bioethics issues, such as human cloning and stem cell research. It describes itself as the "Christian worldview thinking, teaching, and advocacy arm of" Prison Fellowship, its stated goal is "...
Wilberforce River The Wilberforce River is a river in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It is located in western Canterbury and is naturally a tributary of the Rakaia River, but like the Harper River, it has had some of its flow diverted into Lake Coleridge as part of a hydroelectricity project.
Wilberforce University Wilberforce University is a private, coed, liberal arts historically African-American university located in Wilberforce, Ohio that is affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and participates in the United Negro College Fund.
Wilberforce, Sierra Leone Wilberforce is a neighborhood in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown. It is the highest point in the city and is also home to several foreign embassies, including China, Gambia, Germany, Liberia, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and Austria It is also home to a military barracks] links==
Wilberfoss Wilberfoss is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the north side of the A1079 approximatly 8 miles east of York city centre and 11 miles north west of Market Weighton.
Wilbert James Tinkler Wilbert James Tinkler was a farmer and politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as president of the province's Manitoba Social Credit Party for at least some of the period between 1947 to 1959, and ran several times at the provincial and federal levels as a Social Credit candidate.
Wilbert Rideau Wilbert Rideau (born February 13, 1942) was described by Life magazine in March 1993 as "the most rehabilitated prisoner in America". Rideau was incarcerated in Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola Prison) from 1961 to 2000, convicted of murder three times before a fourth trial in 2005 convicted him of manslaughter, allowing time already served to fulfil his sentence.
Wilbert Suvrijn Wilbert Suvrijn (born October 26, 1962 in Sittard, Limburg) is a former football midfielder from the Netherlands, who earned nine caps for the Netherlands national football team. He was a member of the Dutch team that won the European title at the 1988 European Football Championship in West Germany under manager Rinus Michels.
Wilbraham & Monson Academy Wilbraham & Monson Academy is a prep school located in Wilbraham, Massachusetts and founded in 1804 and is one of the the fifteen oldest schools on the eastern coast of the United States. It is a four year boarding / day high school with a student body of approximately 315 students and employing about 52 faculty.
Wilbraham Oates Lennox Wilbraham Oates Lennox (VC, KCB) (4 August 1830-7 February 1897) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Wilbur Breslin Wilbur Breslin is one of Long Island's best-known real estate developers, specializing in medium-sized shopping malls, often located in working-class neighborhoods (so-called "blighted areas"). He grew up in Hempstead, Long Island, and founded Breslin Realty soon after the Second World War.
Wilbur Cooper Arley Wilbur Cooper (February 24 1892 - August 7 1973) was an American left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Pittsburgh Pirates. A four-time winner of 20 games in the early 1920s, he was the first National League lefthander to win 200 games.
Wilbur Cross Highway The Wilbur Cross Highway is the designation for the portion of old Connecticut Route 15 from Wethersfield, through Hartford and Manchester, to the state line at Sturbridge, Massachusetts. The highway was built in the 1940s before the Interstate Highway era.
Wilbur Cush Wilbur Cush (born 10 June 1928, Lurgan, Northern Ireland; died 1981) is a former Northern Ireland footballer. He represented Northern Ireland at the 1958 World Cup, scoring the winning goal in their first ever final stages World Cup match, a 1-0 win over Czechoslovakia in Sweden.
Wilbur Good Wilbur David Good (September 28, 1885 - December 30, 1963) born in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania was an Outfielder for the New York Highlanders (1905), Cleveland Naps (1908-09), Boston Doves/Boston Rustlers (1910-11), Chicago Cubs (1911-15), Philadelphia Phillies (1916) and Chicago White Sox (1918).
Wilbur J. Peterkin Wilbur J. Peterkin was a Colonel in the United States Army during the Second World War in the China Burma India Theater, and a commanding officer of the United States Army Observer Group, commonly known as the Dixie Mission.
Wilbur McKinley Wilbur McKinley has been accused of being a member of the conspiracy to kill Malcolm X. Not much is known about McKinley, other than that he was over 30 years old at the time and that he was part of a construction business.
Wilbur Scoville Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (1865 – 1942) was an American chemist and is best known for his creation of "The Scoville Organoleptic Test", now standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure piquancy, or "hotness", of various chile peppers.
Wilbur Schwartz Wilbur Schwartz (New Jersey, March 17, 1918 – August 3 1990 in Los Angeles) was a clarinetist and alto saxophonist who is best remembered today for his work with Glenn Miller. Wilbur (also known as Wilbur) looked like a kewpie doll.
Wilbur Taylor Dartnell Wilbur Taylor Dartnell (6 April, 1885 – 3 September, 1915) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Wilbur Underwood Wilbur Underwood (1874-1935) was an American poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His work, especially the 1906 volume, A Book of Masks, had deep affiliations with the decadent movement in literature.
Wilbur Wood Wilbur Forrester Wood, Jr. (born October 22, 1941 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a former knuckleball pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, and most notably the Chicago White Sox, where he got 163 of his 164 wins.
Wilburton Trestle The Wilburton Trestle in Bellevue, Washington, was built in 1904 as part of the Northern Pacific Railway's Lake Washington Belt Line from Black River Junction (south of Seattle) to Woodinville, Washington. In 1974, the Lake Hills Connector was cut through the span.
Wilby, Northamptonshire Wilby is a linear village in the English county of Northamptonshire. It is some two miles southwest of the town of Wellingborough on the former trunk road (still a busy local road) to the county town of Northampton.
Wilcox County, Alabama Wilcox County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of Lieutenant J. M. Wilcox, who fought in the wars against the Creek Indians. As of 2000 the population was 13,183. Its county seat is Camden.
Wilcox Park Wilcox Park (14 acres) is a park and arboretum located at 71 1/2 High Street, Westerly, Rhode Island. It is open to the public at all times, without fee, and has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.
Wilcox, Saskatchewan Wilcox is a small village in Saskatchewan, Canada. Located approximately 41 kilometers (25 mi) south of Regina, Wilcox is most famous for being the home of the Athol Murray College of Notre Dame, a boarding school for students in grades 8-12.
Wilcoxon signed-rank test The Wilcoxon signed-rank test is a non-parametric alternative to the paired Student's t-test for the case of two related samples or repeated measurements on a single sample. The test is named for Frank Wilcoxon (1892–1965) who proposed this, and the rank-sum test for two independent samples (Wilcoxon, 1945).
Wild 9 Wild 9 is a video game developed by Shiny Entertainment for the Sony PlayStation. It's gameplay is that of a 2D platformer (with occasional breaks in dimension), and bears a striking resemblance to Shiny's Earthworm Jim.
Wild and Crazy Kids Wild and Crazy Kids was a game show on Nickelodeon, that aired from 1990-1992, in which large teams, usually consisting entirely of children, participated in head-to-head physical challenges. It was hosted by Omar Gooding, Donnie Jeffcoat, and Annette Chavez.
Wild and Woolly Wild and Woolly is a 1917 silent film which tells the story of one man's personal odyssey from sophisticated Easterner to Western tough guy. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Walter Bytell and Sam De Grasse.
Wild and Wooly Wild and Wooly is the misspelled title of a 1978 comedy/western TV movie about four turn-of-the-century women who break out of prison to foil an Irish assassin out to kill the President. It starred Charles Siebert, David Doyle, Elyssa Davalos, Vic Morrow, and Doug McClure.
Wild at Heart (book) Wild at Heart is a very popular and controversial book by John Eldredge published in 2001, on the subject of the role of masculinity in contemporary evangelical Christian culture and doctrine. Its subtitle is: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul.
Wild at Heart (TV series) Wild at Heart is an ITV1 television drama series about a Bristol-based vet and his family relocating to start a game park in South Africa. The first series was shown in early 2006, and a second series began airing on Sunday 14 January 2007.
Wild About Harry Wild About Harry is a comedy album by The Bob and Tom Show, which was first released in November 2003. It is a two-disc set which represents original material recorded during their syndicated, daily radio show and other studio numbers which had not been previously presented on air.
Wild Again Wild Again (born 1980) is a thoroughbred race horse by Icecapade out of Bushel-N-Peck (by Khaled). Bred by Paule Little and owned by Black Chip Stables, he was most famous for winning the inaugural Breeders' Cup Classic in 1984 over Slew o'Gold and Gate Dancer in a famous stretch run that cemented the Classic as the premier season-ending event of the year.
Wild America (film) Wild America (1997) is an adventure movie, directed by William Dear and written by David Michael Wieger, it stars Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Frances Fisher, Jamey Sheridan, and Scott Bairstow. The characters in this film was based on the Stouffer brothers who made the Wild America television show.
Wild Ammonoosuc River The Wild Ammonoosuc River is a tributary of the Ammonoosuc River, about 15 mi (24 km) long,Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry for Ammonoosuc River in northwestern New Hampshire in the United States. Via the Ammonoosuc River, it is part of the watershed of the Connecticut River, which flows to Long Island Sound.
Wild Animals Wild Animals (야생동물 보호구역, Yasaeng dongmul bohoguyeog) is Korean director Kim Ki-duk's second film, released in 1996. It is a crime-drama film set in Paris, and stars Jo Jae-hyeon, Jang Dong-jik and Jang Ryun.
Wild Arctic Wild Arctic is a motion simulator attraction at SeaWorld Orlando and SeaWorld San Diego that is followed by a walk-through exhibit of arctic marine life. Visitors can see the video that accompanies the simulator if they wish to skip the simulator.
Wild Arms Mobile Wild Arms Mobile is the recently revealed offshoot of the Wild Arms series for mobile phones. The player takes control of Wild Arms 3's main character Virginia Maxwell and partakes in a shoot 'em up-style game where the main goal is to get a high score.
Wild ARMs Complete Tracks Wild ARMs Complete Tracks is the original soundtrack to the 1996 PlayStation video game, Wild ARMs. The soundtrack previously had two releases; one of which contained only 36 songs of the original soundtrack, and a reprint containing the same tracks.
Wild Asia Wild Asia is a conservation organisation based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It aims to "promote the conservation of natural areas by supporting ideas, individuals, projects and businesses that are pro-environment, protect local cultures and nurture the local economy.
Wild Ass Wildlife Sanctuary Wild Ass Wildlife Sanctuary also known as the Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary is located in the Little Rann of Kutch in the Gujarat state of India. Spread over 4954 km², it is the largest wildlife sanctuary in India.
Wild Beast Wild Beast is a wooden roller coaster located at Paramount Canada's Wonderland, in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. Originally named "Wilde Beaste", it is one of the four roller coasters that debuted with the park in 1981, and is one of two wooden coasters at Canada's Wonderland modelled after a ride at Coney Island amusement park in Cincinnati, Ohio (specifically, Wildcat); the other is the Mighty Canadian Minebuster.
Wild Bill Hallahan William Anthony "Wild Bill" Hallahan (August 4, 1902 - July 8, 1981) was an American lefthanded pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1920s and 1930s. So named because of his lack of control on the mound — he twice led the National League in bases on balls — Hallahan nevertheless was one of the pitching stars of the 1931 World Series and pitched his finest in postseason competition.
Wild Bill Hickok and the Dead Man's Hand Wild Bill Hickok and the Dead Man's Hand was the second episode of the game show Legends of the Hidden Temple. It was also the first time the Orange Iguanas went to Olmec's Temple, and the first episode whose Temple Run resulted in the failed acquisition of an artifact.
Wild Bill Hickok-David Tutt shootout The Wild Bill Hickok-David Tutt shootout was a gunfight that occurred on July 21, 1865 in the town square of Springfield, Missouri. The later famous Marshal and gunfighter, Wild Bill Hickok, had been engaged in a poker game with a local cowboy named David Tutt.
Wild Blue Yokohama Wild Blue Yokohama is a large indoor pool complex located inside a shopping mall in Yokohama, Japan, just south of Tokyo. The complex contains an artificial rubber beach, decorated in a tropical theme, featuring generated waves, heat lamps, and tanning booths.
Wild Boar in Britain The wild boar (Sus scrofa) is the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig. It lives in woodlands across much of Central Europe, the Mediterranean Region (including North Africa's Atlas Mountains), and much of Asia as far south as Indonesia.
Wild Boar of Westmorland The Wild Boar of Westmorland is a legend concerning Richard de Gilpin and the villagers and pilgrims visiting the ruins of the Holy Cross at Plumgarths, and the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin on St. Mary's Isle on Windermere lake.
Wild Brain Wild Brain is an established animation] studio operating out of the [[Mission District in San Francisco, California. Their works include many national commercials for clients like Esurance, Chicklets, Starbucks, Target, Nike, the Wall Street Journal and Lamisil, (featuring Digger the Dermatophyte), as well as the Playhouse Disney series Higglytown Heroes and the pilots "Duck on a Bike" and "Kitty's Dish".
Wild Bunch The Wild Bunch, also known as the Doolin–Dalton Gang, was a group of outlaws based in Indian Territory, that terrorized Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory during the 1890s—robbing banks and stores, holding up trains, and killing lawmen.
Wild card (Foresight research) In decision theory, "wild cards" refer to low-probability, high-impact events. This concept may be introduced into anticipatory decision-making activity in order to increase the ability of organisations adapt to surprises arising in turbulent business environments.
Wild card (sports) The term wild card refers broadly to a tournament or playoff berth awarded to an individual or team that has not qualified through normal play. In North American professional sports leagues, wild card refers to a team that qualifies for the championship playoffs without winning their specific subdivision (usually called a conference or division) outright.
Wild carrot Wild carrot, or Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest Asia; domesticated carrots are cultivars of this species as well.
Wild celery Wild celery (Vallisneria americana) is a plant in the family Hydrocharitaceae (the "tape-grasses"). Contrary to the implications of its name, wild celery bears little to no resembelance to the Celery one may buy at the market.
Wild Cameron Bird The Wild Cameron Bird is a rare and strange bird, first discovered in late 2006 and named after scientist Cameron O'Neill, found in south-western North America, mostly in the American state of Arizona. It is believed to have permanantly migrated from Greece and Scotland due to weather changes.
Wild Canid Survival and Research Center The Wild Canid Survival and Research Center is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving wolves and other wild canids through preservation, breeding, and research. The research area is commonly known as the Wolf Sanctuary.
Wild Card (card games) Card games, particularly poker games, may contain one or more cards designated as wild. These may be jokers, or they may be normal ranked and suited cards pressed into wild card duty ("deuces wild" is a common variant).
Wild Cat (Hersheypark) The Wild Cat is the name of a wooden roller coaster previously located in Hersheypark, Hershey, Pennsylvania. It operated there under the name The Joy Ride during its first year, 1923, after which it was renamed to Wildcat.
Wild Cat Falling Wild Cat Falling is a novel published in 1965, in Australia. Its author, Mudrooroo (or Colin Johnson), was the first Aboriginal author in Australia to publish a novel, although David Unaipon had similar success in the 1920s.
Wild Dances (song) The song "Wild Dances" , written by Ruslana & Olexandr Ksenofontov and performed by Ruslana, was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 held in Istanbul, Turkey. The song reached the first place at the Belgian Ultra Top 50 for 1o weeks.
Wild Desert Bikers Wild Desert Bikers was a movie script written by Hal Warren, the El Paso, Texas fertilizer salesman best known for making the movie Manos: The Hands of Fate in 1966, which is considered one of the worst movies ever made.
Wild Dog (Time Crisis) Wild Dog is a fictional villain from the light gun arcade series Time Crisis series. He is the leader of the notorious mercenary army known as the Wild Dogs, who provide clandestine support to world-class criminals and other paramilitary organizations.
Wild Flowers: An Aid to Knowledge of our Wild Flowers and their Insect Visitors Wild Flowers: An Aid to Knowledge of our Wild Flowers and their Insect Visitors is a book published in 1916 by Neltje Blanchan. After that, this book is also published by the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation in 2002.
Wild Goat Style The Wild Goat Style was a form of vase painting produced in the east Greece, namely the south and eastern Ionian islands, between circa 650 to 550 BCE. Example have been found notably at the sites of Chios, Miletos and Rhodes.
Wild horse The Wild Horse (Equus ferus) is a member of the Horse genus and was found in Europe and Asia. The true wild horse is not merely a feral horse like the Mustang; a true wild horse species is one that was never successfully domesticated.
Wild Haggis Wild Haggis are fictional creatures comically said to be native to the Scottish Highlands. It is generally held that the Haggis is a three-legged bird with vestigial wings like an ostrich or an emu, with fierce fangs.
Wild Horse Adult Resort & Spa The Wild Horse Adult Resort and Spa is an adult entertainment complex about 14 miles east of Reno, Nevada which currently is home to two separate legal, licensed brothels: the Wild Horse Ranch and the World Famous Brothel. The property is located in a secluded portion of the Patrick Business Park, in the far northeastern portion of Storey County, at 1000 Wild Horse Canyon Drive.
Wild Horse Arroyo Wild Horse Arroyo is an archeological site which was excavated in 1926 near Folson, New Mexico. This site is significant because it was the first time that artifacts indisputably made by humans were found directly associated with faunal remains from an extinct form of bison from the Late Pleistocene.
Wild Horse Lake (Oklahoma) Wild Horse Lake is a playa lake located in Texas County, Oklahoma. The lake was the location of the infamous Hay Meadow Massacre (July 1888) in which one faction in the county seat fight in Stevens County, Kansas, killed four members of the opposing faction.
Wild Horse Ranch The Wild Horse Ranch is the original of the two legal, licensed brothels located on the property of the Wild Horse Adult Resort & Spa at 1000 Wild Horse Canyon Drive in northeastern Storey County, Nevada. It is owned by Lance Gilman and the general manager is Susan Austin.
Wild Cherries The Wild Cherries was an Australian rock group, started in late 1964 as a blues group playing at the “Fat Black Pussycat” jazz venue in Melbourne’s South Yarra. It was formed by students from Melbourne University’s School of Architecture.
Wild Cherry The Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) is a species of Cherry, native to Europe and western Asia (also known as the Sweet Cherry). It is a species in the subgenus Cerasus with flowers in corymbs, and is a deciduous tree growing to 15-32 m tall.
Wild Child (comics) Wild Child (Kyle Gibney) (or Wildchild), also known as Weapon Omega and Wildheart, is a fictional character appearing Marvel Comics publications. The character has been active as both a superhero and a supervillain.
Wild in the Streets Wild in the Streets was a popular 1968 movie, produced and released by American International Pictures, and based on a short story by writer Robert Thom. The movie has become a cult classic, since its initial release.
Wild Is the Wind (album) Wild Is the Wind is singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone's (1933-2003) sixth album under record company Philips. The album was made up of several recordings that were left over of recording sessions for previous Philips albums.
Wild Is the Wind (song) Wild Is the Wind is a song written by Dimitri Tiompkin and Ned Washington. The track was originally recorded by Johnny Mathis for the 1956 film Wild Is the Wind, and later covered by Nina Simone on the album Wild Is The Wind (1966).
Wild Magic Wild Magic is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the first in a series of four books, The Immortals. It details the emergence of Veralidaine "Daine" Sarrasri's powers as a wild mage and her coming to Tortall.
Wild Man Blues Wild Man Blues is a 1998 documentary film directed by Barbara Kopple, about the musical avocation of actor/director/comic Woody Allen. The film takes its name from a jazz composition sometimes attributed to Jelly Roll Morton and sometimes to Louis Armstrong and recorded by both (among others).
Wild Man Fischer Larry "Wild Man" Fischer (born Lawrence Wayne Fischer, 6 November 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA) has the curious claim to fame of being responsible for Rhino Records' first release—Go to Rhino Records (1975). Larry has been variously described as a jobless, homeless, paranoid,
Wild Mouse roller coaster A Wild Mouse roller coaster (or Wildemous or Mad Mouse) is a type of roller coaster characterized by small cars, which seat four people or fewer and ride on top of the track, taking tight, flat turns at modest speeds, yet producing high lateral G-forces. The track work is characterized by many turns and bunny hops, the latter producing abrupty negative vertical G forces.
Wild One (song) "Wild One" was a uptempo soul single by Motown girl group Martha & the Vandellas. Written and produced by William "Mickey" Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter (two-thirds of the collaborators behind the group's most celebrated tune, "Dancing In The Street"), the song was another Top 40 triumph for the group as it reached #34 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart and #11 on the Hot R&B singles chart.
Wild Onion Festival Wild Onion Festivals have become a part of the cultural lives of various Native American Tribes who were removed to Oklahoma. The Festival revolves around the appearance of wild onion shoots in the Spring, a food that was familiar to most of the Tribes east of the Mississippi.
Wild Orchid (film) Wild Orchid is the title of a 1990 erotic film starring Mickey Rourke, Carré Otis, Jacqueline Bisset, Bruce Greenwood, and Assumpta Serna. It was directed by Zalman King, from the screenplay by King and Patricia Louisiana Knopp.
Wild pitch In baseball, a wild pitch (abbreviated WP) is charged to a pitcher when a pitch is too high, too short, or too wide of home plate for the catcher to field with ordinary effort, thereby allowing the batter and/or one or more baserunners to advance or to score. When (a) first base is unoccupied and/or (b) there are two outs, the catcher must catch the third strike in order to retire the batter; if a wild pitch occurs on such a third strike, the pitcher is credited with a strikeout, but the batter is not retired—he may attempt to advance to first base and must be tagged with the ball or forced at first in order to effect an out.
Wild Palms Wild Palms is a six hour mini-series, which first aired in 1993 on the ABC Network in the United States. From its beginning, "Wild Palms" was conceived as an Event Miniseries, with a limited amount of episodes.
Wild Pitch Records Wild Pitch Records was a hip hop label started in the mid 1980s by Stuart Fine, was eventually sold to EMI. Artists who released records under this label include Main Source, Lord Finesse, Ultramagnetic MCs, Chill Rob G, Gang Starr, UMC'S, O.
Wild Planet (Nettwerk) Wild Planet is a compilation album featuring artists with relation to Skinny Puppy, including Skinny Puppy themselves. Additional artists include: cEvin Key, Download, The Tear Garden, Philth, Doubting Thomas, PlatEAU, aDuck, Floatpoint, Lustmord, Dead Voices on Air meets Dropstar, The Legendary Pink Dots, Twilight Circus Dub Sound System and Off and Gone.

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