White dwarf

A white dwarf is a very dense type of star: in an Earth-sized volume, it packs a mass that is comparable to the Sun. A white dwarf radiates light from residual …

White Horse (Taylor Swift song)

"White Horse" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift and the second single from her second studio album, Fearless (2008). Big Machine Records …

White stork

White stork An adult in Białowieża, Poland Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Ph…

White swamphen

White swamphen Specimen at World Museum, Liverpool, one of two in existence. Note scattered blue feathers Conservation status Extinct (probably …

White-bellied sea eagle

White-bellied sea eagle In Tasmania Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix II  Scientific classification Kin…
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White-breasted nuthatch

White-breasted nuthatch Adult male S. c. carolinensis in Green-Wood Cemetery, New York, USA Song of an individual from Wilkes County, North Carolina …

White-eyed river martin

White-eyed river martin Conservation status Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I  Scientific classification Kingdom: …

White-headed fruit dove

White-headed fruit dove An 1893 illustration of the species by John Gerrard Keulemans Conservation status Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1) Scien…

White-naped xenopsaris

White-naped xenopsaris Adult, Santa Fe Province, Argentina Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom…

White-necked rockfowl

White-necked rockfowl Nyamebe Bepo Forest ReserveAshanti Region, Ghana Conservation status Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix I  S…

White-rumped swallow

White-rumped swallow In Buenos Aires Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: …

White-winged fairywren

White-winged fairywren Male Female Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum…

Whitechapel murders

The "Nemesis of Neglect", an image of social destitution manifested as Jack the Ripper, stalks Whitechapel in a Punch cartoon of 1888 by John Tenniel. .mw-parse…

Whitehawk Camp

Whitehawk Camp is the remains of a causewayed enclosure on Whitehawk Hill near Brighton, East Sussex, England. Causewayed enclosures are a form of early Neolith…

Why Marx Was Right

Why Marx Was Right is a 2011 non-fiction book by the British academic Terry Eagleton about the 19th-century philosopher Karl Marx and the schools of thought, co…

Wife selling (English custom)

Wife selling in England was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage that probably began at the end of the 17th century, when divorce was a practical impossib…

Wiglaf of Mercia

Wiglaf (died 839) was King of Mercia from 827 to 829 and again from 830 until his death in 839. His ancestry is uncertain: the 820s were a period of dynastic co…

Wihtred of Kent

Wihtred (Latin: Wihtredus) (c. 670 – 23 April 725) was king of Kent from about 690 or 691 until his death. He was a son of Ecgberht I and a brother …

Wii

The Wii (/wiː/ WEE) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released on November 19, 2006, in North America, and in December 200…

Wii Sports

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Wilco

Wilco is an American rock band based in Chicago. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo after singer Jay…

Wildest Dreams

"Wildest Dreams" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift as the fifth single from her fifth studio album, 1989 (2014). Big Machine Records in p…

Wiley Rutledge

Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. (July 20, 1894 – September 10, 1949) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United Stat…