| W particle ... Wagram, Battle of |
| wagtail ... Wake Island |
| Wake Island, Battle of ... Walker, Maggie Lena Draper |
| Walker, Margaret ... Wallis and Futuna |
| Wallis Islands ... Walvis Bay |
| Wambaugh, Sarah ... War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness, The |
| War Refugee Board ... Warner, Susan Bogert; and Warner, Anna Bartlett |
| Warner, Sylvia Townsend ... Warwick, Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of, Baron Rich |
| Warwick, Thomas II de Beauchamp, 4th Earl of ... wasp |
| wassail bowl ... Waterbury |
| watercolour ... Watt, James |
| watt-hour meter ... Wayne |
| Wayne ... Weber's Line |
| Weber, Carl Maria von ... Wei Yuan |
| Wei-fang ... Welensky, Sir Roy |
| Welf Dynasty ... Welsh pony |
| Welsh terrier ... Wertheimer, Max |
| Wertmuller, Lina ... West Lothian |
| West Malaysia ... Western European Union |
| Western Illinois University ... Westport |
| westward movement ... Wheatley, John |
| Wheatley, Phillis ... whistling duck |
| Whiston, William ... White, Minor |
| White, Patrick ... Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt |
| Whitney, John Hay ... Wideman, John Edgar |
| Widener University ... Wilczek, Frank |
| wild boar ... Wilkinson, John |
| Wilkinson, Sir Geoffrey ... William Of Newburgh |
| William Of Saint Carilef ... Willis, Thomas |
| Williston ... Wilson, William Julius |
| Wilson, Woodrow ... Windsor |
| Windsor ... winter |
| winter aconite ... witan |
| Witbank ... Woiwode, Larry |
| Wojciechowski, Stanislaw ... Wolsey, Thomas, Cardinal |
| Wolverhampton ... Wood, Robert Williams |
| Wood, Sir Henry J. ... woolly rhinoceros |
| woolly spider monkey ... World Council of Service Clubs |
| World Cup ... WPA Federal Art Project |
| WPA Federal Theatre Project ... wryneck |
| Wu Changshuo ... Wyandotte Cave |
| Wyandotte Constitution ... |
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