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Wilhelm Jungmann & Neffe is a venerable cloth merchant that started over 145 years ago. The store has remained unchanged since its opening, so much of it feels like a step back in time. Inside are high-end cloths for suits and shirts, including a range of wools, cottons, moleskins, cashmeres, tweeds, and linens.
The wood duck is one of the most colourful of North American waterfowl.
Built in 1913, Grand Central Terminal, in New York City, is the largest train station in the world, in terms of number of platforms. Therefore, it’s only natural that there be various hidden nooks, corners and spaces, such as the network of underground tracks, storage areas and tunnels. Weaved amidst them all is an unlisted train platform, known as Track 61, with a secret entrance and passageway leading to an elevator going straight up to the world-famous Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
Wasp Knife is a tradename for a large knife that contains a cylinder of compressed gas in the hilt. When stabbing a subject about one cubic foot of gas (or 800 psi) is rapidly injected deep into the wound site. The injected gas causes much more damage than a single knife wound, both from the displacement of internal organs and from the freezing effect of the free expansion of the gas.
Walter Benjamin is a colossal thinker and the writer of Metaphysics of Youth, a short and incredibly potent essay.
Wake Island is a coral atoll having a coastline of 12 miles (19 km) in the North Pacific Ocean. Access to the island is restricted, and all current activities on the island are managed by the United States Air Force. There is also a missile facility operated by the United States Army.
Wet was an avant-garde Los Angeles-based magazine that revolved around the idea of gourmet bathing.
Bjorn Wiinblad was a Danish painter, designer and artist in ceramics.
Hans Wegner was a Danish furniture designer who contributed to the international popularity of mid-century Danish design.
The Wieliczka Salt Mine continuously produced table salt from the 13th century until 2007, as one of the world's oldest operating salt mines.