Hans Wegner
Hans Wegner was a Danish furniture designer who contributed to the international popularity of mid-century Danish design.
Wieliczka Salt Mine
The Wieliczka Salt Mine continuously produced table salt from the 13th century until 2007, as one of the world's oldest operating salt mines.
William Gedney
William Gale Gedney was an American documentary and street photographer. It wasn't until after his death that his work gained momentum and is now widely recognized. He is best known for his series on rural Kentucky, and series on India, San Francisco and New York shot in the 1960s and 1970s.
Wombles
The Wombles are fictional pointy-nosed, furry creatures that live in burrows, where they help the environment by collecting and recycling rubbish in useful and ingenious ways. Wombles were created by author Elisabeth Beresford, originally appearing in a series of children's novels from 1968. The characters later became nationally famous in the mid-1970s as a result of a popular BBC children's television show using stop motion animation. A number of spin-off novelty songs also became major hits in the British music charts.
Wilhelm von Gloeden
Wilhelm von Gloeden was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy. He is mostly known for his pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boys, which usually featured props such as wreaths or amphoras suggesting a setting in the Greece or Italy of antiquity.
William Thomas Beckford
William Thomas Beckford was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed to be the richest commoner in England.
Windjammer
Windjammer is a 1958 documentary film that recorded a 17,500-nautical-mile (32,400 km) voyage of the Norwegian sail Windjammer training ship Christian Radich. Windjammer was produced by Louis de Rochemont and it was the only film to be shot in the widescreen Cinemiracle process, which came with a seven-track stereophonic soundtrack.
White’s
White's is a London gentlemen's club, established at 4 Chesterfield Street in 1693. The Victorian Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, said there were only two things that an Englishman cannot command – being made a Knight of the Garter or a member of White’s. White’s continues to be a men-only establishment; the only exception being made during a visit by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991.
Welthauptstadt Germania
Welthauptstadt Germania was the name Adolf Hitler gave to the projected renewal of the German capital Berlin, part of his vision for the future of Germany after the planned victory in World War II. Albert Speer, "the first architect of the Third Reich", produced many of the plans for the rebuilt city, only a small portion of which was realized before World War II.
Wim Rietveld
Wim Rietveld was a Dutch industrial and furniture designer.