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WGC may refer to: *Welwyn Garden City, town in Hertfordshire, England *Welwyn Garden City railway station, Hertfordshire, England, by National Rail station code *Willard Grant Conspiracy, an American band * William Gershom Collingwood, artist *World Gliding Championships *World Gold Council, a non-profit association of the world's leading gold mining companies *World Golf Championships *Writers Guild of Canada *Warangal Airport, the IATA Airport code *Weak gravity conjecture In theoretical physics, the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) is a conjecture regarding the strength gravity can have in a theory of quantum gravity relative to the gauge forces in that theory. It roughly states that gravity should be the weakest forc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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World Golf Championships
The World Golf Championships (WGC) were a group of annual professional golf tournaments played from 1999 through 2023 created by the International Federation of PGA Tours as a means of gathering the best players in the world together more frequently than the pre-existing four Men's major golf championships, major championships. All WGC tournaments are official money events on the PGA Tour and the European Tour, and officially sanctioned by the Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Sunshine Tour, and PGA Tour of Australasia. The WGC tournaments offered comparable prize money to the Men's major golf championships, major championships. In the pantheon of golf events, the WGCs ranked below the major championships and above most other competitions, although The Players Championship, promoted by the PGA Tour as the "fifth major", may also claim such status. Despite the name, the World Golf Championships did not claim to crown a recognised 'world champion'. The World Golf Championships came to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Writers Guild Of Canada
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) is a trade union representing professional writers working in film, television, radio, and digital media production in Canada. Members of the WGC write dramatic TV series, feature films, Movies of the Week, documentaries, animation, comedy and variety series, children's and educational programming, radio drama, as well as corporate videos and digital media productions. The organization administers the annual WGC Screenwriting Awards. On behalf of its members, the WGC negotiates, administers and enforces collective agreements, setting out minimum rates, terms, and working conditions for all English-language productions in Canada. The central collective agreement, the Independent Production Agreement (IPA), is negotiated between the WGC and the Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA), the association representing independent producers in Canada. In addition to the IPA, the WGC also has agreements in place with the APFTQ, CBC Radio, CBC Tel ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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World Gliding Championships
The World Gliding Championships (WGC) is a gliding competitions, gliding competition held roughly every two years by the FAI Gliding Commission. The dates are not always exactly two years apart, often because the contests are always held in the summer in either the Southern Hemisphere or Northern Hemisphere. History Gliding had been a demonstration sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics and was due to become an official Olympic sports, Olympic sport in the Helsinki Games in 1940 Summer Olympics, 1940. However, since the Second World War, gliding has not featured in the Olympic Games, Olympics, and so the World Championships are the highest level in the sport. There are now contests for six Glider competition classes, classes of glider (sailplane), glider and so in recent years the Championships have been divided between two locations. The women's, junior, grand prix and aerobatic events are also held separately. Each of the following entries give the year and location of the contest fol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Welwyn Garden City
Welwyn Garden City ( ) is a town in Hertfordshire, England, north of London. It was the second Garden city movement, garden city in England (founded 1920) and one of the first New towns in the United Kingdom, new towns (designated 1948). It is unique in being both a garden city and a new town and exemplifies the physical, social and cultural planning ideals of the periods in which it was built. History Welwyn Garden City was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1920 following his previous experiment in Letchworth Garden City. Howard had called for the creation of planned towns that were to combine the benefits of the city and the countryside and to avoid the disadvantages of both. It was designed to be 'The Perfect Town'. The Garden Cities and Town Planning Association had defined a garden city as "a town designed for healthy living and industry of a size that makes possible a full measure of social life but not larger, surrounded by a rural belt; the whole of the land being in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Welwyn Garden City Railway Station
Welwyn Garden City railway station serves the town of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, England. It is from on the East Coast Main Line. Train services are currently provided by Thameslink and Great Northern. History A station named ''Welwyn Junction'' was opened with the Hertford and Welwyn Junction Railway on 1 March 1858. This station ceased to be used for services on 1 September 1860. A halt named ''Welwyn Garden City Halt'' opened on 1 September 1920, shortly after the town was incorporated; this was on the former Luton/ Dunstable branch line, slightly further north than the present station. This line cuts west and north through Sherrardspark Wood, and on towards , via what is now Ayot Greenway. The present ''Welwyn Garden City'' station opened on 20 September 1926; the halt was closed at the same time. Prior to this, services to Luton and the Hertford line, which cut east through the town, were handled from nearby . The Hertford branch line was closed to rail pas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Willard Grant Conspiracy
Willard Grant Conspiracy (WGC) was an alt-country band based originally in Boston, Massachusetts and later near Palmdale, California, U.S. The band operated as a collective, with vocalist and songwriter Robert Fisher the only permanent member throughout its existence. Fisher's voice and Americana style have been compared to both John Cale and Johnny Cash, with most songs being acoustic. History The band was originally formed in Boston in 1995, by North Hollywood, California–raised Robert Fisher (born Robert Neil Fisher, September 9, 1957–February 12, 2017), and Paul Austin. The two had previously collaborated since the early 1980s in the band Laughing Academy, first in Portland, Maine then in Boston, with various collaborators. The band was briefly renamed the Flower Tamers before dissolving. Fisher and Austin added guitarist Sean O'Brien to record their debut album, ''3 AM Sunday at Fortune Otto's'', issued on Fisher's own Dahlia label. For their 1998 album, '' Fly ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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Warangal Airport
Warangal Airport also Mamnoor Airport is located at Mamnoor, Warangal in the state of Telangana, India. The largest airport at the time, remained in service until 1981. The Government of Telangana is trying to revive the airport with some instate services, it is planned to be reopened by 2030. Around of land are available for the proposed airport. History Warangal Airport, the First and largest pre-independence era airport in India , was built at ''Mamnoor'' in Warangal district, in 1930 by British later It was commissioned by the last Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, along with one at Solapur, to benefit the businesses, at Kagaznagar for the paper industry's convenience, and to help industries like the Azam Jahi Mills at Warangal. Numerous PMs and Presidents have landed at the airport until 1981. Many cargo services and Vayudoot services have also used it as their hub. Revival plans In September 2020, the Government of Telangana planned to acquire 200 acres of additional la ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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William Gershom Collingwood
William Gershom Collingwood (; 6 August 1854 – 1 October 1932) was an English author, artist, antiquary and professor of Fine Arts at University College, Reading.Obituary in ''The Times'', ''Mr W.G. Collingwood'', ''Artist, Author and Antiquary''. October 3, 1932, p.9 A long-term resident of Coniston, Cumbria, he was President of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society (1920-32) and the Lake Artists' Society.Who Was Who, Published by A&C Black Limited. Online edition, 2020 Life William Gershom Collingwood was born in Liverpool, the son of W. Collingwood RWS. His father, also William, was a watercolour artist, and had married Marie Elisabeth Imhoff of Arbon, Switzerland in 1851. Soon young William was sketching with his father in the Lake District, North Wales, and Switzerland. He received his early education at Liverpool College. In 1872, he went to University College, Oxford, where he met John Ruskin. During the summer of 1873 Collingwood visited Ruskin ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |
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World Gold Council
The World Gold Council is an international trade association for the gold industry. It is headquartered in London and has offices in India, China, Singapore, the UAE and the United States. The organization's members are gold mining companies. David Harquail is its president and David Tait is the CEO. Its aim is stimulating and sustaining demand for gold through market development. World Gold Council was founded in 1987 in a merger with South African company Intergold, inheriting its international offices. At the time imports of the South African Krugerrand had been banned in multiple countries to protest against South Africa's apartheid. It publishes research advocating for gold, various products such as SPDR Gold Shares and gold accumulation plans in India and China, and films promoting its corporate activity. References External links * Gold mining International organisations based in London Gold Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (fr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   [Amazon] |