Wheeling can refer to:
Places in the United States of America
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Wheeling, Illinois
Wheeling is a village in Cook County, Illinois, Cook and Lake County, Illinois, Lake counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. A suburb of Chicago, it is primarily in Cook County, approximately northwest of downtown Chicago. Per the 2020 United Sta ...
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Wheeling, Carroll County, Indiana
Wheeling is an unincorporated community in Carrollton Township, Carroll County, Indiana. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area
In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region wit ...
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Wheeling, Delaware County, Indiana
Wheeling is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Delaware County, Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capit ...
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Wheeling, Gibson County, Indiana
Wheeling is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Gibson County, Indiana, United States. The community contains a historic covered bridge
A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most ...
*Wheeling, a populated place in Winn Parish, Louisiana where
Thomas Simpson Woodward
Thomas Simpson Woodward (February 22, 1797 – 1859) was a U.S. Army general who settled and named the area that developed into Tuskegee, Alabama. Late in life, he wrote letters about his experiences with and beliefs about American Indians.
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Wheeling, Missouri
Wheeling is a city in eastern Livingston County, Missouri, Livingston County, Missouri, United States. The population was 220 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
History
Wheeling was laid out in 1865, and named after Wheeling, West Vir ...
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Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is a city in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Located almost entirely in Ohio County, of which it is the county seat, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and also contains a tiny portion extending ...
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Wheeling Creek (Ohio)
Wheeling Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, long, in eastern Ohio in the United States. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau. It ...
, a tributary of the Ohio River in West Virginia
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Wheeling Creek (West Virginia)
Wheeling Creek is a tributary of the Ohio River, long, in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States, with a watershed extending into southwestern Pennsylvania. Via the Ohio River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississi ...
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Wheeling Island
Wheeling Island is the most populated island in the Ohio River. It lies within the city of Wheeling in Ohio County, West Virginia, in the United States. The 2000 census showed a resident population of 3,142 people on the island, which has a la ...
in the Ohio River
Other uses
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Wheeling (electric power transmission) In electric power transmission, wheeling is the transportation of electric energy (megawatt-hours) from within an electrical grid to an electrical load outside the grid boundaries. Two types of wheeling are 1) a wheel-through, where the electrica ...
*Wheeling (see
breaking wheel
The breaking wheel or execution wheel, also known as the Wheel of Catherine or simply the Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages into the early modern period by breakin ...
), a form of torture
*"Wheeling", an American slang term for
off-roading
Off-roading is the activity of driving or riding in a vehicle on unpaved surfaces such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, and other natural terrain. Types of off-roading range in intensity, from leisure drives with unmodified vehicl ...
, a type of off-road motorsport
*Wheeling, a technique for the cold forming of sheet metal into complex shapes using the
English wheel
The English wheel, in Britain also known as a wheeling machine, is a metalworking tool that enables a craftsperson to form compound (double curvature) curves from flat sheets of metal such as aluminium or steel.Parker, Dana T. ''Building Victory: ...
*The Wheeling, common short name for the
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1990)
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway is a Class II regional railroad that provides freight service, mainly in the areas of Northern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. It took its name from the former Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, most of which it ...
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Fort Wheeling
''Fort Wheeling'', or simply ''Wheeling'', is the title of a comics series set in colonial North America, by Italian comics creator Hugo Pratt.
Publication history
''Wheeling'' first appeared in the Argentine comics magazine ''Misterix'' in 1 ...
'' or simply ''Wheeling'', a comics series by Hugo Pratt
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Lottery Wheeling Lottery wheeling (also known as lottery system, lottery wheel, lottery wheeling system) is an entertaining strategy of playing the lotteries, widely used by individual players and syndicates to secure wins provided they hit some of the drawn number ...
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Wheeling Jesuit University
Wheeling University (WU, formerly Wheeling Jesuit University) is a private Roman Catholic university in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was founded as Wheeling College in 1954 by the Society of Jesus (also known as the Jesuits) and was a Jesuit inst ...
See also
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Wheel (disambiguation)
A wheel is a circular device that is capable of rotating on an axle.
Wheel may also refer to:
Machinery
*Ferris wheel
*Breaking wheel, a medieval execution device
*English wheel, a metalworking tool used to curve sheet metal
*Hamster wheel, an e ...
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