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Wilhelmina

[ wil-uh-mee-nuh, wil-hel-; Dutch vil-hel-mee-nah ]

noun

  1. Mount Wilhelmina, former name of Trikora.
  2. a female given name: derived from William.


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During the scene, he is on board a plane with nightclub singer Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott, played by Kate Capshaw, and his 12-year-old friend Short Round, played by Ke Huy Quan, while escaping the clutches of a Chinese crime gang.

From BBC

For those on the other side of the dispute, the decision “is a monumental win for Filipino farmers and Filipino people,” Greenpeace Southeast Asia campaigner Wilhelmina Pelegrina said in a statement.

To hear some tell it, her neighbors included the famous illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini and his wife, Wilhelmina Beatrice Houdini.

Beatrix’s mother — Juliana — and her mother’s mother — Wilhelmina — all stood down and eased into retirement.

In the Netherlands, it’s now the norm for older monarchs to hand over the crown to younger generations: Queen Beatrix abdicated in 2013, following in the footsteps of her mother, Queen Juliana, and grandmother Queen Wilhelmina.

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