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White Nile River: section of the Nile between Malakal and Khartoum, The Sudan. It is formed by the confluence of the Mountain Nile (Bahr al-Jabal) and the Sobat River above Malakal, and flows ...
white noise: in music, the effect of the complete range of audible sound-wave frequencies heard simultaneously, analogous to white light, which contains all the frequencies of the light spectrum. The sound of ...
white oak: any member of a group or subgenus (Leucobalanus) of North American ornamental and timber shrubs and trees of the genus Quercus in the beech family (Fagaceae). White oaks have smooth, ...
White Plains: city, seat (1778) of Westchester county, New York, U.S. It lies along the Bronx and Hutchinson rivers. Known to the Wappinger Indians as Quarropas ("White Marshes"), probably for the area's ...
White River: river rising in the Boston Mountains, in northwestern Arkansas, U.S., and flowing northeast into southern Missouri, where it bends southeast and reenters Arkansas, continuing in a southerly direction to join ...
White River: river of central and southern Indiana, U.S. It rises in Randolph county in the east-central part of the state and flows generally westward past Muncie and Anderson for about 65 ...
White River: river rising on the Pine Ridge Escarpment in northwestern Nebraska, U.S., and flowing in a northeasterly direction into South Dakota. Passing across the northern boundaries of the Pine Ridge and ...
White Rock: city, southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It lies just southeast of Vancouver on the northern shore of Semiahmoo Bay, at the entrance to the Strait of Georgia. The city is named ...
White Russia: former region of eastern Europe that is roughly coextensive with present-day Belarus (q.v.), or Belorussia.
White Sands National Monument: an expanse of dazzling white gypsum sands in south-central New Mexico, U.S. The monument is situated in the Tularosa Basin, between Alamogordo (northeast) and Las Cruces (southwest). Established in 1933, ...
White Sea: an almost landlocked extension of the Arctic Ocean indenting the shores of northwestern Russia. It is connected to the more northerly Barents Sea by a long, narrow strait known as ...
White Sea-Baltic Canal: system of rivers, lakes, and canals in northwestern Russia that connects the White Sea to Lake Onega, where it joins the Volga-Baltic Waterway (q.v.).
white shark: (Carcharodon carcharias), species of large, aggressive shark of the family Isuridae (or Lamnidae) that is considered to be more dangerous to human beings than any other shark. It is also ...
white snakeroot: (Eupatorium rugosum), poisonous North American herb bearing flat-topped clusters of small white flower heads. It grows up to 1.5 m (5 feet) tall with 18-centimetre (7-inch) leaves opposite each other.
White Springs: town, Hamilton county, northern Florida, U.S. It lies on the north bank of the Suwannee River at the site of some mineral springs, about 65 miles (105 km) west of ...
White Sulphur Springs: resort city, Greenbrier county, southeastern West Virginia, U.S. It lies in the Allegheny Mountains at an elevation of 1,880 feet (573 metres), just east of Lewisburg. Settled about 1750, it ...
white supremacy: beliefs and ideas asserting the natural superiority of the lighter-skinned, or "white," human races over other racial groups. In contemporary usage, the term white supremacist has been used to describe ...
White Volta River: headstream of the Volta River in West Africa. It rises north of Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso, in a lowland between two massifs, and flows generally southward for about 400 miles ...
White, Al: American athlete, the first diver to win Olympic gold medals in both the platform and springboard events.
White, Alma Bridwell: American religious leader who was a founder and major moving force in the evangelical Methodist Pentecostal Union Church, which split from mainstream Methodism in the early 20th century.
White, Andrew Dickson: American educator and diplomat, founder and first president of Cornell University, Ithaca.
White, Byron R.: associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1962-93).
White, E.B.: American essayist and literary stylist.
White, Edmund: American writer of novels, short fiction, and nonfiction whose critically acclaimed work focuses on male homosexual society in America. His studies of evolving attitudes toward homosexuality and of the impact ...
White, Edward Douglass: ninth chief justice of the United States (1911-21), whose major contribution to U.S. jurisprudence was his "rule of reason" decision in 1911 that federal courts have since applied to antitrust ...
White, Edward H., II: first U.S. astronaut to walk in space.
White, Ellen Gould Harmon: American religious leader who was one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and whose prophecies and other guidance were central to that denomination's early growth.
White, Gilbert: English naturalist and clergyman, author of The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789), the first work on natural history to attain the status of an English classic.
White, Helen Magill: educator who was the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. degree.
White, John: British artist, explorer, cartographer, and governor of the English settlement on Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina, U.S.).
White, Leslie A: American anthropologist best known for his theories of the evolution of culture and for the scientific study of culture that he called "culturology."
White, Minor: American photographer and editor, whose efforts to extend photography's range of expression made him one of the most influential creative photographers of the mid-20th century.
White, Patrick: Australian novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973.
White, Pearl: one of the most successful of the early American film stars, who gained international fame for her work in "chapter stories"-long-running melodramatic serials, such as The Perils of Pauline.
White, Stanford: American architect and the most imaginative partner in the influential architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White.
White, T H: English novelist, social historian, and satirist who was best known for his brilliant adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's 15th-century romance, Morte Darthur, into a quartet of novels called The Once ...
White, Theodore H.: American journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his astute, suspenseful accounts of the 1960 and 1964 presidential elections.
White, Walter: foremost spokesman for African Americans for almost a quarter of a century and executive secretary (1931-55) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He waged a ...
White, William: first bishop consecrated in England for the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States and the first presiding bishop of that church.
White, William Allen: American journalist known as the "Sage of Emporia," whose mixture of tolerance, optimism, liberal Republicanism, and provincialism made him the epitome of the thoughtful small-town American. His editorial writing made ...
white-collar crime: crime committed by persons of relatively high social or economic status in connection with their regular occupations. White-collar crimes fall broadly into two categories: those illegal actions undertaken by perpetrators ...
white-eye: any of the 80 to 85 species of birds of the Old World family Zosteropidae (order Passeriformes). They are so much alike that about 60 of them are often lumped ...
white-fronted goose: (species Anser albifrons), rather small, dark-bodied goose with white forehead, yellow bill, and irregular black patches on the belly; it is classified in the tribe Anserini of the family Anatidae ...
white-tailed deer: (Odocoileus virginianus), common woodland deer, family Cervidae (order Artiodactyla), ranging from southern Canada to South America. "White-tailed deer" refers to the white underside of the tail, which is held aloft ...
white-toothed shrew: any of 164 species of mouse-sized African and Eurasian insectivores making up nearly half of the more than 325 species of true shrews (family Soricidae). No other genus of mammals ...
Whitefield, George: Church of England evangelist who by his popular preaching stimulated the 18th-century Protestant revival throughout Britain and the British-American colonies.
whitefish: any of several valuable, silvery food fishes (family Salmonidae, or in some classifications, Coregonidae), generally found in cold northern lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America, often in deep water. ...
Whitefish Bay: southeastern arm of Lake Superior, the centre of which forms the border of Ontario (Can.) and Michigan (U.S.). The bay, 30 miles (48 km) long (northwest to southeast) and 15 ...
whitefly: any sap-sucking member of the insect family Aleyrodidae (order Homoptera). The nymphs, resembling scale insects, are flat, oval, and usually covered with a cottony substance; the adults, 2-3 mm (0.08-0.12 ...
Whitefriars Theatre: private London playhouse located in the priory of the Whitefriars monastery on the north side of the River Thames. Michael Drayton and Thomas Woodford converted the refectory hall to a ...
Whitehall: street and locality in the City of Westminster, London. The street runs between Charing Cross and the Houses of Parliament. The name Whitehall also applies to the cluster of short ...
Whitehall Palace: former English royal residence located in Westminster, London, on a site between the Thames River and the present-day St. James's Park. York Place, the London residence of the archbishops of ...
Whitehaven: Irish Sea port, Copeland district, administrative county of Cumbria, historic county of Cumberland, England. The Lowther family created a new port there in the 17th century as an outlet for ...
Whitehead, Alfred North: English mathematician and philosopher, who collaborated with Bertrand Russell on Principia Mathematica (1910-13) and, from the mid-1920s, taught at Harvard University and developed a comprehensive metaphysical theory.
Whitehead, Robert: British engineer who invented the modern torpedo.
Whitehead, William: British poet laureate from 1757 to 1785.
Whitehorse: city and capital (since 1952) of the Yukon Territory, Canada, on the Yukon (Lewes) River just below Miles Canyon and the former Whitehorse Rapids (now submerged beneath Schwatka Lake, created ...
Whiteley, Brett: Australian painter who was admired for the sensuous power of his paintings and his superb draftsmanship.
Whitelocke, Bulstrode: English republican lawyer, an influential figure in Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth regime.
Whiteman, Paul: American bandleader, called the "King of Jazz" for popularizing a musical style that helped to introduce jazz to mainstream audiences during the 1920s and 1930s.
whitethroat: (Sylvia communis), typical Old World warbler of the family Sylviidae (order Passeriformes); it breeds in western Eurasia and northwestern Africa and winters in Africa and India. It is 14 cm ...
whiteware: any of a broad class of ceramic products that are white to off-white in appearance and frequently contain a significant vitreous, or glassy, component. Including products as diverse as fine ...
whitework: embroidery worked in white thread on white material, originated in India and China and popular in the West since the Middle Ages as decoration for personal, table, and various church ...
Whitfield, Mal: American middle-distance runner, world-record holder for the 880-yard race (1950-54), for the 1,000-metre race (1953), and as a member of the U.S. team for the 4 × 440-yard relay race ...
Whitgift, John: archbishop of Canterbury who did much to strengthen the Anglican church during the last years of Elizabeth I and to secure its acceptance by her successor, James I. He was ...
Whithorn: royal burgh (town) in Dumfries and Galloway region, historic county of Wigtownshire, southwestern Scotland. It lies on the peninsula between Luce and Wigtown bays. One of the oldest Christian centres ...
Whiting: city, Lake county, northwestern Indiana, U.S. It lies along Lake Michigan, in the Calumet industrial region, immediately southeast of Chicago. It originated in 1889, when the Standard Oil Company, unable ...
whiting: (species Gadus, or Merlangius, merlangus), common marine food fish of the cod family, Gadidae. The whiting is found in European waters and is especially abundant in the North Sea. It ...
Whitlam, Gough: Australian politician and lawyer whose unsuccessful premiership (1972-75) of his country ended when he was dismissed by the governor-general.
Whitley Council: in Great Britain, any of the bodies made up of representatives of labour and management for the promotion of better industrial relations. An original series of councils, named for J.H. ...
Whitlock, Elizabeth: nee Kemble noted actress in England and the United States.
whitlow grass: any plant belonging to either of two genera (Erophila and Draba), of the mustard family (Brassicaceae); some authorities believe that all these plants belong to one genus, Draba. The genus ...
Whitman: town (township), Plymouth county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., just east of Brockton. The site was settled about 1670, and the town of South Abington (or Little Comfort) was formed and incorporated ...
Whitman, Marcus: American physician, Congregational missionary to the Indians in the territories of present-day Washington and Oregon, and a pioneer who helped open the Pacific Northwest to settlement.
Whitman, Sarah Helen Power: American poet and essayist, noted for her literary criticism and perhaps best remembered for her alliance with and scholarly defense of Edgar Allan Poe.
Whitman, Walt: American poet, journalist, and essayist whose verse collection Leaves of Grass is a landmark in the history of American literature.