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white denim: (from the article "Fashions") ...Narciso Rodriguez displayed bright white empire-line day and evening dresses on his spring-summer runway, the positive pallid shade defined the year's colour palette. The Gap's summer line of white denim ...
white dwarf star: any of a class of faint stars representing the endpoint of the evolution of intermediate- and low-mass stars. White dwarf stars, so called because of the white colour of the ... [10 Related Articles]
white end refinery: (from the article "sugar") ...processes by which high-quality white sugars are made from lower-grade beet syrups; see below Beet sugar.) About 35 percent of cane sugar is refined; the remainder is consumed as plantation ...
White Father: a Roman Catholic international missionary society of priests and brothers whose sole field of activity is Africa. It was founded in North Africa in 1868 by the archbishop of Algiers, ... [1 Related Articles]
white fibre: (from the article "fish processing") The skeletal muscles of fish are composed mostly of white, fast-twitch fibres. The high percentage of white fibres allows fish to swim with sudden, rapid movements and gives the meat ...
White Flag Party: (from the article "Than Tun, Thakin") ...Tun and the majority of communists continued to cooperate with the AFPFL. In the face of increasing disagreements with the AFPFL, however, he was forced to revolt in March 1948, ...
white flood: (from the article "Niger River") ...time in different parts of the basin. In the upper Niger the high-water discharge occurs in June, and the low-water season is in December. In the middle Niger, a first ...
White Friar: (from the article "Carmelite") ...since been restored in most countries of western Europe and in the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. The original order (Order of Brothers of the Blessed Virgin ...
white ginger: (from the article "ginger lily") Flowers of many Hedychium species are used for garlands and other decorations. The white-flowered H. coronarium, known as white ginger, and the yellow-flowered H. flavum, or yellow ginger, are among ...
white grease: (from the article "grease") White grease is made from inedible hog fat and has a low content of free fatty acids. Yellow grease is made from darker parts of the hog and may include ...
white grub: (from the article "June beetle") ...June beetles vary from 12 to 25 mm (0.5 to 1 inch) and have shiny wing covers (elytra). They feed on foliage and flowers at night, sometimes causing considerable damage. ...
White Guelfs: (from the article "Florence") ...major guilds. Political parties grew up along the issues of aggressive expansion and preservation of peace; the former policy was embraced by the Blacks (Neri; the rich merchants), the latter ...
white hake: (from the article "hake") ...These fishes resemble Merluccius but are distinguished by long, slim pelvic fins and by a small barbel at the tip of the chin. Economically important members of this genus include ...
white heath: (from the article "heath") ...also in western Europe; fringed heath (E. ciliaris), in western England and Ireland; and Irish heath (E. mediterranea), which reaches 1 to 1.5 metres (3 to 5 feet) tall in ...
White Heather: (from the article "cricket") Women first played cricket in England in the 18th century. In 1887 the first club, White Heather, was formed, and it survived to 1957. In 1890 two professional teams known ...
White Hmong dialect: (from the article "Hmong-Mien languages") ...type between words in the clause. New words are formed by making compounds, as in modern Chinese. Reduplication or doubling of a word, usually with an intensifying effect, is also ...
White Hoods: (from the article "Louis II") ...rivals, broke out into open feud. The power of Ghent reached its height under Philip van Artevelde in 1382. He defeated Louis, took Bruges, and was made regent of Flanders. ...
White Horde: (from the article "Central Asia, history of") The policies of the khan Tokhtamysh (1376-95) differed from those of his predecessors. Hereditary ruler of the White Horde, its pastures located in western Siberia and extending to the lower ...
White House: the official office and residence of the president of the United States at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C. The White House and its landscaped grounds occupy 18 acres ... [13 Related Articles]
white iron: (from the article "cast iron") Most cast iron is either so-called gray iron or white iron, the colours shown by fracture. Gray iron contains more silicon and is less hard and more machinable than is ...
White Island: island in the Bay of Plenty, 43 miles (69 km) west of Cape Runaway, eastern North Island, New Zealand. An active volcano, it is the top of a submarine vent ...
white jute: (from the article "jute") either of two species of Corchorus plants-C. capsularis, or white jute, and C. olitorius, including both tossa and daisee varieties-belonging to the hibiscus, or mallow family (Malvaceae), and their fibre. ...
White Karen: (from the article "Karen") ...speaking languages of the Sino-Tibetan family. They are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, differing linguistically, religiously, and economically. One classification divides them into White Karen and Red ...
white lead: (from the article "white lead") any of several white pigments used in exterior paints and containing inorganic compounds of lead (q.v.).carbonateslead processingCarbonates
white ligament: (from the article "ligament") ...of collagenous fibres and spindle-shaped cells known as fibrocytes, with little ground substance (a gel-like component of the various connective tissues). Ligaments may be of two major types: white ligament ...
white light: (from the article "prism") in optics, piece of glass or other transparent material cut with precise angles and plane faces, useful for analyzing and reflecting light. An ordinary triangular prism can separate white light ...
White Lotus: (from the article "China") ...organization also emerged on China's frontiers. Native-place ties were frequently expressed in worship of a deity, so that a temple or territorial cult would become a vehicle for collective action. ...
White Lotus Rebellion: (1796-1804), large-scale uprising in the mountainous regions of central China that contributed to the decline of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911/12). The White Lotus society (Bailianjiao) was a religious cult already ... [3 Related Articles]
white lupine: (from the article "lupine") ...are the Russell hybrids, about 1 m high, with long, dense flower spikes in a wide range of colours. The Texas bluebonnet is a lupine. In Europe and elsewhere tall ...
white magic: (from the article "Middle Eastern religion") The loftier trends of ancient Middle Eastern religion did not as a rule threaten to eliminate magic. White, or protective, magic was never seriously discouraged. Black, or destructive, magic was ...
white marlin: (from the article "marlin") ...force. The striped marlin (Tetrapterus audax), another Indo-Pacific fish, is bluish above and white below, with pale vertical bars; it normally does not exceed 125 kg (275 pounds). The white ...
white matter: (from the article "nervous system, human") ...The outer layer of the duplicate cerebral hemispheres is composed of a convoluted (wrinkled) outer layer of gray matter, called the cerebral cortex. Beneath the cerebral cortex is an inner ...
white meat: (from the article "meat processing") ...and any processed or manufactured products prepared from these tissues. Meats are often classified by the type of animal from which they are taken. Red meat refers to the meat ...
white mica: (from the article "white mica") fine-grained variety of any of the silicate minerals muscovite, paragonite, or talc (qq.v.).paragoniteparagonite...in gneisses, in quartz veins, and in fine-grai
White Mosque: (from the article "Ramla") ...ibn 'Abd al-Malik (reigned 715-717), who made it the administrative capital of Palestine, replacing nearby Lod (Lydda). He built marketplaces, fortifications, and, above all, the White Mosque (Al-Jami' al-Abyad). Only ...
White Mountain: (from the article "Prague") The lowest point in the city is 623 feet (190 metres) above sea level, and the highest point is 1,247 feet (380 metres) on White Mountain (Bila hora). The climate ...
White Mountain, Battle of: (Nov. 8, 1620), battle fought near Prague in Bohemia. The battle marked the first major victory of the Roman Catholic Habsburgs over the Protestant Union, a military alliance among the ... [11 Related Articles]
White Mountains: (from the article "Alaskan mountains") The eastern highlands consist of several separate mountain chains (e.g., the White Mountains), with average elevations of 4,000 to 5,000 feet and a few ridges rising 1,000 to 2,000 feet ...
White Mountains: segment of the Appalachian Mountains, U.S., extending for 87 miles (140 km) across north-central New Hampshire and slightly into western Maine. They contain the highest elevations in the northeastern United ... [8 Related Articles]
white mulberry: (from the article "mulberry") ...mulberry (Morus rubra) of eastern North America is the largest of the genus, often reaching a height of 70 ft. It has two-lobed, three-lobed, or unlobed leaves and dark-purple, edible ...
white mustard: (from the article "charlock") ...bristles on the stems and leaves. The long pod fruits, which form after the yellow flowers bloom, each enclose 10 to 12 black seeds that may remain viable for more ...
White Mutiny: (from the article "Clive, Robert, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey") ...successful, marked the end of nearly 10 years' reckless plunder in Bengal. Finally Clive dealt with the army with equal rigour. He cut down swollen allowances and faced with dauntless ...
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 ... [7 Related Articles]
white nobility: (from the article "Rome") ...a Roman Roman. Among such are the "black nobility," families with papal titles who form a society within high society, shunning publicity and not given to great intimacy with the ...
white noise: (from the article "noise") White noise is a complex signal or sound that covers the entire range of audible frequencies, all of which possess equal intensity. White noise is analogous to white light, which ...
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 Nossob: (from the article "Nossob River") intermittently flowing river, west-central Namibia, formed by two intermittent streams, the White Nossob and the Black Nossob, both of which rise northeast of Windhoek (the national capital). Their confluence is ...
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, ... [4 Related Articles]
White Oak Dance Project: (from the article "Baryshnikov, Mikhail") ...(in 1978). He danced with the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine in 1978-79, but from 1980 to 1989 he returned to the ABT as that company's artistic director. ...
White of Hull, Vincent Gordon Lindsay White: BARON, British business tycoon and ruthless takeover expert who used his formidable skills to build Hanson PLC into one of the U.K.'s largest international conglomerates (b. May 11, 1923--d. ...
white opal: (from the article "opal") ...many white and gray opals is attributable to an abundance of tiny gas-filled cavities in them. Black opal, with a very dark gray or blue to black body colour, is ...
White Paper: (from the article "Israel") ...Jewish immigration in the 1920s, but the onset of the worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s and the flight of refugees from Nazi Germany led to a change in policy. ...
White Paper: (from the article "international relations") ...for greater social expenditures at home, and the superpowers' leap into the missile age-convinced London that it could no longer afford to keep up appearances in foreign policy. A defense ...
White Paper: (from the article "Israel") ...refugees from Nazi Germany led to a change in policy. The British government proposed the partition of Palestine into mutually dependent Arab and Jewish states. When this was rejected by ...
White Paper: (from the article "international relations") ...took Tientsin and Peking in January 1949 and opened a southward offensive in April. By June their army had grown to 1,500,000 men and Chiang's had shrunk to 2,100,000. On ...
White Paper: (from the article "government budget") ...one to another. A sketchy report of the government's intentions is given in an Autumn Statement, usually published in November, and detailed expenditure plans are provided in February or March ...
White Pass and Yukon Route: (from the article "Yukon Territory") ...at the peak of which the nearby settlement of Dawson grew into a city of some 25,000. Access to the area was quickly improved by construction of a 110-mile (177-kilometre) ...
White Peking duck: (from the article "poultry") ...of England, The Netherlands, and the United States. The American Poultry Association lists 12 domesticated breeds, divided into three classes: meat producing, egg producing, and ornamental. The White Peking, originally ...
white pelican: (from the article "pelican") The best-known pelicans are the two species called white pelicans: Pelecanus erythrorhynchos of the New World, the North American white pelican, and P. onocrotalus of the Old World, the European ...
white pepper: (from the article "Uses of spices and herbs with foods") ...about 10 minutes, which causes them to turn dark brown or black in an hour. Then they are spread out to dry in the sun for three or four days. ...
white perch: (from the article "sea bass") ...at the base, live in the temperate waters of North America and Europe. A few of these fishes, such as the striped bass (Morone, or Roccus, saxatilis), enter rivers to ...
white phosphorus: (from the article "chemical industry") Elemental phosphorus exists in many allotropic forms. White phosphorus is used in rodent poison and by the military for smoke generation. Red phosphorus, comparatively harmless, is used in matches. Ferrophosphorus, ...
white pigment: (from the article "surface coating") Pigments that contribute light-scattering properties to coatings are generally known as white, or hiding, pigments. They act by scattering all wavelengths of light, owing to their relatively high refractive index, ...
white pine: (from the article "Maximum ages for some seed plants") There is also variation in the number of bud flushes per year in temperate as well as tropical trees. Trees like the preformer eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) have a ...
White Pine: (from the article "mineral deposit") ...in a manner that resembles particles in a sedimentary rock. Because stratiform deposits so closely resemble sedimentary rocks, controversy surrounds their origin. In certain cases, such as the White Pine ...
white pine weevil: (from the article "pine weevil") The white pine weevil (Pissodes strobi) of North America kills the central growth shoot of white pine trees, forcing one of the side shoots to take over the upward growth ...
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 Plymouth Rock: (from the article "poultry farming") ...Barred Plymouth Rock, developed in 1865 by crossing the Dominique with the Black Cochin, has grayish-white plumage crossed with dark bars. It has good size and meat quality and is ...
white poplar: (from the article "poplar") Two well-known poplar species of Eurasia are the white and the black poplar. The white poplar (P. alba)-also known as silver poplar for its leaves, which have white felted undersides, ...
white porcelain: (from the article "arts, East Asian") After the comparative sterility of the Six Dynasties, this was a great period in the development of Chinese pottery. Although a white porcelain perfected early in the 7th century is ...
white pulp: (from the article "spleen") The spleen is encased in a thick connective-tissue capsule. Inside, the mass of splenic tissue is of two types, the red pulp and the white pulp, which do not separate ...
White Revolution: (from the article "Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi") The shah reversed Mosaddeq's nationalization. With U.S. assistance he then proceeded to carry out a national development program, called the White Revolution, that included construction of an expanded road, rail, ...
white rhinoceros: (from the article "perissodactyl") The two African species of rhinoceros are the black or prehensile-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and the white or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The terms black and white are misleading, since ...
white rice: (from the article "nutrition, human") B vitamins are also lost when brown rice is polished to yield white rice. People living on white rice and little else are at risk for developing the disease beriberi, ...
White River: (from the article "Yukon River") ...May and loosens northward on Lake Laberge a few days later. The snow-fed tributaries from the Mackenzie Mountains to the east reach their flood peak in June, but glacier-fed streams ...
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 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 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
White River Group: (from the article "Florissant Formation") division of middle and upper Oligocene rocks in central Colorado, U.S. (The Oligocene Epoch lasted from 33.7 to 23.8 million years ago.) It overlies the White River Group. Named for ...
White River National Forest: (from the article "Glenwood Springs") ...of Garfield county, west-central Colorado, U.S., at the confluence of Roaring Fork and Colorado rivers. It lies in a canyon at an elevation of 5,758 feet (1,755 metres) and is ...
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 rust: (from the article "rust") White rust, caused by several fungi in the genus Albugo, differs from the true rusts in not requiring an alternate host. It attacks many herbaceous plants. Light yellow areas develop ...
White San Pedro fig: (from the article "fig") In addition to the caprifig, there are three other horticultural types of fig: Smyrna, White San Pedro, and Common. Smyrna-type figs develop only when fertile seeds are present, and these ...
White Sands Missile Range: (from the article "San Andres Mountains") ...missionaries named the mountains for Saint Andrew, the disciple of Jesus. Salinas Peak (9,040 feet [2,755 metres]) is the highest point in the range. The mountains are dry and barren ...
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, ... [1 Related Articles]
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
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.). [7 Related Articles]
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 ... [3 Related Articles]
White Ship: (from the article "William the Aetheling") ...rightful imprisonment of Duke Robert and the succession of William the Aetheling (excluding William Clito, the candidate of Louis VI of France). However, on the night of Nov. 25, 1120, ...
White Sisters: (from the article "White Father") ...far as possible in the same manner as the Africans, and their religious habit resembles the traditional clothing worn in North Africa: the white gandoura (a tunic) and burnoose (a ...
White Slip ware: (from the article "painting, Western") ...Bronze Age is of three main kinds: (1) a handmade ware with a glossy brown surface called base-ring ware, vases and statuettes of humans and animals being the most common ...
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. [2 Related Articles]
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 spruce: (from the article "boreal forest") ...In eastern and central North America the northward movement of the forest was relatively steady and gradual. An exception to this progression occurred about 9,000 years ago in western Canada ...
White Star Line: (from the article "ship") The British White Star Line, which competed directly with Cunard, also had commissioned two giant liners. The Olympic of 1911, displacing 45,324 tons, was then the largest ship ever built. ...
white stork: (from the article "stork") The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) breeds across Europe and Asia and winters south to South Africa. It is a stately bird about 100 cm tall, white with black flight feathers, ...
white sturgeon: (from the article "chondrostean") ...the Sea of Azov, and the Caspian Sea. The lake sturgeon of North America (A. fulvescens) occurs in the Mississippi valley, the Great Lakes, and northward into Canada. The white, ...
white sugar: (from the article "The energy value and nutrient content of some common foods") White sugar production
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 Sulphur Springs Hotel: (from the article "White Sulphur Springs") ...of her rheumatism after bathing in the springs. The springs themselves are on the grounds of the elegant Greenbrier Hotel, which was built by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company ...
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 ... [3 Related Articles]