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White Tara: (from the article "Tara") ...and the two wives-a Chinese princess and a Nepali princess-of the first Buddhist king of Tibet, Srong-brtsan-sgam-po, were identified with the two major forms of Tara. The White Tara (Sanskrit: ...
White Terror: (from the article "French Revolution") ...and efforts toward economic equality were abandoned. Reaction set in; the National Convention began to debate a new constitution; and, meanwhile, in the west and in the southeast, a royalist ...
White Terror: (from the article "Hungary") "White terrorists" wreaked indiscriminate vengeance on persons whom they associated with the revolutions. Huszar's government itself had turned so sharply on the Social Democrats and the trade unions that the ...
White Tower: (from the article "Belarus") ...the 12th century. Most of the other early buildings that remain, mostly as ruins, are the princely stone fortresses of the 12th to 16th century. One of the best-known of ...
White Tower: (from the article "Ramla") ...(Lydda). He built marketplaces, fortifications, and, above all, the White Mosque (Al-Jami' al-Abyad). Only ruins of these remain, but the minaret of the White Mosque, the so-called White Tower, 89 ...
White Tower: (from the article "London") ...of London that they should enjoy the same laws as under Edward the Confessor and that he would suffer no one to do them wrong. Just outside the city walls ...
White Town: (from the article "Calcutta") In 1706 the population of Calcutta was about 10,000 to 12,000. It increased to nearly 120,000 by 1752 and to 180,000 by 1821. The White (British) Town was built on ...
white uakari: (from the article "uakari") ...are bright red, and the coats range from reddish brown to red-orange. They live in flooded forests along the upper Amazon River and its tributaries in eastern Peru and western ...
white velvet: (from the article "spiderwort") ...plants in baskets, especially the wandering Jews (T. albiflora and T. fluminensis); among other slight differences, the former is green-leaved and the latter has purplish underleaves. White velvet, or white-gossamer ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
white wagtail: (from the article "community ecology") ...to raise their young (seephotograph). The four major host species for cuckoos in Britain are meadow pipits (Anthus pratensis), reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus; see photograph), pied wagtails (Motacilla alba yarrellii), ...
white willow: (from the article "willow") Three of the largest willows are black (S. nigra), crack, or brittle (S. fragilis), and white (S. alba), all reaching 20 metres (65 feet) or more; the first named is ...
White Wing: (from the article "Aerial Experiment Association") ...frozen surface of Lake Keuka, near Hammondsport, on March 12, 1908. Taking turns, the four younger members of the AEA (i.e., excluding the Bells) made a total of five flights ...
White Workers Party: (from the article "fascism") The most significant neofascist group in South Africa after 1945 was the South African Gentile National Socialist Movement (the "Greyshirts"), which changed its name to the White Workers Party in ...
white wormwood: (from the article "desert dormouse") ...lake (hence the latter portion of the scientific name, betpakdalaensis). The species is patchily distributed among thickets of boyalych saltbush (Salsola laricifolia) and white wormwood (Artemisia maritime) growing on salty ...
white yam: (from the article "yam") Most yams contain an acrid principle that is dissipated in cooking. D. trifida and D. alata are the edible species most widely diffused in tropical and subtropical countries. The tubers ...
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. [1 Related Articles]
White, Andrew Dickson: American educator and diplomat, founder and first president of Cornell University, Ithaca. [3 Related Articles]
White, Barry: American rhythm-and-blues singer (b. Sept. 12, 1944, Galveston, Texas-d. July 4, 2003, Los Angeles, Calif.), possessed one of the most recognizable bass-baritone voices in the musical world. Especially popular during ...
White, Byron R.: associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1962-93). [1 Related Articles]
White, Charles: (from the article "race") In 1799 Charles White, a Manchester physician, published the earliest proper "scientific" study of human races. He described each racial category in physical terms, identifying what he thought were differences ...
White, Clarence: (from the article "Byrds, the") ...Haven, Fla.-d. Sept. 19, 1973Yucca Valley, Calif.), and Clarence White (b. June 6, 1944Lewiston, Maine-d. July 14, 1973Palmdale,...
White, Clarence H.: American photographer known for subtle portraits of women and children and also as an influential teacher of photography. [2 Related Articles]
White, Dan: (from the article "Milk, Harvey") ...he was elected in 1977, becoming one of the first openly gay elected officials in U.S. history. The following year Milk and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot and ...
White, E.B.: American essayist and literary stylist. White's biography of Harold W. Ross appeared in the 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (see the Britannica Classic: Harold Ross). [4 Related Articles]
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
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. [4 Related Articles]
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. [4 Related Articles]
White, Gilbert: (from the article "geography") One significant example of work on the interaction of human society and nature was stimulated by Gilbert White, a geography graduate of the University of Chicago. White returned to Chicago ...
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. [1 Related Articles]
White, James Larkin: (from the article "Carlsbad Caverns National Park") ...knew of the site 1,000 years ago, but it wasn't until the 1880s that nearby settlers rediscovered the location and began mining it for bat guano to be used as ...
White, Jason: (from the article "Football") ...threw five touchdowns, including three to Steve Smith, to extend the Trojans' winning streak to 22 games. It was the second straight defeat in a national championship game for Oklahoma ...
White, Jo Jo: (from the article "Boston Celtics") Havlicek was still a key contributor, along with Dave Cowens, Paul Silas, and Jo Jo White, on teams that won titles in 1973-74 and 1975-76. In the 1980s the NBA ...
White, John: British artist, explorer, cartographer, and governor of the English settlement on Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina, U.S.). [2 Related Articles]
White, Joseph Blanco: Spanish-born English poet, journalist, and writer of miscellaneous prose. He was a friend of the poets Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge and of the young clerical intellectuals at Oriel ...
White, Josh: (from the article "Lomax, Alan") ...great blues singer Huddie Ledbetter ("Leadbelly"). Later, Lomax was responsible for introducing to American audiences other folk and blues artists, including Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Josh White, and Burl Ives. ...
White, Leonard Dupee: American political scientist and historian who was a leading authority on public administration.
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." [3 Related Articles]
White, Maurice: (from the article "Earth, Wind and Fire") Earth, Wind and Fire was the brainchild of Maurice White, a drummer raised in Memphis, Tennessee, who returned to his birthplace, Chicago, and became a veteran session player at Chess ...
White, Miles Edgren: American costume designer (b. July 27, 1914, Oakland, Calif.-d. Feb. 17, 2000, New York, N.Y.), had a seven-decade-long career during which he designed costumes for such Broadway musicals as Oklahoma! ...
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. [1 Related Articles]
White, Morton: (from the article "law, philosophy of") In the United States the legal philosopher Morton White identified five later contributing strains of thought, in cluding the pragmatism of John Dewey; the economist Thorstein Veblen's institutionalism, rejecting both ...
White, Patrick: Australian novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. [2 Related Articles]
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, Reggie: American football player (b. Dec. 19, 1961, Chattanooga, Tenn.-d. Dec. 26, 2004, Huntersville, N.C.), was considered one of the best defensive linemen in the history of the National Football League. ...
White, Shaun: American snowboarder who won a gold medal in the halfpipe event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. [3 Related Articles]
White, Sir Dick Goldsmith: British intelligence official (b. Dec. 20, 1906, Kent, England--d. Feb. 20, 1993, Sussex, England), was, at the time of his death, the only person to have headed both the British ...
White, Stanford: American architect and the most imaginative partner in the influential architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White. [2 Related Articles]
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, Terence de Vere: Irish author and editor (b. April 29, 1912, Dublin, Ireland--d. June 17, 1994, London, England), was the influential literary editor of the Irish Times (1961-77) and the author of more ...
White, Thelma: American actress (b. Dec. 4, 1910, Lincoln, Neb.-d. Jan. 11, 2005, Los Angeles, Calif.), appeared in more than 40 movies and was primarily a musical and comedy performer. She was ...
White, Theodore H.: American journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his astute, suspenseful accounts of the 1960 and 1964 presidential elections.
White, Tim D.: Did scientists take a giant step toward finding the elusive link between humans and apes? Paleoanthropologist Tim D. White and his team of fossil hunters thought so in 1994 when ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
White, William: first bishop consecrated in England for the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States and the first presiding bishop of that church. [1 Related Articles]
White, William Alanson: (from the article "Sullivan, Harry Stack") Sullivan received his M.D. from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery in 1917. At St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, D.C., he came under the influence of the psychiatrist William ...
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 ... [2 Related Articles]
white-barred piculet: (from the article "piculet") ...like nuthatches, looking for insects, and are able to perch crosswise on branches. Though small-billed, piculets dig nest holes in soft wood. The most widely distributed New World species is ...
white-bearded gnu: (from the article "gnu") ...and has a black mane, tail, and face; whitish cheeks; and a tuft of dark hair on chin and throat. The horns of the brindled gnu, present in both sexes, ...
white-bellied sea eagle: (from the article "eagle") ...and can weigh up to 9 kg (20 pounds). The only sea eagle of North America is the bald eagle (H. leucocephalus), which is found across Canada and the United ...
white-billed diver: (from the article "loon") ...Parents also hoot or "kwuuk" to chicks that may have strayed too far away. Parents often swim with the young on their backs. The common loon's counterpart across Eurasia is ...
white-breasted nuthatch: (from the article "nuthatch") ...America are the red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis), a stubby, grayish, rufous-breasted, 10-gram (0.35-ounce) bird that often boldly approaches humans in northern conifer groves, and the white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis), a ...
white-collar crime: crime committed by persons who, often by virtue of their occupations, exploit social, economic, or technological power for personal or corporate gain. The term, coined in 1949 by the American ... [9 Related Articles]
white-collar worker: (from the article "industrial relations") ...and technical employees at Harvard University, for instance, the union campaigned on the slogan, "It's not anti-Harvard to be pro-union." While this approach has gained favour among white-collar and professional ...
white-collared swift: (from the article "swift") ...southern Africa, nesting in buildings and hollow trees; nine other Apus swifts are found throughout temperate regions of the Old World, and some Apus species inhabit South America. The white-collared ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
white-eyed vireo: (from the article "vireo") ...which breeds from southern Canada to Argentina. It is 15 cm (6 inches) long, with a black-outlined white eye stripe that contrasts with the bird's gray crown. Similar in general ...
white-faced ibis: (from the article "ibis") The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) and its close relative the white-faced ibis (P. chihi) are small forms with dark reddish brown and glossy purplish plumage. As a group they are ...
white-footed mouse: (from the article "hantavirus") ...fatal. The first HPS illness was identified in the southwestern United States in 1993; it is associated with a virus called Sin Nombre and is carried by the deer mouse ...
white-fronted capuchin: (from the article "capuchin monkey") ...which the crown bears a dark cap of long erect hairs that often form tufts or crests. The uncrested, or untufted, group includes the more lightly built white-throated (C. capucinus), ...
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 ... [1 Related Articles]
white-fronted langur: (from the article "langur") ...and slender. Depending on species, the head and body are about 40 to 80 cm (16 to 31 inches) long and the tail about 50 to 110 cm; weight varies ...
white-handed gibbon: (from the article "gibbon") ...H. agilis), which lives on Sumatra south of Lake Toba and on the Malay Peninsula between the Perak and Mudah rivers, may be either tan or black and has white ...
white-headed buffalo weaver: (from the article "buffalo weaver") ...the subfamily Bubalornithinae of the family Ploceidae. The more widespread species is the black buffalo weaver, or oxbird (Bubalornis albirostris); it is black, with white in the wings. The white-headed ...
white-headed duck: (from the article "conservation") ...species that would not normally meet. If the resident species is extremely rare, it may be genetically swamped by the more abundant alien. One example of a species threatened by ...
white-headed munia: (from the article "munia") ...atricapilla and ferruginosa), is a pest in rice fields from India to Java and the Philippines; as a cage bird it is often called tricolour nun. Others kept as pets ...
white-headed vulture: (from the article "vulture") The white-headed vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) is about 80 cm (31 inches) long and has a wingspan of about 1.8 metres (6 feet). Black with white secondary wing feathers and belly, ...
white-line printing: (from the article "Bewick, Thomas") ...or no perceptible grain) with a cutting tool called a burin. Using parallel lines instead of cross-hatching, he achieved a wide range of tones and textures. Moreover, he revived the ...
white-lipped peccary: (from the article "peccary") The white-lipped peccary (T. pecari) is slightly darker and larger, weighing 25-40 kg (55-88 pounds). Named for the white area around the mouth, its range is limited to Central and ...
white-marked spider beetle: (from the article "spider beetle") Spider beetles, which occur throughout the world, live in plant or animal remains, stored food products, dry wood, and museum specimens. The white-marked spider beetle (Ptinus fur) and the shiny ...
white-marked tussock moth: (from the article "tussock moth") The adults are medium-sized. Females range in colour from white to brown. Some, such as the white-marked tussock moth (Hemerocampa leucostigma), lack wings.
white-naped mangabey: (from the article "mangabey") ...red-capped mangabey (C. torquatus), the largest species, lives in west-central Africa and is gray with a white "collar" around the neck and a red crown. The white-naped ...
white-naped swift: (from the article "apodiform") ...surfaces with a sticky secretion from the large salivary glands; in the swiftlet genus Collocalia, this substance may comprise most or all of the nest material itself. One species, the ...
white-necked puffbird: (from the article "puffbird") ...species include the collared puffbird (Bucco capensis) 18 centimetres (7 inches) long, in northern South America east of the Andes, and the white-necked, or large-billed, puffbird (Notharchus macrorhynchos), 24 cm ...
white-necked raven: (from the article "raven") ...it reaches a length of up to 66 cm (26 inches) and has a wingspan of more than 1.3 metres (4 feet). (Some magpies and the lyrebird exceed the raven ...
white-pine blister rust: (from the article "Some fungal diseases of plants") ...of wheat and other cereals and grasses. Other heteroecious rusts include those that use junipers (red cedar) as one host and apple, Japanese quince, hawthorn, rose, and related plants as ...
white-rumped sandpiper: (from the article "sandpiper") ...is easily approached in the field. Another Old World species is the rufous-necked sandpiper (C. ruficollis), which breeds in Siberia and winters as far south as New Zealand and Tasmania. ...
white-rumped swift: (from the article "swift") ...zonaris), soft-tailed and brownish black with a narrow white collar, is found from Mexico to Argentina and on larger Caribbean islands, nesting in caves and behind waterfalls. The white-rumped swift ...
white-tailed antelope squirrel: (from the article "ground squirrel") ...whereas the deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico are populated by five species of antelope ground squirrel (genus Ammospermophilus). The white-tailed antelope squirrel (A. leucurus) of the ...
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 ... [4 Related Articles]
white-tailed gnu: (from the article "gnu") The gnu, which stands higher at the shoulder than at the rump, attains a shoulder height of 1-1.3 metres (3-4 feet). The southern African form, the white-tailed gnu, or black ...
white-tailed kite: (from the article "kite") The swallow-tailed kite of Africa (Chelicti- nia riocourii) is a small gray and white bird of the subfamily Elaninae. It occurs from Nigeria to Somalia. The white-tailed kite (Elanus leucurus; ...
white-tailed prairie dog: (from the article "prairie dog") ...throughout the Great Plains from Canada to northern Mexico; Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) occurs where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet; the white-tailed prairie dog ...
white-tailed ptarmigan: (from the article "ptarmigan") ...Also distributed circumpolarly is the willow ptarmigan, or willow grouse (L. lagopus; see photograph), a more northerly bird of lowlands. On Rocky Mountain tundra south to New Mexico is the ...
white-tailed sea eagle: (from the article "eagle") White-tailed sea eagles (H. albicilla), native to Europe, southwestern Greenland, the Middle East, Russia (including Siberia), and the coastlands of China, had disappeared from the British Isles by 1918 and ...
white-throated capuchin: (from the article "capuchin monkey") ...brown capuchin (C. apella), in which the crown bears a dark cap of long erect hairs that often form tufts or crests. The uncrested, or untufted, group includes the more ...
white-throated manakin: (from the article "manakin") Behaviours displayed in leks vary between species. White-throated manakins (Corapipo gutturalis) gather around a log, where the males bob and pose as they creep toward the female. Males of the ...
white-throated spadebill: (from the article "spadebill") any of six species of New World flycatchers (family Tyrannidae, order Passeriformes) whose triangular bill is very broad and flat. The white-throated, or stub-tailed, spadebill (Platyrinchus mystaceus), scarcely 10 centimetres ...