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White Castle (restaurant)
White Castle, founded 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, by Walt Anderson and Billy Ingram, is credited as the first fast-food hamburger chain, known for square steamed Sliders, standardized operations, and Columbus, Ohio family ownership.
White Castle hillfort
White Castle hillfort: Iron Age multivallate contour fort near Garvald, East Lothian, Scotland, at 318 m in the Lammermuirs; three ramparts, 18 platforms, radiocarbon-dated c 750-100 BC. Not the medieval Welsh White Castle of the Three Castles in Monmouthshire.
White Cat Legend (大理寺少卿游)
White Cat Legend (大理寺少卿游) is a 2024 iQiyi live-action costume mystery comedy adapted from RC's manhua Da Li Si Ri Zhi, starring Ding Yuxi as cat-faced Dali Temple assistant minister Li Bing; 36 episodes, Douban 6.8.
White catalyst
The White catalyst is a small-molecule iron or manganese PDP catalyst developed by M. Christina White at Illinois for undirected, site-selective oxidation of aliphatic C–H bonds.
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)
White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is a 1950 oil painting by Mark Rothko, sold in 2007 for a then-record 72.84 million dollars.
White Chapel of Senusret I
The White Chapel of Senusret I is a limestone jubilee shrine at Karnak, built around 1971–1926 BCE and now reassembled in the Karnak Open Air Museum.
White Chicks
White Chicks is a 2004 American comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, starring Shawn and Marlon Wayans as Black FBI brothers who disguise themselves as white socialite sisters.
White Chileans
White Chileans: Chileans who identify or are identified as white or of European descent. Also a socially constructed whiteness produced by state whitening policy, Nicolás Palacios's homogeneity myth, European immigration, and everyday racial hierarchy; roughly 88.9% identified as white or non-indigenous in 2016.
White chocolate
White chocolate: a confection of cocoa butter, milk solids, and sugar with no cocoa solids, defined by FDA (21 CFR 163.124, min 20% cocoa butter, max 55% sweetener) and Codex standards; first commercialized by Nestlé (Galak/Milkybar) in Switzerland in 1936.
White Christmas (Black Mirror)
White Christmas (2014) is Black Mirror's 90-minute Channel 4 Christmas special, written by Charlie Brooker, directed by Carl Tibbetts, starring Jon Hamm and Rafe Spall; it introduced cookie consciousness copies and Z-Eye blocking, and was the series' last Channel 4 episode.
White Christmas (film)
White Christmas (1954) is a Paramount Technicolor musical directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen; the first VistaVision film and 1954's top-grossing release.
White Christmas (song)
White Christmas (song), 1942 Irving Berlin song, aka 'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas', recorded by Bing Crosby for Holiday Inn; best-selling single in history with about 50 million copies sold and a 1942 Oscar for Best Song.
White City (העיר הלבנה) (Tel Aviv)
White City of Tel-Aviv – the Modern Movement (העיר הלבנה), UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed 2003: three zones of 140.4 ha in central Tel Aviv with about 4,000 International Style buildings built 1930s–1948 on Patrick Geddes's 1925 plan; Bauhaus label is partly myth.
White City Stadium
White City Stadium (The Great Stadium), London, built 1908 for the Franco-British Exhibition and the first purpose-built Olympic stadium; 68,000 seats, 1908 marathon finish, greyhound racing from 1927, demolished mid-1980s.
White Claw Hard Seltzer
White Claw Hard Seltzer is a 5% ABV alcoholic seltzer launched in the US in 2016 by Mark Anthony Group, made from seltzer water, a gluten-free alcohol base, and fruit flavor; it leads the global hard seltzer market with about 58% share and spans Surge, Clawtails, and Zero Proof lines.
White Clay Creek State Park
White Clay Creek State Park is a 3,689-acre Delaware state park near Newark with over 37 miles of trails, a Wild and Scenic Creek, DuPont-era origins, and a $13.4 million Discovery Center opening 2028.
White Cliffs of Dover
The White Cliffs of Dover, also called the Dover white cliffs, are chalk sea cliffs in Kent, England, stretching about 10 miles between Folkestone and Walmer.
White Clothes
White Clothes (Белые одежды) is a 1987 novel by Vladimir Dudintsev, published in Neva, about geneticists persecuted in Stalin-era Soviet science; it won the 1988 USSR State Prize.
White Cloud (satellite)
White Cloud was the unclassified designation of the US Navy's first operational ocean surveillance satellites, which trios flying in formation used to track ships at sea from 1976.
White coat ceremony
The white coat ceremony is a rite of passage cloaking entering medical, nursing, and other health students, first held in 1989 at the University of Chicago.
White coat hypertension
White coat hypertension: elevated clinic blood pressure with normal ambulatory or home readings in untreated people, termed by Pickering in 1988; affects about one third of such patients and often progresses to sustained hypertension.
White coffee
White coffee (kopi putih, 白咖啡) most famously means Ipoh white coffee, a Malaysian style with beans roasted in palm-oil margarine and little sugar, served with condensed milk; the term also covers white roast beans, a Lebanese herbal infusion, and coffee with milk.
White Coke
White Coke was a clear, colorless Coca-Cola made in the 1940s for Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, disguised as vodka in straight bottles with a red-star cap; never sold publicly.
White Collar (fashion house)
White Collar (白领) is a Beijing-based Chinese high-end women's ready-to-wear and haute couture brand founded in 1994 by Miao Hongbing, who left a Ministry of Petroleum post to start it.
White Collar (TV series)
White Collar is a USA Network crime drama (2009–2014, six seasons) created by Jeff Eastin, starring Matt Bomer as con artist Neal Caffrey consulting for FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay); a sequel, White Collar Renaissance, remains unproduced.
White Cubans
White Cubans (blancos) are the self-identified white majority of Cuba's population, about 64 percent in the 2012 census, and roughly 86 percent of Cuban Americans; they hold disproportionate access to remittances, travel, and private-sector income.
White Dawns
White Dawns (Beli mugri) is a 1939 collection of 12 poems by the Macedonian poet Kočo Racin, regarded as a foundational work of modern Macedonian literature.
White Day (ホワイトデー)
White Day (ホワイトデー) is a Japanese holiday on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day, when men give return gifts, traditionally white confections, to women; it also spread to South Korea and Taiwan.
White Deer Energy
White Deer Energy is a Houston-based private equity firm founded in 2008 by First Reserve veterans Ben A. Guill and Thomas J. Edelman, focused on middle-market energy buy-and-build funds.
White Deer Plain (白鹿原)
White Deer Plain (白鹿原) is Wang Quan'an's 2012 film adapting Chen Zhongshi's Mao Dun Prize novel about the Bai and Lu families in Shaanxi; Berlin Silver Bear, multiple censored cuts, 2017 TV remake.