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White dress of Marilyn Monroe
The white dress of Marilyn Monroe is William Travilla's pleated white crepe halter dress from The Seven Year Itch (1955), worn in the subway-grate scene filmed 15 September 1954; it sold for $4.6 million in 2011.
WHITE Dubai (nightclub)
WHITE Dubai is a rooftop nightclub in Dubai, opened in 2013 at Meydan Racecourse and ranked as high as No. 15 in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs.
White dwarf
A white dwarf is the dense stellar remnant left when a low- or intermediate-mass star dies, packing about half the Sun's mass into an Earth-sized core that cools without fusion.
White Dwarf (magazine)
White Dwarf (WD) is Games Workshop's British gaming magazine, founded 1977 from the Owl and Weasel newsletter; began covering D&D, RuneQuest, and Traveller, produced the Fiend Folio's monsters, and became the Warhammer house magazine.
White dwarf binary
A white dwarf binary is a binary star system in which at least one component is a white dwarf, producing novae, Type Ia supernovae, and gravitational waves.
White dwarf cooling
White dwarf cooling is the gradual fading of a white dwarf, the remnant of a low- or intermediate-mass star, over roughly 10 billion years without nuclear energy.
White dwarf crystallization
White dwarf crystallization is the freezing of carbon and oxygen ions at the core of a cooling white dwarf into a crystal lattice, confirmed observationally in 2019.
White dwarf formation
White dwarf formation is the process by which stars of roughly 0.8 to 8 solar masses shed their envelopes and leave behind a carbon–oxygen white dwarf.
White dwarf merger
A white dwarf merger is the coalescence of two white dwarf stars in a close binary, driven by gravitational waves, proposed in 1984 as a route to Type Ia supernovae.
White dwarf pulsar
A white dwarf pulsar is a binary system in which a rapidly spinning, strongly magnetized white dwarf produces pulsed emission from radio to X-rays, first recognized in 2016.
White dwarf spectral types and atmospheric composition
White dwarf spectral types classify degenerate stellar remnants by atmospheric composition rather than temperature, with DA marking hydrogen-rich and DB helium-rich photospheres; over 60% are DA.
White Egrets
White Egrets is a 2010 poetry collection by Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, a sequence of 54 poems that won the T. S. Eliot Prize.
White elephant
A white elephant is a costly possession that is more burden than benefit and hard to dispose of, a term from sacred Southeast Asian elephants.
White elephant gift exchange
White elephant gift exchange, also called Yankee Swap or Dirty Santa, is a holiday party game where players unwrap or steal wrapped gifts under a steal limit; named for the Siamese white elephant legend.
White émigré (белоэмигрант)
White émigré (белоэмигрант, белая эмиграция): a Russian who fled abroad after the 1917 October Revolution and Civil War, hostile to Soviet power; organized around Wrangel's ROVS, settled mainly in France, China, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria.
White émigré literature
White émigré literature is the Russian-language literature produced abroad by exiles who fled Russia after the 1917 revolution and Civil War, centered first in Berlin and then Paris.
White etching cracks
White etching cracks are crack networks in rolling bearing steel flanked by white etching areas, causing premature fatigue failure, most prominently in wind turbine gearbox bearings.
White Fang
White Fang (1906) is Jack London's novel of a three-quarters-wolf Yukon wolf-dog tamed from savagery to domesticity, the inverse companion to The Call of the Wild, amid the nature-faker controversy.
White Fang (1991 film)
White Fang (1991) is a Walt Disney adventure drama directed by Randal Kleiser, loosely adapting Jack London's novel, starring Ethan Hawke as Yukon prospector Jack Conroy and the dog Jed as the wolf-dog; it grossed $34.7 million domestically and spawned a 1994 sequel.
White Fathers in Buganda
The White Fathers, Catholic missionaries of the Society of the Missionaries of Africa, arrived in Buganda in 1879 and founded the first Roman Catholic mission in present-day Uganda.
White feather
White feather: traditional emblem of cowardice from cockfighting, attested 1785; basis of the WWI Order of the White Feather, founded 30 August 1914 at Folkestone by Admiral Charles Penrose Fitzgerald, in which women shamed unenlisted men across Britain and the Commonwealth.
White Feather Campaign
White Feather Campaign: British First World War recruitment practice, also the Order of the White Feather, in which women gave white feathers symbolizing cowardice to ununiformed men; begun by Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald in Folkestone, August 1914, peaking 1915.
White Ferrari
"White Ferrari" is a 2016 song by Frank Ocean, track 14 on the album Blonde. Also known through its Beatles interpolation of "Here, There and Everywhere"; credited to Ocean, Om'Mas Keith, James Blake, Kanye West, Lennon–McCartney.
White fibrous papulosis of the neck
White fibrous papulosis of the neck (WFPN), a rare benign fibroelastolytic skin condition first described by Shimizu in 1985, produces 2-3 mm white asymptomatic papules on the neck of women over 60, mimicking pseudoxanthoma elasticum.
White flag
White flag: plain white banner signaling a desire to communicate or, in practice, surrender. Protected under the Hague Regulations; abuse or feigning it is perfidy and a war crime under Additional Protocol I and the ICC Statute.
White flight
White flight: departure of white residents from U.S. urban neighborhoods and schools as nonwhite presence grows, first named after World War II; explains 34–50 percent of early 20th-century segregation growth and persists in middle-class suburbs.
White Fox (fashion brand)
White Fox Boutique is an Australian online fast-fashion retailer for young women, founded in Sydney in 2013 by Georgia Moore and Daniel Contos, known for influencer marketing and logo hoodies.
White Fragility
White Fragility: term coined by Robin DiAngelo in a 2011 paper and her 2018 Beacon Press book on defensive reactions of white people to racial stress; bestseller for 155 weeks, ~1.5 million sales, widely debated for testability and training effectiveness.
White Friday (1916)
White Friday, 13 December 1916 (actually a Wednesday; Italian Santa Lucia Nera), was a day of avalanches on the WWI Italian Front in the southeastern Alps, killing hundreds to thousands; the worst buried an Austro-Hungarian barracks at Gran Poz on Mount Marmolada, 270–332 dead.
White fuming nitric acid
White fuming nitric acid (WFNA) is a nearly anhydrous, water-white form of nitric acid used as a storable liquid rocket oxidizer, notably in the Rascal missile.