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White House State Ballroom
The White House State Ballroom is a roughly 90,000-square-foot event hall announced by President Trump in 2025, built on the site of the demolished East Wing.
White jihad
White jihad: term for white supremacists appropriating jihadist content, aesthetics, and tactics, or vice versa; popularized 2014–2015, first used by National Action in 2015; empirical studies contest full ideological fusion.
White Ladder
White Ladder is David Gray's fourth studio album (1998), self-released on his IHT Records label after being recorded in his London apartment. Known for Babylon and This Year's Love, it sold about 4.8 million copies and topped the UK chart in 2001.
White Lady
White Lady: a global folklore archetype of a tragic female ghost in white, known as Dama Branca, Dona Branca, or Ladi Wen, appearing near roads, castles, and ruins across many cultures.
White Lady of Brandberg
The White Lady of Brandberg is a famous rock painting in Namibia's Brandberg massif, now identified as a male San hunter or shaman painted in white pigment.
White Lantern Corps
The White Lantern Corps is a DC Comics organization introduced in Blackest Night in 2010, whose rings draw on life itself as the opposite of the death-dealing Black Lanterns.
White Latin Americans
White Latin Americans identify as white within Latin America's census and survey categories of White, mestizo, pardo, Black, and Indigenous; shares vary widely, prominent in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, about 13-17% in Mexico surveys, with whiteness tied to skin color, status, and inequality measurement.
White LED
A white LED is a light-emitting diode that produces white light, either by phosphor-coated blue chips or mixed red, green, and blue light, first made by Nichia in 1996.
White Lies (band)
White Lies are an English indie rock trio from west London (formerly Fear of Flying) of Harry McVeigh, Charles Cave, and Jack Lawrence-Brown, whose 2009 debut To Lose My Life… hit UK number one; seven albums through Night Light (2025).
White light endoscopy
White light endoscopy (WLE) is the standard endoscopic imaging technique that illuminates internal body surfaces with broadband visible white light, recording true-to-life color images of the mucosa.
White light interferometry
White light interferometry, also called coherence scanning interferometry, is a non-contact optical metrology technique using broadband light to measure 3D surface topography, step heights, and roughness.
White light scanner
A white light scanner, also known as white light scanning, is a non-contact optical instrument measuring 3D surface shape, using interferometry with nanometer precision or structured-light triangulation for part inspection.
White Light/White Heat
White Light/White Heat is the Velvet Underground's second album, released January 30, 1968 on Verve. Recorded in three days without Nico or Warhol, it closes with the 17-minute "Sister Ray" and peaked at Billboard number 199.
White Lightning (1973 film)
White Lightning (1973), also known by working titles McKluskey and McKlusky, is a Joseph Sargent action film starring Burt Reynolds as moonshine runner Gator McKlusky, shot in Arkansas, with Ned Beatty and Laura Dern's film debut.
White Lines (TV series)
White Lines is a 2020 Netflix crime drama created by Money Heist's Álex Pina, produced by Left Bank Pictures and Vancouver Media. One 10-episode bilingual English-Spanish season follows Zoe Walker (Laura Haddock) investigating her DJ brother's death in Ibiza; canceled after one season.
White lion
White lion: rare leucistic color variant of the African lion (Panthera leo), endemic to Timbavati and southern Kruger, South Africa; recessive TYR mutation, first confirmed sighting 1938, fewer than 20 in the wild, reintroduced by the Global White Lion Protection Trust.
White Lion
White Lion: American-Danish glam metal band formed 1983 in New York by Mike Tramp and Vito Bratta; double platinum 1987 album Pride with "Wait" and "When the Children Cry"; broke up 1991-92.
White Lotus Society
The White Lotus Society (白莲教) was a network of lay Buddhist sects in China that spread Pure Land and Maitreya devotion among the poor and became an anti-government force.
White magic
White magic is magic practiced for benevolent ends such as healing, protection, and blessing, opposed to black magic. The terms come from medieval Arabic texts and European grimoires; scholars debate the magic/religion boundary and in-group bias in ritual efficacy.
White Mars
White Mars is an upcoming British sci-fi thriller directed by Martin Owen, starring Lucy Hale as microbiologist Sammie and Luke Newton as Leo, set at an Antarctic research facility; filmed at Cinecittà, Rome, release date unannounced.
White Material
White Material is a 2009 drama by Claire Denis (with Marie N'Diaye), starring Isabelle Huppert as Maria Vial, a French coffee-plantation manager in an unnamed African country amid civil war; screened in competition at Venice 66.
White matter
White matter: CNS tissue of myelinated axon bundles in subcortical brain, organized into tracts (21 major tracts catalogued), supporting connectivity and cognition; distinct from gray matter, damaged in MS, mapped by diffusion MRI tractography.
White meat
White meat is pale meat such as chicken, turkey breast, or veal, classified by low myoglobin; poultry dominates nutritional research. Cohort meta-analyses show lower all-cause mortality but neutral cardiovascular effects, and pork, despite marketing, is scientifically red meat.
White Men Can't Jump
White Men Can't Jump is a 1992 American sports comedy directed by Ron Shelton, starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson as basketball hustlers in Los Angeles.
White Men Can't Jump (2023 film)
White Men Can't Jump (2023) is a Hulu sports comedy remake of the 1992 film, directed by Calmatic, starring Jack Harlow (film debut) and Sinqua Walls as streetball hustlers in Los Angeles; critics gave it 26% on Rotten Tomatoes.
White Mesa Mill
The White Mesa Mill, owned by Energy Fuels near Blanding, Utah, is the only fully licensed and operating conventional uranium mill in the United States, producing yellowcake since 1980.
White Mexicans
White Mexicans: people in Mexico identifying or perceived as white, with European-associated features. Also blanco; roughly 15-20% self-identification; shaped by colonial casta hierarchy, mestizaje ideology, and "money whitens" class effects.
White mineral oil
White mineral oil (liquid paraffin, food grade mineral oil, CAS 8012-95-1) is a highly refined, colorless mixture of saturated petroleum hydrocarbons used as a food additive, release agent, and pharmaceutical base, with viscosity-based grades and ADIs of 0.01–20 mg/kg bw per day.
White Mischief
White Mischief is a 1987 Michael Radford British crime drama, also known by its source book title by James Fox, about the unsolved 1941 Happy Valley murder of the Earl of Erroll in Kenya, starring Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, and Joss Ackland.
White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal (Белокаменные памятники Владимира и Суздаля): UNESCO serial World Heritage site, dossier 633, inscribed 1992 under criteria (i)(ii)(iv); eight white-limestone 12th–13th-century monuments in Vladimir, Suzdal, Bogolyubovo, and Kideksha totaling 14.75 ha.