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White Motor Company
White Motor Company of Cleveland, Ohio, began making steam automobiles in 1900, switched to trucks after World War I, and went bankrupt in 1980 before Volvo absorbed it in 1981.
White movement (Белое движение)
White movement (Белое движение): heterogeneous anti-Bolshevik military-political force of the Russian Civil War 1917-1923, led by Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich, and Wrangel, with tricolor symbolism and the non-predetermination doctrine.
White Mtn. Peak
White Mountain Peak (Tos-toya), California fourteener in the White Mountains, Mono County; about 14,245-14,252 ft, ~7,193 ft prominence, 67.4 mi isolation, highest point of the range and county, with a UC research summit hut.
White Namibians
White Namibians: citizens of European descent from German colonial and South African settlement eras; about 1.8% of the population in the 2023 census, speaking Afrikaans, German, or English.
White nationalism
White nationalism: ideology seeking a white-defined political community, ethno-state, and separation from non-whites; distinct framing from white supremacy; US surveys estimate 4.9% adult support, 13.5% among white men 18–29.
White nigger
"White nigger" is a racist phrase in which the slur "nigger" is applied to white people, attested by 1838 and used against Irish immigrants, poor whites, and other groups.
White Night riots
White Night riots: May 21, 1979 San Francisco unrest after Dan White's voluntary manslaughter verdict for killing Harvey Milk and George Moscone; Castro march on City Hall, police retaliation, and lasting LGBTQ political impact.
White Nights (1985 film)
White Nights (1985) is a Taylor Hackford Cold War drama starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines as defectors plotting an escape from the Soviet Union; Columbia Pictures release, $41.5M gross, Oscar-winning song "Say You, Say Me".
White Nights (short story)
White Nights (Белые ночи) is Dostoevsky's 1848 sentimental novella from Otechestvennye zapiski, subtitled "From the Recollections of a Dreamer": four Petersburg nights between a lonely Dreamer and Nastenka, adapted into twelve films including Visconti's and Bresson's.
White Nile
The White Nile is the longer Nile tributary, rising at Lake Victoria and flowing through the Sudd wetlands to join the Blue Nile at Khartoum, contributing about 28% of Nile discharge with steady year-round flow.
White noise
White noise, also called a white noise process, is a random signal with a flat power spectral density, meaning equal power per unit of bandwidth at every frequency.
White Noise (2022 film)
White Noise (2022) is Noah Baumbach's Netflix adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, opening Venice and NYFF, scoring 64% on Rotten Tomatoes and 66 on Metacritic.
White Noise (novel)
White Noise is Don DeLillo's 1985 National Book Award-winning eighth novel about Jack Gladney, a Hitler Studies professor, his wife Babette, an airborne toxic event, and the experimental drug Dylar; originally titled Panasonic.
White Oak Yield Spectrum
White Oak Yield Spectrum is a family of Luxembourg-domiciled private credit funds managed by White Oak Global Advisors of San Francisco, which makes senior-secured loans to non-sponsored lower-middle-market companies.
White Obelisk
The White Obelisk of Ashurnasirpal I is an Assyrian limestone obelisk in the British Museum, carved with reliefs of a king campaigning, hunting, and receiving tribute.
White Oleander (film)
White Oleander is a 2002 American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky, adapted from Janet Fitch's 1999 novel, starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Alison Lohman, Robin Wright Penn, and Renée Zellweger; released by Warner Bros. on October 11, 2002, grossing $16.3 million.
White Palace (film)
White Palace is a 1990 American romantic drama directed by Luis Mandoki, starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader, adapted from Glenn Savan's novel, released by Universal Pictures October 19, 1990, 103 minutes, rated R.
White panther
White panther: informal term for a white big cat (leopard, jaguar, lion, or tiger) with leucism or albinism, counterpart of black panther; not a species, and captive white tigers descend from Mohan, captured in Rewa, India, in 1951.
White Panther Party
White Panther Party: anti-racist white American political collective founded November 1968 in Michigan by John Sinclair, Leni Sinclair, and Pun Plamondon to support the Black Panther Party; dissolved 1971.
White paper
White paper: an authoritative government policy document stating proposals for action, often after a green paper consultation; used in UK, EU, and Nordic policymaking, and also for research syntheses.
White Paper of 1939
British policy statement of 17 May 1939 on Mandatory Palestine: capped Jewish immigration at 75,000 over five years, restricted Jewish land purchase, declared the Jewish National Home fulfilled, and promised an independent binational Palestine state within ten years.
White Pass
White Pass names two Pacific Northwest passes: a 4,500-foot US 12 crossing of the Washington Cascades kept open year-round, and the 2,865-foot Klondike gold rush trail summit from Skagway, Alaska, into Yukon, crossed by the White Pass & Yukon Route railway.
White Peacock
White peacock: an all-white leucistic variant of the Indian Blue Peafowl (Pavo cristatus), not a separate species; blue-eyed, about 1-in-1000 mutation, captive-bred worldwide; also names a Florida butterfly and a Beijing art market.
White people
White people: a socially defined racial category used in law and censuses, historically tied to US naturalization law from 1790, with boundaries that vary by country and lack biological validity per National Academies genetics findings.
White phosphorus
White phosphorus, also known as yellow phosphorus, is a highly reactive, waxy allotrope of phosphorus made of P4 tetrahedra that ignites spontaneously in air at about 30 °C and is stored under water.
White piedra
White piedra is an asymptomatic superficial fungal infection of hair shafts caused by Trichosporon species, mainly T. inkin, forming soft white nodules; treated by shaving plus 2% ketoconazole shampoo, distinguished from black piedra caused by Piedraia hortae.
White Plains, New York
White Plains, New York: county seat of Westchester County, about 25 miles north of Manhattan. Founded 1683, city since 1916; 2020 population 59,559; site of the 1776 Battle of White Plains and a major Westchester business and retail hub.
White platelet syndrome
White platelet syndrome (WPS) is a rare inherited platelet disorder causing low platelet counts, large platelets, reduced reactivity, and prolonged bleeding, first described in a Minnesota family in 2004.
White Pony
White Pony is a 2000 album by the California band Deftones, their third studio album and first Grammy winner, known for the single "Change (In the House of Flies)".
White poppy
White poppy: pacifist remembrance symbol first made in 1933 by the Co-operative Women's Guild, distributed since 1934 by the Peace Pledge Union; remembers all war victims, military and civilian, and commits to peace, alongside or instead of the red poppy.