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White power
White power is a white supremacist slogan and chant expressing the ideology that white people should dominate non-white people, popularized by American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell.
White power music
White power music, also called Rock Against Communism (RAC), hate rock, or White Noise, is racist far-right music that emerged in Britain in the late 1970s opposing Rock Against Racism, centered on Skrewdriver, and serves recruitment, fundraising, and networking for white supremacist movements.
White power skinhead
White power skinhead: racist, neo-Nazi offshoot of skinhead subculture, also called racist skinhead, distinct from SHARP skins and original 1960s skins; emerged late 1970s Britain, spread via white power music, now declining.
White pride
White pride is a slogan used predominantly by white supremacist and white nationalist groups, tied to the Klan, Christian Identity, and neo-Nazi movements, and to slogans like the 14 Words, White Lives Matter, and It's okay to be white.
White privilege
White privilege: unearned social and institutional advantages held by white people in racially stratified societies. Popularized by Peggy McIntosh's 1988 Wellesley paper, anticipated by Du Bois's 1935 "psychological wage"; studied empirically and contested politically.
White pudding
White pudding is an Irish and Scottish sausage of pork, oatmeal, suet, and seasonings, like black pudding without blood; a full-breakfast staple also deep-fried in Scottish chip shops, with commercial fat of 6.0–22.4% and sodium averaging 867 mg/100 g.
White pulp
White pulp, also called the Malpighian body of the spleen, is the lymphoid tissue surrounding the central arteries where adaptive immune responses to blood-borne antigens are initiated.
White Pyramid of Amenemhat II
The White Pyramid of Amenemhat II is the ruined pyramid of Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh Amenemhat II at Dahshur, near Cairo, reduced to white rubble by ancient limestone quarrying.
White Rabbit
White Rabbit: the waistcoated, pocket-watch-carrying anthropomorphic rabbit who opens Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and leads Alice down the rabbit hole; distinguished from the Australian art gallery and the White Rabbit timing protocol of the same name.
White Rabbit (song)
White Rabbit: 1967 psychedelic rock song by Jefferson Airplane, written by Grace Slick, from Surrealistic Pillow; Alice in Wonderland lyrics, Boléro crescendo, first Top 40 drug song.
White Rabbit (大白兔奶糖) (candy)
White Rabbit (大白兔奶糖) is a chewy Chinese milk candy made by Shanghai Guan Sheng Yuan, launched in 1959 for the PRC's 10th anniversary from the 1943 ABC Mickey Mouse candy, famed for the seven-candies-equal-a-glass-of-milk slogan, 1972 Nixon state-gift role, edible rice-paper wrapper, and the 2008 melamine recall.
White Rabbit Project
White Rabbit Project is a 2016 Netflix reality series in which former MythBusters build-team hosts Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, and Grant Imahara investigate and rank pop culture, science, and history legends across ten episodes.
White Rajahs
The White Rajahs were the three English Brooke family rulers of Sarawak, Borneo: James (1841-1868), Charles (1868-1917), and Vyner (1917-1946). Granted the Raj by Brunei, they expanded the state, founded the Sarawak Museum, and ceded it to Britain in 1946.
White Reaper
White Reaper is a Louisville, Kentucky rock band formed in 2012, known for garage punk with power pop hooks. Albums include White Reaper Does It Again, The World's Best American Band, You Deserve Love, and Only Slightly Empty.
White Revolution
White Revolution (Enghelab-e Sefid), or Revolution of the Shah and the People: Mohammad Reza Shah's 1963 Iranian reform program of land redistribution, women's suffrage, Literacy and Health Corps, ratified by plebiscite, opposed by Khomeini.
White rhinoceros
White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum), African grazing rhino with southern (simum, ~15,752, Near Threatened) and northern (cottoni, functionally extinct, two females) subspecies; recovered from ~20-50 animals in 1885 via Hluhluwe-iMfolozi protection and translocation.
White rice
White rice (milled or polished rice) is rice with hull and bran removed, a staple for over half the world's population; GI 73±4, US-enriched with iron, niacin, thiamin, folic acid, stores 25–30 years.
White River Junction, Vermont
White River Junction is a village in the town of Hartford, Vermont, at the confluence of the White and Connecticut Rivers, once a major railroad junction and now an arts hub.
White River National Wildlife Refuge
White River National Wildlife Refuge is a federally protected bottomland hardwood forest and waterfowl sanctuary in the White River floodplain in east-central Arkansas, established in 1935.
White River War
The White River War, also called the Ute War or Meeker Massacre, was an 1879 conflict between Ute bands and the US Army in northwestern Colorado.
White Rock Wind Farm
White Rock Wind Farm is a wind farm in the New England Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, near Glen Innes, whose operational Stage 1 produces 175 MW.
White Rock, British Columbia
White Rock, British Columbia: small city (pop. 21,939 in 2021) on Semiahmoo Bay beside Surrey, incorporated 1957, named for a white beach boulder, known for its 470-metre 1914 wooden pier and 2.2-km promenade.
White Room
"White Room" (also ホワイトルーム) is a 1968 psychedelic rock song by Cream, written by Jack Bruce and poet Pete Brown for Wheels of Fire. Known for its 5/4 intro, wah-wah guitar, and No. 6 US Billboard peak; not a film or other namesake.
White Rose
White Rose (Weiße Rose): Munich student resistance group, 1942–43, founded by Hans Scholl with Sophie Scholl, Schmorell, Probst, Graf, and Professor Huber; six anti-Nazi leaflets, graffiti actions, 1943 executions.
White Rose (2024 film)
White Rose (வைட் ரோஸ்) is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language psychological thriller film directed by K Rajashekar, starring Kayal Anandhi and R. K. Suresh, released on 5 April 2024.
White Rose Field
White Rose Field is an offshore oil field in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, discovered in 1984, with first oil in November 2005.
White Rose of York
White Rose of York (rose argent): white heraldic rose adopted in the 14th century as the badge of the royal House of York, Yorkist emblem in the Wars of the Roses, later the symbol of Yorkshire.
White Sands
White Sands (1992) is an American neo-noir thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Daniel Pyne, starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Mickey Rourke, and Samuel L. Jackson; a New Mexico sheriff impersonates a dead man with $500,000 and enters an FBI sting.
White Sands Missile Range
White Sands Missile Range, originally the White Sands Proving Ground, is a US Army rocket and weapons testing range in southern New Mexico, activated in 1945.
White Sands National Park
White Sands National Park, formerly White Sands National Monument, protects the world's largest gypsum dunefield in New Mexico's Tularosa Basin and became the 62nd US national park in 2019.