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White Sands Test Facility
White Sands Test Facility (WSTF) is a NASA rocket propulsion and hazardous-testing facility near Las Cruces, New Mexico, established in 1963 to test Apollo spacecraft propulsion systems.
White savior
White savior (white saviour): a white person cast as heroic rescuer of non-white people, criticized in film, humanitarian aid, and development studies; theorized by Teju Cole as the White-Savior Industrial Complex (2012).
White savior narrative in film
White savior narrative in film: a cinematic trope where a white protagonist saves or redeems non-white characters, also called the white savior film genre, studied by Matthew Hughey across 50 films from 1987 to 2011, criticized for centering white agency and sidelining non-white characters.
White Sea (Белое море)
The White Sea (Белое море) is a semi-landlocked Russian Arctic sea connected to the Barents Sea, with seasonal ice, low salinity from river discharge, dominant tides, and the historic port of Arkhangelsk.
White Sea–Baltic Canal (Беломорско-Балтийский канал)
The White Sea–Baltic Canal, known as the Stalin Canal until 1961, is a 227 km canal in Karelia, Russia, built by Gulag prisoners in 1931–1933.
White Settlement, Texas
White Settlement is a city of about 18,000 in Tarrant County, Texas, immediately west of Fort Worth. Named for 1850s frontier farms, incorporated 1941, it grew with Carswell Air Force Base and was briefly called Liberator Village.
White Shadows in the South Seas
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) is an MGM drama directed by W. S. Van Dyke with Robert Flaherty, based on Frederick O'Brien's 1919 book, MGM's first prerecorded-soundtrack film, starring Monte Blue and Raquel Torres, Oscar winner for cinematography.
White Shaman panel
The White Shaman panel, also called the White Shaman mural, is a prehistoric rock painting in Pecos River Style on the Pecos River in southwest Texas.
White Shepherd
White Shepherd, a UKC-recognized herding breed (April 14, 1999) descended from white-coated German Shepherds; distinct from the white German Shepherd and the FCI-recognized Berger Blanc Suisse (White Swiss Shepherd).
White Ship disaster
The White Ship disaster was the sinking off Barfleur, Normandy, in 1120 that drowned William Adelin, heir of King Henry I, and about 300 nobles, triggering a succession crisis.
White slavery
White slavery, also known as the white slave trade, was a late nineteenth and early twentieth century moral panic about organized forced prostitution of white women.
White Snake (白蛇：缘起) (film)
White Snake (白蛇：缘起) is a 2019 Chinese computer-animated fantasy romance film from Light Chaser Animation, a prequel to the Legend of the White Snake folk tale.
White Snake: Afloat (白蛇：浮生)
White Snake: Afloat (白蛇：浮生) is a 2024 Chinese 3D animated fantasy romance by Light Chaser Animation, the third White Snake film, retelling the Xu Xian legend in Southern Song Hangzhou; it earned about 425 million yuan and opened in Japan in 2026.
White South African refugee program
White South African refugee program: US policy created by Trump's February 2025 executive order granting refugee status primarily to Afrikaners; 16,287 of 16,292 FY2026 admissions were South African, based on disputed "white genocide" claims.
White South Africans
White South Africans are South Africans of primarily European descent, mainly Afrikaners (about 2.7 million, Afrikaans-speaking) and English speakers, about 4.5 million people or 7.3% of the 2022 census population, declining from 11% in 1996.
White spirit
White spirit, also known as mineral spirits or mineral turpentine, is a clear, colorless petroleum distillate solvent introduced in 1885, used to thin oil-based paints, clean brushes, and degrease.
White sponge nevus
White sponge nevus (Cannon's disease, hereditary mucosal leukokeratosis) is a rare autosomal dominant KRT4/KRT13 disorder causing benign white, spongy oral mucosal patches, usually appearing in childhood, affecting under 1 in 200,000 people.
White spot syndrome
White spot syndrome, or white spot disease, is a highly lethal viral disease of farmed shrimp caused by white spot syndrome virus (WSSV, genus Whispovirus), first reported in China in 1992, causing 80–100% mortality within days and billions in losses.
White Squall (film)
White Squall is a 1996 American adventure drama film directed by Ridley Scott, based on the 1961 sinking of the school sailing ship Albatross and starring Jeff Bridges.
White Star Line
The White Star Line, formally the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, was a British shipping line best known for operating RMS Titanic, founded in 1845 and merged with Cunard in 1934.
White stork
White stork (Ciconia ciconia), a large red-billed wading bird breeding across Europe, North Africa, and western Asia; IUCN Least Concern with 526,000-588,000 mature individuals, increasing trend, and a shift toward residency at Iberian landfills.
White sturgeon
White sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus), also called Pacific or Columbia sturgeon, is North America's largest freshwater fish, native from Ensenada, Mexico to Alaska; a CESA candidate species in California with declining populations.
White Sun of the Desert (Белое солнце пустыни)
White Sun of the Desert (Белое солнце пустыни), 1969 Soviet "Eastern" by Vladimir Motyl: Red Army soldier Sukhov guards a bandit's harem in the Civil War desert; 34 million viewers, cosmonaut good-luck film.
White supremacy
White supremacy: the belief in white racial superiority and the systems built on it, from colonial slave codes, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, and apartheid to modern alt-right and white nationalist movements and hate-crime trends.
White Supremacy Culture
White Supremacy Culture is Tema Okun's 1999 essay, updated in 2021, listing 15 organizational characteristics such as perfectionism, urgency, and objectivity that it argues reproduce white supremacy in institutions.
White supremacy in the United States
White supremacy in the United States is the ideology of white superiority and its supporting institutions, traced from the 1790 Naturalization Act through Reconstruction, the Klan, Jim Crow, and modern extremist violence.
White tail disease
White tail disease (WTD), infection with Macrobrachium rosenbergii nodavirus (MrNV) with associated XSV, is a WOAH-listed viral disease of giant river prawn hatcheries, whitening abdominal muscle and killing up to 100 percent of postlarvae.
White tea
White tea (白茶) is a lightly oxidized Camellia sinensis tea made by withering and drying only, the least processed of China's six major tea types. Grades run Silver Needle, White Peony, Gong Mei, Shou Mei, mostly from Fujian's Fuding and Zhenghe.
White Teeth
White Teeth, Zadie Smith's 2000 debut novel (Hamish Hamilton), follows the Jones, Iqbal, and Chalfen families in multicultural Willesden, London; it won the Guardian First Book Award, James Tait Black, and Whitbread First Novel awards.
White Temple
The White Temple of Anu is a late-4th-millennium BC mudbrick temple coated in white plaster, standing on the Anu ziggurat at Uruk (Warka), Iraq, and uncovered in 1930.