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Whitefish Lake
Whitefish Lake is a 3,328-acre oligotrophic lake in Flathead County, Montana, beside the town of Whitefish; distinct from Minnesota's Whitefish Chain lake. Seven miles long, city water supply, monitored by the Whitefish Lake Institute since 2007.
Whitefish, Montana
Whitefish, Montana: resort and railroad city in Flathead County near Glacier National Park and Whitefish Mountain Resort; founded 1903 as a Great Northern Railway division point, nicknamed Stumptown, population 9,358 (2025 estimate).
Whitefly
Aleyrodidae (whiteflies): a Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha family, sole member of Aleyrodoidea; about 1,556 species in 161 genera; phloem-feeding crop pests and virus vectors such as Bemisia tabaci and Trialeurodes vaporariorum.
Whitehall
Whitehall is a street in Westminster, London, and the metonym for the UK central government and civil service. Built on the site of Henry VIII's Whitehall Palace, destroyed by fire in 1698, it is lined with listed ministries including Horse Guards, the Treasury, and the Foreign Office.
Whitehall Mystery
Whitehall Mystery: unsolved 1888 London murder in which a headless female torso was found in a vault of the new New Scotland Yard construction site, with an arm in the Thames at Pimlico; victim unidentified, verdict Found Dead.
Whitehall Study
Whitehall Study: series of British civil servant cohort studies (Whitehall I from 1967, Whitehall II from 1985, 10,308 participants) showing a steep employment-grade gradient in mortality, coronary heart disease, and cognitive ageing; ongoing at UCL.
Whitehaven
Whitehaven, Cumbria: a planned Georgian port town founded on coal exports to Ireland, once second only to London in tonnage, now a regeneration focus facing the Bransty Tunnel rail closure and orange harbour water.
Whitehaven Beach
Whitehaven Beach: 7 km of 98% pure white silica sand on Whitsunday Island, Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia; boat-access-only national park beach, Ngaro sea country, named world's best beach for 2025 by Lonely Planet.
Whitehaven Coal
Whitehaven Coal is an Australian coal mining company producing metallurgical and thermal coal, with six mines in New South Wales and Queensland and exports sold mainly to Asia.
Whitehead Institute
The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is an independent nonprofit research institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, affiliated with MIT, founded in 1982 by Edwin C. Whitehead.
Whitehead problem
The Whitehead problem, asked by J.H.C. Whitehead around 1950, asks whether every abelian group with Ext(A, Z) = 0 is free; Shelah proved it independent of ZFC in 1974.
Whitehead's lemma (Lie algebra)
Whitehead's lemma is a pair of theorems of J. H. C. Whitehead stating that the first and second cohomology groups of a finite-dimensional semisimple Lie algebra vanish.
Whitehorse
Whitehorse is the capital and largest city of Yukon, Canada, on the Yukon River; also called the Wilderness City. Population about 33,000 city, 38,490 area (2025); capital since 1953; economy led by public administration.
Whitehorse Liquidity Partners
Whitehorse Liquidity Partners, doing business as Dawson Partners, is a Toronto private equity firm founded in 2015 by Yann Robard that provides structured liquidity solutions.
Whiteleg shrimp
Whiteleg shrimp (Penaeus vannamei, Litopenaeus vannamei), Pacific white shrimp, native to Mexico to Peru, is the world's dominant farmed shrimp, farmed extensively to super-intensively, with SPF broodstock, biofloc systems, and WOAH-listed viral diseases.
Whitelist
A whitelist, also known as an allowlist, is a list of entities such as hosts, email addresses, or applications authorized to be present or active on a system.
Whiteman Air Force Base
Whiteman Air Force Base is a US Air Force base in Johnson County, Missouri, home of the 509th Bomb Wing and its B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.
Whitemoss Roman auxiliary fort
Whitemoss Roman auxiliary fort, also called Bishopton Roman Fort, is an Antonine-period Roman fort (c. 140-160 AD) on Whitemoss Farm, Renfrewshire, Scotland; discovered from cropmarks in 1949, it anchored the western defences of the Antonine Wall and is scheduled monument SM1652.
Whiteness studies
Whiteness studies: interdisciplinary field, from the late 1980s and 1990s, examining white racial identity as a social construction, white privilege, and whiteness's role in reproducing racism; includes critiques, historiography, and later quantitative and health research.
Whitening filter
A whitening filter is a linear filter that converts colored noise into flat white noise, letting receivers such as the whitened matched filter operate under their white-noise assumptions.
Whitening transformation
The whitening transformation (also called sphering) is a linear transformation used in signal processing and deep learning to convert a random vector into one with uncorrelated components and unit variance.
Whiteout (2009 film)
Whiteout is a 2009 Antarctic murder mystery thriller directed by Dominic Sena, starring Kate Beckinsale as a U.S. Marshal solving Antarctica's first homicide before winter sets in.
Whiteout Survival
Whiteout Survival is a free-to-play mobile 4X strategy game by Century Games set in a glacial apocalypse, launched worldwide in 2023 and passing $1 billion in revenue by 2024.
Whites Bridge
Whites Bridge, alternatively White's Bridge, is a Brown truss covered bridge over the Flat River near Smyrna, Michigan, built in 1869 and destroyed by arson in 2013.
Whiteshell Provincial Park
Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba's first provincial park (established 1961 or 1962 by source), is a 2,729 km2 Natural Park on the Precambrian Shield with petroforms, the Mantario Trail, and about 200 lakes.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is the British hard rock band founded in 1978 by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale; its blues rock era gave way to MTV-era success with Slide It In and the eight-million-selling 1987 album before Coverdale's 2025 retirement.
Whitesnake (album)
The 1987 album Whitesnake transformed the British hard rock band into international superstars. It achieved double platinum status with hits like "Here I Go Again."
Whitesnake discography
Whitesnake discography: recorded output of David Coverdale's British hard rock band, formed 1978 after his White Snake solo album. 13 studio albums from Trouble (1978) to Flesh & Blood (2019), plus the 8x platinum 1987 album and later reissue campaigns.
Whitespace (programming language)
Whitespace is an esoteric, stack-based programming language created in 2003 by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris, where spaces, tabs, and line feeds are the only meaningful characters.
Whitespace character
Whitespace character: any character providing horizontal or vertical space, such as space, tab, and line-ending characters. Distinguished by Unicode's Zs category, White_Space property, and narrower ASCII whitespace and ECMAScript sets.