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White Conduit Club The White Conduit Club, although short-lived, was perhaps the most significant club in cricket history for it bridged the gulf between the rural and rustic Hambledon era and the new, modern and metropolitan era of MCC and Lord's, the two entities that it spawned.
White dwarf A white dwarf is an astronomical object which is produced when a star of low or medium mass dies. These stars are not heavy enough to generate the core temperatures required to fuse carbon in nucleosynthesis reactions.
White Dawns White Dawns (Macedonian: Бели мугри, Beli mugri) is a collection of poems by the famous Macedonian writer Kočo Racin (Кочо Рацин), published in 1939 in Samobor, near Zagreb, Croatia. This is the third collection of poems published in Macedonian language, after Venko Markovski's Folk Sorrows (Народни бигори) and The Fire (Огинот), published in 1938.
White Deer Grotto Academy The White Deer Grotto Academy (, sometimes translated as White Deer Cave Academy or White Deer Hollow Academy) was located at the foot of Wulou Peak in Lushan, now in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province. It was one of the Four Great Academies of China.
White Defence League The White Defence League was a British extreme right-wing political group. Formed in 1958 it was a splinter group from the League of Empire Loyalists, formed from those who resented the LEL's refusal to contest elections and its strong links to the Conservative Party.
White Diamond (Kylie Minogue song) White Diamond is the first single from Australian singer-songwriter Kylie Minogue from her 10th studio album. Minogue wrote the song with Scissor Sisters in the early 2006 during the recover from her breast cancer.
White Drin The White Drin (Albanian: Drini i Bardhë; Serbian: Beli Drim, Cyrillic: Бели Дрим) is a river in Kosovo (a Serbian province under UN administration) and northern Albania, a 175 km-long headstream of the Drin.
White Dwarf (magazine) White Dwarf is a magazine published by British games manufacturer Games Workshop. Initially dedicated to a variety of role-playing games, the magazine is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.
White elephant A white elephant is a supposedly valuable possession whose upkeep exceeds its usefulness, and it is therefore a liability. The term derives from the sacred white elephants kept by traditional Southeast Asian monarchs in Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
White elephant gift exchange The White elephant gift exchange (also called Yankee Swap or Dirty Santa) is a popular party game played during the Christmas season in the United States. The objective of the game is for guests of a party to each contribute one gift to the game, and ultimately each guest walks away with one different gift from the game.
White Earth Band of Ojibwe The White Earth Band of Ojibwe, also known as the White Earth Nation or Gaa-waakabiganikaag Anishinaabeg, is a Native American Tribe located in northwestern Minnesota. The tribe's land-based home is the White Earth Indian Reservation.
White Earth River (North Dakota) The White Earth River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 50 mi (80 km) long, in northwestern North Dakota in the United States. It rises in the plains of southeastern Divide County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) east of Wildrose.
White Emigre A White émigré (in Russian Beloemigrant, or Белоэмигрант), or White Russian, is a term used to describe a Russian who had emigrated from Russia in the wake of the Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War.
White Ernz The White Ernz (Luxembourgish: Wäiss Iernz, French: Ernz blanche, German: Weiße Ernz) is a river flowing through Luxembourg, joining the Sauer at Reisdorf. It flows through the towns of Larochette and Ermsdorf.
White feather The single White feather as a symbol of cowardice derives from cockfighting and the belief that a cockerel sporting a white feather in its tail is likely to be a poor fighter. Pure-breed gamecocks don't show white feathers, so its presence indicates that the cockerel is an inferior cross-breed.
White flight White flight is a colloquial term for the demographic trend of upper and middle class Americans (predominantly white) moving away from inner cities (predominantly non-white), finding new homes in nearby suburbs or even moving to new locales entirely. A major cause of white flight in United States cities was redlining, the practice of denying or increasing the cost of services, such as banking or insurance, to residents in certain, often racially and economically determined areas such as inner-city neighborhoodsFrom 'black-balling' to 'marking': the suburban origin of redlining in Canada, 1930s–1950sRedlining, and Neighborhood Appraisals in Philadelphia.
White Fang (1991 film) The 1991 movie White Fang starred Ethan Hawke and Klaus Maria Brandauer and was directed by Randal Kleiser. Based on the novel White Fang by Jack London, it tells the story of the friendship between a Yukon gold hunter and a cross-breed dog/wolf.
White Fathers The missionary society known as "White Fathers" (Pères Blancs in French), after their dress, is a Roman Catholic Society of Apostolic Life founded in 1868 by the first Archbishop of Algiers, later Cardinal Lavigerie, as the Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa of Algeria, and is also now known as the Society of the Missionaries of Africa. Members of the society use the post-nominal initials M.
White Finland White Finland is an often-used term referring to one of the two parties in the Finnish Civil War (January to May 1918), the other one being 'the Reds', or the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. The Whites were supported by the White Guards, Jäger troops and the political right.
White Fir White Fir (Abies concolor) is a fir native to the mountains of western North America, occurring at altitudes of 900-3,400 m. It is a medium to large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 25-60 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 2 m.
White Flag (band) White Flag is an American punk band based in Los Angeles, California. Its members include Pat Fear - guitar, vocals; Doug Graves - bass, vocals; Kim Crimson - guitar, organ, vocals; El Swe - guitar, vocals; Victor M.
White Fluffy Clouds White Fluffy Clouds (ISBN 0974512001) is a book by Brandon Boyd of Incubus fame, compiled with artwork, poetry, insights, reflections and ramblings, candid portraits, and a general celebration of things interesting. Very hard to get hold of.
White Front White Front was a chain of discount stores prevalent throughout Southern California and the western United States from the 1955 through the mid-1970s. They were especially noted for the architecture of their store fronts which was an enormous, sweeping archway with the store name spelled out in individual letters across the top.
White gaura The white gaura (Gaura lindheimeri) is a flowering plant that grows in Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico. While some varieties are used by gardeners, others are considered roadside weeds in the southeastern part of the United States.
White grouper The white grouper (Epinephelus aeneus) is a species of grouper living in the subtropical eastern Atlantic Ocean and the southern Mediterranean Sea. It can reach a maximum length of 120 cm and a maximum weight of 25 kg.
White guilt White guilt refers to feelings of guilt said to be experienced by some people of European descent when they consider present or past wrongs committed by their ancestors against natives of conquered and colonised lands. It is usually used with regard to White Americans and Black Americans.
White Genocide White Genocide (Armenian: Ճերմակ or սպիտակ ջարդ, Jermag or Spitag Chart) is the term Western Armenians use to describe assimilation in the West. Armenians were forcibly deported from their homeland in Anatolia during the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1918, and never allowed to return.
White Ground Technique The White Ground Technique of vase painting was developed in the late 6th century BCE in Athens. It consists of a white slip of the local calcareous clay applied to a terracota vase and then painted, in the later development of the technique a coloured washed was often applied to the clothing or flesh of the figures depicted.
White Guard (Finland) The White Guards is one translation of the Finnish term Suojeluskunta (plural: Suojeluskunnat, Finland-Swedish: SkyddskĂĄr) that has received many different translations to English, for instance: Security Guard, Civil Guard, National Guard, White Militia, Defence Corps, Protection Guard, Protection Corps and Protection Militia.
White Guardian The White Guardian is a character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was played by Cyril Luckham, with the exception of a vocal message in The Stones of Blood which was performed by Gerald Cross.
White hake The white hake or mud hake, Urophycis tenuis, is a phycid hake of the genus Urophycis, found in the northwest Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Newfoundland, at depths of about 1,000 metres. It grows to about 4 ft (1.
White hand sign The white hand sign is a medical sign observed as a visible whitening of skin on the hand when the subject elevates the hands above the shoulder girdle with fingers pointing to the ceiling and palms facing forward. It results from this change in position causing a compression of the subclavian artery and temporary loss of circulation, as often occurs in patients with thoracic outlet syndrome, a complex syndrome involving the compression of various nerves and blood vessels between the axilla (armpit) and the base of the neck.
White hat A white hat hacker, also rendered as ethical hacker, is, in the realm of information technology, a person who is ethically opposed to the abuse of computer systems. Realization that the Internet now represents human voices from around the world has made the defense of its integrity an important pastime for many.
White hole In astrophysics, a white hole is a postulated celestial body that is the time reversal of a black hole. While a black hole acts as a point mass that attracts and absorbs any nearby matter, a white hole acts as a point mass that repels or (perhaps) even ejects matter.
White Hall High School White Hall High School is a public high school which serves students in grades ten through twelve and located in White Hall, Jefferson County, Arkansas. White Hall is the only high school in the White Hall School District.
White Hall School District White Hall School District is a public school district serving the communities of White Hall and Redfield within Jefferson County, Arkansas. White Hall School District employs approximately 400 faculty and staff to provide educational programs for students ranging from kindergarten through twelve grade.
White Hall, Virginia White Hall is an unincorporated community in northern Frederick County, Virginia astride Apple Pie Ridge (922 feet/281 meters). White Hall is located at the crossroads of Apple Pie Ridge Road (VA 739) with Green Spring and White Hall (VA 671) Roads.
White Hand Gang The White Hand Gang was a collection of the various Irish gangs operating on the New York Brooklyn and Red Hook waterfront from the early 1900s to 1925 organizing against the growing dominance of the Italian Black Hand (known as Le Mano Nera). The gang primarily collected tributes from incoming and outgoing barge and warf owners as well as forced payment of longshoreman.
White Hart The White Hart ("hart" is an old word for stag) was the personal badge of Richard II, who derived it from the arms of his mother, Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent", heiress of Edmund of Woodstock. In the Wilton Diptych (National Gallery, London), which is the earliest authentic contemporary portrait of an English king, Richard II wears a gold and enamelled white hart jewel, and even the angels surrounding the Virgin Mary all wear white hart badges.
White Hart Lane railway station White Hart Lane Station in Tottenham was originally a station on the Stoke Newington & Edmonton Railway: it opened on 22 July 1872. It is currently operated by 'one' and is in Travelcard Zone 3, on the Seven Sisters branch of the Lea Valley Lines.
White Heat White Heat is a 1949 crime film starring James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Wycherly, John Archer, and Steve Cochran. Directed by Raoul Walsh, it is considered one of the great gangster films and a classic film noir.
White Heat (album) Released in 1982, White Heat was, unusually, only released in the United States and Canada, Dusty Springfield's only record to never be released in her native Britain (until its release there on CD in 2002). It was released so due to a change in record labels; Twentieth Century Fox Records (Springfield's label) was bought and she was switched to the Casablanca Records label in the US, with no distribution in the UK.
White Helmets The White Helmets Commission (Spanish: ComisiĂłn Cascos Blancos) is a humanitarian aid and peacekeeping agency based on an initiative launched by Argentina in 1993. The organization was presented to the international community at the United Nations General Assembly in 1994.
White Hen Pantry White Hen Pantry (known as White Hen in the midwest) is a Lombard, Illinois-based chain of approximately 261 predominantly franchisee-owned convenience stores located in the greater Chicago and Boston / New England areas. Most of the stores are open 24 hours and offer an array of standard convenience store fare such as coffees, cappuccinos, frozen and dry goods and toiletries.
White Highlands The term White Highlands describes an area in the central uplands of Kenya, so-called because, during the period of British Colonialism, white immigrants settled there in considerable numbers particularly to take advantage of the good soils and growing conditions, as well as the cool climate. The British East Africa colony, founded in 1905, encouraged British immigration and by the time the Kenya Colony came into being in 1920 about 10,000 British had settled in the area.
White Hispanic White Hispanic is a term that refers to those who are descended from the original peoples of Spain, and their descendants in Latin America. It may also be used as a word to describe people living in Latin America who have other European heritages, such as German, French, Italian, etc.
White Horde The White Horde (, , Turkish:Ak Ordu/Orda) was one of the khanates (within the Mongol Empire) formed around 1226, after the death of Genghis Khan and subsequent division of his empire. It was the western constituent part of the Golden Horde (the eastern part was the Blue Horde).
White Horse Bridge The White Horse Bridge is the name of the new (2006) footbridge that crosses Wembley Stadium railway station leading up to Wembley Stadium. It is named after a grey (though appearing white in old black-and-white photographs and films) Metropolitan Police horse, named 'Billy', that was used to restore order following a pitch invasion in the 1923 FA Cup final, the first to be held at the old Wembley Stadium.
White Horse Pagoda The White Horse Pagoda (Chinese 白马塔, pinyin bai ma ta) was possibly the first pagoda built in China proper, and certainly the first Chinese pagoda in the sense that it was built by official decree. Built in 67, it was constructed of wood as part of the White Horse Temple in Luoyang.
White Horse Pub The White Horse Pub is a small public house situated in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton Village. It is known as one of the smallest pubs in Liverpool and was the first in the area of Merseyside to adopt a complete No-Smoking policy within the premises.
White Horse rapids The White Horse rapids were rapids on the Yukon River in Canada's Yukon Territory, named for their supposed resemblance to the mane of a charging white horse. The rapids formed a major navigational obstacle on the Yukon River during the Klondike Gold Rush, and lent their name to the nearby town of Whitehorse.
White Horse Stone The Upper and Lower White Horse Stones are names given to two sarsen megaliths on Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the English county of Kent. They are generally considered to be fragmentary examples of the Neolithic chamber tomb group known as the Medway megaliths.
White Hot (album) White Hot is the fourth album by the rock band Angel. After the release of On Earth As It Is In Heaven, bass player Mickie Jones left and was replaced by Felix Robinson who would be the bass player until Angel's breakup in 1981.
White Hot Odyssey White Hot Odyssey is an American band created in 2002, headed by Steve Perry, lead singer of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies along with the Daddies' guitarist Jason Moss and Eugene, Oregon musicians Mark Rogers, Ed Cole and Jivan Valpey. Steve Perry explains that he had always wanted to do a project similar to this since he was a child listening to performers such as The Stooges, New York Dolls, The Rolling Stones, The Small Faces, Sweet and David Bowie.
White Hot Peach White Hot Peach is the Primitive Radio Gods' follow-up to Rocket, and was released on October 24, 2000. Quite different in sound from the debut album, White Hot Peach features much less of the sampling that made the band famous.
White House (NJT station) White House is a New Jersey Transit railroad station on the Raritan Valley Line, in the village of White House Station in Readington, New Jersey. The station is one the east side of Main Street in the center and the station building has subsequently been turned into a branch library for the Hunterdon County Library system.
White House Communications Agency The White House Communications Agency (WHCA), originally known as the White House Signal Detachment (WHSD), was officially formed by the War Department on 25 March 1942 under President Roosevelt. The WHSD was created to provide normal and emergency communications requirements in support of the President of the United States.
White House Communications Director The White House Director of Communications is part of the senior staff of the President of the United States, and is responsible for developing and promoting the President's agenda. The director, along with his or her staff, work on speeches such as the inaugural address and the State of the Union Address.
White House Conference on Aging The White House Conference on Aging is a once-a-decade conference sponsored by the Executive Office of the President of the United States make policy recommendations to the President and Congress regarding the aged. The goals of the Conference is to promote the dignity, health, and economic security of older Americans.
White House Conference on Civil Rights The White House Conference on Civil Rights was held June 1 and 2, 1966. The aim of the conference was build on the momentum of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in addressing discrimination against African-Americans.
White House Correspondents' Association The White House Correspondents' Association is an organization of journalists who cover the President of the United States. The association works with the presidential administration on issues regarding coverage and logistics.
White House Farm White House Farm, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Jefferson County, West Virginia, near the small town of Summit Point, about six miles from Charles Town, West Virginia. The farm consists of a ca.
White House Chief of Staff The White House Chief of Staff is the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and a senior aide to the President and can be a very powerful position, and the Chief of Staff is sometimes dubbed "The Second-Most Powerful Man in Washington".
White House intruders The White House serves as the residence and office area for the President of the United states and is under strict security combined with an opportunity for tourist and visitors. This can pose a problem for the secret service tasked with providing security.
White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives The White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI) is a department under the Office of the President of the United States that was established by President George W. Bush through Executive Order on January 29, 2001, and which represents one of the key domestic policies of Bush's campaign promise of "compassionate conservatism.
White House Plumbers The White House Plumbers or simply the Plumbers is the popular name given to the covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its job was to stop the leaking of confidential information (hence the "Plumbers" title) to the media during the Nixon administration.
White House Situation Room The White House Situation Room is a 5,000 square foot conference and intelligence management center in the basement of the West Wing of the White House. It is run by the National Security Council staff for the use of the President of the United States and his advisors (including Homeland Security and the White House chief of staff) to monitor and deal with crises at home and abroad and to conduct secure communications with outside (often overseas) persons.
White House travel office controversy The White House travel office controversy of 1993, often referred to as Travelgate began on May 19], [[1993, when several longtime employees of the White House Travel Office were fired. A whistleblower's letter, written during the previous administration, triggered an FBI investigation which revealed evidence of financial malfeasance.
White Houses (song) "White Houses" is a pop song written by American singer Vanessa Carlton and Stephan Jenkins, and recorded for Carlton's second album Harmonium (2004). Produced by Jenkins, it was released as the album's first single in 2004 (see 2004 in music).
White Chapel Currently reconstructed in the Karnak Open Air Museum, the White Chapel of Senusret I was built during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. Some time during the New Kingdom reconstructions of the temple, it was demolished and used as filler for pylons.
White Chicks White Chicks is a 2004 American comedy film directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and written by Keenen Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans. The plot begins when two disgraced black FBI [(Shawn and Marlon Wayans) go undercover] in an effort to protect [[cruise line heiresses Brittany and Tiffany Wilson (parodying Paris and Nicky Hilton) from a kidnapping plot.
White Christian White Christian is a euphemism, used usually in a self-referential sense by extremist groups adhering to some form of white nationalist ideology overlayed with Christianity. Depending on the context, it could refer to:
White Christian male White Christian male is a sociological term used in the United States to describe the demographic that presumably faces the least amount of discrimination. In 2005 roughly one third of the US population consisted of White Christian males.
White Christmas A white Christmas, to most people in the Northern Hemisphere, refers to snowy weather on Christmas Day, a phenomenon which is far more common in some countries than in others. For example, in many parts of the USA, snow is seldom experienced at Christmas except in the mountains; but most parts of Canada except for the British Columbia coast and southern interior valleys, southern Alberta, southern Ontario and parts of the Maritimes stand an excellent chance of experiencing a white Christmas.
White Christmas (album) White Christmas (formerly Merry Christmas) is a collection of holiday recordings by Bing Crosby first released in 1945. It is the best-selling Christmas album of all time and has remained in print for over 60 years.
White Christmas (song) "White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song whose lyrics reminisce about White Christmases. The morning after he wrote the song — Berlin usually stayed up all night writing — the songwriter went to his office and told his musical secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song.
White Christmas (soundtrack) White Christmas was Bing Crosby's third Decca long play album, recorded and originally released in 1954 as the main soundtrack for the White Christmas. (It was not, however, a true soundtrack, but in fact studio recordings of the film's songs done at Decca's studios.
White Island (Enderby Land) White Island () is an ice-covered island 13 miles long and 5 miles wide, lying 6 miles north of Sakellari Peninsula, Enderby Land. Discovered and called "Hvit Oya" ("White Island") by Riiser-Larsen in January 1930.
White Island (Ross Archipelago) White Island () is an island in the Ross Archipelago, 15 miles long, protruding through the Ross Ice Shelf immediately east of Black Island. Discovered by the Discovery expedition (1901-04) and so named by them because of the mantle of snow which covers it.
White Juan White Juan was the unofficial name given to the Atlantic Canada blizzard of February 2004 which was a strong nor'easter that effected most of Atlantic Canada between February 17 and 20th 2004 only 5 months after Hurricane Juan devastated Halifax on September 28 2003.
White King White King is a brand of bleach used in a variety of cleaning applications including washing of clothing and cleaning of mould from bathroom tiles. The product is sold in Australia and can be founded in supermarkets including Coles and Safeway.
White Knight Story is a video game RPG developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is Level-5's first project for the system, and is currently slated to release in Japan sometime in late 2007, with a worldwide localization to follow shortly thereafter.
White Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was considered the most militant as well as violent Ku Klux Klan in history.They originated in Mississippi in the early 1960's under the leadership of Samuel Bowers, it's first Imperial Wizard.
White lion The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare color mutation of the Kruger subspecies of lion (Panthera leo krugeri). It has been perpetuated by selective breeding in zoos around the world.
White Lace and Strange White Lace and Strange was a song by the 1960s garage rock band Thunder & Roses, released in 1969 on their album, King of the Black Sunrise. The song was virtually unknown until it was covered by Nirvana during a radio show on the Olympia college radio station KAOS-FM on April 17, 1987.
White Ladies Priory White Ladies Priory (often Whiteladies Priory) is in Shropshire and is famous as the first resting place on the journey of Charles II of England after the Battle of Worcester during his escape to France in 1651. The name 'White Ladies refers to the nuns who lived there and who wore white (undyed) habits.
White Lake Middle School White Lake Middle School is a middle school, grades 6th, 7th and 8th, located in White Lake, Michigan. It is inside Huron Valley Schools school district, and shares a driveway with Lakewood Elementary and Lakeland High School.
White Law railway station, Victoria White Law was a railway station on the South Gippsland line in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The station was opened during the 1890s, White Law was later closed during the 1950's along with the nearby station of Jeetho.
White League During Reconstruction, the White League was a paramilitary white supremacist organization. Although sometimes likened to the secretive Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the White Camelia, they in fact operated openly, without masks and in large numbers.
White Light (novel) White Light is a work of science fiction by Rudy Rucker published in 1980 by Ace Books. It was written while Rucker was teaching mathematics at the University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980, at roughly the same time he was working on the non-fiction book Infinity and the Mind.
White Light/White Heat (song) "White Light/White Heat" is a song by American avant-garde rock band The Velvet Underground, taken from their second album "White Light/White Heat" . It is a fast, relatively aggressive start to the album, almost punk-like, and is often cited as a major influence by punk bands.
White Lightning car The White Lightning was the fastest electric car, capable of speeds up to 400 km/h. It was built by Dempsey's World Record Associates (DWRA) and has been driven to record speeds by Pat Rummerfield, also known as the only fully-recovered quadriplegic in the world (2000).
White Limozeen White Limozeen was a 1989 Dolly Parton album that returned the singer to the country music fold, after the critical and commercial failure of 1987's Rainbow. The album was produced by Ricky Skaggs, and featured a duet with Mac Davis.
White Line Fever (film) White Line Fever is a popular American B grade movie about truck drivers released in 1975. Jan-Michael Vincent plays the hero who returns from Vietnam and takes over his father's trucking business in Tucson, Arizona.
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" is a song by Melle Mel and Grandmaster Flash, released as a 12" in 1983 on Sugar Hill Records. The song, which warns against the dangers of cocaine, addiction, and drug smuggling, is one of Melle Mel's signature tracks.
White Lines (Duran Duran song) "White Lines" is the second single from the Duran Duran covers album Thank You. It is a cover version of the 1983 song "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel.
White Lion (Freedom City) The White Lion is one of the characters presented in the Freedom City campaign setting available for the Mutants and Masterminds role-playing game. Like most FC characters he is a pastiche of an existing comic book character: White Lion is the FC version of Marvel Comics' Black Panther.
White Lion Society The White Lion Society was founded in 1986 as a society to benefit the College of Arms through donations of useful items and publications. John Brooke-Little, while Norroy and Ulster King of Arms was integral to the foundation of the Society.
White Lotus White Lotus (白蓮教 Pinyin: báiliánjiào Wade-Giles: Pai-lien chiao) is a type of Buddhist sectarianism that appealed to many Chinese, most notably to women and to the poor, who found solace in worship of the Eternal Mother who was to gather all her children at the millennium into one family. The doctrine of the White Lotus included a forecast of the imminent advent of the future Buddha Maitreya.
White Lotus Rebellion The White Lotus Rebellion was a Chinese anti-Manchu uprising that occurred during the Qing dynasty. It broke out in 1796 among impoverished settlers in the mountainous region that separates Sichuan province from Hubei and Shaanxi provinces.

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