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White meat White meat refers to any light-colored meat, such as fish, seafood, and particularly poultry. However, in a broader sense, it includes any of the meats that are considered to be less fatty compared to red meats.
White metal The white metals are any of several light-colored alloys used as a base for plated silverware, ornaments or novelties, as well as any of several lead-base or tin-base alloys used for things like bearings, jewellery, miniature figures, fusible plugs, some medals and metal type.
White movement The White movement, whose military arm is known as the White Army (Белая Армия) or White Guard (Белая Гвардия, белогвардейцы) and whose members are known as Whites (Белые, or the derogatory Беляки) or White Russians (a term that has other meanings) comprised some of the Russian forces, both political and military, which opposed the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution and fought against the Red Army during the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1921 (as did the Ukrainian nationalist Green Army and the anarchist Black Army).
White Magic for Lovers White Magic for Lovers is an album by Drugstore. It further expanded their rock with shoegaze undertones sound, softening their edges in the process, which gained for them a new batch of fans who normally consider this album to be their best.
White Magic Records Magic White Records is a psychedelic trance (psytrance) label that is currently based in NSW, Australia. Its main artists are Justultra (the founding member of the label), Dharma Kaya (who is also signed to Butterfly Rec's) and Yellow Submarine (of the Moon Set party, Ko Phangan, Thailand).
White Mana The White Mana Diner is a New Jersey fast food restaurant in Jersey City. It was built as the "diner of the future" for the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens, and touted as an "Introduction to Fast Food.
White Mansions White Mansions is a 1978 album by various artists documenting life in the Confederacy during the Civil War. The songs on the album were written by Paul Kennerley and are performed by Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, John Dillon and Steve Cash.
White Marsh Mall White Marsh Mall is a shopping mall in the unincorporated community and new town of White Marsh in Baltimore County, Maryland. The White Marsh Mall is one of the largest regional malls in the Baltimore area, with 6 anchor stores and 190 specialty shops in about 1.
White Mart White Mart was a chain of regional discount department stores throughout the Dakotas and Minnesota operated by White Drug of Jamestown, North Dakota. All stores were closed during the late 1980s and early 1990s, after White Drug merged with Thrifty Drug, and the company began to focus solely on its drugstore operations.
White Mischief White Mischief is a 1987 film based on the Happy Valley murder case in Kenya in 1941. It was directed by Michael Radford, and starred Joss Ackland (as Sir Jock Delves Broughton), Charles Dance (as Josslyn Hay, the Earl of Erroll), Sarah Miles (as Alice de Janzé), Greta Scacchi (as Lady Diana Delves Broughton) and Hugh Grant (as Hugh Dickenson).
White Mountain Coolers A product line created by the Stroh Brewery, White Mountain was the top selling brand of malternative beverage that was very popular in the mid-to-late 1980s. White Mountain was often called a wine cooler but was more accurately labeled a beer cooler by many as its base was an alcoholic malt beverage rather than wine.
White Mountains (Arizona) The White Mountains of Arizona are a mountain range in the eastern part of the state, near the border with New Mexico. It is a part of the high country that extends through the middle of the state, the Mogollon Rim being adjacent to the west.
White Mountains (California) The White Mountains of California are a mountain range that runs along the eastern side of the upper Owens Valley, just east of the Sierra Nevada. They extend for approximately 60 miles (100 km), and are approximately 10 miles (16 km) wide.
White Mountains (New Hampshire) The White Mountains are a mountain range that covers about a quarter of the state of New Hampshire and a small portion of western Maine in the United States. Part of the Appalachian Mountains, they are considered the most rugged mountains in New England.
White Mughals White Mughals is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple. The love affair between the East India Company resident of Hyderabad, Captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick, and Khair-un-Nissa, a Hyderabadi noblewoman, is central to the theme of the book.
White nationalism White nationalism is a form of ethnic nationalism, advocating a racial definition (or redefinition) of the national group. It is opposed to multiculturalism - but also to a monocultural national identity, if that would include people regarded as 'non-white'.
White noise White noise() is a random signal (or process) with a flat power spectral density. In other words, the signal's power spectral density has equal power in any band, at any centre frequency, having a given bandwidth.
White noise machine A white noise machine is a device that produces a sound that is random in character, somewhat like air escaping from a balloon. They generally do not produce actual white noise, which has a harsh sound, but more often pink noise, whose power rolls off at higher frequencies, or other colors of noise.
White Necromancy White Neromancy is the complete opposite of Black Necromancy, as is hinted at by the name. White Necromancy first appeared in The Arcanum, and while not widely known, is commonly used under the name Necromancy, and are commonly used together known, normally, as 'Necromancy'
White Negro "The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster" is an essay by Norman Mailer recording the wave of young white people in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s who were so enamored of jazz and swing music that they adopted the black culture as their own.
White Niggers of America White Niggers of America is a work of non fiction literature written by Pierre Vallières, a leader of the Quebec terrorist organization Front de libération du Québec . It was translated by Joan Pinkham from the original 1968 French language edition titled Nègres blancs d'Amérique.
White Night Riots The White Night Riots, beginning on May 21, 1979, comprised two events: The first was the San Francisco, California, gay community's response to the minimal sentence given to former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White for killing George Moscone (then Mayor of San Francisco) and Harvey Milk (an openly gay supervisor of San Francisco), in November 1978. It began as a peaceful but angry march from the Castro District to City Hall, but turned into a riot after it reached its destination.
White Nile (state) White Nile (Arabic: النيل الأبيض; transliterated: an-Nyl al-Abyad) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 30,411 km2 and an estimated population of approximately 1,400,000 (2000).
White Noise (novel) White Noise is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, and is an example of postmodern literature. Widely considered his "breakout" work, the book won the National Book Award in 1985 and brought him to the attention of a much larger audience.
White Noise Records White Noise Records was a record label founded in Los Angeles in 1978 by artists Ronn Spencer and Louise Spencer, writers Nicole Panter and Jim Bickhart, attorneys Gordon Rubin and Peter Paterno, and publicist Bob Merlis.
White Notley White Notley is a parish in Essex, East Anglia, England. The settlement (which includes the outlying hamlet of The Green) lies equidistant between the towns of Witham and Braintree amongst arable farmland, 4 miles in each direction.
White Oak Pond White Oak Pond is a 291-acre water body in Grafton County in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, in the town of Holderness. Water from White Oak Pond flows north to Squam Lake and is part of the Pemigewasset River watershed.
White Oak Township, Wake County, North Carolina White Oak Township (also designated Township 20) is one of twenty townships within Wake County, North Carolina, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, White Oak Township had a population of 38,710, a 260.
White Order of Thule The White Order of Thule (WOT), created in the mid-1990s, was a loosely knit group of individuals who believed in the superiority of the Aryan race as represented by Norse, Viking and other ancient Nordic cultures. WOT followers generally adhered to Odinism (sometimes referred to as Asatru), which they asserted was "a spiritual way of life, based on the Nordic ancestral mythos; or the collective beliefs and folk-consciousness of the Aryan people.
White pages A white pages is a telephone directory listing of subscriber names, addresses, and telephone numbers. In the United States, the term white pages is commonly associated with the residential subscriber listings in the standard directories distributed by the Bell System before divestiture.
White pages schema A white pages schema is a data model, specifically a logical schema, for organizing the data contained in entries in a directory service, database, or application, such as an address book. In a white pages directory, each entry typically represents an individual person that makes use of network resources, such as by receiving email or having an account to log into a system.
White panther The term panther is used in some parts of North America to mean a puma (cougar), in South America to mean the jaguar and elsewhere it refers to the leopard. Zoologically speaking, the term panther is synonymous with leopard.
White paper A white paper is an authoritative report; a government report outlining policy; or a document for the purpose of educating industry customers or collecting leads for a company. White papers are used to help people make decisions.
White phosphorus (weapon) White phosphorus is a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus which has found extensive military application as an incendiary agent, smoke-screening agent, and as an antipersonnel flame compound capable of causing serious burns. White Phosphorus (WP) bombs and shells are essentially incendiary devices, and can be used in an offensive anti-personnel role against enemy troop concentrations.
White phosphorus use in Iraq There are several cases in which white phosphorus (WP) has been used as an anti-personnel weapon in Iraq, as confirmed by a United States military general serving in Iraq, but stated they did not intend for its use on civilians, only what it deemed hostile insurgents.
White point A white point is one of a number of reference illuminants used in colorimetry which serve to define the color "white". Depending on the application, different definitions of white are needed to give acceptable results.
White pride White pride is a slogan used primarily in the United States (though its usage has spread internationally) to promote the glorification of the heritage of persons of "White-European" racial identityWelcome to BC White Pride. September 10, 2006—though generally to the exclusion of homosexuals and Jews, as well as certain other individuals and groups.
White primaries White primaries were primary elections in which any non-White voter was prohibited from participating. White primaries were found in many Southern States after about 1890 and through 1944 http://americanradioworks.
White privilege (sociology) White privilege is a term denoting the rights, advantages, exemptions or immunities enjoyed by white persons in Western countries beyond what is commonly experienced by nonwhites in those same nations. It has been described as "an invisible package of unearned assets which I [as a white person] can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was 'meant' to remain oblivious" (McIntosh, 1989).
White Palace (film) White Palace is a 1990 film about an unlikely romance, set in St. Louis, Missouri, based on a novel of the same title by the late Glenn Savan (who also appeared in the film as an extra), directed by Luis Mandoki from a screenplay by Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent.
White Paper of 1939 The White Paper of 1939, also known as the MacDonald White Paper after Malcolm MacDonald, the British Colonial Secretary who presided over it, was a policy paper issued by the British government under Neville Chamberlain in which the idea of partitioning the Mandate for Palestine was abandoned in favor of an independent Palestine governed jointly by Arabs and Jews.
White Pass and Yukon Route The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) is a narrow gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska with Whitehorse, the capital of Canada's Yukon Territory. An isolated system, it has no connection to any other railroad.
White Patriot Party The White Patriot Party was an American anti-Semitic white supremacist organization, involving paramilitary attitudes, and associated with Christian identity and the KKK. It was founded in 1980 by Glenn Miller who was its leader after this.
White Pine Music The White Pine Music record label was established in 2003 with the support of Central Michigan University's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs and the College of Communication and Fine Arts. The mission of White Pine Music is to record and make available music and musical scholarship of the highest quality, and to preserve and promote the musical heritage of Michigan.
White Pine Range The White Pine Range is a group of mountains in southern White Pine County, in eastern Nevada in the western United States. The range runs for approximately 51 miles (82 km) from Beck Pass in the north to Currant Pass in the south.
White Plains, Maryland White Plains is a Census-designated place located in Charles County in the State of Maryland in the United States of America, just south of Waldorf, Maryland. It is located at latitude 38°35'25" North; longitude 76°56'26" West.
White Plume Mountain In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, White Plume Mountain is the name of a lone, geyser-spitting mountain on the plains of the central Flanaess, north of the Nyr Dyv and south of Rift Canyon.
White Pyramid Located in the pyramid field at Dahshur, the White Pyramid of Amenemhat II is now nothing more than a pile of rubble, having been heavily quarried for stone. The remaining limestone rubble has given rise to its modern name.
White ribbon eel The white ribbon eel, Pseudechidna brummeri, is a species of saltwater eels, the only member of the genus Pseudechidna of the Muraenidae (Moray eel) family. It is found in the Indo-Pacific oceans from the western Indian Ocean to Samoa, and north to the Ryukyu Islands.
White Rabbit (song) "White Rabbit" is a psychedelic rock song from Jefferson Airplane's 1967 hit album Surrealistic Pillow, also released as a single, peaking at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in that form. First performed by composer Grace Slick with her band The Great Society during 1966, this striking song proved an inducement to convince members of the Airplane to lure Slick away to join them.
White Rabbit Creamy Candy White Rabbit Creamy Candies () are perhaps the best known brand of Chinese-made candy in China, and the only one to be marketed significantly outside of that country. They are manufactured in Shanghai by Shanghai Guanshengyuan Food, Ltd (上海冠生园食品有限公司; Shànghǎi Guānshēngyuán Shípǐn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī).
White Rabbits In 1893, while the Chicago World Columbian Exposition was preparing to open, sculptor Lorado Taft was assigned to produce the numerous statues and other architectural embellishments that were to adorn the Horticultural Building, designed by architects William LeBaron Jenney & WB Mundie. As the date of the opening grew closer Taft realized that he would not be able to complete the decorations and discovering that all the male sculptors to be had were already employed elsewhere.
White Rhinoceros The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the five species of rhinoceros that still exists and is one of the few megafauna species left. Behind the elephant, it is probably the most massive remaining land animal in the world, along with the Indian Rhinoceros which is similar in size.
White River (Nevada) The White River is a small and discontinuous river located in southeastern Nevada, United States. Although a 200-mile-long channel can be traced from the White River to the Colorado River, it is permanently dry south of Lower Pahranagat Lake, and so the White River is typically considered part of the Great Basin.
White River (Oregon) The White River is a tributary of the Deschutes River, approximately 50 mi (80 km) long, in north central Oregon in the United States. It drains a scenic mountainous area of the Columbia Plateau on the east side of the Cascade Range southeast of Mount Hood.
White River (Washington) The White River is a river in Washington state in the United States which flows from its source, the Emmons Glacier on Mount Rainier, about 75 miles (121 km) to join the Puyallup River at Sumner. It defines part of the boundary between King and Pierce counties.
White River Amphitheatre The White River Amphitheatre is located in Auburn, Washington, WA on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation 15 miles northeast of Tacoma and 35 miles southeast of Seattle. It hosts musical events with many top performers and artists, providing a scenic view with Mount Rainier in the background.
White River Junction, Vermont White River Junction is a census-designated place (CDP) and unincorporated village in the town of Hartford, Windsor County, Vermont. It has been designated a National Historic District, and the downtown area reflects the urban architecture of the late 1800's and early 1900's.
White Rock Centre White Rock Centre is a major transit exchange in Surrey and White Rock, British Columbia. It is the southern-most major transit hub in the Greater Vancouver area (as it is only a few kilometres from the Canada-United States border).
White Rock Forge Covered Bridge White Rock Forge Covered Bridge or White Rock Covered Bridge is a covered bridge that spans the West Branch of the Octoraro Creek in southeast Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. A county-owned and maintained bridge, its official designation is the West Octoraro #2 Bridge.
White Rock Theatre White Rock Theatre, also known as the Sussex Hall, is a medium scale touring venue owned by Live Nation situated on the seafront in the south coast town of Hastings. It has a seating capacity of 1066, after the infamous date of the Battle of Hastings in October 1066 and it currently presents a varied programme of touring shows including Opera, Ballet, Musicals, and Chrildrens shows.
White Rock, New Mexico White Rock is a part of the Incorporated County of Los Alamos (the only City/County, or "home rule" County, in New Mexico) and is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 6,045 at the 2000 census.
White Rocks National Recreation Area White Rocks National Recreation Area is a United States National Recreation Area located in southern Vermont within the Green Mountain National Forest. The Peru Peak and Big Branch Wilderness areas are within White Rocks NRA.
White Rocks, Vermont The words Vermont (USA) and desert don’t seem to go together, but a large portion of the west side of White Rocks Peak, located above the Town of Wallingford in the Green Mountains, is the closest thing you’ll see to a desert in Vermont.
White Rose University Consortium The White Rose University Consortium is a partnership among three universities in Yorkshire, England - Leeds, Sheffield, and York. It was formed in 1997 to combine the resources of the universities so they can all benefit.
White Rose Varsity Tournament Taking its name from the 15th Century Wars of the Roses where York were represented by the white rose the White Rose Varsity Tournament is a sports competition between the two York-based universities in the UK; University of York and York St John University. Started in 2005 by AU-president Stuart Leslie of the University of York and his counterpart from the then York St John College, it is hoped to be continued as an annual event.
White Rose Walk The White Rose Walk located in North Yorkshire, was devised in 1968 by the Yorkshire Wayfarers, It starts at the Kilburn White Horse (National Grid Ref SE 514 813) and and is completed by touching the trig point on top of Roseberry Topping (NZ 579 126). The walk whilst a long distance walk in itself, mixes and crosses with several other long distance paths including the Cleveland Way, the Coast to Coast Walk, and the Lyke Wake Walk.
White Russia "White Russia" ( ~ ) is a name that has historically been applied to various regions in Eastern Europe, most often to that which roughly corresponds to present-day Belarus. In English, the use of "White Russia" to refer to Belarus is dated.
White sage White sage (Salvia apiana), also known as Sacred sage, is an evergreen perennial shrub of the genus Salvia, the sages. It is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, being found mainly in the coastal sage scrub habitat of Southern California and Baja California, on the western edges of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.
White sapote White sapote (Casimiroa edulis), also known as Cochitzapoti in Nahuatl (meaning 'sweet-tasting fruit which causes sleepiness) is a species of tropical fruiting tree in the family Rutaceae, native to eastern Mexico and Central America south to Costa Rica. Mature trees range from 5-16 m tall and are evergreen.
White seabass White seabass or white weakfish, Atractoscion nobilis, is a species of croaker occurring from Magdalena Bay, Baja California, to Juneau, Alaska. They usually travel in schools over deep rocky bottoms (0-122 m) and in and out of kelp beds.
White separatism White separatism is a political movement that claims to promote a separate homeland for white people rooted deeply in the American value of a laboratory of the States. Critics claim that contemporary white separatism is a public facade adopted by white supremacistshttp://www.
White shoe firm White shoe firm is a phrase used to describe the leading firms in America, particularly firms that have been in existence for more than a century and represent Fortune 500 companies. It frequently (but not always) refers to securities and law firms, and frequently (but not always) refers to firms in New York City.
White space (visual arts) In drawing, painting and sculpture white space is often referred to as negative space. It is that portion of a page left unmarked: the space between graphics, margins, gutters, space between columns, space between lines of type or figures and objects drawn or depicted.
White sponge nevus White sponge nevus, also known as a Cannon's disease, appears to follow a hereditary pattern as an autosomal dominant trait, with no sex preference. Although it is congeital in most cases, it can occur in childhood or adolescence.
White squall A white squall is sudden and violent windstorm phenomenon at sea which is not accompanied by the black clouds generally characteristic of a squall. The name refers to the white-capped waves and broken water, its meager warning to any unlucky seaman caught in its path.
White sturgeon The White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus, meaning "sturgeon beyond the mountains"), also known as the Pacific sturgeon, Oregon sturgeon, Columbia sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon, and California white sturgeon, is a sturgeon (a fish of the family Acipenseridae) which lives along the west coast of North America from the Aleutian Islands to Central California.
White sucker The white sucker, Catostomus commersonii, is a bottom-feeding freshwater fish inhabiting North America from Labrador in the north to Georgia and New Mexico in the south. It is a long, round-bodied fish with a dark green, grey, copper, brown, or black back and sides and a light underbelly.
White Salmon River The White Salmon River is a river in the Columbia River Gorge, originating on the slopes of Mount Adams. The lower portion of the river is in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area and some of the upper sections are part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers system.
White Sands Missile Range White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), formerly known as the White Sands Proving Grounds is located in Otero County, New Mexico, mostly in the Tularosa Basin, a valley between the Organ Mountains, San Andres Mountains and the Sacramento Mountains of the U.S.
White Serbs White Serbs were a Slavic tribe, which lived in the region around river Elbe (today in eastern Germany and western Poland) in the early medieval ages. The direct descendants of White Serbs are present-day Lusatian Serbs (Sorbs).
White Settlement Independent School District White Settlement Independent School District is a public school district based in White Settlement, Texas (USA). The district serves students in White Settlement and a portion of Fort Worth in west central Tarrant County.
White Ship The White Ship, a twelfth century vessel, sank in the English Channel near the Normandy coast off Barfleur, on November 25, 1120. Those drowned included William Adelin, the only unquestionably legitimate son of King Henry I of England.
White Sky White Sky is an album by British blues rock musician Peter Green, who was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member from 1967-70. Released in 1982 (see 1982 in music), this was his fifth solo album, and the first for Creole Records after his split from PVK Records.
White Sox-Cubs rivalry The White Sox-Cubs Rivalry (also known as the Red Line Rivalry) refers to the rivalry between fans of the two Major League Baseball teams which play their home games in Chicago, Illinois. The Chicago Cubs of the National League play their home games at Wrigley Field located on the city's north side, while the Chicago White Sox of the American League play their home games at U.
White Spruce The White Spruce (Picea glauca) is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 15-30 m tall, rarely to 40 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. It is native to the north of North America, from central Alaska east to Newfoundland, and south to northern Montana, Michigan and Maine; there is also an isolated population in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.
White Star (cider) White Star is a cheap brand of white cider available in the UK. It offers one of the lowest prices per unit of alcohol available, which has led to its popularity amongst hobos, alcoholics and underage drinkers.
White Star Line The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, more commonly known as The White Star Line, was a prominent shipping company, most famous for its ill-fated luxury flagship, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of her sister ship, Britannic.
White tantrism White Tantrism is a form of sexual alchemy which involves a man and a woman making sexual contact then transmuting their sexual energies whilst remaining still throughout the act and withdrawing without orgasm. It is regarded by its practitioners as an essential spiritual exercise for awakening consciousness rather than purely an act of pleasure.
White team The White Team was the Mission Control shift team under the direction of former NASA flight director Gene Kranz, who served as a flight director between 1965 and 1972. The shift colors, used by all NASA flight directors since Mercury 9, is chosen by newly christened flight directors and is retired when that particular flight director leaves the console for the last time, usually when he or she is promoted to senior NASA management positions.
White test In statistics the White test is a test which establishes whether the residual variance of a variable in a regression model is constant (homoskedasticity). To test for constant variance one regresses the squared residuals from a regression model onto the regressors, the cross-products of the regressors and the squared regressors.
White tie White tie (also known as evening dress or full evening dress in the United Kingdom) is the most formal dress code that exists for civilians today in the United Kingdom.In the United Kingdom civilian day court dress (in the Royal court) is similar to white tie, but nowadays white tie is worn in its place to the most formal state occasions, e.
White trevally White trevally Pseudocaranx dentex is a jack of the family Carangidae widespread in tropical and warm temperate areas between 40°N and 47°S, in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans. It has a deep body, and a greenish colour with metallic overtones and a dark spot above the gills.
White Tern The White Tern, Gygis alba is a beautiful small seabird found across the tropical oceans of the world. Sometimes known as the Fairy Tern (but not the Fairy Tern, Sternula nereis), this small tern is famous for laying its egg on bare thin branches in a small fork or depression without a nest.
White Terror In general, the term White Terror refers to acts of violence carried out by reactionary (usually monarchist or conservative) groups as part of a counter-revolution. Often, such acts were carried out in response to (and/or followed by) similar measures taken by the revolutionary side in the conflict.
White Top Railway The White Top Railway was chartered as a common carrier in the early 20th century from a portion of the logging lines of the Hassinger Lumber Company in Washington and Grayson Counties, Virginia. The move was born of the lumber company's need to protect its rail operations at points of intersection with the Virginia-Carolina Railway from possible condemnation for the V-C's own, expanding line.
White Tower Hamburgers White Tower Hamburgers was founded in 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and with its similar white fortress-like structure, is considered an imitator of White Castle. The chain was successful and expanded to other cities, including: Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts.
White Tower of Thessaloniki The White Tower of Thessaloniki ( Lefkos Pyrgos, ) is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in northern Greece. It has been adopted as the symbol of the city, and also as a symbol of Greek sovereignty over Macedonia.
White van man White van man is a stereotype, a usually pejorative term used in the United Kingdom to describe aggressive, thoughtless drivers of light commercial vehicles. Such vehicles are almost always painted white at the factory — in order to facilitate easy sign-writing on the panelled sides — and as such, the colour is very popular among van buyers.
White van speakers White van speakers is a scam sales technique in which the buyer is convinced he is getting a good price on merchandise on the premise that it has been stolen or embezzled from the salesman's employer. The salesmen in this type of scam refer to themselves as "speakermen".

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