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unusual facts about Whites



1992 cageless shark-diving expedition

In fact Askew had proposed, in an article (the first of its kind), entitled "Myth or Maneater?", published in the UK magazine Underwater World back in 1978, that Great Whites did not deserve the horrific image and reputation that Jaws author Peter Benchley and film director Steven Spielberg had imprinted in peoples minds.

After Dachau

The Nazis had won World War II and purged their empire of all non-whites, then rewrote history so as to say that Dachau, a concentration camp, was instead a battle with Adolf Hitler as its hero.

Agnes Ward White

The Whites lived at Parkersburg, West Virginia, where Albert was publisher of the State Journal. She was one of the more private first ladies and shunned the role of hostess.

Amasi

Nelson Mandela mentions how he cautiously left a comrade's apartment—his hiding place in a white area when he was wanted by the Apartheid government—after he overheard two Zulu workers comment that it was strange to see milk on the window sill (left out to ferment) because whites seldom drank amasi.

Anti-Fascist Action

In 1993, Derek Beackon, a candidate from the British National Party (BNP), won a council seat on the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets, East London; under the slogan of "Rights for Whites".

APK

Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk, the whites-only Calvinist church in South Africa

Bob Kyle

During this time the Whites claimed three League titles, two Irish Cups, one City Cup, three County Antrim Shields and one Belfast Charity Cup.

British South Africa Police

Under Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwe Republic Police immediately adopted a policy whereby senior whites were retired at the earliest opportunity and replaced by black officers.

Caper White

The Caper Whites are the butterflies in the genus Belenois.

Castilian-Leonese cuisine

Major wines in Castilian-Leonese cuisine include the robust wine of Toro, reds from Ribera del Duero, whites from Rueda, and clarets from Cigales.

Cedar County, Choctaw Nation

After the Choctaw Nation’s settlement by whites in the 1880s and 1890s the county became known for its hunting and fishing opportunities, and tourists from Paris, Texas and elsewhere took the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway to Antlers, Oklahoma from which they traveled east to Cedar County for hunting and fishing expeditions lasting for several days or more.

Château Val Joanis

The AOC wines of Château de Val Joanis are made with Grenache and Syrah grapes for the red wines and rosés and Grenache blanc, Roussanne, and Ugni blanc for the whites.

Chocolate City speech

Many people believed the word uptown to be a coded reference to wealthy whites, such as those who live in the old mansions on St. Charles Avenue or around Audubon Park.

Clarence Harris

On February 1, 1960, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (later Jimbaeel Khazan), Frank McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, four young African-American students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), entered the downtown Greensboro Woolworth's and sat at the "whites only" lunch counter.

College of the Arts, Windhoek

Cota was established by citizens of German heritage in 1971 as a Whites-only State Conservatory of Music.

Flying Hawk

Flying Hawk appealed to his interpreter to make it clear that the treaty with Napoleon was broken at the time that his country was purchased, and that the whites had, from the beginning of relations with their tribe, ignored and wholly repudiated their first and principle obligation toward the Sioux.

Frederic Hsieh

In the early 1970s, he predicted that the then-predominantly Caucasian city of Monterey Park and the San Gabriel Valley would serve as an anchor for new ethnic Chinese immigrants as an alternative to the old Chinatown in Los Angeles, but it was immediately dismissed and brushed off as mere speculation at the time.

Haleem Chaudhri

In August 1969, he shared a 53 run opening partnership with WK Shafiq-ul-Haq against a strong Karachi Whites bowling attack.

Henry McStay

Henry began his club career with Leeds United without ever breaking through in to the first team, this was primarily due to the abundance of riches Leeds had in Henry's position at the time, players such as Lucas Radebe, Jonathan Woodgate and Rio Ferdinand already established centre backs for the Whites.

History of slavery in Alaska

Whereas the continental United States mostly saw enslavement of Africans brought across the Atlantic Ocean, in Alaska indigenous people, and some whites, enslaved indigenous people from other tribes.

Interracial marriage in the United States

Research at the universities of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Texas A&M addressing the topic of socio-economic status, among other factors, showed that none of the socio-economic status variables appeared to be positively related to outmarriage within the Asian American community, and found lower-socioeconomically stable Asians sometimes utilized outmarriage to Whites as a means to advance social status.

Jacob Ludwig Döhne

The Frontier War of 1846-47 between the Xhosa and the Whites put an end to all plans and the missionaries joined the fleeing masses, with Döhne, Guldenpfennig and Posselt finding safety at Bethany in the Orange Free State.

Johannesburg Park Station

On 24 July 1964, Frederick John Harris of the African Resistance Movement planted a bomb on a whites-only platform of the Station.

Juan del Corral

His most famous bridge, El Puente de Piedra in Lima is known as the Bridge of Eggs because the myth is that it was constructed using over 10,000 sea bird egg whites mixed with stone.

Kicking Bird

As a result, Satanta emerged in a prominent leadership role among his people and his reputation as a war-maker made him the dominant Kiowa figure to be reckoned with in the eyes of whites and other Indians.

Following the battle, Kicking Bird and Satanta were in favor of making peace but Lone Wolf and several other chiefs refused and advocated war against the whites.

Léger-Félicité Sonthonax

On 20 June 1793 a failed attempt to take control of the capital by a new military governor sympathetic to whites, Francois-Thomas Galbaud, led to the bombardment and burning of Cap-Français (now Cap-Haïtien).

Lists of U.S. cities with non-white majority populations

The following are links to lists of United States cities in which a majority of the population is not white organized by majority racial group.

Matt Lincoln

The focus of the program centered around the helpline, where he was assisted by Tag (Chelsea Brown) and Jimmy (Felton Perry), two "hip" young blacks; Ann (June Harding), an attractive young white woman, and Kevin, a somewhat cynical police officer.

Otoe tribe

The Coyote band favored an immediate move to Indian Territory, where they believed they could better perpetuate their traditional tribal life outside the influence of the whites.

Padraig O'Malley

He helped arrange a conference at a resort in Finland, where 16 Iraqis met senior negotiators from South Africa (SA), including Cyril Ramaphosa, chief negotiator for the African National Congress (ANC) under the leadership of Nelson Mandela; Roelf Meyer, chief negotiator for South Africa's last whites- only government and Mac Maharaj, who was co. secretary of the South African negotiating process.

Philip Berrigan

These people stole files out of 4 Boston Draft Boards in order to prove that the State of Massachusetts was drafting mostly Puerto Ricans and poor whites to fill their quotas.

Pontchartrain Beach

The park was originally racially segregated and earmarked for "Whites Only"; another lakefront resort was reserved for "Coloreds", Lincoln Beach.

Pre-Adamite

Scientists such as Charles Caldwell, Josiah C. Nott and Samuel G. Morton, rejected the view that non-whites were the descendants of Adam.

Racial separatism

Black separatism, a movement to create separate institutions for people of African descent in societies historically dominated by whites

Racial wage gap in the United States

Grodsky and Pager also calculated wage differences, and found blacks to make $3.65 less per hour than whites in the private sector and $2.85 less in the public sector.

Revolt of Czechoslovak Legion

Within a month the Whites controlled most of the Trans-Siberian Railway from Lake Baikal to the Ural Mountains regions.

Because of this, and also an attempted rebellion against the Whites, organized by Radola Gajda in Vladivostok on 17 November 1919, the Whites accused Czechoslovaks of being traitors.

Robinson-Bonnett Inn

The Robinson-Bonnett Inn is a historic inn located on Whites Crossing Road in Bobtown, Illinois.

Schramsberg Vineyards

In 1972, Schramsberg's 1969 vintage "Blanc de Blancs" (white of whites) was served at the "Toast to Peace" in Beijing, between Richard Nixon and Chou Enlai.

Sleepy Creek Mountain

East of Johnsons Mill, Whites Gap (1,492 feet/454 m) is formed in mountain.

The Baltimore Plan

The most notable early code was the 1910 J. Barry Mahool ordinance No. 610 prohibiting African-Americans from moving onto blocks where whites were the majority, and vice versa.

Turnhalle Constitutional Conference

The Turnhalle Conference was attended by 134 members of 11 ethnic groups: Ovaherero, Coloureds, Baster, Tswana, Damara, Ovambo, Caprivians, Nama, Kavango, San, and Whites.

Union League

Historian Walter Lynwood Fleming asserts that the Union/Loyal League was successful in driving a wedge between blacks and Southern whites where little animus had existed, and used methods of political and violent intimidation—similar to those later used by the first Ku Klux Klan—to destroy the influence of Southern whites in politics and with blacks.

White Butterfly

Pierinae, a subfamily of butterflies commonly called the Whites

Pontia, a third genus of Pierinae sometimes called the Whites

Wu Lihong

It nurtured a bounty of the “three whites,” white shrimp, whitebait and whitefish, and a freshwater crustacean delicacy called the hairy crab.

Zimbabwe national cricket team

The apparent takeover has resulted in the firing of all whites and Asians among the board directors, because of "their racial connotations and saving their own agendas and not government policy" according to Gibson Mashingaidze, an army brigadier and chairman of the government's Sports and Recreation Commission.


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