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53 matches to White
Roses, War of. 1455-85. York (white) vs Lancaster (red) for English throne. Lancaster rule ended. Henry VII (Tudor/Lancaster) married Elizabeth (York). Bosworth Field. Plantagenet.
Russian Civil War. 1918-22. Trotsky’s Red Army defeat White counter-revolutionaries. Baltic liberated.
Scalawags. White southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction.
South Africa. 1910 Britain unites possessions: Cape of Good Hope + Natal + Orange Free State + Transvaal = Union of South Africa. Constitution included white supremacy. 1920 +German South-West Africa by mandate. 1948 Apartheid. 1961 = Republic of South Africa; left Commonwealth. 1990 -Namibia 1994 ANC gains power.
Storm, Theodor. 1817-88. German Realist writer. Rider of the White Horse 1838. Pole Poppenspäler 1874.
Tower of London. 1066- Palace for William I. Used as prison and garrison at later dates. White Tower 1078.
Turner, Nat. 1800-31. US slave. Led revolt 1831, killing 51 whites. Repressive laws vs slaves enacted.
Union Jack. 1606. English St. George (red cross) + Scottish St. Andrew (white diagonal). 1801 + Irish St. Patrick (red diagonal).
Utrillo, Maurice. 1883-1955. Montmartre painter. Sacre Coeur 1937. White Period 1908-14.
Westmeath Act. 1871. Declared Ribbonism illegal. Whiteboys.
White, E. B. 1899-1985. US writer, Charlotte’s Web 1952. Revised Strunk’s Element’s of Style 1959.
White, Patrick. 1912-90. Australian novelist, activist. The Aunt’s Story 1948.
White Australia Policy. 1901-72. Anti-non-European immigration policies.
Whiteboys. 1760. Irish peasants harass landlords, tax collectors, Protestant clergy. 1860-85. Secret Ribbonist movement.
Whitefield, George. 1714-70. English evangelist, founder of Calvinistic Methodist Church. Stimulated 18C religious revival.
Whitehall Palace. 1240. By Burgh. Burned 1697.
Whitehead, Alfred. 1861-1947. English mathematician/philosopher. Metaphysical theory of reality. With Russell wrote Principia Mathematica 1913. Process and Reality 1929.
Whitehead, Robert. 1823-1905. British engineer. Torpedo 1866.
White House. 1792 US president’s Neoclassical residence by Hoban. Burned by British, 1814.
White Lotus Rebellion. 1796-1804. China. Buddhists vs Manchu. Suppressed. Showed Ch’ing decline.
White Mountain, Battle. 1620. First battle of Thirty Years War. Catholic League defeats Bohemian nobles.
White Plains, Battle. 1776. Washington retreats before British advance.
White Revolution. 1950-79. Iran land reform movement of Shah ended by Islamic Revolution.
White Terror. 1815. Against Jacobins and Bonapartists.
White Volunteer Army. 1917-18. Unsuccessfully opposed Bolsheviks.