25 Facts About White

White is an important color for almost all world religions.

White unicorn was a common subject of Postclassical history manuscripts, paintings and tapestries.

White was the dominant color of architectural interiors in the Baroque period and especially the Rococo style that followed it in the 18th century.

White was a fashionable color for both men and women in the 18th century.

White was the universal color of both men and women's underwear and of sheets in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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White movement was the opposition that formed against the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War, which followed the Russian Revolution in 1917.

White said a house was "a machine for living in" and called for a "calm and powerful architecture" built of reinforced concrete and steel, without any ornament or frills.

White dwarf is a stellar remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter.

White is an important symbolic color in most religions and cultures, usually because of its association with purity.

White is worn by priests at Christmas, during Easter, and during celebrations connected with the other events of the life of Christ, such as Corpus Christi Sunday, and Trinity Sunday.

White has a long history of use as a religious and political symbol in Islam, beginning with the white banner that tradition ascribes to the Quraysh, the tribe to which Muhammad belonged.

White represented death in ancient Egypt, representing the lifeless desert that covered much of the country; black was held to be the color of life, representing the mud-covered fertile lands created by the flooding of the Nile and giving the country its name.

White is associated with cleansing, a Pagan practice that cleans something using the elements.

White became the banner of the royalist rebellions against the French Revolution.

In Iran, the White Revolution was a series of social and political reforms launched in 1963 by the last Shah of Iran before his downfall.

The white ribbon is worn by movements denouncing violence against women and the White Rose was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany.

White is a common color in national flags, though its symbolism varies widely.

White is the color in Western culture most often associated with beginnings.

White has long been the traditional color worn by brides at royal weddings, but the white wedding gown for ordinary people appeared in the 19th century.

White was the traditional color of the coats of doctors, nurses, scientists and laboratory technicians, though nowadays a pale blue or green is often used.

White is the color most often worn by chefs, bakers, and butchers, and the color of the aprons of waiters in French restaurants.

White's is a spectral apparition of a female clad in white, in most cases the ghost of an ancestor, sometimes giving warning about death and disaster.

White is the source of more names for women in western countries than any other color.

White stone became the material of choice for government buildings in Washington D C and other American cities.

White flag has long been used to represent either surrender or a request for a truce.

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