Apparently they were of Caucasian blood.

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

Although its Caucasian pieces were as brilliant as the earlier efforts, the book alienated the core of Pasternak's refined audience abroad, which was largely composed of anti-communist White emigres.

The conditions of the resulting Peace of Nisibis were heavy ; Armenia returned to Roman domination, with the fort of Ziatha as its border ; Caucasian Iberia would pay allegiance to Rome under a Roman appointee ; Nisibis, now under Roman rule, would become the sole conduit for trade between Persia and Rome ; and Rome would exercise control over the five satrapies between the Tigris and Armenia: Ingilene, Sophanene ( Sophene ), Arzanene ( Aghdznik ), Corduene ( Carduene ), and Zabdicene ( near modern Hakkâri, Turkey ).

After a year into his Wing Chun training, most of Yip Man's other students refused to train with Lee after they learnt of his ancestry ( his mother was half Chinese and half Caucasian ) as the Chinese generally were against teaching their martial arts techniques to non-Asians.

The vast majority of characters in the show were non-Hispanic Caucasian, whereas only 40 % of the population of the state identified themselves as such.

They also found that a large majority, 81 %, of the procedures were done on Caucasian people ( p. 12 ).

One major study found Caucasian women most likely to report what are sometimes described as psychosomatic symptoms, while African-American women were more likely to report vasomotor symptoms.

Several notable Russian linguists, such as S. A. Starostin and V. V. Ivanov, have claimed that the Hurrian and the Hattic were related to the Northeast Caucasian languages.

Thorpe, whose parents were both half Caucasian, was raised as an American Indian.

Significant numbers of British Churchill and Matilda tanks along with US M3 Lee were shipped to the USSR after becoming obsolete on the African Front with the Churchills supplied by the arctic convoys seeing action around Leningrad while tanks shipped by the Persian route supplied the Caucasian Front.

As a result of this, Europeans came to believe that Tutsis had Caucasian ancestry, and were thus " superior " to Hutus.

The Northeast family is assumed to include the Nakh languages ( Batsbi, Chechen, and Ingush ), which were formerly classified as a separate North-central Caucasian family.

The Nakh languages were historically classified as an independent North-Central Caucasian family, but are now recognized as a branch of the Northeast Caucasian family.

The last battle of the Caucasian War took place at the Godlikh river on March 18, 1864 O. S., where the ubykhs were defeated by the Dakhovsky regiment of the Russian Army.

After the end of Caucasian War ( during the period of 1864 – 1870 ) almost all Ubykhs and a major part of the Shapsugs, who lived on the territory of modern Sochi, were either killed in the Circassian Genocide or expelled to the Ottoman Empire ( see Muhajir ).

There were many reasons for this, but especially for those participants who came from communities without many Chinese, the Study tour provided a unique forum to share their common " Chinese North American Experience " of growing up and needing to reconcile both North American and Asian Cultures in a predominantly Caucasian society.

" His views on race reflected those of those Britons of the time who regarded mistreatment of the Negro as a moral wrong even though Negros were still considered to be socially and intellectually inferior to Caucasian people.

The Chinese theaters also played movies with Chinese and English subtitles for the non-Chinese viewers, which were very often black Muslims that enjoyed movies with non-white heroes, Caucasian martial arts students and people who were film cognoscenti.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

) and those of the olive-skinned Semitic race ( another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the middle ranks ( it was because the Jews, being Semites, were clever that they were so dangerous — they had their own plan for Jewish world domination, a conspiracy that had to be opposed by all thoughtful Aryans, declared the Nazis ); and those of the yellow Mongoloid race ( including its offshoots the brown Malayan race and the red American Indian race ), the Dravidian race, the Hamitic race ( regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ), and mixed-race people such as Eurasians, the bronze Mestizos, Mulattos, Afro-Asians, and Zambos in the lower middle ranks.

Unlike the male Eurasian Black Grouse, the Caucasian Grouse display is almost mute but for a thin whistling of the cock fluttering his wings as he leaps and turns in the air, producing a flash of white as the underwing feathers are briefly revealed.

The form of the nasal subunits — the dorsum, the sidewalls, the lobule, the soft triangles, the alae, and the columella — are configured differently, according to the race and the ethnic group of the patient, thus the nasal physiognomies denominated as: African, platyrrhine ( flat, wide nose ); Asiatic, subplatyrrhine ( low, wide nose ); Caucasian, leptorrhine ( narrow nose ); and Hispanic, paraleptorrhine ( narrow-sided nose ).

Later anthropologists of the 19th and early 20th century such as Pritchard, Pickering, Broca, Topinard, Morton, Peschel, Seligman, Bean, Ripley, Haddon and Dixon came to recognise other Caucasian morphological features, such as prominent supraorbital ridges and a sharp nasal sill.

The derogatory term rabiblanco (" white tail "), of uncertain origin, has been used for generations to refer to the usually Caucasian members of the elite families.

Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian medieval evangelizer and enlightener, invented the Gargarean (" Caucasian Albanian ") alphabet in the 5th century, shortly after creating the Armenian alphabet | Armenian script.

The latter group may escape to such categorization based on a more " European " Caucasian appearance or a wealthier social status (" cholo con plata ").

The proto-language that is thought to be the ancestor of all Eastern Caucasian (" Alarodian ") languages, in fact, has words for concepts such as the wheel ( which is first found in the Central Caucasus around 4000 BCE-3000 BCE ), so it is thought that the region had intimate links to the Fertile Crescent ( many scholars supporting the thesis that the Eastern Caucasians originally came from the Northern Fertile Crescent, and backing this up with linguistic affinities of the Urartian and Hurrian language to the Northeast Caucasus ).

The Portuguese comedy group, Gato Fedorento, uses the word nigga in an audio sketch, where the four individuals ( all Caucasian ) say they are niggas (" I'm nigga, nigga ; are you nigga, nigga?

However, in 1795, a colleague of Meiners from the University of Göttingen, Blumenbach, one of the earliest anthropologists, adopted the term Varietas Caucasia (" Caucasian Variety "), for a new major hypothetical racial division.

Alongside the anthropologist Georges Cuvier, Blumenbach classified the Caucasian race by cranial measurements and bone morphology rather than prioritizing skin pigmentation, and thus considered more than just the palest Europeans (" white, cheeks rosy ") as archetypes for the Caucasian race.

Caucasian Peter Smith was changed to African-American Webster (" Webb ") Smith, Ishiguro became Ishihara, and Theresa became Jingo.

And above these are situated the narrow passes of the Phtheirophagi ( Phthirophagi ); and after the Heniochi the Colchian country, which lies at the foot of the Caucasian, or Moschian, Mountains.

To the south lies the seaward extremity of the Caucasian wall ( fifty metres long ), otherwise known as Alexander's Wall, blocking the narrow pass of the Iron Gate or Caspian Gates ( Portae Athanae or Portae Caspiae ).

And above these are situated the narrow passes of the Phtheirophagi ( Phthirophagi ); and after the Heniochi the Colchian country, which lies at the foot of the Caucasian, or Moschian, Mountains.

* Caucasian race ( also, " Caucasoid "), a racial classification of human beings used in racial typology

The sketch comedy show helped launch the careers of male comedians / actors Jim Carrey ( then credited as " James Carrey "), one of only two Caucasian members of the original cast, Jamie Foxx, who joined the cast in the third season and David Alan Grier ( an established theatre actor, who had worked in Keenen Ivory Wayans ' 1988 motion picture I'm Gonna Git You Sucka ).

" White " ( or " Caucasian "), " Black " ( or African American ), " Asian ", " Native American " or " Alaska Native ", " Native Hawaiian ", other " Pacific Islander " or " Some other race ".

Kabardian has the least number of consonants of any North-Western Caucasian language, with 48, including some rather unusual ejective fricatives and a small number of vowels.

Three small families are spoken in the Caucasus: Kartvelian languages, such as Georgian ; Northeast Caucasian ( Dagestanian languages ), such as Chechen ; and Northwest Caucasian, such as Circassian.

His father's lucrative contract with the Caucasian Oil Company having expired, Richard Sorge's family moved back to Germany: in Sorge's own words ," The one thing that made my life a little different from the average was a strong awareness of the fact that I had been born in the southern Caucasus and that we had moved to Berlin when I was very small.

The word " Nalchik " literally means " small horseshoe " in Kabardian ( or Circassian, a Northwest Caucasian language ) and Karachay-Balkar ( a Turkic language ).

Stream-dwelling salamanders, such as Caucasian Salamander or Gold-striped salamander have very slender, long bodies, perfectly adapted to life at the banks of fast small rivers and mountain brooks.

97. 8 % of the population is of Caucasian ethnicity as well as a small portion of visible minorities.

Occasionally, they also preyed on Caucasian red deer, on goitered gazelle in Iran, on jackals, jungle cats, locusts and other small mammals in the lower Amu-Darya River area, on saiga, wild horses, Mongolian Wild Ass and mountain sheep in the Zhana-Darya and around the Aral Sea, and on Manchurian wapiti and moose in the Baikal area.

The small sheepdogs were crossed with local dogs such as the Tartar ( Caucasian ) Ovcharka, the Crimean Greyhound and the Hungarian Komondor, because there was a strong need for larger dogs which were suitable to guard and protect the herds against wolves and other predators.

Shorapani is a small town in the Caucasian country Georgia.

With a slightly higher percentage of male students ( 54 % to the females ’ 46 %), the student body is overwhelmingly Caucasian ( 91 %) with small populations of Native-American ( 3 %), Hispanic ( 2 %), African-American ( 2 %), Asian ( 1 %), and other ethnic groups ( 1 %).