The Baltic Sea is connected by man-made waterways to the White Sea via the White Sea Canal, and to the North Sea via the Kiel Canal.

The Black Sea is one of four seas named in English after common color terms — the others being the Red Sea, the White Sea and the Yellow Sea.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

Prisoner labor at the construction of the White Sea – Baltic Canal, 1931 – 33

Peter still lacked a secure northern seaport except at Archangel on the White Sea, whose harbor was frozen nine months a year.

White killer whales occur sporadically but rarely among normal killer whales ; they have been spotted in the northern Bering Sea and around St. Lawrence Island, and near the Russian coast.

At 9, 500 BP, Lake Onega, previously draining into the White Sea, started emptying into Ladoga via the River Svir.

By the White Sea, notably on the Solovetsky Islands, there have been preserved more than 30 stone labyrinths.

* Lines of White on a Sullen Sea ( 1909, actor )

Gulag prisoner labourers at the construction of the White Sea – Baltic Canal, 1931 – 33

The Count Dmitry Tolstoy visited Russia's second most sacred religious site, Solovetsky Monastery ( near the White Sea ), in 1869 where he found the prison conditions to be repulsive.

The river is navigable throughout and is part of the Volga – Baltic Waterway and White Sea – Baltic Canal.

The Barents Sea, White Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, Chukchi Sea, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and the Sea of Japan are linked to Russia via the Arctic and Pacific.

In 1992 – 1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils — seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones — from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.

This area would be the location of many new hominin fossils particularly those uncovered by the teams of Tim White in the 1990s, such as Ardipithecus ramidus.

Pineapple opal or opal Pseudomorphs are a rare form found only at White Cliffs, New South Wales, created by the deposition of opal in various fossils.

Category: White Sea fossils

Category: White Sea fossils

Category: White Sea fossils

The White Sea fossils are often associated with the Ediacaran " animals " Tribrachidium and Dickinsonia ; meandering trace fossil trails, possibly made by Kimberella ; and algae.

Beds in the White Sea succession have been dated to and by radiometric dating, using uranium-lead ratios in zircons found in volcanic ash layers that are sandwiched between layers that contain Kimberella fossils.

They were originally classified as jellyfish by Martin Glaessner and Mary Wade in 1966, and then as box jellyfish by Wade in 1972, a view that remained popular until the fossils of the White sea region were discovered ; these prompted a reinterpretation.

Category: White Sea fossils

Several mammalian fossils were collected along with a left lower canine, originally identified as a non-human primate, later revealed as the site's first fossil hominin in 1979 by P. Andrews and T. White.

Recognizable nimravid fossils date from the late Eocene ( 37 mya ), from the Chadronian White River Formation at Flagstaff Rim, Wyoming, to the late Miocene ( 5 mya ).

Price was a Seventh-day Adventist, and followed one of the founders of the church, Ellen White, in seeing fossils as evidence of the Great Flood.

Australopithecus garhi is a gracile australopithecine species whose fossils were discovered in 1996 by a research team led by Ethiopian paleontologist Berhane Asfaw and Tim White, an American paleontologist.

Tim White was the scientist to find the first of the key A. garhi fossils in 1996 in the Bouri Formation, located in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.

Tipton, a small hill overlooking White River and the surrounding flat, heavily forested and swampy valley.

The Village ( and surrounding New York City ) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Marianne Moore, Maya Angelou, Rod McKuen, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed at the Chelsea Hotel and died at St. Vincents Hospital at 170 West 12th Street, in the Village after drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 5, 1953.

During the period surrounding the 1890 Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee Massacre, Baum wrote two editorials about Native Americans for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer which have provoked great controversy in recent times because of his suggestion that the safety of White settlers depended on the " extermination " of the remaining Indians.

Tora Bora and the surrounding White Mountain range had natural caverns formed by streams eating into the limestone.

File: White House lawn. jpg | The White House and surrounding grounds

The surrounding chalk cliffs have become known as the White Cliffs of Dover, and the narrow sea passage nearby – the Strait of Dover.

Sometimes direct information is given by the words White resigns or Black resigns, but this is not considered part of the notation, rather a return to the surrounding narrative text.

The former Salisbury District, which was abolished in 2009, included the surrounding towns and villages and had an estimated population in 2004 of 115, 000, of whom 98. 67 % of were white, and 96. 41 % White British.

That portion of the city is within the Riverview School District — a consolidation of districts serving Kensett, Griffithville, Judsonia, and surrounding communities in southeastern White County extending to West Point and Georgetown.

Decker is near the White River, and is well known for the watermelon and cantaloupe produced in the surrounding rural area.

The town is commonly identified with its W. A. S. P and " White Shoe " culture surrounding a group of Polo and Golf clubs, primarily the secretive Piping Rock Club.

By the mid 19th century the demand for lumber reached Upper Pine Bottom area, where White pine and hemlock covered the surrounding mountainsides.

The discovery of oil and gas in Carson County in 1919 brought growth to both White Deer and the surrounding area.

The stage coach drivers began to call this stop and the surrounding area White House.

While nearly the whole mountain is in the White Mountain National Forest, an area of surrounding and including the summit is occupied by Mount Washington State Park.

The fire was caused by pyrotechnics set off by the tour manager of the evening's headlining band, Great White, which ignited flammable sound insulation foam in the walls and ceilings surrounding the stage.

A map of Maidenhead from 1945The Maidenhead urban area includes urban and suburban regions within the bounds of the town, called Maidenhead Court, North Town, Furze Platt, Pinkneys Green, Highway, Tittle Row, Boyn Hill, Fishery and Bray Wick ; as well as suburbs in surrounding civil parishes: Cox Green and Altwood in Cox Green parish, Woodlands Park in White Waltham parish, and part of Bray Wick in Bray parish.

The doctrine would soon be abolished by ballot initiative in 1982 following the negative publicity surrounding the case of Dan White, who had killed George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

The Barn Cinema and the White Hart Bar and Restaurant are used by estate dwellers, residents from the surrounding countryside, and visitors alike.

Old Street and the surrounding areas of Hoxton Square and Great Eastern Street also hosts a thriving night life including The Foundry bar and arts space White Cube gallery.

White has won by surrounding a black tile.

The waters surrounding White Island are well known for their fishing.

Paisley sits primarily on an expanse of low ground around 40 ft above sea level surrounding the White Cart Water, which runs through the town centre.

The Act for enclosing the common lands in the Parish ( see above ) specifically required that " in order to preserve within the parish of Monks Risborough the ancient memorial or land mark there called White Cliffe Cross " the Commissioners were to allot to the Lord of the Manor the cross itself and " so much of the land immediately surrounding it as shall in the judgment of the Commissioners be necessary and sufficient for rendering the same conspicuous " and that it should not be planted or enclosed and should for ever thereafter remain open.