Notable performers include James Booker, Duke Ellington, Kermit Ruffins, King Oliver, Jerry Reed, Artie Shaw, Lead Belly, Big Mama Thornton, Jack Teagarden, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Cassandra Wilson, Stan Kenton, Josh White, Lou Rawls, Bobby Bland, Ramblin ' Jack Elliott, Doc Watson, Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Van Ronk, " Spider " John Koerner, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Paul Butterfield, The Animals, The Standells, and more recently The White Stripes, the Stray Cats, the Tarbox Ramblers, Snooks Eaglin, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, and Tom Jones with Jools Holland.

* White dwarf sends ripples through Red Spider Nebula at Space. com

The anatomical terms ( such as those mentioned in the beginning of chapter nine ) and other information that White used came mostly from American Spiders by Willis J. Gertsch and The Spider Book by John Henry Comstock, both of which combine a sense of poetry with scientific fact.

A portion of the upper face is called " The White Spider ," as snow-filled cracks radiating from an ice-field resemble the legs of a spider.

Harrer used this name for the title of his book about his successful climb, Die Weisse Spinne ( translated into English as The White Spider: The Classic Account of the Ascent of the Eiger ).

According to Harrer's The White Spider, Barrington was originally planning to make the first ascent of the Matterhorn, but his finances did not allow him to travel there as he was already staying in the Eiger region.

According to Harrer's " The White Spider ," Barrington would have performed the first Matterhorn ascent instead, but his finances did not allow him to travel there as he was already staying in the Eiger region.

* 1963: 27 – 31 December: Three Swiss guides complete the first descent of the face, retrieving the bodies of Navarro and Rabadá from the " White Spider.

* The 2007 docu / drama film The Beckoning Silence features mountaineer Joe Simpson, of Touching the Void fame, recounting — with filmed reconstructions — the ill-fated 1936 expedition up the north face of the Eiger and how Heinrich Harrer's book The White Spider inspired him to take up climbing.

* Harrer, Heinrich, The White Spider: The History of the Eiger's North Face, translated from German, London, 1959 ( revised 1965, 1979 )

He was 14 when he read The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer about the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger by Harrer with Anderl Heckmair, Fritz Kasparek, and Ludwig Vörg in 1938.

Nordwand ( Northface ) of the Eiger, with a diagram showing the route established during the events written about in The White Spider.

The White Spider ( 1959 with chapters added in 1964 ; original title: Die Weisse Spinne ) is a book written by Heinrich Harrer that describes the first successful ascent of the " Eiger Nordwand " ( Eiger North Face ), a mountain in the Berner Oberland of the Swiss Alps with sections devoted to the history of mountaineering in the area.

After his successful summit of the mountain, Heinrich Harrer received many letters from mountain climbers, which he sifted through with climber and author Kurt Maix to become the contents of The White Spider.

As Harrer describes, and the climbers discovered, the White Spider is the key to a successful ascent of the Nordwand.

The White Spider acts as a funnel, with rock and ice slides channelled through the ice field, putting the climbers in great danger while on the field.

* The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer.

Leucorchestris arenicola ( commonly called the Dancing White Lady Spider ) is a huntsman spider found in the deserts of Namibia.

* Long-distance Wandering and Mating by the Dancing White Lady Spider ( Leucorchestris arenicola ) ( Araneae, Sparassidae ) Across Namib Dunes ( PDF, 306 kB ) by Joh R. Henschel ( August 2002 ).

Other species in the Zoo's collection include Red Pandas, Meerkats, Bactrian Camels, Oriental Small-Clawed Otters, South American Tapirs, Aardvarks, Mountain Zebras, Bongo, Red River Hogs, Cottontop Tamarins, Spider Monkeys, Bornean Orangutans, Great Grey Owls, Barn Owls, Von der Decken's Hornbill, Rainbow Lorikeets, Ostriches, American Flamingos, Common Peafowl, Emu, Eastern White Pelicans, Aldabran Tortoises, Egyptian Tortoises, Nile Monitor Lizards, Royal Pythons, Tiger Salamanders, White's Tree Frogs, African Land Snails, Hissing Cockroaches and many more.

This building has a large variety of animals including primates, reptiles, birds, and fish Some endangered animals on display are the spiny turtle, Pan's box turtle ( Cuora pani ), Black-breasted Hill Turtle, radiated tortoise, Flat-backed Spider Tortoise, Fiji iguana, Grand Cayman Island Blue Iguana, Bali Myna birds, Black and White Ruffed Lemurs, and Thick-billed parrots.

The group's true record debut was the 1978 single on Spider Records, " Little White Lies /" I Can't Tell You Anything ", followed that year by the Bomp single " Tell It To Carrie "/" First In Line " ( on the Bomp Records label ).

* The 2008 documentary film called Frederick Douglass and the White Negro tells the story of Frederick Douglass in Ireland and the relationship between African Americans and Irish Americans during the American Civil War.

Noah Charney's novel, The Art Thief tells the story of two stolen Malevich White on White paintings, and discusses the implications of Malevich's radical Suprematist compositions on the art world.

* 1972 – Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27, 000.

** Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning United States troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27, 000.

At the White Tower, Liandrin tells Egwene and Nynaeve that Rand and his friends are in danger.

It was also spoofed on an episode of The Golden Girls, in which Rose Nylund ( Betty White ) tells a story about two dancers from her hometown of St. Olaf, Minnesota, Adolf Stepp and Olga Fetchik, who became " the internationally renowned Scandinavian dance team of Stepp ' n ' Fetchik ".

The Great White Hope tells a fictional idealized life story of boxing champion Jack Johnson, here called Jack Jefferson.

He tells him that he's smarter than those other " niggers " and that he has contracted the best killers there are, " White ones, baby!

After an interesting conversation with talking flowers, Alice meets The Red Queen, who tells her to take the place of one of the pawns / children of The White Queen on the chess board.

He is betrayed accidentally by Edmund, who tells the White Witch that Lucy met a faun.

The March Hare later appears at the trial for the Knave of Hearts, and for a final time as " Haigha " ( which Carroll tells us is pronounced to rhyme with " mayor "), the personal messenger to the White King in Through the Looking-Glass.

He also tells Mike that he witnessed a giant bird — the same bird that nearly killed Mike in 1958 — carry off a Legion of White Decency member and fly away with him in its talons.

The novel White Bird Black Bird, by Val Wake, a CBC Northern Service reporter based in Yellowknife from 1969 to 1973, tells the story of Dogrib input into the formation of the NWT Indian Brotherhood.

It was also publicized, just after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ( a classmate of Lerner at Harvard ), that the show's original cast recording had been favorite bedtime listening in the White House, and that Kennedy's favorite lines were in the final number ( in which Arthur knights a young boy and tells him to pass on the story of Camelot to future generations ):

Sheridan tells him that he wants Garibaldi to begin logging the Minbari crew of the White Star into the security net.

In command of the White Star, Delenn tells Captain Drake that the station is now under the protection of the Minbari.

John Sheridan, President of the Interstellar Alliance, enters her quarters and tells her that he has approved allowing the Alliance's advanced White Star vessels to aid the Drazi and other Alliance ships fighting the Centauri.

One day, the mirror tells her that there is a new fairest woman in the land, her stepdaughter, Snow White.

Humbert could not bear to kill the young princess, so he tells Snow White of the Queen's plot and tells her to run away and never to return.

" When Mr. Burns appears on a radio show in an attempt to boost his popularity in " Monty Can't Buy Me Love ", Homer tells him that he has a list of jokes explaining the differences between white and black people ; Homer later states, " White guys have names like Lenny, whereas black guys have names like Carl.

Most of Runciman's historical works deal with Byzantium and her medieval neighbours between Sicily and Syria ; one exception is The White Rajahs, published in 1960, which tells the story of Sarawak, an independent state founded on the northern coast of Borneo in 1841 by an Englishman James Brooke, and ruled by the Brooke family for more than a century.

The book The Accidental Airline, by Jim Spilsbury and Howard White, tells the story of the QCA.

1001 Nights of Snowfall ( graphic novel ): Based on the One Thousand and One Nights, tells a story from a time early in Fabletown's history when Snow White was sent as an emissary to the Arabian Fables.