In the northern or " Anasazi " portion of the Ancestral Pueblo world, from about 500 to 1300 CE, the most common decorated pottery had black painted designs on white or light gray backgrounds.

In northern New Mexico, the local " black on white " tradition, the Rio Grande white wares, continued well after 1300 CE.

New Zealand white rabbits have +/- myoglobin in of wet muscle, whereas a northern bottlenose whale has.

These ideas can be countered by the fact that during the winter, the time of year in which UV light is most scarce at northern latitudes, the ground is often covered with white snow.

A narrow strip of plains along the northern coast offers calm seas and white sand beaches.

The préfecture is located in the palace built by the intendant of Montauban ( the equivalent of a préfet before the French Revolution ), and is a large elegant 18th century mansion, built of pink bricks and white stone, with a steep roof of blue gray slates, in a style combining northern and southern French styles of architecture.

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Today, the casks used are typically sherry or bourbon casks, but with many now coming from northern France with its huge supply of aged white oak casks used in both white and red wine production.

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Expatriates, mostly British or South African, as well as some white Zambian citizens ( about 120, 000 ), live mainly in Lusaka and in the Copperbelt in northern Zambia, where they are either employed in mines, financial and related activities or retired.

Alabama is particularly known for its distinctive white sauce, a mayonnaise-and vinegar-based sauce, originating in northern Alabama, used predominantly on chicken and pork.

In fact, by the late 1850s they began to suspect a northern white abolitionist was secretly enticing their slaves away.

Congress and the northern white public, however, had lost interest in African-American rights.

The most widely used, complete ingredient list of this era was as follows: short-grain white rice, chicken, rabbit, snails ( optional ), duck ( optional ), butter beans, great northern beans, runner beans, artichoke ( a substitute for runner beans in the winter ), tomatoes, fresh rosemary, sweet paprika, saffron, garlic ( optional ), salt, olive oil and water.

The Virgin Valley opal fields of Humboldt County in northern Nevada produce a wide variety of precious black, crystal, white, fire, and lemon opal.

Many conservatives, including most white southerners, northern Democrats, and some northern Republicans, opposed black voting.

It has often been equated with antipodean identity, the contrast to the white swan of the northern hemisphere indicating ' Australianness '.

* Betula pubescens — downy birch, also known as white, European white or hairy birch ( Europe and northern Asia )

The northern face of the totem was white ( hence White Russia ), the western face was red ( hence Chervona ( Red ) Rus ), the southern face was black and the eastern green ( hence Zelenyj klyn ).

Sam Peckinpah and the making of The Wild Bunch were the subjects of the documentary The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage ( 1996 ) that was directed edited by Paul Seydor ; the documentary was occasioned by the discovery of 72 minutes of silent, black and white film footage of Peckinpah and company on location in northern Mexico during the filming of The Wild Bunch.

Pin oak also occurs in Black Ash-American Elm-Red Maple in poorly drained bottom lands in northern Ohio and Indiana along with silver maple ( Acer saccharinum ), swamp white oak, sycamore ( Platanus occidentalis ), black tupelo, and eastern cottonwood ( Populus deltoides ).

The white rhino consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhino, with an estimated 17, 460 wild-living animals at the end of 2007 ( IUCN 2008 ), and the much rarer northern white rhino.

The northern white rhino formerly ranged over parts of north-western Uganda, southern Chad, south-western Sudan, the eastern part of Central African Republic, and north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In January 2005, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo ( DRC ) approved a two-part plan for the translocation of five northern white rhino from Garamba National Park to a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya.

The captive northern white rhino population consists of only four animals and is maintained in two zoological institutions in the U. S. A. and the Czech Republic.

The mother of this female was a northern white rhino ( C. s. cottoni ), but the father was a southern white rhino ( C. s. simum ) named Arthur.

The northern subspecies is now found only in the Republic of Congo while the southern subspecies or majority of White rhino live in southern Africa.

Angalifu is one of the last known male northern white rhino in existence.

These were the aye-aye in Madagascar, the Komodo dragon in Indonesia, the kakapo in New Zealand, the Amazonian manatee in Brazil, the Yangtze river dolphin in China, the Juan Fernández fur seal in Chile, the northern white rhino in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Rodrigues fruit bat in Mauritius.

On BBC2 in October 2010 there was an additional Last Chance to See special by Carwardine and Fry about the northern white rhino, Last Chance to See: Return of the Rhino, which followed the re-introduction of zoo-raised rhinos into the wild.

There are two subspecies of white rhinos ; the southern white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum simum ) and the northern white rhinoceros.

The northern white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum cottoni ), formerly found in several countries in East and Central Africa south of the Sahara, is considered Critically Endangered or Extinct in the Wild.

Recent research has suggested that the northern white rhinoceros might be a distinct species, and should therefore be renamed Ceratotherium cottoni.

Not all fish have suffered from the modifications to the river ; the northern pikeminnow ( formerly known as the squawfish ) thrives in the warmer, slower water created by the dams.

The empire annexed areas formerly under the Sultanates in the northern Deccan and the territories in the eastern Deccan, including Kalinga, while simultaneously maintaining control over all its subordinates in the south.

It is estimated that in the aftermath of World War II between 13 and 16 million ethnic Germans were expelled from the territories of Eastern Germany ( present-day part of Poland ), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia ( mostly from the Vojvodina region ), the Kaliningrad Oblast ( formerly northern part of East Prussia ) area of Russia, Lithuania, Romania and other East European countries.

In June 1940, Stalin directed the Soviet annexation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, proclaiming this formerly Romanian territory part of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic.

# In the northern and western ( formerly German ) regions where Poles from the territories annexed by the Soviet Union resettled after World War II, the older generation speaks a dialect of Polish characteristic of the Eastern Borderlands which resembles Ukrainian or Rusyn — especially in the " longer " pronunciation of vowels.

It was formed from the northern part of the French Occupation Zone, which included parts of Bavaria ( the Rhenish Palatinate ), the southern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province ( including the District of Birkenfeld which formerly belonged to Oldenburg ), parts of the Prussian Province of Nassau ( see Hesse-Nassau ), and parts of Hesse-Darmstadt ( Rhinehessen on the western banks of the Rhine ); the constitution was legally confirmed by referendum on 18 May 1947.

The restaurants in Hangzhou also catered to many northern Chinese who had fled south from Kaifeng during the Jurchen invasion of the 1120s, while it is also known that many restaurants were run by families formerly from Kaifeng.

Tocharian or Tokharian ( or ) is an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family, formerly spoken in oases on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin ( now part of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China ).

The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia.

Originally, it consisted of Westphalia and the northern parts of the Rhine Province, both formerly part of Prussia.

The suspect rhododendrons are Rhododendron ponticum and Rhododendron luteum ( formerly Azalea pontica ), both found in northern Asia Minor.

Malabo () is the capital of Equatorial Guinea, located on the northern coast of Bioko Island ( formerly Fernando Pó ) on the rim of a sunken volcano .. With a fast growing population of 155, 963 ( 2005 ) it is also the second largest city in the country, after Bata in Río Muni on the African mainland.

Walleye ( Sander vitreus, formerly Stizostedion vitreum ) is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the northern United States.

Île de Ré ( formerly also Île de Rhé, Île de Rhéa or Île de Rhea-in English Isle of Rhé ) is an island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, on the northern side of the Pertuis d ' Antioche strait.

Pepin defeated the Lombards – taking control of northern Italy – and made a gift ( called the Donation of Pepin ) of the properties formerly constituting the Exarchate of Ravenna to the Pope.

The loons were formerly often considered to be the most ancient of the northern hemisphere bird families ; this idea grew basically out of the perceived similarity of shape and ( probably ) habits between loons and the entirely unrelated extinct Cretaceous order Hesperornithiformes.

Thanks in part to artificial feeders and winter-blooming gardens, hummingbirds formerly considered doomed by faulty navigational instincts are surviving northern winters and even returning to the same gardens year after year.

The largest cities or towns in the area are on Maimbung and Jolo of the Sulu Archipelago, plus the larger island of Palawan to its north, the coastal regions of the westward-extending Zamboanga Peninsula of Mindanao, and the northern part of the island of Borneo were formerly parts of the thalassocratic Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo.

The two ships, Nadezhda ( Hope, formerly HMS Leander ) under the command of Krusenstern, and Neva ( formerly HMS Thames ) under the command of Captain-Lieutenant Yuri F. Lisianski, set sail from Kronstadt in August 1803, rounded Cape Horn, reached the northern Pacific, and returned via the Cape of Good Hope.

Babylon had a brief late flowering of power and influence under the Chaldean Dynasty which took over much of the empire formerly held by their northern kinsmen.

Staines Road, the northern boundary of the present Heath, is formerly the Roman Road, Via Trinobantes.

The Northern Blues, formerly known as the Preston Bullants and Northern Bullants before becoming the Blues in 2012, are based in the northern suburb of Preston, but also play several home games at Visy Park.

Harlington is a suburban area ( formerly a village ) in the London Borough of Hillingdon, on the northern perimeter of London Heathrow Airport.

The northern part of Khan Yunis overlooks the Kissufim junction — formerly one of the main roads for Israeli traffic to Gush Katif settlement.