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Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

Centuries of European colonialism of the Americas, Africa and Asia was excused by white supremacist attitudes.

** Caninae-pink and white flowered species from Asia, Europe and North Africa.

Chicken egg ( biology ) | eggs vary in color depending on the hen, typically ranging from bright white to shades of brown and even blue, green, and recently reported purple ( found in South Asia ) ( Araucana varieties ).

Quercus ( synonyms Lepidobalanus and Leucobalanus ), the white oaks of Europe, Asia and North America.

* Amomum ( commonly known as black cardamom, brown cardamom, kravan, Java cardamom, Bengal cardamom, Siamese cardamom, white cardamom, or red cardamom ) is distributed mainly in Asia and Australia.

* Commelina elegans, a synonym for Commelina erecta, the white mouth dayflower or slender dayflower, a perennial herb species native throughout the Americas, Africa and western Asia

In Europe, North America, and in some parts of Asia, the most common form of cocaine is a white crystalline powder.

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

You have seen, and recently, that Africa and Asia will not honor you or give you any respect as long as you are called by the white man ’ s name.

When Europeans made contact with America, European diseases ( to which they had no immunity ) ravaged the indigenous American population, rather than the other way around ( the " trade " in diseases was a little more balanced in Africa and southern Asia: endemic malaria and yellow fever made these regions notorious as the " white man's grave "; and syphilis may have spread in the opposite direction ).

The racial and ethnic makeup of the population was 72. 2 % non-Hispanic white, 7. 2 % black or African American, 0. 4 % Native American, 1. 6 % Asian Indian, 0. 6 % Asians with ancestral origin elsewhere in Asia, 0. 4 % non-Hispanic reporting some other race, 3. 0 % two or more races and 16. 1 % Hispanic or Latino.

* Populus alba: white poplar ( northwest Africa, southern Europe, east to central Asia )

Since the successes of the American Civil Rights Movement and the enactment of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which allowed for a massive increase in immigration from Latin America and Asia, intermarriage between white and non-white Americans has been increasing.

The male of the nominate race, C. c. cyaneus ( Linnaeus, 1766 ), which breeds in Europe and Asia, is mainly grey above and white below except for the upper breast, which is grey like the upperparts, and the rump, which is white ; the wings are grey with black wingtips.

* the leucotis group ( two races in south-east Asia ), with no white in the wing, a white forecrown, black hindcrown and much white on the sides of the head.

In Asia, where polished white rice ( milled rice that has had its husk, bran, and germ removed ) was the common staple food of the middle class, beriberi resulting from lack of vitamin B 1 was endemic.

Many species are important dispersers of seeds in Asia and Africa, for example white sandalwood, Indian Banyan.

Birds in central Asia ( caniceps group ) have a plain grey head behind the red face, lacking the black and white head pattern of European and western Asian birds.

The subspecies found in Southeast Asia has pinkish white skin and a larger dorsal fin, but lacks the fatty hump of South African and Australian relations.

Breeds in Eastern Asia, including Japan, Korea, China and Siberia ; it is greener and has darker upperparts than the nominate form, and has broad white wingbars.

white and North

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* Alnus rhombifolia — white alder, interior western North America

" The Democratic party, proclaiming itself the party of white men, North and South, aligned with Johnson.

In this image, North ( the direction towards the North Celestial Pole ) is up and East is left, and the white line is the rotational axis of Altair.

The white North Carolina performer Arthel " Doc " Watson credited listening to Jefferson's recordings as his first exposure to the blues, which would powerfully influence his own style.

When slavery became institutionalized in the North American colonies, white men, whether or not they were married, sometimes took enslaved women as concubines.

Unlike in many other European countries, the general image of Święty Mikołaj in Poland is basically no different to the one of the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus ( he is said to live in the North Pole, wear red clothes and a white beard, use reindeers to pull his sleigh, or enter houses via the chimney ).

Some restaurants and groceries in North America offer French fries made from sweet potatoes instead of traditional white potatoes.

In North America, the most common grape juice is purple and made from Concord grapes while white grape juice is commonly made from Niagara grapes, both of which are varieties of native American grapes, a different species from European wine grapes.

Hoover's appeal to white voters yielded substantial results, including Republican victories in Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, and Texas.

The icon sits cross-legged in a meditative posture, and the temple has two white towers of the classic North Indian form.

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`` Billions of American dollars, not only from capital investors but also from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers '', this author states, `` are being poured into South Africa to support a system dedicated to the oppression, the persecution, and the almost diabolical exploitation of 12 million people the color of whose skins happens not to be white ''.

" The black race of Africa are inferior to the white man in point of intellect – better calculated in physical structure to undergo drudgery and hardship – standing, as they do, many degrees lower in the scale of gradation that expresses the relative relation between God and all that he has created than the white man.

It is the majority language of the western half of South Africa — the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Cape — and the primary language of the coloured and white communities.

The tours to South Africa in 1891 and 1896 retained the red, white and blue theme but this time as red and white hooped jerseys and dark blue shorts and socks.

In 1903, the South Africa tour followed on from the 1896 tour, with red and white hooped jerseys.

The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

He was trained, supported and funded by the white regimes in South Africa ( SA ) and Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) in return for permission to set up a secret listening post on the islands.

He was one of the Deputy Presidents of South Africa during the presidency of Nelson Mandela until 1996, the last white person to hold the position to date.

However, the inability to maintain slave numbers without constant resupply from Africa meant the slave population, by 1789, totaled 500 000, ruled over by a white population that, by 1789, numbered only 32 000.

He did not, however, proclaim full independence for the country, nor did he seek reprisals against the country's former white slaveholders, convinced that the French would not restore slavery and " that a population of slaves recently landed from Africa could not attain to civilization by ' going it alone.

The Germans continued the policy of making Namibia a white settlement by seizing land and cattle, and even trying to export Herero labor to South Africa.

The defeat however consummated many Afrikaners ' ambition: South Africa would be under white rule.

Following severe financial difficulties of the British East Africa Company, the British government on July 1, 1895 established direct rule through the East African Protectorate, subsequently opening ( 1902 ) the fertile highlands to white settlers.

* Umkhonto we Sizwe – Xhosa, for the " spear of the nation " was originally the military wing of the African National Congress ( a multiracial, center-left political party ) which fought against the white minority led Apartheid regime in South Africa.

After the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon on April 25, 1974, with the advent of independence and the start of the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), most of the white Portuguese Luandans left as refugees, principally for Portugal, with many travelling overland to South Africa.

Focus on apartheid white minority rule in South Africa brought tensions between East and West, the Soviet Union officially supported the overthrow of apartheid while the West and the US in particular maintained official neutrality on the matter.

However forceful actions by the US against apartheid South Africa were diminished under US President Ronald Reagan, as the Reagan administration feared the rise of communist revolution in South Africa as had happened in Zimbabwe against white minority rule.

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

In colonial times, West Africa became known as " the white man's grave " because of malaria and yellow fever.

Quinine had been said to be the prime reason Africa ceased to be known as the " white man's grave ".

In 1922, faced with the decision to join the Union of South Africa as a fifth province or accept nearly full internal self-autonomy, the white electorate cast their votes against South African integration.

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