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Another logician, Gongsun Long, told the famous When a White Horse is Not a Horse dialogue.
They then went to the White Horse, before returning to the Chelsea.
After drinking at the White Horse, a pub he had found through Scottish poet Ruthven Todd, Thomas returned to the Hotel Chelsea, declaring, " I've had 18 straight whiskies.
Later he went drinking with Reitell at the White Horse and, feeling sick again, returned to the hotel.
** The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton ( 1911 )
Last work from the German writer Theodor Storm, The Rider on the White Horse ( 1888 ) as well uses gothic motives and themes.
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.
The Uffington White Horse hill figure as seen from above
In his 17th-century work Monumenta Britannica, English antiquarian John Aubrey ascribes the Uffington White Horse hill figure to Hengist and Horsa, stating that " the White Horse was their Standard at the Conquest of Britain.
In 1995, using Optical Luminescence Dating, David Miles and Simon Palmer of the Oxford Archaeological Unit assigned the Uffington White Horse to the late Bronze Age.
The Kornilov Division, one of the crack units of the White Army, was named after him, as well as many other autonomous White Army formations, such as the Kuban Cossack Kornilov Horse Regiment.
While trying to find a suitable name, Mars remembered an incident which occurred when he was playing with a band called White Horse, when one of the other band members called the group " a motley looking crew.
** Milton, Vale of White Horse
Starting from the north and running clockwise, these are: Shore Island, George Island, Rough Rock Island, Flat Rock, The Buoys, Sandy Bay Island, Black Horse Island, White Bird Island, Frightus Island, Jar Rock, Castle Point Rock, Robert Rock, Salt Rock, Speery Island, Flat Rock, The Needle, Lower and Upper Black Rock, Bird Island, Black Rock, Thompson's Valley Island, Peaked Island, Egg Island, Lady's Chair, Lighter Rock, Long Ledge, and Red Rock.
Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.
* Riding A White Horse: Ted Turner's Goodwill Games and Other Crusades by Althea Carlson ( Episcopal Press, 1998 ) ISBN 0-9663743-0-4
The high dry ground made travel easy and provided a measure of protection by giving traders a commanding view, warning against potential attacks. The Ridgeway ( Uffington Castle ringfort in distance on left ) The Bronze Age saw the development of Uffington White Horse and the stone circle at Avebury.
The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.
Louis Cha's Swordswoman Riding West on White Horse or The Book and the Sword are examples of possibly realistic wuxia stories.

White and Hill
Major mines and mining areas in the outback include opals at Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge and White Cliffs, metals at Broken Hill, Tennant Creek, Olympic Dam and the remote Challenger Mine.
Thomas ' poetry is notable for its musicality, most clear in " Fern Hill ", " In Country Sleep ", " Ballad of the Long-legged Bait " and " In the White Giant's Thigh " from Under Milk Wood.
* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of White Plains – British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans.
Anthropomorphized rabbits have appeared in a host of works of film, literature, and technology, notably the White Rabbit and the March Hare in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ; in the popular novels Watership Down, by Richard Adams ( which has also been made into a movie ) and Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson, as well as in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit stories.
He proposed abandoning the use of the White House as a residence and designed a new estate for the first family at Meridian Hill in Washington, D. C., but Congress rejected the plan.
* White Hill, 11. 2 km ( 7. 0 mi ) northwest of Columbia Memorial Station on Mars, is a part of the Apollo 1 Hills.
* The Real Story of Informix Software and Phil White, promotion website for a book ( ISBN 0972182225 ) published in 2005 by Sand Hill Publishing
# The fifth is Lubaga Hill, where the Rubaga Catholic Cathedral is, and was the headquarters of the White Fathers.
" Both Jensen and Springarn were also confused " by the film ’ s Reconstruction setting, states Jim Hill Media, writing that “ It was something that also confused other reviewers who from the tone of the film and the type of similar recent Hollywood movies Jezebel ( film ) | Jezebel assumed it must also be set during the time of slavery .” Based on the Jensen and Springarn memos, White released the “ official position ” of the NAACP in a telegram that was widely quoted in newspapers.
The author Kim Sloan (" A New World: England's First View of America ", University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill ( 2007 )) has done an analysis of the so-called White Paintings, carefully documenting their provenance.
The group takes Brân's head to the White Hill ( the location of the Tower of London ) and bury it there, where it serves as a talisman against foreign invasion.
As instructed they take the now silent head to the Gwynfryn, the " White Hill " ( thought to be the location where the Tower of London now stands ), where they bury it facing France so as to ward off invasion.
As instructed they take the now silent head to the Gwynfryn, the " White Hill " ( thought to be the location where the Tower of London now stands ), where they bury it facing France so as to ward off invasion.
As instructed they take the now silent head to the Gwynfryn, the " White Hill " ( thought to be the location where the Tower of London now stands ), where they bury it facing France so as to ward off invasion.
As instructed they take the now silent head to the Gwynfryn, the " White Hill " ( thought to be the location where the Tower of London now stands ), where they bury it facing France so as to ward off invasion.
The Folkestone White Horse is carved on Cheriton Hill above the Channel Tunnel terminal.
* White Rock Hill
Attractions listed in the park include Hensley's Settlement, the Pinnacle Overlook, the Sand Cave, and the White Rocks overlooking the towns of Ewing and Rose Hill.
The county is divided into seven districts: Jonesville, Rocky Station, Rocky Station Mineral, Rose Hill, White Shoals, Yokum, St. Charles Pennington Gap, Keokee, Robbins Chappel, and Yokum Mineral.
The county is divided into forty-nine townships: Ada, Anderson, Antelope, Barrett, Beck, Bison, Brushy, Burdick, Cash, Castle Butte, Chance, Chaudoin, Clark, De Witt, Duell, Englewood, Flat Creek, Foster, Fredlund, Glendo, Grand River, Hall, Highland, Horse Creek, Liberty, Lincoln, Lodgepole, Lone Tree, Maltby, Marshfield, Martin, Meadow, Moreau, Plateau, Rainbow, Rockford, Scotch Cap, Sidney, Strool, Trail, Vail, Vickers, Viking, Vrooman, Wells, White Butte, White Hill, Wilson, and Wyandotte ; and eight areas of unorganized territory: Duck Creek, East Perkins, Independence, Pleasant Valley, South Perkins, Southwest Perkins, West Central Perkins, and West Perkins.
The county is divided into fifteen townships: Beaverdam, Bethel, Cataloochee, Cecil, Clyde, Crabtree, Cruso, East Fork, Fines Creek, Iron Duff, Ivy Hill, Jonathan Creek, Pigeon, Waynesville, and White Oak.

White and Dragon
Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods.
Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.
At the height of the martial arts craze, he did several crossovers with other Marvel martial artists, including White Tiger, Iron Fist, and Daughters of the Dragon ( Colleen Wing and Misty Knight ).
Adrian Bott, in an article written in White Dragon magazine, 2003, argues that the Long Rede's creation can be placed somewhere between 1964 and 1975.
The heraldic beasts carved by Ben Harms and Ray Gonzalez of G & H Studios includes The Golden Lion of England, The White Greyhound of Richmond, The Red Dragon of Wales and the White Hart of Richard II, are all carved from English oak.
* The White Dragon 白龍 spirits, virtuous and pure kings.
With the addition of the Yellow Dragon of the Center to Azure Dragon of the East, these Vermillion, White, and Black Dragons coordinate with the Four Symbols, including the Vermilion Bird of the South, White Tiger of the West, and Black Tortoise of the North.
* Marcus Pitcaithly's epic Hereward trilogy ( Hereward: Sons of the White Dragon ( 2008 ), Hereward: The Fury of the Northmen ( 2009 ), and Hereward: Doom of Battle ( 2012 )) incorporates legendary figures from the same region such as Tom Hickathrift, the Toadmen of Wisbech, Black Shuck, and the phantom knight of Wandlebury.
* Hereward: Sons of the White Dragon, by Marcus Pitcaithly, pub.
The Manger, with the White Horse at centre skyline and Dragon Hill ( left )
) Dragonquest, The White Dragon, Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern and All the Weyrs of Pern were among the five annual finalists for the best novel Hugo Award.
* The White Dragon 1978, by Anne McCaffrey ( 1978 ; although published prior to Dragondrums, The White Dragon continues the adventures of certain Dragondrums characters ; McCaffrey recommends reading Dragonsong, Dragonsinger and Dragondrums before The White Dragon ; The White Dragon incorporates McCaffrey's story " A Time When ")

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