White dwarfs, unlike main sequence stars, resist gravitational collapse primarily through electron degeneracy pressure, rather than thermal pressure.

L-Luyten, Proper motion stars and White dwarfs

White dwarfs are composed of one of the densest forms of matter known, surpassed only by other compact stars such as neutron stars, black holes and, hypothetically, quark stars.

Richard Wagner in the opera Das Rheingold ( 1869 ) lets a choir of anvils introduce the scene of the dwarfs who have to work in the mines, similar to the introduction of the dwarfs in the 1937 Disney movie Snow White.

In the 1960s, UNIVAC was one of the eight major American computer companies in an industry then referred to as " IBM and the seven dwarfs " — a play on Snow White and the seven dwarfs, with IBM, by far the largest, being cast as Snow White and the other seven as being dwarfs: Burroughs, Univac, NCR, CDC, GE, RCA and Honeywell.

White dwarfs are luminous not because they are generating any energy but rather because they have trapped a large amount of heat.

The building is sometimes called the " Seven Dwarfs Building "; it has a stunning fascia of the seven dwarfs holding up the roof of the building, an homage to the animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which provided Walt Disney with the revenue to purchase the Burbank lot.

The German version features such elements as the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, and the seven dwarfs, who were first given individual names in the Broadway play Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1912 ) and then given different names in Walt Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

The seven dwarfs find Snow White asleep

The dwarfs warn Snow White

* The story in Russian writer Alexander Pushkin's poem The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights ( 1833 ) is similar to that of Snow White, with knights replacing dwarfs.

The professors themselves were based on the dwarfs from Walt Disney's animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

White dwarfs and very faint red dwarfs have also been proposed as candidate MACHOs.

" Familiar cultural icons which can be seen on the cover include Dorothy from Wizard of Oz, Charles Manson ( replacing the original image of Marilyn Monroe, which could not be used for legal reasons ) and the seven dwarfs from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs.

Wandering through the woods by herself, So White runs into the Sebben Dwarfs, seven diminutive army men in uniform who sing " We're in the Army Now ," with two dwarfs singing " it takes us cats ... to catch them rats " at the end, and So White declares in a 1940s swing-style singing voice, " I'm wacky over khaki now!

I have just asked these questions in the Pentagon, in the White House, in offices of key scientists across the country and aboard the submarines that prowl for months underwater, with neat rows of green launch tubes which contain Polaris missiles and which are affectionately known as `` Sherwood Forest ''.

His advisers in the Politburo ( White House ) are engaged in a great struggle of opinions, so he is not always consistent.

-- Thousands of bleacher-type seats are being erected along Pennsylvania Avenue between the Capitol and the White House for the big inaugural parade on Jan. 20.

These fish are not found in caves north of the White River.

* 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.

White Lady legends are found around the world.

White deer are common in English legends and often used as symbols of Christian virtue.

Steel-string guitars are also important in the world of flatpicking, as utilized by such artists as Clarence White, Tony Rice, Bryan Sutton, Doc Watson and David Grier.

Aalen ’ s territory ranges over all lithostratigraphic groups of the south-German Jurassic: Aalen ’ s south and the Flexner massif are on top of the Weißer Jura ( White Jurassic ), the town centre is on the Brauner Jura ( Brown Jurassic ), and a part of Wasseralfingen is on the Schwarzer Jura ( Black Jurassic ).

White glue, contact adhesives and rubber cements are members of the drying adhesive family.

White spots are sometimes present below the eyes, and there may be white markings on the legs and back ; the absence or presence of these white markings may be indicative of distinct races.

Some endangered species in British Columbia are: Vancouver Island marmot, Spotted Owl, American White Pelican, and badgers.

* 4, 000 – 11, 000 Leukocytes: White blood cells are part of the body's immune system ; they destroy and remove old or aberrant cells and cellular debris, as well as attack infectious agents ( pathogens ) and foreign substances.

The players are referred to as " White " and " Black ", and each begins the game with sixteen pieces of the specified color.

Uno, Phase 10, Set, Slamwich, 1000 Blank White Cards, and Sopio are popular dedicated-deck card games ; 1000 Blank White Cards is unique in that the cards for the game are designed by the players of the game while playing it ; there is no commercially-available deck advertised as such.

There are plans to remove the Condit Dam on Washington's White Salmon River, and the Milltown Dam on the Clark Fork in Montana.

During a debate on defence a year later Attlee declared " We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves.

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division.

The White Sox are one of two major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League.

Examples of species listed on Appendix II are the Great White Shark ( Carcharadon carcharias ), the American black bear ( Ursus americanus ), Hartmann's mountain zebra ( Equus hartmannae ), African grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ), green iguana ( Iguana iguana ), queen conch ( Strombus gigas ), Mertens ' Water Monitor ( Varanus mertensi ), bigleaf mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla ) and Lignum Vitae " ironwood " ( Guaiacum officinale ).

In Chinese astronomy, the stars of Cetus are found among two areas: the Black Tortoise of the North ( 北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ ) and the White Tiger of the West ( 西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ ).

* 2005 – Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese ( and many who are not ) in Cronulla Sydney.

Economists including Richard Timberlake, George Selgin, Lawrence White, and Steven Horwitz are part of this school of thought.

In the camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundred, and I have often thought that as Mrs. White would read the same and knowing that I lived near, she would pray for my appearance and that she might be saved.

Nancy was thought to be closest to her stepdaughter Maureen during the White House years, but each of the Reagan children experienced periods of estrangement from their parents.

Among the many scholars who have since pursued Burke's line of thought, James Boyd White sees rhetoric as a broader domain of social experience in his notion of constitutive rhetoric.

Foster's death, occurring just six months into the new administration, is thought by some to have ended the optimism and remaining innocence of the White House staff.

White matter, long thought to be passive tissue, actively affects how the brain learns and dysfunctions.

The only suspected reason for this decision was that White was thought to have somehow slighted the President and his wife 25 years earlier on their honeymoon in Europe.

Wade's radicalism is thought by many historians to be a major reason why the Senate, which did not want to see Wade in the White House, acquitted Johnson.

" White cicers " were thought to be especially strong and helpful.

1552 ) and the father of an Elizabeth Wighte ( 1606 – 1671 ) who is sometimes thought to have been the ex-wife of Nathaniel Eaton ( 1610 – 1674 ), the first schoolmaster of Harvard College, Massachusetts ; there is a possibility that Bridget White, the sister of John White the Governor of Roanoke Colony, and Bridgett White, the second wife of the same above-mentioned Robert Wight, are directly related to each other.

as he leaves the White House, he performs a dance step down the stairs ( which Cagney thought up before the scene was filmed and performed with no rehearsal ).

After Littler disbanded the short-lived Photons, he moved to Cardiff, Wales, in October 1978, where he formed a band, The White Boys, but changed their name to The Spitfire Boys, as pressure by a financer of the band, who thought the name would sell better.

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.

Wilkie Collins ' epistolary novel The Woman in White was published in 1860, while The Moonstone ( 1868 ) is often thought to be his masterpiece.

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.

White Pine County was established in 1869 from Lander County and named after the heavy growth of pine trees in the area which were thought to be white pine.

a perforated sarsen stone, which lies in a garden in Kingston Lisle, two kilometres away and which produces a musical tone when blown through, is thought possibly to have been moved from the White Horse site, in the year 1750.

The area was settled soon afterwards, and its first building, the Newbold White House, is thought to be the oldest structure in the state.

Culbertson is thought to have moved into the area by crossing an Indian Trail over White Deer Mountain that is now known as Culbertson's Path.