White frost is a solid deposition of ice which forms directly from water vapour contained in air.

Gilbert White in The Natural History of Selborne ( 1789 ), in a note appended to his Letter VI, to Thomas Pennant, apropos of local people's success in searching for bog oak for house construction, by discovering these trees " by the hoar frost, which lay longer over the space where they were concealed, than on the surrounding morass.

The winter of 1784 was very severe ; The naturalist Gilbert White in Selborne, Hampshire, reported 28 days of continuous frost.

Through the years, armed insurgency took different forms, the last as powerful paramilitary groups such as the White League and the Red Shirts during the 1870s in the Deep South.

Traditional karate kata bear a strong resemblance to the forms found in Fujian martial arts such as Fujian White Crane, Five Ancestors, and Gangrou-quan ( Hard Soft Fist ; pronounced " Gōjūken " in Japanese ).

None of this had been included on financial disclosure forms ; the non-reporting of loans under $ 10, 000 in liability was in violation of a voluntary agreement the White House had made in 1982, while not reporting more valuable loans or clothes not returned was a possible violation of the Ethics in Government Act.

White matter forms the bulk of the deep parts of the brain and the superficial parts of the spinal cord.

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.

It forms the famous White Cliffs of Dover in Kent, England, as well as their counterparts of the Cap Blanc Nez on the other side of the Dover Strait.

White performers would imitate Southern blacks and satirize their dance forms while incorporating step-dancing.

In addition to an almost ubiquitous presence in American sandwiches, mayonnaise forms the basis of Northern Alabama's signature White Barbeque sauce.

The only outflow for Lake Victoria is at Jinja, Uganda, where it forms the White Nile.

As Dayton Miller wrote, " White light fringes were chosen for the observations because they consist of a small group of fringes having a central, sharply defined black fringe which forms a permanent zero reference mark for all readings.

Numerous crowns of various forms were used in Antiquity, such as the White crown, Red Crown, combined Pschent crown and blue crown of Pharaonic Egypt.

White, in this sense, forms a perfect background for correctly seeing and identifying that which is around you.

The word Albemarle is the Latinised form of the French county of Aumale in Normandy ( Latin: Alba Marla meaning " White Marl ", marl being a type of fertile soil ), other forms being Aubemarle and Aumerle.

The hill forms a part of the scarp of the Berkshire Downs and overlooks the Vale of White Horse to the north.

Access to White Rock from the town of Los Alamos and other cities and towns in New Mexico is via New Mexico State Road 4, which forms the northwestern boundary of the community.

The river forms Van Buren's boundary with White County several miles north of Spencer.

Basin Hill extends about 5 – 6 miles southwest of town to the Columbia River, where it forms the southern extent of the " White Bluffs " for which the town of White Bluffs was named.

** White blood cell count < 4, 000 cells / mm < sup > 3 </ sup > or > 12, 000 cells / mm < sup > 3 </ sup > (< 4 × 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > or > 12 × 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > cells / L ), or greater than 10 % band forms ( immature white blood cells ).

A wonderful series of these forms occurs in southern Utah, where in passing northward from the Carboniferous platform one ascends in succession the Chocolate Cliffs ( Triassic sandstones ), Vermilion and White Cliffs ( Jurassic sandstones ), the Gray Cliffs ( Cretaceous sandstones, of remarkably cross-bedded structure, interpreted the dunes of an ancient desert ), and finally the Pink Cliffs ( Eocene strata of fluviatile and lacustrine origin ) of the high, forested plateaus.

It eventually makes its way to Lake No, where it merges with the Bahr el Ghazal and forms the White Nile.

In " Message to the Black Man of America ", Elijah explains that Blacks had primitive forms of evil that occasionally appeared among them, long before the making of White people.

Various forms of dunes are found within the limits of White Sands.

She was not an overnight guest in the White House, but Mr. Ike Hoover, the chief usher, had Mama check her fur coat when she came in, and take care of her needs.

-- No doubt there have been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even panic.

White wines should be opened when served, having been previously chilled in proportion to their sweetness.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

He provoked outraged editorials when, after a post-Inaugural inspection of the White House with Mrs. Kennedy, he remarked to reporters, `` We just cased the joint to see what was there ''.

At last the White House is going to get some much-copied furniture by that master American craftsman, Duncan Phyfe, whose designs were snubbed in his lifetime when the U. S. Presidents of the 19th Century sent abroad for their furnishings.

A year ago today, when the Democrats were fretting and frolicking in Los Angeles and John F. Kennedy was still only an able and ambitious Senator who yearned for the power and responsibility of the Presidency, Theodore H. White had already compiled masses of notes about the Presidential campaign of 1960.

The White Sox last won the World Series in 2005 when they played the Houston Astros and swept them in four games.

Decades of mediocrity followed for the White Sox until the 1950s, when perennially competitive teams were blocked from the playoffs by the dynastic New York Yankees, with the exception of the 1959 pennant winners led by Early Wynn, Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, and manager Al Lopez.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

Kennedy often allowed White House staff and cabinet members to use the retreat when he or his family were not there.

The Indians were only one game behind the division-leading Chicago White Sox on August 12 when a players strike wiped out the rest of the season.

The Indians have had an on and off rivalry with the Chicago White Sox since the 1959 season ( when the Sox slipped past the Tribe to win the A. L.

Probably the most infamous moment in the White Sox rivalry was in 1994 when the White Sox confiscated Albert Belle's corked bat, and the ensuing attempt by Indians pitcher Jason Grimsley to crawl through the Comiskey Park ( now U. S. Cellular Field ) clubhouse ceiling to retrieve it.

Rachel White Scheuering writes that, when SEPP began, it was affiliated with the Washington Institute for Values in Public Policy, a think tank run by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

The troops of the Red Guards were not professional soldiers but armed civilians, whose military training and discipline were mostly inadequate to resist the counter-attack of the White Army when it came, still less the onslaught of the German forces who arrived later.

In, Greenberg and Veeck teamed up for a second time when their syndicate purchased the Chicago White Sox ; Veeck served as team president with Greenberg as vice president and general manager.

Greenberg later became a successful investment banker, briefly returning to baseball as a minority partner with Veeck when the latter repurchased the White Sox in 1975.

Hoover and his wife learned Mandarin Chinese while he worked in China and used it during his tenure at the White House when they wanted to foil eavesdroppers.

Unlike many previous first ladies, when Hoover's wife, Lou Henry Hoover, came to the White House, she had already carved out her own reputation, having graduated from Stanford as the only woman in her class with a degree in geology.

The refusal to provide arms to the Jews, even when Rommel's forces were advancing through Egypt in June 1942 ( intent on occupying Palestine ) and the 1939 White Paper, led to the emergence of a Zionist leadership in Palestine that believed conflict with Britain was inevitable.

A trade with the White Sox, involving the same three Astros in exchange for Jon Garland, had been nixed a few days earlier when Buchholz reportedly failed a physical.

White lead when cooked into linseed oil acts as a drying agent, accelerating the polymerization of the oil film.