Columbia Encyclopedia

(Encyclopedia) white ant: see termite.

(Encyclopedia) White Cloud: see Waubeshiek.

(Encyclopedia) White Russia: see Belarus.

(Encyclopedia) white whale: see beluga.

(Encyclopedia) Chinese white: see zinc oxide.

(Encyclopedia) zinc white: see zinc oxide.

(Encyclopedia) white metal: see Babbitt metal.

(Encyclopedia) white vitriol: see zinc sulfate. ...

(Encyclopedia) Caldwell, Erskine kôldˈwəl [key], 1903–87, American author, b. White Oak, Ga. His realistic and earthy novels of the rural South include Tobacco Road (1933), God's Little Acre (1933), This Very E...

(Encyclopedia) Proulx, E. Annie (Edna Annie Proulx) pro͞o [key], 1935–, American writer, b. Norwich, Conn., grad. Univ. of Vermont (B.A., 1969), Sir George Williams (now Concordia) Univ., Montreal (M.A., 1973). S...