BELSHEVITSA (Belsebica) (an ice-film. fam. Elsberga, Elsberga) Vizma (r. 1931), the Latvian poetess. Collections of lyrical verses " Warmly earth " (1959), " Verses about solovjinom an infarct " (1969), " the April rain " (1978), " Patterns starnika " (1985). Stories (the collection " the Trouble in the dwelling ", 1984).

WHITE, the title (from colour of a banner of adherents of king during the French revolution) opponents of the Soviet authority, distributed in Russia within the Civil war.

WHITE GVELFY, see in an item. Gvelfy and gibelliny.

WHITE LANDS, grounds of feudal lords in a rural zone and cities of Russia 14-17 centuries free in part or completely from national taxes.

WHITE KALMYKS, the Russian title in 17 century of nomad tribes in steppes on r. Ob. The modern teleuty and ancestors of altaians.

WHITE DWARFS, very dense hot asters of mesh sizes from a degenerate gas. Mean firmness 108 - 109 kg / m3, radius some thousand kilometres, surface temperature of tens thousand K.Belye karliki - a final stage of sidereal evolution after exhaustion of thermonuclear energy sources if the mass of an aster is less ~ than 1,4 masses of the Sun.

WHITE OILS{BUTTERS}, the colourless diaphanous hydrocarbon oils received by catalytic hydrogenation of oil fractions or clearing of oil distillates by concentrated sulfuric acid or trioksidom of sulfur and a bleaching earth. 2 types of white oils are known: perfumery and vaseline medical.

WHITE, city in the Russian Federation, the Tver region, on r. Obsha. 15,3 thousand inhabitants (1992). A flax primary treating plant. It is known with 1359.

WHITE CITY, historical area in a central part of Moscow. The title in 16-17 centuries on white lands were here. The fortification with towers and a gate around of White city is constructed by F.S.Konem in 1585-93 (it is disassembled in 18 century).

BOLETUS MUSHROOM (mushroom), boletus of the order agarikovyh. A cap from above brown, from below spongy, white, chartreuse, a diameter routinely up to 20 sm (sometimes up to 50 sm). A leg tag, white with netted drawing. In deciduous, conifers and mixed forests primarily Boreal hemisphere. Contains a lot of protein, weighs from several grammes up to 300-400 g (occasionally up to 4 kg). The best mushroom for ring-shaped crackers.

WHITE CRANE, the same, that sterh.

WHITE STONE, the title of. Pajde in Estonia in Russian annals.

WHITE LOTUS, see. Bajljantszjao.

WHITE BEAR, predatory mammalian sets of bears. The length 2-2,5 (up to 3) m, weighs up to 700-800 kg. The sample representative of an Arctic fauna: populates range of floe ices and a shore the Sowing. Ledovitogo ok. Wanders in the summer. Well floats and dives. The main{basic} nutrition - seals. Was threatened destructions, but with kon. 70th number are recovered{restored}. Wrangel island is specially guarded in reservation. In the Red Data Book of the International union of nature protection and natural resources.

WHITE NILE (Bahr-el-Abjad), the title r. Nile in Sudan, on a plot from a lockin r. An ale - Gazal up to a mouth of Light-blue Nile. 957 kms, the area of basin of 1059 thousand êì2. Average discharge of water for Khartum 808 m3 / with. Navigation.

WHITE LIGHT, the composite on a spectral distribution a thermal radiation triggering in human eye neutral{inert} sensation in colour attitude{relation} (see also Complementary colours).

WHITE VERSE, verse without rhymes. Often, especially in a poetic drama ("Boris Godunov" of A.S.Pushkin), - 5-ñòîïíûé jamb. Compare with a loose verse.