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The White Tiger (film), The White Tiger
A white tiger is a tiger with a genetic condition affecting its pelt's pigmentation. White tiger, White Tiger or The White Tiger may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Characters * White Tiger (comics), various Marvel Comics superheroes, including: ** White Tiger (Hector Ayala), the first to use the name ** White Tiger (''Heroes for Hire''), second ** White Tiger (Kasper Cole), third ** White Tiger (Angela del Toro), fourth ** White Tiger (Ava Ayala), fifth * White Tigers (Beyblade), a team in the anime ''Beyblade'' Film and TV * ''White Tiger'' (1923 film), a film directed by Tod Browning * ''White Tiger'' (1996 film), a film starring Gary Daniels * ''White Tiger'' (2012 film), a Russian WWII film * ''The White Tiger'' (2021 film), a Netflix film * ''Grambling's White Tiger'', a US TV movie made in 1981, released as ''White Tiger'' in Europe Literature * ''The White Tiger'' (Nathan novel), a 1987 novel by Robert Stuart Nathan * ''White Tiger'', a 2006 novel b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tiger
The white tiger (ashy tiger) is a leucistic morph of the tiger, typically the Bengal tiger. It is occasionally reported in the Indian wilderness. It has the typical black stripes of a tiger, but its coat is otherwise white or near-white, and it has blue eyes. Variation White tigers have been recorded in India since 16th century CE. The first white tiger was captured in 1915. A white tiger named Mohan was captured by the king of Rewa, Martand Singh, in 1951 from the forest of Sidhi district, which is now part of the Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserve. White tigers found in zoos around the world are the offspring of Mohan. White Bengal tigers are distinctive due to the color of their fur. The white fur is caused by a lack of the pigment pheomelanin, which is found in Bengal tigers with orange color fur. When compared to orange Bengal tigers, the white Bengal tigers tend to grow faster and become heavier than the orange Bengal tiger. They also tend to be somewhat bigger at birth, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The White Tiger (Adiga Novel)
''The White Tiger'' is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy. The novel examines issues of the Hindu religion, caste, loyalty, corruption, and poverty in India. The novel has been well-received, making the ''New York Times'' bestseller list in addition to winning the Booker Prize. Aravind Adiga, 33 at the time, was the second youngest writer as well as the fourth debut writer to win the prize. Adiga says his novel "attempt to catch the voice of the men you meet as you travel through India – the voice of the colossal underclass." According to Adiga, the exigence for ''The White Tiger'' was to capture the unspoken voice of people from "the Darkness" – the impoverished areas of rural India, and he "wanted to do so without sentimental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tigatron
This is a list of characters in the ''Beast Wars'' franchise, which is part of the larger ''Transformers'' franchise from Hasbro. This includes characters appearing in an animated series, comics or video games. This does not include characters only appearing in collector's club or convention-related comics (from 3H or Fun Publications), or toy-only characters. Appearances within the ''Beast Wars Sourcebook'' are not counted as appearances within IDW fiction for purposes of this table, as the Beast Wars Sourcebook was an attempt to include all characters from all Beast Wars fiction. Introduced in ''Beast Wars'' Maximals Optimus Primal Optimus Primal (voiced by Garry Chalk) is the commander of the Axalon crew, and the main character of both Beast Wars and Beast Machines. His beast mode is a gorilla. Optimus starts off the series as a charismatic and competent leader, but also young and inexperienced. As the series goes on, he proves to be highly competent with a strict form of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HC Bílí Tygři Liberec
Bílí Tygři Liberec (English: ''Liberec White Tigers'') are a professional ice hockey club based in Liberec, Czech Republic. The team competes in the Czech Extraliga, the highest level of play in professional Czech ice hockey. History The first hockey club in Liberec was founded in 1934 under the name ''SK Rapid Horní Růžodol''. After the WWII, there have been two sections: ''Jiskra Kolora'' and ''Tatran''. In 1956, a new ice rink was built in Liberec and the clubs agreed to merge, under the name TJ Lokomotiva Liberec. In 1961 the club was renamed to TJ Stadion Liberec. Since 1985, the level of Liberec hockey began to decline and the team played in the third highest competition. It has been given its current name since 2000 and the team returned to the Czech Extraliga in 2002. On 5 October 2010, as the first Czech ice hockey club played on their home ice with an NHL team, specifically in the preparatory match with the Boston Bruins The Boston Bruins are a professional i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tigers (gang)
The White Tigers () were a Chinese American street gang that was prominent in New York City's Flushing, Queens, and northern area of Chinatown from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s. They were formed in 1980 by immigrants from China of the ethnicity of Cantonese and Taiwanese, and ABCs (American-born Chinese). They adopted the color white as their clothing to match the name of the set. Throughout the 80s, the gang was often engaged in bloody turf wars with other Queens gangs, such as the younger Green Dragons. Their activities included extortion, kidnapping, illegal gambling, racketeering, drug trafficking, human trafficking, arson and murder Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification (jurisprudence), justification or valid excuse (legal), excuse committed with the necessary Intention (criminal law), intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisd .... Territory In the early 1980s new gangs emerged in the peripheral of other New York City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tigers (Korean War)
The 8240th Army Unit (8240th AU) was an American guerrilla commando unit that operated during the Korean War that specialized in clandestine operation, commando style raids, gathering tactical field intelligence, irregular warfare, long-range penetration, and special operations behind enemy lines. It consisted of US Army advisors who mainly trained South Korean Partisan (military), partisans for operations in North Korea. History One of the 8240th Army Unit's predecessors was the Korea Liaison Office (KLO), which operated from 1949 to 1951. In July 1951, the KLO was incorporated into the 8240th Army Unit. The 8240th AU, led by Captain Donald Seibert, focused on training South Korean troops and irregular warfare. Operations included dropping airborne guerilla commando forces far behind enemy lines, as well as training North Korean refugees to gather intelligence by posing as North Korean soldiers. In November 1952, the unit, along with other guerrilla commando units, was redes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tiger Oil Field
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of monarchist France from 1815 to 1830, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek temples and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th century, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tiger (mythology)
The White Tiger (), is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. It is sometimes called the White Tiger of the West (). It represents the west in terms of direction and the autumn season. It is known as ''Byakko'' in Japanese, Baekho in Korean, and in Vietnamese. Seven Mansions As with the other three Symbols, there are seven astrological " Mansions" (positions of the Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, an average distance of (; about 30 times Earth diameter, Earth's diameter). The Moon rotation, rotates, with a rotation period (lunar ...) within the White Tiger. The names and determinative stars are: See also * Byakkotai References {{Chinese constellations Chinese constellations Chinese gods Chinese legendary creatures Mythological tigers Tigers in popular culture Four Symbols Onmyōdō deities Animals in Chinese mythology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tiger (moth)
''Nyctemera coleta'', the marbled white moth or white tiger moth, is a moth found from India to the Philippines, and from Japan to Papua New Guinea. It is classified under the subgenus ''Coleta'' of the genus '' Nyctemera'' in the family Arctiidae. The species was first described by Caspar Stoll in 1782. It contains four subspecies In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog .... Description The male has a large tuft of hair arising from the base of the tibia of the foreleg. It differs from '' Nyctemera tripunctaria'' in the lower three spots of the post-medial band of forewing being separated and having another spot below them towards outer angle. Cilia white below the apex and at outer angle. Hindwing with the cilia white below the apex, and in most specimens at anal angl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tiger (butterfly)
''Danaus melanippus'', the black veined tiger, white tiger, common tiger, or eastern common tiger, is a butterfly species found in tropical Asia which belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the danaine group of the brush-footed butterflies family. It ranges from Assam in eastern India through South-East Asia south to Indonesia, and eastwards to the Philippines and through southern China to Taiwan. It has around 17 subspecies In Taxonomy (biology), biological classification, subspecies (: subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (Morphology (biology), morpholog ..., and its closest relative is the Malay tiger, ''Danaus affinis''.Smith, David A. S.; Lushai, Gugs & Allen, John A. (2005). A classification of ''Danaus'' butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based upon data from morphology and DNA. '' Zool. J. Linn. Soc.'' 144(2): 191–212. (HTML abstract) Gallery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tiger (song)
"White Tiger" is a 2015 song by English soul singer Izzy Bizu from the album '' A Moment of Madness''. It was featured in a 2018 commercial for Cacharel. Track listing Charts Certifications References External links Music video on YouTubePage on DiscogsPage on Official Charts 2015 songs 2015 singles Izzy Bizu songs Epic Records singles {{2010s-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Tiger (band)
White Tiger was a short-lived glam metal band from United States, founded by former Kiss band member Mark St. John, which split up in 1988. The group also included former Black Sabbath member David Donato, as well as bassist Michael Norton and drummer Brian James Fox. They recorded only one album, and demos for a second album. Mark died on April 5, 2007, the age of 51. Donato died in February 2021. Mark's brother and the bassist for the band, Michael Norton, died in 2023. Biography Beginning St. John (Mark Norton), practiced as a guitar teacher before being contacted by Kiss in 1984, after being recommended by well-known guitar maker Grover Jackson, to replace Vinnie Vincent, who had just been fired from the band. From this period, Norton became known to the public under the name on Mark St. John. With Kiss, St. John participated in the recordings of the album Animalize (Kiss's best-selling album of the 80s), but in December of the same year, after having participated in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
