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Whitewood Community Centre
Whitewood can be: Plants *The wood of spruce trees. *''Bucida buceras'', a Caribbean tree *''Coccoloba krugii'', a species of seagrape *'' Petrobium'', an endemic tree from the island of St Helena *'' Elaeocarpus kirtonii'', an Australian rainforest tree *''Elaeocarpus obovatus'', an Australian rainforest tree *''Liriodendron tulipifera'', a large North American flowering tree *''Tabebuia heterophylla'', a tree of Caribbean islands Places *Whitewood, Saskatchewan, Canada *Whitewood, South Dakota, United States * Whitewood, Virginia, United States *Whitewood Creek, a stream in South Dakota *Whitewood (electoral district), an electoral constituency in the Northwest Territories of Canada Ships *Ships in the United States Navy: ** USS Whitewood (AG-129) ** USS Whitewood (AN-63) Other uses * When a pinball machine is in the development phase the prototype playfield is called a "whitewood". * Whitewoods, an American chillwave/vaporwave Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spruce
A spruce is a tree of the genus ''Picea'' ( ), a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal ecosystem, boreal (taiga) regions of the Northern hemisphere. ''Picea'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Piceoideae. Spruces are large trees, from about 20 to 60 m (about 60–200 ft) tall when mature, and have Whorl (botany), whorled branches and cone (geometry), conical form. Spruces can be distinguished from other Genus, genera of the family Pinaceae by their pine needle, needles (leaves), which are four-sided and attached singly to small persistent peg-like structures (pulvini or sterigmata) on the branches, and by their seed cone, cones (without any protruding bracts), which hang downwards after they are pollinated. The needles are shed when 4–10 years old, leaving the branches rough with the retained pegs. In other similar genera, the branches are fairly smooth. Spruce are used as food pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitewood, Virginia
Whitewood is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2000 census, the Whitewood area had a population of 485. It is located along the Dismal River The Dismal River is a winding U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed March 30, 2011 river in the state of Nebraska. It is formed by the confluence of two forks, one of which ..., which is part of the watershed of the Big Sandy River. History The community was initially settled in the early 1900s by lumber companies that arrived to log the forests of the surrounding hills. The settlement was named Whitewood, supposedly after the color of the lumber, shortly after the first lumber mill was established in 1905. The Whitewood post office was established in 1906. In September 2008, Whitewood High School, built in 1940, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was demolished in early 2010. On July 12, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinball
Pinball games are a family of games in which a ball is propelled into a specially designed table where it bounces off various obstacles, scoring points either en route or when it comes to rest. Historically the board was studded with nails called 'pins' and had hollows or pockets which scored points if the ball came to rest in them. Today, pinball is most commonly an arcade game in which the ball is fired into a specially designed cabinet known as a pinball machine, hitting various lights, bumpers, ramps, and other targets depending on its design. The game's object is generally to score as many points as possible by hitting these targets and making various shots with flippers before the ball is lost. Most pinball machines use one ball per turn, except during special multi-ball phases, and the game ends when the ball(s) from the last turn are lost. The biggest pinball machine manufacturers historically include Bally Manufacturing, Gottlieb, Williams Electronics and Stern P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Whitewood (AN-63)
USS ''Whitewood'' (YN-84/AN-63/AG-129), a wooden-hulled of the United States Navy was laid down on 24 October 1942 at Rockland, Maine, by the Snow Shipyard, Inc.; named ''Whitewood'' on 5 July 1943; re-classified a net laying ship, AN-63, on 1 January 1944; launched on 21 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Eben Kenney; and commissioned on 17 July 1944. Service history World War II ''Whitewood'' tended and laid nets and buoys at Boston, Mass., and at Newport and Melville, R.I., through the remainder of 1944 and into 1945. After a drydocking which began at the Boston Navy Yard in March 1945, the net layer shifted to Portland, Maine, in July. There she worked out of the Navy Net Depot at Little Diamond Island through the end of World War II in August 1945. After shifting to Newport, R.I., at the end of the month, she provided services for the naval net depot there and assisted in laying experimental net installations off Block Island. Operation Nanook Although apparently slated for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 million tons in 2021. It has the world's largest aircraft carrier fleet, with List of aircraft carriers in service, eleven in service, one undergoing trials, two new carriers under construction, and six other carriers planned as of 2024. With 336,978 personnel on active duty and 101,583 in the Ready Reserve, the U.S. Navy is the third largest of the United States military service branches in terms of personnel. It has 299 deployable combat vessels and about 4,012 operational aircraft as of 18 July 2023. The U.S. Navy is one of six United States Armed Forces, armed forces of the United States and one of eight uniformed services of the United States. The United States Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which was established during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitewood (electoral District)
Whitewood, was a territorial electoral district (Canada), electoral district in the North-West Territories of Canada from 1887 to 1905. The district was created from the former district of Broadview (N.W.T. electoral district), Broadview, prior to the 1888 North-West Territories general election, 1888 general election. This district was the first to use a secret ballot. During the 1894 By-election, ballots were first used in this electoral district. The territory went to using coloured pencils on paper to count ballots, except someone forgot the pencil for the Candidate William Clements (Canadian politician), William Clements at the Fairmede polling station, and one had to be sent out from the Chief electoral office in Regina. Fred Chamberlain, the local liveryman, drove his horse and carriage twenty-five miles through a blizzard to deliver a new pencil and arrived just before the polls opened. After the province of Saskatchewan split from the North-West Territories in 1905, Whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitewood Creek
Whitewood Creek is a stream in Butte, Meade and Lawrence counties, in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Whitewood Creek was named from the white-barked quaking aspen trees along its banks. See also *List of rivers of South Dakota This is a list of rivers in the state of South Dakota in the United States. By tributary Minnesota River watershed * Little Minnesota River ** Jorgenson River * Whetstone River *North Fork Yellow Bank River *South Fork Yellow Bank River *West B ... References Rivers of Butte County, South Dakota Rivers of Lawrence County, South Dakota Rivers of Meade County, South Dakota Rivers of South Dakota {{SouthDakota-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitewood, South Dakota
Whitewood is a city in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 879 at the 2020 census. History Whitewood was platted in 1888 when the Chicago and North Western Railway was extended to that point. It took its name from nearby Whitewood Creek. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Whitewood has been assigned the ZIP code 57793 and the FIPS place code 71580. Demographics 2010 census At the 2010 census, there were 927 people, 374 households, and 232 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 392 housing units at an average density of . The racial makup of the city was 91.9% White, 0.8% African American, 3.7% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.3% from other races, and 3.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.5%. Of the 374 households, 33.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.8% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucida Buceras
''Terminalia buceras'' is a tree in the Combretaceae family. It is known by a variety of names in English, including bullet tree, black olive tree, gregorywood (or gregory wood), Antigua whitewood, and oxhorn bucida. It is native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. It is commonly found in coastal swamps and wet inland forests in low elevations. Distribution The species is native to the Neotropical realm. Countries and regions in which it grows are: Colombia; Panama; Costa Rica; Venezuelan Antilles; Nicaragua; Windward Islands; Honduras; Guatemala; Mexico (Southeast, Southwest, Gulf, Central); Leeward Islands; Belize; Hispaniola (Dominican Republic, Haiti); Jamaica; Puerto Rico; Cuba; Turks-Caicos Islands; Bahamas. It is regarded as introduced in Florida and Trinidad and Tobago. Growth To grow it prefers high sunlight and rich, moist, well drained soil. It is highly tolerant to salt, insects, fungus, wind, and air pollution. Its roots are able ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitewood, Saskatchewan
Whitewood is a town in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is approximately east of Regina, Saskatchewan, Regina on the Trans-Canada Highway Saskatchewan Highway 1, Sk Hwy 1. It is situated at the crossroads of two major highways systems — the Trans-Canada, which runs east and west, and Saskatchewan Highway 9, Sk Hwy 9, which runs north and south from the Canada–United States border, US border to Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan. It is located midway between Brandon, Manitoba and Regina. It is administrative headquarters of the First Nations in Canada, First Nations band governments of the Ochapowace Nation, Ochapowace and the Chachacas Cree. History Before the settlement of the west, Whitewood began as a crossing of trails between the Qu'Appelle Valley to the north and the Moose Mountain Upland, Moose Mountains to the south. The Hudson's Bay Company trading post was established about the fall of 1891 to approximately the spring of 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabebuia Heterophylla
''Tabebuia heterophylla'' is a species of tree native to the Caribbean, and is also cultivated elsewhere. It is also known as roble blanco, pink manjack, pink trumpet tree, white cedar, and whitewood. Description ''Tabebuia heterophylla'' grows up to 20 to 30 feet tall. Leaves are opposite and palmately compound with five or fewer leaflets. ''T. heterophylla is considered brevi decidius''. Flowers are showy pink, tubular and five lobed (2 to 3 inches long). The flowering time is spring and summer. Its fruit is a seedpod, it splits along 2 lines to shed the numerous thin light brown seeds (1/2 to 1 inch long with 2 white wings). Flower anatomy The flowers of ''Tabebuia heterophylla'' are in an inflorescence of the umbellate type. It is a perfect and complete flower with radial (actinomorphic) symmetry, and the whorls of the corrolla and the calyx are connately joined. The ovary is superior with an axile placentation, two locules and two carpels. Distribution and habitat The t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
