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	White Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		White Day is a holiday that was created by a concentrated marketing effort in Japan.
		White Day is celebrated in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day.
		There are many theories about the origins of White Day, but according to one, the holiday began in 1965, when a marshmallow maker started marketing to men that they should pay back the women who gave them chocolate and other gifts with marshmallows.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/White_Day (234 words)

	St. Valentine's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The day's associations with romantic love arrived after the High Middle Ages, during which the concept of courtly love, which had a large impact on the modern Western conception of love, was formulated.
		In Ancient Rome, the day of February 15 was Lupercalia, the festival of Lupercus, the god of fertility, who was represented by two half-naked young men, dressed in goat skins.
		The first recorded association of St. Valentine's Day with romantic love was in the 14th century in England and France, where February 14 was traditionally the day on which birds paired off to mate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valentine's_Day (2131 words)

	White Cane Day
		The familiar white cane with a red band at the bottom is used by blind and visually impaired persons in many countries.
		Instruction in the use of white canes is taught by schools for the blind.
		White Cane Safety Day is celebrated in the United States on October 15.
	www.lionsclubs.org /EN/content/vision_services_whitecane.shtml (187 words)

	Make Poverty History - White Band Day 2
		The white band - global symbol of the campaign to make poverty history - will be worn on wrists, draped on buildings, tied to lampposts, trees and statues.
		White Band Day II is the day when millions of campaigners united around the world in the Global Call to Action Against Poverty will stand up and be counted and demand justice for the poorest people of the world.
		White bands wrapped around any local landmark are still a great way to promote the campaign.
	www.makepovertyhistory.org /whiteband/whitebandday2.shtml (610 words)

	City of Austin - Austin hosts state's largest White Cane Day celebration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This day is known locally as an Independence Day celebration for the estimated 25,000 individuals living in Travis and Williamson counties who are blind or have significant vision impairment.
		In 1964, White Cane Safety Day was first observed with a Presidential Proclamation by Lyndon B. Johnson, declaring the day as a safety reminder to promote courtesy and special consideration to the blind on streets and highways.
		For the students attending these centers of excellence, the long white cane is not only a mobility aid that allows the blind to travel safely; it also symbolizes the ability of the blind to live independently and to actively contribute to our community.
	www.ci.austin.tx.us /news/2005/whitecane_2005.htm (777 words)

	Survey: Valentine's Day and White Day
		Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14, and White Day one month later on March 14.
		White Day is believed to have been introduced by a marshmallow manufacturing company in the 1960s.
		On White Day, on the other hand, there seems to be a much greater variety of presents.
	www.japan-guide.com /topic/0003.html (528 words)

	SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST, Ellen G. White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although James White was the head of the organization while he lived, it was Ellen G. White who provided the alleged visions and revelations from God that defined the doctrinal framework of the organization's teachings.
		In six days the Lord made "the heaven and the earth" and all living things upon the earth, and rested on the seventh day of that first week.
		Ellen G. White claimed to receive visions in which messages and doctrines were given to her by God, which she was to make known to the church.
	www.ondoctrine.com /10sevadv.htm (7224 words)

	White Day - Explore Japan - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Valentine's Day in Japan is a day when women give the special men in their lives boxes of chocolate.
		While Valentine's Day is an imported convention, White Day (on March 14) is a purely Japanese creation.
		According to a survey conducted by a Tokyo department store in 1996, the White Day gift that made women happiest was flowers accompanied by a greeting card - regardless of whether the chocolates given a month earlier were for their honmei (true sweethearts) or to fulfill their giri (obligation) to classmates or colleagues.
	web-jpn.org /kidsweb/calendar/march/whiteday.html (267 words)

	White Cane Safety Day: A Symbol of Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The National Federation of the Blind in convention assembled on the 6th day of July, 1963, called upon the governors of the fifty states to proclaim October 15 of each year as White Cane Safety Day in each of our fifty states.
		In the first Presidential White Cane Proclamation President Johnson commended the blind for the growing spirit of independence and the increased determination to be self-reliant that the organized blind had shown.
		With the growing use of the white cane is an added element – the wish and the will to be free – the unquenchable spirit and the inextinguishable determination to be independent.
	www.nfb.org /wcsd_art.htm (536 words)

	Office for Women - Eliminating Violence Against Women (White Ribbon Day) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - also known as White Ribbon Day - is marked on 25 November each year and is an opportunity for governments, businesses and community groups to focus on a problem that affects many people in Australia and throughout the world.
		The White Ribbon Campaign is the largest effort in the world of men working to end men's violence against women, and wearing a white ribbon is seen as a personal pledge never to commit, condone or remain silent about violence against women.
		White Ribbon Day is held internationally in conjunction with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
	ofw.facs.gov.au /equality/gender_equality/evaw_wrd.htm (955 words)

	The Agonist \| thoughtful, global, timely
		UNIFEM - White Ribbon Day is the largest effort by men across the world, working in partnership with women, to end men's violence against women.
		White Ribbon Day is held on November 25 each year, designated by the United Nations in 2000 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
		White ribbons are worn on the day by men who want to encourage other men to speak out against violence towards women, and by women who are supporting men.
	scoop.agonist.org /story/2004/11/24/195429/38 (133 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News
		International White Cane Day was first declared in Sri lanka in 1969 at a conference of the International Federation of the Blind of which the late Rienzie Alagiyawanna was the President at that time states R.A. Sirisena General Secretary of the Federation in a press release.
		White canes and other utility items as well as financial assistance for self-employment projects will be distributed amongst the members present.
		President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga who is also the patron of the federation has issued a message in connection with International White Cane Day and the Annual Flag Week conducted by the Federation from October 15 to October 23, a copy of the message is sent herewith.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/10/15/new26.html (341 words)

	white wreath day
		White Wreath Day is marked on the National Health Events Calendar, each individual State Calendar, The AMCAL Calendar and Australia wide Council Calendars for 29th May each year, it is a special day dedicated to increasing awareness of suicide in Australia.
		White Wreaths are displayed as a memorial, each representing a suicide in the last year
		White Wreath Memorial Services have been held on several different days in the past as an awareness of who and what the White Wreath Association's aims and goals are.
	www.whitewreath.com /id25.htm (192 words)

	White1
		In addition to the correct time to wear white, readers also sent me their views on whether it’s acceptable to wear panty hose with sandals, use straw purses in the winter, and a couple of readers suggested that we should bring back the fashion trend of wearing gloves.
		White after Memorial Day is a hard and fast rule in the South.
		My view on wearing white after Labor Day is this: The reason that used to be the rule is so "rich folks" would not be confused with their serving staff; only "working folks" wore white after Labor Day and before Memorial Day.
	www.emailbookclub.com /alt/white1.html (1675 words)

	white day. - Anime Academy Lounge
		White Day is a real holiday, held on March 14th.
		It's the day the men give chocolates and presents to the women for their version of Valentine's Day.
		I don't think white day is about women controling men, its mearly men giving something in return on love intrist/friendship that otherwise wouldn't be returned at all, in terms of material goods.
	www.animeacademy.com /forums/showthread.php?t=11352 (887 words)

	Valentine's Day and White Day in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is not unusual for a woman to buy 20 to 30 boxes of this type of chocolate for distribution around the office as well as to men that she has regular contact with.
		Again, the stores provide plenty of reminders of the approach of this day so that even the most forgetful man cannot say that it slipped his mind.
		The gifts of chocolate that men buy are in white boxes (after all, it is "White Day") and come with separate shopping bags to put them in.
	tanutech.com /japan/valentine.html (301 words)

	White Ribbon Day - News
		A white ribbon is not a badge of purity or perfection.
		White Ribbon Day Ambassadors at WRD Campaign Launch at Sydney Offices of Saatchi and Saatchi Launch on November 22
		The White Ribbon Day National Leadership Group and UNIFEM Australia invites men's and women's organisations, community organisations, faith communities, businesses and employers, unions, education institutions, schools and individuals to become part of the White Ribbon Day campaign.
	www.whiteribbonday.org.au (765 words)

	Chicago White Sox : community : White Sox Community Programs
		Chicago White Sox Charities provides annual financial, in-kind and emotional support to hundreds of Chicago-based organizations, including those leading the fight against cancer or dedicated to improving the lives of Chicago's youth through education and athletics.
		With the generous support of White Sox fans, friends and sponsors, CWSC has donated millions of dollars since its inception in 1990, striving to improve the quality of life for Chicagoans of all ages, races and genders.
		The White Sox are fortunate to have a manager, team members and front office staff who value the importance of reaching out and giving back to others.
	chicago.whitesox.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/cws/community/index.jsp (254 words)

	Make Poverty History - White Band
		The white band has become the symbol of the global fight to end poverty.
		On the three white band days people made human white bands, projected them onto buildings or wrapped everywhere from St Paul's Cathedral to the European Parliament.
		Keep showing your support for an end to extreme poverty and wear your white band in 2006.
	www.makepovertyhistory.org /whiteband/index.shtml (66 words)

	MIT Japanese "culture-notes" - WhiteDay, March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While women give gifts to men on Valentine's Day in Japan, on White Day, men should return the favor and give gifts to women from whom they received gifts or chocolate, or to women in whom they are romantically interested.
		Although White Day is not as big as St. Valentine's Day, many people still send various gifts.
		For White Day, cookies, candies or white chocolates are common instead of regular chocolates.
	web.mit.edu /jpnet/holidays/Mar/whiteday.shtml (211 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Athletics \| World Athletics 2003 \| White's black day
		In a stuffy room deep in the bowels of the Stade de France, the 100m and 200m champion was seated in front of 250 journalists, trying to convince them that she deserved to hang on to her gold medals.
		At the start of the day it was nothing more than an allegation in a single French newspaper: American athlete fails drugs test.
		The substance found in her urine sample might not have been named exactly on the banned list, but it was closely related to some that were.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/world_athletics_2003/3195133.stm (522 words)

	White T Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Consumers are encouraged to donate old (good, wearable condition, please) t-shirts and clothing at the "Snapple White T-Day" depot at Piatt Park at Garfield Place (map here), which will be staffed by the great volunteers from the Freestore Foodbank.
		All white* tea contains the same polyphenol antioxidants found in green tea, but because white tea undergoes less processing, it is believed that it contains up to three times the antioxidants in green tea and is more beneficial than any other kind of tea.
		White tea is also believed to have naturally low caffeine levels.
	www.freestorefoodbank.org /white-t-day.htm (200 words)

	Ellen G. White® Estate: The Official Ellen G. White® Website
		This new compilation of Ellen White's writings gathers the choicest statements and descriptions she has given through the years of heaven--the future home of the redeemed.
		This selection of chapters from Ellen G. White's classic The Desire of Ages, concentrates on the last few hours of Jesus Christ's vital ministry of salvation to planet earth.
		In vision Ellen White was shown the crucifixion scene that Christ suffered.
	www.whiteestate.org (567 words)

	Temple Times: Temple Ambler readies for Cherry and White Day revival
		Cherry and White Day was a time to relive past glory and return to the school where those triumphs were achieved.
		In addition to the games that will be played at Cherry and White Day, athletics organizers hope to have all 20 Temple teams represented in some capacity.
		As a 1969 Temple graduate — and a member of the University’s last NIT championship men’s basketball team — Baum has lived Cherry and White Days of the past and is looking forward to the revival.
	www.temple.edu /temple_times/4-14-05/cherrywhite.html (646 words)

	Morning Coffee & Afternoon Tea: National White Chocolate Day
		White chocolate actually isn't considered to be chocolate at all.
		White Chocolate Butter - this would be great with scones, muffins, etc for brunch or afternoon tea parties.
		I found an awful lot of recipes combining white chocolate and macadamia nuts, so I'm gonna guess that's a good flavor combo.
	coffeeworks.blogs.com /coffee_and_tea/2005/09/national_white_.html (325 words)

	White Cane Day 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A consortium of organizations of and for the blind is planning events throughout Wisconsin to remind citizens of the importance of pedestrian safety.
		Wisconsin's law states that motor vehicle operators are required to stop at least 10 feet from a pedestrian carrying a white cane or using a dog guide, who is attempting to cross a street.
		The fact that the pedestrian may be violating any of the laws applicable to pedestrians does not relieve the operator of a vehicle from the duties imposed by this subsection.
	www.wcblind.org /white_cane_day_2004.htm (735 words)

	inu_kai: Title: White DayWord Count: 443Genre: Si
		When Kaidou opened his shoe locker to retrieve the outdoor sneakers, it was full of white cloth instead.
		Kaidou remembered the day clearly: assuming chocolate would invalidate months of hard training, passed his Valentine’s chocolate on to Inui.
		He turned around, facing away from Inui, then pulled the green bandana from his head and tied the white one in a familiar knot over his hair.
	community.livejournal.com /inu_kai/94036.html (425 words)

	Higo Blog: White Day
		On White Day, Japanese guys traditionally give cookies to women who they like, or who hooked them up with chocolate on Valentines Day.
		That's right, over here Valentines Day is the day where the ladies make romantic plans and give presents and sweets to the guys.
		I was pleased to see that some momentum has been building behind setting up an American version of White Day.
	www.cosmicbuddha.com /adam/archives/000393.html (232 words)

	Powell Nantucket Off White Day bed - Free Shipping
		The Nantucket white day bed has an arched wood design.
		This stylish white day bed is great for any foyeur, bedroom, or guest room.
		Day bed requires the use of a link spring (Metal spring support system that holds the mattress).
	www.onewayfurniture.com /po950.html (160 words)

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