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White House can refer to:
[edit] Buildings
- White House, Washington, D.C., the official residence of the President of the United States of America.
- White House, Moscow, a government building in Moscow, Russia
- White House, Bishkek, the presidential palace of the Kyrgyz Republic
- White House, Budapest, the office building of Hungarian MPs.
- White House of the Confederacy, Virginia, USA, a grey mansion built in 1818, now part of the Museum of the Confederacy
- The White House, a department store owned by the American retail company Dunlaps
- White House, Greenwich, London, England, the retirement house of George Biddell Airy, it is not far from the Royal Observatory
- "White House," a nickname for the Winnipeg Arena, an indoor arena in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- "The White House," code among the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990's for a house nearby their practice facility where some partook in illegal activities.
- The residence of Dawood Ibrahim in Dubai
[edit] Places
[edit] Computer games
- White House (Zork), a landmark in the Zork series of computer games
[edit] See also
[edit] Other languages
- The Italian expression for "White House" is "Casa Bianca", and the US White House is called thus in that language. Casa Bianca (or Casabianca) also has other meanings, cf. Casabianca.
- The French expression for "White House" is "Maison Blanche", and the US White House is called thus in that language. Maison Blanche also has these other meanings:
- The Turkish expression for "White House" is "Beyaz Saray", literally the "White Palace". The equivalent expression "Ak Saray", which is also the name of a city (Aksaray), is not used in this context.