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2. Whitewash - Wikipedia

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   Whitewash, calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, asbestis or lime paint is a type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH) 2) or chalk (calcium carbonate, CaCO 3), sometimes known as "whiting". Various other additives are sometimes used.

3. Whitewashing in art - Wikipedia

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   Head of Christ by Warner Sallman (1941) is the most widely reproduced image of Jesus, despite the fact that he was a Hebrew man from the Middle East. Whitewashing in art is the practice of altering the racial identity of historical and mythological figures in art as a part of a larger pattern of erasing and distorting the histories and contributions of non-whites.

4. Wash (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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   In interior design, a wash or color wash of paint on a wall can be used to create a textured effect as a faux finish. [2]In ceramics, a wash is typically a coloring oxide thinned with water applied to the piece to achieve an effect similar to a glaze.

5. La Rábida Friary - Wikipedia

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   The refectory is a rectangular room with parallel rows of tables and a whitewashed pulpit or lectern for reading or lecturing or preaching. The library holds documents and objects of historical interest, most notably the map of the world of Juan de la Cosa on which, for the first time, the coast of the Americas appears.

6. Whitewashing (communications) - Wikipedia

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   Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone's reputation.

7. Before Yesterday We Could Fly - Wikipedia

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   Tillet praised the use of a "traditional period room, a genre that is increasingly scrutinized by critics for its whitewashing of history", changing it from something that claims to be an accurate portrayal of the past to something that "[embraces] how the racial contradictions of New York City's history and the utopian aspirations of Seneca ...