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5 unusual facts about Thomas P. Whitney


Amherst Center for Russian Culture

The Amherst Center for Russian Culture was created by Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts after the gift of a major collection of Russian books, manuscripts, periodicals and ephemera by Thomas P. Whitney in 1991.

The Gulag Archipelago

It was rendered into English by American Thomas Whitney; the English and French translations of Volume I appeared in the spring and summer of 1974.

Thomas P. Whitney

Thomas Porter Whitney (January 26, 1917 – December 2, 2007 in Manhattan, New York) was an American diplomat, author, translator, philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder.

A fan of Thoroughbred racing, as a hobby Whitney owned and raced several horses, most notably winning the Grade 1 Diana Handicap in 1983.

Thomas Whitney

Thomas P. Whitney (1917–2007), American diplomat, author and racehorse owner/breeder


1881 Hopkins tornado

Thomas P. Grazulis, in Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991/a Chronology and Analysis of Events, lists the tornado as "probably" an F5.

1966 Candlestick Park tornado

In the decades following the tornado, reassessments on the history of the storm have been made; most notably the Jackson, Mississippi branch of the National Weather Service and meteorologist Thomas P. Grazulis both indicate that there were two separate tornadoes.

1972 Hurricane Agnes tornado outbreak

Thomas P. Grazulis states that his criteria yielded fewer strong tornadoes than the official records.

Abdus Suttar Khan

Abdus Suttar Khan a Bangladeshi Oxford Scholar and distinguished aerospace researcher for four decades with NASA, Pratt & Whitney, and the power generation company Alstom (Switzerland).

Anthony N. Brady

Brady partnered with leading East Coast business tycoons such as Thomas Edison, William C. Whitney, P. A. B. Widener and Thomas F. Ryan in various business ventures including the Electric Vehicle Co., initially a motorized taxicab business that evolved into Maxwell Automobile Co..

April 1958 Florida tornado outbreak

Thomas P. Grazulis disputes the rating and classifies the event at F3 status.

Bach Air Yacht

Different models were powered by varying combinations of Wright, Ryan-Siemens, Kinner, Comet, and Pratt & Whitney engines, a large engine in the nose of the aircraft and two smaller "helpers" under the wings in nacelles supported by struts.

Black Donnellys

The publication of Thomas Kelley's The Black Donnellys in 1954 generated much interest in the case.

Branch Bocock

In 1907, Georgia head football coach Bull Whitney was caught in a controversy over the revelation that there were at least four paid professionals on the Georgia and Georgia Tech teams during the game played that year.

Copa Airlines Flight 201

A special team consisting of personnel from Copa Holdings, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney and the NTSB worked together with Panamanian civil aviation authorities on the investigation, which lasted one year.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse

U.S. Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Alfonse D'Amato, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Representative Jerrold Nadler, Second Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Jon O. Newman, Southern District of New York Chief Judge Thomas P. Griesa attended the ceremony.

DJ Delicious

With his first public release in 1993, "Chaos Tribe" on Thomas P. Heckmann's old "Uptown" label and 1996 with the first two records under the name "DJ Delicious", released by WEA Germany, he laid the foundation stone for the coming years as a producer and DJ.

Elizabeth Esty

When aerospace manufacturer Pratt & Whitney closed its Cheshire plant in 2009, Esty was among several politicians who fought to get workers new job placements or early retirement packages.

Energy–maneuverability theory

He teamed with mathematician Thomas Christie at Eglin Air Force Base to use the base's high-speed computer to compare the performance envelopes of U.S. and Soviet aircraft from the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

Fighter Mafia

The Fighter Mafia was a controversial group of U.S. Air Force officers and civilian defense analysts who, in the 1970s, advocated the use of John Boyd and Thomas P. Christie's Energy-Maneuverability (E-M) theory as the sole driver in designing fighter aircraft.

Boyd, defense analysts Tom Christie and Pierre Sprey, and test pilot Col. Everest Riccioni and aeronautical engineer Harry Hillaker formed the core of the self-dubbed "Fighter Mafia" which worked behind the scenes in the late 1960s to pursue a lightweight fighter as an alternative to the F-15.

Florence S. Jacobsen

As a church curator, Jacobsen supervised the restoration of many church buildings, including the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City; the E. B. Grandin building in Palmyra, New York; the Brigham Young home in St. George, Utah; the Jacob Hamblin home in Santa Clara, Utah; the Newell K. Whitney store in Kirtland, Ohio; and the interior of the Manti Utah Temple.

Francis Thomas Bacon

The patents for the fuel cell were licensed by Pratt and Whitney as part of a successful bid to provide electrical power for Project Apollo.

Indo-Semitic languages

The arguments presented for a relationship between Indo-European and Semitic in the 19th century were commonly rejected by Indo-Europeanists, including W.D. Whitney (1875) and August Schleicher.

Infotech Enterprises

2002 - Infotech announces strategic business relationship with Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies Corporation, a Fortune 100 company.

Ives House

Thomas P. Ives House, Providence, Rhode Island, a National Historic Landmark

Leonard S. Hobbs

In 1927 he became a research engineer at the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company and by 1944 was vice president of engineering for parent company United Aircraft Corporation.

Lester Reiff

Lord Durham also accused the brothers of involvement in a horse doping ring along with Enoch Wishard, William C. Whitney and other American gamblers.

Melville Clyde Kelly

This resolution, the Airmail Act of 1925 was signed into law on February 2, 1925, prompting many companies to venture into the aviation field (e.g., Boeing, Douglas, and Pratt & Whitney).

Meshomasic State Forest

Nike Ajax anti-aircraft missiles were located at HA-36 to protect Hartford’s aircraft industry from Soviet bombers.

Operation Greylord

Four United States Attorneys, Thomas P. Sullivan, Dan K. Webb, Anton R. Valukas and Fred Foreman supervised the investigations and prosecutions.

Phyllis A. Whitney

In 1961, her book The Mystery of the Haunted Pool won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Juvenile novel, and she duplicated the honor in 1964, for The Mystery of the Hidden Hand.

Pierre Jean Édouard Desor

After spending a few years in the north of Europe, especially in Scandinavia, investigating the erratic phenomena peculiar to that region, Desor accompanied Agassiz in 1847 to the United States, found employment in the coast survey, and made with Whitney, Foster, and Rogers a geological survey of the mineral district of Lake Superior.

Richard Benyo

In 1989, Benyo and his running partner, Tom Crawford, became the first to complete the run from Badwater in Death Valley (the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and one of the hottest places on Earth), to the peak of Mt. Whitney (at 14,494 feet highest point in the contiguous United States) and back, a total distance of 300 miles.

Sydney Paget

Sydney Augustus Paget (19 April 1857 – 16 September 1916) was an English aristocrat who owned and raced Thoroughbred racehorses in the United States and who managed the racing operations for prominent owners, William C. Whitney and James Ben Ali Haggin.

Thomas Cholmondeley

Thomas P. G. Cholmondeley (born 1968), Kenyan farmer, son and heir of the 5th Baron Delamere, convicted of manslaughter (7 May 2009)

Thomas Gerrity

Thomas P. Gerrity, former dean and professor of management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania

Thomas P. Barnett

Surviving examples include the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas, and the Saint Clement Catholic Church in Chicago.

Thomas P. Foy

He had been general counsel to the New Jersey AFL-CIO in the 1980s, and was later employed as senior vice president of business development for Hill International, where he worked on issues relating to the firm's construction projects on the Tappan Zee Bridge and Interstate 287 in Westchester County, New York.

Thomas P. Gerrity

:For the U.S. Air Force general and Thomas P. Gerrity's father, see Thomas Patrick Gerrity

Thomas P. Gordon

Tom Gordon was Co-commander of Delaware's first serial killer task force which led to the apprehension and prosecution of Steven Brian Pennell, the state's first and only known serial killer.

Thomas P. Grazulis

After teaching in New Jersey, he and his wife Doris moved to St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

Thomas P. Griesa

Judge Griesa is the sitting judge hearing a case regarding the Argentine debt restructuring.

Thomas P. Riccio

He has also served as a Visiting Professor at the Korean National University for the Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies and the University of Dar es Salaam.

Thomas Salmon

Thomas P. Salmon (born 1932), Governor of the U.S. state of Vermont, 1973–1977

Tom Dooley

Thomas P. Dooley, Judeo-Christian author, biomedical scientist, inventor

Wright XF3W

After the Navy took delivery of the aircraft, they installed a rival company's engine, the Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial.


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