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2 unusual facts about Whitaker's skink


Whitaker's skink

The Department of Conservation and the Friends of Mana Island are running a five year project to catch and breed enough animals from the vulnerable Pukerua Bay colony to establish a sustainable population on nearby predator-free Mana Island.

There is also a mainland population in a small rocky area at the base of coastal hills at Pukerua Bay, near Wellington.


2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl

It was later revealed that Whitaker had been admitted to an alcohol treatment center in Salem, Virginia.

Bad Books

"Forest Whitaker" was also featured on hit comedy How I Met Your Mother towards the end of the season 9 episode Bass Player Wanted.

Bisbrooke

The Gate was run by Ruby D’Arcy from 1968 to 2012 and many a schoolboy from Uppingham School (Stephen Fry, Rick Stein, Jonathan Agnew, David Whitaker and Johnny Vaughan among them) has slipped across the fields from Uppingham to relax, away from their masters’ watchful gaze.

Bishop of Peterborough

Whitaker's Almanack Joseph Whitaker & Sons Ltd. and A&C Black Publishers Ltd., London, 1883 to 2004

Bojer's skink

It occurs in patches of the Black River Gorges National Park and on some off-shore islands of Mauritius including Ilot Vacoas, Round Island, Serpent Island, Ilot Gabriel, Pigeon Rock, Flat Island, Gunner’s Quoin, Ile aux Aigrettes, and Ile de la Passe.

Capital Area School for the Arts

Since CASA is located downtown, the students have the opportunity to use the city as the "classroom", because of the numerous resources the offered (such as the nearby Susquehanna Art Museum and the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts.

Corinne Whitaker

Whitaker has collected African Tribal Art and Indian art, and donated both her African tribal Indian arts to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California.

Denis Whitaker

Whitaker's sports career was equally illustrious, beginning with captaincy of the RMC ice hockey and Canadian football teams.

Ekwow Spio-Garbrah

The Church's founder, Nicholas Duncan-Williams is married to the famed US trade expert Rosa Whitaker of the Whitaker Group, once US Under Secretary to Africa.

Ellen Whitaker

Royal Rose (*1998), Dutch Warmblood, Stallion, Father: Calvados, Owner: Steven Whitaker

Equimax Ocolado (* 1996), Dutch Warmblood, Gelding, Father: Habsburg, Mother's Father: Calvados, Owners: Dawn Makin & Steven Whitaker

On 26 February 2011, Ellen Whitaker announced her engagement to actor Henry Cavill.

Eric Bruskotter

In season 2 of Sports Night episodes entitled Kyle Whitaker's Got to Sacks and The Reunion.

Eric E. Whitaker

Whitaker serves on the boards of Partnership for Prevention, Grinnell College, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs (co-chair of GlobalHealth Policy Roundtable), and the Economic Club of Chicago.

Whitaker received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Grinnell College in 1987, and in 1993 a master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health and a medical degreefrom the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

Fitzroy Island National Park

The dominant predators on the island are reptiles; particularly pythons (brown and green), monitor lizards and the Major's skink.

Frederic Whitaker

Over his career Whitaker received more than 150 awards from art organizations across the United States, among them the Horatio Alger Award, and was made a Fellow of Britain's Royal Society of Arts.

Hampton Cove, Huntsville

The partners purchased the acreage just over Monte Sano Mountain from several different landowners including Burritt and Whitaker to develop a golf course and subdivision in what was then open countryside between the city of Huntsville and the rural communities of Big Cove, Gurley and Owens Cross Roads.

Inventure Academy

Inventure Academy has had guest lectures from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni and gone on field trips to Lalbagh(Theme), a gasification plant (Science), Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (Science).

Students of Inventure Academy have had Guest Lectures from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni, and have gone on trips to Lalbagh (Theme), a gasification plant (Science), Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (Science) and Indian Institute of Science, Intel, Navadarshanam.

John A. Whitaker

Whitaker was elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Earle C. Clements.

John Savile, 1st Baron Savile of Pontefract

He was buried in Batley church, Yorkshire, where a monument, with an inflated inscription (printed by Whitaker), was raised to his memory by his daughter, Anne Leigh.

Kenn Whitaker

Kenn has two brothers, Forest Whitaker (b. 1961) and Damon Whitaker (b. 1970) and a sister, Deborah Whitaker, who are all also actors.

Lou Whitaker

Trammell and Whitaker also made a cameo appearance together on the television show Magnum, P.I. starring Tom Selleck, as themselves, during the 1983 season.

Mana Island, New Zealand

One important project is the translocation of the critically endangered Whitaker's Skink from the only remaining mainland population at nearby Pukerua Bay.

Middle East Media Research Institute

In an e-mail debate with Carmon, Whitaker asked about MEMRI's November 2000 translation of an interview given by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem to al-Ahram al-Arabi.

Murdoch Macdonald

However Who was Who, The Times and Whitaker's Almanack all show Macdonald with the description Liberal National in 1945.

Orma W. Wallengren

Under the name of Clair Whitaker she was a writer for several TV shows including The Waltons and Falcon Crest.

Race for the Yankee Zephyr

Gilbert Carson/Gibbie Gibson (Donald Pleasence) — A hunter and the lodge host of Barney Whitaker, he finds the plane wreck in the mountains and is the father of Sally Carson and Gibbie is eventually taken prisoner by Theo and his henchmen.

Richard Whitaker

Whitaker is also the Chief Meteorologist on The Weather Channel, following his esteemed thirty-year career as a meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology.

Whitaker began working with the Bureau of Meteorology in 1971, aged twenty-four.

Rodney Whitaker

In 2006, Whitaker was nominated for the Juno Award Traditional Jazz Album of the Year for Let Me Tell You About My Day, his album in collaboration with Phil Dwyer and Alan Jones.

Rogers E. M. Whitaker

Whitaker lived in a theatrical boarding house down the hall from Mae West and worked at the New York Times checking bridal announcements for hoaxes placed by jilted suitors while also selling advertising for a trade magazine.

Ronyell Whitaker

Ronyell Deshawn Whitaker was born March 19, 1979 in Norfolk, Virginia, the son of Sylvonia Whitaker and the nephew of boxer Pernell 'Sweet Pea' Whitaker.

Rudolph Sze

The Washington Post of December 24, 1911 noted that "Sze, the Chinese Player, Will Take Place of Whitaker."

In April 1911, the University of Pennsylvania team (Whitaker, Sze and M. J. Teltelbaum) toured New England, where they played matches against Harvard University, Yale University, and Brown University Chess Clubs.

Sarah Rhodes

On 1 December 1807 in Leeds, Sarah married a banker, Stephen Nicholson (1779 Chapel Allerton -23 Feb 1858 Roundhay), son of William Nicholson and Grace Whitaker, who inherited Roundhay Park and Chapel Allerton estates on 8 February 1833 after the death of his older half-brother Thomas' widow.

The Ten Commandments: The Musical

The original cast included Val Kilmer, Kevin Earley, Lauren Kennedy, Adam Lambert, Luba Mason, Alisan Porter, Nita Whitaker, Michelle Pereira, Nicholas Rodriguez and Ipalé.

Vivian Schilling

In 2006 she portrayed feminist and author Gertrude Atherton (b. 1857–1948) opposite Campbell Scott's Ambrose Bierce (b. 1842–1915?) in the film anthology Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories. In 2012, Schilling provided the voice of Buttercup in Toys in the Attic alongside co-stars Forest Whitaker, Joan Cusack and Cary Elwes.

Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts

The Whitaker Foundation and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund have contributed over $8 million to the center.

Whitaker's Almanack

In the short story "A Holiday Task" by Saki, a titled amnesiac looks through the list of peers in Whitaker's in an unsuccessful attempt to remember who she is.

It is also mentioned in Virginia Woolf`s short story "The Mark on the Wall".

Wyanbene Caves

A sheep and cattle farming area, there is still much wildlife including wombats, greater gliders, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Echidna, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, wallabies, Red-bellied Black Snakes, Tiger Snake, Cunningham's Skink and native fish in the Wyanbene Creek and nearby Shoalhaven and Duea rivers.


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