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4 unusual facts about Whitley


Armstrong Whitworth Wolf

Alongside the RAF's order in 1923, Armstrong Whitworth also built two for the RAF Reserve Flying School at Whitley, and a final, sixth aircraft in 1929.

Talbot Samba

As with previous Talbot and Chrysler Europe models, styling of the T15 was the responsibility of the British design centre in Whitley, Coventry.

Whitley, Berkshire

The playing fields between the A33 and the Basingstoke Road in south west Whitley are home to the only known colony of Grass Adders in the UK.

William Petre, 13th Baron Petre

Petre, sent from Whitley Abbey, Coventry, is undated but signed ‘Petre’ so would have been written after July 1884 and probably towards the midsummer of 1885 when the school at Northwood House was about to be closed.


Alice Stevens

Alice Stevens School, a special secondary school in Whitley, Coventry, England

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley

With Hampdens, the Whitley made the first bombing raid on German soil on the night of 19/20 March 1940, attacking the Hornum seaplane base on the Island of Sylt.

Augustin de La Balme

In northeast Indiana, near the Allen – Whitley County line, along the Eel River, A brass and stone marker placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1930, reads: "In memory of Col. Augustin de La Balme and his soldiers who were killed in battle with the Miami Indians under Little Turtle at this place, November 5, 1780."

Battle of the Thames

Whitley, of Crab Orchard, Kentucky, volunteered for the raid on Tecumseh's camp, and was killed during the attack.

Brierdene

The burn rises near the village of West Holywell, thence to the north of Earsdon, through Brierdene Farm and across Whitley Bay Golf Club, through a small valley, under the main road to Blyth A193 road, across the beach and into the sea.

Buckland-in-the-Moor

In 1927 The Lord of Buckland Manor, Mr Whitley, learnt that parliament had rejected a proposed revision of the Book of Common Prayer using Jesus' Two Commandments instead of Moses' Ten, at Holy Communion.

Byrchall High School

Rodney Robert Porter, biochemist, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the structure of antibodies, Whitley Professor of Biochemistry from 1967-85 at the University of Oxford

Carpenter, Kentucky

Carpenter was named for its first postmaster and doctor, Ensley A. Carpenter, who moved to Whitley County shortly after the Civil War from neighboring Claiborne County, Tennessee.

Charles Orville Whitley

In 1976 Whitley ran for Congress himself and was elected as a Democrat to the 95th United States Congress.

Corcoran, California

Whitley first intended the town be named "Otis", after Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, and streets as Otis, Sherman, Letts (the Broadway store) and Ross (after his son, Ross Whitley) show the connections.

Cullercoats Metro station

This section of the railway ran between Tynemouth and Whitley Junction (now Monkseaton Metro station), with Cullercoats being the only stop in between.

Durrus

Members of the Attridge, Baker, Dukelow, Gay, Gosnell, Shannon, Skuse, Swanton and Whitley families who hailed from the Durrus area settled in Rochester, New York in the early 1840s and were influential in Republican politics and city administration; they were known as the "99 Cousins"

Ebberston

The bomb hailed from a 'Whitley Mark V Bomber', of the No. 102 Squadron RAF, based at RAF Linton-on-Ouse which crash landed on October 27, 1940, with all personnel having bailed out and survived.

Edgar Crow Baker

Baker was born in Lambeth, then part of Surrey, England, the son of Edward William Whitley Baker, and was educated at the Royal Hospital School in Greenwich.

Foudry Brook

After passing under the M4 motorway, the stream passes between the Green Park Business Park and the Madejski Stadium and football centre west of Whitley, where it provides the water for the meadow-landscaped lakes.

Gerhard Bigalk

Bigalk died on 17 July 1942 when U-751 was sunk with all hands by depth charges dropped by a Whitley bomber from No. 502 Squadron RAF and a Lancaster bomber from No. 61 Squadron RAF in the North Atlantic north-west of Cape Ortegal, Spain.

Herbert Whitley

2003 - August 14 - Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust purchased Newquay Zoo to operate as part of the charitable trust with Paignton Zoo and Living Coasts.

Honda Campus All-Star Challenge

An episode of A Different World entitled "Goodwill Games" revolves around the premise of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert competing in Hillman College's Campus All-Star Challenge tournament.

Jeff Whitley

Jeffrey "Jeff" Whitley (born 28 January 1979 in Ndola, Copperbelt Province) is a Zambian-born Northern Irish former professional football.

Jim Moginie

Moginie is still active in record production, recently co-producing Melbourne band The Fauves latest LP "When Good Times Go Good" released September 2008 and working with Bill Chambers, Lyn Bowtell, Blind Valley, Leah Flanagan, The Backsliders, Jordan Leser, Catherine Britt, Whitley Kate Plummer, Love Parade and numerous others.

Jim Whitley

Born in Ndola, Zambia to a Zambian mother and Irish father, Whitley originally wished to become a golfer.

Following his retirement, Whitley instead began performing as a singer and dancer in stage shows, appearing in productions called Christmas Crooners and The Rat Pack's Back, taking the roles of Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis, Jr. in the respective shows.

Joe D. Whitley

Joe D. Whitley, currently in private practice at Greenberg Traurig, was the first General Counsel for the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Land Rover

Land Rovers are currently assembled in the company's Halewood and Solihull plants, with research and development taking place at JLR's Gaydon and Whitley engineering centres.

Michael Maltz

This interest has surfaced most publicly in his critique of John Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime (see "A Note on the Use of County-Level Crime Data" and "Measurement and Other Errors in County-Level UCR Data: A reply to Lott and Whitley" below) based primarily on a detailed analysis of the validity of the Uniform Crime Reports data set that Lott used to draw his conclusions.

Natalie D-Napoleon

In the live arena, D-Napoleon has shared billings with the likes of Morphine, Ken Stringfellow, Jack Frost (featuring Steve Kilbey and Grant McLennan), The Stems, John Butler, Ash Grunwald, Dan Kelly, Whitley, Nic Dalton, Todd Snider, John Doe, Mark Olson, Victoria Williams and Vic Chesnutt.

News Guardian

Over the years the newspaper has reported some of the biggest stories to hit the north east including the Meadow Well Riots on September 9 1991, the decline of the ship yards on the Tyne, and the long-running police investigation into the Sara Cameron murder - the 21-year-old Finnish student found dead in Whitley Bay on April 28 2001.

Orectolobus

Orectolobus halei Whitley, 1940 (Gulf wobbegong or Banded wobbegong)

RAF Tholthorpe

From August 1940 to December 1940, Tholthorpe was a landing field for Whitley bombers of No. 58 Squadron RAF and No. 51 Squadron RAF based at Linton.

Ray Whitley

In 1938, Whitley was signed to RKO Pictures and made 59 movies, over 20 of them short western musicals where he played the lead role.

Ria Vandervis

She played the role of the villainess Miratrix in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, and currently portrays Emergency Department Surgeon prodigy Harper Whitley on the long-running TV2 soap opera Shortland Street.

South Whitley, Indiana

Janie Fricke, country music artist, was born in South Whitley in 1947.

Will Cuppy (1884–1949), humorist and journalist, spent summers when he was a boy at the farm of his grandmother, Sarah Collins Cuppy, near South Whitley.

Spinyfin

This family is represented in the fossil record by the extinct Absalomichthys velifer Whitley 1933 from the Late Miocene of Southern California.

United Kingdom Aerospace Youth Rocketry Challenge

The finalists were: North Halifax Grammar School, 1114 (Gosforth) ATC Squadron, Worksop College, Abbeyfield School, 10th Chippenham Air Scouts, Perse School, Victoria College Belfast, Ashville College, Airedale Academy, Egglescliffe School, Lostock Hall Academy, The Royal Liberty School, Whitley Bay High School, Longstone School and Boston Spa School.

Western trumpeter whiting

The species has only ever been assigned one synonym, S. maculata burrus by Whitley in 1948 with apparently no reason given for the reassignment, although McKay also treated the species as a subspecies of S. maculata in his comprehensive revision of the Sillaginidae.

Wherever You Are Tonight

#"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" (Whitley, Cook, Gary Nicholson) – 3:02

Whitley County, Kentucky

Its rugged terrain, densely forested woodlands, and a history of conflict with local Indian tribes all combined to make for a very slow rate of growth in Whitley County.

Wilson Whitley

Wilson Whitley (May 28, 1955 – October 27, 1992) was a consensus All-American defensive tackle at the University of Houston from 1972-1976 under defensive coordinator Don Todd.


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