Thompson was eventually captured and put on trial, but was acquitted in the shooting, as Sheriff Whitney himself, a friend to both Thompson's, stated prior to his death it was an accident.

Eli Whitney, the man who invented the cotton gin and devised the idea of interchangeable parts, went to school at Leicester Academy, which eventually became Leicester High School.

The plans were scrapped, after the city of New Haven put up substantial financial barriers, and the proposed site was eventually filled with condominiums and shops ( Whitney Grove Square, among others ).

Rocketdyne was eventually sold by Boeing to UTC Pratt & Whitney in 2005.

* Whitney Valley Creek – An important stream in the north of the town that flows eventually into the Canisteo River and then into the Susquehanna River basin.

In the 1980s, Michael Jackson had record-breaking success with his albums Off the Wall, Bad, and Thriller – the latter remaining the best-selling album of all time – transforming popular music and uniting all races, ages and genders, and would eventually lead a revolution helmed by successful crossover black solo artists, including Prince, Lionel Richie, Luther Vandross, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, and Janet Jackson.

Here he decided to focus on engine areas not currently served by the larger companies ( General Electric and Pratt & Whitney ), eventually settling on helicopter engines.

Building on this experience, Whitney became a mining consultant, and eventually wrote the book, Metallic Wealth of the United States ( 1854 ).

The painting was eventually sold to a collector from the United States, and on her death in 1998 the painting's then owner, American Betsey Cushing Whitney, donated it to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C ..

After she moved out, she began to call herself Lee Whitney, and eventually, she became known as Grace Lee Whitney.

The rebellion eventually ended by diplomatic means brokered by the United States Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow, with the financial relief and assistance by the Knights of Columbus.

He was eventually forced out of office at the end of 1969 and succeeded as U. S. Attorney by Republican Whitney North Seymour, Jr.

The first officer, Peter Whitney, applied full reverse thrust to the left engine and idled the right, straightening the aircraft's path, and eventually starting to bring the aircraft back to the runway.

They were also approached by many songwriters, including Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics ( although the song was eventually not used ) and Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, writers of many hit singles including Whitney Houston's " So Emotional " and Madonna's " Like a Virgin ".

The tribe that Whitney was studying must have discovered the properties of these leaves, and used them to turn an animal into a weapon of war, that would eventually die when it had no more humans to kill.

" Her business eventually grossed over $ 100, 000 per year, a considerable sum for that time, and she eventually sold the business to George Whitney in 1881 after many successful years.

* Later the song was covered by Whitney Houston for her I'm Your Baby Tonight album, but it was eventually dropped from the tracklist and only appears on the Japanese edition as a bonus track.

His servant Robin Whitney threatened Quiney, who had Whitney bound to `` the good abaringe '' to keep the peace.

In the mid 1990s, Arthur Whitney, who had previously worked with Iverson, created K, which is used commercially in financial industries along with its descendant Q.

He and Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney undertook to modernize the navy and canceled construction contracts that had resulted in inferior ships.

The campus of Whitney Young High School and the adjacent Chicago Police Academy are two examples of the influence van der Rohe had on Chicago architecture.

Whitney and his teammates used the fast break, sending long passes downfield to riders who had broken away from the pack at a full gallop.

Under York, the Lab had four main programs: Project Sherwood ( the Magnetic Fusion Program ), Project Whitney ( the weapons design program ), diagnostic weapon experiments ( both for the Los Alamos and Livermore laboratories ) and a basic physics program.

Much of the drafting was drafted by two senior army officers with law degrees: Milo Rowell and Courtney Whitney, though others chosen by MacArthur also had a large say in the document.

As a patron of the arts, she had already achieved some success as the creator of the " Whitney Studio Club ," a New York – based exhibition space which she created in 1918 to promote the works of avant-garde and unrecognized American artists.

With the aid of her assistant, Juliana Force, Whitney had collected nearly 700 works of American art, which she offered to donate to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1929, but the museum declined the gift.

In 1931, architect Noel L. Miller converted three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village – one of which had been the location of the " Studio Club " – to be the museum's home as well as a residence for Whitney.

Each museum had its own director, and all plans were to be approved by a Whitney committee.

In May 2011 the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it had entered into an agreement to occupy the Madison Avenue building for at least eight years starting in 2015 easing the Whitney of the burden of having to finance two large museums.

On January 29, 2008, the Whitney Museum of American Art branch gallery at what had been the Philip Morris headquarters opposite Grand Central Terminal closed after a 25-year run.

* 1936: The first non-commercial flights to Madrid started with an Lockheed Sirius aircraft made out of wood lined with cloth, had a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine, a cruising speed of and no radio.

The woman who answers the phone, Mrs. Whitney, says that Mrs. Adams is in the hospital ; she had a nervous breakdown after finding out that her daughter, Nan, was killed in an auto accident in Pennsylvania six days ago, when the car she was driving blew a tire and overturned.

Whitney, at one time, had its own identity, one of a few small communities between Las Vegas and Henderson along Boulder Highway ( which was US 93 and US 95 at the time ).

Into the late 1980s, Whitney Elementary School had just two classes.

In the early 1990s, the outward growth of development in Las Vegas and Henderson, as well as the construction of the Interstate 515 bypass of Whitney, had a negative impact on businesses in the area.

In 2005, Brown signed a deal with Bravo to overlook the direction of the reality series, Being Bobby Brown, but it was said that he had to convince producers that his then-wife Whitney Houston would appear on the show.

His essay " Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape " was written in 1973 after Smithson had seen an exhibition curated by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers at the Whitney Museum entitled “ Frederick Law Olmsted ’ s New York ” as the cultural and temporal context for the creation of his late-19th-century design for Central Park.

In a column in the popular magazine Harper's Weekly, sports columnist Caspar Whitney had applied the nickname ; the sobriquet was appropriate because, by 1892, Camp had almost single-handedly fashioned the game of modern American football.

Reid, however, seemed to lose focus when it came to promoting its established acts such Whitney Houston and Toni Braxton, both of whom had been the label's biggest sellers over the years.

VH1 catered to adult top 40, including musicians such as Ace of Base, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Lisa Loeb, Seal, and other slightly more rock-oriented popular music than what it had originally played, though favorites such as Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Cher, Elton John, Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Céline Dion, still received heavy play as well.

In one of the many Manhattan properties Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her husband owned, Gertrude Whitney established the Whitney Studio Club at 8 West 8th Street as a facility where young artists could exhibit their works in 1914.

By the 1930s the place would evolve to become her greatest legacy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the site of today's New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Gertrude Whitney decided to put the time and money into the museum after the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art turned down her offer to contribute her twenty-five-year collection of modern art works.

" Steve Huey of Allmusic asserted that despite being born into a family of entertainers, Janet Jackson has managed to emerge a " superstar " in her own right, rivaling not only several female recording artists including Madonna and Whitney Houston, but also her brother, while " successfully her image from a strong, independent young woman to a sexy, mature adult.

This, along with the apparent preference for European modernism at the recently opened Museum of Modern Art, led Whitney to start her own museum, exclusively for American Art, in 1929.

For years Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney supported the museum single-handedly, as did her daughter, Flora Whitney Miller, after her, and until 1961 its board was largely family-run.

In 1999, her book The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made was published.

In England her evolving major project, ' Dartington Hall ', was for Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst in Devon ( 1932 – 37 ).

Grace Lee Whitney reprises her role as Janice Rand from the original television series.

Norwood's interest in music and performing increased after becoming a fan of singer Whitney Houston at the age of seven, but at school, she experienced trouble with persuading teachers to send her on auditions as she found no support among the staff.

At the start of her career, she often cited Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, and Mariah Carey, as her biggest musical inspirations, with Houston being her most prominent and personal influence.

# Dorothy Whitney from 1939 until her death.

Brook Kerr ( born November 21, 1973 ) is an American actress who is best known for her portrayal of Whitney Russell Harris on the television soap opera Passions.