Northeast Regional service south to Alexandria, Richmond, Williamsburg, and Newport News formally began on June 14, 1976, when Amtrak ended the Newport News ' section ' of the James Whitcomb Riley.

Despite his heavy teaching load and administrative duties at Virginia Tech, where he had just become head of a large civil-engineering program, Morris made steady progress on his section of the book, eventually contributing more than twice as much material as Whitcomb.

In 1976 Amtrak brought the name back for the New York-Newport News Colonial to replace the removed Newport News section of the James Whitcomb Riley.

The strip ( whose title was borrowed from James Whitcomb Riley's 1885 poem " Little Orphant Annie ") was " conservative and topical ", according to the editors of The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia, and " represents the personal vision " of Gray and Riley's " homespun philosophy of hard work, respect for elders, and a cheerful outlook on life ".

Price's work was subsequently adapted and updated by Henry M. Morris and John C. Whitcomb, Jr. in their The Genesis Flood in 1961.

The first explosion-proof electric mine locomotive was designed and built by Whitcomb in 1914 and after exhaustive tests the United States Bureau of Mines issued its “ Permissibility Plate .” Whitcomb was the first builder of locomotives for underground work to receive such an endorsement.

He built upon the previous work of other engineers such as Elias Howe, Max Wolff, and Whitcomb Judson.

Price's ideas were borrowed again in the early 1960s by Henry M. Morris and John Whitcomb in their book The Genesis Flood, a work that skeptic Martin Gardner calls " the most significant attack on evolution ... since the Scopes trial ".

Morris ' work with John C. Whitcomb, The Genesis Flood, has been criticized for taking quotes out of context and misquoting sources.

The saline springs were also the site of the first settlement, made by Seymour Treat in 1819, along with the Beckwith and Whitcomb families.

2Route 2, runs from the southeast of town through to the west and intersects with the Mohawk Trail near the Whitcomb Summit, at the western border of town, is the highest point along the trail, and has an observatory, as well as a monument to the Elks Club, whose members helped modernize the trails and worked on the Hoosac Tunnel.

Milwaukie post office was established in 1850, with Whitcomb as the first postmaster.

Whitcomb spent 15 years with the FBI and was involved with the Waco Siege, Los Angeles riots of 1992, and Ruby Ridge.

Fuselage shaping was similarly changed with the introduction of the Whitcomb area rule.

April 1955: Whitcomb examines a model aircraft designed in accordance with his area rule.

The issue of dissension was open membership to individuals who had not been baptized by triune immersion, although the larger issue had more to do with Whitcomb himself.

MLW's long-established steam locomotive competitor, the Canadian Locomotive Company ( CLC ), had also entered into a partnership with Baldwin and imported and produced the designs of Baldwin and its subsidiary Whitcomb.

Late in his career, he was briefly associated with James Whitcomb Riley with whom he wrote two books.

Many factors went into the selection of the eastern quadrant, but by using it, the city was able to erect an elevated viewing platform with a gazebo-style roof, picnic tables, an area to build a re-creation of a hobo jungle, a display of strap rail track, a small preserved Whitcomb switching locomotive ( manufactured by the Whitcomb Locomotive Works of Rochelle ), and a paved parking lot.

Morris and Whitcomb argued that creation was literally 6 days long, that humans lived concurrently with dinosaurs, and that God created each ' kind ' of life individually.

However, the result of this collaboration was less than outstanding — the Whitcomb locomotives built for the Canadian National Railway with Sterling diesel engines proved problematic, and orders for Baldwin-designed locomotives were modest.

Whitcomb admitted that he had slept with Demont, who was already known to have slept with the coachman Sacchi, thus further ruining Demont's tarnished reputation.

At the 1953 ASA meeting, Whitcomb had been impressed by a presentation of Henry M. Morris — a hydraulic engineer with a PhD from the University of Minnesota — called " The Biblical Evidence for Recent Creation and Universal Deluge.

Whitcomb and Morris instead published with the small Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, whose owner Charles H. Craig had long wanted to acquire a manuscript that supported catastrophism.

" Again, in the words of a critic, Arthur McCalla, the growth in young-earth creationism occurred not only because modern fundamantalists were more ignorant than in previous generations, but also because young-earth creationism " better defended a plain-sense reading of the inerrant Bible than did the old-Earth creationism of Ramm and the earlier Fundamentalists .... Legions of Bible believers responded gratefully to Whitcomb and Morris because their system eliminated once and for all the need for interpretative contortions that twist and bend the words of the Bible in order to reconcile them with the findings of modern science.

Solum noted " Whitcomb and Morris are mistaken about the nature of the rocks associated with thrust faults.

* ( with co-author John C. Whitcomb ) The Genesis Flood: The Biblical Record and Its Scientific Implications, Presbyterian & Reformed Publishing, Philadelphia, 1961.

Morris and Whitcomb argued that the Earth was geologically recent, that the Fall of Man had triggered the second law of thermodynamics, and that the Great Flood had laid down most of the geological strata in the space of a single year.

Whitcomb specifically addresses the local flood theories of Bernard Ramm — who has far more entries in the index than any one else.

Several dozen Christian magazines reviewed the book and generally praised its defense of the scriptural account of the Flood, although few seemed to understand that accepting Whitcomb and Morris meant rejecting the day-age and gap theories.

Ian Whitcomb said " Buddy Holly and the Crickets had the most influence on the Beatles.

Several days later Whitcomb had a " Eureka " moment.

Whitcomb realized that the Sears-Haack shaping had to apply to the aircraft as a whole, rather than just to the fuselage.

Martin then had nineteen consecutive wins, including two against Jamie Whitcomb and Suzanne Riccio-Major as well a rubber match win against Buchanan.

Whitcomb had been working on testing various airframe shapes for transonic drag when, after watching a presentation by Adolf Busemann in 1952, he realized that the Sears-Haack body had to apply to the entire aircraft.

The first Whitcomb electric trolley locomotive was produced in 1921, and in 1929 Whitcomb designed and built the largest gasoline-electric locomotive that had then been offered to American railroads.

British servants who had been in Caroline's household, including Keppel's valet John Whitcomb, also testified in Caroline's favour.

Right after defeating Martin, she had a second victory against Whitcomb, who lasted five full rounds this time, before losing a unanimous decision to DeShong.

" Whitcomb had earlier studied geology and paleontology at Princeton University, but by the 1950s, he was teaching Bible at Grace Theological Seminary.

With no illusions about his scientific expertise, Whitcomb sought a collaborator who had a PhD in science.

With the legislature out of session and the state's coffers empty, Whitcomb had no funds for the enterprise.

Governor Whitcomb had already started a movement in the legislature to call a constitutional convention, and Dunning continued to support the effort to have a ballot initiative to replace the constitution.

Though the movement had begun long before, in 2002 the Marching Chiefs ' practice field was named in honor of Manley Whitcomb.