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Whitehead and never
Whitehead planned a fourth volume of Principia Mathematica, on geometry, but never wrote it.
He flatly refused to talk about Whitehead, and when I asked him why, he said: ' That SOB never paid me what he owed me.
I will never give Whitehead credit for anything.
As to whether Whitehead's wife resented matters, Stella Randolph wrote " Mrs. Whitehead talked very freely and frankly with the writer, who made several visits to her home, in the 1930s, and there was never any intimation that she harbored any resentment about the past.
Whitehead built an under-powered over-weight biplane that Stanley Beach designed, which never flew.
O ' Dwyer said it was " hard to understand " why the Smithsonian never contacted Whitehead or his family to learn more about the flight claims.
" Steeves related that Whitehead said to him, " Now since I have given them the secrets of my invention they will probably never do anything in the way of financing me.

Whitehead and lost
The Peter Whitehead / Ian Stewart and Tony Rolt / Duncan Hamilton cars blew head gaskets, and the Stirling Moss / Peter Walker car, the only one not overheating, lost oil pressure after a mechanical breakage.
Towards the end of the 2010 – 11 season Whitehead lost his place in the starting eleven to a resurgent Glenn Whelan, making a number of cameo appearances from the bench.
During the Battle of Drøbak Sound in April 1940, the German navy lost the new heavy cruiser Blücher, one of their most modern ships, to a combination of fire from various coastal artillery emplacements, including two obsolete German-made Krupp 280 mm ( 11 in ) guns and equally obsolete Whitehead torpedos.

Whitehead and German
In 1877 he was chosen to visit the Whitehead Torpedo development works at Fiume and afterwards was placed in charge of the German torpedo section, later renamed the torpedo inspectorate.
In 1940, the German heavy cruiser Blücher was sunk during the invasion of Norway by two, at that time very antiquated, Whitehead torpedoes, launched underwater from fixed, shore-mounted tubes.

Whitehead and acquired
In 1911 a controlling interest was acquired in Whitehead and Company, the torpedo manufacturers.
In 1943 the college acquired the leasehold of No 72 Woodstock Road ( known as The Shrubbery ) from Dame Gertrude Whitehead for £ 1, 500.
In June 2009, Korn / Ferry acquired the London-based executive search firm Whitehead Mann, a leading international talent management firm known for its CEO and board relationships and strong roster of clients throughout Europe.
Krypton Broadcasting filed for bankruptcy in 1993, and the station was acquired by Whitehead Media at auction in 1994.

Whitehead and American
* 1949 – John Whitehead, American singer-songwriter and producer ( McFadden & Whitehead ) ( d. 2004 )
Whitehead faced competition from the American Lieutenant Commander John A. Howell, whose own design, driven by flywheel, was simpler and cheaper.
* John Henry Days, 2002 American novel by Colson Whitehead, which explores the story of the African-American folk hero of the same name
* November 23-Henry S. Whitehead, American author
* March 5-Henry S. Whitehead, American author ( died 1932 )
The Flatiron's other original tenants included publishers ( magazine publishing pioneer Frank Munsey, American Architect and Building News and a vanity publisher ), an insurance company ( the Equitable Life Assurance Society ), small businesses ( a patent medicine company, Western Specialty Manufacturing Company and Whitehead & Hoag, who made celluloid novelties ), music publishers ( overflow from " Tin Pan Alley " up on 28th Street ) and other miscellaneous concerns ( a landscape architect, the Imperial Russian Consulate and the Bohemian Guides Society ), as well as the offices of the Roebling Construction Company, owned by the sons of Tammany Hall boss Richard Croker.
two British teams Tom Parrick and Fiona Whitehead and Marcus Demuth, a solo American.
Whitehead has a world-renowned faculty that includes the recipients of the 1997 and 2010 National Medal of Science ( Robert Weinberg and Susan Lindquist, respectively ); nine Members of the National Academy of Sciences ( David Bartel, Gerald Fink, Rudolf Jaenisch, Eric Lander, Susan Lindquist, Harvey Lodish, Terry Orr-Weaver, David Page, and Weinberg ); three Members of the Institute of Medicine ( Fink, Lander, and Weinberg ); and seven Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( Jaenisch, Fink, Lander, Lindquist, Lodish, Page and Weinberg.
During his period of active aeronautical work, Whitehead attracted notice from various newspapers, Scientific American magazine, and a book about industrial progress.
Claims for Whitehead's best-known reported manned powered flights depend largely on a newspaper article that said he achieved the feat in Connecticut in August 1901, and on an unsigned Scientific American article in September 1903 describing Whitehead making short flights low to the ground in a motorized triplane originally designed as a glider.
In two published letters he wrote to American Inventor magazine, Whitehead said the flights took place over Long Island Sound.
In his first letter to American Inventor, Whitehead said, " This coming Spring I will have photographs made of Machine No. 22 in the air.
A full-page article in the 19 September 1903 Scientific American told of Whitehead making powered flights.
Whitehead described his No. 22 aircraft and compared some of its features to the No. 21 in a letter he wrote to the editor of American Inventor magazine, published 1 April 1902.
In his first letter to American Inventor, Whitehead claimed he made four " trips " in the airplane on 14 August 1901 ; and that the longest was one and a half miles.
Beach claimed authorship of only one Scientific American article about Whitehead, that of 8 June 1901, a few weeks before the report in the Bridgeport Sunday Herald.
Unsigned articles in Scientific American in 1906 and 1908 did state that Whitehead had flown in 1901, but gave no details.
O ' Dwyer asserted that all the articles in Scientific American which mentioned Whitehead had been written by Beach, but did not offer proof.
Strict Uncle Millard ( Paxton Whitehead ) has no patience for Leopold's disrespect for the monarchy, chastising him and telling him he must marry a rich American, as the Mountbatten family finances are depleted.
He received the Whitehead Prize in 1990, the Fermat Prize, the Ostrowski Prize in 2001, the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society in 2002, and the Shaw Prize for Mathematics in 2007.
McFadden and Whitehead were an American songwriting, production, and recording duo, best known for their signature tune " Ain't No Stoppin ' Us Now ".
* Football ( 1978 video game ), an American football game developed by Bob Whitehead of Activision for the Atari 2600
John Thomas Lupton ( 1862 – 1933 ) was an American lawyer, industrialist and philanthropist who along with Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola.

Whitehead and .
The principal defender of this view of primary experience as `` causal efficacy '' is Alfred North Whitehead.
What Hume calls `` sensation '' is what Whitehead calls `` perception in the mode of presentational immediacy '' which is a sophisticated abstraction from perception in the mode of causal efficacy.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
But contrary to Whitehead, philosophy is not a synonym for Plato.
Finally, we may also mention the several members of the self-consciously `` neoliberal '' movement that developed at the University of Chicago and is heavily indebted philosophically to the creative work of Alfred North Whitehead.
* 1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
* 1785 – William Whitehead, English writer ( b. 1715 )
* John Whitehead, Grasping for the Wind.
Later that year, Bill Renwick, Augustus ( Bert ) Bertelli and a number of rich investors, including Lady Charnwood, took control of the company and renamed it Aston Martin Motors, and moved it to the former Whitehead Aircraft Limited works in Feltham.
This approach was continued by Russell and Whitehead in their influential Principia Mathematica, first published 1910-1913, and with a revised second edition in 1927.
Russell and Whitehead thought they could derive all mathematical truth using axioms and inference rules of formal logic, in principle opening up the process to automatisation.
In 1794 he married Isabella Whitehead, and lived for a time at Bath.
It is sometimes known by the metonym The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street or simply The Old Lady, a name taken from the legend of Sarah Whitehead, whose ghost is said to haunt the bank's garden.
) A. N. Whitehead, while reading some of Peirce's unpublished manuscripts soon after arriving at Harvard in 1924, was struck by how Peirce had anticipated his own " process " thinking.
Other views of God affirmed by members of the Conservative movement include Kabbalistic mysticism ; Hasidic panentheism ( neo-Hasidism, Jewish Renewal ); limited theism ( as in Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People ); and organic thinking in the fashion of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, also known as process theology ( such as Rabbis Max Kaddushin, William E. Kaufman, or Bradley Shavit Artson ).
* 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher ( b. 1861 )
Roughly a quarter of the contributors are deceased, some as long ago as 1947 ( Alfred North Whitehead ), while another quarter are retired or emeritus.
* Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, Principia Mathematica to * 56, Cambridge at the University Press, 1962.
* Testimony of Barbara DaFoe Whitehead, Ph. D, Co-Director, National Marriage Project Rutgers University, before US Senate Subcommitee
* 1861 – Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher ( d. 1947 )
* Clay T. Whitehead, former director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy

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