Britain ’ s first airborne assault took place on February 10, 1941, when ' X ' Troop, No 11 Special Air Service Battalion ( which was formed from No 2 Commando and subsequently became 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment ) dropped into southern Italy from converted Whitley bombers flying from Malta and demolished a span of the aqueduct near Tragino in a daring night raid named Operation Colossus.

In 1930 Whitley asked to be re-assigned to mainland England and was subsequently given permission.

Whitley Stokes, secretary in the legislative department, was mainly responsible for the measures passed during Hobhouse's term of office, with the important exception of the Specific Relief Act, 1877, in which Hobhouse as an equity lawyer took an especial interest, and a revision of the law relating to the transfer of property, which became a statute after he left India.

The route initially proceeds eastwards through Whitley Wood to the University of Reading's Whiteknights Campus, where the marker is passed, before heading north.

* Communion ( book ), a book by Whitley Strieber about his purported abductions by aliens

* A Genetic Algorithm Tutorial by Darrell Whitley Computer Science Department Colorado State University An excellent tutorial with lots of theory

Richmond's elite society has also been portrayed in various popular culture references, such as in 1920s novels by Ellen Glasgow and James Branch Cabell, or the 1990s television sitcom A Different World, which featured the character Whitley Gilbert, an obnoxious and wealthy African American debutante.

* Dreamland, a weekly Internet radio show hosted by Whitley Strieber, discussing UFOs, aliens, the paranormal and other esoteric subjects ( http :// www. unknowncountry. com / dreamland / latest )

He was born in what is now Whitley County, Indiana, at either a small Miami village by Devil's Lake, or at a larger nearby village known as Turtletown.

Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus edited and translated by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan.

The Shannon reputedly hosts a river monster named Cata, first appearing in the Book of Lismore, an ancient Irish Manuscript, translated into English by Whitley Stokes.

Whitley County is located within the Cumberland Plateau of southeastern Kentucky, which is greatly overlapped by the broad Eastern Coal Field region of the state.

Whitley County, which had historically been dry, is now officially classified by the state as a moist county.

Laurel County, the eighteenth county to be organized in Kentucky, was established by an act of the general assembly, December 12, 1825, from parts of Rockcastle, Clay, Knox and Whitley Counties.

Corcoran was founded by Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a prominent land developer from southern California, promoter who platted some 150 towns in the West, who took the lead in building Corcoran ( the main street of the community is named in his honor ).

The Whitley County Courthouse was designed ( 1888 – 1891 ) by Brentwood S. Tolan, of Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The town is served by Whitko Community School Corporation and contains South Whitley Elementary and Whitko High School.

It is governed by Mayor Elbert L. " Whit " Whitley, Jr. ( who was re-elected in 2005 after a 28-year hiatus from the same position ) and a seven-member City Council.

Medford was founded by Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a land developer, banker, farmer and Rock Island Railroad executive.

At this point, the road is joined by the Maiden Way coming from Epiacum ( Whitley Castle ) to the south.

A donation was later made by Lord Beaumont of Whitley to Churchill College for the establishment of one, and the majority of fellows voted in favour of it.

Finally in May 1853, Aberdeen was forced to make a show of force, by sending a fleet under Admiral Armar Lowry Corry stationed in the Bay of Biscay to the island of Malta to join up with a squadron under Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas.

The first night interception was performed on the night of 13 – 14 August 1940 by Capitano Giorgio Graffer, when he located and opened fire on a British Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber that had been sent to attack Turin.

Samuel Hood was created Baron Hood of Catherington in 1778 by King George III, an Irish Baron in 1782 and Viscount Hood of Whitley, Warwickshire in 1796 with a pension of £ 2000 per year for life ( about £ 300, 000 a year in present ( 2010 ) terms ).

Aztlán has been used as the name of speculative fictional future states that emerge in the southwest US or Mexico after the central US government suffers collapse or major setback ; examples appear in such works as the novels Warday ( 1984 ), by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka ; The Peace War ( 1984 ), by Vernor Vinge ; The House of the Scorpion ( 2002 ), by Nancy Farmer ; and World War Z ( 2006 ), by Max Brooks ; as well as the role-playing game Shadowrun ( 1989 ).

* In the movie Purely Belter, Gerry's drug-addicted-sister Bridget is hiding out from her family at The Spanish City funfair in one of the waltzer cars on the Whitley Bay seafront.

* In The Catherine Tate Show, Geordie Georgie tries to get her co-worker Martin to sponsor her and her friends to pull a Boeing 747 from Whitley Bay to Tynemouth using only the B roads.

Karen's childhood was a rocky road, thanks in part to her unstable relationship with her mother, Lois Whitley ( played by Suzanne Pleshette ), a con artist who incorporated her young daughter into her schemes.

She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World.

Guy today remains best known for her starring role as southern belle Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World.

Travis Tritt contributed with his brand of rock-influenced country, while Lorrie Morgan ( daughter of Grand Ole Opry legend George Morgan ) became a star in her own right following the alcohol-poisoning death of her husband, Keith Whitley.

Elizabeth Whitley VanRiper Williams was one of the first female Lighthouse keepers to serve on the Great Lakes, and wrote a memoir that included her experiences at this light.

Fricke was born in South Whitley, Ind., in 1947 and learned piano and guitar as a child ; her first vocal influences were folk artists like Joan Baez and Judy Collins.

In 1869 he married Elizabeth Whitley, John's sister and a talented artist.

# Sarah Elizabeth Whitley ( born 30 November 1954 ), who married Timothy Felton ( born 8 March 1954 ) on 18 September 1982 and has two children: Emily Ilona Felton ( born 21 July 1985 ) and Chloë Amelia Felton ( born 17 June 1987 ), the latest descendants of the Marquesses of Cambridge.

The Green Party of England and Wales had one member of the ( unelected ) House of Lords, the Upper Chamber of Parliament, Lord Beaumont of Whitley, who died in 2008.

Two pioneers to be noted: Hobart Johnstone Whitley, promoter extraordinaire, one of the " Boomers " who built towns in a day after the 1889 " Oklahoma Land Rush ," who drew the designs for some 150 towns with a stick in the dust, including the San Fernando Valley cities of Van Nuys, Reseda, and Canoga Park, and founder of Hollywood, just over the hill.

David " Stringbean " Akeman, country music star who was born and raised in AnnvilleFreddie LangdonRandy Hays ( guitar player in the Keith Whitley Band ) Woody Brooks ( has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ) Andrew N. Johnson, Prohibition Party's 1944 nominee for vice president of the United States

Pertwee's brother James Raymond " Jiggy " Pertwee was an RAF Whitley Bomber pilot who was killed in a crash on a hillside close to a disused quarry above Bank Foot, Ingleby Greenhow, following a leaflet drop over Dortmund, Germany in June 1941.

Jerry Gervais met Eva Sophia House ( 1925 – 2000 ), who was English, during a blackout, and they settled in Whitley.

Houston is also the birthplace and final resting place of Chris Whitley ( 1960 – 2005 ) who won a Grammy for his Livin with the Law album and revolutionized the National steel Dobro guitar and enjoyed a massive cult following, but died prematurely of lung cancer in 2005.

Among the musicians who have played in the revived Clinch Mountain Boys are Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Larry Sparks, Curly Ray Cline, Jack Cooke, Roy Lee Centers, Charlie Sizemore, Ray Goins, and Ralph Stanley II.

The six men who had not landed in the drop zone were Royal Engineer sappers who were supposed to rig the aqueduct for demolition, and their Whitley had been carrying most of the explosives to be used in the operation.

It is sometimes improperly used to describe Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley, a life peer, who is properly described only as Lord Beaumont of Whitley.

This has led some UFOlogists to believe the story is genuine ( including the US author Whitley Strieber, who referred to the 1871 incident in his novel Majestic ).

She identifies his captors as the Streib ( a possible allusion to author / abductee Whitley Strieber ), a reclusive but advanced alien race who kidnap members of other races and experiment with them to determine their strengths and weaknesses.

The Espace's design was originally conceived in the 1970s by the British designer, Fergus Pollock, ( at around the same time as Giorgetto Giugiaro's 1978 Lancia Megagamma concept MPV ), who was working for Chrysler UK ( formerly the Rootes Group ), at their design centre at Whitley, ( now the Jaguar design centre ) in Coventry.

He moved to England in 1987 as a player-coach for Whitley Warriors ( near Newcastle upon Tyne ), who missed out on the league title by two points.

B. Whitley, PhD, who was previously minister at Montrose Old and St Andrew ’ s Parish Church.

Whitley does not address this group of local cults where an oracle developed, as in the case of Amphiaraus, who was swallowed up by a gaping crack in the earth.

The technical side was the responsibility of the engineering team in Ryton, while the styling was the responsibility of Chrysler's Whitley design studio in Coventry, led by Roy Axe ( who would leave the UK for Chrysler's headquarters in the USA before the car was launched ).

A recent series of survey trips to Sulawesi and the Minehasa forest area have been made in 2004-2009 by Vicki Melfi, who is EEP studbook holder for these macaques, based at Paignton Zoo / the Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust.