Whitley Stokes believed this latter spelling was a due to a false etymology popular at the time.

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.

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.

Whitley, the Father of Hollywood, was the General Manager of the Syndicate.

Whitley County was created on January 17, 1818 from adjacent Knox County, Kentucky.

The namesake of the county, Colonel William Whitley, is famous locally for fighting many of these battles within the area, safeguarding the Wilderness Road, as well as for his service in the War of 1812, where he was killed at the Battle of the Thames.

A Whitley County special grand jury returned a 21-count indictment against Sheriff Hodge while he was still Sheriff ( November 8, 2010 ).

The majority of the county was carved out of Wayne and Whitley Counties, with a large center strip following the rail line and roadway from Pulaski County.

Until a road was built from Whitley County in 1931, the primary access to the Falls what through McCreary.

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.

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

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.

* 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.

* Hugo Fox ( born February 2, 1897 in South Whitley ; died December 29, 1969 in South Whitley ) was the principal bassoonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1922 to 1949.

A statue of Whitley playing his guitar can be seen in the local cemetery, and a local street was renamed " Keith Whitley Boulevard.

The city was founded in 1818 and named after William Whitley.

The town was then known at Whitley Courthouse.

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.

The new section was long, with locks at Ferrybridge, Whitley, Pollington and Goole.

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.

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.

Whitley also had a huge home along his ceremonial boulevard, the " first house " you saw as you turned from Chandler Blvd.

The county seat, Williamsburg, is also named for Colonel Whitley, with the first court held at the home of the town's earliest resident, Samuel Cox.

Autry also sang the classic Ray Whitley hit " Back In The Saddle Again ," as well as many Christmas holiday songs, including " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town ," his own composition " Here Comes Santa Claus ," " Frosty the Snowman ," and his biggest hit, " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

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.

Whitley is also referred to in the charters of King Henry II, King Richard I and King John, confirming to the priors their possessions and liberties.

Monkseaton, which forms the greater part of the north west of the district, is also very old and its industries were common with those of Whitley being chiefly coalmining and limestone quarrying.

* In the BBC series Our Friends in the North, several scenes take place on or around the Whitley Bay seafront ( such as the Rendezvous Cafe ), it is also name checked several times.

New York also benefits from an extensive bus service to the town of Whitley Bay, even though the town of North Shields is slightly closer to the village.

He also taught Latin, Greek and Classical Studies at Whitley Bay High School from 1983-88 and was well known by pupils for his hippy length hair and recitation of the Odyssey in Greek without translation whilst seated cross legged on the teacher's desk.

Although he was raised in Penshaw, he also lived in Great Lumley and Barley Mow near Chester-le-Street, later moving to Whitley Bay.

O ' Neal is most remembered for his starring role as Youngblood Priest in the blaxploitation film Super Fly and the Cuban officer Colonel Bella in the film Red Dawn, although he also had recurring roles on the television show Living Single as Synclaire's father and as Whitley Gilbert's father on A Different World.

He also had a pompous letter from his father, a letter from the family solicitor, and a letter from Ernest Whitley Jones, joint general manager of Lloyds Bank, demanding payment of an overdraft of £ 79 19s 2d (£ 79. 96 ).

Whitley Bay Football Club ( also known as The Bay, or The Seahorses ) are an English football club based in the North-East of England.

Whitley Bay also won the Northumberland Senior Cup six times in the space of 10 years, and they were also runners up on another occasion.

Finally, to finish a memorable season in charge, Whitley Bay also won the Northumberland Senior Cup, beating Newcastle Blue Star 2 – 1 at Hillheads Park.

He also taught urban ministry at Whitley College, a college of the University of Melbourne.

She has also had touring stints as bassplayer with Ani DiFranco and Chris Whitley, and played on Sarah McLachlan's album Solace.

** and also: Etna-Troy Township, Whitley County, Indiana

Having also had various professional basketball and ice hockey teams as tenants for much of its history, since 2009 it has had no ice hockey team after the departure of the Newcastle Vipers to the Whitley Bay Ice Rink, and no basketball team since the departure of the Newcastle Eagles to Northumbria University's Sport Central arena in 2010.

He was also associated with Whitley Stokes, Eleanor Hull and Kuno Meyer and his work had a substantial influence on the scholarship of Roger Sherman Loomis.

It was also used in gun turrets, such as the dorsal turret in the Bristol Blenheim, the nose turret in the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and the rear turret of the Fairey Battle ( see photo at top ).

He is also mentioned under 10 May, his feast-day in the " Felire " of Óengus the Culdee published by Whitley Stokes for the Henry Bradshaw Society ( 2nd ed.