Aoki has said that he wanted to bring martial arts to the same level of attainment as the works of great Western artists such as Beethoven, Van Gogh or Dostoyevsky, or the American writers he admired, notably Henry Miller, Jackson Pollock or Walt Whitman.

Grant County contains most of the Malheur National Forest and sections of the Wallowa – Whitman, Umatilla and Ochoco National Forests, and has more than of federally-designated Wilderness Areas.

It has also provided big votes for independent conservative Third Party candidates opposing liberal Republicans, particularly in 1997, when 13 % of county voters backed two conservative independent candidates against incumbent Governor Christine Todd Whitman.

According to Whitman, himself among the most outspoken of 19th century anti-Stratfordians, she was " the sweetest, eloquentist, grandest woman … that America has so far produced …. and, of course, very unworldly, just in all ways such a woman as was calculated to bring the whole literary pack down on her, the orthodox, cruel, stately, dainty, over-fed literary pack – worshipping tradition, unconscious of this day ’ s honest sunlight.

It has been claimed that Whitman is the youngest person in the world ever to become an Eagle Scout, although this claim is impossible to ascertain as official records held by the Boy Scouts of America are not published.

A township that was once composed of several housing projects gravitating around the Wedgwood, Whitman Square, Birches, Birches West, and Hurffville neighborhoods has expanded outwards.

Poetry by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes and Charles Bukowski has focused on the natural beauty of Secaucus.

Alex Whitman ( Matthew Perry ) is an architect from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build.

Whitman has recorded " I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day " and " You Make Christmas Feel So Good " for School's Out!

Whitman has also been featured on her show Parenthood in the song " Gardenia " on the season 2 episode " The Booth Job " along with current boyfriend, Landon Pigg.

In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said " I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed.

Walt Whitman wishes respectfully to notify the public that the book Leaves of Grass, which he has been working on at great intervals and partially issued for the past thirty-five or forty years, is now completed, so to call it, and he would like this new 1892 edition to absolutely supersede all previous ones.

It has been credited as “ representing the core of Whitman ’ s poetic vision .”

As Oscar, Spinney has written How to Be a Grouch, a Whitman Tell-A-Tale picture book.

Whitman also has a Scottish Terrier named Coors, who is the mother of former president Bush's dog Barney.

Whitman has been a resident of Tewksbury Township, New Jersey.

Since 2003, Whitman has been a member of the Board of Directors for Texas Instruments and United Technologies.

Whitman currently has an energy lobbying group called the Whitman Strategy Group which states itself to be " a governmental relations consulting firm specializing in environmental and energy issues.

US 130 comes to an interchange with Route 76C that has access towards I-76, I-676, and the Walt Whitman Bridge to and from the northbound direction of US 130.

" o American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound.

Slim Whitman has been performing for over 60 years.

The University's English Department has one of the world's top programs in the digital humanities, with renowned digital archiving projects such as the Walt Whitman Archive and the Willa Cather Archive.

Sachs has received honorary degrees from Connecticut College ; Lehigh University ; Pace University ; the State University of New York ; Cracow University of Economics ; Ursinus College ; Whitman College ; the Mount Sinai School of Medicine ; Ohio Wesleyan University ; the College of the Atlantic ; Southern Methodist University ; Simon Fraser University ; McGill University ; Southern New Hampshire University ; St. John's University ; Iona College ; University of St. Gallen in Switzerland ; the Lingnan College of Hong Kong ; and the University of Economics Varna in Bulgaria.

Whitman Books also published three hardcover novels aimed at young readers and based upon the series.

The poetry of Walt Whitman also had a profound effect on Holst, as it did with many of his contemporaries, and he set Whitman's words in " Dirge for Two Veterans " and The Mystic Trumpeter ( 1904 ).

Holst also wrote an orchestral Walt Whitman Overture in 1899, which was given a world premiere recording by the Munich Symphony Orchestra, as well as a recording by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

" Like the Times review, Meltzer also compared Patchen's work to Walt Whitman and the Bible in addition to William Blake.

In September 1953, at the age of twelve years and three months, Whitman also earned the rank of Eagle Scout.

" Whitman also lamented his actions in his self-penned journal, in which he resolved to be a good husband and not an abusive husband as his father had been.

It is believed that at this point, Whitman ceased to fire from above above the parapet surrounding the observation deck and instead chose to fire through waterspouts located upon each side of the tower walls ; allowing him to fire largely protected from gunfire below, but also greatly limiting his range of targets.

Ramiro Martinez, an officer who participated in stopping Whitman's rampage, later stated that civilian shooters should also be credited for their actions as the return fire Whitman encountered made it difficult for him to take careful aim at those whom he fired upon.

Dr. Heatly also referenced an ominous statement that Whitman did not himself refer to in his final, written letters prior to the shootings:

Whitman then also frisked the suspect while a state trooper photographed her, and the image of the smiling governor frisking the suspect was published in newspapers statewide.

Huntington Station was also the birthplace of poet Walt Whitman.

It is also home to St. Anthony's High School and Walt Whitman High School.

As the county seat, Colfax is also home to the Whitman County Courthouse and the Whitman County Jail.

Whitman started her career with a voice over for a Tyson Chicken commercial, a role her mother had also auditioned for.

In the movie Independence Day ( 1996 ), Whitman played the President's daughter ; she also played George Clooney's daughter Maggie in One Fine Day ( 1996 ) and Sandra Bullock's daughter Bernice in Hope Floats ( 1998 ).

A number of 1970s-era titles were also reprinted under the Modern Comics imprint and sold in bagged sets in department stores ( in much the same way Gold Key Comics were published under the Whitman Comics branding around the same time ).

Griswold also suggested, in Latin, that Whitman was guilty of " that horrible sin not to be mentioned among Christians ", one of the earliest public accusations of Whitman's homosexuality.

In 1855, the Christian Spiritualist gave a long, glowing review of “ Song of Myself ”, praising Whitman for representing “ a new poetic mediumship ,” which through active imagination sensed the “ influx of spirit and the divine breath .” Ralph Waldo Emerson also wrote a letter to Whitman, praising his work for its " wit and wisdom ".

Whitman also starred with John Wayne in the Western movie, The Comancheros, in 1961, and received top billing as the romantic lead in the extravagant aerial epic Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines in 1965.