Walt Whitman, who was raised by parents inspired by Quaker thought, later wrote: " George Fox stands for something too — a thought — the thought that wakes in silent hours — perhaps the deepest, most eternal thought latent in the human soul.

The company's stranglehold on the region was broken by the first successful large wagon train to reach Oregon in 1843, led by Marcus Whitman.

For a time during the 19th century pantheism was the theological viewpoint of many leading writers and philosophers, attracting figures such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge in Britain ; Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Germany ; Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the USA.

By the turn of the 20th century, the last group of passenger pigeons, all descended from the same pair, was kept by Professor Charles O. Whitman at the University of Chicago.

The last attempt to breed the remaining specimens was done by Whitman and the Cincinnati Zoo, which included attempts at making a rock dove foster passenger pigeon eggs.

Whitman sent Martha, which was to be the last known specimen, to Cincinnati Zoo in 1902.

By the 19th century the philosophers Schopenhauer and Nietzsche could access the Indian scriptures for discussion of the doctrine of reincarnation, which recommended itself to the American Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson and was adapted by Francis Bowen into Christian Metempsychosis.

His thesis was The distribution of the binomial coefficients modulo p. He became a professor of mathematics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.

The second full English translation, into modern English, is the work that resulted from this decision by collaborating translators I. Bernard Cohen and Anne Whitman ; it was published in 1999 with a guide by way of introduction.

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.

Noël was a Christmas album of traditional material, while Baptism was akin to a concept album, featuring Baez reading and singing poems written by celebrated poets such as James Joyce, Federico García Lorca and Walt Whitman.

This run was in turn continued under the Whitman Comics imprint until the company completely ceased comic book publication in 1984.

Adams County was formed out of Whitman County on November 28, 1883.

He was particularly inspired by Walt Whitman.

This imprint continued until the late 1970s, after which newsstand distribution was discontinued in favor of distribution to toy stores under the " Whitman Comics " banner.

Whitman County was formed out of Stevens County on November 29, 1871.

It is named after Marcus Whitman, a Presbyterian missionary who, with his wife Narcissa, was killed in 1847 by members of the Cayuse tribe.

Lincoln County was created out of Whitman County on November 24, 1883.

Franklin County was formed out of Whitman County on November 28, 1883.

The county was established in 1885 and is named for Cornelius Gilliam, who commanded the forces of the provisional government of Oregon after the Whitman Massacre.

Emerson, who greatly admired Bacon, and who was sceptical of her claim originally, wrote that she would need ' enchanted instruments, nay alchemy itself, to melt into one identity these two reputations ', and retrospectively remarked that America had only two " producers " during the 1850s, " Our wild Whitman, with real inspiration but checked by titanic abdomen ; and Delia Bacon, with genius, but mad and clinging like a tortoise to English soil.

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.

His portrait of Walt Whitman ( 1887 – 1888 ) was the poet's favorite.

One comic book adaptation of the film ( Whitman comics, published in 1980 ) bypasses the whole issue of what happens inside the black hole by having the crew enter the black hole on one page and emerge apparently unharmed on the next page into a parallel universe where they encounter alternate versions of Reinhardt, Old B. O. B.

Later, apparently on a spur of the moment, she lends Randy a copy of Walt Whitman ’ s Leaves of Grass, which Randy starts to devour.

From the 1940s to the 1980s, Western published several series of books for older children and young teenagers, initially under its Whitman line.

Perhaps because he was free of the discipline and routine he had experienced while stationed at Guantanamo Bay, plus his courtship of a fellow student whom he later married, Whitman was initially a poor student whose grades were largely unimpressive.

Whitman was initially cast in the 2007 series remake of The Bionic Woman, playing the deaf younger sister of the title character.

Whitman studied computer music at Berklee College of Music, where he was exposed to modern electronic music composition and synthesis ( Whitman claims that before this he was initially drawn to making music by listening to the radio in the New York city suburbs in the early 80 ′ s ).

Whitman initially stated that they " never received those letters ", however, after a hand-written note on the document was shown, believed to be from Whitman's husband, they acknowledged they may have received it, but forgot.

David Whitman of Rhode Island served as an advisor during the construction and setup of the mill, which was initially fitted with 10, 000 spindles, with room for 5, 000 more.

Among other honors, Antler received the Whitman Prize from the Walt Whitman Association, given to the poet " whose contribution best reveals the continuing presence of Walt Whitman in American poetry ," in 1985.

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.

As Whitman crouched with his back positioned toward the north wall in the northwest corner area of the observation deck and trained his sights in the direction of Day and Crum ( both of whom were obscured from Whitman's view behind of the tower ), Martinez jumped around the corner into the northeast area and rapidly fired all six rounds from his. 38 police revolver from a distance of approximately 50 feet at Whitman-all of which missed.

As Martinez fired towards Whitman, McCoy jumped to his ( Martinez's ) right and fired two fatal shots of 00-buckshot with his 12-gauge shotgun into the head, neck, and left side of Whitman.

According to authors Mark Lindsay and David Lester, Houston McCoy, one of the two Austin Police Department officers who shot and killed Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower sniper, believed that Whitman could have shot him and fellow officer Ramiro Martinez, but " he was waiting for them, and wanted to be shot.

Three of the fatalities were killed inside the university's tower, with 11 others murdered after Whitman fired at random targets from the 28th floor observation deck of the Main Building before Whitman was shot and killed by Austin Police Officer Houston McCoy.

Prior to his advancing upon the tower, McCoy had seen his colleague, Billy Speed, shot and killed by Whitman.

Emily and Theodore Whitman, ex-vaudevillians in their seventies, perform an old routine (" The Rain on the Roof ").

Equally memorable and influential on Walt Whitman is Emerson's idea that " a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Other Friedman tunes include " The Ballad of Charles Whitman ," in which Friedman lampooned Whitman's sniper attack from the University of Texas at Austin's Main Building tower on August 1, 1966.

This work began in 1936 as a cantata for alto solo and orchestra, loosely based on a few select poems by Walt Whitman.

* Symphony No. 1, Versuch eines Requiem for alto and orchestra ( 1950 ) – revised version of Symphonisches Fragment ( on texts by Walt Whitman )

* Kantate for soprano and orchestra on texts by Walt Whitman ( 1936 ); later retitled Lamento and in 1938 revised as Symphonisches Fragment, whence Symphony No. 1

Ginsberg cites Artaud's " Van Gogh -- The Man Suicided by Society " as a direct influence on " Howl ", along with Apollinaire's " Zone ", García Lorca's " Ode to Walt Whitman ", and Schwitters ' " Priimiititiii ".

During the Christmas and Easter seasons, the Lewiston Jaycees have two large lighted displays on the Lewiston Hill ( technically, the Washington side, and specifically, in Whitman County, above Clarkston in Washington state ), visible from nearly everywhere in the valley.

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 ).

Charles Joseph Whitman ( June 24, 1941 – August 1, 1966 ) was an engineering student and former Marine who killed 13 people and an unborn child and wounded 32 others in a shooting rampage located in and around the Tower of the University of Texas on the afternoon of August 1, 1966.

Charles Joseph Whitman was born on June 24, 1941 in Lake Worth, Florida, the eldest of three sons born to Charles and Margaret Whitman.

In addition, Whitman Sr. regularly took his sons on hunting trips, and Charles became an avid hunter and accomplished marksman, with his father later stating: " Charlie could plug ( shoot ) the eye out of a squirrel by the time he was sixteen.

As the number of addresses Whitman had to deliver to was so great, on occasions, his family used their own car to assist their son on his route-particularly in bad weather.

Whitman entered the mechanical engineering program at the University of Texas on September 15, 1961.

Two close friends of Charles Whitman named John and Fran Morgan later told the Texas Department of Public Safety that Whitman had confided in them that he had struck Kathy on a total of three occasions, adding that Whitman had abhorred himself for having done so and had confessed to having been " mortally afraid of being like his father.