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Whitehead (surname)
Whitehead is a surname. Recorded in a number of spellings including Whithead, Whitehed, Whithed, and Whitsed, this surname is of English language, English origins. It usually derives from the Old English pre–7th century word "hwit" meaning white, plus "heafod", a head, combined to form a descriptive nickname for someone with white hair. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Whitehead (born 1980), British swimmer * Adrian Whitehead (born 1975), Australian rules footballer * Agathe Whitehead (1891–1922), British heiress, wife of Georg von Trapp * Alan Whitehead (other), multiple people * Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), British philosopher and mathematician * Alfred Whitehead (1887–1974), English composer, organist, choirmaster and music educator, active in Canada * Mrs. Andrew Whitehead (died 1920), American blizzard victim * Annie Whitehead (born 1955), English jazz trombone player * Axle Whitehead (born 1980), Australian entertainer * Barb Whitehead (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgess Whitehead
Burgess Urquhart "Whitey" Whitehead (June 29, 1910 – November 25, 1993) was a Major League Baseball second baseman from 1933 to 1946. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and Pittsburgh Pirates. Biography Whitehead was born in Tarboro, North Carolina. He graduated from Augusta Military Academy in Fort Defiance, Virginia in 1927. He attended the University of North Carolina and started his professional baseball career with the Class AAA Columbus Red Birds in 1931. He batted over .300 in each of the next three seasons,"Burgess Whitehead Minor League Statistics & History" ''baseball-reference.com''. Retrieved 2010-10-28. helping to lead the 1933 team to the |
Don Whitehead
Don Whitehead (April 8, 1908 in Inman, Virginia - January 12, 1981) was an American journalist. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom. He won the 1950 George Polk Award for wire service reporting. He was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, and 1953 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. Education Whitehead studied at University of Kentucky from 1926 to 1928. Career Kentucky Beginning in 1928, Whitehead worked for the newspapers ''Lafollette Press'' and the ''Daily Enterprise'' in Harlan, Kentucky, and he covered the Harlan County War. World War II Beginning in 1935, he worked for the Associated Press, covering World War II. His beats included coverage of the Eighth Army in Egypt, in September 1942, after which he was transferred to cover the American Army in Algeria. He then covered the Allied invasion of Sicily at Gela, with the First Infantry Division, the Allied invasion of Italy at Salerno, and the Italian campaign. He landed at Anzio in January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Whitehead
Derek Whitehead (born 14 February 1944) is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain national rugby league team, Great Britain and Rugby League War of the Roses, Lancashire, and at club level for Folly Lane ARLF(in Pendlebury), Swinton Lions, Swinton, Oldham R.L.F.C., Oldham and Warrington Wolves, Warrington (List of Warrington Wolves players, Heritage № 694), as a Goal (sport)#Rugby football, goal-kicking , i.e. number 1. Background Derek Whitehead was a pupil at The Swinton High School, Cromwell Road Secondary Modern School for Boys in Pendlebury from 1955 to 1959. Playing career International honours Derek Whitehead won Cap (sport), caps for Great Britain national rugby league team, Great Britain while at Warrington in 1971 against France (2 matches), and New Zealand. Challenge Cup Final appearances Derek Whitehead played , scored seven Goal (sport)#Rugby football, goals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Whitehead
Dean Whitehead (born 12 January 1982) is an English former professional footballer and coach. A midfielder who occasionally played at right-back, he made 622 league and cup appearances in a 19-year playing career, scoring 29 goals. Whitehead joined his local non-League club Abingdon Town before he signed for Football League club Oxford United in 1999. He played for Oxford in the Second Division until their relegation into the Third Division in 2001. He was signed by Championship club Sunderland in 2004. He won promotion in his first season with Sunderland, although they were relegated from the Premier League after one season. He was made captain by Roy Keane as Sunderland claimed an instant return to the top flight. After two more seasons in the north-east, Whitehead signed for Stoke City in 2009. He helped Stoke reach the 2011 FA Cup Final, where the team finished runners-up to Manchester City. After spending four seasons with Stoke, Whitehead signed for Middlesbrough in 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Whitehead (other) (1896–1992), Australian Army officer
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David Whitehead may refer to: * David Whitehead (businessman) (1790–1865), American businessman * David Whitehead (climate scientist), Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi * David Whitehead (priest) (c. 1492–1571), English evangelical priest * David Whitehead (soldier) Brigadier David Adie Whitehead, (30 September 1896 – 23 October 1992) was an Australian Army officer who fought in both First World War, First and Second World Wars. Early life and First World War Born on 30 September 1896 in Leith, Scotlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colson Whitehead
Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of eight novels, including his 1999 debut work '' The Intuitionist''; '' The Underground Railroad'' (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020 for '' The Nickel Boys''. He has also published two books of non-fiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Genius Grant. Life Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan. He is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents who owned an executive recruiting firm. As a child in Manhattan, Whitehead went by his first name Arch. He later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson. He attended Trinity School in Manhattan and graduated from Harvard University in 1991. In college, he became friends with poet Kevin Young. Early in his career, Whitehead lived in Fort Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Whitehead
Clive Robert Whitehead (born 24 November 1955) is an English former footballer. Life and career Whitehead was born in Northfield, Birmingham. He played for Bordesley Green Boys and Northfield Juniors during his youth and had a trial with Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1971. In March 1973 he joined Bristol City and turned professional with the club five months later. He scored the winning goal to help the club to achieve promotion from the Second Division in 1975–76. Whitehead was transferred to West Bromwich Albion in November 1981, for a fee of £100,000, and made his debut for his new club away at Tottenham Hotspur in a First Division match. During the 1985–86 season he was loaned to Albion's local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers. He joined Portsmouth on a free transfer in July 1987 and remained with the club until another free transfer to Exeter City in July 1989. A move to Yeovil Town followed in October 1990, with Whitehead taking up the role of player-manager, but he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay T
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay particles, but become hard, brittle and non–plastic upon drying or firing. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide. Clay is the oldest known ceramic material. Prehistoric humans discovered the useful properties of clay and used it for making pottery. Some of the earliest pottery shards have been dated to around 14,000 BC, and clay tablets were the first known writing medium. Clay is used in many modern industrial processes, such as paper making, cement production, and chemical filtering. Between one-half and two-thirds of the world's population live or work in buildings made with clay, often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Whitehead
Cindy Whitehead (born June 15, 1962) is an American professional skateboarder and activist. A pioneer of vertical skateboarding, she was inducted into the Skateboarding Hall of Fame in 2016. She is married to photographer Ian R. Logan. Skateboarding career Whitehead began freestyle skateboarding at Hermosa Beach Pier, California, alongside notable skateboarders such as Steve Rocco. After the opening of Skateboard World Skatepark in Torrance, California she began skating halfpipe. In early 1978 she competed at the Hang Ten Olympics at Magic Mountain, in California representing Skateboard World Skatepark and performing a freestyle skateboard routine to The Steve Miller Band's song, "Swingtown". Whitehead placed third for girls ages 13–17. Also in 1978, She was approached by photographer Bruce Hazelton to shoot a series of photos of her skateboarding the plexiglass 360 ramp at Fountain Valley Skatepark in Fountain Valley, California, for ''Wild World of Skateboarding'' Magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chryssie Whitehead
Chryssie Whitehead is an American actress, singer and dancer on Broadway, film and television as well as a passionate educator, director and choreographer. Early life and education Whitehead grew up in South Carolina. During her first year of high school, she was in a community theatre production of ''A Chorus Line'', in which she played a cut dancer and understudy to Judy. Career Off Broadway Before appearing on Broadway, Whitehead was a Rockette in Los Angeles and New York City at the start of her career right out of high school. She toured and performed in '' Fosse'', ''The Will Rogers Follies'', '' All Shook Up'' and Paul McCartney's "Driving Rain" tour. On Broadway Her Broadway debut was starring in the 2006 Broadway revival of ''A Chorus Line'', in which she played the character of Kristine alongside Tony Yazbeck. The audition process that she took to get the role can be seen in ''Every Little Step'', a documentary of the ''A Chorus Line'' Broadway revival casting p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Whitehead
Christian Whitehead, also known by his alias The Taxman, is an Australian video game programmer and designer. He is most recognized for his work creating updated ports of early games in Sega's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series, as well as being the lead developer of an original game in the series, ''Sonic Mania''. He has also developed multiple remakes of classic ''Sonic'' games and most recently, the remasters in ''Sonic Origins''. Career In 2006, Whitehead worked as a freelance 3D animator with the company Kine Graffiti. Since 2009, he has focused on game development, developing various fangames based on the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' series. In 2009, Whitehead produced a "proof-of-concept" video of ''Sonic CD'' running on an iPhone using his own custom engine, the "Retro Engine". In an interview with Steven O'Donnell of '' Good Game: Spawn Point'', Whitehead proclaims that he spent "about a year or so" convincing Sega to let him work on the ''Sonic CD'' port. In 2009, a video reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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