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  John Henry Whitehead Biography | World of Mathematics
John Henry Constantine Whitehead (known commonly as Henry Whitehead), had a large influence on the development of homotopy theory, which is based on a certain kind of mapping of topological spaces.
The son of a bishop, Whitehead was born in Madras, India on November 11, 1904.
Whitehead never seemed to be a brilliant student, perhaps because of the many other interests that distracted him and sadness over the long separation from his parents.
www.bookrags.com /biography/john-henry-whitehead-wom   (650 words)

  
 John Whitehead - Biography - AOL Music
Born July 2, 1948, Whitehead and McFadden were raised in the same impoverished Philadelphia neighborhood.
Whitehead and McFadden returned to Philadelphia, forming Talk of the Town with James Knight and Lloyd Parks.
On May 11, 2004, Whitehead was shot to death while repairing his car on a Philadelphia street; he was 55-years-old.
music.aol.com /artist/john-whitehead/137642/biography   (452 words)

  
 About John W. Whitehead
Whitehead's concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson, in addition to writing a weekly commentary that is posted on The Rutherford Institute’s website (www.rutherford.org), as well being distributed to several hundred newspapers, and hosting a national public service radio campaign.
Whitehead continues to speak out in defense of a woman's right to be free from sexual harassment and frequently comments on a variety of legal issues in the national media.
www.rutherford.org /About/AboutJWW.asp   (631 words)

  
 John C. Whitehead Biography
Born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Montclair, New Jersey, John C. Whitehead graduated from Haverford College in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy, participating in the invasions of Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
John began his professional career in 1947 at Goldman, Sachs and Co. where he remained for 38 years, retiring in 1984 as Co-Chairman and Senior Partner.
Whitehead currently serves as chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the organization responsible for rebuilding and rejuvenating New York following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
www.clarke.edu /news/NDWMedallion/whitehead.htm   (243 words)

  
 Colson Whitehead (Bold Type Magazine)
The original John Henry story is one of almost Norse fatalism: an ambidextrous giant narrowly defeats a steam drill in a contest to drive steel through a mountain, to make way for a railroad.
John Henry Days is full of human embodiments of this theme, people pursuing symbolic victories for their own obscure reasons, even at significant personal risk.
If John Henry were at the Alamo, his death would augur prosperity for future generations of his countrymen, rather than the end of a way of life for himself and thousands of his fellows.
www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0501/whitehead   (418 words)

  
 John Whitehead Music
John and his group made his first recording on the Stax label entitled, "The Echo," a record that brought the group local fame.
John Whitehead performed live around the world and at home in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love for such events as the Philadelphia 76ers' 2001 NBA playoffs and the 2002 NBA All-Star Basketball game.
John's new CD is entitled "Messages" and it includes such great inspirational songs as, "Let Freedom Ring", "Stand Tall" and a remake of John's "Wake Up Everybody".
www.letfreedomringinc.com /john-whitehead-bio.htm   (462 words)

  
 John Whitehead (singer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Whitehead (July 10, 1949 - May 11, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Whitehead converted to Islam in 1996 and received an LL.D. from Bates College.
On May 11, 2004, John Whitehead was murdered by two unknown gunmen while fixing his car on the street outside his Philadelphia home with a friend.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Whitehead_(singer)   (178 words)

  
 Amazon.com: John Henry Days: Books: Colson Whitehead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Whitehead's (The Intuitionist) second novel is an introspective character study surrounding the legend of folk hero John Henry.
A John Henry festival in a small West Virginia town draws a diverse crowd, including J. Sutter, a freelance writer going from one event to another in search of free food and paid expenses; and Pamela Street, a restless woman grieving for her father.
The big picture is presented through the prism of John Henry's 19th century battle against the soulldless steam drill and J. Sutter's inner struggle to survive in the souless world of frelance, junketeering oriented writing in the 21st century.
www.amazon.com /John-Henry-Days-Colson-Whitehead/dp/0385498209   (1855 words)

  
 Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
JOHN C. John C. Whitehead was born in Evanston, Illinois.
Whitehead graduated from Haverford College in 1943, and served in the U.S. Navy, participating in the invasions of Normandy, Southern France, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Whitehead is Chairman Emeritus of the Brookings Institution and the Trustees Council of the National Gallery of Art.
www.renewnyc.com /AboutUs/board.asp   (4120 words)

  
 The John Whitehead Page
Whitehead was a director of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation in 1990.
John Whitehead was elected to the National Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society in 2000.
John Whitehead resigned as a director of i-STAT in 1995, and was elected director emeritus.
www.smokershistory.com /Whitehea.htm   (1021 words)

  
 Whitehead
The Whitehead genealogy by C. Curtis states and Daniel Whitehead born 1603 had sons Daniel and David, but a note states that John Ingersoll father in law of Adam Whitehead who died intestate in Huntington, L. in 1681 was appointed administrator to his estate.
John Whitehead _ mf ____ ___ __ Kate _ _ with Kate Lillian _ b186702 Lillian Whitehead _ bf 1867 Feb __ to John Whitehead _ et ux Kate df 1873 May 15 at 6.4._.
John Whitehead _ mf 1733 Jul 27 Mary Peachee _, he a cordwainer of Burlington, she a spinstress.
www.cowaro.com /Genealogy/Surname_file/Whitehead.html   (6128 words)

  
 Whitehead Inc. Realtors - Rockford, Illinois Area Commercial Real Estate
Whitehead Commercial is a dominant presence in Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin.
Joel B. Whitehead, the company’s founder, was one of the organizers of the Rockford Board of Realtors and was its first president.
Loren L. Whitehead served the industry as its local and state president and was district vice president of the Society of Induustrial and Office Realtors (SIOR).
www.whiteheadcommercial.com /company.asp   (436 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- R&B figure John Whitehead shot dead in Philadelphia
Whitehead, 55, and another man were working on a vehicle when they were shot by two gunmen, police said.
Whitehead was shot in the neck and collapsed.
Gene McFadden, who was Whitehead's partner in the singing group McFadden and Whitehead, went to the scene in the city's West Oak Lane neighborhood and stood there trembling, WPVI-TV reported.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040512-0305-obit-whitehead.html   (330 words)

  
 Blog of Death: John Whitehead
John Whitehead, an R&B artist and songwriter, was murdered on May 11.
John Whitehead was a great great friend,You had to love him he would make you feel so good just to know him and be around him when he wrote some of his best work,John you was one of a kind.
Whitehead was like a brother to me. I feel him in life and death, he is always with me. I feel for his family and I know they miss him.
www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000953.html   (4602 words)

  
 John Whitehead of Amherst County, Virginia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John Whitehead served in the American Revolution as a Private in the calvary, and was issued a bounty land warrant for 100 acres of land after his death.
John Smith was mentioned as the guardian of Cary Whitehead in the John Whitehead estate, 17 December 1792.
Stoner was descended from Burcher Whitehead and Nancy Camden.
oursouthernancestors.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Whitehead-001.html   (1333 words)

  
 John Whitehead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Whitehead (singer) (1949–2004), an American singer and one-half of the duo McFadden and Whitehead
John C. Whitehead (born 1922), Chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and a former Deputy Secretary of State
John Whitehead (New Zealand), Secretary of the New Zealand Treasury
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Whitehead   (143 words)

  
 Conversational Reading: John Henry Days -- Colson Whitehead
John Henry was a railroad man, a steel-driving ex-slave who bore a hole in a mountain so the train could get through.
Whitehead’s press junketeers (the incredibly cynical folk) have been sent to Talcott to cover the stamp event, except that only one of them (J., our main character) is actually writing it up; the rest are just freeloading on the food, beer, and trinkets.
John Henry Days was published in 2000, roughly 20 years after a school of writing alternatively known as post-post-modern, hyperreal, or image-fiction began inhabiting the realm of and using pieces from popular culture in its fiction.
esposito.typepad.com /con_read/2004/12/john_henry_days.html   (3007 words)

  
 John C. Whitehead at IDEAS
Whitehead, John C. & Haab, Timothy C. & Huang, Ju-Chin, 2000.
John C. Whitehead & Timothy Haab & Ju-Chin Huang, "undated".
Whitehead John C. & Blomquist Glenn C. & Hoban Thomas J. & Clifford William B., 1995.
ideas.repec.org /e/pwh15.html   (2316 words)

  
 Salon.com Books | "John Henry Days"
For one, there's Whitehead's hulking talent, the potential of which buzzed through "The Intuitionist" with the voltage of a city power line; for another, there's the novel's outsize subject matter, which is more or less America, the epic idea of which Whitehead chases with the dogged ambition of a Lawrence or DeLillo.
Whitehead, a former television critic for the Village Voice, brings a serrated wit to his depiction of the junketeering life; his wickedly precise portrayal of a Manhattan publishing party -- with its clinking glasses and banal, disjointed chatter -- shudders with a grandly satiric frisson.
But Whitehead, pendulating between John Henry's feats and J.'s, never once settles for an easy, false nostalgia; hero and hack walk side by side through their paralleled worlds, equals in their fight against their respective mountains.
archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/05/11/whitehead/index.html   (740 words)

  
 John WHITEHEAD
Elizabeth Alcocke/Alcotte Whitehead, of Lemington Priors,Warwickshire, England, was the sister of Dea.
She was the mother of JOHN and Thomas Whitehead.
Whitehead was was not heard of further after 1647.
pages.prodigy.net /parrish27/Report1/PS04/PS04_119.HTM   (734 words)

  
 John & Mary (Whitehead) Greening   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John Greening was born 1771 Statesburg, SC the son of Mason and Margaret (Haynsworth) Greening of Sumter District, SC.
JOHN HORAN, Q. SUMTER DISTRICT) I have admeasured and resurveyed and laid out unto WILLIAM WATSON a plantation or tract of land containing eighty-six acres and a half, situate in the District and State aforesaid on the high hills of Santee, being part of a tract of land conveyed by THOS.
All the claims of the estate against said John Ramsay are considered as discharged by this award, and all his claims to any of the property claimed by the said administrator as part of the Estate are also discharged.
home.inu.net /sadie/johnmary.htm   (5278 words)

  
 BARF People/Organization Profile: John Whitehead / Rutherford Institute
The cases and tactics of the Rutherford Institute, when taken in combination with the modern Biblical American media showcasing of its cases, may be seen as a perfect instrument by which to implement Gary North's "brushfires" strategy.
Whitehead insists that he "condemns violence," yet he offered to represent Paul Hill, the compulsory pregnancy advocate who murdered an abortion doctor and bodyguard with shotgun blasts to their heads in Pensacola, Florida.
Paradoxically, Whitehead has written that he considers "his number one priority the defense of the sanctity of all human life."
www.barf.org /archive/rutherford   (509 words)

  
 The HooK: HOT SEAT- John Whitehead: A civil libertarian's job is never done
John Whitehead has been fighting for the rights of the underdog since he was a young pup of a lawyer.
On this particular day, Whitehead points out dangers of the Patriot Act and Operation TIPS, the program that encourages workers to report suspicious activity.
Whitehead hasn't heard from Jones lately, but he did catch her on TV in a boxing match with Tonya Harding.
www.readthehook.com /stories/2002/08/22/hotSeatJohnWhiteheadACivil.html   (576 words)

  
 John Whitehead Concert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Elnor Whitehead, organizer of the concert and founder of the John Whitehead Foundation.
The music industry sadly lost an icon when John Whitehead was fatally shot outside of his Philadelphia home on May 11, 2004.
John Whitehead was one half of the hit songwriting duo McFadden and Whitehead.
www.professorpooch.com /Concert1.htm   (478 words)

  
 FAD Connected Article: John Whitehead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John Whitehead is a new associate professor in the Department of Economics.
He prefers to teach environmental and international economics, and enjoys research in the area of valuation of environmental and natural resources for benefit-cost analysis.
John moved to Boone with his wife Jammie Price, their children (two-year-old Bailey and new-born Lyndsey), and their dog Wilma, who is thirteen.
www.acs.appstate.edu /dept/hubbard/fad/connected/whitehead.html   (103 words)

  
 Entrepreneurs: Bio: John Whitehead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John Whitehead, HBS 1947, joined Goldman Sachs when its service offerings were almost exclusively in commercial paper.
He soon created a new-business development department and then went out and listened to the firm's clients, identified new business lines, and over time developed these into major service offerings.
After retiring from Goldman Sachs in 1984, John served as deputy secretary of state during the Reagan administration.
www.hbs.edu /entrepreneurs/johnwhiteheadbio.html   (132 words)

  
 John Whitehead - AOL Music
John C. Whitehead was born in Evanston, Illinois.
In the case of John Whitehead here was a man who gave so much to the world.
Carl Sloane, C.D. Spangler, Thomas Stemberg, Thomas Weisel, John Whitehead.
music.aol.com /artist/john-whitehead/137642/main?_pgtyp=pdct   (139 words)

  
 R&B star John Whitehead murdered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
John Whitehead, of 70's Philadelphia soul act McFadden and Whitehead, has been shot dead while fixing a car on the side of the road.
A Police report states Whitehead was in Dallas St near his Philadelphia home, with a mechanic repairing his SUV.
McFadden and Whitehead were a songwriting and production team long before they had their first hit.
www.undercover.com.au /news/2004/may04/20040513_johnwhitehead.html   (215 words)

  
 Environmental Economics
John Whitehead on Robert Frank disses the happiness-income critique and...
It looks pretty good, more features than the Economics Roundtable -- I hesitate to say this since I still get a bit misty when I think about the first environmental economics post at the ER -- here is our link there.
Paul Chambers and Jeremy Collins will be doing a climb to raise funds for a Habitat for Humanity build in Costa Rica ($5,000 US builds a 42 sq meters or less than a 500 sq ft house).
www.env-econ.net   (2556 words)

  
 John Whitehead : Messages
Let Freedom Ring is a song with Rita, Israel's Queen of Song who joined with John Whitehead for a duet that captures the "Dream" of Martin Luther King, Jr.
McFadden and Whitehead teamed up in "This is Your Life" with clever lyrics and a catchy tune sure to please McFadden and Whitehead fans that remember and love the sound of Philadelphia.
This is the message to the world from John Whitehead.
www.letfreedomringinc.com /john-whitehead.htm   (482 words)

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