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Whipple
Whipple may refer to: People * Whipple (surname), a list of people with the surname * Whip Jones (1909–2001), American ski industry pioneer, founder, developer and original operator of the Aspen Highlands ski area in Aspen, Colorado * Whipple Van Buren Phillips (1833–1904), American businessman, grandfather of H. P. Lovecraft, whom he raised Fictional characters * Mr. Whipple, in American television ads for Charmin toilet paper * Whipple Jones (''The Bold and the Beautiful''), in the American soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' *Wallace V. Whipple, protagonist of " The Brain Center at Whipple's", a 1964 episode of the American television series ''The Twilight Zone'' *"Whipple the Happy Dragon", a character in a 2017 episode of ''Islands'', an animated miniseries Places in the United States * Whipple, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Whipple, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Whipple Lakes, Crow Wing County, Minnesota * Whipple Lake, Clearwater County, Minn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Whipple, Arizona
Fort Whipple is a former United States (U.S.) Army post that was temporarily established at Del Rio Springs, north of present-day Chino Valley, Arizona, and later relocated to a permanent site near present-day Prescott, Arizona. History The initial location of the post was established by Major Edward Banker Willis and Captain Nathaniel J. Pishon on December 23, 1863. They led Companies C and F of the First California Volunteers and set up the post under General Order #27 issued by General James Henry Carleton. Only tents and huts were in place, no permanent buildings were constructed at the Del Rio Springs site. The post was named Fort Whipple, after Amiel Weeks Whipple, an American military officer and topographical engineer. He served as a brigadier general in the American Civil War, and was mortally wounded on May 7, 1863, at the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. The Whipple Expedition led by Lieutenant A.W. Whipple between 1853 and 1854 was to survey a transcontinen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whipple (surname)
Whipple is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Abraham Whipple (1733–1819), American Revolutionary War naval commander *A.B.C. Whipple (1918–2013), American journalist, editor, historian and author *Allen Whipple (1881–1963), American surgeon *Amiel Weeks Whipple (1818–1863), American military engineer and surveyor *Beverly Whipple, American author, sexologist and academic *Charles W. Whipple (1805-1856), American lawyer, politician and Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court *Clara Whipple (1887–1932), silent film actress *Daley E. Whipple (1915–2002), American politician *Diane Whipple (1967–2001), American victim of a fatal dog attack *Dinah Whipple (1760-1846), leader in Portsmouth, New Hampshire's free Black community *Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), English writer of popular fiction *Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886), American essayist and critic *Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall, née Whipple (1805–1878), abolitionist, poet, novelist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whipple Mountains
The Whipple Mountains ( Mojave: Avii Kur'utat; Chemehuevi: Wiyaatuʷa̱) are located in eastern San Bernardino County, California. They are directly west of the Colorado River, Parker Dam, and Lake Havasu; south of Needles, California; north of Parker, Arizona and Vidal, California; and northeast of Vidal Junction, California. The mountain forms a major direction change of the north-south Colorado River as it changes directions to southeast, then southwest around the eastern perimeter of the Whipple Mountains. The highest point of the mountains, and the Whipple Mountains Wilderness is Whipple Mountain at . The western portion of the mountain range has pale green formations, differing from the eastern, steeply carved and striking brick-red volcanics. Landforms are diverse and range from valley floors and washes to steep-walled canyons, domed peaks, natural bridges, and eroded spires.U.S. Bureau of Land Management websit''Whipple Mountains Wilderness'' Retrieved 2011-01-27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whipple's Disease
Whipple's disease is a rare systemic infectious disease caused by the bacterium '' Tropheryma whipplei''. First described by George Hoyt Whipple in 1907 and commonly considered as a gastrointestinal disorder, Whipple's disease primarily causes malabsorption, but may affect any part of the human body, including the heart, brain, joints, skin, lungs and the eyes. Weight loss, diarrhea, joint pain, and arthritis are common presenting symptoms, but the presentation can be highly variable in certain individuals, and about 15% of patients do not have the standard signs and symptoms. Whipple's disease is significantly more common in men, with 87% of patients diagnosed being male. When recognized and treated, Whipple's disease can usually be cured with long-term antibiotic therapy, but if the disease is left undiagnosed or untreated, it can ultimately be fatal. Signs and symptoms The most common symptoms are diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss, and joint pains. The joint pains may b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pancreaticoduodenectomy
A pancreaticoduodenectomy, also known as a Whipple procedure, is a major surgical operation most often performed to remove cancerous tumours from the head of the pancreas. It is also used for the treatment of pancreatic or duodenal trauma, or chronic pancreatitis. Due to the shared blood supply of organs in the proximal gastrointestinal system, surgical removal of the head of the pancreas also necessitates removal of the duodenum, proximal jejunum, gallbladder, and, occasionally, part of the stomach. Anatomy involved in the procedure The most common technique of a pancreaticoduodenectomy consists of the en bloc removal of the distal segment (antrum) of the stomach, the first and second portions of the duodenum, the head of the pancreas, the common bile duct, and the gallbladder. Lymph nodes in the area are often removed during the operation as well (lymphadenectomy). However, not all lymph nodes are removed in the most common type of pancreaticoduodenectomy because studies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Myer
Fort Myer is the previous name used for a U.S. Army Military base, post next to Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. Founded during the American Civil War as Fort Cass and Fort Whipple, the post merged in 2005 with the neighboring United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps installation, Henderson Hall, and is today named Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall. History In 1861, the land that Fort Myer would eventually occupy was part of the Arlington estate, which Mary Anna Custis Lee, the wife of Robert E. Lee, owned and at which Lee resided when not stationed elsewhere (see Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial). When the American Civil War, Civil War began, the Virginia, Commonwealth of Virginia seceded from the United States, Lee resigned his commission, and he and his wife left the estate. The United States Government then confiscated the estate and began to use it as a burial ground for Union Army dead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whipple (spacecraft)
''Whipple'' was a proposed space observatory in the NASA Discovery Program. The observatory would try to search for objects in the Kuiper belt and the theorized Oort cloud by conducting blind occultation observations. Although the Oort cloud was hypothesized in the 1950s, it has not yet been directly observed. The mission would attempt to detect Oort cloud objects by scanning for brief moments where the objects would block the light of background stars. In 2011, three finalists were selected for the 2016 Discovery Program, and ''Whipple'' was not among them, but it was awarded funding to continue its technological development efforts. Description ''Whipple'' would orbit in a halo orbit around the Earth–Sun and have a photometer that would try to detect Oort cloud and Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) by recording their transits of distant stars. It would be designed to detect objects out to . Some of the mission goals included directly detecting the Oort cloud for the first ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whipple Museum Of The History Of Science
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science is a museum attached to the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, which houses an extensive collection of scientific instruments, apparatus, models, pictures, prints, photographs, books and other material related to the history of science. It is located in the former Perse School on Free School Lane, and was founded in 1944, when Robert Whipple presented his collection of scientific instruments to the University of Cambridge. The museum's collection is 'designated' by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) as being of "national and international importance". The museum is one of eight museums in the University of Cambridge Museums consortium. Department of History and Philosophy of Science The museum forms part of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. The department includes a working library with a large collection of early scientific books, some of which were given by Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory
The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory is an American astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO); it is their largest field installation outside of their main site in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is located near Amado, Arizona on the summit of Mount Hopkins. Research activities include imaging and spectroscopy of extragalactic, stellar, solar system and extra-solar bodies, as well as gamma-ray and cosmic-ray astronomy. History In 1966, roadwork began at the site with funding granted for the Smithsonian Mt. Hopkins Observatory. The Whipple 10-meter gamma-ray telescope was constructed in 1968. Formerly known as the Mount Hopkins Observatory, the observatory was renamed in late 1981 in honor of Fred Lawrence Whipple, a planetary expert, space science pioneer, and director emeritus of SAO, under whose leadership the Arizona facility was established. Equipment Whipple observatory hosts the MMT Observatory, which is joint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whipple Van Buren Phillips
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (, ; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. Lovecraft then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924, and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "Lovecraft Circle". They introduced him to ''Wei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whipple (crater)
Whipple is a Lunar craters, lunar impact crater located on the Far side of the Moon, lunar far side near the northern pole. The crater is located East of the prominent craters Byrd (lunar crater), Byrd and Peary (crater), Peary; the latter of which it is located on the rim of. Whipple is permanently shaded from the Sun. Volatile species of atoms and molecules, such as water (and mercury), that enter the crater freeze, and thus get trapped due to the extremely cold conditions that prevail within the crater. Moreover, Whipple crater's radar signature is characterized by a high, same-sense, circular-polarization ratio (CPR). This is thought to indicate that there are thick—at least 2 metres—ice deposits that are relatively pure. Such ice deposits represent a potentially valuable source of drinkable water, as well as rocket propellant in the form of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (LH2/LO2). In addition, Whipple is next to a large, quasi-permanently sunlit plateau that occup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
