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Whittington (novel)

Whittington is a children's fantasy novel by Alan Armstrong, published by Random House in 2005 with illustrations by S. D. Schindler. It was a 2006 Newbery Honor Book ( Newbery Medal finalist) and an ALA Notable Book for Children.

Whittington (surname)

Whittington is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Amanda Whittington (born 1968), English playwright
  • Annie Whittington, U.S. Big Brother 12 contestant
  • Arthur Whittington (born 1955), American football player
  • Bernard Whittington (born 1971), American football player
  • Bert Whittington (1885–1969), Australian rules footballer
  • Bill Whittington (born 1949), American motor racing driver
  • Buddy Whittington (born 1956), American guitarist
  • C. L. Whittington (born 1952), American football player
  • Clark Whittington, American artist
  • Dale Whittington (1959–2003), American motor racing driver
  • Don Whittington (born 1946), American motor racing driver
  • Erik Whittington, American guitarist
  • Eydie Whittington, American politician
  • Harry Whittington (author) (1915–1989), American novelist
  • Harry Whittington (born 1927), American attorney who was shot by Dick Cheney
  • Harry B. Whittington (1916–2010), British paleontologist
  • Hulon B. Whittington (1921–1969), American soldier
  • Jeff Whittington (1985–1999), New Zealand murder victim
  • Jim Whittington (born 1941), American televangelist
  • Jonathan Whittington (born 1973), British singer-songwriter
  • Khadijah Whittington (born 1986), American basketball player
  • Lauren Whittington, American journalist
  • Richard Whittington, 14th-century English politician, inspiration for the character Dick Whittington and the tale Dick Whittington and His Cat
  • Richard Whittington (academic), Corporate Strategy Academic
  • Robert Whittington, 16th-century English grammarian
  • Shayne Whittington (born 1991), American basketball player
  • Stephen Whittington (born 1953), Australian composer, pianist, writer
  • Sweet Dick Whittington (born 1934), American disc jockey
  • V. V. Whittington (1893–1974), American politician
  • William Madison Whittington (1878–1962), American politician
Whittington (opera)

Whittington is an opera (described in the premiere programme as 'A New Grand Opera Bouffe Feerie, in Four Acts and Nine Tableaux) with music by Jacques Offenbach, based on the legend of Dick Whittington and His Cat. It was premiered in a spectacular production at the Alhambra Theatre, London, on 26 December 1874. Whittington is the only major work of Offenbach to have received its premiere in London, and came between the incidental music for La Haine and his third version of Geneviève de Brabant.

Usage examples of "whittington".

I were Dick Whittington, the idea would come to me which road we ought to take.

Harry Whittington, and fellow graduate student Derek Briggs, Conway Morris spent the next several years making a systematic revision of the entire collection, and cranking out one exciting monograph after another as discovery piled upon discovery.

His face had grown rapt and, like Dick Whittington, he seemed to 112 see a vision, a city paved with gold.

This might have been that fabled London of which young Whittington dreamed.

They shake their heads whenever they go by Bow Church, and observe that they never expected any good to come of taking down that steeple, which in old times told nothing but glad tidings, as the history of Whittington and his Cat bears witness.

On [ the station platform a statue of a Windrush boy, like a latterday Dick Whittington - bandanna around his I neck, tiny bag at his feet - stood with arms folded, one I foot bent back against the wall, ignored by the trendy new Brixtonites pushing and shoving to get on the j train with their Gucci briefcases.

Like Dick Whittington and the Count of St Germaine, Inspectre Hovis had come to Brentford with only one thought in his mind.

Alice in Wonderland or Dick Whittington, Dirk lent a whole new meaning to the word, and the most aggravating part of all was the fact that, try as Ben might, he could not decipher what it was that the beast was about!

Whittington had set her to washing up a pile of Esthonia Glassware, which bore an unaccountable resemblance to hospital plates!

There were rumours that today the authorities were sending troops from Whittington Barracks to help out.