Things
- Fort Whipple, Arizona, fort established in 1863 in Arizona Territory near Prescott (after Amiel Weeks Whipple) which was the first capital of Arizona Territory
- Fort Whipple, Virginia, historical name for U.S. Army's Fort Myer
- Triple Whipple Truss, bridge design used in the 1800s
- USS Whipple, designation of three U.S. Navy ships (after Abraham Whipple)
- Whipple Mountains, mountain range in southeastern California, U.S.A.
- Whipple Charger, twin-screw supercharger used on internal combustion engines (after Art Whipple)
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Famous quotes containing the word things:
“Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.”
—Protagoras (c. 481–411 B.C.)
“People always ask us, “Are things better or worse today?” Well, some things are better and some things are worse.... But there are a lot of problems in the world today that no one dreamed of when we were young. For instance, this business about the environment. Why, clean water was just something you took for granted.”
—Sarah Delany (b. 1890)
“They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that are things in being gay, they were gay every day, they were regular, they were gay, they were gay the same length of time every day, they were gay, they were quite regularly gay.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)