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2 unusual facts about Peter's pence


Administration of the Property of the Holy See

In 1891 he entrusted the management of the patrimony of the Holy See to a commission of cardinals, already set up to supervise, but not manage, the administration of Peter's Pence and of the patrimony of the Holy See.

Peter's Pence

There is isolated evidence that in some parishes, payment of Peter's Pence did indeed resume during Mary's reign, for instance in Rowington, Warwickshire, where the church accounts for 1556 record the collection of 54s.


1984 Australian Sports Car Championship

Queensland based owner/driver Bap Romano won the series driving his Romano WE84 Cosworth from 1982 champion Chris Clearihan (driving the Kaditcha-Chevrolet that Peter Hopwood used to win the 1983 Championship) and Andrew Roberts driving a self designed Roberts S2 Ford.

Aurorazhdarcho

In 1999 amateur paleontologist Peter Katschmekat uncovered a fossil of a pterosaur in the Blumenberg Quarry, three kilometres northwest of Eichstätt, in layers of the Solnhofen limestone.

Billy Minter

He remained on the books as a trainer and following Peter McWilliams' resignation as manager, Minter took over the position on 28 February 1927 and remained as manager for three years before being succeeded by Percy Smith after failing health, brought on by the stress of an unsuccessful reign, including relegation in his first season, caused him to resign the post.

Bouché

Carl David Bouché (1809-1881), German botanist and gardener, nephew of Peter Friedrich

Butterworth Stavely

Twain based his story on one sentence in a naval report by Admiral Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey: "One stranger, an American, has settled on the island – a doubtful acquisition," which probably referred to Peter Butler, a survivor of the 1875 Khandeish shipwreck.

Canberra International Music Festival

Other recent significant commissions and premieres in the CIMF include Arvo Pärt's Fourth Symphony, Henryk Górecki's ...songs are sung... for string orchestra, the concert premiere of Einojuhani Rautavaara's The Gift of the Magi and Peter Sculthorpe's "Shining Island".

G. T. Abraham

While attending the Lambeth Conference, 1998, the Virginia Theological Seminary conferred upon Abraham an honorary doctorate at a special academic convocation on 27 July 1998 in Canterbury Cathedral's Crypt in Canterbury, Kent by Bishop Peter James Lee of Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

Gambling Lady

She resists marrying him, fearing the reaction of his high society father, but is pleased to learn that she already knows and likes Peter Madison (C. Aubrey Smith), a fellow gambler.

Glehn

Glehnia, a monotypic genus in the carrot family Apiaceae named after Peter von Glehn

Green Fire

The author of the novel Green Fire, on which the film was based, was Major Peter William Rainier 1890-1946, a South African whose great-great-grand-uncle was the person that Mount Rainier, Washington was named after (by the explorer George Vancouver).

Greenhills

Michael Carruth, a gold-medal winner in the welterweight boxing division at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games, was from St Peter's Road and retains close ties to the area.

Hannibal Gamon

Gamon was instituted to the rectory of Mawgan-in-Pyder, on the north coast of Cornwall, on 11 February 1619, on presentation of Elizabeth Peter, the patroness for that turn, on the assignment of Sir John Arundell, knight, the owner of the advowson.

Harmony Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

Somewhere between Harmony and Colesville, New York, Peter, James, and John bestowed upon Smith and Cowdery the Melchizedek priesthood.

Heidi, Girl of the Alps

The American version was produced by Claudio Guzman and Charles Ver Halen and featured a voice cast including Randi Kiger as Heidi, Billy Whitaker as Peter, Michelle Laurita as Clara, Vic Perrin as Alm-Ohi, Alan Reed as Sebastian, and legendary voice talent Janet Waldo as Aunt Dete.

Henry Flynt

Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles) University of California Press 2012, reprinting of Henry Flynt, Concept Art (1961) pp.

Jennifer Boyden

Projects that feature her text include work with Buster Simpson and her husband, visual artist Ian Boyden, as well as creative nonfiction responding to work by artists such as photographer Peter deLory.

Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration

Next is a visitation of Peter, James and John who confer upon them the authority to organize the Church of Christ, which they then do (in 1830).

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Lisa Law

She and her husband, Tom Law, whom she met in 1965 at a Peter Paul & Mary concert in Berkeley, CA, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico for 12 years and had four children, Dhana Pilar, Solar Sat, Sunday Peaches & Jesse Lee Rainbow.

Margaret of Navarre

Her cousin Gilbert, Count of Gravina, already present in the south, was an enemy of Peter's and, according to Hugo Falcandus, strongly opposed to his cousin's government.

Mary Healy

In addition, the couple were regular substitute hosts on Arthur Godfrey's television programs and were frequent guest panelists on What's My Line? In 1960, they co-starred in their radio show The Peter Lind-Mary Healy Show.

Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge

The name "Montezuma" was first used in 1806 when Dr. Peter Clark named his hilltop home "Montezuma" after the palace of the Aztec Emperor Montezuma in Mexico City.

Morio Muscat

Viticulturalist Peter Morio created this grape variety from, what was reported as, Silvaner and Weissburgunder (Pinot blanc) as a potential blending partner for Müller-Thurgau and component in Liebfraumilch.

Nytheatre.com

Writers include Chiori Miyagawa, Julia Lee Barclay, Proto-type Theater's Peter S. Petralia, Trav S.D., Ken Urban and Marc Spitz.

OpenVMS

Roger Gourd was the project lead for the Starlet program, with software engineers Dave Cutler (who would later lead development of Microsoft's Windows NT), Dick Hustvedt, and Peter Lippman acting as the technical project leaders, each having responsibility for a different area of the operating system.

Oscar van Dillen

After studies of medieval and Renaissance music with Paul Van Nevel in Leuven (Belgium), he studied classical composition with, among others, Dick Raaymakers and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Koninklijk Conservatory in The Hague in 1990/1991 and with Klaas de Vries, Peter-Jan Wagemans and René Uijlenhoet at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1996 to 2002.

Per Bergsland

After arriving at the POW camp, he gave his name as "Peter Rockland" (Per = Petrus, meaning rock in Greek, and Berg meaning mountain or rock in Norwegian) to the Germans.

Peter Carstens

Peter Carstens (September 13, 1903 in Brunsbüttel – January 1945 in Poznań) was a German geneticist and animal breeder and SS-Oberführer for the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

Peter Claussen

Peter Claussen (1804-1855) was a Danish natural history collector born in Copenhagen.

Peter Davies

Peter Llewelyn Davies (1897–1960), basis for the character of Peter Pan, publisher

Peter Garlake

Peter Garlake (1934 - 2 December 2011) was a Zimbabwean archaeologist and art historian, who made influential contributions to the study of Great Zimbabwe and Ife, Nigeria.

Portrayal of Native Americans in film

A major scene in Peter Pan involves the Lost Boys and Peter Pan celebrating at the Native Americans' camp after Peter rescues Tiger Lily, the daughter of the chief, from Captain Hook.

Ralph Nelson

He was the father of Project Xanadu (precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web's HTML format and HTTP protocol) inventor Ted Nelson (by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm), and, by his other marriage(s): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson.

Rebel Love

Knox, who first gained fame as the villainous Dr. Peter White on the series St. Elsewhere, later starred for three years as the lead character on the popular series Tour of Duty, a Vietnam War drama.

Reistingen Abbey

In the 14th century it was dedicated to Saint Peter; the present church is dedicated to Saints Peter and Vitus.

Richard Gwent

On 13 April 1528, he was presented to the rectory of Tangmere, Sussex, and on 31 March 1530 to that of St Leonard, Foster Lane, London, which he resigned in 1534 to become, on 17 April of that year, rector of St Peter's Cheap, London.

Roger de Beler

That the family was settled in Leicestershire we know from a license obtained by the judge in 1316 to grant a lay fee in Kirkby-by-Melton, on the Wrethek in that county, to the warden and chaplains of St. Peter, on condition of their performing religious services for the benefit of the souls of himself and his wife Alicia, his father and mother, and ancestry generally.

Ryssby Church

In 1862, Sven J. Johnson, an agent for the White Star Line, along with Bengt Johnson, Aaron Peterson, Sven Magni, Peter Johnson, Lars J. Johnson and Samuel Gummeson, set off from their homeland in Ryssby, Sweden, to come to America seeking free land under the Homestead Act.

Show of Strength Theatre Company

In three years they produced eleven play including two news works by Peter Nichols and the acclaimed The Wills' Girls by Amanda Whittington which was revived in 2003 and was also staged at the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Slavic name suffix

The given name Petr or Petro (equivalent to Peter) can become Petrov, Petriv, Petriw, Petrovsky, Petrovich, and Petric.

St. Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool

In the churchyard of St Peter's is the grave of Eleanor Rigby, who became the subject for one of The Beatles' songs.

Steve Binetti

Binetti has performed with numerous musicians of GDR-era fame, including most notably Paul Landers (Rammstein), Christian Lorenz (Rammstein), Steven Garling, Conny Bauer, Klaus Selmke, Peter Hollinger and Frank Neumeier.

Tauriel

The character does not appear in the original book, but was created by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh as an expansion of material adapted from the book, and first appears in the second film in that trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, released December 13, 2013.

Testamentum Domini

The Conclusion (book 2:25-27) brings us back to the injunctions of the Lord as to the keeping of these precepts, a special charge to John, Andrew and Peter, and a statement that copies of the Testament were made by John, Peter and Matthew, and sent to Jerusalem by the hands of Dosithaeus, Sillas, Magnus and Aquila.

The Kiss Seen Around the World

The man who frequently appears throughout the episode calling Peter (and later Neil) a phony is named Holden Caulfield in the credits, a reference to the character of the same name who is the protagonist of the 1951 book The Catcher in the Rye, known to use the word "phony" many times throughout the book.

Third Age Foundation

The radio show's hosts are founders Peter Brill and David Debin, and also features the actress Anne Francis.

Turban Cowboy

Peter is invigorated by their jump and keeps up skydiving despite Lois' concern, even as his jumps usually result in accidents like falling on Meg at dinner, falling on a ninja that killed a woman, and falling on the castle of the Pig King from Angry Birds with only one pig left alive.

Val Camonica witch trials

During the first months of 1518, inquisitors were stationed in the parishes of the Val Camonica; Don Bernardino de Grossis in Pisogne, Don James de Gablani in Rogno, Don Valerio de Boni in Breno, Don Donato de Savallo in Cemmo and Don Battista Capurione in Edolo, all under the bishop Inquisitor Peter Durante, who presided at the central court of the Inquisition at Cemmo.

Welcome Back, Carter

Peter then interjects his hatred of PBS, after viewing a nine-part series on traffic signs by director and producer Ken Burns, the fourth of which on the yield sign.

World in Motion 1

Special thanks: Mike Corkran, Bill Mueller, Gordon Miller Music, Edward S. Feldman & Bob Sellars for the custom guitars, Derek Sutton, Bob Goldstein (it's in the mail), Peter Sullivan, Elton, Marvin & Stevie, Don Wehner, Barton Kenney, Casey Dansicker, Nancy Scaggs, Jeff Miller (it's in the mail II), Walt Copeland, Randy, Paul, Jeep, and everyone at MSI


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