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62 unusual facts about Peter "Spud" Murphy


Arlington Central School District Board of Education v. Murphy

In 2009, Congressmen Chris Van Hollen and Pete Sessions introduced the IDEA Fairness Restoration Act, to override Murphy and enable parents to recover their expert fees.

Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, ruled that IDEA does not authorize the payment of the experts' fees of the prevailing parents.

The respondents, Pearl and Theodore Murphy of LaGrange, New York, sued the petitioner, Arlington Central School District, seeking to require them to pay for their child's private school tuition under IDEA.

Asadabad, Afghanistan

U.S. Navy Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal Of Honor for his actions during Operation Red Wings, which took place in the mountainous terrain near Asadabad from June to July 2005.

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

The practice was founded in 1952 by Geoffry Powell (1920–1999), Peter "Joe" Chamberlin (1919–1978) and Christoph Bon (1921–1999), following Powell's win in the 1951 architectural competition for the Golden Lane Estate.

Charles A. Murphy

Stationed in Cherry Point, North Carolina, Murphy served a six-month tour as a Staff Judge Advocate for the commanding officer aboard the USS Guadalcanal that deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and Mogadishu, Somalia, as part of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Dapper O'Neil

In 1999, O'Neil finished fifth (behind Francis Roache, Stephen J. Murphy, Peggy Davis-Mullen, Michael F. Flaherty) in an at-large race in which the top four make the council.

Donn B. Murphy

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Murphy grew up in Leavenworth, Kansas, where his father, Arthur Morton Murphy, a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre, was president of Saint Mary College (now the University of Saint Mary (Kansas).

He was Lighting Director at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri for two years, where he worked with Jeanette MacDonald, Gisèle MacKenzie, Penny Singleton and Charles Nelson Reilly.

Drive-through

Pennsylvania State Representative Kevin P. Murphy installed a drive-through window designed to speed constituent service.

E. Honda

In the 1994 motion picture based on the Street Fighter franchise, the role of Honda is played by Peter "Navy" Tuiasosopo.

Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

He is best known for Murphy's law, which is said to state, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."

It was while here that he became involved in the high-speed rocket sled experiments (USAF project MX981, 1949) which led to the coining of Murphy's law.

Everett J. Murphy

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth Congress and served as member of the state board of pardons 1897-1899.

Francis Murphy

Francis P. Murphy (1877–1958), Republican 73rd Governor of New Hampshire

Francis X. Murphy

Subsequently, he was assigned as a naval chaplain at Annapolis, Maryland, with Catholic Relief Services in Europe after the Second World War and then as a chaplain with the United States military.

Under the pseudonym Xavier Rynne, combining his middle name and his mother's maiden name, he revealed the inner workings of Vatican II to The New Yorker.

Fred Murphy

Fred T. Murphy (1872–1948), American football player and coach, physician

Fred J. Murphy (1886–1956), American football player, coach of football, basketball, and baseball, and college athletics administrator

Frederick C. Murphy

PFC Murphy is buried at Lorraine Cemetery north of Saint-Avold, Lorraine, France.

Geoffrey of Vinsauf

Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200) is a representative of the early medieval grammarian movement, termed preceptive grammar by James J. Murphy for its interest in teaching ars poetria (1971, vii ff.).

Henry C. Murphy

and Jasper Danckaerts' Journal Of A Voyage To New York In 1679-80.

Henry Murphy

Henry V. Murphy (1890–1960), American architect who specialized in churches and schools for Roman Catholic clients

James M. Murphy

Murphy was later acquitted of the crimes he was charged with by a Suffolk County, Massachusetts Superior Court jury.

James W. Murphy

Born in Little Falls, New York, he came to Briggsville, Wisconsin with his family in 1854.

John H. Murphy, Sr.

After his death, several of his descendants led the paper over the course of several generations, including his grandson, John H. Murphy, III.

John M. Murphy

John Michael Murphy (born August 3, 1926) is a former Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.

John W. Murphy

Murphy was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his resignation on July 17, 1946, to become judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Joseph F. Murphy, Jr.

Prior to being appointed to the Court of Appeals, Judge Murphy served as the Chief Judge of the Court of Special Appeals, Maryland's intermediate court of appeals.

Joseph R. Murphy

In addition, he has been working on new techniques for determining Pi using lentils.

Kevin Murphy

Kevin M. Murphy (born 1958), economist and professor at the University of Chicago

Kevin P. Murphy, Pennsylvania politician, representing the 113th PA House District

Loriann Oberlin

It was during their work as contributors to a regional parenting publication that Tim Murphy, Ph.D., a practicing psychologist in Pittsburgh, sought help for his first book.

Margaret E. Lynn

With her protégé Donn B. Murphy she established summer workshops at Georgetown University to which she brought Army Entertainment Directors from all over the world who met with civilian theater directors, producers and teachers.

Maurice J. Murphy, Jr.

(October 3, 1927 – October 27, 2002) was (for one month) the New Hampshire Attorney General and (for eleven months) an appointed United States Senator.

Mayor Murphy

Thomas J. Murphy, Jr. (born August 15, 1944), mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Michael D. Murphy

On March 30, 2009, Murphy's court-martial began at Bolling Air Force Base in the District of Columbia, where he once was head of the Air Force Legal Operations Agency.

Morgan F. Murphy

Murphy was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1981).

Morgan Murphy

Morgan F. Murphy (born 1932), former US Representative from Illinois, 1971–1981

Murlan J. Murphy

Chief among the companies was Murphy-Phoenix Company, makers of Murphy Oil Soap, which was later sold to Colgate-Palmolive.

Murphy Oil Soap was first marketed in 1910 (approx.) by Mr. Murphy's father, who was also Murlan J. Murphy and was president of the Murphy-Phoenix Company, which was founded in 1890 by Mr. Murphy's grandfather, Jeremiah T. Murphy.

Passive-aggressive behavior

They can become adults who, beneath a "seductive veneer," harbor "vindictive intent," in the words of US congressman/psychologist Timothy F. Murphy, and writer/practicing therapist Loriann Oberlin.

Murphy and Oberlin also see passive aggression as part of a larger umbrella of hidden anger stemming from ten traits of the angry child or adult.

Patrick V. Murphy

He created the Police Executive Research Forum, an organization of police executives from the nation’s largest city, county, and state law enforcement agencies, and led the Police Foundation in a period when it published pivotal reports on issues ranging from the police use of deadly force to the efficient use of patrol resources.

In late 1973, Murphy became president of the Police Foundation, which the Ford Foundation established in 1970 with a $30 million commitment.

In 1975, Murphy enlisted the help of ten police chiefs from large jurisdictions around the country to help him create the Police Executive Research Forum.

Philip D. Murphy

Philip D. Murphy (born 1957) is an American businessman and the former United States Ambassador to Germany.

Reduction in rank

Colonel Michael D. Murphy - Demoted to First Lieutenant after being charge with absence without leave; failure to obey order/dereliction of duty; false official statement; larceny; and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) Articles 86, 92, 107, 121, and 133, respectively.

Robert S. Murphy

Murphy was born in Louisville, New York but spent most of his childhood in Portland, Maine, where his family was active in the temperance movement.

Ryan Murphy

Ryan T. Murphy (born 1971), Mormon Tabernacle Choir Associate Director

Simon Murphy

Simon J. Murphy, Sr. (1820–1910), millionaire lumberman in Maine, Detroit, and Humboldt County in Northern California

Simon J. Murphy, Jr. (1851–1926), mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin, son of Simon J. Murphy, Sr.

Summerset at Frick Park

This land reclamation project was spearheaded by 3-term Pittsburgh Mayor Tom Murphy.

Thomas F. Murphy

Thomas Francis Murphy (1905–1995), American federal prosecutor and judge

Thomas J. Fiscus

The revelations about Fiscus surfaced around the time of other scandals involving Air Force officers Colonel Michael D. Murphy and Brigadier General Richard S. Hassan.

Vincent J. Murphy

In 1943 Murphy ran as the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey against Republican Walter Evans Edge, who had come out of retirement after serving as United States Senator and United States Ambassador to France, as well as Governor during World War I.

Violence Against Women Act

However, several of them, including Steve King (R-Iowa), Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), Tim Walberg (R-Michigan), Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Keith Rothfus (R-Pennsylvania), and Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania), later claimed to have voted in favor of the act.

Wendell H. Murphy

While in politics, Murphy also helped with North Carolina State University athletics.

Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder

The song has enjoyed some popularity with Irish-Americans and association with the Saint Patrick's Day holiday and is sometimes played during the holiday, sometimes edited to remove elements of the song that can be construed to disparage the Irish.

William B. Murphy

Born in Mexia, a small city in Central Texas' Limestone County, William B. Murphy was 41 when his name first appeared in film credits as co-editor (with Richard Cahoon) of the independently-produced 1949 B-western, Massacre River, released by United Artists.

William P. Murphy

William Parry Murphy (Stoughton, Wisconsin, February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia (specifically, pernicious anemia).

William Parry

William P. Murphy (1892–1987), William Parry Murphy, American physician


Jon Turner

Turner was originally apprenticed to 'Spud' Peter Rowsell, a boat builder in Exmouth with whom he won the Merlin Rocket Championships at Abersoch in 1978.

Julian Steward

Steward quickly developed a coterie of students who would go on to have enormous influence in the history of anthropology, including Sidney Mintz, Eric Wolf, Roy Rappaport, Stanley Diamond, Robert Manners, Morton Fried, Robert F. Murphy, and influenced other scholars such as Marvin Harris.

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 1958

In the race for Lieutenant Governor, Democrat Robert F. Murphy, defeated Republican Elmer C. Nelson, Prohibition candidate Harold E. Bassett, and Socialist Labor candidate Francis A. Votano.

Nashil Pichen

He spent a long time in Nairobi, Kenya, where he collaborated with fellow Zambia emigre Peter 'Tsotsi' Juma who was from Mbala in Northern Province on the Zambia-Tanzania border and Benson Simbeye.

National Minority Movement

Other prominent figures included Wal Hannington, in charge of organization of the metal workers until transferred by the party to work organising the unemployed, the engineer J.T. "Jack" Murphy and coal miners A. J. Cook, Arthur Horner and Nat Watkins.

Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom

A more positive outlet of publicity for British Wrestling was TNA's spin–off show British Bootcamp which saw local stars Marty Scurll, twins Hannah and Holly Blossom and former British Welterweight Champion Rockstar Spud vying for an opportunity with the company, which Spud went on to win.

Rockstar Spud

Then, Spud was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling, TNA's developmental territory and made his debut on the March 13, 2013 episode of OVW.

Shallow Ground

Shallow Ground is a 2004 horror film written and directed by Sheldon Wilson and starring Timothy V. Murphy, Stan Kirsch, Lindsey Stoddart, Patty McCormack, and Rocky Marquette.

STAR System World Kickboxing Ratings

The STAR ratings helped internationalize the sport by encouraging transnational matchmaking, and by enabling free agent champions such as: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, Rob Kaman, Stan "The Man" Longinidis, Dennis Alexio, Maurice Smith, Peter "Sugarfoot" Cunningham, Fred Royers, James Warring, Graciela Casillas and Lucia Rijker.

The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations

HPAIR often invites speakers who are successful in the world of business, like the Chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (Harvard '81 / HBS '87), CEO of Haier Zhang Ruimin, Chairman of Prudential Asia Victor Fung and President of Goldman Sachs Asia Philip D. Murphy.