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4 unusual facts about Peter F. Flaherty


Michelle Madoff

Caliguiri was serving as President of Pittsburgh City Council and became mayor when Peter Flaherty was appointed Deputy Attorney General of the United States in the Jimmy Carter Presidential Administration.

Peter F. Flaherty

John Flaherty, a lawyer and also no relation to Pete, was elected a Judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County and then Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Flaherty's City management brought accolades from David Rockefeller and Fortune Magazine.

Pete Flaherty's son, Shawn, was elected to succeed Jeff Habay, for the remainder of Habay's term, after Habay was convicted of criminal activity and sentenced to jail in 2006.


Beyond Singularity

Authors they credit with writing convincingly about the singularity who are not included in this book, are Brian Stableford, Stephen Baxter, Bruce Sterling, Greg Bear, Iain Banks, Nancy Kress, Alastair Reynolds, Peter F. Hamilton, Ian McDonald, and Vernor Vinge.

Bitek

Bitek is a fictional substance mentioned numerous times in the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton.

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.

Exocortex

Peter F. Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy also describes in detail similar technological beings.

Foothill Transit

The impetus for the formation of the transit agency was Los Angeles County Supervisor Pete Schabarum.

Frances H. Flaherty

Frances worked alongside her husband on several of his films, including Louisiana Story (1948), for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story.

Frances Johnson Hubbard was born in Bonn, Germany into "a household of erudition, gentility, and privilege," the daughter of Lucius L. Hubbard (1849-1933), who was studying mineralogy at the University of Bonn, and his wife Frances (1852-1927).

Francis Flaherty

Francis C. Flaherty (1919–1941), United States Naval Reserve officer and Medal of Honor recipient

Gaga'ifomauga

The Safune traditional village district was the location for Moana (1926), one of the earliest documentaries directed by Robert J. Flaherty.

Jurgen Ziewe

Many of his fantasy images found their way onto book covers of well known science fiction authors including Robert Silverberg, Vernor Vinge, Steven Baxter, Iain Banks, Dan Simmons, Greg Bear, John Barnes and Peter F. Hamilton and writers of the Mind-Body-Spirit genre.

Kessler syndrome

An offshoot of humanity uses asteroid debris to "close the sky" in Peter F. Hamilton's stand-alone sci fi novel Fallen Dragon.

Lawrence J. Flaherty

Flaherty was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in New York City, June 13, 1926.

Michael Flaherty

Michael F. Flaherty, Sr. (born 1936), former judge and former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Oamaru

Peter F. Hamilton's novel The Dreaming Void (London: Macmillan, 2007; ISBN 978-1-4050-0) refers to " ... the backwater External World of Oamaru" (page 22).

Paul Rotha

Robert J. Flaherty: A Biography, edited by Jay Ruby (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983)

Paul v. Clinton

The plaintiff, Peter F. Paul, alleged that President Bill Clinton and his wife, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, deceived him into paying for the Gala Hollywood Farewell Salute to President Clinton, during Hillary Clinton's first Senate race in 2000, by making a promise that the President would work for Paul's company, Stan Lee Media, after his Presidential term was over.

Peter F. Dailey

After these engagements Dailey became a regular performer with Weber and Fields in New York.

Peter F. Donnelly

He was a former Vice-Chairman of Americans for the Arts, a co-founder of the Seattle Arts Commission and a pivotal figure in the Seattle artistic community for more than 45 years.

Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management

It also offers exchange programs with Hitotsubashi University in Japan, University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, Inha University in South Korea, and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Masatoshi Ito provided an initial $3 million gift to help build the school’s current home and a subsequent $20 Million gift to assist the School with its future strategic plans.

Alumni of the school include Shuming Zhao, Business School Dean at the University of Nanjing; Brad Adams, CEO and Chairman of Sunstone Systems International; and Colin Forkner, CEO, Pacific Coast National Bank and Rajiv Dutta Chief Financial Officer, eBay and President, Skype.

Peter F. Krogh

In 1958 he graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. cum laude in Economics and later received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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Peter F. Mack, Jr.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1974 and in 1976 to the Ninety-fourth and Ninety-fifth Congresses.

Mack was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1963).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress.

Richard Arnell

Arnell composed the music for The Land (1942), a 45-minute documentary film directed by Robert J. Flaherty for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Richard J. Welch

Welch was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lawrence J. Flaherty.

The Romance of the Far Fur Country

These narrative and filmic techniques used in HBC's film were, in fact, later employed by Robert J. Flaherty, who made commercially successful Nanook of the North and also hailed as father of documentary films by John Grierson.


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