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Peter J. Murray

His cover illustrations are now done by Paul Davies, the illustrator who created some of Stephen King's covers, including It.

Peter Murray

Peter J. Murray (born 1951), retired mathematics teacher and children's author


American Association of Petroleum Geologists

At its annual conventions and international conferences AAPG recognizes the distinguished contributions in the field of petroleum geosciences with various awards, including the Sidney Powers Memorial Award, Michel T. Halbouty Outstanding Leadership Award, Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award, Wallace Pratt Memorial Award, and Ziad Rafiq Beydoun Memorial Award.

British Entomological and Natural History Society

Another title published by BENHS was New British Beetles - species not in Joy's practical handbook by Peter J. Hodge and Richard A. Jones, a companion volume to Norman H. Joy's A Practical Handbook of British Beetles.

Cherry A. Murray

Born in Fort Riley, Kansas, and the daughter of a diplomat, Murray lived in the United States, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, and Indonesia as a child.

On June 14, 2010, Murray was appointed by Barack Obama to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

College of Insurance

The Manhattan location of the college now houses many graduate business and professional programs of St. John's Peter J. Tobin College of Business.

Dan Zetterström

He is best known as a co-author of the highly acclaimed Collins Bird Guide, with Killian Mullarney, Lars Svensson and Peter J. Grant.

David Lewis Rice

Charles Goldmark's brother is Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands and head of the Washington Department of Natural Resources Peter J. Goldmark.

Edward Murray

Edwin R. Murray (Ed Murray, born 1960), Democratic politician from Louisiana

Edward William Elton

Before the termination of the season he accepted an engagement of a month from William H. Murray of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.

George X. Schwartz

He brought Lynne Abraham onto his staff to do legislative and policy work for him after she lost another city job because she got caught up in the political infighting between him, Frank Rizzo, and the head of the Democratic City Committee, Peter Camiel.

Hans Gulbranson

He was succeeded by Peter J. K. Petersen in both positions, in 1868 and 1858 respectively.

James E. Murray

He used his chairmanship of the Senate's Interior Committee to secure Western water projects that led to congressional approval and funding for large dams in Montana at Canyon Ferry on the Missouri River, Yellowtail on the Bighorn River, Hungry Horse on the Flathead River, and Libby on the Kootenai River.

John Arthur Thomson

According to Peter J. Bowler Thomson was a popular science writer who had promoted a nonmaterialist interpretation of science though his interpretation was not accepted by all within the scientific community as some had claimed his views were neovitalist and thus outdated.

John E. Murray, Jr.

A native of Philadelphia, Murray lives in Whitehall, Pennsylvania with his wife Liz, a Villanova graduate.

John L. Murray

The Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, appointed him as Attorney General after his predecessor, Patrick Connolly, resigned abruptly over the GUBU scandal, when a murderer Malcolm McArthur was arrested in Connolly's Dalkey flat.

Leonard W. Murray

James Lorimer Ilsley, the Acting Prime Minister of Canada, responded quickly to the situation and on 10 May appointed Justice Kellock to chair a Royal Commission into the disorders.

Manas International Airport

The American forces christened the site "Ganci Air Base", after New York Fire Department chief Peter J. Ganci, Jr., who was killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Michael Murray

Michael L. Murray (born 1974), folklorist currently on faculty of Princeton University

National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

Cherry A. Murray, Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Peter Brennan

Peter J. Brennan (1918–1996), United States Secretary of Labor under Presidents Nixon and Ford

Peter J. A. Lucas

The 8th DLI confronted the German assault with no supporting weapons – the few Valentine tanks and anti-tank guns were unable to cross the wadi - and no air support, since the aircraft had been grounded by torrential rain.

Peter J. Bentley

Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Reader and College Fellow at UCL and a Collaborating Professor at KAIST.

Peter J. Brand

He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical Analysis.

This was later published by Brill in 2000 and is considered to be one of the most comprehensive studies on the reign of Seti I who is often eclipsed in history by the glorious 66-year reign of his son, Ramesses II.

It contains a catalogue of most of Seti I's monuments and an important discussion of the historical significance and reigns of Ramesses I and Seti I. Brand also attended the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis prior to the University of Toronto.

Peter J. Cutino Award

Former major league baseball commissioner and US Olympic Committee chair Peter Ueberroth, himself once a water polo player at San Jose State, presented the first awards on January 22, 2000.

Peter J. Dooling

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1920 to the Sixty-seventh Congress.

Peter J. Dyck

He graduated from Rosthern Junior College and attended the University of Saskatchewan, but dropped out to pastor several struggling local churches.

Peter J. Fos

Prior to accepting the presidency of UNO, Fos was provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Texas at Tyler.

Peter J. Moore

The album was released in early 1988 on Latent Records in Canada, and re-released worldwide in 1989 by RCA New York.

Peter J. Quinn

He is noted for his controversial support for OpenDocument, a standard format for office documents (ISO/IEC 26300).

Peter Kelly

Peter J. Kelly, Mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2000–2012

Peter Ryan

Peter J. Ryan (1841–1908), Union Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

Peter Wagner

Peter J. Wagner (born 1964), American paleontologist and Smithsonian curator

Richard R. Murray

Richard R. Murray (born February 3, 1956 in Bay City, Michigan) is the founder of Equity Schools Inc. and has extensive experience in education and real estate.

Roy Erskine

An optician by profession, Roy Erskine is the maternal grandfather of professional tennis players Jamie and Andy Murray by his daughter Judith "Judy" Murray.

Russell Evans Smith

On February 16, 1966, Smith was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Montana vacated by William D. Murray.

Siavash Haroun Mahdavi

in Intelligent Systems at University College London and continued his research to complete a doctorate in Evolutionary robotics under the supervision of Dr. Peter J. Bentley.

Stephen Murray

Stephen O. Murray (born 1950), American sociologist and anthropologist

Sue Records

Sue Records ("The Sound Of Soul") was founded in 1957 by Henry 'Juggy' Murray in New York City.

The Sentimentalists

Peggy Clark Schwartz (the widow of clarinetist Willie Schwartz of the Glenn Miller Orchestra), later recalled, in the Tommy Dorsey biography, authored by Peter J. Levinson, that she and her sisters may have been a little naive when they originally went to work for Dorsey: "In those days, you had to be young and stupid. You also had to be pretty needy ... it was almost comical when you look at it; it was part of the growing-up process!"

Thomas E. Murray

Real Lace by Stephen Birmingham, Harper and Row, New York, 1973, ISBN 0-06-010336-1

Transportation in the Halifax Regional Municipality

The current mayor, Peter Kelly, and several regional councillors have favoured instituting a commuter rail or a light rail system on current and abandoned railway lines and several streets in the urban core, however such a proposal would require provincial and federal funding and agreement with railway companies.

Ward Morehouse

Morehouse was a world traveler who drove across the United States over 23 times and visited 80 foreign countries in search of stories and interviews with such personalities as Sergeant Alvin York, Eugene O'Neill, Christopher Fry, H. L. Mencken, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

William H. Murray

During his tenure as governor in years of the Great Depression, he established a record for the number of times he used the National Guard to perform duties in the state and for declaring martial law.

William Henry Davis Murray was born in the town of Toadsuck, Texas (renamed "Collinsville" in the 1880s), on November 21, 1869.


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