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unusual facts about Peter J. Shields


Shields Library

The Peter J. Shields Library or Shields Library is a four-story library named after Peter J. Shields.


Bach Society Orchestra of Harvard University

Works featured in recent seasons have included Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, Beethoven's Symphonies 6 and 7, Barber's Adagio for Strings, Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (narrated by the Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes), and Villa-Lobos' Sinfonietta No. 1.

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.

Charles J. Shields

“This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself,” wrote Garrison Keillor in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

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.

Ebenezer J. Shields

Shields died on April 21, 1846(age 67 years, 120 days near La Grange, Texas.

Fred J. Shields

He was acting as president of the college there when he left for North Scituate, Rhode Island to replace President J.E.L. Moore at the Eastern Nazarene College on the advice of John W. Goodwin.

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.

Jennifer Freyd

As an adult in the early 1990s, Freyd privately accused her father of abusing her during her childhood.

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 K. Shields

He chaired the Committee on Canadian Relations in the 63rd and 64th Congresses, the Committee on Interoceanic Canals in the 65th Congress, and the Committee on the Sale of Meat Products in the 66th Congress.

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.

Peter Bentley

Peter J. Bentley (born 1972), British author and computer scientist

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.

After routing the Americans at the Kasserine Pass he dug his army in at the old French frontier position at Mareth and, a sick man, departed for Europe, leaving Von Arnim in charge.

Peter J. Bentley

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

Peter J. Bowler

He has made appearances on local radio, including interviews with William Crawley on BBC Radio Ulster shows TalkBack and Sunday Sequence - here he defended evolution and highlighted the non-scientific nature of creationism.

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

Leon Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, grew up, like Cutino, in the section of Monterey between Calle Principal and the Presidio, the neighborhood Cutino wrote about in his memoir Monterey: A View from Garlic Hill, a book on the local Italian-American community.

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.

The award was first presented in 1999 by the Trustees of the Olympic Club of San Francisco.

Peter J. Dooling

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

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Sixty-fifth 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. Hamill

On January 6, he underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis, but remained ill in Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan for another week, and died there about 20 minutes past midnight on January 13.

Peter J. Hamilton

At times, Hamilton had tense relations with a fellow Wilson appointee, Governor of Puerto Rico Arthur Yager.

Peter J. K. Petersen

In 1846, Peter Petersen received his burghership in Christiania, and took over his father's dry goods store, including the building at Karl Johans gate 16.

Peter J. Katzenstein

He received Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award from Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences in 1993, and, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching, was made one of Cornell University's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows in 2004.

Peter J. McArdle

Peter J. McArdle (1874-1940) also known as P.J. McArdle was originally from Muncie, Indiana but moved to Western Pennsylvania by 1905.

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 J. Schmitt

Schmitt died suddenly on October 3, 2012, aged 62, of a heart attack during a conference with County Executive Ed Mangano.

Peter Kelly

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

Peter Murray

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

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

Rowland Evans

Al Hunt and Mark Shields later joined the show as Evans scaled back his on-air work, and the title became Evans, Novak, Hunt & Shields.

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.

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!"

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.

UFC Fight Night: Maia vs. Shields

The following day, Dana White announced that Palhares would be released from his contract and banned from working at UFC ever again.


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