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2 unusual facts about Peter T. Farrell


Peter T. Farrell

Farrell presided over the 1952 trial of bank robber Willie Sutton in which Sutton had been charged with the 1950 heist of $63,942 from a branch of the Manufacturers Trust Company in Sunnyside, Queens, part of more than $2 million he was estimated to have stolen from various banks over the course of his career in crime.

Farrell was best known for presiding over the trial of bank robber Willie Sutton, who was sentenced to 30 to 120 years in Attica State Prison, before Farrell suspended the sentence in 1969 because of Sutton's deteriorating health.


Abugida

Abugida as a term in linguistics was proposed by Peter T. Daniels in his 1990 typology of writing systems.

Alfonse M. D'Amato United States Courthouse

It was renamed for D'Amato in 2002 from a bill by Peter T. King that was supported by Chuck Schumer who had defeated D'Amato.

Aramaic alphabet

Writing systems that indicate consonants but do not indicate most vowels (like the Aramaic one) or indicate them with added diacritical signs, have been called abjads by Peter T. Daniels to distinguish them from later alphabets, such as Greek, that represent vowels more systematically.

Dave Mejias

That seat is currently held by Republican Peter King (R-Seaford), chairman of House Committee on Homeland Security.

In August 2006, the AFL-CIO gave their endorsement to Mejias, over the incumbent Peter T. King (R), whom they had endorsed in each election for the previous fourteen years, ever since King was first elected to Congress.

Eastern Orthodox teaching regarding the Filioque

Joseph P. Farrell translator The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit by St Photius Publisher: Holy Cross Orthodox Press Language: English ISBN 978-0-916586-88-1

Free Software Foundation

In late 2001, Bradley M. Kuhn (then Executive Director), with the assistance of Moglen, David Turner, and Peter T. Brown, formalized these efforts into FSF's GPL Compliance Labs.

George W. McClusky

Devery was alleged to have been part of a gambling syndicate consisting of himself, Frank Farrell and Timothy "Big Tim" Sullivan which, at the time of McClusky's removal, generated around $3 million from payoffs to corrupt politicians and police officials according to the New York Times.

In Gayle We Trust

Season three was directed by Jason Farrand and written by Anthony Q. Farrell.

J. G. Farrell

Charles Sturridge scripted a film version of Troubles made for British television in 1988 and directed by Christopher Morahan.

In the 1991 novel The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble, the writer Stephen Cox is modelled after Farrell.

James A. Farrell, Jr.

He and his brother and John J. Farrell eventually became the founders of a shipping company named Farrell Lines Inc.

Joseph P. Farrell

Farrell states that his books on Giza "takes off where Christopher Dunn's 'The Giza Power Plant' left off."

Joseph Patrick Farrell is an American theologian, scholar on the East–West Schism and the author of a number of books on alternative history, history, historical revisionism, archaeology, and science/physics.

Farrell produced the first English translation of the "Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit" by Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople (9th century).

One set concerns theology, the Church Fathers, and the Great Schism between East and West, with its cultural consequences for the resulting two Europes.

National language

On 17 March 2011, Representative Peter T. King (R-NY.) introduced House Bill H.R.1164, a bill to amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the official language of the Government of the United States.

Peter King

Peter T. King (born 1944), U.S. Republican Congressman from New York

Peter Kirstein

Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist who played a significant role in the creation of the Internet

Peter T. Brown

Peter T. Brown was the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) from 2001 until early 2011.

Peter T. Curtenius

On May 31, 1775, the New York Provincial Congress appointed him Commissary General, with the rank of colonel, being in charge of the purchase of provisions for the Continental Army.

Peter T. Washburn

In 1844 he moved his practice to Woodstock and formed a partnership with Charles P. Marsh until his death in 1870.

In October 1861, he was elected Adjutant General of Vermont, with the rank of Brigadier General, succeeding Horace Henry Baxter.

He moved to Woodstock in 1844, where he lived for the remainder of his life.

Reunion Society of Vermont Officers

Almost all prominent Vermonters who had served in the Civil War were members of the Society, including U.S. Senator Redfield Proctor, Interstate Commerce Commission member Wheelock G. Veazey, and Governors Peter T. Washburn, Roswell Farnham, John L. Barstow, Samuel E. Pingree, Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, Urban A. Woodbury, Josiah Grout, and Charles J. Bell.

Richard Anthony Parker

Originally from Chicago, he attended Mt. Carmel High School (then known as St. Cyril) with acclaimed author James T. Farrell.

Robert C. Farrell

Farrell's first involvement in political life was in the Johnson-Humphrey Presidential campaign of 1964, and in 1970 he was statewide black communities coordinator in John Tunney's U.S. Senate race.

This, it was said, distinguished him from other African-American council members—"Gilbert Lindsay and occasionally David Cunningham"—who relied more on the private sector in solving problems.

Farrell began his journalistic career as a reporter for the black-oriented California Eagle newspaper and on the Los Angeles Sentinel.

Vilmantas Marcinkevičius

2004 - Peter T. Kirstein, University College London (UCL), Professor, London, UK

William J. Sullivan

The court became embroiled in a lengthy ethics scandal in 2006 when it was revealed that retiring Chief Justice Sullivan postponed the publication of a controversial decision opposing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents that track the status and history of legal cases in the Connecticut legal system until hearings for his nominated successor Justice Peter T. Zarella were completed.

William Kittredge

Oscar was to be picked up by Oregon Governor Earl Snell for a hunting trip in October 1947 when the plane Snell and Oregon Secretary of State Robert Farrell, among others, crashed en route, killing all four on board.

Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay

By December 27, 2009, responding to rumors that Abdulmutallab had confessed to being trained and equipped in Yemen, various American politicians, including Joe Lieberman, Pete Hoekstra, Peter T. King and Bennie Thompson, called for American President Barack Obama to halt plans to repatriate the Yemenis.


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