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6 unusual facts about Peterson


Charles Sreeve Peterson

Their settlement became a town called Weber City, and was later renamed to Peterson in honor of Peterson.

Marietta Holley

Her first poems were published locally in the Adams Journal, which led to successes in more prominent periodicals such as Peterson's Magazine.

Peterson, Utah

In 1872, the town's name was changed to Peterson to honor an early settler, Charles Sreeve Peterson.

Peterson's

They cover a wide range of topics including: SAT, ACT, PSAT, AP Exams, College Level Examination Program (CLEP), Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), civil service, nursing, EMT, postal service, case worker, law enforcement, and more.

Peterson's has negotiated contracts with the U.S. Military to offer individualized portals for enlisted Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel.

Petrosyan

It is a patronymic from the Armenian first name Petros (equivalent to Peter, making the name effectively equivalent to Peterson).


A Royal Wedding Suite

Arranged by Rick Wilkins, Peterson's jazz suite commemorates the 1981 wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral.

Alison Van Pelt

Painters—Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack and Chuck Close among them—would create paintings that appeared to be photographs.

Annie Miner Peterson

Annie Miner Peterson (1860-1939) was a Coos Indian from the U.S. state of Oregon who was a cultural and linguistic consultant to Melville Jacobs, an anthropologist at the University of Washington.

Bill Leeb

He left in mid 1986 and formed his own industrial project Front Line Assembly with Michael Balch, and later Rhys Fulber and Chris Peterson.

Blake Berris

2013 Gasparilla Film Festival - Rising Star Award for his role as Dusty Peterson in Meth Head

Casper Petersen

Peterson was first a member of the assembly from Calumet County in 1868 (succeeding Randolph Needham of the National Union (Republican) party) and was assigned to the standing committee on roads, bridges and ferries.

Charles Gilbert Peterson

He was an associate in Peterson & Sons with his father, Gilbert Peterson and brother, Jesse Peterson.

Chavali Vyaghreswarudu

He was the first Indian to introduce `placental graft' technique for treatment of polio; and the first to develop `metallic guide' for the operation of Subtrochanteric Osteotomy and a guide for passing wire in Smith-Peterson nailing operation technique.

Collin Peterson

In 1998, Peterson gained attention by proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow the residents of Minnesota's Northwest Angle to vote on whether they wanted to secede from the United States and join the Canadian province of Manitoba.

His seat is one of only a handful that is represented by a Democrat but was carried by Mitt Romney in the 2012 election and is seen as a top pick-up opportunity should Peterson retire.

Craig Stowers

In 2004, he left Clapp, Peterson and Stowers when he was appointed a Superior Court Judge for the Third Judicial District in Anchorage by Governor Frank Murkowski.

David Peterson

The second reason for Peterson's downfall was the Patti Starr scandal.

Edward S. Herman

Herman and Peterson wrote that the Western establishment has "swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down....the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million".

Esther Peterson

In 1938, Peterson became a paid organizer for the American Federation of Teachers and traveled around New England.

Forest Glen, Chicago

The #84-Peterson and #85A-North Central CTA bus routes are largely relied upon for transit south and east into the city, and the routes originate in Edgebrook.

Gordon Peterson

After Martin Agronsky retired as moderator of Agronsky & Co. in 1988, Peterson became producer and moderator of the show, which was retitled Inside Washington.

Herb Peterson

Peterson developed the Egg McMuffin, which has become a McDonald's breakfast signature item, in 1972.

I Hate U

"I Hate U" was nearly a solo effort from Prince, although he credited Minneapolis musician Ricky Peterson with co-production and arranging, as well as providing additional keyboards.

I Remember Me

Peterson describes how the Centers for Disease Control investigated, but he does not believe that they intended to take the illness seriously.

Idaho State Bengals football

ISU also produced several players who went on to be very successful high school football coaches, including Jim and Brent Koetter (both of whom won Idaho state championships at both Pocatello and Highland high schools), and former Bengal quarterback Paul Peterson who led Eagle to the Idaho 5A state championship game three times in four seasons.

Jamie Elman

In April 2010, Elman appeared on the soap opera The Young and the Restless as Jamie Peterson.

Jean-Marie Londeix

Some famous saxophone players that have studied with him include Richard Dirlam, Perry Rask, Russell Peterson, Ryo Noda, James Umble, Robert Black, Ross Ingstrup, Juan Carlos Mazás, William Street, Christian Lauba and Jack Kripl - Winner of the prize for Saxophone at the International Competition for Musical Performers in Geneva Switzerland, 1970.

Keith Peterson

Peterson attended F.H. Collins Secondary school in Whitehorse and graduated from Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Lake–Peterson House

The Lake-Peterson House was built in 1873, most likely by its first owner, John Lake and stands in front of the main complex for Rockford's Swedish American Hospital along Business U.S. Route 20.

Larry L. Peterson

Dr. Peterson is currently the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton, where he also serves as Department Chair and Director of the PlanetLab Consortium.

M. Blaine Peterson

Born in Ogden, Utah, Peterson attended the public schools and Weber College.

Moose Peterson

Moose Peterson, born in Whittier, California, is a well-known wildlife photographer whose work has been published in over 130 magazines world wide.

Nicholas Peterson

In spring 2006 Peterson completed his first independent feature film Intellectual Property starring Christopher Masterson of Malcolm in the Middle.

Nordic Paper

It was founded in 2001 when Peterson Scanproof, a branch of M. Peterson & Søn which consisted of production units in Greåker (formerly owned by Greaker Industrier) and Säffle, was merged with a paper factory in Geithus, owned by Norske Skog Union.

Oscar Peterson and Jon Faddis

Oscar Peterson and Jon Faddis is a 1975 (see 1975 in music) studio album by Oscar Peterson, featuring Jon Faddis.

Patricia Ben Peterson

Peterson's father was Portland attorney Edwin J. Peterson, who was later (in 1979) appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court, and served as its 39th Chief Justice from 1983 to 1991.

Penelope Peterson

Peterson was named Dean of Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy in September 1997 and previously served as University Distinguished Professor of Education at Michigan State University and Sears-Bascom Professor of Education at University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Puff model

In a joint program called University Partnering for Operational Support (UPOS) between the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (early 2000s), Puff was integrated into the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) volcano monitoring system by Rorik Peterson and David Tillman.

Ray Peterson

His performances at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, produced by Fred Vail, beginning in 1963 helped fuel a revival of "The Wonder of You," as well as launching his new relationship with MGM Records, an alliance that produced two albums: The Very Best of Ray Peterson which featured most of the Dunes singles, and The Other Side of Ray Peterson, which included many of his nightclub songs.

Rick Distaso

Joseph Richard ("Rick") Distaso was the Stanislaus County, California senior deputy district attorney who served as the lead prosecutor in the case against Scott Peterson, charged with and later convicted of murdering his wife Laci Peterson and their unborn child Conner Peterson in 2002.

Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Righteous Branch was organized on April 6, 1978, by Gerald Wilbur Peterson, Sr. (born October 8, 1917 in Lusk, Wyoming, died January 1981).

Room Nine

Rudzitis shared the home with Feast drummer Dan Peters (later of Mudhoney and Love Battery), renowned Seattle photographer Charles Peterson, artist Ed Fotheringham, occasionally Vanderpool and other scenesters.

Ryssby Church

In 1862, Sven J. Johnson, an agent for the White Star Line, along with Bengt Johnson, Aaron Peterson, Sven Magni, Peter Johnson, Lars J. Johnson and Samuel Gummeson, set off from their homeland in Ryssby, Sweden, to come to America seeking free land under the Homestead Act.

TCP congestion-avoidance algorithm

University of Arizona researchers Larry Peterson and Lawrence Brakmo introduced TCP Vegas, named after the largest Nevada city, in which timeouts were set and round-trip delays were measured for every packet in the transmit buffer.

The Mind Trust

The Mind Trust was founded in 2006 by Bart Peterson, the former Mayor of Indianapolis, and David Harris, Mayor Peterson’s former charter schools director.

Values in Action Inventory of Strengths

Some individuals who influenced Peterson and Seligman’s choice of strengths include: Abraham Maslow, Erik Erikson, Ellen Greenberger, Marie Jahoda, Carol Ryff, Michael Cawley, Howard Gardner, Shalom Schwartz.

Very Tall

Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson - Very Tall is a 1961 (see 1961 in music) album featuring a jazz trio, led by the Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, and also featuring the jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson.

Vicki Peterson

After The Bangles disbanded in 1989, Peterson played with the Continental Drifters and The Psycho Sisters, in both cases alongside Susan Cowsill.

Wally Peterson

Peterson was married to the Australian performer Joy Nichols from 1949 until the mid-1970s, when they divorced.

William Joseph O'Connor

On 18 March 1888 he defeated (for a stake of $2,000) the Pacific coast champion, Henry Peterson, and then on 24 Nov. 1888 on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., he beat, for $1,000, the American champion, John Teemer, who had twice taken the title from Hanlan.


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