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3 unusual facts about Petrie


1893 Brisbane flood

He knew that the telegraph lines were down between Esk and Brisbane, but he knew that there was a telegraph office at the small township of North Pine (now Petrie), although this would require crossing the D'Aguilar Range.

Andrew Petrie

Division of Petrie, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland

With advancing years Petrie handed over more and more control to his eldest son, John, who became first mayor of Brisbane.


Alexander Petrie

A portrait of Petrie by Rosa Hope was hung in the council chamber of the university on the Pietermaritzburg campus, it was later removed, as Petrie had not been a Chancellor of the University, and it now hangs in the lecture theatre nearest the Classics department on the Pietermaritzburg campus.

Edgar Brookes dedicated his book A History of the University of Natal (1967) to Petrie.

Capri pants

The character of Laura Petrie, the young housewife played by Mary Tyler Moore, caused a fashion sensation – and some mild controversy – by wearing snug-fitting capri pants during the show's run.

Caroline Mabey

Caroline is part of London-based Popcorn Comedy, alongside Holly Walsh and Jon Petrie.

Constance Campbell Petrie

Constance Campbell Petrie (1873 – 4 July 1926), writer, was born in Queensland in 1873, youngest daughter of Thomas Petrie and his wife, Elizabeth, née Campbell.

Ed Petrie

In 2002, Ed Petrie was a researcher for the BBC programme, They Think It's All Over and, in 2005, was a comedy sketch writer for BBC Radio 1's The Milk Run.

Final stellation of the icosahedron

1938: In their 1938 book The Fifty Nine Icosahedra, H. S. M. Coxeter, P. Du Val, H. T. Flather and J. F. Petrie stated a set of stellation rules for the regular icosahedron and gave a systematic enumeration of the fifty-nine stellations which conform to those rules.

Gavin Petrie

Petrie & Etherington then went on to create, write and produce a final sitcom for ITV Duck Patrol starring Richard Wilson, David Tennant and Samantha Beckinsale.

Geoff Petrie

Petrie is credited as the first NBA player to switch from Converse brand athletic shoe, which were popular in the 1970s, to Nike brand.

Great Mall of the Bay Area

The Great Mall of the Bay Area, which opened on September 22, 1994, was developed as a joint venture between Ford Motor Land Development Corporation of Dearborn, Michigan and Petrie Dierman Kughn of McLean, Virginia.

Home education in the United Kingdom

Research into home education in the UK has been undertaken by Paula Rothermel PhD, Alan Thomas PhD, Amanda Petrie PhD, Ian Lowden PhD, Noraisha Yusof PhD, Leslie Barson PhD, Samantha Eddis PhD, Daniel Monk PhD, Sean Gabb, Harriet Pattison, Helen E. Lees PhD, Ruth Morton PhD, Richard Davies PhD, Ann Lewis PhD, Fiona Nicholson, David Galloway PhD.

Howard Petrie

When Howard was three years old his family moved to Concord, Massachusetts The Petries later lived in Arlington, Massachusetts and then Somerville, Massachusetts, where Howard Petrie received his secondary school education.

Petrie appeared in school dramatic productions including a starring role as "Marquis de la Seigliere" in the senior class play and the Jules Sandeau three-act comedy, Mademoiselle de la Seigliere.

James Alpin McPherson

After finishing his schooling, McPherson first started work at a stoneyard on the corner of Wharf and Queen streets in Ipswich, owned by a Mr. Petrie, before finding work on a cattle station.

Kevin Petrie

Prof Petrie is Director of the Institute for International Research in Glass (IIRG), which facilitates new approaches to creative glass and its contextualization.

Lobster Wars

Executive Producer Thom Beers narrates the show in the US whereas voice artist Bill Petrie narrates it in the UK.

Lynda La Plante

La Plante was also executive producer on Daniel Petrie Jnr's adaptation of her show Framed (2002 TNT) which starred Sam Neill and Rob Lowe.

Mairi Chisholm

In 1916, Chisholm became engaged to a Royal Naval Air pilot named Jack Petrie, who died a year later during flying practice.

Marsha Petrie Sue

Marsha Petrie Sue holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Home Economics from the California State University at Long Beach, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix from which she graduated magna cum laude.

Old Todd County Courthouse

Jesse Russell, of Elkton, was employed to supervise the construction, along with Commissioner Hazel Petrie.

Petrie polygon

In 1972, a few months after his retirement, Petrie was killed by a car while attempting to cross a motorway near his home in Surrey.

John Flinders Petrie (1907-1972) was the only son of Egyptologist Sir W. M. Flinders Petrie.

Pine Rivers State High School

The school's major fundraiser, the Walkathon is a sporting/social event in which students walk 13 km from the school, to local park Sweeney's Reserve, Petrie.

Tadukhipa

Others such as Petrie, Drioton and Vandier have suggested that Tadukhipa was given a new name after becoming the consort of Akhenaten and is to be identified the famous queen Nefertiti.

The Amazing Mr. Malone

Socialite John Joseph Malone (Gene Raymond, George Petrie, Frank Lovejoy) is a tough Chicago criminal lawyer who takes on a new case in each episode.

Thomas Petrie

In 1904 Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland was published, written by his daughter, Constance Campbell Petrie.

Warren Royal Dawson

Though Dawson never himself travelled to Egypt, "he talked of it as it he had known it well. Much of his knowledge of the land he had acquired directly from the best guides – the great Egyptologists of the last generation, Budge, Griffith, Gardiner, Petrie, Newberry, Gunn.".

Wendy Petrie

Wendy Petrie is a presenter (since January 2006) of Television New Zealand's One News (with co-presenter Simon Dallow) at 6pm.


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