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16 unusual facts about Piper


After Everything Now This

Marty Willson-Piper – Guitars & Backing Vocals/lead vocals on Chromium

Bid Time Return

While traveling with his family, Matheson was entranced by the portrait of American actress Maude Adams in Piper's Opera House in Nevada.

Charles Heidsieck

Charles-Henri was the nephew of Florens-Louis Heidsieck, co-founder of the Champagne house that eventually became Piper-Heidsieck, and cousin of Henri-Louis Walbaum and Pierre Auguste Heidsieck who founded the house that eventually became known as Heidsieck & Co Monopole.

Cheltenham Gold Cup

The first commercial sponsorship of the race was by Piper Champagne, which began supporting the event in 1975.

Florens-Louis Heidsieck

Piper-Heidsieck is the other direct descendant Champagne house of the old Heidsieck & Co, founded in 1785.

Florens-Louis Heidsieck (1749–1828) was the founder of the Champagne house Heidsieck & Co from which later Piper-Heidsieck was spun off, and which was the start of the Heidsieck Champagne clan.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper

EVA Two (Duration 6 hours, 45 minutes) -- With astronaut Robert S. Kimbrough, Stefanyshyn-Piper relocated the two Crew and Equipment Translation Aid (CETA) carts from the starboard side of the Mobile Transporter to the port side, lubricated the station robotic arm’s latching end effector A snare bearings, continued cleaning and lubrication of the starboard SARJ.

Marty Willson-Piper

Willson-Piper's side projects and collaborations include two stints as guitarist for UK rock group All About Eve including their Seeing Stars album.

This sole eponymous album is essentially by the band All About Eve, minus their vocalist Julianne Regan.

Other artists with whom Willson-Piper has worked are Martin Rössel (with whom he ran a recording studio in Stockholm) and Aimee Mann(The song "Could've Been Anyone" (Lyrics by Mann, Music by Mann, Jules Shear, Marty Willson-Piper) appears on Mann's first album, the 1993 Whatever (Aimee Mann album).

Piper, Kansas

ft. of retail and warehouse space on 88 acres (360,000 m2) of land drawing visitors all over the United States, Great Wolf Lodge, the Kansas Speedway, the Legends at Village West, Hollywood Casino, MLS record holding soccer team Sporting Kansas City using Sporting Park stadium, and the CommunityAmerica Ballpark which is the stadium of the Kansas City T-Bones.

These schools will be the first in the nation to have Google Fiber bandwidth accessible for endless possibilities in the realm of education.

Piper is the first full community in the nation (based off actual residential votes and pre-registration counts) to have residential broadband internet network infrastructures using fiber-optic communication of 1GB/sec download and upload speeds provided by Google Fiber.

While not in the traditional center of Piper, the general area is home to the Schlitterbahn Vacation Village a 370-acre (1.5 km2) resort and waterpark, Cabela's, Nebraska Furniture Mart encompassing a total of 1.1 million sq.

Piper's Opera House

Mark Twain spoke from the original Piper's stage in 1866, and again a century later in the third venue, as portrayed by Hal Holbrook in his one-man play Mark Twain Tonight! A lynch mob hung a victim from the first venue's rafters in 1871.

Sometime Anywhere

After 1992's Priest=Aura, Peter Koppes departed the band and replacement drummer Jay Dee Daugherty found other work, leaving The Church down to its two remaining founders, Steve Kilbey and Marty Willson-Piper.


Blackie Lawless

In 1982 Lawless switched to bass guitar and along with Randy Piper formed W.A.S.P. The lineup was soon completed with Chris Holmes on lead guitar and Tony Richards on drums.

Cosalt

It created the Piper brand, and after the failure of Sam Alper's Caravans International bought its brands, including: ACE, Abbey, Bessacarr, Sprite; and later the independent Cotswold brand.

Coun Douly Rankin

He was born at Breachacha Castle on the Isle of Coll, the son of Neil Rankin, the resident piper at the castle, and Catherine Maclean.

Cyclopentadienylcobalt dicarbonyl

CpCo(CO)2 was first reported in 1954 by Piper, Cotton, and Wilkinson who produced it by the reaction of cobalt carbonyl with cyclopentadiene.

Doctor Who: Children in Need

The appeals in which they both appear were light-hearted, with Piper claiming to be Tennant and vice versa in the first, and in the second the pair introducing themselves as Letitia Dean and Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Dreadnought!

The novel begins with Lt. Piper (no first name), a native of Proxima Beta, taking the Kobayashi Maru simulation at Starfleet Academy.

Frederick Piper

From the early 1960s film work began to dry up, but Piper continued to find work in television, a medium on which he had first appeared as early as 1938 in a production of J. B. Priestley's play Laburnum Grove for the fledgling BBC.

Greg Piper

Piper was elected as the Member for Lake Macquarie at the 2007 general election.

Hamlin Independent School District

The school mascot is the Pied Piper, due to the town having a similar name to Hamelin, where the legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin originated.

History of Arizona State University

Mrs. Kathryn Gammage, first year football coach Frank Kush and college administrators and faculty toured the state to promote Arizona State University, while C.W. Laing and Tom Lillico barnstormed the state in their Yes 200 Piper aircraft.

Jacki Piper

Jacqueline Crump (born 3 August 1948), known professionally by her stage name Jacki Piper, is an English actress, best known for her appearances as the female juvenile lead in the British film comedies Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Carry On Loving (1970), Carry On at Your Convenience (1971), and Carry On Matron (1972).

Jerry D. Thompson

He has received numerous awards in recognition of his scholarship, including the Minnie Stevens Piper Fellowship; T.R. Fehrenback Award, by the Texas Historical Commission; Kate Broocks Bates Award, by the Texas State Historical Association; Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award, by the Historical Society of New Mexico; and Barry Goldwater Award, by the Arizona Historical Society.

John K. Beatty

"Mr. Beatty’s headlong execution on his superb set of pipes was as much of a surprise to Tarlach Mac Suibhne, the “Donegal Piper,” as was his lilting. After watching his acrobatic performance on the huge instrument for a time, McSweeney remarked quizzically: “Begor, Mr. Beatty, you have a great shower of fingers.”

LAPD Hooper Heliport

The Piper Technical Center is also used as a parking lot for some of the LAPD's motor pool including marked and un-marked units, vans, buses, motorcycles, and the V-100 SWAT armored cars.

Luan de Burgh

These include the DLA Piper, Rabobank, Oriel Securities, Lloyds Banking Group, BBC, UBS, Citigroup, Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith, BUPA, Shell UK, GSK, National Health Service, Aviva and the University of Surrey.

MapBlast

This management team completed a successful initial public offering in February 2000 managed by J.P. Morgan & Co., Bear Stearns, and USB Piper Jaffray.

Martin Peerson

The only four extant keyboard pieces – "Alman", "The Fall of the Leafe", "Piper's Paven" and "The Primerose" – appear in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (c. 1609 – c. 1619), one of the most important sources of early keyboard music containing more than 300 pieces from the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods.

Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Tropical house - Collections include Ananas comosus, Annona muricata, bromeliads, Caryota mitis, Cocos nucifera, Coffea arabica, cycads (including a Dioon spinulosum given by Smith College in the 1920s), Heliconia vellerigera, Kigelia pinnata, Musa, orchids, Oryza sativa, Piper nigrum, Rhizophora mangle, and Theobroma cacao.

MC Layla

She is the second child of Jack Richard Capel Hanbury (born 18 April 1953) and Julie Tasma (née Piper); with an older brother, James Edwin Capel Hanbury (born 26 September 1979), and a younger sister, Amelia Jeanne Hanbury (born 15 September 1986) – the family is listed in Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (2003).

Mid-Hudson Civic Center

Notable wrestlers who wrestled in the building during this time include then WWF Champion Hulk Hogan, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, André the Giant, Bret Hart, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, King Kong Bundy, Big John Studd, Ken Patera, Tito Santana and Rowdy Roddy Piper (who also hosted his "Piper's Pit" segment on the show).

Monty Woolley

He won a Best Actor award from the National Board of Review in 1942 for his role in The Pied Piper.

ODECO

ODECO rigs continued to rack up “firsts” in the industry in the 1970s, with Ocean Viking discovering the giant Ekofisk Field for Phillips Petroleum in the North Sea, and Ocean Victory discovering the Piper and Claymore fields, also in the North Sea, for Occidental Petroleum.

Piper Dellums

In The Color of Friendship, the role of Piper Dellums was played by Shadia Simmons.

Piper lolot

Piper lolot (lolot) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its leaf which is used in Lao and Vietnamese cuisine as a flavoring wrap for grilling meats, namely the thịt bò nướng lá lốt sausages of Vietnam.

Randy Piper

Randy Piper (born William Randall Piper on April 13, 1953 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American rock guitarist and songwriter, best known as the co-founder and original guitarist of the heavy metal band W.A.S.P..

Robert Piper

In 2005, in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Piper was asked by former US President Bill Clinton to serve as his chief of staff, in Clinton's capacity as UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery.

Sal Iacono

He and Piper were confronted by Santino Marella, who had the cake thrown on him and was attacked by Iacono.

Short Sealand

The prototype Sealand was launched on 19 January 1948 and flew 3 days later from the waters of Belfast Lough, piloted by Shorts' Chief Test Pilot, Harold Piper.

Space Ace

A short-lived cartoon series based on Space Ace was produced in 1984 as part of the Saturday Supercade cartoon block (which was composed of cartoon shorts based on current video games) with Space Ace voiced by Jim Piper, Dexter voiced by Sparky Marcus, Kimberly voiced by Nancy Cartwright, and Commander Borf voiced by Arthur Burghardt.

Taylor Schilling

She later played Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), Beth Green in The Lucky One (2012); and Piper Chapman in the Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black (2013–present).

The Healing Game

"Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" follows the children's book, The Wind in the Willows closely and Paddy Moloney plays uillean pipes with Phil Coulter on piano.

The Tales of Para Handy

An episode of the second series, 'Para Handy's Piper', guest starred future Tenth Doctor David Tennant in one of his early acting roles.

The Woods Band

Terry Woods also wanted uilleann piper Paddy Keenan for the group, but didn't get him, though Keenan would go on to play with the Bothy Band.

Tommy Herron

He was buried at Roselawn Cemetery as a piper played "Amazing Grace".

Vereker Monteith Hamilton

Hamilton's military works focused primarily on contemporary events such as Piper Findlater at Dargai and the Tirah campaigns.

William T. Piper

Piper served in the Spanish-American War and World War I, in the latter as a captain in the Corps of Engineers.

Wing Scout

That same year the first of three Piper Cub training planes were presented to Girl Scouts by William T. Piper, President of Piper Aircraft (August 17, 1945).

Zenescope Entertainment

In 2011, it was announced that Mandalay Vision had acquired the film rights to The Piper, with Adam Alleca to adapt it for the screen.