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3 unusual facts about Purdy


Purdy, Missouri

The authority of the school board was upheld by the Supreme Court when it refused to hear a challenge by a group of students and parents.

Purdy is a city in Purdy Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.

Purdy, Tennessee

After the abolition of slavery, sharecropping was the primary means of income for low income families in the area.


Charles de Varigny

They hired the guide "Jack" Purdy who told the story of earlier adventurer Julius Brenchley.

Curtis Earle Lang

Lang persuaded Purdy to join him in seeking out the novelist, Malcolm Lowry, who was living in a shack on a North Vancouver beach.

Dawn Maxey

Later, in 2002, she appeared in a television commercial for Disney Cruise Line and after that in 2003 her only movie appearance was as Linette Purdy in Raising Flagg; other than that she only starred as Taylor in Yes, Dear and in 2004 as Beth in Saint Louie.

Debbie Purdy

Debbie Purdy and her counsel David Pannick QC argued that the Director of Public Prosecutions (Ken Macdonald QC) is infringing on her human rights by failing to clarify how the Suicide Act 1961 is enforced.

Purdy's particular concern was to discover what, if any, actions her husband, Omar Puente, takes in assisting her suicide would lead to his prosecution.

Face of a Fugitive

Though having the chance to escape, he notices one of Williams' toughs Purdy (James Coburn) repairing the fence.

Gerald J. Rip

In his 2009 judgment in the suit Leola Purdy, Sons Ltd. v The Queen, he quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson in suggesting that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".

Joe Purdy

Purdy's "Can't Get It Right Today" has been featured on commercial advertisements for the Kia Spectra.

Several of Purdy's songs are featured in the 2013 film Straight A's.

Purdy’s appearance at the Wireless Festival in Leeds led to a special request from The Who member Pete Townshend and his girlfriend Rachel Fuller to play with them at their acoustic In the Attic Series shows.

Mark Allan Robinson

In the spring of 1998, Parksville-Qualicum Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Paul Reitsma had been caught by Cam Purdy, editor of local Parksville newspaper, Parksville/Qualicum Beach Morning Sun, writing letters to the editor for years praising himself and signing them under fabricated names.

Martin Purdy

Martin Purdy (born 29 October 1981) is an English rugby union player who is currently playing for London Welsh.

Master of Magic

In April 2013, Wastelands Interactive launched a successful Kickstarter bid to fund the game Worlds of Magic and designer George Edward Purdy who worked on Master of Orion and Master of Magic joined the team.

Picabo, Idaho

The pristine Silver Creek is renowned among fly fisherman and was a favorite of Ernest Hemingway, who enjoyed hunting and fishing along the stream with local rancher Bud Purdy.

Piers Wardle

Wardle was perhaps the first British painter to experiment artistically with the ideas of Benoit Mandelbrot and other 'chaos' mathematicians, exploring in his work how 'the complexity associated with natural and organic forms can be generated, in appearance at least, by simple rules' (from Piers Wardle's catalogue for an exhibition held at the Pomeroy Purdy Gallery in April 1989).

Purdy Boat Company

The Purdy Boat Company, of Port Washington, Long Island, New York was one of the most famous makers of custom yachts and racing boats in the 1920s and 1930s.

Rai Purdy

During his time at CBS Purdy produced and directed shows such as The Morning Show with Dick Van Dyke and Merv Griffin and Celebrity Time.


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