Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.

Despite Oakland's accomplishments, and the fact that most experts agreed that this was the weakest of the all the Packer NFL championship teams, the Packers were 14-point favorites to win the Super Bowl.

It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines.

Upshur County was named for Abel Packer Upshur, Secretary of State under John Tyler.

* Major Phil Packer, is a British soldier who was rendered paraplegic in 2008 by injuries sustained while serving in Iraq.

On February 22, 1774, the town was incorporated by Governor John Wentworth as Packersfield, after a major proprietor, Thomas Packer, the sheriff at Portsmouth.

Elmer convinced Asa Packer to locate a new railroad repair facility on the Pine Plains for the expanding Lehigh Valley Railroad, which was making a push north to connect to the New York state railroads.

The Isaac A. Packer Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Diamond's first recording contract was billed as " Neil and Jack ", an Everly Brothers – type duo comprising Diamond and high school friend Jack Packer *( Jack Parker ).

When it was time for the Super Bowl Champs to visit the White House, McMahon wore his Chicago Bears # 9 jersey, which did not go over too well with Green Bay Packer fans.

Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer, AC ( 17 December 1937 – 26 December 2005 ) was an Australian media tycoon.

Packer was known for his abrasive personality, his wealth, his lavish gambling habits, his expansive business empire and his clashes with the Australian Taxation Office and the Costigan Royal Commission.

At the time of his death, Packer was the richest and one of the most influential men in Australia.

Packer, through his family company Consolidated Press Holdings, was the major shareholder with a 37 % holding in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited ( PBL ).

Packer was widely respected in business circles, courted by politicians on both sides, and was widely regarded as one of the most astute businessmen of his time, despite having been a poor student.

Although Packer's reputation as an astute businessman was legendary and he made some good investments, he was by no means a self-made man – his grandfather Robert Clyde Packer and his father Sir Frank Packer had built up the media empire and its related holdings over many decades.

Moreover, Packer was not the first choice to take over the running of the family's business empire – his father had intended that Kerry's older brother Clyde Packer would take over the company, but Clyde fell out with his father in the early 1970s and left Australia permanently.

Kerry Packer was also one of Australia's largest landholders.

Packer's grandfather Robert Clyde Packer owned two Sydney newspapers whilst his father, Sir Frank Packer, was one of Australia's first media moguls, and Kerry's son, James Packer, is Executive Chairman of PBL.

Many of the " packaging " innovations, such as coloured clothing, were as a result of World Series Cricket, a " rebel " series set up outside the cricketing establishment by Australian entrepreneur Kerry Packer.

He received vigorous support from the newspapers and TV stations owned by Packer.

The commercial " Supertests " organised by Kerry Packer as part of his World Series Cricket enterprise and played between " WSC Australia ," " WSC World XI " and " WSC West Indies " from 1977 to 1979 have never been regarded as having official Test match status.

Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality, edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan and first published in 2001, explores the term and its history from an avant-garde perspective.

Thus the definition of Christian propitiation asserted by Calvin, Packer and Murray holds that within God there is a dichotomy of love and anger, but through propitiation love trumps anger, abolishing it.

It is drained by the Lehigh River except for a small area in western Packer Township and the borough of Lansford that are drained by the Still Creek and Panther Creek, respectively, into the Little Schuylkill River and the Schuylkill River, and the Audenried area in the northwest corner that drains into the Susquehanna River via the Catawissa Creek.

The fair opened on May 31, 1926, and ran through November on grounds bounded by 10th Street, Packer Avenue, 23rd Street, and the U. S. Navy Yard ( Terminal Avenue ) in South Philadelphia.

Originally known as League Island Park, these grounds are now occupied by FDR Park, Marconi Plaza, Packer Park Residential Neighborhood, the four facilities of Philadelphia's massive South Philadelphia Sports Complex ( Wachovia Spectrum.

* Frederic Raphael ( Illustrated by Neil Packer ), 2003, London: The Folio Society

The Patriarchal priesthood which is sometimes confused as a separate priesthood is explained by Boyd K. Packer, Apostle of the LDS Church as: " The patriarchal order is not a third, separate priesthood.

Further, his principal Australian investments in television and casinos were highly protected from competition by government regulation which Packer and his employees worked very hard to have maintained.

Packer received $ 800 million in cash before receiving a free 37 % equity stake that put a debt-included value of A $ 500 million on the Nine Network, which by then included Channel Nine in Brisbane.

Packer also occasionally interfered directly in the programming of his TV stations ; in 1992 he famously called his Sydney station, TCN-9 and ordered its personnel to " Get that shit off the air ," referring to Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos hosted by Doug Mulray, which was cut during its first and only airing on national television.

The case was also fictionalised in 1958 as The Evil Friendship by M. E. Kerr under the pseudonym Vin Packer.

By date of ordination, he is the fourth senior member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, preceded by Russell M. Nelson, L. Tom Perry, and quorum president Boyd K. Packer.

** The Assassins ' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer

World Series Cricket ( WSC ) was a break away professional cricket competition staged between 1977 and 1979 and organised by Kerry Packer for his Australian television network, Nine Network.

Two main factors caused the formation of WSC — the widespread view that players were not paid sufficient amounts to make a living from cricket, and that Packer wished to secure the exclusive broadcasting rights to Australian cricket, then held by the Australian Broadcasting Commission ( ABC ).

Evangelical scholars and pastoral leaders critical of inclusive language translations include John F. MacArthur, J. I. Packer, Jack T. Chick, Gail Riplinger, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Texe Marrs, Wayne Grudem, Peter Ruckman, D. James Kennedy, Josh McDowell, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., John Piper, Pat Robertson, R. C.

" Hannah recalled John Clarke Rose, Story Research Director at the Disney Studio, "... took us to meet Eleanor Packer who I believe was in charge of Whitman / Western Publishing.

* John Anderson, former Green Bay Packer and Milwaukee-television sports personality

On March 11, 1883, Packer was discovered in Cheyenne, Wyoming, living under the alias of " John Schwartze.

Besides Dick Enberg and Rod Hundley ( who worked with Merle Harmon on the January 7, 1973 contest between Kansas and Notre Dame ), other broadcast teams for TVS ' college basketball coverage included John Ferguson and Joe Dean ( who called the February 21, 1970 contest between Kentucky and LSU ), Monte Moore and Ed Macauley ( who called the January 2, 1971 contest between Dayton and UCLA ), Charlie Jones and Elgin Baylor ( who called the January 26, 1972 contest between Providence and USC ), Ray Scott and Bill O ' Donnell ( who called the January 14, 1973 contest between SW Louisiana and Oral Roberts ), Al Michaels and Tom Hawkins ( who called the January 26, 1974 contest between Notre Dame and UCLA ), and Jay Randolph and Billy Packer ( who called the November 17, 1979 contest between Duke and Kentucky and November 22, 1980 contest between DePaul and Louisville ).

When he expressed his concerns, the local vicar, John Graham Packer, accused him of atheism and suspended him from teaching.

Apart from the Pope and governments, famous owners of the 600 have included celebrities such as Coco Chanel, Hugh Hefner, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon, George Harrison, Jay Kay, Aristotle Onassis, Jack Nicholson, Simon Spies, Ronnie Wood, Bob Jane, Frank Packer, Elvis Presley, Rowan Atkinson and Jeremy Clarkson.

He and his trusty horse, Liane, set off with five miners, Shannon Wilson Bell ( Ian Hardin ), James Humphrey ( Matt Stone ), Frank Miller ( Jason McHugh ), George Noon ( Dian Bachar ), and Israel Swan ( John Hegel ), on what Packer estimates will be a three-week journey.

* Trey Parker as Alferd Packer / Frenchy singing voice / The Voice of Doom ( credited as Juan Schwartz, a reference to Alferd Packer's alias " John Schwartze ", which he was living under when discovered in Cheyenne, Wyoming )

; Robert Clyde Packer and Frank Packer, newspaper proprietors, and other members of the Packer family ; members of the Fairfax family, also newspaper proprietors ; John Norton and Ezra Norton and family, also newspaper proprietors ; Frank Clune, author ; Sir Walter Edward Davidson, Governor of New South Wales ; Roy Redgrave, founder of the Redgrave acting dynasty ; Edmund Resch, of the Resch's brewer family ; John Charles Wright, former Archbishop of Sydney ; former Lord Mayor of Sydney Sir Richard Watkins Richards and the architect Howard Joseland.

On 17 October 2007 episode of The War, Andrew Hansen performed The Eulogy Song, which was a song written by Taylor which satirised the lives of several deceased celebrities, including Peter Brock, Princess Diana, Donald Bradman, Steve Irwin, Stan Zemanek, John Lennon, Jeff Buckley and Kerry Packer, expressing the view that people with flaws during life are often disproportionately hailed as " top blokes " after death.

The current Bishop is the Right Reverend John Richard Packer, who signs ' John Ripon and Leeds '.

John Cornell, his manager, took this idea to Kerry Packer, who later fashioned it into World Series Cricket ( WSC ).

In September, backed by Packer, he was the plaintiff ( along with Mike Proctor and John Snow ) in a case against the English authorities ( the TCCB ), who were attempting to ban Packer's players from Test and first-class cricket.

By the time the English Civil War broke out in 1643, the castle was owned by the Parliamentarian John Packer family but after the First Battle of Newbury it was taken for the King, Charles I, and held by Sir John Boys.