An example is the British Blue Peacock project, while another was the U. S. Medium Atomic Demolition Munition.

His famous Peacock Throne, with its trail blazing in the shifting natural colors of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds, was valued by the jeweller Tavernier at 6½ million pounds sterling.

It was during his time as an undergraduate that he became friends with Charles Babbage and George Peacock.

Directed by Jane Howell, the play was the thirty-seventh and final episode of the series and starred Trevor Peacock as Titus, Eileen Atkins as Tamora, Hugh Quarshie as Aaron and Anna Calder-Marshall as Lavinia.

Professor Plum killed Mr. Boddy, Mrs. Peacock killed the cook, Colonel Mustard killed the motorist, Mrs. White killed Yvette, Miss Scarlet killed the cop, and the singing telegram girl was shot and killed by Wadsworth.

It was here that Saddles was to deliver the drug, but before Peacock can investigate anything, he is drafted into an inter-precinct gladiatorial contest due to a seeming bureaucratic oversight.

Detective Synaesthesia's special senses reveal that Ultima was involved in the drug dealings, likely having King Peacock placed in the competition to keep him from investigating.

After Freer's death in 1919, the Peacock Room was permanently installed in the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian in Washington, D. C.

* Captain Stephen Peacock, the haughty floorwalker who purportedly fought in the North Africa Campaign of World War II but was actually in the Service Corps and never saw combat.

The new roof was built during the early 1980s and as part of the redevelopment, The Peacock public house in one of the two main squares was demolished and replaced with a cafe named The Chequers which remains.

On July 22, 2004, it was reported that Matt Slocum had started a new band, the Astronaut Pushers, with Lindsay Jamieson ( of the band Departure Lounge ) and Sam Ashworth ( son of influential musician Charlie Peacock ).

After playing only a few shows, the band was contacted by music industry veteran Charlie Peacock and eventually signed to his indie label Re: think Records under the current moniker, Switchfoot.

Peacock was the name of a station on the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad ( later known as the Pere Marquette Railway ), 11 miles north of Baldwin.

It was named for David J. Peacock, who became the first postmaster on April 15, 1897.

Peacock post office was discontinued in 1943.

It was founded by Jim Weir, Victor Leonard, George Logan and Bertie Peacock, one of the most famous football players from the region.

He was educated at St. Vincent's Convent on Peacock Lane, and later at the famous " North Mon ", the North Monastery Christian Brothers School.

Thomas Peacock, who founded the gentlemen's tailoring chain Hope Brothers, was born in Littleport in 1829.

He contrived approach drives and lodges to enhance impressions of size and importance, and even introduced monogramed milestones on the roads around some estates, for which he was satirised by Thomas Love Peacock as ' Marmaduke Milestone, esquire, a Picturesque Landscape Gardener ' in Headlong Hall.

Later in April Burke joined the Supersonic Attractions tour, which was organized by Henry Wynn, an African American who owned the Royal Peacock in Atlanta.

Burke's daughter, Melanie " Honey " Burke McCall, a Neo Soul singer who is an accomplished artist as well as a freelance background recording artist with companies such as Daxwood Records, Casablanca, A & M and Rawkus Records and a studio artist for groups such as Billy Preston, Peacock ( Anna Gayle group ), and Leslie Uggams, and toured with Chaka Khan, and wrote and produced Family, & Friends, a 14-song original soundtrack for Ms, which was released in 2005, and opened for Jocelyn Brown, Jaheim, Norman Connors, and Angela Bofill, as well as for her father at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia in 2006.

The Peacock Athletic Complex was built in 2000 and is in walking distance from the campus.

He was the fifth son of the Reverend Francis William Rhodes and his wife Louisa Peacock Rhodes.

Babbage, Herschel, and Peacock were also close friends with future judge and patron of science Edward Ryan.

Along with the Peacock Throne, he also carried off the Koh-i-Noor to Persia in 1739.

The Scotch Reel is described by Francis Peacock, whose manual is also available in the LC collection.

The famous Takht-e-Taus or the Peacock Throne, said to be worth millions of dollars by modern estimates, also dates from his reign.

He also had the Peacock Throne, Takht e Taus, made to celebrate his rule.

The Victorian poet Thomas Love Peacock also wrote a poem entitled the Cauldren of Ceridwen.

Charlie Peacock and Steve Taylor also played a prominent role in the project.

Art Clokey also made a few highly experimental and visually inventive short clay animation films for adults, including his first student film Gumbasia ( 1955 ), the visually rich Mandala ( 1977 ) — described by Clokey as a metaphor for evolving human consciousness — and the equally bizarre The Clay Peacock ( 1963 ), an elaboration on the animated NBC logo of the time.

Black bass should not be confused with a multitude of unrelated fish species found around the world and called " bass ", such as the butterfly Peacock Bass ( Cichla ocellaris ), speckled Peacock bass ( Cichla temensis ), Papuan Black Bass ( Lutjanus goldiei ) ( also called Niugini bass ), Australian bass, Rock bass ( Ambloplites rupestris ), American Striped Bass, and British sea bass ( Dicentrarchus labrax ).

1891 also saw the construction of several large civic structures such as a large brick schoolhouse on the hill above the city as well as the Mount Vernon Opera House, designed by Peacock & Dalton.

The University Los Angeles Store ( also known as " The Peacock Stop ", for the school's mascot, and a nod to the logo of NBC ) is where Carlton, and Will's friend Jackie Ames worked.

Barry also wrote the scores to a number of musicals, including Passion Flower Hotel ( lyrics by Trevor Peacock ), the successful West End show Billy ( lyrics by Don Black ) and two major Broadway flops, The Little Prince and the Aviator and Lolita, My Love, the latter with Alan Jay Lerner as lyricist.

Thomas Peacock, was a clergyman of the Church of England, incumbent and for 50 years curate of the parish of Denton, where he also kept a school.

Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present also made the case for Merrie England ; the conclusion of Crotchet Castle by Thomas Love Peacock contrasts the mediaevalism of Mr. Chainmail to the contemporary social unrest.

Peacock also recorded with David Kahne at the Automatt and at Moon Studios with Stephen Holsapple during this period and those recordings became the album Last Vestiges of Honor which was released in 1998.

During this period Peacock also began playing jazz in an electric improvisational band called, Emperor Norton.

Ohlmeyer also spearheaded NBC's adoption of an aggressive promotional campaign to brand the network using such innovations as superimposing the Peacock logo in the corner of the screen and coining the phrase " Must See TV.

Nettles are the exclusive larval food plant for several species of butterfly, such as the Peacock Butterfly or the Small Tortoiseshell, and are also eaten by the larvae of some moths including Angle Shades, Buff Ermine, Dot Moth, The Flame, The Gothic, Grey Chi, Grey Pug, Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, Mouse Moth, Setaceous Hebrew Character and Small Angle Shades.

It also visually represents " Peacock Alley ," the hallway between the two hotels that once stood where the Empire State building now stands today.

Sadler's Wells is also responsible for the management of the Peacock Theatre in the West End.

As well as the 1, 500 seat main auditorium, Sadler's Wells also has a base at the Peacock Theatre near the Aldwych in central London.

In India it is known as Gulmohar گل مور or گلمور ( Hindi and Urdu -‘ Gul ’ means ‘ Flower ’ and ‘ Mohr ’ is ' coin or stamp '. also " Gul " means flower and " Mor " means " Peacock ".

Though the National Gallery, London has only a single example, a painting of dead game and a dog, the Wallace Collection, also in London, has a number of paintings, including the intriguingly disturbing " Flowers on a Fountain with a Peacock.