Many examples are based on locations in London and, in all likelihood, will be meaningless to people unfamiliar with the capital e. g. " Peckham Rye ", meaning " tie " ( as in necktie ), which dates from the late 19th century ; " Hampstead Heath ", meaning " teeth " ( usually as " Hampsteads ”), which was first recorded in 1887 and " Barnet Fair ", meaning " hair ", which dates from the 1850s.

His knowledge of optics was connected to the handed-down long-standing tradition of the Kitab al-manazir ( The Optics ; De aspectibus ) of the Arab polymath Alhazen ( Ibn al-Haytham, d. c. 1041 ), which was mediated by Franciscan optical workshops of the 13th-century Perspectivae traditions of scholars such as Roger Bacon, John Peckham and Witelo ( similar influences are also traceable in the third commentary of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Commentario terzo ).

In September, 2010, a UK newspaper reported that a member of the gang Peckham Young Gunz was " accused of helping to hide a Mac-10 machinegun used in the execution of Curtis Smith ".

On 6 November, while John Peckham, archbishop of Canterbury, was conducting peace negotiations, Edward's commander of Anglesey, Luke de Tany, decided to carry out a surprise attack.

The first person to be convicted of speeding is believed to be Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, who on 28 January 1896 was fined for speeding at.

Murray, the eldest of eleven children, was born near Peckham Rye in Peckham, London.

It was erected in the 1950s using the dismantled materials from All Saints Church, North Peckham.

It was already a substantial settlement with a church when mentioned in the Domesday Book, and was the parish church for a large area including Dulwich and Peckham.

The parish covered in 1831 and was divided into the liberty of Peckham to the east, the hamlet of Dulwich to the southwest, as well as Camberwell proper.

Other famous writers who have lived in the area include the poet Robert Browning, who was born in Camberwell, and lived there until he was 28, and Muriel Spark, the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Ballad of Peckham Rye.

The Mayor of Southwark for 2009-2010 was Cllr Tayo Situ ( Peckham Ward ), who was elected on 19 May 2010.

' Peckham ' is a Saxon place name meaning the village of the River Peck, a small stream that ran through the district until it was enclosed in 1823.

King John probably hunted at Peckham and local anecdotes suggest that the right to an annual fair was granted to celebrate a particularly good day's sport.

The house was finally demolished in 1797 for the formation of Peckham Hill Street, as the Shard family developed the area.

At the beginning of the 19th century Peckham was a " small, quiet, retired village surrounded by fields ".

The canal was built from Surrey Commercial Docks to Peckham before the builders ran out of funds in 1826.

Before Peckham Rye railway station was opened in 1865 the area had developed around two centres: north and south.

The southern end of Peckham was the location for the railway line that once served The Crystal Palace in Sydenham.

North Peckham was heavily redeveloped in the 1960s, consisting mainly of high-rise flats to rehouse people from dilapidated old houses.

In the early 1990s Peckham was a centre of underground music, partly due to a large squat in a disused, 2 floor DHSS building in Collyer Place near Peckham High Street.

In 1971 he took part in the All London Squatters organization, squatting in Camden, North London, then Stepney Green, East London and Peckham in South East London, all while being very active in anarchist circles.

Peckham had 2 very close challenges in his last 2001 and in 2005 one of the closest mayoral elections in the Village's history, Peckham survived with only a 43 vote victory against Trustee David Hanks.

However, recent research has shown that these bandstands went to Southwark Park and Peckham Rye, and it appears that the Clapham bandstand was fabricated to a very similar design almost thirty years later.

Trigger appeared on Only Fools and Horses since the very first episode and carried on appearing in almost every episode until the final episode, Sleepless in Peckham.

In the final Only Fools and Horses episode, the 2003 Christmas special " Sleepless in Peckham ", Rodney discovered through an old photograph of the very first Jolly Boys ' Outing that he and Del did not actually share the same father.

Rodney and Cassandra now have a young daughter called Joan, who Rodney named after his late mother and who was born in the last episode ; " Sleepless in Peckham ", resulting in a very moving and emotional ending to the show.

The studios were by this time very out dated and much of the income was being generated by another company who ran half the facility known as RadioTracks, and by George Peckham ( Porky Prime Cuts ), a well known cutting engineer whose cutting rooms were on the ground floor at the back of the building.

Peckham was particularly offended that Welsh laws sought to get parties to homicides or other crimes to settle their differences rather than the process of English law which condemned the criminal.

At the same time, Peckham argued that the police power was subject to certain limitations ; otherwise, he claimed, the Fourteenth Amendment would be meaningless, and states would be able to pass any law using the police power as a pretext.

Hence, Peckham and his fellow Justices reached the conclusion that the New York law was not related " in any real and substantial degree to the health of the employees.

Beyond Lochner, Peckham is perhaps best known for his expansive interpretation of the Sherman antitrust law, which he saw as protecting sturdy small businessmen against unfair corporate competition.

After studying law at his father's partnership with Lyman Tremain, Peckham left New York to practice in the northwestern United States, where he became what the New York Times called " one of the best known attorneys in that part of the country.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, John Peckham when involved in negotiations with Llywelyn on behalf of King Edward in 1282 sent Llywelyn a letter in which he denounced Welsh law, stating that King Hywel must have been inspired by the devil.

In Lochner v. New York, Justice Peckham wrote for the majority: " Under that provision no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

On April 1, 1997, Collins would soon find himself beat out by once ally Roger Peckham, his own appointee to the Village Board.

As part of his diplomatic duties, Peckham wrote to Llywelyn, and in those letters the archbishop continued his criticisms of the Welsh people, this time condemning their laws as contrary to both the Old and New Testament.

In the 1280s, Archbishop Peckham wrote a work for her to explain what angels were and what they did.

Justice Rufus Wheeler Peckham wrote the majority opinion in Lochner v. New York.

" Three patches on ," Computer Gaming World's Matt Peckham wrote: " omething nigh-miraculous occurred: With doubled performance and many of the mission-busting bugs fixed, X < sup > 3 </ sup > evolved from a Byzantine hodgepodge to an actually accessible, massively multiform space sim.

Flushed with success, they opened a small shop on Station Parade in Queen ’ s Road, Peckham, where they painted " With all Faith " in gilt letters above the door.

John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury warned Eleanor that her activities in the land market caused outcry, gossip, rumour and scandal across the realm.