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Alternatively, the comic book story " Mickey's Strange Mission " from Walt Disney's Comics & Stories # 245 ( 1961, by Carl Fallberg and Paul Murry ) suggests a cultured ancestry for Pete, giving his full name as the genteel Percy P. Percival.
In 1979, he began managing as Percy Pringle III ( or, alternatively, Percival Pringle ) in southeastern independent promotions.
Too Late the Hero is a 1970 Anglo-American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, and starring Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Ken Takakura, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen, Lance Percival, Ronald Fraser, Harry Andrews and Percy Herbert.
Percival Colin " Percy " Montgomery ( born 15 March 1974 in Walvis Bay, South Africa, now Namibia ) is a retired South African rugby union player.
Percival works at his father Percy Senior's ( Vereen ) morgue preparing dead bodies during the day, and works at a local club called Church ( owned by Ace ( Love )) at night playing the piano.

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Although this document and the parish registers confirm Oxford's burial there, his cousin Percival Golding later claimed that his body was interred at Westminster.
In 1975, Williams later starred with Leslie Phillips, Lance Percival, Miriam Margolyes and others, in the short-lived radio sketch show Oh, Get On with It ( based on a pilot episode entitled Get On With It ), which also featured appearances by Rambling Syd.
The theme tune was by Russ Conway and incidental music by Norman Percival and later Dennis Wilson.
John Percival, arrived to rescue them two years later, all but two of the crew members had been murdered by the islanders.
She later meets up with Galahad, Bors, and Percival, telling them who she is ( she does not mention her name prior to that ).
Smith's diary however was later edited by Percival R. Kirby and published by the Van Riebeeck Society in 1939-40 as Nos.
This is Percival in the earlier stories ; in the later versions, he is joined by Galahad and Bors.
William Alvin " Bill " Moody ( born April 10, 1954 ), better known by his ring names Paul Bearer and Percival Pringle III, is a professional wrestling manager and former wrestler best known for his time in World Class Championship Wrestling ( WCCW ) and World Wrestling Federation ( WWF — later WWE ).
Some later legends ascribe the creature's death to King Arthur or to Percival ( Peredur's name in the later Arthurian legend of the continent and England ).
In 1920 Percival served in Ireland against the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) during the Anglo-Irish War, first as a company commander and later the intelligence officer of the 1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment, in Kinsale, County Cork.
Percival would later deliver a series of lectures on his experiences in Ireland in which he stressed the importance of surprise and offensive action, intelligence gathering, maintaining security and co-operation between the security forces.
William Henry was apprenticed to Thomas Percival and later worked with John Ferriar & John Huit at the Manchesters Infirmary.
A second pig, named Percival was later added to meet the high demand to ride the pig.
From 1920, Major Arthur Ernest Percival ( later a Lieutenant General ) served as a company commander then as the battalion's intelligence officer.
Percival later volunteered to serve with the Royal Irish Constabulary during the IRA campaign for Irish independence.
Percival was a supporter of the education of women, having founded an Association for the Promotion of the Higher Education of Women in 1868, and an Association for the Promotion of Evening Classes a year later.
John the younger, known within his family as The Boston Rebel, and later as The Roxbury Farmer for his love of agriculture and support of botanical studies, produced the clan line that included businessmen ( John Amory Lowell, Augustus Lowell, and Ralph Lowell ), federal judges ( John Lowell and James Arnold Lowell ) and siblings ( author and innovator Percival Lowell, Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and poet Amy Lowell ).
Co-author Percival Davis later acknowledged that religious concerns underlay the writing of the book ; in a November 1994 interview with the Wall Street Journal, he commented: " Of course my motives were religious.
Changing its name to Hunting Percival Aircraft in 1954 and finally to Hunting Aircraft in 1957 the company merged with the Bristol Aeroplane Company, English Electric and Vickers-Armstrongs in 1959 to form the British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ), later to become part of British Aerospace, now BAE Systems.
At the Battle of Port Royal later that year, troops under his command at Fort Beauregard and Fort Walker came under attack by ships of the Union Navy, including the USS Pocahontas, commanded by his brother, Percival Drayton.
With them was George Percival Scriven, who was particularly interested in the establishment of a Loon-Argao cable communications linkage, which was later accomplished.
Also celebrated is Charles Kingsford-Smith's trans-Tasman flight in the Southern Cross, Jean Batten's England — New Zealand flight and later record breaking efforts ( her Percival Gull is exhibited at Auckland Airport ).
He finally came to Anjou, where he found the history of Parzival ( Percival )' s family and wrote the tale which would later be retold by Wolfram.

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Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell GCB, GCSI, GCIE, CMG, MC, PC ( 5 May 1883 – 24 May 1950 ) was a British field marshal and the commander of British Army forces in the Middle East during the Second World War.
* Diary of Viscount Percival afterwards first Earl of Egmont.
* Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell ( 1883 – 1950 )
Later in his career, Sutton became one of the chief moneylenders in England, securing loans worth as little as a few shillings and as much as thousands of pounds to everyone from farmers to some of the most prominent courtiers, businesspeople, and politicians of his era, including Lord Burghley, Sir Edward Coke, Sir Percival Willoughby, Lord Compton, and the Earl of Sussex, among others, generally at the standard rate of ten percent per annum.
Philip Percival, Hemingway's safari guide in 1933, joined the couple for the four-month expedition ; they traveled from the banks of the Salengai, where Earl Theisen photographed Hemingway with a herd of elephants, to the Kimana Swamp, the Rift Valley and then on to visit Patrick in central Tanganyika.

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* In Mass Effect ( 2007 ), an expedition launched by the European Space Agency discovers an ancient cache of advanced technology leftover from an alien race known as the Protheans ( The capitol of Mars is called " Lowell city " probably named after Percival Lowell who fueled the believe in possibility of alien structures on Mars ).
It was originally attached to a cycle of prose versions of Robert's poems, which tells the story of the Holy Grail: brought from the Middle East to Britain by followers of Joseph of Arimathea, the Grail is eventually recovered by Arthur's knight Percival.
Here it is the perfect knight Galahad, rather than Percival, who assumes the empty seat, now called the Siege Perilous.
Succeeding Alexander Percival is James Whittall who is related neither to the Jardine or Matheson families.
It is now kept at Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London.
It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival ( Percival ) and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes ' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.
Wagner's spelling of Parsifal instead of the Parzival he had used up to 1877 is informed by an erroneous etymology of the name Percival deriving it from a supposedly Arabic origin, Fal Parsi meaning " pure fool ".
The Diamond Age is characterized by two intersecting, almost equally developed story lines: Nell's education through her independent work with the Primer, and the social downfall of engineer and designer of the Primer, John Percival Hackworth, who has made an illegal copy of the Primer for his own young daughter, Fiona.
# religious chivalry, in which a knight's chief duty is to protect the innocent and serve God, as exemplified by Sir Galahad or Sir Percival in the Grail legends.
The background of Mars presented in the novel, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction novels of the early 20th century, and was actually put forward as a plausible theory by some astronomers around the turn of the century, notably Percival Lowell mentioned in the novel.
The current trustee of Lowell Observatory is William Lowell Putnam III, grandnephew of founder Percival Lowell and son of long-time trustee Roger Putnam.
He is often equated with the divine son figure of Mabon ap Modron, while Jeffrey Gantz compares him to Peredur fab Efrawg, who is himself associated with the continental figure of Sir Percival de Galles.
The style adopted for this part of the museum was Italian Renaissance, much use was made of terracotta, brick and mosaic, this north façade was intended as the main entrance to the museum with its bronze doors designed by James Gamble & Reuben Townroe having six panels depicting: Humphry Davy ( chemistry ); Isaac Newton ( astronomy ); James Watt ( mechanics ); Bramante ( architecture ); Michelangelo ( sculpture ); Titian ( painting ); thus representing the range of the museums collections, Godfrey Sykes also designed the terracotta embellishments and the mosaic in the pediment of the North Façade commemorating the Great Exhibition the profits from which helped to fund the museum, this is flanked by terracotta statue groups by Percival Ball.
Socastee is a Native American name referred to as " Sawkastee " in a 1711 land grant to Percival Pawley.
Upon his return to court, Lancelot takes part in the Grail Quest with Percival and Galahad, though as an adulterer and a man minded of earthly honours that have come with his knightly prowess, he is only allowed a glimpse of the Grail itself.
Lancelot is the son of Arthur's sister Clarine in Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, Caradoc Breifbras is Arthur's sister's son in the Prose Lancelot, Percival is son of Arthur's sister Acheflour in the English romance Syr Percyvelle.
Galahad for the most part travels alone, smiting his enemies, rescuing Sir Percival from twenty knights and saving maidens in distress, until he is finally reunited with Sir Bors and Sir Perceval.
After bidding Percival and Bors farewell, Galahad is taken up to heaven by angels, witnessed by Sir Bors and Perceval.
Cecil Percival Taylor ( born March 25, 1929 ) is an American pianist and poet.
* Stagg R. Leigh is the assumed name under which Thelonious Ellison, the protagonist of Percival Everett's novel Erasure ( 2001 ) writes his parody of blaxploitation literature My Pafology .< ref >
The Emperor was also particularly interested in collecting ancient bronzes, bronze mirrors and seals ," in addition to pottery, ceramics and applied arts such as enameling, metal work and lacquer work, which flourished during his reign ; a substantial part of his collection is in the Percival David Foundation in London.

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