Perry is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented pears.

Perry pears are thought to be descended from wild hybrids, known as wildings, between the cultivated pear Pyrus communis subsp.

Perry pears were particularly known for their picturesque names, such as the various Huffcap varieties ( Hendre Huffcap, Red Huffcap, Black Huffcap, all having an elliptical shape ), those named for the effects of their product ( Merrylegs, Mumblehead ), pears commemorating an individual ( Stinking Bishop, named for the man who first grew it, or Judge Amphlett, named for Assizes court judge Richard Amphlett ), or those named for the place they grew ( Hartpury Green, Bosbury Scarlet, Bartestree Squash ).

Perry pears often have higher levels of sugar than cider apples, including unfermentable sugars such as sorbitol, which can give the finished drink a residual sweetness.

Few traditional European Perry pears are available, it is believed that Moorcroft, Gin, Green Horse & Yellow Huffcap varieties are in Australia.

Among those with reservations are Messrs. and Mmes. William A. Thompson, Van Cott Niven, A. B. Cox, David Bricker, Samuel Perry and Robert D. Stetson.

Some movies ( Lancelot du Lac, Shakespeare in Love, Marion du Faouet, Sezneg ) and TV series ( Columbo, Perry Mason ) are also broadcast in Breton.

Also, Ditka, Dick Butkus, Walter Payton, Jim McMahon, William " Refrigerator " Perry and Brian Urlacher are among Bears figures known for their appearances in TV commercials.

Canadian contestants are generally allowed to participate on American game shows, and there have been at least two Canadian game show hosts, Jim Perry and Alex Trebek, that have gone on to long careers hosting American series.

Oliver Hazard Perry | Commander Perry's message after the Battle of Lake Erie: " We have met the enemy and they are ours.

The Seawind, Perry, Lightwave production catamarans from Australia, The largest manufacturer of large multihulls is Fontaine-Pajot in France ( the much larger French trimarans of the ORMA racing circuit and round the world record attempts are included in this total ).

Others are The Ass with a Burden of Salt ( Perry Index 180 ) and The Satyr and the Traveller.

* April 14 – In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men in Lansing, Kansas.

In May 2011, Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell noted that Queen are currently scouting their once former and current live bassist Chris Chaney to join the band.

Cellular Confinement technology ( geocells ) are prominently supported and promoted as a recommended BMP by the USACE itself levee rehabilitation in USACE Technical Report REMR-GT-26, Innovative Methods for Levee Rehabilitation Edward B. Perry, September 1998 ( http :// www. dtic. mil / cgi-bin / GetTRDoc? AD = ADA354949 ).

Conversely, Julian Steward and Roy Rappaport's theories of cultural ecology are sometimes credited with shifting the functionalist-oriented anthropology of the 1950s and 1960s toward a more scientific anthropology, incorporating ecology and environment into ethnographic study ( Perry 2003: 154-157 ).

The last names " Flintstone " and " Rubble ", as well as other common Bedrock surnames such as " Shale " and " Quartz ", are in line with these puns, as are the names of Bedrock's celebrities: " Gary Granite " ( Cary Grant ), " Stony Curtis " ( Tony Curtis ), " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone " ( Ed Sullivan ), " Rock Pile / Quarry / Hudstone " ( Rock Hudson ), " Ann-Margrock " ( Ann-Margret ), " Jimmy Darrock " ( James Darren ), " Alvin Brickrock " ( Alfred Hitchcock ), " Perry Masonry / Masonite " ( Perry Mason as played by Raymond Burr ), " Mick Jadestone and The Rolling Boulders " ( Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones ), " Eppy Brianstone " ( Brian Epstein ) and " The Beau Brummelstones " ( The Beau Brummels ).

The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing.

The 1930s films were not closely based on the character of Perry Mason as revealed in the books, and contain plot and character developments which are not accepted as canonical in the remainder of the books and adaptations.

There are park entrances near the towns of Mount Morris, Perry, Castile and Portageville, New York.

The following boroughs and townships are located in Perry County:

The most predominant denominations among residents in Perry County who adhere to a religion are Roman Catholics ( 60. 33 %), Lutherans ( 29. 72 %), and Southern Baptists ( 4. 69 %).

Vermilion and neighboring Cameron parishes are represented in the Louisiana House of Representatives by the Republican Jonathan W. Perry of Kaplan.

Of adults 25 years of age and older in Perry County, 71. 2 % possesses a high school diploma while 9. 9 % holds a bachelor's degree or higher as their highest educational attainment.

* In Perry Rhodan's multiverse, thanks to the " onion-shell-model " in which all evolution of life is based upon inside the book series, there exist higher forms of life.

Open D is tuned D-A-D-F #- A-D, and open E is a whole-step higher: E-B-E-G #- B-E. Joe Perry of Aerosmith uses Open E on his electric lap steel.

Ladywood has the highest unemployment rate in whole of the West Midlands, at just over 18 % in July 2008 ( by the international standardised measure, which is usually higher than the claimant count ), compared with neighbouring Birmingham seats Perry Barr ( 8. 1 %), Sparkbrook and Small Heath ( 13. 9 %), and Yardley ( 7 %).

In one of the last episodes, " The Perils of Superman " ( a takeoff on The Perils of Pauline ), there was indeed deadly peril straight out of the movie serials: Lois tied to a set of railroad tracks with a speeding train bearing down on her, Perry White nearly sawed in half while tied to a log, Jimmy in a runaway car headed for a cliff, and Clark Kent immersed in a vat of acid.

Perry Mason and Hamilton Burger, Nero Wolfe and Inspector Cramer spend more time fighting each other than they do in looking for the criminal.

* 2006 Texas Governor Election ( a real-life example where incumbent Rick Perry won re-election despite gaining less than 40 percent of the vote )

The Sirens might be called the Muses of the lower world, Walter Copland Perry observed: " Their song, though irresistibly sweet, was no less sad than sweet, and lapped both body and soul in a fatal lethargy, the forerunner of death and corruption.

Nimoy's film and television acting career began in 1951, but after receiving the title role in the 1952 film Kid Monk Baroni, a story about a street punk turned professional boxer, he played more than 50 small parts in B movies, TV shows such as Perry Mason, and Dragnet, and serials such as Republic Pictures ' Zombies of the Stratosphere ( 1952 ).

Perry Mason was featured in more than 80 novels and short stories, most of which had a plot involving his client's murder trial.

Other than what we learn of his character from the novels themselves, we know very little about Perry Mason.

Erle Stanley Gardner " had spent more than twenty years practicing law in California, and the knowledge he gained was put to good use in the Perry Mason stories, which hinge on points of law, forensic medicine or science as clever as a watch mechanism ... and also the total lack of characterization ".

Mad Magazine spoofed the 1950s TV series with " Perry Masonmint " ( Perry lost because he was tricked into trying a case on a Friday rather than Saturday, when he was always successful ).

Other acts like Cher, Usher, Frank Sinatra, Eminem, Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, Jessica Simpson, Barbra Streisand, Alicia Keys, Shakira, Nelly Furtado, Katy Perry, Depeche Mode, U2, The Killers, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd, Blink 182, The Who, Deep Purple, The Osmonds, Muse, Brooks & Dunn, Marc Anthony, Luciano Pavarotti and Aventura performed more than once at the venue.

Perry ( 2004 ) argues that the key weakness of the novel is not that he decks out American politicians with sinister European touches, but that he finally conceives of fascism and totalitarianism in terms of traditional American political models rather than seeing them as introducing a new kind of society and a new kind of regime.

For more than two decades, under its Chief Grand Mentor, Perry M. Smith, the hospital provided low-cost health care to thousands of blacks in the Mississippi Delta.

The festival, created by Perry Farrell and Marc Geiger, was to become a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction, but at the same time it was a music festival with bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Butthole Surfers, Fishbone, The Rollins Band, The Violent Femmes, Body Count, and Ice-T. During this time Jane's Addiction began to get more exposure than they had ever before.

In 2005, the Perry Public Library loaned more than 245, 000 items to its 8, 000 cardholders.

He recorded more than one hundred albums with international musical stars ( spanning the genres of jazz, variety, and classical ) and worked with such diverse musicians as Phil Woods, Ray Charles, Claude Nougaro, Perry Como, Neil Diamond, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, James Ingram, Jack Jones, Kiri te Kanawa, Tamara Gverdciteli, Frankie Laine, Tereza Kesovija, Johnny Mathis, Jessye Norman, Diana Ross, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Shirley Bassey, Regine Velasquez, and Natalie Dessay.

" In fact, Perry traveled abroad in his three-year tenure more than any previous secretary.

In congressional testimony in November Perry explained why U. S. troops should go to Bosnia: The war threatened vital U. S. political, economic, and security interests in Europe ; there was a real opportunity to stop the bloodshed ; the United States was the only nation that could lead a NATO force to implement the peace ; and the risks to the United States of allowing the war to continue were greater than the risks of the planned military operation.

Perry considered this agreement better than risking a war in Korea and a continuation of North Korea's nuclear program.

According to Schweitzer and Perry, the hadith are " even more scathing ( than the Quran ) in attacking the Jews ":

It was more than likely that the least fondly remembered of Sesame Street specials was mainly produced for CBS not by the Children's Television Workshop ( now Sesame Workshop ), but by Bob Banner Associates, notable for Perry Como's Christmas specials.

According to The Case Of The Caretaker's Cat, she is approximately fifteen years younger than Perry Mason.

According to Perry Biddiscombe, more than 37, 000 illegitimate children were born to American fathers in the 10 years following the German surrender.

Perry would win nearly 80 more games in his career than the three combined.