He has a close bond with his sister Valentine, but fears his brother Peter, a highly intelligent sociopath who delights in manipulating and tormenting him.

Valentine, while not trusting Peter, believes that his methods are sound for affecting world politics in a positive manner.

Valentine apologizes that Ender can never return to Earth as he would be too powerful a tool to be used by the various leaders, including Peter.

It starred Peter Sellers, with Sykes, Kenneth Connor and Valentine Dyall.

Some famous residents of Sebastopol include: The horticulturist Luther Burbank who established an Gold Ridge Environmental Farm in the township in the late 19th century ; Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues pioneer ; Willard Libby, inventor of carbon dating went to Analy High School ; the cartoonist Charles Schulz ; rapper Smoov-E ; actress Karen Valentine of the television show Room 222 ; actress Schuyler Grant of the 1985 adaptation of Anne of Green Gables ; and the musicians Les Claypool of Primus, singer / songwriters Nick Gravenites, and both Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead ; novelist Francine Rivers ; actor Peter Krause.

2008 election results are as follows: Republican Jack Hoogendyk received 59. 08 % of Ottawa County's vote in his failed bid against US Senator Carl Levin ; Republican Representative Peter Hoekstra received 71. 7 % of the vote ; Republican David Agema received 73. 45 % in the race for the 74th district ; Republican Arlan B. Meekhof received 60. 71 % in his race for the 89th District ; Republican Joseph Haveman received 71. 92 % in his race for the 90th District ; and Holly Hughes received 61. 55 % in her failed bid against Mary Valentine for the 91st District.

Ten trustees were named ; William Miller, Matthew Harrison, Jacob Bowman, Valentine Smith, Charles Buck, Peter Stover, Isaac Hite, Leonard Batice, John Funk, and Philip Huffman ( Hoffman ).

" The participants were: Peter Kember ( keyboard / guitar / vocals ); Will Carruthers ( bass ); Jonny Mattock ( drums ); Mark Refoy ( guitar ); Jason Holt ( guitarist from Kember's touring Spectrum band ); and guest appearances from Pat Fish ( vocals ), and Kevin Shields ( guitar ) of My Bloody Valentine.

* Peter Searles as Alarbus / 4 < sup > th </ sup > Goth / Valentine

Ender discovers, however, the surreal unwitting creation of a new " Valentine " and new " Peter Wiggin " from his subconscious, who embody idealized forms of his altruistic and power-hungry sides.

In Shadow of the Hegemon, all of the Battle School graduates, except Ender, return to Earth in approximately 2170 A. D. Ender's brother Peter, using his online pseudonym Locke, arranges for Ender to be returned to earth so he can control Ender, however Valentine under the pseudonym Demosthenes uses Peter's violent deranged past against him to keep Ender exiled on another planet so that the world's leaders won't be tempted to fight over his military genius.

Perhaps the most notable 20th century production was Peter Hall's 1960 presentation at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, starring Denholm Elliott as Valentine, Derek Godfrey as Proteus, Susan Maryott as Silvia, Frances Cuka as Julia, and featuring a much lauded performance by Patrick Wymark as Launce.

Ten years later, in 1970, Robin Phillips ' RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starred Peter Egan as Valentine, Ian Richardson as Proteus, Helen Mirren as Julia, Estelle Kohler as Silvia, and Patrick Stewart as Launce.

The RSC again staged the play at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 1981, as a double bill with Titus Andronicus, under the direction of John Barton, with Peter Land as Proteus, Peter Chelsom as Valentine, Julia Swift as Julia and Diana Hardcastle as Silvia.

In Ender's Game, Peter is depicted as a sadistic bully who delights in torturing animals and terrorizing his siblings, Ender and Valentine.

He is not without humanity, however ; toward the end of the novel, Peter admits he loved Ender as a baby and felt very angry when Ender would ignore him in favor of Valentine.

At the age of 12, Peter convinces Valentine to use their parents ' network identities, and eventually hidden identities that they have obtained for themselves, to submit writings ( in the form of blogs ) to the world using pseudonyms ( Locke for Peter and Demosthenes for Valentine ).

Peter sends Ender away after the five-day League War ; Valentine, having spent her entire life with the brother she fears, joins Ender, leaving Peter as the only Wiggin child on Earth.

In Xenocide, during an experimental trip to the “ outside ,” Ender accidentally splits his aiúa into three parts: himself, Young Valentine, and Young Peter.

* Peter Valentine 1985 – 1993

The arsenal was under the command of Brevet Major Peter V. Hagner, and the supervision of Brigadier General William S. Harney Commander of the U. S. Army's Department of the West.

Hagner was the son of government auditor Peter Hagner, and was born in Washington, D. C. After graduating the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, Hagner was assigned first to artillery, then topographical engineers, and finally ordnance in 1838, in which department service he spent the balance of his career.

" wrote Peter ( in a tone that can only be guessed ) in a letter dated 13 August 1710.

While Alexei was pondering his options, on 26 August 1716 Peter wrote to Alexei from abroad, urging him, if he desired to remain tsarevich, to join him and the army without delay.

On August 30, 2011, Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King, who correctly predicted the 2011 Super Bowl, made his predictions for the 2011 season and picked the Falcons to defeat the San Diego Chargers in the 2012 Super Bowl.

* Two poets, Johann Peter Uz ( 1720 – 1796 ) and August von Platen-Hallermünde ( 1790 – 1835 ), were also born there.

His mother, Abiah Folger, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1667, to Peter Folger, a miller and schoolteacher and his wife Mary Morrill, a former indentured servant.

Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

Meitnerium was first synthesized on August 29, 1982 by a German research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at the Institute for Heavy Ion Research ( Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung ) in Darmstadt .< ref name = 82Mu01 > The team bombarded a target of bismuth-209 with accelerated nuclei of iron-58 and detected a single atom of the isotope meitnerium-266:

In a letter to his friend Peter Baynes, dated 12 August 1940, Jung wrote a passage: "...

During his pontificate Rome was ravaged, and the churches of St. Peter and St. Paul were sacked by Saracens, who also assaulted Porto and Ostia in August 846.

Already in 1059 he had persuaded Robert Guiscard and Richard of Capua to become vassals of St. Peter for their newly-conquered territories: now Gregory VII immediately after his election sent for him to give an account of the state of Norman Italy and entrusted him with the negotiation of an interview with Robert Guiscard on 2 August 1073, at Benevento.

Peter Stuyvesant ( c. 1612 – August 1672 ), served as the last Dutch Director-General of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was renamed New York.

* Peter Pohl, author and university lecturer in numerical analysis, joint recipient of the 1992 August Prize ( Augustpriset )

* Landin, Peter J .; A Generalization of Jumps and Labels, Report, UNIVAC Systems Programming Research, August 1965, reprinted in Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 11, pp. 125 – 143 ( 1998 )

During an American Museum of Natural History expedition to the Outer Mongolian Gobi Desert, on 11 August 1923 Peter Kaisen recovered the first Velociraptor fossil known to science: a crushed but complete skull, associated with one of the raptorial second toe claws ( AMNH 6515 ).

On August 11, 30, 000 Russian troops under Field Marshal Peter Lascy entered Poland in a bid to influence the sejm's decision.

Writer Peter David's decision to explicitly establish male characters Shatterstar and Rictor entering a romantic relationship in X-Factor # 45 ( August 2009 ) — confirming clues that had been established in X-Force years earlier — drew criticism from Shatterstar's co-creator, Rob Liefeld, though Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada supported David's story.

* August 13 – Murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen become the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom.

* August 6 – Peter Strasser, German naval officer and airship commander ( b. 1876 )

* August 14 – Peter Costello, Australian politician

* August 5 – Peter O ' Connor sets the first International Association of Athletics Federations recognised long jump world record of 24 ft 11¾ins.

* August 17 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin.

* August 16 – Peter I of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, King of Yugoslavia ( born 1844 )

* August 14 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is not acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.

* August 30 – The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta.

* August 29 – Peter Scott, English naturalist, artist, and explorer ( b. 1909 )