When Sir Peter Lely died in 1680, Kneller was appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by Charles II.

It was used by the Latvian anarchist Peter Piaktow in 1911 and was therefore known as a ' Peter the Painter ' gun by the IRA.

Despite some incriminating evidence ( in connection with Peter the Painter ), Peters and his companions were acquitted to the dismay of the Home Secretary Winston Churchill.

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Preceded by the Houndsditch Murders, it ended with the deaths of two members of a supposedly politically motivated gang of burglars and international anarchists supposedly led by Peter Piatkow, a. k. a. " Peter the Painter ", and sparked a major political row over the involvement of the then Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.

On 2 January 1911, an informant told police that two or three members of the gang, possibly including Peter the Painter himself, were hiding at 100 Sidney Street, Stepney ( in the Metropolitan Police District ).

No sign of Peter the Painter was found.

In 1988, based on research in the KGB archives, the historian of anarchism Philip Ruff suggested Peter the Painter might in fact be Gederts Eliass, a Latvian artist involved in the 1905 Revolution and living in exile during the time of the Siege, returning to Riga after the 1917 Revolution.

More recently, Ruff has identified Peter the Painter with Janis Zhaklis, or Zhakles, another Latvian far-leftist.

The siege was featured in episode three of the Titanic ( 2012 TV miniseries ), the character Peter Lubov is exposed as " Peter the Painter " aboard the ship.

* http :// www. katesharpleylibrary. net / rjdgpg Peter the Painter ( Janis Zhaklis ) and the Siege of Sidney Street

Peter the Painter, also known as Peter Piaktow ( or Piatkov, Pjatkov, Piaktoff ), was the leader of a gang of Latvian criminals in the early 20th Century.

There are a number of candidates for the true identity of Peter the Painter.

In 1988, based on research in the KGB archives, the historian of anarchism Philip Ruff suggested Peter the Painter might in fact be Gederts Eliass, a Latvian artist involved in the 1905 Revolution and living in exile during the time of the Siege, returning to Riga after the 1917 Revolution.

More recently, Ruff has identified Peter the Painter with Janis Zhaklis, or Zhakles, another Latvian far-leftist.

The type of gun Peter the Painter allegedly used at Sidney Street, a German Mauser C96 pistol, was also sometimes called a Peter the Painter after him, particularly in Ireland during the War of Independence and later.

A social housing development built in 2006 by Tower Hamlets Community Housing on the corner of Sidney Street and Commercial Road has been called Peter House and Painter House, after Peter the Painter, provoking condemnation from a local councillor and the Metropolitan Police Federation.

Donald Knuth notes that Hans Peter Luhn of IBM appears to have been the first to use the concept, in a memo dated January 1953, and that Robert Morris used the term in a survey paper in CACM which elevated the term from technical jargon to formal terminology.

In some Bulgarian folk tales that originated during the Ottoman period, the name appears as an antagonist to a local wise man, named Sly Peter.

On the first day of the week ( usually considered the day of Firstfruits ), after Jesus has been raised from the dead (), he appears to Mary Magdalene, Peter, Cleopas, and others.

In apocryphal works including the Acts of Peter, Pseudo-Clementines, and the Epistle of the Apostles, Simon also appears as a formidable sorcerer with the ability to levitate and fly at will.

In the third volume of The Baroque Cycle, The System of the World, a mysterious member of the entourage of Czar Peter I of Russia, named " Solomon Kohan " appears in early 18th century London.

However, Sayers ' first reference to Le Fanu appears in an earlier Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Nine Tailors ( 1934 ), where he is quoted directly ( from Wylder's Hand, in the opening to the seventh " part " of Chapter II and again in the opening to the second " part " of Chapter III ) and a mysterious letter is referred to ( first by Wimsey's valet, Mervyn Bunter ) as " written by a person of no inconsiderable literary ability, who had studied the works of Sheridan Lefanu and was, if I may be permitted the expression, bats in the belfry, my lord.

Raimi occasionally appears on-screen in his own movies, usually in similar fashion to the cameos made by his idol Alfred Hitchcock: A silhouette behind a projection screen ( Spider-Man, in the wrestling scene ), a passer-by with some kind of physical interaction with the film's protagonist ( Spider-Man 2, as the student whose bookbag hits Peter Parker in the back of the head ), a hitchhiking fisherman accompanied by Robert Tapert in The Evil Dead.

* Blood of Eden, written and performed by Peter Gabriel ; a slightly longer version appears on his 1992 album Us, and was released as a single

A character called McGoonagall frequently appears in The Goon Show, alternately played by Milligan and Peter Sellers.

" Realism is nothing if not urban ", notes critic Peter Brooks ; the scene of a young man coming into the city to find his fortune is ubiquitous in the realist novel, and appears repeatedly in Balzac's works, such as Illusions Perdues.

The presence of the Apostle Peter in this area, where he is supposed to have lived, appears to be confirmed in an epigraph in the Catacombs of Saint Sebastian that reads Domus Petri ().

* In Ghostbusters II a woman named Elaine appears on Dr Peter Venkman's show " World of the Psychic " and claims an alien told her that the world would end on February 14, 2016.

In 2007 he formed Freebass with fellow bassists Peter Hook ( ex-New Order and Joy Division ) and Mani ( The Stone Roses and Primal Scream ); he remained active in the group until 2010 and appears on its only album, It's A Beautiful Life ( 2010 ).

A story of the origin of fairies appears in a chapter about Peter Pan in J. M. Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, and was incorporated into his later works about the character.

The first line is paralleled by Frodo Baggins ' exclamation in The Two Towers ( the line appears in The Return of the King in the Peter Jackson films ), Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!

Musician and filker Tom Smith won a Pegasus award for Best Classic Filk Song in 2006 entitled " I Want to be Peter Lorre " which appears on his filk album " Homecoming: MarCon 2005 ", which includes his vocal impersonation of the actor.

* " The Man Who Would Be King ", a 2004 song written by Peter Doherty and Carl Barât of The Libertines, appears in their self-titled second album.

The version of Captain Hook who appears in the Disney animated film adaptation of Peter Pan is somewhat of a comic relief character, a spoiled fop prone to crying out for help as well as being called a codfish and having his clothes repeatedly ruined.

Hook later appears in the game series prequel, Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, where he tricks Terra into attempting to kill Peter Pan for him.

Captain Hook also appears at the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts as a meetable character, as well as part of the dark ride Peter Pan's Flight.

This happens when Peter and Wendy appear to make Goofy's dream for some adventure come true and play a game of " Pretend to Be Pirates " with Donald Duck, who pretends to be the captain until the real Hook appears and challenges Peter to a duel.

* The Wild Hunt appears frequently in modern fantasy fiction, as in Alan Garner ( in The Moon of Gomrath ), Peter Beagle ( in Tamsin ), Penelope Lively in The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy, Uladzimir Karatkievich ( in The Wild Hunt of King Stakh ), Susan Cooper in The Dark is Rising, Guy Gavriel Kay's trilogy The Fionavar Tapestry, Raymond E. Feist's ' Faerie Tale ', Laurell K. Hamilton's Merry Gentry series, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ( as the Dead Men of Dunharrow ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( Novel Child of the Hunt ), Andrzej Sapkowski's Geralt of Rivia cicle and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, among many others.

* The harpy Celaeno appears as a captive of a traveling witch's Midnight Carnival, in the Peter S. Beagle classic fantasy novel, The Last Unicorn and the 1982 film based on the book.

The latter flag appears to be waved by the chief Lautaro in the best-known artistic representation of it, created by painter Peter Subercaseaux.