He was refused his final wish of marrying Marion Petrie, his partner and mother of his 8-year-old son James.

With an initial gift from The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and the late Joseph H. Flom, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics was founded in 2005 as an interdisciplinary program intended to respond to the need for leading legal scholarship in these fields.

Petrie, author of Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh concluded: " but these relations of areas and of circular ratio are so systematic that we should grant that they were in the builder's design ".

Fragments of granite found by Petrie in the Descending Passage may have come from these now vanished doors.

Marion Petrie tested whether or not these displays signaled a male ’ s genetic quality by studying a feral population of peafowl in Whipsnade Wildlife Park in southern England.

Subsequently, Newgrange was visited by a number of antiquarians, who often performed their own measurements of the site and made their own observations, which were often published in various antiquarian journals ; these included such figures as Sir William Wilde, Sir Thomas Pownall, Thomas Wright, John O ' Donovan, George Petrie and James Fergusson.

Here, in these ancient monuments, Petrie discovered two different metrical systems.

" So she's always looking for a family and always coming up short and making these horrible choices, and it drove her insane " says Petrie.

In 1890 Flinders Petrie discovered further papyrus fragments, which had been reused in constructing a 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic mummy case found in the Fayoum ; the palaeography suggested that the scroll was old before it was reused as waste, making these fragments the earliest surviving text of any Greek play ; the discovery occasioned a rash of new readings of the existing fragments.

Nevertheless, because the Naqada sites were first divided by the British Egyptologist William Flinders Petrie, in 1894, into these Amratian ( after the cemetery near El-Amrah ) and Gerzean ( after the cemetery near Gerzeh ) sub-periods, the original convention is used in this text.

Petrie reburied these human remains in the desert.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Petrie.

Despite these elaborate protective measures, Petrie found that none of the trapdoors had been slid into place and the wooden doors were open.

Sir Charles Petrie discusses the club ( and offers criticisms of Mosley's methods ) in his 1972 memoir, A Historian Looks at his World.

When writing Faith, Petrie looked to Frank Miller's violent Marvel Comics character Elektra Natchios for inspiration, claiming, " In a different, teen, punkier context, Faith is so much like Elektra.

She was written as a sympathetic character ; with Doug Petrie claiming " I connected with Faith early on.

The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.

The law-abiding citizens of Petrie had gathered inside Kaster's Store, halfway down the street.

Like most female academics of her generation, Murray had received no formal training, instead being taught Egyptology by Flinders Petrie.

George Petrie, a stock player on several incarnations of Jackie Gleason's television series and the Ewing family lawyer in Dallas, had a small role as a doctor.

" Moore's character was initially intended to be a divorcée, but as divorce was still controversial at the time, and the network was afraid viewers might think that Mary had divorced Rob Petrie, Laura's husband on The Dick Van Dyke Show, the premise was changed to that of a single woman with a recently broken engagement.

Actor-director Jerry Paris was inspired to create the character of Mork after directing an unusual and memorable episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show in which van Dyke's Rob Petrie believed the Earth had been surreptitiously invaded by walnut-eating aliens who stole humans ' thumbs and imaginations.

Unable to obtain bookings, Bailey and Hay converted the Petrie Terrace house they shared into the 76 Club so they had a venue to play in.

After surveying British prehistoric monuments in his teenage years ( commencing with the late Romano-British ' British Camp ' that lay within yards of his family home in Charlton ) in attempts to understand their geometry ( at 19 tackling Stonehenge ), Petrie travelled to Egypt early in 1880 to apply the same principles in a survey of the Great Pyramid at Giza, making him the first to properly investigate how they were constructed ( many theories had been advanced on this, and Petrie read them all, but none were based on first hand observation or logic ).

Petrie dug and soon solved the puzzle: the temple had been built by Merenptah, the son and successor of Ramesses II, almost entirely from stone which had been plundered from the temple of Amenophis III nearby.

Budge's contention that the religion of the Egyptians was essentially identical to the religions of the people of northeastern and central Africa was regarded by his colleagues as impossible, since all but a few followed Petrie in his contention that the culture of Ancient Egypt was derived from an invading Caucasian " Dynastic Race " which had conquered Egypt in late prehistory and introduced the Pharaonic culture ( Trigger, 1994 ).

" Petrie claims Faith's main motivation is to find a family and friends ; she sees treacherous Watcher Gwendolyn Post as the mother she never had, the Scooby Gang as the friends she never had, and the Mayor as the father she never had.

In 1841, Governor Gibbs had the entire Sunshine Coast and hinterland from Mt Beerwah north to roughly Eumundi declared a ' Bunya Bunya Reserve ' for the protection of the bunya tree, having been advised of the Aboriginal importance of bunya groves by Andrew Petrie.

Three seasons had joint winners — Dave Cowens and Geoff Petrie in the, Grant Hill and Jason Kidd in the as well as Elton Brand and Steve Francis in the 1999 – 00 season.

The following year, Petrie was promoted to sergeant and then departed the 14th Precinct ( Carl Lumbly had decided to leave the series ).

The Gentlemen, called the " creepiest villains we've ever done " by series writer Doug Petrie, were inspired by a nightmare Whedon had as a child, specifically one in which he was in bed and approached by a floating monster.

Ingels ' acting career dates back to the early ' 60s and programs such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, on which he had a recurring role as an Army buddy of Rob Petrie, and has continued as recently as a 2010 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Rod Petrie refuted the claim that Zemmama had a contract with Raja.

They soon had Miss Petrie, Simpson's niece, try it.

George Petrie ( 1790 – 1866 ), who had been actively involved in the OS was also revitalising the Antiquities Committee of the Royal Irish Academy, and opening up critically sound debate on early Christian buildings in Ireland with the publication of his book The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland: An Essay on the Origins and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, in 1845.

He was the son of the portrait and miniature painter James Petrie, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, who had settled in Dublin.

The first precision measurements of the pyramid were made by Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie in 1880 – 82 and published as The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh.

When Petrie went to Egypt in 1880 to perform new measurements, he found that the pyramid was several feet smaller than previously believed, including the missing capstone.

In 1889, the English Egyptologist Flinders Petrie found " a marvellous gold and inlaid royal uraeus " that must have originally formed part of Senusret II's looted burial equipment in a flooded chamber of the king's pyramid tomb.

The renowned Egyptologist Flinders Petrie in 1880 went to Egypt to perform new measurements of the Great Pyramid and wrote that he found that the pyramid was several feet smaller than previously believed by John Taylor and Charles Piazzi Smyth.

William Flinders Petrie excavated at Hawara, in 1888, finding papyri of the 1st and 2nd centuries CE, and, north of the pyramid, a vast necropolis where he found 146 portraits on coffins dating to the Roman period, famous as being among the very few surviving examples of painted portraits from Classical Antiquity, the " Fayoum portraits " illustrated in Roman history textbooks.