This hypothesis of the contents of the Mouseion, originally suggested by Nietzsche ( Rheinisches Museum 25 ( 1870 ) & 28 ( 1873 )), appears to have been confirmed by three papyrus finds – one 3rd century BC ( Flinders Petrie Papyri, ed.

Petrie suggested that such a sarcophagus was intended but was lost in the river on the way north from Aswan and a hurriedly made replacement was used instead.

Flinders Petrie suggested that the odem, the first stone on the High Priest's breastplate, was a red jasper, whilst tarshish, the tenth stone, may have been a yellow jasper.

The role of Rob Petrie was almost given to Johnny Carson, but Sheldon Leonard, the show's executive producer, suggested Van Dyke.

Others such as Petrie, Drioton and Vandier have suggested that Tadukhipa was given a new name after becoming the consort of Akhenaten and is to be identified the famous queen Nefertiti.

Robin Williams was considered for performing the voice of Petrie, until Spielberg's son, Max, suggested the voice of Digit, from An American Tail, which resulted in Will Ryan performing the voice of 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.

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

During weekday peak times, a few services may skip stations between Petrie and Northgate for faster travel times for commuters working in the Brisbane central business district ( 51 minutes ).

William Flinders Petrie is another man who may legitimately be called the Father of Archaeology.

) of the nineteenth Egyptian dynasty when he was crown prince Matthew Flinders Petrie, Egyptian Tales: Translated from the Papyri, 1895, p. 66 and may have been a political satire based in part on his own difficulties with his half brother, the usurper AmenmesseH.

According to Petrie ( Letter to Larcom, Aug. 1837 ), the name may mean ' Ryefort ' ( it appears as Lios a tSeagail, seagail meaning rye in Irish, in early maps ).

There have been two major discoveries of inscriptions that may be related to the Proto-Sinaitic script, the first in the winter of 1904 – 1905 in Sinai by Hilda and Flinders Petrie, dated to circa 1700-1400 BCE, and more recently in 1999 in Middle Egypt by John and Deborah Darnell, dated to the 18th century BCE.

Three Blazer rookies ( Geoff Petrie, Sidney Wicks, and Brandon Roy ) have won the NBA Rookie of the Year award.

The first surveys and excavations of the 19th century, and the extensive work of Flinders Petrie, have been able to show a little of the ancient capital's former glory.

At dinner that evening Petrie prophesied: " This stele will be better known in the world than anything else I have found.

Since 2009, occasional Jim Petrie reprints have been used, particularly during the postal strikes in autumn 2009.

In the Season Four episode " Something Blue ", in what writer Doug Petrie describes as " as cruel and funny as anything could be ", Willow, who at the time has the power to have anything she says happen, accidentally turns Amy back into a human ; however, Willow does not even notice, and a few seconds later accidentally changes her back into a rat.

Indeed, only for the intervention of George Petrie of the Royal Irish Academy, and like-minded individuals from the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, most of the metalwork would have been melted down for the intrinsic value of its materials, as did frequently happen despite their efforts.

One variant of the Brut y Brenhinedd, the so-called Brut Tysilio, was proposed in 1917 by the archaeologist William Flinders Petrie to be the ancient British book that Geoffrey translated, although the Brut itself claims to have been translated from Latin by Walter of Oxford, based on his own earlier translation from Welsh to Latin.

Large accessions of material from Egypt and Western Asia came from the excavations of Sir Flinders Petrie and subsequently archaeologists from the University have been involved in several expeditions to Western Asia and brought more finds into the Museum.

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.

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.

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.

Since the Duchess's death WestCombe has been in the successive occupation of Lord Clive, the Marquis of Lothian, his widow the Marchioness, the Duchess of Athol, Mr. Halliday the banker, and William Petrie, Esq.

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.

When Ducky and Spike become endangered by lava and Petrie gets stuck in a tar pit, Littlefoot rescues them ; later to find Cera harassed by a small territorial herd of " Boneheads ", and, having been coated in tar, scare them away.

The school has been expanded in recent years, including a new Technology & Art block featuring CAD and CNC machinery and the Sir David English Sports Centre, the legacy of former headmaster Alan Petrie.

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.

In the commentary for this episode, Douglas Petrie reveals that after Spike attacks Willow in her dorm room and the scene immediately cuts to commercial after a fleeting glimpse of the corridor outside with people who fail to hear Willow's screams, he wanted viewers to believe that Willow had actually been killed.

Also according to Petrie, this episode makes references to many other movies including The Shawshank Redemption ( the shot of Faith crawling out of the grave in the pouring rain ), The Silence of the Lambs ( the demon that's been cut open and eviscerated, hanging by trees ), and Star Trek ( through dialogue ).

An accompanying bronze work to complement the King George V pediment sculpture, based on the life of the pioneering Brisbane family, the Petrie's ( famously of Brisbane's First Mayor John Petrie ), known as the Petrie Tableau, also has been removed due to renovations at the square.

Just My Luck is a 2006 American romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and written by I. Marlene King and Amy B. Harris.

Paul Winfield, Alan King, Julia Child, June Taylor, Bob Keeshan, Ethel Winant, Michael Kamen, Jack Elam, Rod Roddy, Jack Paar, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Donald O ' Connor, Ronald Reagan, Anna Lee, Gordon Jump, Isabel Sanford, Robert Pastorelli, Dan Petrie, Sr., Mary-Ellis Bunim, Ray Charles, Marlon Brando, Peter Ustinov, Art Carney, Tony Randall, and Alistair Cooke.

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.

Thus, Petrie ’ s work has shown correlations between tail ornamentation, mating success and increased survival ability in both the ornamented males and their offspring.

In contrast to Petrie ’ s findings, a seven-year Japanese study of free-ranging peafowl came to the conclusion that female peafowl do not select mates merely on the basis of their trains.

The British Egypt Exploration Fund founded in 1882 and other Egyptologists promoted Petrie ’ s methods.

Petrie accepted the position and was given the sum of £ 250 per month to cover the excavation ’ s expenses.

The focus of Petrie ’ s work shifted permanently to Palestine in 1926 ( although he did become interested in early Egypt, in 1928 digging a cemetery at Luxor that proved so huge that he devised an entirely new excavation system, including comparison charts for finds, which is still used today ).

“ Petrie ’ s Head: Eugenics and Near Eastern Archaeology ”, in Alice B. Kehoe and Mary Beth Emmerichs, Assembling the Past ( Albuquerque, NM, 1999 ).

: Tom Petrie plants macadamias at Yebri Creek ( near Petrie ) from nuts obtained from Aborigines at Buderim ( Nut Growing Experiments ’ The Queenslander Thursday 8 October 1931 p. 13 )

: Tom Petrie begins trial macadamia plantations in Maryborough district, combining with pecans to shelter the trees ( Nut Growing Experiments ’ The Queenslander Thursday 8 October 1931 p. 13 )

He also warned settlers at Columbia and Petrie ’ s Corners, most of whom then fled to safety at Fort Dayton.

In 1900 William Petrie discovered Merneith ’ s tomb and, because of its nature, believed it belonged to a previously unknown pharaoh.