The Pied Piper is a 1942 film in which an Englishman on vacation in France is caught up in the German invasion of that country, and finds himself taking an ever-growing group of children to safety.

Slaughter was one of three options between himself, Roddy Piper, and Dusty Rhodes that fans could vote for as a tag partner for Ric Flair at Cyber Sunday, but did not win the vote.

" Classy " Freddie Blassie also made a cameo appearance as himself, along with " Wrestling's Living Legend " Bruno Sammartino, and Ric Flair in the 1986 film " Body Slam " starring Dirk Benedict, " Captain " Lou Albano, and " Rowdy " Roddy Piper.

However, in several letters to friends and in an article published in a fan magazine, Piper himself listed the true Paratime stories, and he never identified " Genesis " as one.

On November 26, 2006 at Survivor Series, Flair was the sole survivor of a match that featured himself, Ron Simmons ( replacing an injured Piper ), Dusty Rhodes and Sgt.

Promos showed Piper locking himself in the Alcatraz prison and vigorously exercising in order to prepare for the highly anticipated match.

In late 1999, Piper was featured on WCW Television, in an angle with Vince Russo, who was now portraying himself as the " Powers That Be " ( an unseen power that was controlling WCW ).

Piper appeared as a wrestler loosely based on himself in an episode called " Crusader " from Walker, Texas Ranger where his name was Cody " The Crusader " Conway.

Since he wasn't supposed to reveal himself as their Whitelighter yet, he used this as an opportunity to keep watch on them Piper and Phoebe immediately became attracted to him.

Corll was known to give free candy to local children, in particular teenaged boys: as a result of this behavior, he earned himself the nicknames the Candy Man and the Pied Piper.

Williams stands up for himself before Piper cuts him off, calls him worthless and beats him to a pulp.

In one segment, Lauper attacks Albano and Piper himself after hearing enough insults from Albano.

* On a segment exclusive to the Coliseum Video tape Rowdy Roddy Piper's Greatest Hits, Piper interviews his " all-time favorite guest " ... himself.

Piper established himself as the top heel in the WWF in 1984, and a year later joined Paul Orndorff and Cowboy Bob Orton to feud with Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. Hogan and T defeated Piper and Orndorff in the main event of the first-ever WrestleMania.

At this point we do not have evidence of the term hyperfocal before Piper, nor the hyphenated hyper-focal which he also used, but he obviously did not claim to coin this descriptor himself.

One of the " Dand MacNeil " stories in George MacDonald Fraser's The General Danced at Dawn features an animated discussion in the Sergeants Mess concerning exactly what tune Piper Findlater did play at the Dargai Heights, as even Findlater himself wasn't positive what it had been.

Before the sisters and Melinda can finish the potion with which they can curse Matthew back inside of the locket, Matthew himself arrives at Quake, a restaurant managed by Piper, and copies Phoebe ’ s power of premonition.

Lou Albano also played a bad guy spinoff of himself as the character " Captain Lou Morano ", along with Dirk Benedict and Roddy Piper in the 1986 movie Body Slam.

One of the first men to try and claim the new, higher bonus was Roddy Piper himself, but their matches got so out of hand that Bruno Sammartino was appointed as a special referee in the hopes of keeping peace.

The Doctor ( Christopher Eccleston ) finds himself in a Big Brother house hosted by the " Davinadroid " ( Davina McCall ), Rose ( Billie Piper ) on the set of The Weakest Link hosted by the " Anne Droid " ( Anne Robinson ), and Jack ( John Barrowman ) facing the female androids Trine-e and Zu-Zana ( Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine ) who offer to give him a brand new image, à la What Not to Wear.

Piper unsuccessfully tried to drown himself, and was forced to sell most of his property to repay his debts in full.

* R. Kelly ( born 1967 ), who nicknamed himself the " Pied Piper of R & B "

Wally was sure Piper couldn't have committed such an act, but Piper himself seemed to believe himself guilty.

The Pied Piper may never have existed as such, but, says the professor, " There were characters known as Lokator who roamed northern Germany trying to recruit settlers for the East.

The incident with the Pied Piper is said to have happened in 1284 and may be based on a true event, although somewhat different from the tale.

John Piper may refer to:

C. Welborne Piper may be the first to have published a clear distinction between Depth of Field in the modern sense and Depth of Definition in the focal plane, and implies that Depth of Focus and Depth of Distance are sometimes used for the former ( in modern usage, Depth of Focus is usually reserved for the latter ).

In addition, the three sons of the Architect and the Old One may reference the Holy Trinity, the Father ( Lord Sunday ), the Son ( The Mariner ), and the Holy Spirit ( The Piper ), as well as the three Greek gods Zeus ( Lord Sunday ), Poseidon ( The Mariner ), and Hades ( Pied Piper ; he was banished to the Void of Nothing )

After the unexpectedly massive success of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, EMI re-issued the Barrett-era albums, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets as A Nice Pair in the hopes that the fans may be interested in the band's earlier work with Barrett.

Most of the other light aircraft acquired by the FABF in the 1970s and 1980s have also now been retired along with the Mi-4 helicopters, but some recent acquisitions have been made, including a Beechcraft King Air, a Piper PA-34 Seneca, a CEAPR Robin light training aircraft, and a single Air Tractor AT-802 aerial sprayer aircraft for spraying insecticides, purchased after the northern part of the country suffered heavy crop damage from a 2004 invasion of swarming locusts.

Piper species have a pantropical distribution, and are most commonly found in the understory of lowland tropical rainforests, but can also occur in clearings and in higher elevation life zones such as cloud forests ; one species ( Japanese Pepper, P. kadsura, from southern Japan and southernmost Korea ) is subtropical and can tolerate light winter frost.

For the second pilot, " Where No Man Has Gone Before " ( 1966 ), Roddenberry accepted director James Goldstone's decision to have Paul Fix play Dr. Mark Piper.

Psychiatrists August Piper and Harold Merskey have challenged the trauma hypothesis, arguing that correlation does not imply causation-the fact that people with DID report childhood trauma does not mean trauma causes DID — and point to the rareness of the diagnosis before 1980 as well as a failure to find DID as an outcome in longitudinal studies of traumatized children.

He also asserts that Piper and Merskey have cherry-picked data and not incorporated all relevant scientific literature available, such as independent corroborating evidence of trauma.

Christopher Columbus was one of the first Europeans to encounter them ( in the Caribbean ), and called them " peppers " because they, like black and white pepper of the Piper genus known in Europe, have a spicy hot taste unlike other foodstuffs.

Piper spokesman Mark Miller said: " While this year has been a good one for Piper, we have taken measures to keep the company healthy and to weather any future adversity.

Theories have been proposed suggesting that the Pied Piper is a symbol of the children's death by plague or catastrophe.

The phrase ' Pide Piper ' occurs in his version and seems to have been coined by him.

* The Pied Piper of Hamelin, in the NBC series Grimm is said to have been a Reinigen, a rat / human creature who can control the behavior of rats by using a musical ability.

# Many popular British artists like Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Right Said Fred, The Verve, BBMak, James Blunt, All Saints, Billie Piper, and Take That are considered one-hit wonders in the US, although they have many hits in their native UK.

There is also the " Cave of the black crwth player " near Criccieth, which is said to have been the inspiration for the tune Ffrawél Ned Puw or ' Farwell Dick the Piper '.

In tests performed on a Cessna 182 and a Piper PA-28-235 Cherokee, independent reviewers have documented a loss of cruise speed of.

* On April 28, 2003, every major US investment bank, including Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers Holdings, J. P. Morgan Chase, UBS Warburg, and U. S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, were found to have aided and abetted efforts to defraud investors.

These instruments seem to have been well-established in Northumberland by the early 18th century ; many of the tunes in the William Dixon manuscript are suitable for such simple chanters, and a painting of Joseph Turnbull, Piper to the Duchess of Northumberland, in Alnwick Castle, shows him with such a set.

John Piper, pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, is one of several Baptists who have written in support of Calvinism.

At the start of season one ( 1998 – 1999 ), six months have passed since the death of her grandmother, Penelope Halliwell ( née Johnson ) ( Jennifer Rhodes ), and Piper has moved back into her family's Victorian Manor with her two sisters Prue ( Shannen Doherty ) and Phoebe Halliwell ( Alyssa Milano ).

In the season two finale, Piper and her sisters discover that the many attacks on their lives by evil beings have been orchestrated by a demonic force known as The Council.

Leo subsequently proposes marriage to Piper claiming that once married The Elders will not have the power to break them apart.

Leo and Piper attempt to wed in secret during a solar eclipse, a phenomenon which prevents those " Up There " from looking down on Earth, but are caught in the act when The Elders are informed of the wedding by The Triad ( who have replaced The Council ), who in turn learned of the wedding through their demonic spy Cole Turner ( Julian McMahon ).