J. Sharkey from the Government Printing Office took the earliest known photographs of the Island and its residents.

He took his ring name from his two idols, heavyweight contender Tom Sharkey and heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey.

Despite such warnings by Sharkey and mental health watchdogs, similar practices have continued to evolve in Texas ( where many of the events depicted in Bedlam took place ), in the form of the Texas Medication Algorithm Project, and at the federal level with the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.

Professor Noel Sharkey has argued that it is quite likely that it was an early programmable automata and has produced a possible reconstruction of the mechanism ; it has a programmable drum machine with pegs ( cams ) that bump into little levers that operated the percussion.

Starting in the early 1990s Sharkey moved into the business side of the music industry, initially as A & R for Polydor Records, and then as managing director of EXP Ltd.

From the period of 1975 to 1983, the Undertones consisted of Feargal Sharkey ( vocals ), John O ' Neill ( rhythm guitar, vocals ), Damian O ' Neill ( lead guitar, vocals ), Michael Bradley ( bass, vocals ) and Billy Doherty ( drums ).

In 1999, the Undertones reformed, replacing lead singer Feargal Sharkey with Paul McLoone.

By the following year the group, at this stage still unnamed, began playing gigs at minor local venues, including schools, parish halls and scout huts, where the band's lead singer, Feargal Sharkey, was a local scout leader.

* Feargal Sharkey – lead vocals

* Feargal Sharkey, lead singer of the pop punk band The Undertones

Sean Feargal Sharkey ( born 13 August 1958 ) is a singer from Northern Ireland who first found fame as the lead vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones.

Sharkey ," and almost being cast as the lead in " Asteroid " before Evie captured that " breakout " role ).

Schmeling was trying to corner his opponent when Sharkey let loose with a blow to the body which strayed below the belt line.

On June 21, 1932, the championship picture became even more muddled when Sharkey won a highly controversial split decision, taking the championship.

Schmeling had won his title on a technicality when Jack Sharkey was disqualified after giving Schmeling a low blow in 1930.

Fitzsimmons battered Sharkey and had him on the verge of a knock-out, but when he hit him with a body-and-head punch-combination Earp declared him the loser on a disqualification because he had hit Sharkey while Sharkey was down.

The fight came under the eye of fans and sportswriters alike when the uppercut that KO'd Sharkey was believed not to have landed.

* September 26-The National Boxing Association Heavyweight championship's vacancy is filled when Jack Sharkey defeats Tommy Loughran to take the title.

" Betsy Sharkey of The Los Angeles Times wrote that Denzel Washington — who starred in Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Déjà Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123, and Unstoppable — was Scott's muse, and Scott " was at his best when Washington was in the picture.

* Billy Ray Sharkey as Zack, one of the technicians who was charging Number Five when he got struck by lightning

As the Cyber Boxing Zone website describes him, “ Sharkey had good skills, could hit with power, box well and take punishment when he set his mind to fight ; But, he was an erratic, ' up-and-down ' boxer who never seemed to put all his skills together consistently ; when he was good, he was very good but when he was bad, he was awful .”

He served in this capacity until June 13, 1865, when he was forcibly removed from office by occupation forces of the United States Army and replaced by William L. Sharkey, a respected judge and staunch Unionist who had been in total opposition to secession.

Wills faced future heavyweight champion Jack Sharkey in 1926, and was being clearly defeated when he was disqualified.

( He was forced to vacate his third title when he fought Jack Sharkey in 1926 and was lost the bout due to a disqualification.

Sharkey was involved in another controversial fight when he faced Corbett on November 22, 1898.

Focusing on sensational cases in the United States, Sharkey exposed how powerful elements within the industry maneuvered to exploit new markets when health insurance providers began covering costs for in-hospital mental health treatment.

He traces soaring mental health costs to the often criminal marketing practices of biological psychiatry, which Sharkey asserts began when the number of psychiatric hospitals boomed in the late 1980s.

During an interview with NBC's Today Show on October 5, 2006, Sharkey said he was relaxing in his cabin seat with the window shade down when he was jolted by a bang.

It was only when Sharkey opened the shade and looked out his window that he noticed something was dreadfully amiss.

Sharkey said that when he found out, several hours later, that the Legacy jet hit a commercial airliner, he thought " We should not be the ones walking away from this.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Sharkey's father, Ray Sr., a professional drummer, abandoned the family when Sharkey was just five years old.

It was discovered that the stalking charge had been dismissed on September 29, 2003 when Sharkey pleaded guilty to two counts of invasion of privacy and was ordered to submit to mental health treatment.

Jeffries broke the ribs of three opponents in title fights: Jim Corbett, Gus Ruhlin and Tom Sharkey.

Tom Sharkey, heavyweight top contender, thought that Jeffries would have beat Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis on the same night.

Sharkey called Jeffries the greatest fighter of all time.

Tom ' Sailor Tom ' Sharkey ( November 26, 1873 – April 17, 1953 ) was a boxer who fought two fights with heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries.

Sharkey knocked out McCoy in the tenth round thereby securing a shot at the heavyweight title then held by James J. Jeffries.

Nevertheless, Sharkey vowed to beat the 6 ' 2½ burly Jeffries in the rematch.

In any event the bout was awarded to Jeffries, although many felt Sharkey had won.

After this fight Jeffries and Sharkey became friends.

Jeffries always claimed that Sharkey gave him his hardest fights stating that Sharkey was the roughest, toughest and bravest man he ever fought.