Perky (other)
Perky may refer to: * Henry Perky (1843–1906), American lawyer, businessman * Kirtland I. Perky (1867–1939), American politician * Cheves Perky (Mary Cheves West Perky, 1874–1940), American psychologist *Pinky and Perky, British children's television series See also * * Perker (other) Perker may refer to: * Perker, a Middle Eastern immigrant to Denmark, speaking Perkerdansk * Aslı Perker (born 1975), Turkish journalist and writer * M. K. Perker (born 1972), Turkish artist * Philip Lee (cricketer) Philip Keith Lee (15 Se ...

Henry Perky
Henry Drushel Perky (December 7, 1843 – June 29, 1906) was a lawyer, businessman, promoter, and inventor. Perky is the inventor of shredded wheat. Early life He was born in Saltcreek township, Holmes County, Ohio, the fifth son of Daniel Jefferson Perky ( 1808–1862) and Magdalena Drushel (c. 1812–1911), both of Pennsylvania. He married his wife Susanna Melissa Crow (born 1845) on August 3, 1865, in Mount Hope, Ohio. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Nebraska. He was elected to the Nebraska State Senate in 1868 when only twenty-five years old (although other sources suggest he represented the eighth district from 1874 to 1876). The couple lived at Omaha, Nebraska, and Wahoo, Nebraska, before 1880. Henry went to Colorado for his health in 1880 where he was an attorney for the Union Pacific Railroad. Sue followed from Wahoo later that same year and, in Denver, Colorado, she gave birth to their only surviving child, Scott Henry Perky (born 1880). Scott H. ...
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Kirtland I
Kirtland may refer to: Places *Kirtland, Ohio, a city located in Lake County, Ohio, United States **Kirtland Temple, the first temple to be built by adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement *Kirtland, New Mexico, a census-designated place located in San Juan County, New Mexico, United States *Kirtland Air Force Base at Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States *Kirtland Community College, a public college in Northern Michigan. Nature *Kirtland Formation, a geological deposit in the U.S. state of New Mexico *Kirtland's warbler (''Setophaga kirtlandii'') *Kirtland's snake (''Clonophis kirtlandii'') Surname *Ben Kirtland, American ice hockey coach *Dorrance Kirtland (1770–1840), American politician * Fred D. Kirtland (–1972), American Navy officer *Helen Johns Kirtland (1890–1979), American photojournalist and war correspondent *Jared Potter Kirtland (1793–1877), American naturalist * Roy Carrington Kirtland (1874–1941), U.S. Army officer and aviation pioneer Organiza ...
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Cheves Perky
Mary Cheves West Perky (1874–1940) was an American psychologist and one of the twenty-one female students who studied under Edward B. Titchener at Cornell University. She received a Ph.D. in 1910 for her groundbreaking work on visual, auditory, and olfactory imagery. Her findings have had a considerable impact by being cited by name in the title of an article as recently as 2012. According to her findings, perception is not merely a representation of the external world, but is also influenced by thoughts, expectations, and mental images. In the same year, she performed the "Banana Experiment," which demonstrated how perception and visual imagery could be confused; a phenomenon known as the Perky Effect. She concluded that mental imagery is not merely a weak form of perception, but it can directly influence our sensory perceptions. which examines the link between mental imagery and visual perception. Perky also studied the cooperative movement, a group of organized activities a ...
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Pinky And Perky
''Pinky and Perky'' is a children's television series first broadcast by BBC One, BBC TV in 1957, and revived in 2008 as an animated adaptation. Original series The title characters are a pair of anthropomorphic puppet pigs, named Pinky and Perky, who were originally going to be named Pinky and Porky but there was a problem registering Porky as a character name. This was solved by Margaret Potter, the wife of their producer, Trevor Hill, who also discovered them, when she woke him up one night announcing "I've got it! Pinky and Perky!" They were created by Czechoslovakian immigrants Jan and Vlasta Dalibor who moved to the village of Houndhill, leaving the pigs under the cupboard in The Bungalow. The characters of pigs were chosen because the pig is seen as a symbol of good luck in the former Czechoslovakia. The puppets, who had only very limited movements, looked very alike. Pinky wore red clothes and Perky wore blue, but this distinction was of little use on monochrome TV, so P ...
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