Word: percivale
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I thought, briefly, about Petitte, or Pat Hentgen, or maybe Ken Hill. But I have to settle on the California Angels' Troy Percival.
Percival Matthews
Of course, all the chaos was blamed on Percival Lowell, who had mapped a system of canals on Mars that he saw through his telescope. Even though he was wealthy, influential and very insistent, a few scientists hesitated to support his views because they couldn't see those canals for...
It shouldn't be. Man's fascination with other worlds is as old as Western civilization. Galileo's discovery that they actually existed--that at least some of the pinpoints of light that wandered throughout the night sky had mountains and moons--set off a centuries-long quest to discover...
He was born with many advantages. In his native Jamaica, Ferguson attended the exclusive Calabar boys' high school, an academy that numbers among its alumni Percival Patterson, the island's Prime Minister. The Fergusons lived in a two-story home protected by walls and wrought-iron gates in Kingston's...