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  Matthew Perry (naval officer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854, under the threat of military force.
Matthew Perry obtained a midshipman's commission in the Navy in 1809, and was initially assigned to Revenge, under the command of his elder brother.
Perry's early career saw him assigned to several different ships, including the President, where he was aide to Commodore John Rodgers, which was in a victorious engagement over a British vessel, HMS Little Belt, shortly before the War of 1812 was officially declared.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Perry_(naval_officer)   (1222 words)

  
 Matthew Perry (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matthew Langford Perry (born August 19, 1969) is an actor, most famous for playing the role of Chandler Bing on the American television sitcom Friends (1994-2004).
Perry proved to be impressively insightful about his abuse in an interview with talk-show host Larry King.
Perry hosted the 2005 ESPY Awards, which took place on July 13 in Los Angeles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Perry_(actor)   (335 words)

  
 Commodore Matthew Perry:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Perry, referring to his former commands in Africa and Mexico, said, ”I found no difficulty in conciliating the good will and confidence of the conquered people, by administering the unrestricted power I held rather to their comfort and protection than to their annoyance…and so I believe that...
Perry was the right person to accomplish such a tough mission that had to change completely an unknown and barbarian country in Asia.
Perry believed that the firm but friendly presentation of himself and his country was one of the most important ways to impress or change the Japanese (Lubor 33).
www.colorado.edu /iec/SUMMER00RW/perry.htm   (2998 words)

  
 Matthew Perry (naval officer) Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 - March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who forced the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
Matthew Perry obtained a midshipman's commission in the Navy in 1809, and was initially assigned to the USS Revenge, which was under the command of his elder brother.
Perry signed the document on March 31, 1854 and departed, mistakenly believing the agreement had been made with imperial representatives.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/matthew_perry__naval_officer_.html   (720 words)

  
 Matthew Perry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matthew Perry (born 1969), television and film actor.
Matthew Perry (born 1977), rugby union player for Bath, England, the British and Irish Lions.
Matthew Perry born 1989), rock bass guitar player.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Perry   (96 words)

  
 Redwood and its Treasures
A statue to Perry’s memory was erected in 1868 in Touro Park by Mr.
Younger brother of Oliver Hazard Perry, he began naval career in his mid-teens, before it was over, he had been on an incredible number of missions spanning the globe for our government.
Perry promised sufficient time for the Japanese to consider the proposal and would return the next spring for their answer.
www.redwoodlibrary.org /notables/c_perry.htm   (464 words)

  
 Matthew Perry (actor) - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Matthew Langford Perry (born August 19, 1969) is an actor, most famous for playing the role of Chandler Bing on the American television sitcom Friends.
Perry has also guest starred in Ally McBeal and The West Wing, and lent his voice to The Simpsons.
While born in Williamstown, Massachusetts,United States, Perry was raised in Ottawa, Canada.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /matthew_perry_(actor).htm   (127 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Matthew Calbraith Perry (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Perry saw little action in that war because he was assigned to the United States, which the British bottled up at New London.
Perry was ordered (Mar., 1852) to command the East India squadron and charged with the delicate task of penetrating isolationist Japan.
Perry's show of pomp (at which he was expert) and power obviously impressed the insecure Tokugawa shogunate, and on Mar. 31, 1854, near Yokohama a treaty was concluded that acceded to American requests, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to U.S. trade.
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 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
Commodore Matthew C. Perry, commander of the United States naval forces in the China seas, was a staunch expansionist.
Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794-1858), American naval officer, who commanded the expedition that established United States relations with Japan.
In 1853 Perry was sent on the mission to Japan, a country that had been closed to outsiders since the 17th century.
members.tripod.com /MickMc/perry.html   (1432 words)

  
 Matthew Perry
Matthew Perry was born on August 19, 1969 in Williamstown, Massachusetts but raised in Ottawa, Ontario.
Perry's mom is a former Canadian TV anchor and onetime press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Perry auditioned and won a small role in the 1988 River Phoenix film A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.
www.canadianactors.info /matthew_perry_bio_info.htm   (334 words)

  
 Interview - Matthew Perry for "The Whole Ten Yards"
In The Whole Ten Yards, Perry reprises his role of the perennially paranoid dentist who forces himself to realign himself with a supposedly kinder, gentler and domesticated ex-contract killer [Willis] when the former's wife [Natasha Henstridge] is kidnapped.
Perry may not be enamoured with the press, but rumour has it that was while participating in the press junket for the first film, that he and Willis hit upon the idea to do the sequel.
Originally, Perry hit upon the idea of having his and Willis' characters undergo a certain role reversal for the sequel, with Willis all soft and gentle, and Perry macho and tough.
www.darkhorizons.com /news04/perry.php   (718 words)

  
 Core...Perry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Failing to see Perry personally left many artists with little but their imaginations to rely on in depicting His High and Mighty Mysteriousness, a situation that the majority of them serenely accepted and even relished.
In another print, Perry is paired with his young son (named after Perry’s famous brother Oliver), who accompanied him to Japan—here sporting a trim mustache like his father, but lacking his father’s goatee.
As we shall see again in other renderings of interactions with the Perry mission, the commodore and his fellow Americans were also drawn from direct observation on occasion, and depicted as being simply people of a different race and culture.
www.blackshipsandsamurai.com /compsite/core_perry.html   (1166 words)

  
 Matthew Perry @ Filmbug UK
Perry's feature film debut was in 1988 in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon, starring River Phoenix.
Perry realized one of his personal challenges when he made his stage debut in London's West End last summer in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago.
Perry continues to support and host the annual gala for the Lili Claire Foundation which raises funds for those born with Williams syndrome and other neurogenetic birth defects.
www.filmbug.co.uk /db/1533   (359 words)

  
 Matthew Perry News
Comedian Richard Pryor and former "Friends" star Matthew Perry are adding to the reward for information leading to the arrest of the person who drowned a golden retriever in the surf on the Massachusetts coast.
OK, so Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry theoretically haven't achieved nearly the recognition that the great comedic duos of the past have, but their new movie, "The Whole Ten Yards," is...
The movie in a nutshell: Oscar Novak (Matthew Perry) is an architect bidding for a large contract to renovate a building for Charles Newman (Dylan McDermott).
www.topix.net /who/matthew-perry   (895 words)

  
 CNN - Matthew Perry talks addiction, 'Heroes' - June 2, 1998
Perry, who battled his own addiction to prescription pain killers last year, says he and Farley often talked about recovery.
Perry says he's thankful he was able to see the signs before his addiction got out of control.
Perry says it will be fun to pursue that story line when the show returns in the fall.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9806/02/perry.almost.heroes   (490 words)

  
 Fact Sheet: Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In 1843-1844, Perry commanded the African Squadron, which was engaged in suppressing the slave trade.
In July of that same year, Perry leads a squadron of four ships into Tokyo Bay and presented representatives of the Japanese Emperor with the text of a proposed commercial and friendship treaty.
After a standoff, Perry landed for peace and trade talks on March 8, 1854, and began to negotiate with the Japanese to establish a trade agreement.
www.history.navy.mil /branches/teach/pearl/kanagawa/friends4.htm   (282 words)

  
 Matthew Perry Articles Archive from 4NEWZ.com
Matthew Perry, the show's wise-cracking Chandler Bing, said all of the cast realised that Friends would be a tough act to follow.
Matthew Perry returns to "The West Wing" (NBC, 9 pm) in his role of Joe Quincy, an aide to the president who is called to look in on a Supreme Court justice...
Matthew Perry and his father John Bennett Perry have found their muse in actress Francis O'Connor for "The Beginning of Wisdom," according to The Hollywood...
www.4newz.com /celebrities/Matthew_Perry.html   (9034 words)

  
 Matthew Perry Hospitalized - Feb 14, 2005 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Feb 14, 2005, 12:45 PM PT It seems Matthew Perry may be having a hard time getting by without the help of his Friends.
Perry has publicly struggled in the past with addiction to pain medication and alcohol abuse.
Perry stars with his father, John Bennett Perry, in the upcoming film, The Beginning of Wisdom.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,15924,00.html?rsslatest   (455 words)

  
 Matthew Net || your online source for Matthew Perry
Matthew Net is always looking for more material (info, news, images, fan art, etc).
Matthew Net has no affiliations with Matthew Perry or his representatives.
Matthew is featured (with a wonderful picture) for being the highest paid guest star ($765,900, if I remember correctly) for when he worked on Ally McBeal.
www.fan-sites.org /matthew-perry   (564 words)

  
 Matthew Perry Back in Rehab - Feb 26, 2001 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Last spring, Perry was hospitalized for acute pancreatitis, caused by years of alcohol and drug abuse.
Soon after he was released from the hospital last May, Perry crashed his Porsche into the porch of a house in the Hollywood Hills.
At least publicly, Perry had sought to reassure the public he was working to recover from a rough year.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,7870,00.html   (505 words)

  
 Another Matthew Perry Car Crash - Apr 19, 2001 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Los Angeles police say Perry, 31, was heading west down Santa Monica Boulevard at about 11:45 a.m., when an unidentified 75-year-old woman failed to yield, pulling her '89 Ford Escort into oncoming traffic.
Then in February, Perry's work on Friends and the upcoming movie Servicing Sara was halted, after he abruptly checked himself into rehab--reportedly for a dependence on Vicodin, methadone and speed.
Perry's publicist could not immediately be reached for comment on Wednesday's collision.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,8143,00.html   (405 words)

  
 Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
A United States naval officer, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, negotiated tirelessly for several months with Japanese officials to achieve the goal of opening the doors of trade with Japan.
They thought the ships were "giant dragons puffing smoke." They did not know that steamboats existed and were shocked by the number and size of the guns on board the ships.
Perry lived in Newport, Rhode Island, which also celebrates a Black Ship festival in July.
www.history.navy.mil /branches/teach/ends/opening.htm   (425 words)

  
 Sex Degrees Of Separation: Matthew Perry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
It must be working, as she and Perry are not co-starring in a film.
Perry recently flew to Paris for the French Open tennis tournament where he watched Capriati play.
Matthew Broderick, fresh off his successful run in The Producers on Broadway, was working on his own production with his wife, Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker.
www.tribute.ca /tribute/0702/sex_degrees.htm   (883 words)

  
           Matthew Perry Fan               ...
This year, ESPY awards will be hosted my actor Matthew Perry, who used to play tennis in Canada when he was younger.
Matthew Perry, who used to play tennis in Canada, will host ESPY awards in Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
Matthew Perry still loves tennis and attends, wherever he can, to the matches played by his friend Jennifer Capriati.
fan-sites.org /mperry   (796 words)

  
 Matthew Perry pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
Matthew Perry pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers.
Favorite "Friend", Matthew Perry, was raised in Ottawa, Canada and his mother was a press agent for Pierre Trudeau, the Prime Minister of Canada, in the 70s and 80s.
He was cast in several small TV series and feature films before hitting it big with "Friends" in 1994.
www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=481   (164 words)

  
 Matthew Perry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Perry said he considered Burnie the best team since the inception of the starts with the ruck contests between Brad Davis (Burnie) and Matthew Muir (Devonport
Matthew Perry - Buckeye too much for Northwood Ale...
Matthew Perry - Magpies use Burnie model Tasmania...
matthew-perry-news.blogspot.com   (682 words)

  
 Matthew Perry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Frances O'Connor has inked a deal that will put her between the Perrys -- Matthew Perry and his father John Bennett Perry -- in Franchise Pictures' "The Beginning of Wisdom" for director William Dear.
"Friends" star Matthew Perry and his father, actor John Bennett Perry, are in final negotiations to star as father and son in "The Beginning of Wisdom" for Samaha Prods.
Okay, so the title hasn't been determined yet, but Bruce Willis is set to return for more hijinx as the gangster next door, and Matthew Perry is in negotiations to reprise the role...
www.rottentomatoes.com /p/matthew_perry/news.php   (361 words)

  
 Matthew Perry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Show Stopper: Matthew Perry bails out of Friends and a new movie and, without explanation, checks into a facility for another round of rehab.(Cover Story) (People Weekly)
Back to the yard for Perry No Mates; Matthew Perry tells Robin Walker how he's leaving Friends behind for a career on the big screen.(Features) (The Birmingham Post (England))
A Friend In Need: Following a two-week hospital stay, a car accident and a dramatic weight gain, Matthew Perry says he is on the mend after suffering a "serious stomach ailment".(Up Front)(Brief Article) (People Weekly)
www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0760730.html   (288 words)

  
 Matthew Perry
Born in Williamstown, Mass., and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Matthew Perry had his first taste of acting when he was in the seventh grade.
Matthew's interest in acting increased after he performed in several high-school stage productions.
Perry enrolls in 'Clark' for TNT original (external) 2005-08-02
www.tv.com /matthew-perry/person/900/summary.html   (223 words)

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