Born in 1790, he headed an unbroken tradition of fiddlers and pipers in the Doherty family until the death, in 1980, of perhaps the best-known Donegal fiddler, John Doherty.
On the shore of Lake Lucille, with wild fowl honking and the First Dude smiling, with Piper in the foreground and their Piper Cub in the background, the woman who took the Republican Party by storm only 10 months ago gave an incoherent, breathless and prickly stream of consciousness to a small group in her Wasilla yard.
And, like Barkley, Magic and Bird, they have their hardwood icon, their Pied Piper, in the mythic Sabonis.
Quisumbing (1930) recognized 92 species of Piper in the Philippines; almost all were national endemics and many from single locations.
He said that when he first started working with DLA Piper in the late 1990s, the firm was a modest size and went by the name Piper Rudnick.
It will be the first time a non-heterosexual has played the lead in a superhero movie, and, coincidentally, bisexual actor Andy Mientus has been cast to play gay villain The Pied Piper in The Flash TV series.
"I can relate to that," says Piper, "in the sense that I miss acting when I'm not doing it – just because it's fun, eventful and strange.
This is the dramatisation of the Belle de Jour blog/books with Billie Piper in the title role, in case you've been in solitary.
Dame Helen Mirren is up against Billie Piper in the best actress category, while James McAvoy and Rupert Everett are in the running for best actor.
