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unusual facts about Arthur W. MacKenzie


Arthur W. MacKenzie

Mackenzie was born at Nine Mile River, Hants County, Nova Scotia, the son of Benjamin MacKenzie and Minnie Scott.


Arthur Barton

Arthur W. Barton (1899–1976), headmaster, academic author and football referee

Arthur Chickering

Arthur W. Chickering, educational researcher in the field of student affairs

Arthur Hummel

Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. (1884–1975), Christian missionary to China and Sinologist

Arthur W. Hummel, Jr. (1920–2001), American diplomat, ambassador to China, and son of Arthur W. Hummel, Sr.

Arthur Mitchell

Arthur W. Mitchell (1883–1968), first African-American elected to the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party

Arthur W. Aleshire

Aleshire was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937-January 3, 1939).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress.

Arthur W. Barton

From 1922 to 1925 he was a research student at the Cavendish Laboratory (in Lord Rutherford's group).

He was a top-class football referee: he refereed the Semi-final between Austria and Poland in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, and was linesman in the 1936 FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Sheffield United.

Arthur W. Benson

In the middle of the land was Indian Field which was the home for the Montaukett tribe.

Benson founded the Brooklyn Gas Light company in 1823, when Brooklyn had 9,000 people.

Arthur W. Coolidge

He was a Republican and a Unitarian, a Freemason, serving as Grand Master of Masons (1943–1944) and a member of the American Bar Association and Theta Delta Chi.

Arthur W. Cutten

After studying at Guelph Collegiate, in 1888 a young Arthur Cutten left home, making his way to the United States where he settled in the rapidly growing city of Chicago.

Arthur W. Mitchell

Mitchell's suit was advanced to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that the railroad violated the Interstate Commerce Act.

Arthur W. Murray

He managed a hunting club, flew some charter work for Mustang Aviation in Dallas then did some courtroom reporting for the Bosque County newspaper.

Arthur Warren Murray was born to Charles C. "Chester" and Elsie Murray in the small town of Cresson nestled in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania on December 26, 1918.

Arthur W. Overmyer

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress.

Arthur W. Page

As a document of company disclosure, the book made a list of the current directors which at that time included Charles Francis Adams III, Winthrop W. Aldrich, Lewis H. Brown, John W. Davis, W. Cameron Forbes, Myron C. Taylor, and Daniel Willard.

Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication

Bringing the center to Penn State was the idea of alumnus Lawrence G. Foster, who retired as corporate vice-president of public relations at Johnson & Johnson.

Arthur W. Sterry

He later went to work for the theatrical entrepreneur Philip Lytton, performing in a number of shows including The Waybacks.

Arthur W. V. Reeve

He donated a cup - The Arthur Reeve Cup - which is played for in the Wellington Secondary Schools rugby competition in the Under 80 kg grade.

Arthur W. Woodworth

Arthur Wellington Woodworth, also known as the Honorable Arthur Woodworth (b. May 7, 1823), was the founder and President of the First National Bank of Enosburgh, a Vermont State Senator and Representative, and member of the Woodworth political family.

Battle of Palo Duro Canyon

Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie, leading the 4th U.S. Cavalry, departed Fort Clark, Texas, on 15 August, reached Fort Concho on the 21st and the mouth of Blanco Canyon on the 23rd with 8 companies plus 3 from the 10th Infantry and 1 from the 11th.

Berta Karlik

The element was first synthesized in 1940 by Dale R. Corson, K. R. MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè, after several scientists in vain searched for it in radioactive minerals.

Charles Mackenzie

Charles Stuart MacKenzie, World War I Scottish soldier, subject of the lament -- Sgt. MacKenzie -- written and sung by his great-grandson Joseph Kilna Mackenzie

Chickering's theory of identity development

Chickering's Theory of Identity Development, as articulated by Arthur W. Chickering explains the process of identity development.

Clark G. Reynolds

Reynolds received the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature from the Naval Order of the United States, and the Admiral Arthur W. Radford Award for Excellence in Naval Aviation History and Literature from the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation in Pensacola, Florida.

David MacKenzie

David L. Mackenzie (1860–1926), first Dean of Detroit Junior College

Fiona J. Mackenzie

In 2005 she won the An Comunn Gàidhealach Gold Medal at the Royal National Mod in Stornoway.

Fort Fetterman

During the mid-1870s and onset of the Black Hills War with the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes, the monotony of camp life was broken by a series of major military expeditions, including Maj. Gen. George Crook's Power River Expedition of 1876 and Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie's 1876 campaign against Dull Knife.

Frederick Philipse

Alexander Slidell MacKenzie (1842–67), an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and his brother General Ranald S. Mackenzie.

Herman Lehmann

She questioned Colonel Mackenzie, the commanding officer of Fort Sill, whether there were any blue eyed boys on the reservation.

James Dearing

Just prior to his death at the Ladies' Relief Hospital, he was visited and paroled by his old West Point classmate, Brig. Gen. Ranald S. Mackenzie, then commanding in Lynchburg.

John C. Broger

In 1954 Broger was recruited by Admiral Arthur W. Radford to develop an ideological framework for the U.S. Military.

John M. MacKenzie

He has given BBC radio talks, has appeared on television programmes relating to the British Empire, and has written for The Scotsman.

Paul Hullah

The band were formed out of three of Edinburgh's Indie art rock circuit and comprised Hullah, Billy Gould and Gordon Mackenzie on bass & drums (The Calloways), and Martin Metcalfe on guitar (Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie).

Ranald S. Mackenzie

The 1958-1959 syndicated television series, Mackenzie's Raiders, starring Richard Carlson in the title role, is loosely based on Mackenzie's time in Texas.

Robert C. MacKenzie

In Mozambique, he worked with RENAMO, securing the release of seven Western hostages.

The country's leader, Valentine Strasser had begun to organize a force to counterattacks by the RUF rebels and his right-hand man, Major Tarawali had contracted sixty Gurkhas of the GSG (Gurkha Security Guards Limited) to train approximately 160 green troopers that would form the nucleus of the SLCU.

Sierra Leone's leader, Valentine Strasser, MacKenzie took command of a training troop, the Sierra Leone Commando Unit (SLCU) in cooperation with Strasser's right-hand man, Major Abu Tarawali and sixty Gurkhas of the Gurkha Security Guards.

After finishing high school at the age of 17 in 1966, MacKenzie was awarded an appointment to the United States Air Force Academy.

Sgt. MacKenzie

Joseph MacKenzie wrote the haunting lament after the death of his wife, Christine, and in memory of his great-grandfather, Charles Stuart MacKenzie, a sergeant in the Seaforth Highlanders, who along with hundreds of his brothers-in-arms from the Elgin-Rothes area in Moray, Scotland went to fight in the Great War.

After "Sgt. MacKenzie" was first released on our Tried and True CD album in 2000, a copy of the song made its way to the hands of Hollywood director, Randall Wallace and actor Mel Gibson.

He arranged for Joe and band mate Donnie MacNeil, who played the pipes, to re-record "Sgt. MacKenzie" with the backing of an 80-piece orchestra and the United States Military Academy Choir at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London.

The original recording is on the ClanWallace live album and it was this recording that inspired Randall Wallace and Mel Gibson to contact Seoras about using the track on the film "Once we were Soldiers" Seoras waved his rights but remains the holder of the production rights returned to him three years after the films release.

The Beltanes

The Beltanes live performances notably included headlining several times at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut, and also supporting Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom and Ayr Pavilion during their 1991 'Hammer and Tongs' tour, shortly before the departure of Shirley Manson to front Garbage.

The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar

The people highlighted in this composition are the dying José de Barboza and to his right and from left to right: Ensign A?. Mackenzie (in Highland dress), Governor Eliott, Lt G.F. Koehler, Lt.Col J. Hardy, Brig.Gen C. Ross, Capt A. Witham, Capt Roger Curtis, Lieutent Thomas Trigge, Lt Colonel Hugo.


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