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3 unusual facts about George F. MacDonald


George F. MacDonald

Inspired as much by the ideas of Marshall Mcluhan and Disney's Epcot Center as by other museums like the Smithsonian Institution, MacDonald's version of the museum included interactive displays, replicas, and an IMAX theatre.

John J. Cove

Around the same time, he became influenced by the structuralist approaches of Claude Lévi-Strauss and, through the help of George F. MacDonald, began an intensive study of the Tsimshianic narratives collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon.

William Beynon

MacDonald, George F., and John J. Cove (eds.) (1987) Tsimshian Narratives. Collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon.


1900–01 MHA season

Honorary club president Hugh John Macdonald, former Manitoba premier, and son of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald made a speech.

Angus L. Macdonald Bridge

It is named after the former premier of Nova Scotia, Angus L. Macdonald, who had died in 1954 and had been instrumental in having the bridge built.

Big Hole River

Conservationist George F. Grant, Trout Unlimited and local ranchers combined forces to oppose the dam, successfully defeating the proposal in 1967.

Bruce E. MacDonald

After receiving a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., in 1992, he was transferred to Seoul, Korea, where he served as Chief, Operational Law Division, on the staffs of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea.

Bruce McDonald

Bruce E. MacDonald (born 1955), formerly a senior lawyer with the US Navy

Corydon Partlow Brown

One of Brown's most important tasks during his time at Public Works was to convince the serving Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, that the future of Manitoba depended on the issuing of railway charters (disallowed by Ottawa).

Dani Romain

Dani Romain is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer, who has been the writing and production partner of George F. Walker in the television series This Is Wonderland, The Line and Living in Your Car, and the film Niagara Motel.

Daniel MacDonald

Daniel C. MacDonald (1882–?), politician in Prince Edward Island, Canada

David R. Macdonald

In 1976, President of the United States Gerald Ford nominated Macdonald as Under Secretary of the Navy and Macdonald held this office from September 14, 1976 to February 4, 1977.

Elephant Moraine

The feature was noted in U.S. satellite imagery of 1973, and in aerial photographs obtained subsequently, by William R. MacDonald of the United States Geological Survey, who originally described it to William A. Cassidy as "a possible nunatak having an outline similar to an elephant."

George Brady

George F. Brady (1867–?), United States Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

George Dewar

George F. Dewar (1865–?), physician and political figure in Prince Edward Island, Canada

George Dillon

George F. Dillon, 19th century Catholic writer and anti-Masonic conspiracy theorist

George F. Bond

The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea, New York: Simon & Schuster.

George F. Fitzpatrick

George Fitzpatrick married Phyllis Sinanan, sister of Mitra and Ashford Sinanan, uniting the Fitzpatrick family with another prominent political family of Trinidad (see Ashford Sinanan, Ambassador, Leader of the Opposition, Democratic Labour Party (DLP), West Indies Federation, Founder of the West Indian National Party (WINP) and High Commissioner to India.

George F. Green

G. F. Green (George Frederick Green, 1911–1977), British fiction writer

George F. Keane

They lived in Westport, Connecticut, and have three children, the oldest of which is composer and producer Brian Keane.

After the dot-com bubble burst he advocated for the creation of a new index in place of the S&P 500, and worked with Research Affiliates in the development of the Fundamental Index.

George F. Le Feuvre

Unable to find a civil service post in Quebec, George joined the civil service in Ottawa.

George F. Marion

George F. Marion, who was born in San Francisco, California was father of writer George Marion Jr. and he died of a heart attack at the age of 85 years in Carmel, California, USA.

George F. McFarland

Countered in a rough recruiting race by cavalryman John K. Robison, McFarland gathered from the county just over 30 men, which he transported to Camp Curtin in Harrisburg.

George F. Veenker

In football, Veenker had responsibility for coaching the ends, including College Football Hall of Fame end, Bennie Oosterbaan.

George Fuller

George F. Fuller (1869–1962), industrialist in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

George Marion

George F. Marion (1860–1945), American actor and director of stage and screen

George Warren

George F. Warren, agricultural economist and author, contemporary of Henry Charles Taylor

George Willison

George F. Willison (1896–1972), writer and editor who specialized in American history

Gordon J. F. MacDonald

MacDonald's early skepticism regarding plate tectonics stemmed from his detailed study, with Walter Munk, of the rotation of the Earth.

Gryposaurus

Gryposaurus is based on specimen NMC 2278, a skull and partial skeleton collected in 1913 by George F. Sternberg from what is now known as the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, along the Red Deer River.

James A. Macdonald

He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1891 and assigned to Knox Presbyterian Church in St. Thomas.

Julie MacDonald

Julie A. MacDonald (born 1955), former U.S. Department of the Interior official

Malachy Bowes Daly

At Halifax, July 4, 1859, he married Joanna Kenny, second daughter of Sir Edward Kenny, a cabinet minister in the Sir John A. Macdonald government.

Merson

George F. Merson (1866–1959), Scottish pharmacist who produced surgical catgut

Mount Macdonald

The original name of the peak was Mount Carroll, but was renamed to honour the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Since July 2000 he wrote a blog Electrolite until it was incorporated into his wife's blog Making Light in May 2005, where he now writes along with her, with Viable Paradise co-teacher, SF writer James D. Macdonald, and SF fans Avram Grumer and Abi Sutherland.

Paul McDonald

Paul A. MacDonald (1912–2006), American politician and lawyer from Maine

Plain Clothes Theatre Productions

In 2006 the company produced a double bill of plays by Canadian playwright George F. Walker from his 'Suburban Motel' collection of plays; namely Problem Child and Criminal Genius.

Presiding Patriarch

In 1937 George F. Richards, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, was officially called, sustained, and set apart to the office of Acting Presiding Patriarch.

Robert W. MacDonald

MacDonald pulled a similar prank later during the 1960 presidential campaign when John F. Kennedy was the featured speaker at a rally at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Russia Leaves the War

Russia Leaves the War (1956) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by George F. Kennan.

St. Anne's Anglican Church

The artwork by J. E. H. MacDonald, Frederick Varley, and Franklin Carmichael is religious iconography, something they are not generally known for.

The War Between the Tates

He is an admirer and scholar of the work of George Kennan, the diplomat who devised President Harry Truman's policy of containment of the Soviet Union at the start of the Cold War.

Tylosaurus

A photograph of a Tylosaurus skull was taken by George F. Sternberg about 1926 after he collected and prepared the specimen.

Universal pragmatics

For example, the utterance "The first Prime Minister of Canada" refers to a man who went by the name of Sir John A. Macdonald.

William Allingham

Up the Airy Mountain is the title of a short story by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald.

William Henry Long

Under the guidance of George F. Atkinson, Long performed field work at Cornell University, which eventually led to a PhD degree awarded from the University of Texas in 1917.

William J. MacDonald

William Johnson McDonald (1844–1926), American banker who endowed an astronomical observatory


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