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11 unusual facts about Leonard "Mac" McCollum


Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Gundelfingen

Its Australian partner school for the exchange program for female participants is the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School.

British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition

The BANZARE, which also made several short flights in a small plane, mapped the coastline of Antarctica and discovered Mac. Robertson Land and Princess Elizabeth Land (which later became incorporated into the Australian Antarctic Territory).

Ghetto Boys

Some members of the gang are known to carry arms such as MAC-10 machine pistols.

June Stahl

He then shoots Stahl in the back of the head with a MAC-10, instantly killing her.

Mac-Talla

The entire collection of this periodical is available online through the Sabhal Mòr Ostaig website.

Mac's Midget AAA World Invitational Tournament

All five male teams - the Calgary Flames, Royals, Northstars and Buffaloes, as well as the Strathmore UFA Bisons play league games in the Alberta Midget Hockey League.

On January 2, 1989, Petr Nedved, playing for a Litvínov based team, left his hotel room in the middle of the night and walked into a Calgary police station declaring his intention to defect from Czechoslovakia.

Mac/Eddy Today

Included are transcripts of sometimes controversial interviews with many of the sources quoted in the biography of the screen duo, Sweethearts: The Timeless Love Affair Onscreen and Off Between Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, by Sharon Rich.

Robert W. McCollum

Back at Yale, McCollum and Dr. Saul Krugman performed studies at Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York, where they found that a form of hepatitis was spread through blood transfusions and that transmission of serum hepatitis (now known as hepatitis B) could be blocked using gamma globulin.

(January 29, 1925 – September 13, 2010) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who made pioneering studies into the nature and spread of polio, hepatitis and mononucleosis while at the Yale School of Medicine, after which he served for nearly a decade as Dean of the Dartmouth Medical School.

Scripting Bridge

The Scripting Bridge is a framework in OS X allowing Mac applications to communicate with each other without the use of an intermediary scripting language such as AppleScript.


Alexander of Scotland

King Alexander I of Scotland or Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim (c. 1078–1124), King of Scots, called "The Fierce"

Aodh Buidhe Mac an Bhaird

The Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore, William Reeves, writing on Mac an Bhaird and his fellow-labourers, paid tribute to the Irish Franciscans for their services to Irish archaeology.

Appearance Manager

In pre-Mac OS X versions of the Macintosh operating system, the Appearance Manager controlled the overall look of the Mac GUI widgets and supported several themes.

Apple's transition to Intel processors

Others say that it could be a boon to switchers, since they would not have to leave their Windows applications behind while trying out Mac OS X. The idea of Mac OS X being available on regular PCs has also been discussed, but Apple has said that they will not allow regular PCs to run Mac OS X. The OSx86 Project, however, is able to install Mac OS X on non-Apple PCs.

Ashbourne Cup

In 1915 she persuaded her friend, Irish language activist William Gibson, (Liam Mac Giolla Bhríde (1868–1942), second Lord Ashbourne, to donate a trophy for the camogie intervarsity competition.

Banned from Argo

The "Doctor" (Leonard "Bones" McCoy) is arrested for "inciting whores to riot", and has to be transported out of jail, "intact except for hickies and six kinds of VD".

Buckingham Nicks

Another song from the album, "Crystal", was recorded by the revamped Fleetwood Mac for the group's 1975 breakthrough LP, Fleetwood Mac, and was also recorded by Stevie herself for the soundtrack to the 1998 film Practical Magic.

Camp Mac

Camp Mac is located 1,000 feet above sea level inside the Talladega National Forest and just few miles from the top of Mount Cheaha.

Clan McCorquodale

The surname McCorquodale is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Thorcadail (or MacCorcadail), meaning "son of Torcadal".

Conall mac Comgaill

The Duan Albanach says that he reigned "without dissension", but there is a report of an expedition by Conall and Colmán Bec mac Diarmato of the Southern Uí Néill to Iardoaman in the Annals of Ulster for 568.

Flann

Flann Sinna (died 916), also called Flann mac Maíl Sechnaill, High King of Ireland

Flann mac Áedo

He was the son of Áed mac Dlúthaig (died 701), King of Fir Cúl and great-grandson of Ailill Cruitire mac Áedo Sláine (died 634), a king of Brega.

FM 24/29 light machine gun

The Model 1924/1929D machine gun was a variant of the MAC 24/29, adapted to firing from interior firing ports in the bunkers of the Maginot Line.

Francis H. Harlow

He is known for his fundamental contributions to the development of several CFD algorithms for computer simulation of fluid flows, including Particle-In-Cell (PIC), Fluid-In-Cell (FLIC), and Marker-and-Cell (MAC) methods.

Hidrogenesse

According to them, their most significant influences are The Smiths and Morrissey, The Associates (the Mac in Eres PC eres Mac stands for their lead singer, Billy Mackenzie), Sparks, The Magnetic Fields, Saint Etienne, Pet Shop Boys and British eccentrics like Lawrence, Jarvis Cocker and Luke Haines.

ITools

MobileMe, a service from Apple formerly known as "iTools" and ".Mac"

Jake Lingle

The reporter played by Martin Balsam in the 1959 film Al Capone is clearly based on Lingle, although the character's name has been changed to "Mac Keeley".

Johnson baronets

A descendant of the O'Neill dynasty, his family name was originally MacShane (Irish: Mac Seáin), of which Johnson is a translation.

Lakeland, New York

The community includes a few gas stations, a Byrne Dairy with an indoor Subway (restaurant), two churches, a few small restaurants, a car dealership, a credit union, Johnny Mac's Pizzeria and Deli, Solvay Middle School, a Best Western hotel, and a golf course.

Larry English

In 2007 English was the Mid-American Conference's MVP and was a consensus choice First-team All-MAC and a Fourth-team All-American by Phil Steele as he recorded 17 tackles for loss–which ranked 18th in the NCAA.

Link aggregation

;XOR (balance-xor): Transmit network packets based on (source MAC address XOR'd with destination MAC address) modulo NIC slave count.

Mac Carthaigh's Book

Mac Carthaigh’s Book is a collection of annals of the period AD 11141437 inclusive.

Mạc Đĩnh Chi Cemetery

In 1955 it was named Mac Dinh Chi, after the renowned Vietnamese scholar and diplomat Mạc Đĩnh Chi (1280-1350).

Mac Holten

Rendle McNeilage "Mac" Holten CMG (29 March 1922 – 12 October 1996) was a leading Australian rules footballer, Australian politician and government minister.

Mac Maoláin

Mac Maoláin was a surname borne by a number of unrelated families in Gaelic Ireland, found in Breifne, Mide, Brega, Connacht and Ulster.

Mac Minister

Mac Minister was profiled on an episode of America's Most Wanted, allegedly responsible for the murder of Anthony "Fat-Tone" Watkins in Las Vegas, Nevada, in retaliation for the murder of Bay Area hip-hop legend Mac Dre.

Mac OS X v10.0

Mac OS X introduced the new Darwin Unix-like core and a totally new system of memory management.

Macintosh IIx

It replaced the 16 MHz Motorola 68020 CPU and 68881 FPU of the II with a 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU (running at the same clock speed); and the 800 KB floppy drive with the 1.44 MB SuperDrive (in fact, it was the first Mac to have one).

Máel Mórda mac Murchada

The Irish doom metal group Mael Mórdha take their name from Máel Mórda mac Murchada and many of their songs are based on the events of the battle of Clontarf.

McAtee

The name is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac an tSaoi, meaning "son of the scholar" or "son of the wise man".

MemSource

The desktop version, MemSource Editor, installs on Windows, Mac, and Linux and is available as a free download.

Murchadh MacSuibhne

He was taken prisoner by Domnall Mac Maghnusa in 1265 and was imprisoned by Walter de Burgh, Earl of Ulster and died shortly afterwards.

Naomh Mearnóg CLG

Éanna Mac Cába, as acting Treasurer, reported to the meeting that the club’s finances were in a healthy state, showing a credit balance of £27 made up of subscriptions from Jackie Hughes, Brother O’Fearghail (Coláiste Mhuire), Ray Burke T.D. and Shay Corrigan.

NeoModus Direct Connect

NeoModus Direct Connect was a file-sharing client for Windows and Mac users that provided file-sharing capabilities for any type of file within a hub-centric, peer-to-peer network and contained adware.

NetBoot

Mac OS 8.5 and Mac OS 9 use only BOOTP/DHCP to get IP information, followed by a TFTP transfer of the Mac OS ROM file.

Nicklas Nygren

Knytt Underground combines the features of Knytt and Within a Deep Forest and was released on PC, Mac and Linux platforms in late 2012, with the PlayStation platforms seeing the first launch.

Relevance Language

Amongst other features the most prominent one is that it looks if a particular computer (whether its a Desktop, Laptop, Mobile running iOS or Android, Mac, Linux, etc.

RMON

# Filter: defines packet data patterns of interest e.g. MAC address or TCP port

Ruaidhri mac Raghnaill

Woolf has argued that Ruaidhri was the Mac Somhairle who died in this battle, fighting the English at Ballyshannon.

Sackett

The 1982 made for TV movie The Shadow Riders was based upon another Louis L'Amour novel and stars Sam Elliott (Dal Traven), Tom Selleck (Mac Traven), and Jeff Osterhage (Jesse Traven) in similar roles to those they play in The Sacketts.

Services menu

Even in Mac OS X, there is an alternative system called the context menu handler, which is carried over from classic Mac OS.

SilverFast

SilverFast Ai Studio supports prepress drum scanners made by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Linotype - Hell) on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7, as well as Mac OS X 10.3-10.5 operating systems.

Spy Fox

When running with ScummVM, these games can be played on different operating systems, including Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux.

The Bizarro Jerry

Also seen in the background of Kevin's apartment is a unicycle, which also is a reflection on Jerry's bicycle hanging in his apartment, and a PC - the opposite of Jerry's Mac.

The Killer Elite

A final showdown between the Asian rivals takes place aboard a naval vessel on the Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay, California with Locken and Mac involved in the fray and confronting Collis one last time.

Unreal Tournament 2003

3.5 GB free, 64 MB of video memory recommended

Linux 2.2+ or Windows 98-Win7, 733 MHz x86 CPU, 128 MB RAM, video card with 16 MB RAM, 3 GB HDD space, DirectX 8.1 or OpenGL 1.2

Mac OS X 10.2.6+, 700 MHz PowerPC G4 CPU, 256 MB RAM, GeForce 2 MX or Radeon with 32 MB RAM, 3 GB HDD space

Visi On

Although the Mac was seriously lacking software, notably a spreadsheet, it was faster, cheaper, included a graphical file manager (the Finder), and simply looked much better.