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unusual facts about Macaulay


Macaulay's method

The first English language description of the method was by Macaulay.


Anatomy Act 1832

In 1832 a new Anatomy Bill was introduced, which, though strongly opposed by Hunt, Sadler and Vyvyan, was supported by Macaulay and O'Connell, and finally passed the House of Lords on 19 July 1832.

Annie Patterson

Annie Patterson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, and was related through her mother's family to Lord Macaulay.

Catharine Macaulay

Educated by a governess, Catharine Macaulay later described herself to her friend Benjamin Rush as "a thoughtless girl till she was twenty, at which time she contracted a taste for books and knowledge by reading an odd volume of some history, which she picked up in a window of her father's house".

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Each year the experts from Macaulay Library hold the week-long Sound Recording Workshop in the Tahoe National Forest.

Dan Macaulay

Macaulay worked with Michael W. Smith on a cover of Michaels song "Breathe In Me" from Michael's 1995 album I'll Lead You Home.

David Macaulay

Macaulay has illustrated a number of other books, including the popular The Way Things Work (1988, text by Neil Ardley) which was expanded and rereleased as The New Way Things Work (1998).

Donald Macaulay, Baron Macaulay of Bragar

Donald Macaulay, Baron Macaulay of Bragar, QC (born 14 November 1933) is a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords.

Elizabeth Eastlake

Despite a diary entry in 1846 saying there were many "compensations" for unmarried women, three years later when she was 40, Elizabeth married Sir Charles Eastlake and joined him in an active working and social life, entertaining artists like Landseer and mixing with a wide range of well-known people, from Macaulay to Lady Lovelace.

Fred MacAulay

He has presented BBC Radio Scotland's morning show since 1997, and for BBC TV he hosted one series of the talk show McCoist and MacAulay (with retired footballer Ally McCoist) and two seasons of Life According to Fred.

James De Alwis

Educated at the prestigious Colombo Academy as one of its first students, he was part of the Macaulay of Ceylon along with Frederick Nell and his brother Louis, C.A.Lorensz, John Prins, Charle Ferdinands and Dandris de Silva Gunaratna inspired by the Young England movement.

Kit Culkin

Culkin is the father of Shane (1976- ), Dakota (1979-2008), Macaulay (1980- ), Kieran (1982- ), Quinn (1984- ), Christian (1987- ) and Rory (1989- ) with Patricia Brentrup.

Lavernia

La Verna, a mountain in Tuscany, called Lavernia by Thomas Babington Macaulay

Leod Macgilleandrais

In this version of events, Black Murdoch's brother-in-law was Macaulay of Loch Broom, and the 19th century antiquarian F. W. L. Thomas noted that within this version, this Macaulay appears to be a different individual than the constable of Eilean Donan Castle.

Longman

Their first success was the publication of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which was followed in 1841 by the issue of the first two volumes of his History of England, which after a few years had a sale of 40,000 copies.

Maharaja Nandakumar

They were accused by Burke (and later by Macaulay) of committing judicial murder; but Sir James Stephen, who examined the trial in detail, states that the indictment for forgery arose in the ordinary course, was not brought forward by Hastings, and that Impey conducted the trial with fairness and impartiality.

Pwn2Own

The laptop running Windows Vista SP1 was exploited on the third day of the contest with an exploit for Adobe Flash co-written by Shane Macaulay, Alexander Sotirov, and Derek Callaway.

Sarah Jane Brown

After leaving university, Macaulay worked at the brand consultancy Wolff Olins.

They Were Defeated

The historican C V Wedgwood wrote the preface to a 1960 edition of the book, in which she reveals that the novel was written partly at the instigation of Macaulay's publisher, John Murray, who had asked for something to shed light on the background to her first novel, Abbots Verney (1906).

Thomas Babington

In 1787 he married Jean Macaulay, sister of Zachary Macaulay, a leader of the anti-slavery movement in the early 19th century.

You Me Now

Season One was written by the 2008 graduates of the acting course Toi Whakaari Esther-Rose Green, Paul Gordon Harrop, Sara Allen and Asher Smith as contracted by All The Way Home Productions with Adam Macaulay (RNZ Drama Dept Exec Prod) as script supervisor.

Zachary Macaulay

His sister Jean had married Thomas Babington of Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, a country gentleman and ardent evangelical, and soon after Macaulay went to stay with them he began to come under their influence.


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