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Macleod-Benton Trail

The Macleod-Benton Trail was a wagon road that connected Fort Benton in Montana to Fort Macleod, Alberta.


Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!

It's the Mr Hell Show is an animated comedy show created by David Max Freedman & Alan Gilbey after the greeting card line about a painfully honest demon created by cartoonist Hugh MacLeod.

Alexander Samuel MacLeod

The California State Library (Sacramento), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the New York Public Library, the Seattle Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), and the University of Hawaii at Manoa are among the public collections holding works by Alexander Samuel MacLeod.

Ashburn, Ontario

In 2001, Ashburn resident Jean Achmatowicz MacLeod was made a Member of the Order of Canada by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson.

Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment

Fred Neufeld, a German bacteriologist, had discovered the pneumococcal types and serological typing; until Frederick Griffith's studies bacteriologists believed that the types were fixed and unchangeable from one generation to the next.

In 1945, the Royal Society awarded Avery the Copley Medal, in part for his work on bacterial transformation.

Battle of Logiebride

John MacLeod, brother (a record of the Privy Council, dated 25 Dec1595, states that he was the younger son of the Laird of Raasay, and names him Iain MacCaluim MacGillichaluim. The laird of Raasay at that time was Calum Og, son of Calum Garbh, son of Alasdair) of the chief of the Clan MacLeod of Raasay was on the rampage in Easter Ross, with a small party of men.

Billy MacLeod

William Daniel MacLeod (born May 13, 1942 in Gloucester, Massachusetts) is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Boston Red Sox during the 1962 season.

Dave MacLeod

MacLeod has also established impressive credentials in mixed climbing with ice axes and crampons, climbing Good Training for Something with Canadian climber Will Gadd at a grade of M12.

David Leslie, Lord Newark

Macleod, who had fought with Montrose at the siege of Inverness, delivered him up to the Covenanters (see Battle of Carbisdale).

Dove Across the Water

#Duncan Johnstone / The Duck (D. Macleod) / The Curlew (D.Macpherson) (4:39)

Duncan MacLeod Timeline:1692-1791

The Immortal Ceridwyn, using the persona of Flora MacDonald, counsels MacLeod against the emptiness of a life dedicated to revenge.

Ed Helwer

He worked as an Esso agent from 1963 to 1974, and was a Macleod Authorized Dealer from 1974 to 1983.

Ensay, Outer Hebrides

The town of Ensay in Victoria, Australia was named after this island by one of the early settlers, a Scotsman named Archibald Macleod.

Eric Abrahamson

Dr. Abrahamson has written a number of books and articles, including Spirited Commitment: The Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Foundation, which he co-authored with Roderick MacLeod (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010) and Anytime, Anywhere: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of a Wireless World, which he co-authored with Louis Galambos of Johns Hopkins University (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Euan MacLeod

Internationally Macleod's work is featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and numerous collections throughout New Zealand, including the Chartwell Collection, Saatchi & Saatchi, New Zealand and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Christchurch.

Fort Macleod, Alberta

On August 27, 1956, while an RCAF squadron leader and a Flight Lieutenant were attempting to set a speed record in an F-86 and flying over Fort Macleod, a stationary object in the sky was observed.

Glasgow University Conservative Association

The Current Honorary President is Ruth Davidson with Struan Stevenson and James MacLeod serving as Honorary Vice Presidents.

Hector Odhar Maclean

These chiefs were easily drawn off, because John of Islay, Earl of Ross, in 1476, gave up the earldom of Ross and the lands of Kintyre and Knapdale, and had made improvident grants of lands to the MacLeans, MacLeods, MacNeills, and some smaller tribes.

Idris Davies

Before his first book was published in 1938, Davies' work appeared in the Western Mail, the Merthyr Express, the Daily Herald, the Left Review and Comment (a weekly periodical of poetry, criticism and short stories, edited by Victor Neuburg and Sheila Macleod).

Indian Contract Act 1872

The Third Law commission of British India formed in 1861 under the stewardship of chairman Sir John Romilly, with initial members as Sir Edward Ryan, R. Lowe, J.M. Macleod, Sir W. Erle (succeeded by Sir. W.M. James) and Justice Wills (succeeded by J. Henderson), had presented the report on contract law for India as Draft Contract Law (1866).

James Macleod

Lieutenant-Colonel James Farquharson Macleod (c. September 25, 1836 – September 5, 1894), born in Drynoch, Isle of Skye, Scotland, was a militia officer, lawyer, NWMP officer, magistrate, judge, and politician in Alberta.

Joel Quartermain

This side project, now called Eskimo Joe, with MacLeod on guitar, Quartermain on drums and guitar, and Temperley on bass guitar and vocals, played its first public performance in August 1997 at the University of Western Australia in a local heat for the National Campus Band Competition, they proceeded to the state finals in Perth and then the nationals in Sydney.

John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl

After his first wife's death in 1790 he married Marjory, daughter of James Forbes, 16th Lord Forbes and Catherine Innes and widow of John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod, on 11 March 1794.

John Norman MacLeod

MacLeod died at the age of 46 and was buried at Old Kilmuir Cem, Dunvegan, Skye, Scotland.

Joseph Macleod

Joseph Macleod was the son of Scottish parents, and was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford.

Lisa MacLeod

MacLeod made headlines in the summer of 2007 when Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella suggested she would rather be at home baking cookies than attending a political event with then PC Leader John Tory.

Her family ties to politics include Donald MacLeod, a former Cabinet Minister under Robert Stanfield in Nova Scotia, and Donald Cameron, a former Premier of Nova Scotia.

Her father, Danny MacLeod, served three decades as a municipal councillor in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia until his death on August 29, 2007.

Mac MacLeod

MacLeod was an early influence on Donovan, and was the bassist for the original line up of Hurdy Gurdy which also inspired the Donovan song, "The Hurdy Gurdy Man".

After Donovan's first UK tour MacLeod teamed up first with Dana Gillespie then with another regular on the St Albans music scene, Maddy Prior, to form Mac & Maddy.

At the end of the 1960s MacLeod was reunited with Donovan who whisked him off, with a group of other old friends, to the Isle of Skye.

MacLeod baronets

The MacLeod Baronetcy, of Fuinary, Morven, in the County of Argyll, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 March 1924 for John MacLeod, who had earlier represented Glasgow Central and Kelvingrove in the House of Commons as a Conservative.

Macleod Football Club

In 1946, Macleod F.C formed from humble beginnings Mr Harold Busbridge, who was the station master at the Macleod railway station, approached some local identities with the view to forming a football club in the local area.

Manchester Fiction Prize

The number of judges was increased from three to four in 2011, with short story writers Heather Beck, John Burnside and Alison MacLeod joining Royle on the panel.

Maryanne Trump Barry

She is the daughter of real estate developer Fred Trump and Mary MacLeod Trump, the older sister of real estate/entertainment magnate Donald Trump and the mother of Dr. David Desmond, a neuropsychologist and writer.

Nicholas MacLeod

Nicholas Menalaus MacLeod (8 February 1870, Quebec – 27 September 1965, Spokane, Washington) was a Scottish–Canadian chess master.

Normand MacLeod

In 1761 Macleod attended the Niagara Conference held between Sir William Johnson and Pontiac.

Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod

Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod, KCB (1 February 1847 – 20 August 1935) was the 27th chief of the Scottish clan Clan MacLeod.

Roderick Macleod, 2nd of Cadboll

In 1751 Roderick Macleod married his cousin Lilias, daughter of William Mackenzie of Belmaduthy, they had two children Margaret, and a son Robert Bruce Aeneas his heir and successor.

Royal Indian Engineering College

In the 1870s, it produced a number of famous international players including Stephen Finney, Petley Price, W.C. Hutchinson, N.F. Macleod, and F.D. Fowler.

Science North

Jean MacLeod Butterfly Gallery - This glass-enclosed gallery is home to more than 400 butterflies from 30 different tropical species.

Shawbost

1973 The Highlands and Islands - A Royal Tour, a documentary about Prince Charles' visit to the Highlands and Islands, directed by Oscar Marzaroli, in which Prince Charles is seen visiting MacLeod's woollen mill.

The Cape May

Formed in 2003 by Clinton St. John (vocals, guitars) and Jeff Macleod (drums, guitars, keys, backing vocals) the band released their first album Central City May Rise Again on Flemish Eye (home to fellow Calgarian Chad VanGaalen) in 2005.

Velma Kelly

Women who have portrayed Velma on the Broadway stage include: Chita Rivera, Terra C. MacLeod, Amra-Faye Wright, Nancy Hess, Deidre Goodwin, Brenda Braxton, Caroline O'Connor, Roxana Carrasco, Bebe Neuwirth, Reva Rice, Donna Marie Asbury, Lori Ellis, Stephanie Brown, Holly Shepard, Pia Douwes and Ute Lemper.

Wayne Easter

Born in North Wiltshire, Prince Edward Island, the son of A. Leith Easter and Hope MacLeod, he was educated at the Charlottetown Rural High School and the Nova Scotia Agricultural College.

Web mortem

Online gamer and distinguished dean at University of St Andrews; Hammond MacLeod finds the body of his current mistress.

William Cleireach MacLeod

MacLeod also stated that matters were further complicated by the fact that Donald, who succeeded to the Lordshop of the Isles in 1380, claimed that Skye had been given to him in terms of his marriage to a daughter of the Earl of Ross; and in consequence he claimed that William Cleireach was his own vassal on both Harris and Skye.

William Macleod

When Macleod was still in his early twenties he began contributing drawings to The Sydney Mail, the Illustrated Sydney News, the Town and Country Journal and others.


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