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5 unusual facts about McDermott


Geophysical Service

On December 6, 1941, the company was purchased by McDermott, Cecil Howard Green, J. Erik Jonsson, and H.B. Peacock.

McDermott's Two Hours

Front man Nick Burbridge named the band after Tommy McDermott, who gained notoriety for his two hour piece on Radio Free Derry, calling for peace and love during the Derry riots.

The band is nominally still made up of Nick Burbridge on guitar and vocals, Ben Paley on fiddle and Matt Goorney on bass with Dil Davies (drums), Philippe Barnes (flutes, whistle and pipes) and Tim Cotterell (banjo, mandolin, bouzouki and fiddle), though live shows in recent years are rare events.

Roscommon

In addition, it contained areas known as Trícha cét's, Túath and is the homeland of surnames such as Ó Conchobhair (O'Connor), Mac Diarmada (McDermott), Ó Ceallaigh (Kelly), Ó Birn (Beirne, Byrne, Burns), Mac Donnchadha (McDonough) and Brennan (Mac Branáin and Ó Branáin).

SSCV Thialf

The ship was constructed in 1985 as DB-102 for McDermott by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. In 1997, it was taken over by Heerema Marine Contractors after discontinuation of their joint venture with McDermott, HeereMac, and renamed Thialf.


Adolfo Odnoposoff

From 1940 to 1944, he was a founding member of the Chile Cuarteto de Cuerdas (Chile String Quartet), with Willie McDermott (violin), Raúl Martínez (viola), Fredy Wang (Alfredo; 1918–2004) (violin), sponsored by The Institute of Musical Extension at the University of Chile.

Attentio

Attentio was founded in 2004 by Per Siljubergsåsen, a European internet serial entrepreneur and Simon McDermott.

Bobby McDermott

McDermott dropped out of high school after just one year, and was picked up by the Brooklyn Visitations after making a name for himself on the playgrounds.

Catherine McDermott

In 2001, McDermott set up a masters programme titled "Curating Contemporary Design" with Paul Thompson, then director of the Design Museum in London and now director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York.

Chris McDermott

As of March 2013 McDermott is a football and sports commentator for Adelaide talkback radio station 5AA.

Drew McDermott

Although new approaches have since been found, McDermott turned to other areas of AI, such as vision and robotics, and began working on automated planning again.

Driveblind

On August 1, 2012, it was announced that Terry McDermott had auditioned for Season 3 of the NBC television show The Voice becoming part of Team Blake.

Eoghan McDermott

Eoghan McDermott (also known as Eoghan Mac Diarmada) is an Irish television and radio presenter mostly known for hosting Next Week's News and The Voice of Ireland.

Frank X. McDermott

McDermott was co-founder of the law firm Apruzzese, McDermott, Mastro & Murphy of Liberty Corner, and he continued to serve as a senior partner there until his death in 2011.

George W. Holden

George fought his first professional boxing match against Tony Lampton on August 24, 1967 in Portland, Maine and his last match on April 13, 1972 against Jimmy McDermott, also in Portland, Maine.

George W. McClusky

McDermott was dining with Sir Robert Peel and Viscount Clifford Talbot, having befriended them on his return voyage to the United States, when McClusky confronted the trickster.

Government and politics of Seattle

McDermott has been reelected to his seat in every election since 1988, when he replaced fellow liberal Democrat Mike Lowry, who had held the seat since 1979.

King's Jesters

After Ray McDermott died of pneumonia in 1937, The King's Jesters and their band opened a new floor show in the Blue Fountain Room at the LaSalle Hotel current site for the State of Illinois Building Thompson Center, 2013 in Chicago.

Marc McDermott

Marcus McDermott (24 July 1881 - 5 January 1929) was an Australian-born American actor who starred on Broadway and in over 180 American films from 1909 until his death.

Mary Jo Eustace

They had one child, Jack Montgomery (born October 1998) and were in the process of adopting a baby girl, Lola, when McDermott began his affair with Tori Spelling.

Melissa McDermott

McDermott later worked as 6 p.m. anchor and won several awards as an investigative reporter at WJLA-TV in Washington, DC.

From 2000 through March, 2006, Melissa McDermott anchored CBS's overnight newscast, Up to the Minute.

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

The Eugene McDermott Concert Hall, designed by Russell Johnson's firm, Artec Acoustic Consultants (also responsible for the Pikes Peak Center's El Pomar Great Hall), is in the standard European shoebox style and seats 2,062.

MotorStorm: Apocalypse

After watching the title sequence for Smokin' Aces Alan McDermott from Evolution approached VooDooDog to explore developing a Hollywood block buster title sequence for the game.

Rick and Morty

He praised the animation direction by James McDermott for being "fresh, colorful and as wacky as the script", and compares the series as to having "shades of Futurama, South Park and even Beetlejuice", ultimately opining that its humor felt "entirely original".

Robert A. McDermott

With Arthur Zajonc, McDermott is co-founder of The Owen Barfield Graduate School of Sunbridge College, is the founding chair of the board of Sophia Project (two homes in Oakland, California, for mothers and children at risk of homelessness), and has been chair of the board and president of many other institutions.

Stylo G

Jason McDermott (born 1985 in Spanish Town, Jamaica), known by his stage name Stylo G, is a British Reggae artist, known for his three hit singles, "My Yout" "Call Mi A Yardie" and "Soundbwoy".

Terry McDermott

There was joy for McDermott four days later though when he opened the scoring in the European Cup final against Borussia Mönchengladbach as Liverpool won 3-1.

Theresa McDermott

Theresa McDermott (born c. 1967) is a postal worker from Edinburgh who has been involved in the Free Gaza Movement.

Thomas McDermott, Jr.

McDermott was briefly mentioned by polls as a potential candidate in the 2010 United States Senate election in Indiana to succeed the retiring Evan Bayh, but dropped out, and endorsed fellow candidate Brad Ellsworth.

Thomas Myres

In 1887, Frederick McDermott praised Myres's work in his "Life of Joseph Firbank" (Firbank was the contractor who built the Lewes to East Grinstead line, among others):Leaving the cold classical style adopted by the first railway engineers and since generally followed, Mr Myres chose the warm colouring and varied form of what has, of late years, been termed the Queen Anne School, and the effects of the bright red brick, wooden beams and casemented windows is very pleasing.

Tracy Barlow

On learning that Steve and Becky paid Kylie Turner (Paula Lane) for custody of Max Turner (Harry McDermott), Tracy promptly removes Amy and threatens to call Social Services and tell them about Max if Steve and Becky oppose her.


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