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McNeil's Nebula

McNeil's Nebula is a variable nebula discovered January 23, 2004 by Jay McNeil of Paducah, Kentucky.


Albert J. McNeil

McNeil earned a Bachelor and Master degrees at the University of California, Los Angeles, and did his doctoral studies at the University of Southern California, the Westminster Choir College of Princeton, and the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Amy Honey

The album was recorded at Tolan McNeil's Lucky Mouse Studios and also features Tolan McNeil, Gregory "Goose" MacDonald, Carolyn Mark, Diona Davies, Ida Nilsen, Grayson Walker and Calvin Dick.

Andrew McNeil

After leaving Raith Rovers, McNeil was selected for the Great Britain team participating in the 2011 World University Games.

Ariel Fenster

Among them are the 1989 "Catalyst Award for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching" by the United States Chemical Manufacturers Association, the 1992 inaugural "McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science" from the Royal Society of Canada, the 1999 Raymond Gervais Award for Exceptional Contribution to Science Education given by the Quebec Association of Science Teachers, and the 2005 Michael Smith Award for the Promotion of Science by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada.

Balclutha, New Zealand

James McNeil from Bonn Hill, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, who is regarded as the town's founding father, arrived in 1853 - via Port Chalmers, NZ in 1849.

Baye McNeil

According to articles in periodicals such as The Japan Times and Tokyo Weekender, both of these books grew out of McNeil’s blog, “locoinyokohama.com,” which focuses on his life in Japan and issues such as racism.

Authors such as Debito Arudou, Joan Morgan (author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost), Roland Kelts (author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the US) and Barry Lancet (author of Japantown) have praised McNeil's writing for its portrayal of racism in Japan and the U.S., and his depiction of life as a foreign teacher in Japan.

Beverley Skeggs

The resulting book Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism (edited with Sara Ahmed, Celia Lury, Jane Kilby and Maureen McNeil) includes chapters by Lauren Berlant, Gayatri Spivak, Donna Haraway, Elspeth Probyn, Lisa Adkins and Vikki Bell.

Billy Ward and his Dominoes

White and Brown both left in 1951 to form The Checkers, and were replaced by James Van Loan (1922-1976) and David McNeil (1932-2005) (previously of The Larks).

Carla Speed McNeil

Carla Speed McNeil born in Hammond, Louisiana, is an American sci-fi writer, cartoonist, and illustrator of comics, best known for the science fiction comic book series Finder.

Charlie McNeil

McNeil is the father of professional tennis player Lori McNeil.

Clarence Harris

On February 1, 1960, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (later Jimbaeel Khazan), Frank McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, four young African-American students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), entered the downtown Greensboro Woolworth's and sat at the "whites only" lunch counter.

Dan Frazer

Probably, best known for his role as Captain Frank McNeil, the former partner turned supervisor of Theo Kojak, Telly Savalas's character, in the 1970s TV police drama Kojak.

Dave Wyndorf

They were managed by noted punk arbiter Eddie (Legs) McNeil and released two 45's on Salute Records - "Combat Love" b/w "Hey" in 1979 (which featured Joey Ramone and Arturo Vega on background vocals) and "Go Cruising" b/w "Way Out World" in 1981.

David B. McNeil

He was the son of Col. David Breakenridge McNeil (b. 1787 Charlotte, Vermont, District Attorney of Essex County from 1828 to 1833, and Collector of the Port of Plattsburgh during the administration of President Andrew Jackson).

Demetrice Morley

Morley was a part of a Tennessee class that was ranked Top 3 nationally, also featuring Jonathan Crompton, LaMarcus Coker, Rico McCoy, Josh McNeil, among others.

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Nationally broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS, it tells the story of The Greensboro Four, four young college freshman, Joe McNeil, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Ezell Blair Jr. now Jibreel Khazan, who staged a sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960 to protest segregation practices.

Graham Fulton

Graham Fulton (born 8 January 1959) has been writing and performing poetry since 1987 when he first attended a writers' group run by poet Tom Leonard in Paisley, which also included Jeff Torrington, Brian Whittingham and Suhayl Saadi, and was a founder member of the influential Itinerant Poets performance and publishing group, which featured Jim Ferguson, Ronald McNeil and Bobby Christie.

Hector McNeil

It was later revealed that his Secretary at the time, Guy Burgess, was a Soviet agent, although McNeil never came under suspicion.

Ike Quartey

He won the first three bouts of his comeback with victories over Clint McNeil, Verno Phillips and Carlos Bojorquez.

Jeremy McNeil

In his sophomore year, McNeil lost his starting position to Craig Forth.

Jim McNeil

While imprisoned at Parramatta and later, the Bathurst Correctional Complex, McNeil also wrote The Old Familiar Juice, How Does Your Garden Grow and Jack, his last play.

John McNeil

On July 17, McNeil with about 600 men defeated the State forces under General David B. Harris at Fulton, Missouri.

Legs McNeil

In Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, McNeil said that the magazine was inspired by two chief influences: cartoonist and editor Harvey Kurtzman, and The Dictators' debut album The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!, indicating that the magazine was started strictly so that its creators could "hang out with the Dictators".

Man's Heritage

According to McNeil (1996), the series aired during 1956 and was 30 minutes long.

Martin McNeil

Teammate Christian Hansen, who's loan was terminated at the same time, admitted that he and McNeil had been drinking and had returned to Hansen's hotel at 2.30 am, just over 12 hours before the start of a league game.

McNeil Island Corrections Center

The McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) was a Washington State Department of Corrections prison on McNeil Island in unincorported Pierce County, Washington, near Steilacoom.

McNeil v. Wisconsin

After the bail hearing, McNeil was approached by other detectives investigating a murder in Caledonia, Wisconsin, near Racine.

McNeil, Texas

Freight operations on Cap Metro are operated under contract by Austin Western Railroad.

Megan McNeil

The only child of Dave and Suzanne McNeil, she was diagnosed in 2006 with adrenalcortical carcinoma, a rare type of adrenal cancer when she was 16 years old.

Neil

The surname Neil is a reduced form of the surname McNeil (from the Gaelic Mac Néill, "son of Niall"), or variant form the surname of Neill (from the Irish Gaelic Ó Néill or the Scottish Gaelic Mac Néill, meaning "descendant of Niall" and "son of Niall".

North American Saxophone Alliance

The 2014 conference will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on March 20-24, 2014 featuring classical saxophone artists Fred Hemke, Eugene Rousseau, and Don Sinta, as-well-as jazz saxophonists Jeff Coffin, Brad Leali, and Chip McNeil.

Russh

Cover models include Cara Delevingne, Julia Nobis, Daul Kim, Alessandra Ambrosio, Tony Ward, Karlie Kloss, Hannah Holman, Jacqueline Jablonski, Ali Stephens, Karmen Pedaru, Constance Jablonski, Catherine McNeil, Ashely Smith, Devon Aoki and Eniko Mihalik.

Sacha McNeil

She has been a TV reporter and presenter since 1999, including appearing in One News, Breakfast and Tonight shows, before joining the 3 News and Sunrise teams in August 2007, where she worked alongside her father Bob McNeil.

The Larks

Mumford first joined the Serenaders, and then joined David McNeil in Billy Ward & the Dominoes, where he replaced Jackie Wilson.

The Real GoodFella

The show features Henry Hill, Martin Scorsese (director of Goodfellas), Nicholas Pileggi (writer of Wiseguy and co-writer of Goodfellas), Gus Russo (author of Gangsters and GoodFellas), Marie Jones (Henry Hill's boss), Alfie McNeil (former U.S. Marshal), FBI agent Edward McDonald, and Joe Hill (Henry Hill's brother).

The Well-Groomed Bride

Unfortunately, he loses the bottle to a beautiful young woman named Margie Dawson (Olivia de Havilland), who is about to be married to Army lieutenant Torchy McNeil (Sonny Tufts), an Oregon football star, whom she has not seen in two years.

William C. Weldon

He joined J&J as a sales representative for the McNeil Pharameutical division in 1971 and eventually became the head of J&J's Ethicon Endo-Surgery business in 1992.


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