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unusual facts about Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet



Allan Wicks

There he inspired Maxwell Davies by his directing the choir in performances of John IV of Portugal and John Dunstaple.

Anna Maxwell

Maxwell was also the first director of the Presbyterian Hospital's nursing school, founded in 1892, which later became the Columbia University School of Nursing.

Arthur S. Maxwell

In 2006, Maxwell's book Secret of the Cave was turned into a feature film of the same name by students and faculty at Southern Adventist University.

B'wana Beast

With the help of his gorilla companion, Djuba, in a secret hideout at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, ranger Mike Maxwell drinks the aforementioned elixir and dons the helmet to become B'wana Beast.

Bill Reilly

Reilly left Macmillan in 1990, following the firm's purchase by Robert Maxwell's Maxwell Communications, and was succeeded by David Shaffer as the company's president and chief operating officer.

Billy Carlson

He was a member of the Maxwell team for two years in 1914 and 1915 after he was "discovered" by Ray Harroun, a Maxwell engineer.

Boadu Maxwell Acosty

Boadu Maxwell Acosty (born 10 September 1991 in Sunyani) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club Chievo, on loan from Fiorentina, as a winger.

Brian Maxwell

Brian Leigh Maxwell (1953, London, England – March 19, 2004, San Anselmo, California) was a Canadian athlete, track coach, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street

With the birth of record companies like Ora Nelle Records, Delmark Records and Chess Records, Maxwell Street became the epicenter for the blues and numerous Maxwell Street artists wrote songs that were later were taken by major rock & roll acts like Elvis Presley and Led Zeppelin, which is detailed extensively in the film.

Clan Maxwell

Pollok House, the seat of the Maxwell Baronets of Pollok, is now of international importance, as it houses the world-famous Burrell Collection in its grounds.

Dirty Boots

The band selected her for the video after seeing her dance at a Dinosaur Jr. show at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ.

Emilio Delgado

Some of his New York theatre credits include Floating Home (HExTC), Boxing 2000 (Richard Maxwell NYC Players), Dismiss All the Poets (New York Fringe Festival 2002), Nilo Cruz's adaptation of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), Dinosaurios (IATI), Night Over Taos (INTAR) and an adaptation of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (Round House Theatre).

Frances Rafferty

Frances Anne Rafferty was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the daughter of Maxwell Lewis Rafferty, Sr. (born c. 1887), and the former DeEtta Cox Rafferty (born c. 1892).

Frank Maxwell

Maxwell subsequently appeared in such series as Decoy, with Beverly Garland, Peter Gunn (twice), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (five episodes), Whirlybirds, Black Saddle, The Man and the Challenge, The Deputy, Cain's Hundred, Follow the Sun, Hong Kong, Target: The Corruptors, and Mr. Novak.

Got Live If You Want It

It was recorded live at Maxwell's Hoboken, New Jersey, on February 17, 2002 and released seven months later on CD and orange vinyl LP by Anton Newcombe's label, The Committee to Keep Music Evil.

Hiding Out

While sitting in the nurse's office, he impulsively opts to enroll, taking the name of Maxwell Hauser (off a Maxwell House coffee can) and begin high school all over again.

Jackie Maxwell

After earning an Honours degree in Drama at the University of Manchester, England, Maxwell accompanied her husband, Benedict Campbell, back to his native Canada, where she began to work as a director at the National Arts Centre.

Jagadish Chandra Bose

British physicist Oliver Lodge demonstrated the existence of Maxwell's waves transmitted along wires in 1887–88.

James E. Atwater

Atwater is the son of noted avalanche control pioneer and author Montgomery Atwater; the grandson of Maxwell Atwater, the first mining engineer to employ flotation hydrometallurgy in North America; and the grandson of Mary Meigs Atwater, the ‘Dean of American Hand Weaving’.

Johnny and the Dead

The story starts with Johnny Maxwell, a twelve-year-old boy, taking a shortcut through the local Blackbury cemetery to reach his home.

Jürgen Prochnow

His most well-known roles internationally have been as the sympathetic submarine captain in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides I in Dune (1984), the minor, but important role of Kazakh dictator General Ivan Radek in Air Force One and the antagonist Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II.

Kenneth Maxwell

Maxwell claims that key Council on Foreign Relations acting at Kissinger's behest put pressure on Foreign Affairs editor, James Hoge, to give the last word in a subsequent exchange about the review to William D. Rogers, a close associate of Kissinger's, rather than to Maxwell; this went against established Foreign Affairs policy.

KHAQ

Licensed to Maxwell, Nebraska, USA, the station is currently owned by Armada Media - Mccook, Inc and features programing from Waitt Radio Networks.

King's Lynn by-election, 1943

The Conservative candidate was Lord Fermoy, who had been the MP for King's Lynn from 1924 until he stepped down in favour of Maxwell at the 1935 general election.

Lindsay Maxwell

Maxwell was born in Powell River, British Columbia, Canada, her parents, Patrick "Pat" and Rena Maxwell, own a salon where she worked as a licensed hairdresser.

Live at Maxwell's

Live at Maxwell's is the first live album by indie rock band Imperial Teen.

Marilyn Maxwell

The song "Silver Bells" made its debut in The Lemon Drop Kid, sung by Maxwell and Hope.

Max Holden

In 1929 Maxwell retired from the stage and with the help of fellow magician, Lewis Davenport, opened a magic shop in Manhattan with later branches in Philadelphia and Boston.

Maxwell Land Grant

Beginning in 1922, Waite Phillips, an oilman from Tulsa, Oklahoma also assembled a block of land on the Maxwell Land Grant.

Maxwell Street Depot

The Maxwell Street Depot, commonly called "Depot" or "Ghetto Dog" by its regular customers, is a 24-hour fast-food restaurant with locations throughout the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, although the best known branch is found on 31st Street and Canal Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood.

Maxwell the Magic Cat

Maxwell the Magic Cat was a comic strip written and drawn by Alan Moore under the pseudonym Curt Vile (a pun on the name of composer Kurt Weill), with a friend Steve Moore under the pseudonym 'Jill de Ray' (in parody of Gilles de Rais, a French murderer).

Maxwell's demon

The March 2011 issue of Scientific American features an article by Professor Mark G. Raizen of the University of Texas, Austin which discusses the first realization of Maxwell's demon with gas phase particles, as originally envisioned by Maxwell.

Maxwell's Silver Hammer

On 9 August 1967 Kenneth Halliwell killed his lover Joe Orton with nine hammer blows to the head, and then overdosed on sleeping pills.

May Maxwell

Mary "May" Maxwell (née Bolles; born 14 January 1870 in Englewood, New Jersey; died 1 March 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an early American member of the Bahá'í Faith.

Muck and the Mires

The band wrapped up 2009 sharing a New Year's Eve show with Roky Erickson at the famed Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Murder of Alexander Montgomerie

Alexander was engaged to Jean or Jane, a daughter of the Maxwell family of Pollok House in Eastwood parish near Glasgow and had been a regular visitor in the months before his wedding.

Nonsymmetric gravitational theory

The antisymmetric tensor field is found to satisfy the equations of a Maxwell-Proca massive antisymmetric tensor field.

Ocey Snead

Oceana was born around 1885, probably in Manhattan, New York City, New York to Caroline B. Wardlaw (c1850-1913), and Colonel Robert Maxwell Martin, who had fought for the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

Pantha

It was revealed that Pantha was a vet student at New York University named Rosabelle Mendez who was captured by Maxwell Lord and made into Pantha, then sold to the Wildebeest Society.

Quentin Tod

Quentin Tod was born in Kent, England, son of Alexander Maxwell Tod, an Englishman, and his American wife Belle Perkins Tod, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Samuel Dunlop

Captain, Major, and then Colonel, Samuel Dunlop served in Singapore as the Inspector-General of Police of the Straits Settlements in 1875 succeeding Thomas Dunman and held that position till 1890, handing over the reins to RW Maxwell (1891-1895).

Samuel Rutherford

Rutherford's political book Lex, Rex was written in response to John Maxwell's "Sacro-Sanctum Regus Majestas" and presented a theory of limited government and constitutionalism raised Rutherford to merited eminence as a philosophical thinker.

Scottish Council for Research in Education

They found worthy successors in later years — Maxwell, Fraser, Clark, Nisbet, Hope, Dockrell, Patricia Broadfoot, Spencer, John Raven, Ian Deary.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road

Billy loses her to death, and his own integrity to Maxwell's Silver Hammermen, Jack, Sledge and Claw, dressed in chain mail and representing the Hells Angels of the commercial music business.

The Cosmopolitans

As a sideline, the group - then consisting of both guys (Glen Tig, Harry Gantz, Greg Vines, Shaun) and gals (Jamie K. Sims, Karin Bradford, Nel Moore) - go-go danced onstage with rock-scene friends the dB's and the Fleshtones at clubs Irving Plaza, CBGB, Maxwell’s, and Tier Three.

The Maxwell Show

On April 3, 2009, The Maxwell Show went on the air claiming (falsely) that Metallica – in Cleveland for the 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony the very next day – was playing a free show in the WMMS parking lot that evening.

The Metromen

The Metromen reunited for a single performance in November 2007 at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ and were joined onstage by old friends Marshall Crenshaw, Glen Burtnik, and others.

Tom Orr

All of his race starts were behind the wheel of a Maxwell for whom he was an engineer.

Viscoplasticity

This model is called the Bingham-Maxwell model (by analogy with the Maxwell model and the Bingham model) or the Bingham-Norton model.

Walter Newall

His built works included villas at Cardoness (1828), for Sir David Maxwell, Baronet, and Glenlair, Corsock (1830), home of mathematician and theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell.


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