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  John MacKenzie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Mackenzie (November 1869 Contin, Ross - 17 May 1915) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
John Mackenzie was commissioned as Second-Lieutenant in the Black Watch in 1900 and became a Captain in the Royal Scots on 22nd January 1904.
He was promoted to Major in the 1st World War and was Commanding Officer of the 2nd Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment, where at Festubert in the Battle of Loos, on the 17 May 1915, when leading his men, he was killed just after he had left the jumping off trench.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_MacKenzie   (342 words)

  
 John A. Macdonald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They had two children: a son John who died at the age of one, and a second son Hugh John who went on to become premier of the Province of Manitoba.
Macdonald and his son, Hugh John Macdonald briefly sat together in the Canadian House of Commons prior to the elder Macdonald's death on June 6, 1891.
Sir John had the prenomial "The Honourable" and the postnomial "PC" for life by virture of being made a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada on July 1, 1867.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_A_Macdonald   (1848 words)

  
 Captain John MacKenzie
Captain John MacKenzie, a resident of Fulton, and Master of the steamer “Siver Wave,” of the Van Sant and Musser line, plying between Stillwater, Minn., and Muscatine, Iowa, is a native of Whiteside Co., Ill., being born in the town of Ustick, July 3, 1850.
John was reared on his father’s farm, and when 18 years of age, or in 1868, he engaged as a deck hand on a Mississippi River steamer.
MacKenzie was married near Creston, Iowa, Dec 14, 1880, to Miss Abbie E. Devore, daughter of John and Josephine (Smith) Devore.
www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/world/bios/mackenzie_john.htm   (272 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
Mackenzie was partly at fault for sending copies to many influential non-subscribers, a parallel to his habit of writing to anyone of consequence.
Mackenzie, like Jackson, whom he met, was an entrepreneurial radical who strongly supported the independent proprietor and farmer but was hardly an agent for the common man. He returned to York filled with admiration of the United States and its institutions, an attitude soon supplemented by a growing dislike of Great Britain.
Mackenzie’s new attitude was symbolized by the disappearance of “Colonial” from the title of his newspaper on 5 Dec. 1833.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38684   (10512 words)

  
 Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Mackenzie, Dr John (d. 1837)
Mackenzie, a native of Ayrshire, studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and, on the invitation of Sir John Whitefoord, set up in practice in Mauchline, where he married Helen Miller, one of the 'Mauchline belles'.
In 'The Holy Fair', Dr Mackenzie is personified as 'Commonsense', who left the assembly to keep a dinner appointment with Sir John Whitefoord at the home of the Earl of Dumfries as soon as 'Peebles, frae the water-fit' began to preach.
Mackenzie received from Burns a two-line note, dated 3rd September 1786, enclosing a first draft of 'The Calf'.
www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/MackenzieDrJohnd1837.569.shtml   (589 words)

  
 GW High School ALEX VA Short Stories
John seems to spiral ever downward in a self-willed haze of drugs and alcohol; in 1980 he was convicted on a narcotics charge and spent a month in jail; then went into rehabilitation for drug, addiction; then, six months after, he announced he had quit drinking; and he received a liver transplant in 1992.
Mackenzie Phillips starred in the sitcom “One Day at a Time” in the 1970s until she was fired in 1982 because of cocaine addiction.
John was married four times; to Susan Phillips, mother of Jeffrey and Mackenzie; to Michelle Phillips, mother of Chynna; to Geevieve Waite, mother of Tamerland and Bijou; and to his wife at the time of his death, Farnaz, to whom he’d been married for six years before his death.
gwaa.acps.k12.va.us /st-papa_john.html   (995 words)

  
 NZFPM - Squadron Leader John Noble MacKenzie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Mackenzie, grandson of former Prime Minister Sir Thomas Mackenzie, was born at Goodwood, Otago on 11 August 1914.
Mackenzie arrived back in New Zealand in April 1942 and was given command of 14 Squadron, then forming at Ohakea with personnel from 488.
Mackenzie returned to New Zealand in September 1944 and held a series of RNZAF appointments before returning to the RAF in August 1946.
www.nzfpm.co.nz /aces/mackenzi.htm   (568 words)

  
 DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
Mackenzie also revealed himself to be a social conservative by voting against Vogel's proposal to extend the franchise to women.
Mackenzie always hated the isolation of rural life and once he became a politician moved to Dunedin and placed a manager, T. Bellett, on his run.
Mackenzie's wit and charm were put to a much sterner test in 1893 when he contested the new Waihemo seat against John McKenzie.
www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=2M18&related=false   (1334 words)

  
 John Mackenzie: Consortium for Conservation Medicine
John S. Mackenzie, Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, and conjoint Professor of Tropical Infectious Diseases, Australia
Mackenzie, J.S., Hall, R.A., Lindsay, M.D., Bielefeldt-Ohmann, H. and Poidinger, M. Molecular epidemiology and phylogeny of Australian arboviruses.
Mackenzie, J.S., Lindsay, M.D. and Daniels, P. The effect of climate on the incidence of vector-borne diseases in Australia : the potential value of season forecasting.
www.conservationmedicine.org /john_mackenzie.htm   (453 words)

  
 "The College" - Winter 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The texts Mackenzie read at St. John’s quickly found their way onto his syllabus at the academy; midshipmen in his first-year English class were assigned the Odyssey and the Canterbury Tales.
Mackenzie was enrolled in the literature segment and discussing the Iliad when the terrorist attacks took place on September 11; he was one of two students with military experience in his seminar.
Mackenzie observes that family members of middies are proud and excited about their children entering the Naval Academy, but they can be perplexed by the military culture.
www.stjohnscollege.edu /user/MAG_W05_article09.aspx   (817 words)

  
 John Warden MacKenzie: The Artist as Messenger
MacKenzie admires the simple dedication to "art" versus social position that Ryder and Homer espoused, and he points to Delacroix's use of imagination as an important means of artistic expression and individuality.
John Warden MacKenzie was born in Albany, California in 1942.
MacKenzie's works have been exhibited in several one-man and group shows in El Paso, and are also included in numerous private collections in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, Oregon, and Texas, as well as in Mexico.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/4aa/4aa561.htm   (1068 words)

  
 Dornie Manuscript
John Murchison the Priest was married to a daughter of Evander MacKay, Priest of Achgiurain in Glenshiel, and left a numerous family.
John, son of Donald second son of Murdoch, was tacksman of Bundaloch, Kintail and married a daughter of Alexander MacLennan Morvich, Kintail.
John Murchison of Auchtertyre was married to Janet, daughter of Kenneth MacKenzie younger of Lochshiel near Tain by whom he left issue 3 sons and two daughters.
www.clanmacrae.org /documents/dornie.htm   (3421 words)

  
 US People--MacKenzie, John, Chief Boatswain's Mate, USNRF
John MacKenzie was born at Bridgeport, Connecticut, on 7 July 1886.
For his heroism on that occasion, Chief Boatswain's Mate John MacKenzie was awarded the Medal of Honor.
MACKENZIE, on his own initiative, went aft and sat down on the depth charge, as it was impracticable to carry it to safety until the ship was headed up into the sea.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-m/j-mackze.htm   (1112 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Scotland's People - From Chile to Australia, Mackenzies gather as one   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mackenzie set sail for Valparaiso, the business hub of Chile at the time, where he established a printing firm, a business eventually moved to Santiago before ultimately closing in the 1970s.
John, his brother Alan and sisters Gail and Sheila all journeyed with their partners the 7,300 miles from Santiago to Scotland for a Clan Mackenzie Gathering in Strathpeffer, Ross-shire, that featured hundreds of Mackenzies from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and, yes, Chile.
Sheila Mackenzie said that both were immensely proud to be at the gathering wearing the tartan and absorbing the clan traditions.
heritage.scotsman.com /people.cfm?id=1791742005   (940 words)

  
 Yaqui massacre kills John K. Mackenzie, Chicago mining expert.
Coy, Mackenzie, and the driver were killed almost instantly, and the Indians fired another volley into the second vehicle, where Call and Stubinger were shot dead.
CHICAGO, Jan 21 — John Kenneth Mackenzie, one of the victims of the Yaqui massacre, was one of the best-known mining engineers in the West and for years had been a member of the firm of Dickman, Mackenzie and Potter, mining experts.
Mackenzie came to this country from England seventeen years ago, after resigning his commission in the British Army, to make mining engineering his profession.
www.thewritingworks.com /yaqui.html   (627 words)

  
 Officer Assistance : NAPO : Naitonal Association of Police Organizations
John MacKenzie deprived the Giglio family of a loving husband, father, son and brother.
John MacKenzie was sentenced to twenty-five years to life.
Granting MacKenzie parole would not only be an injustice to Police Officer Giglio and his family, but a dishonor to all law enforcement officials.
www.napo.org /OfficerGiglio.htm   (518 words)

  
 Ancestors and Decendants of the Immigrant Matthew Bayne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His known sons were John Bain (1408-1452 [ my ancestor]), progenitor of the Bains of Caithness; Angus, progenitor of the Siol-Angus sept; and Paul, progenitor of the Polson and several MacPhail families.
John was sympathetic to the Jacobite cause, as was his son Matthew.
Laird of Tulloch in 1720; however, John was allowed to retain the property known as Tarradale and it is believed he died there on October 6, 1731.
www.bayneweb.com /flcprojects/cisw300/hw5/tulloch.html   (1185 words)

  
 -+ jmacksceramics | Home +-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John studied at Harrow where he gained a BA hons in ceramics.
During his time at Harrow he became intriugued by the firing process, the effect of flame on the clay, and this led john and a group of five friends into building an anagama kiln.
john found it really enlightening being so deeply involved in the firing process.
www.jmacksceramics.co.uk   (228 words)

  
 Professor John D. Mackenzie, UCLA
In 1963, Mackenzie became Professor of Materials Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York and in 1969, he became a Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Professor Mackenzie was the founding editor to the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids in 1969 and continued to be editor-in-chief until 1989.
Professor Mackenzie was the Cecil and Ida Green Honors Professor at Texas Christian University in 1994, the Samuel S. Scholes Lecturer at Alfred University in 1995 and the W.E.S. Turner Lecturer at Sheffield University, England, 1996.
www.seas.ucla.edu /ms/faculty1/mckenzie.html   (257 words)

  
 childhenry1
John H. Mackenzie was the one who actually worked out a plan to make the capture.
John was the son of Ole A. Anderson and Marna Joranson.
John and Emma are buried in VanLoon Cemetery.
www.blackwellgenealogy.com /childhenry1.htm   (2707 words)

  
 John Mackenzie
Filmed with a clean technique and careful realism: a sequence of shots has broken glass on the floor noticed by Petrovsky, who looks up at the skylight and around him for the explanation, which is two seconds in coming (a device from The Birds and Mrs.
Mackenzie builds on Chinatown in his portrait of the city, and the softball diamond used for the climax and coda is an homage to George C. Scott’s inestimable Rage.
The final shot, of a television monitor broadcasting a political press conference, illustrates the point being made, that the vocabulary of politicians can have a different meaning in real life.
cmulrooney.tripod.com /mackenzie.html   (309 words)

  
 Shane Neilson responds to John MacKenzie
If I meet John MacKenzie in my Maritime travels, and I probably shall, I'll have to inform him that sycophancy is not my mode.
Perhaps the interview itself is a process that can be misconstrued as a sycophantic one, for if the interviewer is sympathetic to the interviewee's work, a resultant enthusiasm can be detected in the interviewer's inquiry.
Hence the terms MacKenzie objects to are also a basic part of twelfth-century diction.
danforthreview.com /features/letters/neilson_responds_to_mackenzie.htm   (331 words)

  
 George A. Mackenzie
Mackenzie belongs to that rare company of cultured, refined, modest minds who regard poetry as dainty messages of the spirit for appreciation by souls akin to themselves.
Mackenzie was born in Toronto, July 20th, 1849, the eldest son of the Rev. John George Delhoste Mackenzie,–first Rector of St. Paul's, Toronto, and also first Master of Arts of Trinity University–and Catharine Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr.
His grandfather, Captain John Mackenzie, served as an officer in the Peninsula, under Wellington, and later fought in the battle of New Orleans.
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/garvin/poets/mackenzie.html   (1011 words)

  
 The Descendants of John MacKenzie and Elizabeth Munro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Descendants of John MacKenzie and Elizabeth Munro
MACKENZIE was born 1805 in Kintail or Isle of Skye, Scotland, and died 1878.
Notes for JOHN MACKENZIE: It is stated in family verbal history that he immigrated from Scotland in 1835 with his son Roderick, either from the Isle of Skye or Kintail, Scotland.
www.islandregister.com /mackenzie6.html   (3251 words)

  
 MacKenzie Descendants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When a MacKenzie heard his cries and rescued him, the King gave him lands, a title and the rights to Kintail, the original home of the clan.
The regimental tartan of the Seaforth Highlanders, raised by the chief in 1778.
Both John MacKenzie and Barbara Mackay are candidates for our family tree but, there are too many John MacKenzies in Scotland to be able to sort out who belongs to who.
mywebpage.netscape.com /margotsdream/Mackenzie.htm   (408 words)

  
 JOHN K. MACKENZIE COLLECTION, 1887-1976
John Kenneth MacKenzie (1932-1982) was raised in Portland, Oregon.
MacKenzie extended his research into the company when he discovered that relatives of the local distributer had worked for the Gennett family in Indiana in the 1920s, and he was able to interview Harold Soule, a past employee.
MacKenzie envisioned the book to be in two volumes of 750 pages each, containing the company's history, an artist cross-index, the master ledgers, and a label numericals section.
www.indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/m0428.html   (5627 words)

  
 JOHN MACKENZIE
Mackenzie, J. Christina School District--Demographic Analysis of Nominating Districts.
Mackenzie, J. Analysis of Christina School District's 2003 DSTP Performance.
Mackenzie, J. Analysis of Christina School District's DSTP Performance, 1998-2002.
www.udel.edu /johnmack   (998 words)

  
 John Mackenzie Matheson -- Williams 328 (7437): 467 Data Supplement - Longer version -- BMJ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Mackenzie Matheson -- Williams 328 (7437): 467 Data Supplement - Longer version -- BMJ
John Mackenzie Matheson was born in Gibraltar, the third child and first son in the large family of Nina and John Matheson.
His father was at that time manager of the Eastern Telegraph station on the Rock.
bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/328/7437/467-f/DC1   (636 words)

  
 Alibris: John MacKenzie
John Mackenzie offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of the vast literature on Orientalism, bringing to the subject some highly original historical perspectives.
Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age.
MacKenzie, John P. MacKenzie, John M. Mackenzie, John P. more matching authors
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/MacKenzie,John   (656 words)

  
 TDR Interview: John MacKenzie
Michael Bryson interviewed John MacKenzie by email in December 2003.
This interview is a bit of an experiment.
"John MacKenzie was born on PEI in 1966.
www.danforthreview.com /features/interviews/john_mackenzie.htm   (1844 words)

  
 John MacKenzie  H26
John - I got your letter the other day.
I have now been there over 10 and a half years and I am thinking its time to move on again.
I would like to be able to retire like you John, but unfortunately, it seems to be desirable to eat once in a while, so it looks like I will have to keep on working for a while yet - bummer!
www.geocities.com /h35_1961/mackenzie.htm   (502 words)

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