For Dunedin, George Smith Duncan further developed the Hallidie model, introducing the pull curve and the slot brake ; the former was a way to pull cars through a curve, since Dunedin's curves were too sharp to allow coasting, while the latter forced a wedge down into the cable slot to stop the car.

Hague's successor, Iain Duncan Smith, made a concerted drive at one point to resurrect the European Democratic Group, but backed off when it became clear that Conservative MEPs would not move voluntarily.

* 1914 – W. G. G. Duncan Smith, English pilot ( d. 1996 )

For example, Tony Blair met Leader of the Opposition Iain Duncan Smith and Leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy on privy council terms to discuss the evidence for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

* Iain Duncan Smith, portrayed as a blank faced zombie

Iain Duncan Smith has been the sitting MP since 1992.

* William Duncan Smith ( 1825 – 1862 ), career United States Army officer

Despite opinion polls showing he was the most popular Conservative politician with the public, he lost in a final round among the rank-and-file membership, a new procedure introduced by Hague, to a much less experienced, but strongly Eurosceptic rival, Iain Duncan Smith.

After choosing not to fight for the leadership after Duncan Smith departed in 2003, in the interests of party unity, he returned to fight the 2005 election.

The city offers recreational and leisure programs and operates the Aquacourt Water Park, the City Auditorium, Lake Hastings, Chautauqua Pavilion, Duncan Field, the Pioneer Spirit Trail, Smith Softball Complex, Brickyard Park Amphitheater, and Heartwell Lake.

The town is home to the Helen Woodruff Smith Bird Sanctuary and Annie Duncan State Forest.

* Iain Duncan Smith, British politician

George Iain Duncan Smith ( born 9 April 1954 ; often referred to by his initials " IDS ") is a British Conservative politician.

When William Hague resigned as Conservative Party leader in 2001, Duncan Smith won the subsequent leadership election, bolstered by the support of Margaret Thatcher and his Eurosceptic ideology.

Duncan Smith was the first Roman Catholic to serve as Conservative Party leader, and the first born in Scotland since Arthur Balfour.

In 2003, the Conservative Party passed a Vote of No Confidence in Duncan Smith, as many considered him unable to return the party to government.

As a backbencher, Duncan Smith founded the Centre for Social Justice, a centre-right think tank independent of the Conservative Party and became a published novelist.

On 12 May 2010, Conservative leader and Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Duncan Smith to serve in the cabinet as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

Duncan Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1954.

He is the son of W. G. G. Duncan Smith, a Royal Air Force Group Captain highly decorated in World War II, and Pamela Summers, a ballerina ; they married in 1946.

Through Captain Shaw, Duncan Smith is also a distant relative ( 3rd cousin once removed ) of George Bernard Shaw, the Irish playwright and socialist.

Duncan Smith was educated at St. Peter's RC Secondary School, Solihull until the age of 14, 6 years before that school was created in 1974 and was subsequently educated at HMS Conway, a merchant navy training school on the isle of Anglesey ( where he allegedly played rugby union in the position of fly-half alongside Clive Woodward at centre ) until he was 18.

On leaving the Guards, Duncan Smith joined the Conservative Party and took up employment at the General Electric Company in 1981.

The gift is being presented by `` heirs and descendants of the Rutherford family of New Jersey, whose famous estate, `` Tranquility '', was located near the Duncan Phyfe workshop at Andover, N. J..

Also doing his army service in Shrewsbury at the same time was his United team-mate Duncan Edwards.

" Thou canst not say I did it ", for example, can mean that Macbeth is not the man who actually killed Banquo, or it can mean that Duncan, who was asleep when Macbeth killed him, cannot claim to have seen his killer.

Steven Duncan, writes that " it was first formulated by a Greek-speaking Syriac Christian neo-Platonist, John Philoponus.

Another notable honorable mention was given to the two men who attempted to burgle the home of footballer Duncan Ferguson ( who had four convictions for assault and had served six months in Glasgow's Barlinnie prison ) in 2001, with one burglar requiring three days ' hospitalization after being confronted by the player.

British journalist Duncan Campbell and New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager asserted in the 1990s that the United States was exploiting ECHELON traffic for industrial espionage, rather than military and diplomatic purposes.

The reign of King Donnchad I ( Duncan I ) from 1034 was marred by failed military adventures, and he was defeated and killed by MacBeth, the Mormaer of Moray, who became king in 1040.

IV, Issue 3 ( Jun / Jul, 2010 ), was devoted to " Justinian's fireman: Belisarius and the Byzantine empire ", with articles by Sidney Dean, Duncan B. Campbell, Ian Hughes, Ross Cowan, Raffaele D ' Amato, and Christopher Lillington-Martin.

Discussions began in March 1964 between Kenya and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations Duncan Sandys on defence, and a formal agreement was signed on 3 June 1964.

Malcolm II's grandson Duncan ( Donnchad mac Crínáin ), later King Duncan I, was acclaimed as king of Alba on 30 November 1034, apparently without opposition.

Duncan appears to have been tánaise ríg, the king in waiting, so that far from being an abandonment of tanistry, as has sometimes been argued, his kingship was a vindication of the practice.

Far from being the aged King Duncan of Shakespeare's play, the real King Duncan was a young man in 1034, and even at his death in 1040 his youthfulness is remarked upon.

In 1039, Strathclyde was attacked by the Northumbrians, and a retaliatory raid led by Duncan against Durham in 1040 turned into a disaster.

Later that year Duncan led an army into Moray, where he was killed by Macbeth on 15 August 1040 at Pitgaveny ( then called Bothnagowan ) near Elgin.

William Forbes Skene's suggestion that he was Duncan I of Scotland has been revived in recent years.

Macbeth did not survive the English invasion, for he was defeated and mortally wounded or killed by the future Malcolm III (" King Malcolm Ceann-mor ", son of Duncan I ) on the north side of the Mounth in 1057, after retreating with his men over the Cairnamounth Pass to take his last stand at the battle at Lumphanan.

He was the eldest son of King Duncan I ( Donnchad mac Crínáin ).

Although Shakespeare's Macbeth presents Malcolm as a grown man and his father as an old one, it appears that Duncan was still young in 1040, and Malcolm and his brother Donalbane ( Domnall Bán ) were children.

The Orkneyinga Saga records that Malcolm and Ingibiorg had a son, Duncan II ( Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim ), who was later king.

Some Medieval commentators, following William of Malmesbury, claimed that Duncan was illegitimate, but this claim is propaganda reflecting the need of Malcolm's descendants by Margaret to undermine the claims of Duncan's descendants, the Meic Uilleim.

' Duncan Barrett, one of the co-authors of The Sugar Girls describes some of the perils of relying on oral history accounts: " On two occasions, it became clear that a subject was trying to mislead us about what happened – telling a self-deprecating story in one interview, and then presenting a different, and more flattering, version of events when we tried to follow it up.