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.

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.

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.

* Chris Duncan ( born 1981 ), American baseball player

The album saw the partial return of the fey pop singer of " Space Oddity ", with light fare such as " Kooks ", a song written for his son, Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones, born on 30 May.

* Duncan Free ( born 1973 ), Australian rower and Olympic medalist

The couple had five children: Christopher ( born 1939 ), Christina ( born December 1, 1941 ), Catalina ( born November 21, 1942 ), Duncan ( born August 4, 1945 ), and Valentina ( born December 26, 1952 ).

Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the son of Jean Speegle Howard, an actress, and Rance Howard, a director, writer and actor.

Scotland international footballers Billy Bremner, John Colquhoun, Duncan Ferguson, and brothers Gary and Steven Caldwell were born in Stirling.

Duncan J. Watts ( born 1971 ) is an Australian-born researcher working at Microsoft Research in the United States.

* Duncan Lamont Clinch ( 1787 – 1849 ), born at Ard-Lamont in Edgecombe County, American Army officer in the First and Second Seminole Wars

U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O ' Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up near Duncan on the Lazy B ranch, which straddles the border between Arizona and New Mexico.

On March 27, 2010, Christopher Lee " Chris " Duncan ( born ca.

In a turnout of 35 percent, Duncan unseated the incumbent Democrat, Ronald M. " Ron " LeLeux ( born 1955 ), 2, 555 ( 54 percent ) to 2, 156 ( 46 percent ).

Scotland rugby union internationalists Duncan Hodge, Nick De Luca and Craig Hamilton were born in Dumfries as were professional golfers Andrew Coltart and Robert Dinwiddie.

* Robert L. Duncan ( born August 5, 1953 )-member of the Texas State Senate, born in Vernon but residing in Lubbock.

Similar themes are angrily expressed in the novels of a younger generation, as in Christopher Meredith's ( born 1954 ) Shifts ( 1988 ), which deals with the closing of a steel mill, and Duncan Bush's ( born 1946 ) grim portrait of urban isolation Glass Shot ( 1991 ).

The primary source does not identify Duncan by name, but his known half-brothers were at the time either infants or yet to be born.

According to the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999 – 2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Duncan Idaho is born on the planet Giedi Prime, under the Harkonnen Regime.

Adrian Paul Hewett ( born 29 May 1959 ), better known as Adrian Paul, is an actor best known for his role on the television series Highlander: The Series as Duncan MacLeod.

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

Duncan Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and served in the Scots Guards from 1975 to 1981, with service in Northern Ireland and Rhodesia.