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Gillies became as enthusiastic for the rights of crofters in the Scottish highlands and joined the Highland Land League.
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During check-out of the ILLIAC II, before it became fully operational, faculty member Donald B. Gillies programmed ILLIAC II to search for mersenne prime numbers.
Gillies became enthusiastic about the work and on his return to England persuaded the army's chief surgeon, Arbuthnot-Lane, that a facial injury ward should be established at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot.
Gillies, encouraged by Murdoch, also became aware of the developments in the politics of Ireland becoming an ardent supporter of Sinn Féin, associating with prominent figures such as Art O ' Brien who would become the head of the Irish Self Determination League.
Gillies became a regular contributor to the SNL's regular publication Liberty ( which was in fact in part funded by Sinn Féin ).
In 1926 Gillies became the first editor of the SNL's newspaper, The Scots Independent.
When McIndoe could not find work, his cousin Sir Harold Gillies, a plastic surgeon, invited him to join the private practice he ran with Rainsford Mowlem and offered him a job at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he became a clinical assistant.
Gillies went to Rooksdown House near Basingstoke, which became the principal army plastic surgery unit ; Tommy Kilner ( who had worked with Gillies during the First World War ) went to Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, and Mowlem to St Albans.
Clark Gillies stepped down as captain during the off-season, and Potvin became the team's third captain, a position he held until relinquishing it in 1987.
In 1925 he became Minister for Agriculture and Stock under Premier Gillies.
Von Neumann became enraged and told Gillies to stop work immediately because computers would never be used to perform such menial tasks.
In the late 1960s, Gillies became concerned that students were not getting direct access to computers any more.
Two years later at the urging of his graduate student, Greg Chesson, Gillies became in 1974 the first licensee for the UNIX operating system from Bell Labs.
The band parted ways in the end of 2005 with Gillies returning to record the new Silverchair album and stating that " It became an unpleasant power struggle " within the band itself.
When Frank Miller became the Premier of Ontario on February 8, 1985, he named Gillies as a Minister without portfolio.
After leaving politics, Gillies became a Vice President of Hill & Knowlton Public Relations.
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The first Pascal compiler written in North America was constructed at the University of Illinois under Donald B. Gillies for the PDP-11 and generated native machine code.
In World War I, a New Zealand otolaryngologist working in London, Harold Gillies, developed many of the techniques of modern facial surgery in caring for soldiers suffering from disfiguring facial injuries.
Kazanjian and Blair, two men hired for plastic surgery by the United States army, learned from Gillies in England.
The Scottish folk music singer / song-writer Brian McNeill wrote about one of St. Kilda's prodigal sons, a restless fellow named Ewan Gillies, who left St. Kilda to seek his fortune by prospecting for gold first in Australia and later California.
At the turn of the year Rob Gillies left and Phil Judd returned, briefly, in early 1978 after Tim and Eddie heard some of his new material, but he apparently found himself out of step with their changing direction, and left the band for good after about a month.
Gillies, eager after seeing Valadier experimenting with nascent skin graft techniques, then decided to leave for Paris, to meet the renowned surgeon Hippolyte Morestin.
In 1930 Gillies invited his cousin, Archibald McIndoe to join the practice, and also suggested he apply for a post at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
Smith had separated from his second wife by the end of 1830s, and then lived for the rest of his life with the artist Margaret Gillies.
Craner approached the then owner of the Donington Hall estate, Alderman John Gillies Shields JP, to use the extensive roads on his land for racing.
In 1965, the cover art was updated with an illustration by Rudy Nappi, featuring the same dress Nancy wears on Gillies ' cover for another book.
The first phalloplasty done for the purposes of sexual reassignment was performed on trans man Michael Dillon in 1946 by Dr. Harold Gillies, which is documented in Pagan Kennedy's book The First Man-Made Man.
At this time, as Gillies and Cailliau indicate, Pei Wei's major goal was to create a version of Viola for the Internet:
According to Gillies and Cailliau " Viola was to become the first X-browser to make any impact, but even his early versions went down well at CERN ... As this ViolaWWW developed, it was to set the standard for everything to follow it ..." ( p. 214 ).
Bossy was placed on a line with Bryan Trottier and Clark Gillies, a combination that would come to be known as The Trio Grande, or the " LILCO line " ( standing for " Long Island Lighting Company ", since their prolific scoring kept the goal lamp lit ).
* Duncan Gillies – Colonial politician, 14th Premier of Victoria and member for Toorak from 1897 to 1903.
*: John Rennie High School, Quebec, Canada, named for John Gillies Rennie
Gillies scored over 30 goals for four straight seasons as part of the " Trio Grande ", the Islanders ' top forward line with Mike Bossy and Bryan Trottier, and was named to the NHL's All-Star team twice.
In 1982 Gillies and three teammates — Bob Nystrom, Wayne Merrick, and Gordie Lane — stripped to their briefs in the February issue of Penthouse magazine for a fashion layout promoting the latest in men's underwear.
Gillies ' nephew Colton currently plays for the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Despite having the same last name and playing for the same team, Clark Gillies is not related to Islanders enforcer Trevor Gillies.
* Gillies, Andrew ( 2005 ) Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting, ISBN 1-900650-82-7.
On the death of William Robertson ( 1721-1793 ), Gillies was appointed Historiographer Royal for Scotland.
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Gillies took an interest in labour and human rights issues, and was one of the first P. C.
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* 1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director
Parker was born in Beaver, Utah, to Maximillian Parker and Ann Campbell Gillies, English and Scottish immigrants, respectively, who came to the Utah Territory in the late 1850s.
William Gillies ( 1865 – 1932 ) was a Scottish patriot and a socialist.
Gillies was involved in a little known chapter of Scotland's history when he was involved in the establishment of a volunteer force which was ready to use armed force to win Scottish independence.
Gillies died in 1932, two years before the NPS evolved in the Scottish National Party ( SNP ), which at the time was even more moderate than the NPS had been.
His activities with the publication brought him into contact with William Gillies, with whom he formed the Scots National League ( SNL ) in 1920, thus going some way towards the realisation of the formation of a Scottish nationalist political party.
John Gillies FRSE FRS FSA ( 1747-1836 ) was a Scottish tutor, historian and man of letters.
Small Faces ( 1996 ) is a Scottish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon about gangs, specifically the Tongs, in 1960s Glasgow.
Sir William George Gillies ( 1898 – 1973 ) was a renowned Scottish landscape and still life painter.
Both in his prolific output over the course of his career, and in his 40 years of teaching, Gillies influence on Scottish painting of the twentieth century has been profound.
Anne Lorne Gillies ( born 1944 ; in Gaelic, Anna Latharna NicGilliosa ) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, broadcaster, academic and writer.
It was at this time she adopted the middle name Lorne ( after the Lorne, Argyll and Bute area where she was raised ) as there was already an Anne Gillies ( wife of fellow Scottish singer Calum Kennedy ) on the books of the actors union Equity at the time.
She joined the Scottish National Party in the 1970s, inheriting a belief in Scottish independence from her grandfather ( William Gillies ) and father.
Gillies MacKinnon ( born 8 January 1948, Glasgow ) is a Scottish film director, writer and painter.
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