One year later, Alan L. Mackay showed experimentally that the diffraction pattern from the Penrose tiling had a two-dimensional Fourier transform consisting of sharp ' delta ' peaks arranged in a fivefold symmetric pattern.

Ferry, Mackay and Eno all had studied at prominent UK art colleges during the mid-to-late 1960s, when these institutions were introducing courses that avoided traditional art teaching practice, with its emphasis on painting, and instead focused on more recent developments, most notably pop art, and explored new concepts such as cybernetics.

His interest in electronic music also resulted in his first meetings with Andy Mackay, who was studying at Reading University and who had likewise developed a strong interest in avant garde and electronic music.

The little Force we have in the Province was immediately set in Motion, and ordered to assemble at or near St. John's ; The Noblesse of this Neighbourhood were called upon to collect their Inhabitants, in order to defend themselves, the Savages of those Parts likewise had the same orders ; but tho ' the Gentlemen testified great Zeal, neither their Entreaties or their Example could prevail upon the People ; a few of the Gentry, consisting principally of the Youth, residing in this Place, and its Neighbourhood, formed a small Corps of Volunteers under the Command of Mr. Samuel Mackay, and took Post at St. John's ; the Indians shewed as much Backwardness as the Canadian Peasantry.

In the Autumn she paid for a ship, troops and a cannon to help the Earl of Sutherland arrest Iye du Mackay, Lord Reay, who had caused mischief in Sutherland.

Again and again the Rosses had suffered attacks on their lands from their enemies and when at last, driven to desperation and thoroughly infuriated, they gathered their forces and marched against the Mackay Chief, they were in the mood to teach the Mackays a severe lesson.

Once he had qualified he became assistant Town Clerk of Mackay, then Town Clerk.

When Dundee went north, he was pursued by a governmental force of about 3, 500, led by General Hugh Mackay of Scourie, a Highlander who had been in Dutch service with the Scots Brigade for many years.

Dundee, moving quickly, outmanoeuvered Mackay, and on 16 May arrived in Glenroy, where the clans had been summoned to meet him on 18 May.

When Mackay arrived they saw they had no hope of attacking Dundee's force, they instead deployed in a line and started firing on them with muskets.

Also, on television, before coming to prominence in Porridge, Mackay had a regular role as DI Inman in the police series Special Branch between 1969 and 1971.

In 1628, Leslie was appointed governor of besieged Stralsund, replacing Colonel Alexander Seaton and the Scottish regiment of Donald Mackay who had been holding the town on behalf of the Danes.

Documents provided to parliament by Peter Mackay indicated that Lockheed Martin had delivered the F-35 mockup used in the photo-op for free, and that the cost was primarily for services to support the news conference and one hundred invited guests.

According to historian J. Mackay Hitsman, Brock's earlier command to push on the York Volunteers, who had just arrived from Queenston, was transformed into the later legend.

Perhaps the city's biggest scandal happened in 1920, when the Mayor, Charles Mackay, shot and wounded a young poet, D ' Arcy Cresswell, who had been blackmailing him over his homosexuality.

In July, encouraged by the missionary Alexander Mackay, he had invited the British government to annex Equatoria itself.

But his rise ceased abruptly in 1854 after a controversial libel suit was brought against him by the Crown Prosecutor George Mackay whose evident drunkenness on duty Harrison had editorially deplored.

In a case of so-called double-dipping, according to The Daily Telegraph, Mackay had used his Additional Costs Allowance to claim more than £ 1, 000 a month in mortgage interest payments on their joint Westminster house – even though he did not have a residence in his Bracknell constituency – while Kirkbride used her Additional Costs Allowance to claim over £ 900 a month to pay the mortgage for their family home in her constituency.

Mackay had already been created Baron Inchcape, of Strathnaver in the County of Sutherland, in 1911, Viscount Inchcape, of Strathnaver in the County of Sutherland, in 1924, and was made Viscount Glenapp, of Strathnaver in the County of Sutherland, at the same time as he was given the earldom.

He was the son of Barthold John Christian Mackay ( who had been created Baron Mackay of Ophemert and Zennewijnen in the Netherlands in 1822 ), great-grandson of Hon.

He was the son of Baron Aeneas Mackay ( 1806 – 1876 ) ( a Dutch politician who had been created Baron Mackay in the Netherlands in 1858 ), son of Johan Francois Hendrik Jakob Ernestus Mackay, brother of the tenth Lord Reay.

* " Freeholders or men that had their lands in factory " ( Mackay of the Rhinns, MacNicol of Scorrybreac, MacEacharn of Kilellan, Mackay of Ugadale, Macgillivray in Mull and Macmillan of Knapdale ).

Writer George Mackay Brown was born and lived most of his life in the town, and is buried in the town's cemetery overlooking Hoy Sound.

Hordern and Wiltshire Parks and Mackay Reserve were donated by RJ Hordern, who lived at Kalua, opposite the beach.

Mackay is among the best known Westerners to have lived in Taiwan.

Born in Belfast to Charles Hamilton ( d. 1759 ), a Scottish merchant, and his wife Katherine Mackay ( d. 1767 ), she lived most of her life in Scotland, moving there in 1762 to live with a Mrs Marshall, her paternal aunt, near Stirling and spending much of her later life in Edinburgh.

Because of religious convictions, Clarence Mackay would not remarry as long as his first wife, Katherine, lived.

* Ellin Travers Mackay, 2nd wife of composer and lyricist, Irving Berlin.

His great-great-granddaughter Ellin Travers Mackay married Irving Berlin.

John Henry Mackay writes about a gay hustler in Berlin adopting such a solution: " What was self-evident, natural, and not the least sick did not require an excuse through an explanation ....

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

There are adherents to mutualism ( Proudhon, Émile Armand, early Benjamin Tucker ), egoistic disrespect for " ghosts " such as private property and markets ( Stirner, John Henry Mackay, Lev Chernyi, later Tucker ), and adherents to anarcho-communism ( Albert Libertad, illegalism, Renzo Novatore ).

In Germany, the Stirnerists Adolf Brand and John Henry Mackay were pioneering campaigners for the acceptance of male bisexuality and homosexuality.

Dyer Lum, Ezra & Angela Haywood represent this school of thought ; Jo Labadie, who wrote for Tucker ’ s Liberty, made himself a link between the American “ plumb-line ” anarchists, the “ philosophical ” individualists, & the syndicalist or communist branch of the movement ; his influence reached the Mackay Society through his son, Laurance.

In regards to economic questions within individualist anarchism there are adherents to mutualism ( Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Emile Armand, early Benjamin Tucker ); natural rights positions ( Early Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Josiah Warren ); and egoistic disrespect for " ghosts " such as private property and markets ( Max Stirner, John Henry Mackay, Lev Chernyi, later Benjamin Tucker, Renzo Novatore, illegalism ).

Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay in From far Formosa ( 1896 ) reported that " if a savage is killed inland, the heart is eaten, flesh taken off in strips, and bones boiled to a jelly and preserved as a specific for malarial fever ".

For this outstanding flight, the Lucky Lady IIs crew received the Mackay Trophy, given annually by the National Aeronautic Association for the outstanding flight of the year, and the Air Age Trophy, an Air Force Association award, given each year in recognition of significant contributions to the public understanding of the air age.

In 1981 Sykes wrote, directed and starred in the offbeat comedy If You Go Down in the Woods Today for Thames, with a cast including Roy Kinnear, Fulton Mackay and George Sewell.

Duncan Mackay provided most of the keyboards in lieu of Watkins and Schelhaas, who were involved in other projects, but returned for the tour.

The Country Estates neighborhood was the home of the Clarence Mackay family for 30 years and known as Harbor Hill, starting in 1898.

* 1787-Elizabeth ( formerly Elizabeth Town ) was founded by Samuel Mackay, Colonel Stephen Bayard and his wife Elizabeth Mackay Bayard ( for whom the town was named ).

* A fanciful etymology was given for the name " Oberon " by Charles Mackay in his book The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe along with many other theories on words found in the English language that have not found mainstream acceptance.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: George Mackay Brown, The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories

Fulton Mackay OBE ( 12 August 1922 – 6 June 1987 ) was a Scottish actor and playwright, known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s sitcom Porridge.

Mackay is remembered for his namesake role as the comically ferocious prison warder, Mr Mackay, in the British sitcom Porridge alongside the comedian and comedy actor Ronnie Barker.

According to Mackay, at one point 12 acres ( 5 ha ) of land were offered for a Semper Augustus bulb.

Mackay and La Frenais also collaborated on " Get it Right ", the song used for the opening credits of series two.

Like the first series, Ken Ashby collaborated with Mackay for series two's closing credits song, " Back With the Boys Again ".