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Macleod and One
One such pirate chief is said to have been Calum Garbh MacLeod, son of a chief of Clan Macleod of Lewis who based himself at Brochel Castle on Raasay in 1518 and used Rona as raiding base.

Macleod and have
Macleod, Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1959 to 1961, was, like Butler, on the liberal wing of the Conservative party ; he was convinced, as Home was not, that Britain's colonies in Africa should have majority rule and independence as quickly as possible.
As well as Rakosi, Zukofsky, Reznikoff, George Oppen, Basil Bunting and William Carlos Williams, the issue included work by a number of poets who would have little or no further association with the group: Howard Weeks, Robert McAlmon, Joyce Hopkins, Norman Macleod, Kenneth Rexroth, S. Theodore Hecht, Harry Roskolenkier, Henry Zolinsky, Whittaker Chambers, Jesse Lowenthal, Emanuel Carnevali ( as translator of Arthur Rimbaud ), John Wheelwright, Richard Johns and Martha Champion.
A notable 17th-century poetess Mary Macleod ( Mairi Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh ) was said to have been banished here.
Major upgrades have made the stretch of highway safer, the most important of which extended Deerfoot Trail southward to create a continuous Highway 2, reducing the need for trucks and southbound vehicles to cut over to Macleod Trail via 22X.
Provincial announcements and media have indicated that the ring road project also includes the portion of Highway 22X from the East Freeway to Macleod Trail.

Macleod and many
Macleod was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin, even though many people ( including Banting ) publicly insisted that Macleod's involvement was minimal and Best's work had been essential.
The ‘ Tory Leadership ’ article prompted a furious response from many Spectator readers and caused Macleod, for a time, to be shunned by political colleagues.
Membership to many of these societies are open to anyone who bears the surname Macleod ; anyone who is descended from people bearing the surname MacLeod, connected by marriage ; anyone who is a member of the septs of the clan ; anyone with an interest in the affairs of the clan, whether or not they are related to the MacLeods.
The Macleod family was a strength that at times has held the club together for many years and there is over 100 years experience at the club between the family.

Macleod and people
* Roderick Macleod ( disambiguation ), several people

Macleod and with
Macleod shared his Nobel award money with James Collip.
On April 20, 1960, Sir Milton Margai led the twenty four members of the Sierra Leonean delegation at the constitutional conferences that were held with Queen Elizabeth II and British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod in the negotiations for independence held at the Lancaster House in London.
Along with Iain Macleod, Powell refused to serve in the Cabinet following the appointment of Alec Douglas-Home as Prime Minister.
The government suffered an early blow with the death of Chancellor of the Exchequer Iain Macleod on 20 July 1970 ; his replacement was Anthony Barber.
Editorship of The Spectator has often been part of a route to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK ; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet minister or a springboard for a greater role in public affairs, as with Boris Johnson ( 1999 to 2005 ), the Conservative Mayor of London.
" In March 1952, a poorly prepared ( and possibly inebriated ) Bevan came off the worse in an evening Commons debate on health with Conservative backbencher Iain Macleod: Macleod's performance led Churchill to appoint him Minister of Health some six weeks after his debate with Bevan.
Banting discussed this approach with J. J. R. Macleod, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto.
However, Sir Thomas never formulated anything like Gresham's Law, which was the 1857 invention of Henry Dunning Macleod, an economist with a knack for reading into a text that was not written.
Iain Macleod, who had a difficult relationship with Home
Macleod wished to push ahead with majority rule and independence ; Home believed in a more gradual approach to independence, accommodating both white minority and black majority opinions and interests.
Macleod disagreed with those who warned that precipitate independence would lead the newly independent nations into " trouble, strife, poverty, dictatorship " and other evils.
He became a Member of Parliament at the age of 22 and in 1821 married Anna, a daughter of the chief of the clan Macleod, with whom he had eleven children.
Macleod grew up with strong personal and cultural ties to Scotland, as his parents bought in 1917 part of the Leverhulme estate on the Isle of Lewis.
Macleod's father, Dr. Norman Alexander Macleod, was a well-respected general practitioner in Skipton, with a substantial poor-law practice.
Macleod joined the Royal Fusiliers as a private in 1939 but was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment and fought briefly in France in 1940, suffering a serious war wound to the thigh which, particularly when combined with a later spinal condition ( ankylosing spondylitis ), was to leave him with pain and a limp for the rest of his life.
Here he became close friends with Enoch Powell, but the two fell out over Powell's 1968 Rivers of Blood speech, and Macleod refused to speak to Powell again after the speech.
Indicative of his centrist leanings, Macleod established good personal relations with several of his Labour opposite numbers, including both Aneurin Bevan and James Callaghan, even though he clashed with Callaghan numerous times at the dispatch box while serving as Shadow Chancellor in the 1960s ( by contrast, he did not get on with Callaghan's successor, Roy Jenkins, after the November 1967 government reshuffle, considering him vain and arrogant ).
Having lent his support to Rab Butler, and strongly opposed the successful candidacy of the Earl of Home ( later Sir Alec Douglas-Home ), Macleod ( along with Enoch Powell ) refused to serve under the latter as Prime Minister ( though he did return to the shadow cabinet under Home after the 1964 election ).
Margai led the Sierra Leone delegation at the constitutional conferences that were held with British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod in London in 1960.
He refused to continue at the Ministry of Supply and also rejected an offer of the Ministry of Health because Iain Macleod, with whom he had a rivalry, had held the post five years earlier and Maudling did not want to be seen as five years behind him.

Macleod and one
Macleod provided experimental facilities and the assistance of one of his students, Dr. Charles Best.
Harcourt's diaries contain a report that one of Queen Victoria's chaplains, Reverend Norman Macleod, made a deathbed confession repenting of his action in presiding over Queen Victoria's marriage to her servant, John Brown.
Speaking of the acquisition and planned expansions in 2003, Leonard Russell, managing director for Ian Macleod stated " We'll be aiming to increase sales of the Glengoyne from the current level of 450, 000 litres to one million litres next year ".
Effective internal communications is one of the key enablers of employee engagement ( see, e. g., the UK government-sponsored Macleod Report for a summary of research ) and thought to add significant value to organizations on all metrics from productivity to customer research ( needs more detail?

Macleod and last
In 1843 the last laird, John Macleod, was deep in debt and chose to emigrate to Tasmania having sold Raasay for 35, 000 guineas to George Rainy.

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His work in promoting decolonisation, though it enjoyed Macmillan's personal support, was resisted by the Conservative Right ; his role in negotiations over the future of Rhodesia attracted the damaging and much-remembered description of Macleod by the party grandee, the Marquess of Salisbury, as " too clever by half ".
At the beginning of the First World War, the Alberta militia units destined to become part of SALH were four cavalry regiments – 15th Light Horse in Calgary, 19th Alberta Dragoons in Edmonton, 21st Alberta Hussars in Medicine Hat and 23rd Alberta Rangers in Fort Macleod – and two infantry regiments – 101st Regiment " Edmonton Fusiliers " and 103rd Regiment " Calgary Rifles ".
Macleod having Nicholas Ward's quickening in the 16th episode of the 2nd season-" The Vampire ".
Macleod having Nicholas Ward's quickening in the 16th episode of the 2nd season-" The Vampire ".

commented and One
Joachim Pissarro notes that virtually every reviewer who commented on Pissarro ’ s work noted “ his extraordinary capacity to change his art, revise his position and take on new challenges .” One critic writes:
One member of the Permanent Commission for Human Rights commented on the Americas Watch report and its chief investigator Juan Mendez: " The Sandinistas are laying the groundwork for a totalitarian society here and yet all Mendez wanted to hear about were abuses by the contras.
One commented: " There was a certain beauty in the aftermath of the riot ....
Fascinated by the way the Mayans built towards the sky to get closer to God, he commented that his time in Mexico was " One of the greatest architectural experiences in my life.
One example occurs when the character Karen Green is interviewing various academics on their interpretations of the short film " Exploration # 4 "; she consults a " Poet ," but there is a space between the " Poe " and the " t ," possibly suggesting that Poe at one point commented on the book.
One writer commented, " Krens has been both praised and vilified for turning what was once a small New York institution into a worldwide brand, creating the first truly multinational arts institution.
One 18th century observer commented that from its ‘ peculiar position in relation to the sea ’, the county of Wigtown offered ‘ many singular advantages to the landing of smuggled goods and smugglers were not slow in taking advantage of smuggled goods and smugglers were not slow in taking advantage of this ’.
One Microsoft executive commented, " They are going to burn the furniture if we go hostile.
One historian has commented that " the beginnings of a manorial economy are clearly visible in Ine's laws.
One of the LSO's principals commented, " Although we were sweating our guts playing those vast Mahler symphonies for … Abbado, he would go and record them with other orchestras, which made us feel like second, maybe even third choice ".
One review written when the series was released on DVD gave it average ratings, commenting that while the show was dubbed into English poorly, it commented positively on the use of characters saying, " Despite his heroic calling as a robot pilot, Akito is remarkably approachable — after all, what could be more down-to-earth than a cook?
One large shareholder commented that Murdoch has long " expressed his personal, political and business biases through his newspapers and television stations.
" One student author commented as early as 2003, " I don't frown upon the statues we've chosen ; I only regret the lack of historical depth, the relatively shallow reach with which we are dipping into tradition's pool.
Colin Jacobson at DVD Movie Guide said in a review that the episode is " least favorite episode of Season One " and further commented: " Homer feels embarrassed by the others?
We lost a great one ", while Slash, former guitarist with Guns n ' Roses commented, " One of the biggest, baddest, heaviest sounds in heavy metal.
One glider pilot later commented that they did not need the pathfinders, as the tracer and lights from explosions were brighter than any of the landing markers.
One newspaper columnist commented simply " there goes Brian, pointlessly talking himself into trouble again ".
" One reviewer of The Fabulist commented, " The irony — we must have irony in a tale this tawdry — is that Mr. Glass is abundantly talented.
One reviewer commented that in " Gibson's view, 9-11 was the end of history ; after it we are without a history, careening toward an unknown future without the benefit of a past — our lives before 9-11 are now irrelevant.
" One of the best days of my life ..." Clarke commented at the after match function.
One of Quignard's most commented works are perhaps his eighty-four " Little Treatises ", first published in 1991 by Maeght.
One of Elisabeth's ladies-in-waiting, Marie Festetics, commented in her diary that the Empress did not even take the time to attend Gisela's wedding preparations.
He suffered from chronic combat fatigue, as commented by Emma Sheen and Beltorchika Irma, likely from his traumatic experience during the One Year War and the sense of guilt over killing Lalah Sune.
One of the topics covered in Yokoi ’ s treatise was on state religion, in which Yokoi commented that although Japan had Buddhism, Shinto, and Confucianism, it lacked a true national religion in the manner of western nations, and that this lack was a weakness in the Japanese kokutai, which placed Japan at a disadvantage to the western powers.

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