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McIntosh and claims
In the book The Piri Reis Map of 1513 Gregory C. McIntosh examines Hapgood's claims for both maps and states that " they fall short of proving or even strongly suggesting that the Piri Reis map and the Fine map depict the actual outline of Antarctica.
McIntosh found that many of Hapgood's claims were problematic and that, in many cases, the accuracy of the map as Hapgood presents it is exaggerated and that some figures, such as Cuba, Hispaniola, part of Newfoundland, and others have to be rotated or distorted to appear accurately drawn.

McIntosh and map
Gregory McIntosh, a historian of cartography, has examined the Piri Reis map in depth and published his research in the book The Piri Reis Map of 1513 ( Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2000 ).
McIntosh, in comparing the Piri Reis map to several other portolan-style maps of the era, found that
McIntosh intended for this conclusion to be part of a direct challenge to Charles Hapgood's theory about the historical roots of the map.
Gregory McIntosh and other cartographers and historians who have examined the map in detail believe the resemblance of the coastline to the actual coast of Antarctica to be tenuous.

McIntosh and because
First drawn to fungi because of their colours and evanescence in nature and her delight in painting them, her interest deepened after meeting Charles McIntosh, a revered naturalist and mycologist during a summer holiday in Perthshire in 1892.
Students at McIntosh High School are even encouraged to drive their golf carts to school because of limited car parking.
The former Holding Institute boarding school was established south of Fort McIntosh from 1881 – 1954, when it relocated to north Laredo because of funding.
McIntosh tries to scare the juvenile delinquents by using movie references such as being arrested because he tried to hide an alien trying to phone home from the government.
The play was originally banned by the Lord Chamberlain ( Britain's official theatre censor ) because of its frank discussion and portrayal of prostitution, but was finally first performed on Sunday, January 5, 1902, at London's New Lyric Club with the distinguished actor-manager Harley Granville-Barker as Frank, Fanny Brough as Mrs. Warren, George Goodhart as Sir George Crofts, Julius Knight as Praed, Madge McIntosh as Vivie and Cosmo Stuart as Rev.
He returned to the theatre in mid-1930 for H. D. McIntosh in a revue, Pot Luck, at the Tivoli, Melbourne, but business was bad because of the Great Depression.
He and McIntosh became implicated in the African importation case of 1820, tried as Miguel de Castro v. Ninety-five African Negros ( 1819-1820 ) in Admiralty Court, because it was in violation of the US law, effective 1808, to end the international slave trade.
" Historians continue to argue over whether McIntosh ceded the land for personal gain, or because he believed removal was inevitable and he was trying to achieve some security for the Creek Nation.

McIntosh and took
McIntosh secured a debate, which took place on Tuesday 15 February, on introducing a potential fuel duty stabilizer and rebate for remote rural areas.
Paul John took over as head coach in at the commencement of the 2006 / 07 season, and, assisted by former Pontypridd and Wales back row, Dale McIntosh, led the club to the final of the Konica Minolta Cup in 2007 / 08.
When the alarm was raised, Colonel McIntosh took 300 militiamen and set up three 4-pound cannons on Yamacraw Bluff.
On 8 January 1920, Airco DH. 9 ( G-EAQM ), piloted by Lieutenant Ray Parer, with co-pilot Lieutenant John C. McIntosh, took off from Hounslow Heath.
As a successful Creek man, McIntosh took a second wife, Peggy, who was Cherokee.
On April 29, the Upper Creek chief Menawa took 200 warriors to attack McIntosh at his plantation at Lokchau Talofau.

McIntosh and them
McIntosh realizes that remaining Apaches physically and psychologically need horses and will try to obtain them by raiding the troop.
McIntosh won the support of the Monarchists across the province, and the ire of Canadian republicans, when she sent out a memo to School Divisions reminding them that the Act was to be followed.
Captain McIntosh, a Loyalist, had worked with the Creek to recruit them as allies to the British during the American Revolutionary War.
McIntosh and other Lower Creek allied with United States forces against them after 1813.

McIntosh and from
* Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader: Recipes from Mitford Cooks, Favorite Tales from Mitford Books, published 2004 and edited by Martha McIntosh
* The Mitosis and Cell Cycle Control Section from the Landmark Papers in Cell Biology ( Gall JG, McIntosh JR, eds.
For the documentary, Hanks did voice work, reading excerpts from World War II-era columns by Al McIntosh.
McIntosh County was split off from Liberty County in 1793.
In September 1975, the Georgia Legal Services Program, on behalf of local NAACP members, filed suit in US District Court, alleging that women and blacks were systematically excluded from grand juries responsible for appointing members to the McIntosh County Board of Education.
After this, the boundaries of Georgia were extended from the Altamaha ( now the southern boundary of McIntosh County ) to the St. Marys River ( the current southern boundary of Camden ).
Harold V. McIntosh also describes " nonplanar " ( i. e., they can't be flexed so they lie flat ) flexagons ; ones folded from pentagons called pentaflexagons, and from heptagons called heptaflexagons.
After that, the homes were custom built for individuals who purchased lots from McIntosh.
* David M. McIntosh, member of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1995 – 2001 ; Republican nominee for governor of Indiana in 2000
) McIntosh, a man of Scottish descent, who immigrated from French Canada to the United States in 1870.
Eufaula, the county seat of McIntosh County, is located in the southern part of the county, on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, not far from the Canadian River.
The best known footballers of their eras to come from Dumfries are probably Dave Halliday, Ian Dickson, Bobby Ancell, Billy Houliston, Jimmy McIntosh, Willie McNaught and Ted McMinn.
Speaking about the tour, McIntosh described it as " older show ", a change from S Club Party 2001, which was " more like bubblegum ", with Paul Cattermole comparing 2001's " theatrical " tour with the Carnival tour as a more " glitzy, concert stage ".
* May Robson as a young woman in gown from The Burr McIntosh monthly, Volume 4 c. 1901
#: Gadget, Penny and the Gadgetinis go to Scotland to stop new Dr. Claw's agent, McIntosh, who uses his bagpipes to make everyone sleepy and unable to stop him from committing crimes.
In October of that year, Kitch Christie accepted an offer to take over from McIntosh.
* David M. McIntosh: Former U. S. Congressman from Indiana ( 1994 – 2001 ) and Co-Founder of the Federalist Society.
At her appearance on Habbo Hotel on 8 March 2007 McIntosh confirmed that the repackaged edition will feature remixes of the singles released from Tightrope as well as the bonus track " Catching My Breath ".
The lawsuit claimed that McIntosh had bought land rightfully owned by the Illinois-Wabash Company, based on the earlier purchase from the Indians.
Category: People from McIntosh County, Oklahoma
Louise McIntosh Slaughter ( born August 14, 1929 ) is the United States representative for New York's 28th congressional district, serving since 1993, and Chair of the House Rules Committee from 2007 until 2011.
Mr McIntosh then persuaded Margaret Thatcher to introduce grant-maintained schools, to stop interference from LEAs, chiefly those in inner London.
In 1999, John McIntosh, the London Oratory School's headteacher at the time and member of the Centre for Policy Studies ( a centre-right ' think tank ' with links to, but independent from, the Conservative Party ), was accused of using his position as headteacher to embarrass Labour.

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