It was named after the large Scottish sword by its inventor, Norman A. MacLeod.

Around 1952 Norman MacLeod at his company the Explosive Research Corporation began working on the concept of a small directional mine for use by infantry.

It is not clear if Picatinny took the concept from this Canadian weapon and asked Norman MacLeod to develop it ; or if he came up with the idea independently and presented it to them.

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* Norman MacLeod, editor of Good Words, begins publishing its companion juvenile version, Good Words for the Young.

One of the longer-running police dramas of the day, the series featured appearances by a number of actors, familiar and unfamiliar, among whom were Lynn Borden, Kim Darby, Antonio Fargas, Tiny Tim ( in the pilot TV-movie ), Randolph Mantooth, Cal Bellini, Sharon Gless, Dabbs Greer, Bernie Kopell, Frank Gorshin, Jess Walton, Pernell Roberts, Alan Oppenheimer, Dan Kemp, E. G. Marshall, Harrison Ford, John Schuck, Ingrid Pitt, Susan Saint James, Ivan Dixon, Harry Townes, Pat Hingle, Norman Alden, Anne Francis, David Carradine, Charo, Joseph Campanella, Bill Quinn, Bernard Fox, Tyler McVey, Robert Webber, Alan Hale, Jr., Marion Ross, Marcia Strassman, Susan Sullivan, Suzanne Pleshette, Bo Hopkins, James Hong, Jeanne Cooper, Paul Winfield, Harold Gould, James Farentino, Robert Reed, Bill Bixby, David Cassidy, David Hartman, Dana Elcar, Tina Louise, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Robert Karnes, Tyler MacDuff, Greg Mullavy, Rod Serling, Gene Raymond, Francine York, Peter Mark Richman, Jennifer Gan, Clu Gulager, Joel Grey, Van Williams, John Hoyt, Scott Glenn, William Windom, Joshua Bryant, Dorothy Malone, Robert Alda, Barbara Rush, Jack Kelly, Jason Wingreen, George Takei, George Wallace, John M. Pickard, Diana Muldaur, Jodie Foster, William Katt, Lee Grant, Steve Forrest, Susan Olsen, Michael Lerner, Edward Asner, Eddie Garrett, Darwin Joston, John Rubinstein, Jack Lord, Scott Marlowe, Norman Fell, Gavin MacLeod, Gary Collins, Johnny Seven, William Shatner, Bobby Darin, Martin Sheen, Cheryl Ladd, William Daniels, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Vic Tayback, Arch Johnson, James Drury, Ed Flanders, Bruce Lee and Ellen Corby ( Grandma Walton of TV fame ).

* Norman MacLeod, Scottish clergyman and author

His grandfather was the highly respected Revd Norman MacLeod of the Barony Church, Glasgow, a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and Chaplain to Queen Victoria.

One such family was the Clan MacLeod, and it was reported by their descendants that at least two Chiefs kept white terriers, including " The Wicked Man " Norman MacLeod, and his grandson Norman who became Chief after his death.

The eldest son of Norman MacLeod of MacLeod ( 1812 – 1895 ), Norman Magnus ( 1839 – 1929 ), succeeded as the 26th chief.

Norman Magnus MacLeod of MacLeod was, therefore, succeeded by Norman MacLeod of MacLeod's third son, Sir Reginald MacLeod of MacLeod ( 1847 – 1935 ), as the 27th chief of Clan MacLeod.

Hughes was in close contact with the writer George MacDonald and illustrated some of his books as well as producing numerous illustrations for Norman MacLeod's monthly magazine, Good Words.

-- Gaining her second straight victory, Norman B., Small, Jr.'s Garden Fresh, a 3-year-old filly, downed promising colts in the $4,500 St. Patrick's Day Purse, featured seventh race here today, and paid $7.20 straight.

The second was the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Old Norman and ultimately developed an English variety of this called Anglo-Norman.

She is the second daughter of a Norman nobleman and the marriage politically advances her family.

* In Southern Italy, at the second battle of Cannae, the Lombard adventurer Melus of Bari and his Norman mercenaries are defeated by the Byzantine army led by the kapetan Basil Boioannes.

In 1985 Smiffy has appeared in two spin-off strips the first called Says Smiffy, which ran from 1971 – 1972, and the second called Simply Smiffy, which ran from 1985 – 1987, where he starred alongside his brother Normal Norman.

*, Liquid Air and the Liquefaction of Gases, Norman W. Henley and Co., New York, 1900, second edition ( extensive description of Dewar's work on the liqufaction of gases )

The second animated series introduced three new regular characters: the Normanmeyers ( Norman, Normina, and N. J .), a family of " normal " people living across the street from the Addamses.

Norman A. McLeod was installed as Sheriff in 1856, but lasted only a short time before Simeon Halvenston was re-elected, serving the second time from 1857-1859.

The second part of the name derives from that of the Norman Malet family who took a lease from Glastonbury Abbey around 1100.

He built a second castle at York, strengthened Norman forces in Northumbria and then returned to the south.

Harold's sons launched a second raid from Ireland but were defeated in Devon by Norman forces under Count Brian, a son of Eudes, Count of Penthièvre.

Remnants of Old Norse are scanty, but examples would be the second element of Pointe Sauzebourge on the south west tip of the island, while the rock of " Le Plat Houmet " contains the Houmet ( holmr ) with a Norman diminutive.

With much of its present architecture dating from Norman times, it became a cathedral in 1877 and is the second longest cathedral in the United Kingdom ( after Winchester ).

High Rock Lake is the northernmost of the Uwharrie Lakes and the second largest lake in North Carolina behind Lake Norman.

As the first version of Street Level was " too confusing to the Christians ", Norman recorded " a second version for the church kids " in 1971 that completely replaced side two with one recorded with a band called White Light.

On September 8, 1972 Norman began recording his second studio album, Only Visiting This Planet, the first album in a projected trilogy, in George Martin's London AIR Studios.

On August 7, 1973 Norman entered AIR studios in London to record his favorite album, the second album in his Trilogy, So Long Ago the Garden, which was produced again by Edwards, Hand, and Miller.

Norman indicated in 1991 that he had wanted to postpone Something New under the Son, the first album in a projected second cycle of seven albums, but to record: " a more street-orientated, guitar based, trash can orchestra of angry and honest songs I was writing and recording.

Norman had intended to release this as a double album with his 1971 song " The Tune " on the second album ( and a blank fourth side or a side with a lengthy version of " Watch What You're Doing ").

At the beginning of 1985 Norman announced that he and his second wife, Sarah Finch, who was now pregnant with their son, Michael, would return to the US to live, and that he and the Young Lions would undertake a 200 city tour of all fifty of the United States during 1985 and 1986.

Norman refused to cooperate also in the making of Fallen Angel, as did Norman's second ex-wife Sarah.

Those parts of the Norman church east of the Norman crossing were demolished, and a new church, with its own nave, a second pair of transepts and a further tower at the new crossing were constructed.

On his second day of work at EMI, Richard Langham was assigned to be the assistant engineer of Norman Smith who would be doing the first recording session of the Beatles in the evening.

After the Norman Conquest in the second half of the 11th century, Lancaster was part of the Earldom of Northumbria ; it was claimed by the kings of England and Scotland.

Although the custom of primogeniture, under which an eldest son would inherit all his father's lands, was slowly becoming more widespread across Europe, it was less popular amongst the Norman kings of England.

Robert was the eldest son of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England, and Matilda of Flanders, and a participant in the First Crusade.

At his death he reportedly wanted to disinherit his eldest son but was persuaded to divide the Norman dominions between his two eldest sons.

Bohemond was born in San Marco Argentano, Calabria, as the eldest son of the Norman nobleman Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, and his first wife Alberada of Buonalbergo.

Although his elderly rancher-father Homer ( Melvyn Douglas ) is a deeply principled man, none of his ethics have rubbed off on Hud ; he's ( maybe ) the spoiled youngest son and baby-brother of Homer's eldest son, Norman.

15951643 ) was an English politician, the eldest son of William Hampden, of Hampden House, Great Hampden in Buckinghamshire, ( b. 1570 ), son of Griffith Hampden and Anne Cavea and descendant of a very ancient family of that county, said to have been established there before the Norman conquest, and of Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell, and aunt of Oliver Cromwell.

He succeeded his aunt Albreda – and by extension, her eldest brother Berengar – as heir both to Berengar's tenancy-in-chief in Lincolnshire and the Norman lands of Robert de Tosny of Belvoirwas.

Initially, Judith retained his lands ( including Hallamshire ), but after Judith refused a second marriage to the Norman knight Simon Saint Liz, William confiscated much of her lands and handed them to her eldest daughter Maud, who then married Saint Liz in Judith's stead.

Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the eldest of four children to David and Lucy Norman Stanton.

After the Norman Conquest, the rule became one of primogeniture inheritance, meaning the eldest surviving son became the sole heir of the baronial estate.

As the third and youngest brother, Lord Edward Norman Petty-Fitzmaurice, had been killed in action only a week before, the Scottish lordship of Nairne was passed on to their eldest sister Katherine ( see Lord Nairne for later history of this title ).

She attended Stanford University, where at a school dance she met Norman Chandler, eldest son of the family that had published the Los Angeles Times since 1883 and was a significant social and political force in the area.

The eldest surviving son, Robert, received the bulk of the Norman estates ( as well as his mother's estates ); the next son, Hugh, received the bulk of the English estates and the Earldom of Shrewsbury.

William I, the first Norman monarch of England, willed that his second son William — not his eldest son Robert — receive the Crown.

After Gerald's death, Nest's sons married her to Stephen, her husband's constable of Cardigan, by whom she had another son, possibly two ; the eldest was Robert Fitz-Stephen ( d. 1182 ), one of the Norman conquerors of Ireland ; the second son, if such there were, may have been named Hywel.

In 1080, the Norman king, William I, sent his eldest son, Robert Curthose, north to defend the kingdom against the Scots.

He was the eldest son of Norman Lindsay and brother of author Philip Lindsay.

Bathurst was the eldest son of Sir Benjamin Bathurst, by his wife, Frances, daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, of Apsley, Sussex, and belonged to a family which is said to have settled in Sussex before the Norman Conquest.

Aubrey de Vere II ( c. 1080 – 1141 ) — also known as " Alberic de Ver " — was the second of that name in England after the Norman Conquest, being the eldest surviving son of Alberic or Aubrey de Vere who had followed William the Conqueror to England in or after 1066.

Their eldest son was Norman Leslie who was involved in the murder of Cardinal Beaton and the siege of St Andrews Castle.