Scottish chemist, best known for his invention in 1823 of a method for making waterproof garments by using rubber dissolved in coal-tar naphtha for cementing two pieces of cloth together. The mackintosh garment was named for him.
Scottish-born sociologist, political scientist, and educator who expressed belief in the compatibility of individualism and social organization. His creative power to make distinctions between state and community led to new theories of democracy, of multi-group coexistence, and of the nature ...
American professional baseball manager and team executive, the "grand old man" of the major leagues in the first half of the 20th century. He managed the Philadelphia Athletics (A's) from 1901 through 1950, during which time they won nine American ...
city, eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, at the mouth of the Pioneer River. Its deepwater artificial port has one of the world's largest bulk-handling installations. The centre of Australia's sugar industry and site of a sugar-research institute (1953), it also ...
U.S. communications executive and philanthropist who supervised the completion of the first transpacific cable between the United States and the Far East in 1904.
U.S. playwright, actor, theatre manager, and inventor who has been called the closest approximation to a Renaissance man produced by the United States in the 19th century.
Irish novelist and dramatist whose tales combine an honest and often harsh reflection of the realities of Irish life with a love of Ireland and a compassionate respect for its people.
northern extension of the Rocky Mountains, in the Yukon and in Inuvik and Fort Smith regions (Northwest Territories), Canada. The range extends northwestward from the British Columbia border for approximately 500 miles (800 km) to the Peel River plateau and ...
major river system in the drainage pattern of northwestern North America. Its basin is the largest in Canada, and it is exceeded on the continent only by the Mississippi-Missouri system. The Mackenzie system drains an area of some 697,000 square ...
seasonal tributary of the Fitzroy River, eastern Queensland, Australia. Formed by the junction of the Comet and Nogoa rivers, which rise in the Eastern Highlands, it flows for 170 miles (275 km) past Comet, northeast across the Expedition Range, and ...
British novelist who suffered critical acclaim and neglect with equal indifference, leaving a prodigious output of more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies.
Scottish novelist, playwright, poet, and editor, whose most important novel, The Man of Feeling, established him as a major literary figure in Scotland. His work had considerable influence on Sir Walter Scott, who dedicated his Waverley novels to him in ...
British missionary who was a constant champion of the rights of Africans in South Africa and a proponent of British intervention to curtail the spread of Boer influence over the lands and tribes of the interior of South Africa.
Scottish lawyer who gained the nickname "Bloody Mackenzie" for his prosecution of the Scottish Presbyterian Covenanters; he was founder of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, now the National Library of Scotland.
Scottish cardiologist, pioneer in the study of cardiac arrhythmias. He was first to make simultaneous records of the arterial and venous pulses to evaluate the condition of the heart, a procedure that laid the foundation for much future research. Mackenzie ...
Scottish-born explorer, businessman, and politician who was for a short time prime minister of New Zealand (1912) and who later served as High Commissioner in London during World War I.
any of a number of swift-moving, streamlined food and sport fishes found in temperate and tropical seas around the world, allied to tunas in the family Scombridae (order Perciformes). Mackerels are rounded and torpedo-shaped, with a slender, keeled tail base, ...
(genus Lamna), any member of a group of sharks in the family Isuridae. The name is also used as a collective name for the family, which includes, in addition, the white shark and the mako shark groups.
one of the longest and strongest suspension bridges in the world, spanning the Mackinac Straits from the Upper to the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. Designed by David B. Steinman in the wake of the failure of the Tacoma Narrows ...
summer resort, Mackinac county, northern Michigan, U.S. It is situated in Lake Huron near the Straits of Mackinac, and has ferry connections to St. Ignace and Mackinaw City. The island, 9 miles (14 km) in circumference and thickly forested, has ...
channel connecting Lake Michigan (west) and Lake Huron (east), and forming an important waterway between the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan, U.S. Spanned by the Mackinac Bridge (opened 1957) and underwater oil pipelines, the straits are 4 miles (6 ...
village, Cheboygan and Emmet counties, northern Michigan, U.S. It lies on the Straits of Mackinac opposite St. Ignace, with which it is linked northward by the 5-mile- (8-kilometre-) long Mackinac Bridge. The village is located at the northernmost point of ...
British political geographer noted for his work as an educator and for his geopolitical conception of the globe as divided into two camps, the ascendant Eurasian "heartland" and the subordinate "maritime lands," including the other continents. He was knighted in ...
American feminist and professor of law, a controversial but influential legal theorist whose work primarily took aim at sexual harassment and pornography.
American doctor, corecipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2003 for his pioneering research on ion channels in cell membranes. He shared the award with Peter Agre, also of the United States.
waterproof outercoat or raincoat, named after a Scottish chemist, Charles Macintosh (1766-1843), who invented the waterproof material that bears his name. The fabric used for a mackintosh was made waterproof by cementing two thicknesses of it together with rubber dissolved ...
outspoken American actress and dancer known for her deft portrayal of charmingly eccentric characters and for her interest in mysticism and reincarnation.
Scottish journalist, editor of the 6th edition (1820-23) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and cofounder and editor of The Scotsman (1817), Scotland's first independent Liberal paper. He also performed editorial services for the 4th, 5th, and 7th editions of the Britannica.
semimonthly news magazine published in Toronto whose thorough coverage of Canada's national affairs and of North American and world news from a Canadian perspective has made it that country's leading magazine. It was founded in 1905 in a large-page format, ...
American poet, playwright, teacher, and public official, whose concern for liberal democracy figured in much of his work, although his most memorable lyrics are of a more private nature.
Scottish physiologist noted as a teacher and for his work on carbohydrate metabolism. Together with Sir Frederick Banting, with whom he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1923, and Charles H. Best, he achieved renown as one ...
Gaelic Mairi Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh Scottish-Gaelic poet who is a major representative of the emergent 17th-century poetical school, which gradually supplanted the classical Gaelic bards.
influential liberal Presbyterian minister of the Church of Scotland who took advantage of the controversy over church reform during 1833-43 to implement policies advocated by the Free Church of Scotland (which seceded in 1843) while yet remaining within the mother ...
