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MacAllister
Macalister, MacAlister, MacAllister and their variants are forms of a Gaelic surname which means 'son of Alisdair'. The name originated in Scotland and belonged to a branch of the Clan Donald; they became an independent clan in 1493. From about the thirteenth century, MacAlisters were settling in the Glens of Northern Ireland, and they became numerous there. It can refer to the following people: MacAlister * Donald MacAlister (1854–1934), physician, and former chancellor of the University of Glasgow * John Young Walker MacAlister (1856–1925), British librarian * Ian MacAlister Stewart, 13th Laird of Achnacone * Katie MacAlister (born 1964), Seattle-area writer * Patrick MacAlister (1826–1895), Irish Roman Catholic Prelate and 24th Lord Bishop of Down and Connor Macalister * Arthur Macalister (1818–1883), thrice Premier of Queensland, Australia * Very Rev D. M. Macalister (1832–1909), Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland 1902 * David Mac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather MacAllister (activist)
Heather MacAllister (February 25, 1968 – February 13, 2007) was an American burlesque performer and social justice activist, whose work covered anti-racism, LGBT rights, and especially the fat acceptance movement. MacAllister performed on stage as Reva Lucian, a play on 'revolution', and Ms. Demeanor. Early life and education Heather MacAllister was born in Michigan on the February 25, 1968, and grew up in Dearborn and Ann Arbor, Michigan. She completed a bachelor's degree in anthropology and African American studies from Eastern Michigan University in 1998. She also lived in Tucson, Arizona, and moved from Detroit to San Francisco in 2002. Career and activism MacAllister was involved in a range of social justice issues, particularly LGBT rights, anti-racism and addressing anti-fat bias. Her tours as a fat burlesque performer challenged the notion of The Thin Ideal as a pre-requisquite for sexual attractiveness. Fat activism Whilst she was living in Michigan, Heather MacAl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather MacAllister
Heather W. MacAllister (born Texas, United States) is a writer of over 40 romance novels since 1990, principally as Heather MacAllister. She has also signed her novels as Heather Allison. Her award-winning romance novels have been translated into 25 languages and published in dozens of countries. Biography MacAllister was born in Texas and is married to her high-school sweetheart. She became addicted to romance novels in college, yet still managed to graduate and become a music teacher. She began to write while their children grew. She sold her first novel in December 1989. She lives with her husband and their children in Texas. Bibliography As Heather Allison Single novels *''Deck The Halls'' (1990) *''Pulse Points'' (1991) *''Jack Of Hearts'' (1992) *''Ivy's League'' (1993) *''The Santa Sleuth'' (1994) *''Counterfeit Cowgirl'' (1994) *''Undercover Lover'' (1995) *''Temporary Texan'' (1996) *''His Cinderella Bride'' (1996) *''Marry Me'' (1997) *''Haunted Spouse'' (1997) *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McAllister (surname)
McAllister is a surname from Ireland and Scotland that originates from the Gaelic name Mac Alasdair, meaning son of Alasdair. Alasdair is the Gaelic form of the first name Alexander. McAllister history The McAllisters for the greater part owe their ancestry to the Scottish Clan Donald. The name is derived from the personal name Alexander. The McAllisters arrived in Ulster as Gallowglasses (from Irish: Gallóglaigh meaning foreign warriors) at the invitation of the MacDonnell's. Today, the greatest numbers of the name are to be found in Counties Antrim, Down, Londonderry, Fermanagh, and Dublin, otherwise the name is widely dispersed. Arrival in Ireland The MacAllisters spread into the north of Ireland early on; some families of this clan were established there by the 14th century. And a considerable number followed the MacDonalds of Dunyvaig to Antrim after that clan lost its Scottish lands in the 1600s. Like the MacDonalds, The MacAllister's were seen as 'uncivilised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricio Mac Allister
Carlos Patricio Mac Allister (born 20 March 1966) is an Argentine former footballer. He played as a forward for clubs in Argentina, Mexico and Japan. Club career Born in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Mac Allister began playing football with local side General Belgrano de Santa Rosa. He made his Primera debut with Estudiantes de la Plata in 1989. He also played in the first team of Argentinos Juniors. Mac Allister had a spell in Mexico with Correcaminos UAT and then moved to Japan to play for Mitsubishi Motors. Post-playing career In 1998, the Mac Allister brothers, Carlos Javier and Carlos Patricio, decided to found their own sports club for youngsters, the MacAllister Sports Club. They acquired a four-hectare piece of land situated 5 km away from the centre of the city of Santa Rosa, La Pampa, where they built their own club to instruct and promote soccer players for their subsequent insertion into professional soccer. Patricio Mac Allister served as coach of the club's youth t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald MacAlister
Sir Donald MacAlister, 1st Baronet of Tarbet (17 May 1854 – 15 January 1934) was a Scottish physician who was Principal and Vice-Chancellor and, later, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles intellectual secret society, from 1876. From 1904 to 1931 he was President of the General Medical Council. Early life Donald MacAlister was born in Perth, on 17 May 1854, the son of Daniel MacAlister (also spelt MacAllister), a publisher's agent and book-deliverer, living at 2 Earls Dykes in Perth who later went to live in Liverpool to work for Blackie and Son. His mother was Euphemia Kennedy and his younger brother, born in 1856, was Sir John MacAlister. He was cousin to Hugh Macalister. He rose in life from humble beginnings via school at the Liverpool Institute for Boys (founded 1825, closed 1985) to achieve the highest score in the final mathematics examinations at the University of Cambridge in 1877. In November 1877, he was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian MacAlister Stewart
Brigadier Ian MacAlister Stewart, 13th Laird of Achnacone, (17 October 1895 – 14 March 1987) was a Scottish military officer who served in the British Army during both the First and Second World Wars. Known for his eccentric training methods, he commanded the 2nd Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which participated in the Malayan campaign and the Battle of Singapore during the Second World War. Early life Stewart was born on 17 October 1895, part of the Stewart family of Appin in Argyllshire. His place of birth, in Surore, Poona, India, was where his father, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Kenneth Stewart, 12th of Achnacone, was a medical officer in the Poona Horse before his parents returned to Scotland. Stewart attended Cheltenham College before going to Sandhurst on a prize cadetship. He passed through Sandhurst in 1913 as the top student of his year, and the youngest. First World War Stewart was commissioned into the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Mac Allister
Carlos Javier "Colo" Mac Allister (born 5 March 1968) is an Argentine politician and former association football, footballer. A left-back, he played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, and Racing Club de Avellaneda, Racing Club during his career. He also won three international caps for the Argentina national football team, Argentina national team in 1993. After his football career, Mac Allister was elected as a Argentine Chamber of Deputies, National Deputy for the Republican Proposal party in 2013, representing his native province of La Pampa Province, La Pampa. From 2015 to 2018, he served as Secretary of Sports in the government of President Mauricio Macri. Club career Mac Allister debuted for Argentinos Juniors in 1986. He transferred to Boca Juniors in 1992, where he scored the winning goal in the gold cup final. In 1996, he left Boca for Racing Club de Avellaneda, Racing Club where he played until 1998, playing one final season with Ferro Carril Oeste before retiring at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McAlister (surname)
McAlister is a northern Irish and Scottish surname. It is derived from the Gaelic ''Mac Alasdair'', meaning "son of ''Alasdair''". The personal name Alasdair is a Gaelic form of ''Alexander''. People with the surname * Barbara McAlister (diver) ( 1962), American diver * Barbara McAlister (mezzo-soprano) (born 1941), Cherokee-American mezzo-soprano opera singer * Chris McAlister (born 1977), American football cornerback * Daniel McAlister (born 1978), Australian rules footballer * Fred McAlister (1928–2008), American baseball player * Hill McAlister (1875–1959), American politician * Jim McAlister (American soccer) (born 1957), American soccer defender * Jim McAlister (Scottish footballer) (born 1985), Scottish footballer * John McAlister (1842–1918), Canadian politician * Ken McAlister (born 1960), American football player * Luke McAlister (born 1983), New Zealand rugby union footballer * Mary McAlister (1896–1976), Scottish nurse * Peter McAlister (1869–1938), Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macalester
Macalester College () is a private liberal arts college in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Founded in 1874, Macalester is exclusively an undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 2,174 students in the fall of 2018 from 50 U.S. states, four U.S territories, the District of Columbia and 97 countries. The college has Scottish roots and emphasizes internationalism and multiculturalism. History Macalester College was founded by Rev. Dr. Edward Duffield Neill in 1874 with help from the Presbyterian Church in Minnesota. Neill had served as a chaplain in the Civil War and traveled to Minnesota Territory in 1849. He became connected politically and socially. He went on to found two local churches, was appointed the first Chancellor of the University of Minnesota, and became the state's first superintendent of public education. In leaving the University of Minnesota Board of Regents he desired to build a religious college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church that would also be open to o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Assembly Of Queensland
The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembly has 93 members, who have used the letters MP after their names since 2000 (previously they were styled MLAs). There is approximately the same population in each electorate; however, that has not always been the case (in particular, a malapportionment system - not, strictly speaking, a gerrymander - dubbed the ''Bjelkemander'' was in effect during the 1970s and 1980s). The Assembly first sat in May 1860 and produced Australia's first Hansard in April 1864. Following the outcome of the 2015 election, successful amendments to the electoral act in early 2016 include: adding an additional four parliamentary seats from 89 to 93, changing from optional preferential voting to full-preferential voting, and moving from unfixed three-year term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Macalister
Macalister is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. It was created in the 2017 redistribution, and was first contested at the 2017 Queensland state election. It is named after the second Queensland Premier, Arthur Macalister. Located in Logan City, Macalister consists of the suburbs of Bahrs Scrub, Bannockburn, Beenleigh, Carbrook, Cornubia, Eagleby, Edens Landing, Holmview, Mount Warren Park, Windaroo and parts of the suburbs of Loganholme and Waterford. It takes in areas from the previous districts of Albert, Coomera, Redlands, Springwood and Waterford. Based on the results from the 2015 Queensland state election, Macalister was estimated to be a fairly safe seat for the Labor Party with a margin of 6.4% in the leadup to the 2017 Queensland state election. Members for Macalister Election results See also * Electoral districts of Queensland * Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly This is a list of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
