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Mackay

(Encyclopedia) MackayMackayməkīˈ [key], city and region (2016 pop. 114,969), Queensland, NE Australia on the Pioneer River. A port city, Mackay exports sugar, beef, and coal. The surrounding shire of…

Mackay, Lake

(Encyclopedia) Mackay, LakeMackay, Lakeməkīˈ [key], large, usually dry, saline lake, 1,829 sq mi (4,737 sq km), 65 mi (105 km) long, 40 mi (64 km) wide, W central Australia, on the border of Western…

MacKay, Peter Gordon

(Encyclopedia) MacKay, Peter GordonMacKay, Peter Gordonməkāˈ [key], 1966–, Canadian politician, b. New Glasgow, N.S. A lawyer who briefly worked (1992–93) in Germany, MacKay returned to his native…

MacKaye, Percy

MacKaye, Percy[1875-1956](2)Born at New York City, March 16, 1875. Educated at Harvard University and the University of Leipzig. He has written many poetic dramas and several volumes of…

Fair, James Graham

(Encyclopedia) Fair, James Graham, 1831–94, American financier, b. near Belfast, Ireland. He emigrated to America as a child, grew up on an Illinois farm, and went west in 1851 in search of gold. In…

Mackay, Hugh

(Encyclopedia) Mackay, HughMackay, Hughməkīˈ [key], 1640?–1692, Scottish soldier. After service with several continental armies, he joined the Dutch forces in 1673, took his regiment to England (1685…

O'Brien, William Shoney

(Encyclopedia) O'Brien, William Shoney, c.1826–1878, American silver magnate, b. Dublin, Ireland. He was brought to the United States as a child and worked in a New York grocery store before going to…

Mackay, John William

(Encyclopedia) Mackay, John WilliamMackay, John Williammăkˈē [key], 1831–1902, American financier, b. Dublin, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States in 1840. In 1859 he joined the rush to Nevada…

Percy MacKaye: The Automobile

The AutomobilePercy MacKayeFluid the world flowed under us: the hills Billow on billow of umbrageous green Heaved us, aghast, to fresh horizons, seen One rapturous instant, blind with…

Percy MacKaye: Uriel

Uriel(In memory of William Vaughn Moody)Percy MacKayeIUriel, you that in the ageless sun Sit in the awful silences of light, Singing of vision hid from human sight, — Prometheus, beautiful…