Thomas Urquhart McKenzie, b. Another 8 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Frank Rock Slide Mr. Retrieved , June Retrieved , April Retrieved , April 9. The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto.
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Motto: Luceo non uro Motto Translation: I shine not burn. William, Meyer, Mary K. Retrieved , May 9 Henry McKenzie. Retrieved , August 30 Eric McKenzie. Retrieved , August 30 Kenneth McKenzie. Retrieved , March 7. This group consists of the wealthiest individuals in the world who have all promised to donate "the majority of their wealth" to charity.
It will take time and effort and care," Bezos said in her Giving Pledge profile. And I will keep at it until the safe is empty. In addition to all the writing and life as a billionaire, MacKenzie Bezos is a mom to four children. According to author Brad Stone, via the article, "Ms.
Bezos often drove the four children to school in a Honda, and would then drop Mr. Bezos at the office. Can you imagine Jeff getting out at the curb with a briefcase and bag lunch in tow?
Life at home for billionaire parents must come with many unique challenges. But according to MacKenzie, she said there was plenty of positivity in the mansion.
MacKenzie also appears to deeply care about providing the most for her children. MacKenzie Bezos met her future husband and later billionaire Jeff Bezos at their place of work. According to Forbes , the pair first crossed paths in "when they both worked at hedge fund D. Shaw" in New York City. She actually interviewed with Jeff and he offered her a job, although she took a job in another department.
And through the walls I would hear him laughing that giant laugh, all day long. And it was totally love at first listen," she revealed in an interview with Charlie Rose. The pair instantly connected. Bezos was 30; Ms. Bezos was 23," reported The New York Times.
The newlyweds packed up everything and moved to Seattle, Wash. And what about Jeff's side of the story? But good luck getting those scores. She "grew up in San Francisco, a middle child with two siblings" via Forbes , with a "father who was a financial planner and a mother who cheerfully stayed home to cook meals and decorate the house," according to Vogue.
The magazine elaborated that Bezos "was bookish and shy, the kind of girl who would spend hours alone in her bedroom writing elaborate stories. According to her Amazon author profile , Bezos "wrote her first book when she was six years old, a page chapter book entitled The Book Worm.
Bezos elaborated about the incident in an interview with Charlie Rose. According to Forbes , Bezos' parents "sent her to Hotchkiss, the Connecticut boarding school, where she graduated a year early. Though she runs an anti-bullying organization — Bystander Revolution — it doesn't mean MacKenzie Bezos stood quietly by if someone trashed her husband. On Bezos' Amazon reviewer profile , she has only three book reviews. Two are from , well before she published her own books. It's hard to question her criticism, when she claimed "I have firsthand knowledge of many of the events.
Though according to Stone "most of the readers and reviewers have been inspired by Amazon's story," he still felt obliged to respond, he said in an interview for The New York Times. It seems to have been first advanced in the 17th century when there was a desire and ambition in Scotland to fabricate or magnify all ancient and lordly pedigrees.
Alexander Mackenzie and His Family. Alexander Mackenzie, born around and the first recorded Mackenzie of Kintail. He died in and was buried, like his father, at the Priory of Beauly. The younger son Duncan was the progenitor of the Mackenzies of Hilton. His second wife was Margaret, daughter of the Macdonald of Morar, by whom he had a son and a daughter. The son, known as Eachainn Ruadh or Hector Roy, was the forebear of the Mackenzies of Gairloch and their various offshoots.
The Findon Tables. Mackenzie of Findon in , based on the earlier work carried out by his brother Lewis Mark. The tables are in the form of family trees, showing the origin of different branches of the Mackenzie clan, their progression, and their relation to each other. The other eleven main sheets look more closely at the individual families that branched off from the main stem, with their cadets.
The supplementary sheet gives the descent of some ancient families deriving from the early rulers of the country where the possessions of Clan Kenneth afterwards became fixed, and with whom it was connected by marriage ties.
The 24 page booklet gives an introduction by Major Mackenzie and extensive notes about the tables with references, a list of Kintail or Seaforth charters, and an index of families and names. The Brahan Seer. For all the power of the Seaforth Mackenzies, it was the mysterious power of one of the estate workers, Kenneth Mackenzie, which made the Brahan estate world famous. Better known as the Brahan Seer, this shadowy figure from the 17th century was renowned for the many prophesies which, for generations following his execution, continued to come true.
A monument on the estate marks the exact spot where she died. When she demanded to know more, he told her everything that he saw. This earned the oracle the traditional reward for the bearer of bad tidings — execution by being pitched alive into a barrel of boiling tar at Chancery Point.
Many of his prophesies were fulfilled and tradition holds that his untimely death by burning in tar followed his final prophecy of the doom of the house of Seaforth. Legend has it that the Brahan Seer was living near Loch Ussie when he was apprehended. Before being taken to Fortrose on the Black Isle to be tried for witchcraft, he threw his oracle stone into the loch and said it would one day be found in the belly of a fish.
So far as is known, it has not yet turned up! MacKenzies and McKenzies. Alexander MacKenzie and the Pacific. Alexander MacKenzie was a Scot who grew to become a Canadian hero. Such a route — the mythical Northwest Passage — would provide a gateway to the vast trading markets of the Orient. Other canoes, navigated by Indian hunters and interpreters, followed on behind.
Over a hundred days later, they returned, however, with details of a route to the Arctic, not to the elusive Pacific Ocean. Therefore, on May 9 , MacKenzie set out with nine others, packed into a 25 foot canoe at Fort Fork along the Peace river for a second voyage. This time he succeeded.
With the guidance of native Indians, he became the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean on an overland route, beating the American explorers Lewis and Clark there by a full twelve years.
On May 1, , Agnes McKenzie finally moved into her new house. It was only a few yards from her first Craigflower house, little more than a shack where she and her family had lived in crowded discomfort for their first three years in the colony of Vancouver Island. He and his family were led to expect living quarters suitable for a person in charge of a acre establishment, but found only a solid plank floor where the house should have been.
It is thought to have been designed to resemble the Georgian style architecture of his family home in Scotland. Inside, the rooms are not large, but would have been considered grand compared to the modest cottages of most settlers in the s. It was a grand house for its time, second only to the Douglas mansion on the shores of James Bay, torn down in Craigflower was spared the fate of this first Government House, surviving years of various tenants and threats of demolition to become a National Historic Site.
The Land Conservancy, which now manages the historic site, has furnished the house as Mrs.
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