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Robert Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green [1] (14 May 1942 – 17 January 2014) was a British businessman, politician and author who was an advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. [2] McAlpine was descended from the McAlpine baronets who made their fortune in the construction industry. McAlpine held a variety of jobs before ...
USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate launched on 15 August 1799. She was one of the original six frigates of the newly formed United States Navy and, along with her sister ships, was larger and more heavily armed than standard frigates of the period.
The BBC commissioned her to make a version of Second Sight: Ghostman of Skye (2009), for BBC 2, Wonderland. [4] CIELO, McAlpine’s first feature documentary, premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2017. [5] The film is about the beauty of the night sky as experienced in the Atacama Desert and was released in its final version in 2018. The ...
Ione Skye Lee (/ aɪ ˈ oʊ n i /; born September 4, 1970 [1]) is a British-American actress. She made her film debut in the thriller River's Edge (1986) before gaining mainstream exposure by starring in Cameron Crowe 's Say Anything...
Skye Gaelic is a critically endangered dialect of Scottish Gaelic spoken in the Isle of Skye. As of 2012, it was spoken by approximately 9% of Gaelic medium teachers. [ 1 ] As of 2021, the use of Gaelic on the Isle of Skye was reportedly undergoing a process of revitalisation .
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Douglas McAlpine (1890–1981), neurologist, sixth son of Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet; Harry McAlpin (1906–1985), American journalist; James Francis McAlpine (1922–2019) Canadian entomologist specialising in Diptera; Joan McAlpine (born 1962), Scottish journalist and politician; John Macalpine (died 1557), Scottish Protestant theologian
Cielo is a Chilean-Canadian documentary film, directed by Alison McAlpine and released in 2017. [1] Filmed in the Atacama Desert in Chile, the film centres on the extraordinary beauty of the sky in the region, and its impact on the local population.