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	McKENNA, Richard M. - personal data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		McKenna's critically acclaimed and historical novel, The Sand Pebbles, 1962, won the 1963 Harper's Award of $10,000 and propelled him into both the limelight and the mainstream acceptance that he had sought.
		He began publishing in 1958 and while McKenna wrote SF stories from the start, he was a mainstream writer in thought...but attended several of the Milford conferences for SF writers.
		Half of McKenna's SF stories were published after his death and all of his collections.
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/mckenna.html (436 words)

	Jim Alexander
		Richard never overcame the anger associated with the humiliation caused his mother over this, and is probably why he remained so close to his mother throughout his life.
		Richard McKenna had written for only eight years, and was being compared to Kipling and Melville; he wrote with the passion of Hemmingway without those damned three word sentences.
		Richard McKenna has certainly made a difference to this community, but moreover he is someone all Idahoans can be proud to call a native son.
	www.mtnhomesd.org /Richard_McKenna/jim_alexander.htm (3073 words)

	Ruminating Dude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In McKenna's case he was a machinist mate, a snipe responsible for maintaining and operating the ship's main engines and its associated auxiliary equipment.
		McKenna captured engineers in a way no one I've ever read did, bringing them into my imagination in a way that I, in my 22 years in the Navy and my many years working as and with engineers, had actually experienced them, and came to appreciate and respect them.
		McKenna's characters are all educated men, though not always in the traditional sense of the word.
	ruminatingdude.blogspot.com /2005/11/richard-mckenna-hole-snipes-writer.html (1341 words)

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		McKenna, being the eldest of three children, had many responsibilities growing up; however, he always portrayed a definite passion for literature.
		Richard McKenna owed a tuition fee of $50, which during the depression was an exorbitant amount.
		McKenna was nearly 51 years of age and "died a tragic and premature death which ended his promising writing career" (Crain).
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/mckenna_richard_id.htm (1092 words)

	Foley & Lardner LLP - Our People - Richard J. (Rick) McKenna
		Richard J. McKenna is the chair of the Milwaukee office Intellectual Property Department and is skilled in a wide range of intellectual property issues.
		McKenna is also a member of the Trademark, Copyright and Advertising Practice Group and is the former firm-wide leader of this practice group.
		McKenna is uniquely qualified to counsel clients on the interrelation between utility patent, design patent, trademark and trade dress law and to develop effective strategies for protection of innovations and development of goodwill.
	www.foley.com /people/bio.aspx?employeeid=16260& (422 words)

	Terence McKenna Bibliography: Author Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		McKenna, Dennis J. Ralph H. Abraham, Terence K. McKenna, Rupert Sheldrake and Dennis J. McKenna (2005) The evolutionary mind: Trialogues on science, spirit & psychedelics.
		McKenna, Terence K. Ralph H. Abraham, Terence K. McKenna and Rupert Sheldrake (1997) The evolutionary mind: Trialogues at the edge of the unthinkable.
		Terence K. McKenna (1997) Derivation of the Timewave from the King Wen Sequence of Hexagrams.
	www.cmays.net /xrefa.shtml (11177 words)

	The Sand Pebbles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sand Pebbles is a 1966 film which tells the story of an American gunboat plying the rivers of China in the 1920s.
		It stars Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Makoto Iwamatsu, Marayat Andriane, Simon Oakland, Ford Rainey, and Gavin MacLeod.
		The movie was adapted by Robert Anderson from the 1962 novel by Richard McKenna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sand_Pebbles (407 words)

	Online Databases - The Richard McKenna Pictorial Shipping Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Richard McKenna lived for collecting information about ships and shipping, freely sharing his vast knowledge and information with anyone who sought his assistance.
		The Richard McKenna Memorial Collection comprises library books, shipping registers, ship's photographs, maps and charts; shipping memorabilia; ship's plans; and other maritime paraphernalia - it is a truly generous donation made with the intention that Richard McKenna's information and knowledge remains available to whoever seeks it.
		The estimated 40,000 images from the Richard McKenna Memorial Pictorial Shipping Collection remain the core of the database but the focus now being the integration of these images with research on the vessel history and details and some 32,000 records of shipping arrivals at Western Australian ports since 1829.
	dbase.mm.wa.gov.au /mckenna/mckdb.html (422 words)

	Omega Man: A Profile of Terence McKenna (Richard Gehr)
		McKenna finds evidence for such a "partnership" society--that is, matrilinear and nonproprietary--on the Tassili-n-Ajjer Plateau in Southern Algeria, where an abundance of game and psychedelic mushrooms created an Edenlike environment some 14,000 years ago.
		McKenna graphically described the DMT experience during a WBAI interview to be broadcast May 9 in tones not unlike those one might invoke during a dramatic reading of H. Lovecraft.
		Terence McKenna entered the world in 1946 and was raised in the small cattle-ranching town of Paonia, on the western slope of Colorado.
	www.levity.com /rubric/mckenna.html (2766 words)

	Erowid Terence McKenna Vault : Richard Evans Schultes review of Food of the Gods
		Terence McKenna's 313 pages are overflowing with well-ordered and skillfully written cultural, sociological, historical, legal and moral discussions on the political future of drug uses.
		The body of the book is followed by highly detailed notes on the foregoing sections; a glossary, containing structural formulae of the principal hallucinogens; a bibliography of 151 sources; and 11 pages of an extremely complete index.
		McKenna concludes by suggesting a plan supposed to solve the drug problems of today in the developed countries.
	www.erowid.org /culture/characters/mckenna_terence/mckenna_terence_review2.shtml (391 words)

	Richard McKenna - The Sand Pebbles
		Richard McKenna is often forgotten because he didn’t begin writing professionally until his 40s, after spending many years in the Navy, only to have a deadly heart attack strike him in 1964, while he was working on his second novel.
		McKenna returned twice to his hometown, to his desert of rocks and sagebrush, his “Walden.” Now, in a sense, he is coming home to stay, his legacy never again to be forgotten.
		McKenna, a machinist's mate, served in World War II on a large troop transport operating in all oceans, and stayed on through the Korean War on a destroyer.
	www.thesandpebbles.com /mckenna/richard_mckenna.html (2186 words)

	Mountain Home News: Story: McKenna changes, becomes 'brick and click' school
		Richard McKenna High School, once the school district's alternative school, has undergone yet another metamorphosis.
		McKenna has graduated about 20 students each year of its existence, many going on to further schooling in either vocational schools or colleges.
		Year after year graduates of McKenna come back expressing their appreciation for what they learned, how the school changed them for the better, how it gave them hope for the future.
	www.mountainhomenews.com /story/1072414.html (1374 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Richard M. McKenna of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in November 1987 (Acc.
		McKenna tried his hand at short story writing, achieving a moderate amount of success publishing his work in science fiction magazines.
		The book draws heavily on McKenna's own later experiences, and the author was often cited as the model for the book's protagonist.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/m/McKenna,Richard_M. (588 words)

	Richard McKenna: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Richard McKenna was an American sailor and writer.
		McKenna himself served aboard a River gunboat, EHandler: no quick summary.
		McKenna served his 20 year hitch in the Navy, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_mckenna1.htm (216 words)

	eBay - richard mckenna, The Sand Pebbles, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna HBDJ 1963
		The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna (1963) SOFTCOVER
		The Sand Pebbles - McKenna, Richard/ Shenk, Rober *NEW
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=richard+mckenna&...&krd=1 (350 words)

	McGraw-Hill Australia Higher Education - New Managment, Richard McKenna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		McKenna introduces students to the evolving philosophies of management from the first chapter, enabling learners to appreciate and assess different perspectives.
		Richard McKenna treats the reader as an adult learner: three competing conceptions of learning and teaching are presented, and each chapter opens with questions to help readers think about their individual needs and how the chapter may help meet them.
		Richard McKenna is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management, Edith Cowan University.
	www.mcgraw-hill.com.au /mhhe/man/mckenna/bkinfo.htm (392 words)

	Alibris: McKenna
		McKenna believes that the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge that separated humans from their fellow beasts was a hallucinogenic mushroom.
		A student of Tibetan shamanism, virtual reality, and the botany of the Amazon, McKenna is a legendary raconteur, adventurer, and proponent of the use of the psilocybin mushroom who claims that hallucinogenic plants are a key to our evolution as a language-using species.
		Either a profoundly psychotic episode or a galvanizing glimpse into the true nature of time and mind, McKenna is a spellbinding storyteller, providing plenty of down-to-earth reasons for preserving the planet.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/McKenna (1258 words)

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		CMS Cameron McKenna LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales.
		The associated international offices of CMS Cameron McKenna LLP are separate and distinct from it.
		CMS Cameron McKenna LLP and its associated offices are members of CMS, the alliance of independent European law firms.
	www.law-now.com (204 words)

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		He scored a goal and drew the foul that led to the game-winning penalty kick in Stockton's 2-0 win over Rowan in the NJAC Championship Match.
		McKenna earns NJAC Defensive honors after posting back-to-back shutouts in both of Stockton's NJAC Tournament victories.
		McKenna currently is tied for the conference lead in shutouts with seven on the season.
	www.njac.net /msocPOTW2004jj.htm (244 words)

	Expedition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 2002 artist/photographer Richard McKenna set out on a photographic and visual art expedition throughout throughout remote regions of Australia.
		We were happy to provide Richard with a Barrett 950 HF-SSB Transceiver and 910 Automatic Tuning Antenna for the expedition vehicle.
		Richard has sent us some pictures shown here of the vehicle fitted with the 950 and 910 as well as some of the terrain he has been through.
	www.barrettcommunications.com.au /pages/expedition.html (225 words)

	Richard McKenna - eBooks - New Releases!
		Richard McKenna was born in 1913 in Idaho and entered the United States Navy in 1931 to help support his mother and younger brothers.
		Tragedy came in 1964 when McKenna died of a heart attack at the age of 51.
		McKenna was posthumously awarded the Nebula award for his outstanding work in science fiction.
	www.ebookmall.com /alpha-authors/Richard-McKenna.htm (332 words)

	Mountain Home News: Story: McKenna graduates 25
		Unlike traditional graduations where only scholars earning the highest grades are selected to speak, McKenna offers the opportunity to any student wishing to address the graduates.
		But the Richard McKenna School was nothing like what he had expected.
		Then amid the cheers, picture taking and applause, the first graduating class of Richard McKenna Charter High School received their diplomas.
	www.mountainhomenews.com /story/1097618.html (643 words)

	Terence McKenna Bibliography: Year Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gail Wood (1992) Parapsychology — The Archaic Revival by Terence McKenna.
		Richard T. Carey (2000) Illuminated Manuscript: Robert Venosa’s Illuminatus.
		Bryan Winchell (2000) Terence McKenna, R.I.P.: Psychedelic visionary explores mind-expanding drugs, the Amazon rain forest, the end of time and now, death.
	www.cmays.net /xrefy.shtml (7813 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She was born Sept. 12, 1923, in Orono, the daughter of Joseph and Irene (Carr) McKenna.
		Jeanette lived and worked in the Boston area for many years, retiring to Bangor and was very active in her Catholic faith.
		She is survived by one sister, May Eberhart of Bangor; four nephews, Richard McKenna, Earl, Richard and William Eberhart; three nieces, Linda Bushy, Joan Bowman and Sharon McNamara; and one sister-in-law, Madeline McKenna.
	www.bangornews.com /a/class/obituaries/printobit.cfm?ID=49572& (129 words)

	DBLP: Richard L. Cole
		Richard L. Cole, Ofer Zajicek: The Expected Advantage of Asynchrony.
		Richard L. Cole, Mark J. Anderson, Robert J. Bestgen: Query Processing in the IBM Application System/400.
		Goetz Graefe, Richard L. Cole, Diane L. Davison, William J. McKenna, Richard H. Wolniewicz: Extensible Query Optimization and Parallel Execution in Volcano.
	informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/c/Cole:Richard_L=.html (201 words)

	RICHARD MCKENNA art quotations from The Resource of Art Quotations :: painterskeys.com :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		RICHARD MCKENNA art quotations from The Resource of Art Quotations :: painterskeys.com ::
		This is by far the largest collection of art quotations available anywhere.
		Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.
	www.painterskeys.com /auth_search.asp?name=Richard+McKenna (134 words)

	River gunboat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If they carried more than one cannon, one might be a howitzer, for shore bombardment.
		The USS San Pablo described in Richard McKenna's The Sand Pebbles is an example of this class of vessel, serving on the US Navy's Yangtze Patrol.
		Various European powers, the USA, and Japan, maintained flotillas of these shallow draft gunboats patrolling Chinese Rivers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_gunboat (186 words)

	Alibris: Richard McKenna
		Organized into six units (44 chapters), the text takes the student from creating the beam and analyzing the image to using advanced imaging systems such as mobile radiography and magnetic resonance...
		McKenna and Robinson focus on describing, illustrating, and applying both teacher-directed and student-centered strategies.
		Our goal was to produce a book that provides a wide variety of suggestions for instructional practice that is consistent with our beliefs in effective teaching techniques.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Richard_McKenna (534 words)

	Rosetta Books - The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna - eBook available for download
		One feels that Lukacs might make a similar exception for Richard McKenna, whose award-winning 1962 novel, The Sand Pebbles, has often been compared to Scott´s classic novels.
		Set aboard an American gunship patrolling the Yangtze river on the eve of revolution in China, The Sand Pebbles is rich in detail drawn from McKenna´s meticulous research as well as his firsthand experiences of China as a member of the U.S. Navy.
		What The Sand Pebbles also has in common with the truly great historical novels of the past is that its wealth of regional and historical detail is never allowed to overwhelm the story or the characters.
	www.rosettabooks.com /pages/title_73.html (721 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna
		According to Lukács Scott's novels document, with painstaking verisimilitude, the character of the historical period in which the action is taking place, and, as a result, treat history as more than just mere scenery.
		As a spirit of nationalism inspired by Chiang Kai-shek's leadership begins to sweep through China, the river gunship San Pablo is ordered to patrol the region and protect U.S. citizens.
		The protagonist of McKenna's novel is Jake Holman, a machinist aboard the San Pablo who has joined the Navy in order to avoid jail time.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook8268.htm (1172 words)

	Richard McKenna Quotes
		1 Quotes for 'Richard McKenna' in the Database.
		Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
		All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users.
	www.worldofquotes.com /author/Richard-McKenna/1 (65 words)

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