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	Ross Macdonald Definition / Ross Macdonald Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of American-Canadian writer of mystery fiction and detective fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
		MacDonald was named a grand master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1972 and won the American Book Award in 1980.
		Ross MacDonald is the managing partner of the Vancouver office.
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	Ross Macdonald -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of American-Canadian writer of (Click link for more info and facts about mystery fiction) mystery fiction and (Click link for more info and facts about detective fiction) detective fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 - July 11, 1983).
		At this time, he wrote under the name "John Macdonald", in order to avoid confusion with his wife, who was achieving her own success writing as (Click link for more info and facts about Margaret Millar) Margaret Millar.
		Macdonald first introduced the popular detective (Click link for more info and facts about Lew Archer) Lew Archer, the tough but humane private eye who would inhabit some twenty of his novels, in " (Click link for more info and facts about The Moving Target) The Moving Target" in 1949.
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	Ross MacDonald : Ross MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		:''This article is about the Canadian sailor; for the mystery writer, see Ross Macdonald.'' Ross MacDonald (born January 24, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian sailor.
		He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the men's star event, and a bronze at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the same event.
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	Encyclopedia: Ross MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ross Macdonald is the pseudonym of American-Canadian writer of mystery fiction and detective fiction Kenneth Millar (December 13, 1915 - July 11, 1983).
		Born near San Francisco, in Los Gatos, California in 1915, Millar was raised in his parents' native Canada, where he started college.
		Heir to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as the master of American "hard boiled" mysteries, Macdonald's writing built on the pithy style of his predecessors by adding psychological depth and insights into the motivations of his characters.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ross-MacDonald (440 words)

	The Ultimate Ross MacDonald - American History Information Guide and Reference
		This article is about the Canadian sailor; for the mystery writer, see Ross Macdonald.
		Ross MacDonald (born January 24, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian sailor.
		He began sailing at the age of 11.
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	CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games: Team Canada - Sailing - MacDonald
		Ross MacDonald, who sails in the Star Class this year with partner Mike Wolfs, heads to his fourth Olympic Games as one of Canada's most successful international sailors.
		This year, MacDonald and Wolfs won silver medals at two prestigious international events, the Barcardi Cup in Florida and the SPA Regatta in the Netherlands leaving no doubt they have a shot at a medal in Athens.
		MacDonald runs the MacSailing sailing school in Vancouver with his wife Marcia Pellichano, a three-time Olympic sailor for Brazil.
	www.canoe.ca /Slam/Athletics/Games/2004/TeamCanada/Sailing/MacDonald (175 words)

	Salon Books \| The case of the brokenhearted father
		Macdonald's overt personification of California in his later novels is his crowning achievement.
		Macdonald claimed that his detective was a "deliberately narrowed version of the writing self, so narrow that when he turns sideways he almost disappears."
		Then in 1956, a seismographic change (psychologically speaking) happened to Macdonald in the middle of writing his seventh Archer novel, "The Doomsters." His next novel, "The Galton Case" (1959), was the manifestation of this transformation.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/03/cov_16feature.html (1046 words)

	Feature \| Kevin Smith: It's Personal
		Nelson himself knew Macdonald from having conducted a rather lengthy interview with him a few years previously, and it was at Nelson's suggestion that Macdonald had intervened in the young musician's life.
		But though Macdonald's novels were forged in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, his appeal seems to have transcended that period.
		You see Macdonald's inspiration in the politicized compassion of Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski; in the brooding, lonely chivalry of Stephen Greenleaf's John Marshall Tanner; and in the softhearted, yet resigned professionalism of Bill Pronzini's Nameless.
	www.januarymagazine.com /features/macsmith.html (2649 words)

	Three USA Teams In Second At Olympic Regatta
		Tornado sailors John Lovell and Charlie Ogletree (New Orleans, La./Kemah, Tex.), who were in third place yesterday when their single race of the day was cancelled, finished the job today by taking third in race one and a fourth in race two for a third-place tie in overall scoring with Austria.
		Yesterday's protest by Star sailor Mark Reynolds against Canadian Ross MacDonald for failure to give room at a turning mark resulted in a DSQ (disqualification) for the Canadians and a lift for the USA from fourth to third in the first race of the series.
		With 458 sailors from 73 countries, this is the largest Olympic Regatta ever to be held since the inception of Olympic sailing in 1900.
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	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the Canadian sailor see Ross MacDonald.'' '''Ross Macdonald''' is the pseudonym of American-Canadian writer of mystery fiction and detective fiction '''Kenneth Millar''' (December 13, 1915 - July 11, 1983).
		:''This article is about the Canadian sailor; for the mystery writer, see Ross Macdonald.'' '''Ross MacDonald''' (born January 24, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canada Canadian sailing sailor.
		He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the men's Star (sailboat) Star event, and a bronze at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the same event.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Ross_Macdonald.html (738 words)

	Authors and Creators: Ross Macdonald
		Although born in Los Gatos, California, December 13th, 1915, he was raised and educated in Canada by his mother, a never particularly healthy woman, and a succession of relatives, after she and his father, a sometime sailor/poet/writer, separated.
		While Macdonald may not have been perceived as the equal of Hammett and Chandler as early as the '50s, he was certainly the most critically acclaimed PI writer of that decade.
		Previously unpublished stories, edited by Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan, one featuring Joe Rogers (who was also in Macdonald's 1st EQMM short, which was later re-written to star Lew Archer) and 2 with Lew Archer.
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	Sailing World - Foerster and Burnham Lock Up At Least Silver
		Australian Laser sailor Michael Blackburn tries to keep cool during a long delay on Thursday for the Laser and Europe classes.
		They were among a number of sailors who locked up medals in the Finn, Yngling, and 470 classes.
		Their chances of a gold medal, or of locking up the silver with one race remaining, seemed to be fading quickly during the first race as they found themselves at the back of the pack in a light and shifty sea breeze.
	www.sailingworld.com /article.jsp?ID=34301&typeID=400&catID=587 (1320 words)

	wiki/Ross MacDonald (sailor) Definition / wiki/Ross MacDonald (sailor) Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ross MacDonald (born January 24January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar.
		There are 341 days remaining (342 in leap years).
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	CANOE -- SLAM! 2004 Games News: Canada's team geriatric
		Two other Canadians are about to compete in their fifth Olympics: Vancouver sailor Ross MacDonald, 39, and Montreal paddler Caroline Brunet, 35.
		Nattrass says making it to five Olympics along with paddler Brunet and sailor MacDonald is special because it's a short list.
		Sailor Evert Bastet and equestrians James Elder and Christilot Hanson-Boylen each competed in seven Olympics, shooter John Primrose and rower Lesley Thompson six.
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	Sailing Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Two of the three scheduled races in the 49er class were called off, as there was relatively a dead calm at the start of the second.
		But sailors are trained to compete, whether Aeolus is on their side or not.
		The team members are considered the best and brightest of young sailors in the U.S. They each won or were the highest U.S. finishers at a US Sailing national championship or are members of the U.S. Youth World Team, which represented the U.S. at the 2003 ISAF Youth World Championship held last July in Portugal.
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	Terra Nova Trading Key West 2004 - Releases
		While much of the nation shivered, for five days it was the sailors' time to crow in consistently double digit winds that produced winners from five countries and 11 states coast to coast and allowed a Key West record number of nine races to be sailed.
		Ross Macdonald, a former world Star class champion from Vancouver, B.C., is calling tactics for John.
		More than 3,000 sailors have come from 18 countries and 32 states to this quaint little island town that is the southernmost point in the continental United States.
	www.premiere-racing.com /04_KW_Results/kw_2004_releases.htm (8629 words)

	Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon and Ross Macdonald
		Jack Millar, his health broken by his rescue of a fellow sailor from icy waters, wrote his son a letter of advice that had a strong effect.
		In wasn’t until 1969 that Ross Macdonald was recognized as, as Nolan puts it, “an important California author, a novelist who evoked his region as tellingly as such mainstream writers as Nathanael West and Joan Didion.
		She ran the family.” His childhood sounded like something out of a Macdonald novel (The Galton Case, say): “I grew up with a painting of an uncle, Warren, who looked just like me. He was a military man, a golden boy, an artist.
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	Coigach Strays
		Further pointing to a possible relationship between the Altnaherie and Reiff MacDonalds is that the first wife of Donald McDonald of Reiff was Margaret Graham, and Roderick McDonald in the next Household is married to Anne Graham.
		Further pointing to a possible relationship between the Altnaherie and Reiff MacDonalds is that the first wife of Donald McDonald of Reiff was Margaret Graham, and Roderick's wife above was Anne Graham.
		I think it likely that John is the son of William Ross of the Parish of Alness, who married Christina "Chirsty" McKenzie from Reiff in Coigach (see Reiff 51-75).
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	Articles - Ross Macdonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the early 1950s, he returned to California, settling for some thirty years in Santa Barbara, the area where most of his books were set.
		(Macdonald's fictional name for Santa Barbara was Santa Teresa; this "pseudonym" for the town was subsequently resurrected by Sue Grafton, whose "alphabet novels" are also set in Santa Barbara.) The very successful Lew Archer series, including bestsellers "The Goodbye Look", "The Underground Man", and "Sleeping Beauty", concluded with "The Blue Hammer" in 1976.
		Lew Archer derives his name from Sam Spade's partner Miles Archer, and from Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur.
	www.izeez.com /articles/Ross_Macdonald (472 words)

	Yachts and Yachting Online - The UK's top performance sailing magazine
		She moves up to sixth place in the Rankings, a deserved position for the Hong Kong sailor, who has finished in the top five in all the major ISAF Graded European regattas this year.
		This time round there is no change to the top four sailors and despite Keamia RASA's (CAN) poor performance in Kiel, she is the only sailor to count seven ranked events and hangs on to the number one position.
		Nominations are invited for the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2005 - the pinnacle award of recognition in the sport of sailing.
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	Sailing Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Melissa Purdy was selected as the Women Sailor of the Year.
		Conceived in New Zealand, and worn by sailors in both the Volvo and IACC classes, it is no surprise that sailors choose Dirty Dog for their unique style, superior performance, and extremely affordable price.
		Thousands of sailors from almost every sailing nation have launched from the existing site and competed on Biscayne Bay.
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	Yachting World Olympics 2004: Olympic commentary - Day 13
		Today saw him and his crew take the gold with a day to spare in the Star class and add a fifth medal to the gold, silver and two bronze medals that he already has.
		Tomorrow is a lay day for the Star class before the final race on Saturday which will see Xavier Rohart and Pascal Rambeau of France, Ross Macdonald and Mike Wolfs of Canada and Paul Cayard and Phil Trinter of USA fight it out for the remaining two medals.
		First it was Schiedt who demonstrated his dominance in the laser fleet, now it's Torben Grael and his crew Marcelo Ferreira in the Star class.
	www.ybw.com /auto/newsdesk/20040726180356olympics04.html (1050 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Ross Macdonald
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		Macdonald first introduced the popular detective Lew Archer, the tough but humane private eye who would inhabit some twenty of his novels, in "The Moving Target " in 1949.
		Heir to Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler as the master of American "hard boiled" mysteries, his writing built on the pithy style of his predecessors by adding psychological depth and insights into the motivations of his characters.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Ross_Macdonald (531 words)

	Sailing Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the advent of sponsored yachts, the participation of well-known sailors, and Internet race reporting keeping us onboard, these adventuresome events are now enjoying immense credibility and respect.
		The U.S.A. had a better day and with four sailors in the top 16 are second seeds to Peru.
		Over the last month I've been to five different regattas and in nearly all of them I heard sailors complain that folks barged starting lines, shoved in at marks, hit marks, hit each other, rocked or sculled, and nobody did anything about it--including the complainers.
	www.sailingsource.com /scuttlebutt/1871.php (3153 words)

	eircom net Ireland-International / Irish news headlines from leading Irish newspapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Grael is the first sailor to win five Olympic medals. The six-time Olympian, 44, and team mate Marcelo Ferreira, 38, captured gold in the Star class with a race to spare.
		The battle for silver and bronze in Athens should be fought out by France's Xavier Rohart and Pascal Rambeau, lying second, and Canada's Ross MacDonald and Mike Wolfs, close behind in third.
		Mansfield and Collins struggled to make an impact on today's racing, finishing 10th in race nine and 13th in race 10. It was not enough to lift the pair from 17th spot.
	home.eircom.net /content/irelandcom/breaking/3876699?view=Eircomnet (549 words)

	Scots and Scots Descendants - M-McC
		She was a part of the Glasgow Four, the group of artists who had a pronounced influence on modern art and architecture, which created what is known as Scottish art Nouveau.
		MacDonald, J. - Member of the Highland Association of Chicago and Member of the Robert Burns Memorial and Monument Committee.
		A conference in 1864 debating the union of portion of eastern Canada, by MacDonald's initiative and tact was merged in the larger question of the Union of all the British American provinces, which resulted in the British North America Act of 1867.
	www.chicago-scots.org /clubs/History/Names-Ma-McC.htm (12728 words)

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