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Jun 9, 2015 · Tom Nolan is the editor of The Library of America’s new title Ross Macdonald: Four Novels of the 1950s.In this, the second of three Reader’s Almanac exclusives about Macdonald’s life and work, he relates the biographical circumstances that help explain why Macdonald was able to regard California, the state in which he was born, with both the knowingness of a local and the detachment of ...
Life peer. Simon Gerard McDonald, Baron McDonald of Salford, GCMG , KCVO (born 9 March 1961) is a British former diplomat who was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service until September 2020. He was the last professional head of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office before the creation ...
The movement to activate the Clan in the United States commenced with the grant of a Commission on 31st August 1954 by Lord Macdonald of Macdonald, High Chief of Clan Donald. The appointment of High Commissioner (Ard Toshachdeor) of Clan Donald in the United States is not hereditary, but is held for a period of five years, unless previously ...
As High Chief, Lord Macdonald chairs the High Council of Clan Donald, composed, at the moment, of the Chiefs of Clanranald, Glengarry, Sleat, and Antrim. Lord Macdonald, like many of his ancestors, was educated at Eton, where he was a contemporary of Sir Ian Macdonald of Sleat. In 1970, the year after he married Claire, his father, born in 1909 ...
Nov 10, 2015 · Readers around the globe found an imaginative vision of Southern California in the fiction of Ross Macdonald. But Macdonald himself—by birth Kenneth Millar—was raised far from the promised glow of the Golden State, up north in frigid Canada. The bright but impoverished son of a fractured family, young Kennie was shunted across four ...
This situation pertained through the troublesome times of the 17th century and the Jacobite risings of the 18th century till after the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and the end of the Clan System. Not until 1947, was Clan Donald again to have a High Chief, when the Rt. Hon. Alexander Godfrey Macdonald, 7th Lord Macdonald, was granted by the Lord ...
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California is traditionally separated into Northern California and Southern California, divided by a straight border which runs across the state, separating the northern 48 counties from the southern 10 counties. Despite the persistence of the northern-southern divide, California is more precisely divided into many regions, multiple of which stretch across the northern-southern divide.
