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Churchill came of a military dynasty. His ancestor John Churchill had been created first Duke of Marlborough in 1702 for his victories against Louis XIV early in the War of the Spanish Succession. Churchill was born in 1874 in Blenheim Palace, the house built by the nation for Marlborough. As a young man of undistinguished academic accomplishment--he was admitted to Sandhurst after two failed attempts--he entered the army as a cavalry officer. He took enthusiastically to soldiering (and perhaps even more enthusiastically to regimental polo playing) and between 1895 and 1898 managed to see three campaigns: Spain...
When I stood in that doorway, looking out at the rolling Atlantic, and realized that some despairing, shackled ancestor of mine might have passed that way...well, in the words of a great Negro spiritual, "my dungeon shook" and I was moved beyond my power to describe it. After Hillary and Chelsea Clinton visited Goree Island last year, the First Lady declared it "one of the most heartbreaking monuments anywhere in the world." The Door of No Return, she said, "represents nothing less than the depths of human depravity...
...kept alive at various culture repositories ever since. Their findings suggest that the 1918 virus came to people from pigs, not from birds--although Taubenberger cites studies by Webster and others indicating that human viruses and the pig flu of the 1930s may share a common avian ancestor. This suggests that sometime before 1918, a bird virus could have entered the mammalian population and, through reassortment, produced the pathogenic flu virus known...
...known that HIV crossed over to humans from non-human primates," says TIME Medical correspondent Christine Gorman, "What's not yet explained is whether it began in humans as a single, distinct virus or as the family of viruses it is now." The 1959 virus seems to be an ancestor of two modern strains, suggesting that HIV had already infected humans before it began to mutate...
...with the powerful, as they had been in life." He found, of course, violence and the mixing of black blood with white. But the voices rising from letters, family papers and the tea-colored pages of "blanket books"--records of provisions given to slaves--told uglier truths. One Ball ancestor, Henry Laurens, the first president of the Continental Congress, was also the largest slave trader in America...