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...Setting the Record Straight Bush Family Heritage ? The genealogy chart "Paths of Power," showing the lineage of the Bush family, included President Franklin Pierce under the section headed "Distant Relatives" [Dec. 27-Jan. 3]. We said in error that he was an "ancestor of Barbara Bush's grandfather Scott Pierce." Franklin Pierce was a distant cousin of Scott Pierce, not his ancestor...
...flurry of new finds offers even more evidence that the pigeon you see in the park had an ancestor that ruled the earth. Writing in Nature over the past two weeks, Chinese and American paleontologists announced the discovery of one dinosaur that evidently slept curled up in a posture identical to that of a sleeping duck and another that is the first tyrannosaur ever found with feathers. The discovery of the tyrannosaur is significant because that family of dinosaurs is believed to be among the closest relatives of modern birds...
...stick to my own kind," she says. Even as an adult, she realized that her friendships with blacks had been superficial. "I thought we were friends, but I never had them over to my house, and they never had me to theirs," she says. She never knew of her ancestor Eston. That is because Eston was light-skinned enough to pass for white. In order to hide his connection with his darker-skinned Hemings relatives, he changed his name to E.H. Jefferson and cut ties with his black family. Westerinen finally discovered her connection in 1974, after Thomas Jefferson...
Three months ago, Wilson was a complete unknown. Now Redneck Woman is the No. 1 song on the country chart, and the rest of the nation cowers in fear at the crossover to come. Like its Achy Breaky ancestor, Redneck is such an exaggerated piece of cornpone--"I'm a redneck woman/I ain't no high class broad/I'm just a product of my raisin'/I say 'hey y'all' and 'Yee Haw'"--that it succeeds as both a genuine ode to hillbillies and a genuine joke about hillbillies. Wilson, who has obviously been studying her Shania Twain, sells...
...house as “Dumpster” and even state the superiority of Mather—which is naught but the box out of which Dunster came! I have even visited the Big Tom Tower of Christ Church College, Oxford and it is but a humbled ancestor of the majestic tower which tops the pinnacle of Dunster...