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...right to travel in Austria. Wistfully, he added: "It was the journey of a man who loves his homeland although he does not know it." Did he plan to repeat the visit? Certainly, he replied. In fact, he planned one day to make his home in the land his ancestor conquered...
...years, the Leakeys have made such finds as Zinjanthropus, a manlike creature believed to have lived 1,750,000 years ago, and the 2,000,000-year-old Homo habilis, who was found among some of the earliest signs of "culture," and is believed to be a direct ancestor of modern...
When he read the play, the celebrated author's great-great-great-grandson was scandalized. So he brought suit in a Paris court to have his ancestor's name deleted from the title, and Judge Max Leboulanger quickly agreed. "Damaging to the family's good name," ruled the magistrate. So, thanks to the Comte Xavier de Sade, an eminently proper gentleman farmer from Condé-en-Brie, the name of his peculiar forebear, the Marquis de Sade, was ordered removed from the billboards advertising the Paris production of Marat Sade. Protested Producer Tony Azzi: "Real sadism...
Died. Suzanne Trelyvoux Chevrolet, 77, who was just 16 in 1905 when she married a dashing young racing-car driver named Louis Chevrolet, designer in 1911 of the ancestor of today's most popular car; after a long illness; in Detroit...
Most people believe that the caesarean operation is so named because Julius Caesar was born that way. Most people are wrong. Julius had a normal delivery, but he is linked to that operation because an early ancestor, Scipio Africanus, was excised from his mother's dead body. To mark his miraculous birth, Scipio's father called him "the cut-out one"-or in Latin, Caesar. Actually, the operation predates even the first Caesar by centuries. It is one of the oldest on record, but was performed only after the mother had died. The first known caesarean...