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Though he operated in Colorado, Adrian Williams dressed like the stereotypical Los Angeles gang member--baggy clothes, gold chains, a blue head rag. He went by the name ``A-Bone'' and allegedly led a local group called 187 Anybody Killer Crips, modeled after a Los Angeles original (187 is the State of California code for homicide). He had even tried to emulate Los Angeles-style interstate drug dealing, but he had been robbed of $35,000 while trying to purchase cocaine in Los Angeles. Now, however, Q guaranteed to ship him a regular supply of dope in return for half...
...more endearing qualities is its ability to rank on popular culture from all perspectives. They successfully fulfill their attempt at vicious comedy with songs such as "I Left my Gun in San Francisco," which is about killing hippies, sung from the point of view of the killer. Thom Bone, one of several loud bass players, warns all Birkenstock-wearers, "I'm an easy going guy/but I'm even more mellow when hippies...
...Magnons were not the inarticulate Alley Oops of popular myth. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers with a fairly developed technology. They wore animal-skin clothing and moccasins tailored with bone needles, and made beautiful (and highly efficient) laurel-leaf-shaped flint blades. Living in small groups, they constructed tents from skins, and huts from branches and (in what is now Eastern Europe) mammoth bones...
...scales-the work of early artists popped up in several corners of the globe. Archaeologists have found more than 10,000 sculpted and engraved objects in hundreds of locations across Europe, southern Africa, northern Asia and Australia. The styles range from realistic to abstract, and the materials include stone, bone, antler, ivory, wood, paint, teeth, claws, shells and clay that have been carved, sculpted and painted to represent animals, plants, geometric forms, landscape features and human beings-virtually every medium and every kind of subject that artists would return to thousands of years later...
...grandson of Grand Duchess Maria, the third daughter of Csar Nicholas II; either Maria or her sister Anastasia, some have theorized, escaped the Bolsheviks' 1918 massacre of Russia's royal family. Last October, Alexis gave a blood sample for testing to compare his DNA with that in bone samples taken from the massacre site; no official findings have been released...