Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets real pleasure out of troweling around with roses, peonies and irises, because "among my flowers I can always feel the presence of deity." He would be horrified if accused of un-Christian prejudice. Yet in fact he springs from the same land and loins as his blood brother, Joseph...
...slave dealer and president of the Colonial Council; William Byrd II (1674-1744) owned Westover plantation, 179,000 acres overlooking the James River; Harry Byrd's father, Richard Evelyn Byrd (1860-1925), was speaker of the Virginia house of delegates and a U.S. district attorney; Harry's brother, the late Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, was the first man to fly to the North and South Poles...
...fratricide was too bloody and too recent. Loyalists refused to have their dead entombed with their enemies; Franco's own Nationalists objected to burial beside Loyalists. "Absolutely not," snapped Pilar Primo de Rivera, sister of Falangist Founder Jose Antonio, when she heard that Franco planned to move her brother's body from El Escorial (where Spain's kings are entombed...
...Lewis, met for the first time, paired off as golfing partners in Tacoma, were calling each other "Edgar" and "Louie" by the time they stepped onto the first green. When Truman was asked about his relationship with the former president, he said: "We're cousins." Ike's brother could empathize. "In that case, Louie, I suppose you've got the same kind of problem I have." Said Truman: "I think yours is worse than mine...
...have told police that the prowler was "tall as my husband, same build" (5 ft. 7 in., 160 Ibs.). In the public shock that followed, nobody got more sympathy than little (4 ft. 4½ in., 68 Ibs.), orphaned Dean Nimer. Dean accompanied his parents' remains, his brother, 2, and sister, 5 months, back to relatives in Orem, Utah...