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There are individual pages for all of Queen Liz's children and grandchildren and several of her more distant rellies, yes, including Diana. The 10th most frequently asked question on the site is about the names of the Queen's corgis (Emma, Linnet, Monty, Holly and Willow). Less asked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queen Elizabeth's Posh New Web Page | 2/14/2009 | See Source »

The story that Moraes--nicknamed the Moor by his parents--most urgently wants to tell is how his "happy childhood in Paradise" ended in a bitter exile decreed by his mother Aurora da Gama Zogoiby, a famous painter and one of India's most controversial women. But since he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WRITING TO SAVE HIS LIFE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

Critics, like anti-biotechnology activist Jeremy Rifkin, decried the FDA decision, arguing that tampering with nature could endanger consumers. In fact, though, many seemingly natural foods, including corn, nectarines and navel oranges, never existed before humans began to cross-breed -- a form of genetic engineering that simply takes a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Soon to A Salad Near You | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

> A Rhode Island Red is (a) a cross-breed between a Suffolk and Dorset, (b) a member of the Communist Party, (c) a variety of muskmelon, (d) a plant disease, (e) a breed of chickens.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Babes in Farm Land | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

Assembly President Mangi Slim Family. Born Sept. 15, 1908, in Tunis, Mongi Slim (pronounced Monjee Sleem) is an improbable cross-breed of Mediterranean civilizations: Greek, Turkish and Arab. One great-grandfather, a Greek named Kafkalas, was captured as a boy by pirates, sold as a mameluke (white slave) to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: REBEL PARLIAMENTARIAN POLITICO | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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