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But first, Warner was searching for a connection between the present and China's brief but glorious seafaring past. In Nanjing he found it: a direct, 19th-generation descendant of the Grand Eunuch's favorite adopted nephew, named Zheng Zhihai (which means from the sea). This modest 53-year-old...
The da Vinci is a descendant of a U.S. Department of Defense project in the 1980s to create a robot that would allow surgeons to operate on critically wounded soldiers from a safe distance, or even perform emergency surgery on astronauts on Mars. The scientists envisioned easily deployed surgical units...
If this is a flea market, as some detractors say, it's the most extensive flea market in human history, covering most of the planet's surface and many centuries of our past. Our collective memories are inventoried here, albeit briefly. A quick search reveals current auctions for an ancient...
Zecha never set out to create retreats for the rich. The descendant of a Czech-Indonesian family that acquired plantations in Indonesia in the 19th century, Zecha was educated in the U.S. and began his career in Asia as a journalist and publisher. In the early 1970s he helped found...
ONLY A MATTER OF TIME Orlando Montagu, descendant of the fourth Earl of Sandwich (the 18th century Brit who first wed beef to bread), has opened a sandwich service in London. On the menu: beef with grated horseradish and creme fraiche; char-grilled tiger prawns in chili jam. Said he...