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Since Ball began his work, other whites have shown up at the South Carolina Historical Society, seeking to make similar connections. Filmmaker Macky Alston, who sought Ball's advice, won the Sundance Freedom of Expression award this year for Family Name, a documentary of his search for descendants of Alston...
SEATTLE: While Boeing awaits the final word from Europe on its proposed swallowing of aerospace rival McDonnell Douglas Corp., the company's owners are fully behind the deal. At a Seattle meeting of Boeing shareholders, the $15 billion merger was approved by slightly more than 99 percent. The holdout? James...
CLARKSBURG, West Virginia: FBI affidavits show the Mountaineer Militia planned to assassinate Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller. The militia, charged last October with conspiring to bomb the FBI's national fingerprint headquarters in West Virginia, said the hits would be carried out as part...
Gardiner also eats a lot of Tabasco Sauce. Through her mother, whose maiden name is McIlhenny, Gardiner is a direct descendant of the inventor of the spicy pepper condiment. The family still makes the sauce on Avery Island, Louisiana, after which Gardiner was named.
It was the idea of a guy named Bonaparte to invent the FBI in 1908 (Charles Joseph, the Emperor's descendant who served as Teddy Roosevelt's Attorney General), and once initial suspicions were allayed that it would turn into some big, secretive, czarist police force, it did precisely that...