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Abraham Lincoln holographs appearing on the auction block these days are likely to be routine memos from the 16th President -- a postmaster's appointment or some such. Much rarer is a Lincoln paper in his own hand on a key political issue. Sotheby's in New York City announced that...
Its best-known master was, of course, Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926). A descendant of Catalan metalsmiths, Gaudi introduced a wholly new idea of built space: an organic kind of space, not bounded by rigid lines, that undulates, flares, inflates, twists and contains stunning metaphors and moments of theater. The basement...
A 76th-generation descendant of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, Kung says he does not use his full name because no one seems to be able to get it right.
Another descendant of Greek immigrants is making political waves in Massachusetts this week.
"Since the tumor is the descendant of a single cell, only one cell, therefore, has changed enough to develop cancer," he says. This meant that some other cancer-causing event had taken place in that cell.