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* She is a descendant of the 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia who, as an admiral, led the Spanish Armada against England in 1588.
Nasli Heeramaneck migrated to the U.S. from India in 1927 with two main possessions: $75 in cash and a trunkful of objets d'art and Oriental miniatures. The son of a Bombay art dealer and a descendant of a long line of Parsis (a sect that left Persia in...
The criticisms of U.S. Catholic programs in Latin America won Illich the enmity of Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, a chief sponsor of such aid programs. Illich's other ideas and the innovations at Cuernavaca provoked mutterings at the Vatican. Cardinal Spellman remained an ally; shortly before his...
Over the years, the Post had proved so durable that it seemed death might never come. Oldtime editors rather liked the notion that the magazine was the direct descendant of a publication founded by Benjamin Franklin, even though they knew the claim was flawed.* Irreverently they nicknamed a Franklin bust...
Searching out the Patriot's fate, Dr. Pool over the years turned up no fewer than seven deathbed confessions by pirates, all of whom described boarding such a ship, looting it and forcing crew and passengers to walk the plank. One pirate told of a lady passenger who asked...