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* Both are great-great-grandchildren of Britain's Queen Victoria, herself a descendant of Britain's Hanoverian kings, and Germany's Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and they have an estimated 400 royal relatives in Germany. The name of the British royal house was changed in...
To many Sudanese Moslems, Mohammed Ahmed was more than a national hero. He was El Mahdi-the Messiah-legendary descendant of the Prophet and leader of the Whirling Dervishes, who massacred the British at Khartoum in 1885, breaking 65 years of foreign occupation.
The heroine of the title story is Melba Toast, "the skinniest stripper in America." Blonde and randy, Melba wears the longest fake eyelashes in New York and the tightest clothes. Aging millionaires delight in lending her their Cadillacs and shower her with $100 bills. Melba is a direct descendant of...
Sir: The Klan was started, as you said [April 9], 100 years ago but, heaven knows, not as a social club for bored Southern gentry. It was formed by leading members of the Southern communities to protect their women and homes from Reconstruction carpetbagger thugs and freed Negroes. Many Negroes...
"King of the Junkies." For Cabot, the work on his alma mater's portfolio is a labor of love. A descendant of George Cabot (1752-1823), a Federalist leader and one of Massachusetts' first U.S. Senators, Paul Cabot naturally entered Harvard and received an M.B.A. from the business...