Word: louise
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She was an unschooled, 20-year-old part-time illustrator and amateur archaeologist in 1933 when she met the man whose name she would help make synonymous with the study of human origins. Louis Leakey was a famous scientist, 10 years her senior, married with two children, a Cambridge University...
And what research it was. Starting in the 1930s, when the prevailing view had the human family rooted in Asia, the Leakeys reversed scientific opinion and placed man's origins in Africa. But while Louis spun grand--sometimes grandiose--theories, Mary preferred the nitty-gritty of fieldwork. She spent long...
At Olduvai Gorge, the famous Great Rift Valley site in Tanzania where the Leakeys did much of their digging, Mary worked her fossil-hunting magic again 10 years later. While Louis lay feverish in his tent, she burst in, shouting "I've got him! I've got him--our man...
Every uprising knows its demons on a first-name basis. The French railed at Louis and Marie Antoinette; the Russians at Nicholas and Alexandra; the Filipinos at Ferdinand and Imelda; the Romanians at Nicolae and Elena. Now, in Serbia, the targets are Slobo and Mira, the nicknames of President Slobodan...
Let's face it--not too many polo greats hail from St. Louis, Missouri. Maybe that's what makes Zimmerman so good--he knows he has something to prove in a sport that is traditionally dominated by Californians.