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The Solemn Record. Behind the Unknown Soldier and his solitary guard lay the gently rolling countryside of northern Virginia and the 408 carefully tended acres of Arlington National Cemetery. In the cemetery lie the remains of 87,000, most of them military men and women, and on the headstones of...
The British were talking of melding Uganda into white-dominated Kenya and Tanganyika to form an East African Federation. The Kabaka, ruler of a proud old kingdom where white men cannot even buy land without great legal difficulties, wanted no part of a multiracial federation. He demanded separation from Uganda...
Another group of strong Tories on the Row was the Vassall family. Colonel John Vassall and Penclope, the widow of Colonel Henry Vassall, both fled with their families rather than live with the rabble of rebellion. A relative by marriage, Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Oliver, who was a member of the...
But Lizzie's new success has not made her forget the beauties of the good old days. "I remember here come Jelly Roll Morton passing our house, on the way to play in Storyville," she muses. "I recollect Ory and Oliver. It used to be it was so hot...
New World was William, a major genera! of Oliver Cromwell's England and one oi the 63 judges who condemned King Charles I to death. After the Restoration he fled to the American wilderness, where for decades he was a fugitive from the vengeance of Charles II. With his...