Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Georgia's first colonial settlement, Savannah has always drawn Americana-loving retirees and teachers planning school trips. But a more recent wave of visitors now seeks out such outre characters as drag queen Lady Chablis, flamboyant chanteuse Emma Kelly and the voodoo priestess Minerva. TIME staff writer Ginia Bellafante says it's all part of the mania inspired by journalist John Berendt's long-running true-crime bestseller, which just passed the one-year mark on The New York Times bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case...
...afriend occasionally goad others into performingfor them. "Sometimes my friend 'Hee-Haw' and Ilure unsuspecting people on IRC into privaterooms to have fake netsex. It's really funnysometimes, the shit people are into. 'Hee-Haw'either pretends to be a jock or a drag queen witha read silk kimono, fuzzy mules and a cigaretteholder. Of course, they could be faking at theother...
...their annual bonuses. Now, in Barings outposts outside Britain, passports were being confiscated, properties frozen, company credit cards rescinded, salaries withheld-just as tax time approached. "We were a bank with a crest, not a trademark," said one Hong Kong employee in dismay. Indeed, Barings was one of the Queen's banks (she could lose as much as $1 million), and the founding family currently boasts five different hereditary peerages, more than any other English clan since the Middle Ages. The Princess of Wales is a great granddaughter of a Baring. But last week control of Barings plc appeared...
Guinier was characterized in the media as a "quota queen" for her views on minority voting rights. In fact, she has written in support of proportional voting, used in some communities in the South, an alternative voting method designed to increase minority representation in governmentposts...
...have ended his political career, if the Republicans hadn't gotten to him first. In fact, Cuomo would just have been following the lead of his predecessor Lord Cornbury, the Colonial governor of New York in 1702. Cornbury, using the excuse that he had to he had to represent Queen Anne as best he could, regularly wore women's clothing to the state's Assembly. His portrait--in which he sports "a gown, stays, tucker, long ruffles, cap," and a five o'clock shadow--still hangs in the New York Historical Society...