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An investigator for the Public Trustee, Abby Chung is assigned her first case: to find the next-of-kin for an elderly woman named Beatrice, who has died without any family or friends to claim her. As Abby uncovers more details of Beatrice’s lonely life, she is confronted by her own de...
The Palestinians claim that it is their perseverance and faith, their willingness to suffer great losses, that ensures their ultimate victory. But the source of their steadfastness—their ability to replenish their arsenal and refurnish their tunnels and other military infrastructure—is, in fact, a...
Bi-Racial - Refers to a child that has heritage of two races, usually African-American and another race. Biological Child - The child of parents by birth. Bipolar Disorder - A category of mental illnesses in which mood and affect are disturbed - characterized by irregular cycles of mania ...
claim: Sometimes intransitive in BrE (used with for), strictly transitive in AmE. meet: AmE uses intransitively meet followed by with to mean "to have a meeting with", as for business purposes (Yesterday we met with the CEO), and reserves transitive meet for the meanings "to be introduc...
going. But Beaux had an additional, more personal draw: she was half French and was ready to claim her father’s heritage as part of her own. Once her first painting (Les Derniers Jours D’Enfance)was accepted at the Paris Salon of 1887, it seemed as though she’d earned the right ...
Claim: Elizabeth Warren lives in a multi-million-dollar mansion and relied on scant Native American heritage claims to land a job at Harvard. Rating: Mixture About this rating What's True Elizabeth Warren's home is likely worth more than the average American home, and the senator has often ...
some decided to go to the Black Hills and claim some land but that failed after a couple generations of war with the Sioux and Cheyenne. In the process they banded with some nearby Apache survivors and together, they became the Kiowa-Apache. They were then pushed south and west to where ...
passages about the cleaning and restoration of the painting as well as the research into its provenance. The plot is suspenseful, and you’re never sure whether Annie will be able to keep the painting safe from the many interested parties who would do anything, pay anything, to lay claim ...
The concheros’ claim to an Aztec heritage is given considerable credence despite some Spanish mixture. In the organization of, and participation in, dance according to priestly or social status, the earlier Aztec dances were images of the completely theocratic government. A far cry from the ...