Queen Elizabeth II, 86, the twenty-sixth most powerful woman in the world, only became a monarch because she was one of two girls.

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The Weequahic neighborhood had been built on farm lots at the undeveloped southwest edge of Newark just after World War One, some half dozen of the streets named, imperially, for victorious naval commanders in the Spanish-American War and the local movie house called, after FDR's fifth cousin and the country's twenty-sixth president the Roosevelt.

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