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<------ decended from those who spanked the Habsbourg, and those who spanked the Rooskies 
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"Everything for the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State" - Benito Mussolini -
I beay you all hollow - my great-grandfather WAS a king .Comment
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If you mean William III (married to Mary II) he 'got restless' with some of his male friends too.Originally posted by Starchild
My ancestors tagged along with William of Orange for a bit. If he got a bit restless around the chamber maids, I could be related to the British and Dutch monarchies.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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My family on my father's side were peasants in Britanny. Because of the lack of any lore in the family, I strongly doubt it has ever been close to royal blood.
My mother's side is Jewish, making it unfit for being close to royal blood as well, in Europe at least. Well, maybe not, as Isabella's husband had Jewish ancestors, and my family had lived in Spain. Maybe I am really related to the guy, as Molly said
"I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- DisComment
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.Haven't been here for ages....Comment
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Yes, but presumably he didn't get the pregnant.Originally posted by molly bloom
If you mean William III (married to Mary II) he 'got restless' with some of his male friends too.Comment
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O'course!Gee, last time I can remember people making fun of last names was grade school, nice to see you are staying young,
"Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the worldComment
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As far as I know, my ancestors were humble Norwegian fishermen and German peasants.Comment
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<------------- ancestors massacred the MacDonald clan and illustrated the Lindisfarne Gospels.
...not at the same time, obviously. A bit difficult to do fine gold-leaf work with a murdered Scotsman hanging off your sword blade."Love the earth and sun and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown . . . reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency" - Walt WhitmanComment
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not many people in the world with my last name,"I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburgerComment
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My aunt and uncle did a search as well, and found at least 1 ancestor who WAS William the Conqueror.Originally posted by Berzerker
My aunt did a geneological search and found at least 1 ancestor who fought under William the Conqueror.
I have a thatched-roof cottage that I need you to burn down for me."I predict your ignore will rival Ben's" - Ecofarm
^ The Poly equivalent of:
"I hope you can see this 'cause I'm [flipping you off] as hard as I can" - Ignignokt the MooniniteComment
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my uncle did a seach and found that as far back as he could trace, my family consists of working class cockneys and a welsh miner, hooray!
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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Obey me.Originally posted by Ecthelion
actually on my paternal grandmother's side there are some French de Rohan lines... that means I'm one of them Rohirrim from LotR
"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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my wifes family claims to be descended from Rashi, the very prominent medieval Jewish commentator on the Bible and other Jewish texts. I cant vouch for the accuracy of that, but given that he had several grandchildren, that a marriage to a descendant was presitigios, and given how tight the late medieval demographic bottleneck is for Ashkenazic Jews (virtually all descended from fewer than 50,000 in late 15thc or so) it wouldnt surprise me if its true.
In turn its traditionally held that Rashi is a descendant of the line of King David ( I presume via the Babylonian Exilarchs, who claimed Davidic descent) Of course medieval era geneologies of this type are notoriously unreliable. Still, QOTM and POTM can at least claim royal descent from King David. (unfortunately this is through the female line - Rashi had no sons - so they are not in line to produce the moshiach)"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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Emperor (in fact, Dynasty) totally pwns a mere King.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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