Posted on 09/28/2020 12:51:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Written circa 1950. I love Sci Fi from that era.
Please don’t tell me that there aren’t other FReepers old enough to remember Whitewater?
I researched my ancestors on my Dad’s side and found my first ancestor was an Irish axe murderer in the 12th century. However, he had killed a Norman landlord after arguing about the costs of building a castle for the Normans, so he became a local hero.
we’re trying to forget......
Not as prolific as the khan? Maybe a nicer fella, just popular.
Hmm, read that, thought it was fiction. O well.
It makes a nicer story, anyway. :^)
By the Doobie Brothers?
I remember listening to Harry Truman when I was a kid.
Is that old enough?
My Cavendish ancestors came from the Isle of Man.
No one knows if the so-called Genghis DNA is actually from Genghis, perhaps one day his long-hidden tomb will be found and DNA retrieved. Could be some other Dark Ages east Asian rapist. Niall has a similar physical obscurity, was legendary, but has a large number of lines and people claiming to be his descendants, and the DNA matches up. :^)
Doc Smith - Author
At least he wasn’t a horse thief!
Hey, how did you find out about my, I mean, yeah, good point.
I’d love to go far back through my husband’s ancestors to see what other clans are in there. He’s part scottish and looks 100% the part. Looks great in his kilt too!
Same here. If you’ve ever watched/read When Worlds Collide, read After Worlds Collide.
Also, read This Island Earth, which actually explains the title and takes the story much further, without the mutant ant, though it was on the cover of my copy.
“I know thats Doc Smith, but I suspect that somehow, Heinlein would have approved... :P”
They were buddies.
Robert A. Heinlein reported that Smith had planned a seventh Lensman novel, set after the events described in Children of the Lens, which was unpublishable at that time (the early 1960s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Smith
All the comments down the line, I find this fascinating because the McDougall is in my blood line. The Mcdonalds were intermarried from that clan. Intermarriage brought the Stewarts into the clan and a split left James Stewart as Laird of the castle. He was the Black Knight of Lorn, and my direct family line. The old Castle Slaughter (spell?) still stands (barely) on a tiny island near Lorn. The Stewarts scattered to different parts of Scotland since Robert the Bruce. James Stewarts family left Scotland and went to Donnagal Ireland and from there to S.C. in the colonies. My great great grandfather migrated to Tenn. where my Great Grandfather R.W. Stewart became the father of James Garner Stewart, who was the father of H.V. Stewart, my father. My paternal grandmother was a McDonald. Funny how that works out, aye?
Even weirder, I've found that, no matter how far back I've been able to trace the family tree, all of my ancestors have managed to have at least one child. ;^)
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