Posted on 07/01/2006 1:23:09 PM PDT by AntiGuv
Don't forget Richard II.
At least he was into girls, not boys.
....well the record isnt definitive on Richard 11...after being deposed and imprisoned by Henry Bolingbroke who bacame Henry IV, the first of the Lamcastrian Kings, it is said that he just gave up,quit eating etc, and "died of pure melancholy"...although it is suspected that Henry's minions may have hastened that along somewhat, since as long as he was still alive he posed a threat to the legitimacy of Henry's reign
It's easy to quit eating when your food supply is dependent on a jailer whose interests would be served if you conveniently died without showing any marks of foul play....
...speaking of which...it is for that very reason that Edward II was dispatched by having a red hot fire poker shoved up his wazoo....not a mark on him...'twas a grievous mortal sin to kill the King....on a sidenote, he was removed from the throne by Parliament's passing what were called the Articles of Deposition in 1327...and it is from this that all subsequent laws governing impeachment were abstracted
Brooke Shields descended from five popes??
If Charles Martel (not sure if I'm related) hadn't won the battle of Tours in 732, I figure that all my ancestors would have been Muslims.
GENEALOGY n. The tracing of descent from ancestors; alternatively, a particular account of such tracing for a specific individual or family. In the English-speaking world, all those who take up this pursuit announce sooner or later that they can trace their descent back to Edward III. This should surprise no one with a rudimentary knowledge of mathematics; there are probably one or two well-bred basset hounds who could also trace their descent back to Edward III. What is really surprising is that Edward III seems to be regarded as some kind of ultimate antecedent beyond whom the genealogist does not venture, even though anyone descended from Edward III is also descended from his father Edward II, and so on. The author can guess only that the prudery of the late Victorian age (when genealogy became a family pastime) chose to draw a veil before the memory of Edward II in view of the sybaritic Plantagenet’s bisexual reputation and appalling death (see impalement).— Peter Bowler, The Superior Person’s Book of Words.
Back when cable was still pretty new, in the early '80s, that movie and "Moonraker" were the only things that played on HBO for MONTHS ON END.
My sister and I watched both movies over and over when we went to visit my dad, and we memorized them both, much to our mother's chagrin, considering how wildly inappropriate they were for preteens.
But "History of the World" was and is funny as hell.
In my case, I learned that I was distantly related not only to LBJ, but to Britney Spears (at least if this is correct). And if that wasn't bad enough, it appears that I'm distantly related to dear "cousin" Britney through two different branches. [gagging]
Upon hearing this, my children requested that I please STOP any further research!
I thought we were all from africa
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Scandinavian Ancestry -- Tracing Roots to Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan International | Summer 2000 | Thor Heyerdahl
Posted on 12/15/2001 5:43:28 PM EST by spycatcher
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Human populations are tightly interwoven
Nature | September 29, 2004 | Michael Hopkin
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Roots Of Human Family Tree Are Shallow
ABC News | 7-1-2006 | Matt Clenson
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Bttt...
I have it on good authority that I am related to a paramecium on my mother's side (a Jewish paramecium, of course--he was in the diamond trade).
Of course, we also need to keep in mind that some of these genealogies prepared for us commoners in the 19th century had faked royal ancestors inserted. I recall reading about an ex-monk who purported to be an itinerant professional genealogist. He actually invented a medieval French king, and invented dozens of fake descendants (who never ruled of course) of the fake king for insertion into genealogies of people hoping to find royal ancestors. I suppose it was a Victorian failing.
OTOH, the New England Historical Genealogical Society has (or had) a publication that stated that the last of the Plantagenet kings of England has something like one million descendants in the US alone, and that his father has around ten million. :')
The royal house of Jordan (the Hashemite dynasty) claims direct descent from Mohammed. The current king is something like the 33rd generation or somethin'.
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