Word: ancestored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which I beg to enclose herewith, I take the liberty of applying to your Excellency with the most entreating prayer to consider whether I may not receive from your Government some material compensation for the services rendered to the American nation during its glorious struggle for independence by my ancestor, Casimir Pulaski...
...next morning over heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose to draw deadly bead upon the Ovis Poli (sheep ancestor) and other fauna for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME...
Then Paul Revere, great-great-grandson of the rider, carried the lanterns down the aisle, up narrow stairs into the belfry. Mr. Dawes went out across narrow Salem Street, glanced up at the flaming jets, thought of his ancestor, William, who also rode to Lexington and Concord...
About 2,000 B.C., Abraham ("father of multitudes") was the Patriarch of the Hebrews ("those from the other side"?they came from Ur in Baby- lonia). Abraham had two sons: Ishmael by Hagar (ancestor of the Ismaelites or Arabians), Isaac by Sarah ("princess"). Isaac married Rebekah and they begat Jacob called Israel, the ancestor of the Jews. His male progeny became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel...
...direct descendant of the Major John Buttrick who led the attack of the minute men across the Concord bridge during the defense of the town by the revolutionary army. Part of the program will be a sham battle in which he will take the part of his famous ancestor and reenact the historic contest...