Word: ancestors
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State religion of Japan since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has been Shintoism ("The Great Way of the Gods"), a native Japanese system of nature and ancestor worship. Shrine Shinto is worship of the Imperial ancestors. Since the invasion of Manchuria Japanese nationalists have emphasized its religio-patriotic importance...
...save this country from encroachers and despoilers we are going to need all that wild piratical blood. My ancestor (remember Commodore Edward M. Preble of Old Ironsides fame) rode into this Ohio country as an itinerant Methodist preacher . . . a pistol in his belt and a jug of Monongahela whiskey tied to his saddle. He was a pioneer, ripe for a fight or a frolic at any moment. He found both, aplenty...
...Japan's five oldest families. He is in fact descended from a god who sat in on the Heavenly Conference summoned by the Sun Goddess before she sent messengers down to create the Japanese Islands. His first human progenitor was such an empire builder that today the ancestor's face ennobles ten-yen notes, and his diary, which Prince Konoye owns, is valued at $12,500 a page. Konoye's father was an intimate, and he has been a protégé, of Prince Kimmochi Saionji, last of the Genro (Elder Statesmen...
Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, son of Viscount Boyne and nephew of the Earl of Harewood (brother-in-law of George VI). His ancestor Sir Frederick Hamilton had distinguished himself fighting Germans under Sweden's great King Gustavus Adolphus. Guardsman Hamilton-Russell's son Gustavus Michael George, aged 8 and the final survivor of his family, is now heir to Lord Boyne...
...Washington. D. C., a census taker stumbled into a wooden shack, found a grizzled old man living with eight pet canaries. His name: Daniel Webster. His age: 74. His occupation: carpenter. His collateral ancestor: the late (1782-1852) Senator from Massachusetts...