Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Prince Vittorio Massimo. When Hannibal wiped out the Roman armies in Apulia at the Battle of Cannae, the Romans entrusted their fortunes to one Fabius Maximus, later known as Cunctator-the Delayer, because he made Hannibal chase him around Italy for eight years. He was Vittorio's ancestor. Now that the Arsolians brought him their troubles, Vittorio realized that something just as bad as Hannibal was at Arsoli's gates...
...fossils led to a revolutionary theory that modern man was descended from a giant rather than a pygmy predecessor. Aided by discoveries of Dr. Ralph von Koenigswald, he revamped the chronology of human evolution, placed the huge Gigantopithecus (450-550,000 years old) as man's earliest known ancestor...
...time of Ching Ming, the Pure Brightness Festival. Throughout the land the Chinese people, obeying ancient precepts, dutifully swept and tidied the graves of their ancestors. At the foot of a pine-dotted mountain in remote Chungpu, Shensi province, such a grave was swept. This was the tradition-hallowed tomb of the greatest ancestor of all, Huang Ti (Yellow Emperor), legendary Father of the Chinese race...
...Lake Success, N.Y. appeared scholarly Kung Teh-cheng, 28, for a look at U.N. headquarters. He proved to be the great-great-(to the 77th generation )grandson of Confucius, in the U.S. for conversations with U.S. scholars. To the press, Kung said of U.N.: his ancestor would have okayed the general idea...
...backs behind them, rugby resembles neither football nor soccer, although the pigskin itself is a compromise between the two. Add to all this running, passing, tackling but no blocking, and toss-outs from the sidelines and you have that strange hodge-page of field sports which is rugby, the ancestor of those same better-known American games...