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...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "A Few Castles in Spain" focuses on the current Duchess of Alba, her husband, her children and her castles. Along the way, she also mounts a defense of her notorious ancestor, the "Naked Maya" of Goya...
...Ishmael is traditionally considered the ancestor of the Arabs, Isaac of the Jews...
Since most of the Vietnamese are ancestor-worshippers, whether they are Buddhists, Confucians, or Christians, they also take the above tradition literally. Once the grave-yards of their ancestors are destroyed, they would do anything to "revenge for the souls of the dead" or otherwise they and all their children after them will not be able to "raise their heads" (khong co the cat dau cat eo noi) which means that they will not be able to get anything anywhere in life. In fact, in the past, the destruction of another person's ancestral grave-yard was a capital crime...
Anthropologists agree that the family of man and the family of apes sprang from a common ancestor. But they have never been able to agree on the time at which man and apes began to take separate paths. As recently as World War II, it was believed that manlike creatures began to evolve five or six million years ago. In the years after the war, the discovery and dating of skeletal remains pushed the existence of man's direct ancestors back to 10 million and then to 14 million years. Now famed Kenya-born Anthropologist Louis Leakey has evidence...
Egyptian Diggings. Although he is currently raising funds to finance future diggings in Kenya, Leakey feels that he has little chance of finding the common ancestor of both man and the apes-a creature he believes may have lived some 40 million years ago, in the Oligocene epoch. Yale Paleontologist Elwyn Simons is working in Egypt's Fayum province, Leakey notes, an area rich in material from the Oligocene. His somewhat sad prediction: "He will be the man who gets the common link...