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Some members of the tribe of Dan (the seafarers of Israel) supposedly reached Ireland, where a certain Princess Tephi married one of their chieftains and founded the present royal family of Britain-making Queen Elizabeth II a lineal descendant of David. This Irish Israelite line is also thought to have preserved the stone Jacob used as a pillow. The stone, so goes the legend, was saved from the Jerusalem temple when it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and taken to Ireland, thence to Scotland. Now it is the Stone...
...Cornelius Shields was born far from the sea, in St. Paul, Minn., in 1895. Fitly enough, it was a notable year in U.S. sailing history, though the year's tidings made little ripple beyond the Eastern Seaboard. It was the year in which American yachtsmen, sailing Defender, a lineal descendant of the great ocean racer America,* defeated the British challenger for the tenth straight time in the America's Cup series. It was also the year in which the premier international championship for smaller boats, the Seawanhaka Cup series, was launched. Though he was in no position...
...June 1 item on the death of Andrew Jackson IV, great-grandson of President Andrew Jackson: Andrew Jackson "IV" was my mess sergeant in World War I, and I seem to remember that he explained his name to me as some adoption, saying that he was not a lineal descendant of the seventh President...
...Reader Longstreet (a lineal descendant of Confederate Hero General James Longstreet) is right. His old mess sergeant was the descendant of Andrew Jackson Jr., who was adopted at birth by Old Hickory and his wife Rachel...
...Count d'Orgel, in fact, was a lineal prig, living & breathing for social ritual The Orgels met François de Séryeuse at the circus one night and invited him to lunch. Soon he and Mahaut were talking about their childhood lives in the country. François words refreshed her like a gift of wild flowers...