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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:34 PM Original message |
Girl discovers all US Presidents except one are related to a former king. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. So we are really under the rule of some king who just changes out his successor? |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. no, because many of us are probably related to that same king |
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PatSeg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 10:39 AM Response to Reply #6 |
31. It isn't that most people don't have some connection to |
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Buns_of_Fire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 10:55 AM Response to Reply #6 |
37. 200 million descendants, my, my... When did he find time to govern? |
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monmouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
2. The birthers are not gonna like this one little bit...Nosiree...n/t |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
3. I knew Martin Van Buren was special. |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #3 |
24. He was. The only US president whose first language wasn't English. What was it? |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
4. Most of us are likely to be related to that king too, though |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
5. yeah, tons of us are related to that asshole, a.k.a. one of the villains of the Robin Hood legends |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
7. I can do one better: all the US presidents are related to all former kings. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. this is true |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 05:53 PM Response to Original message |
8. We've finally proved that all Presidents except Van Buren have ruled by The Divine Right of Kings. |
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ElboRuum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
10. Waiting for the follow up... |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
11. Practically everyone with any European ancestry at all |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 07:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Being from Eastern European Jewish decent, I'm definitely not. Maybe King David? Solomon? lol! |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 07:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Adam! |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 07:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Ha! |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 08:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Larry King? |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 07:17 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Oy gevalt! Excuse me while I go and |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #12 |
38. Ashkenazi? nt |
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Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 01:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
39. Most likely, very few East Europeans are related |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 05:05 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Being descended from Estonians |
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Dawson Leery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 09:32 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. I will have to look into this, |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 08:38 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Yup, if you go back far enough you are descended from most people in a large area. |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
13. I am a distant cousin of the present Queen of Norway! |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 08:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. So is my assistant. And she and I are 7th cousins, and each of us is also |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 09:02 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Small world! |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 08:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Once I was the King of Spain |
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benld74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
16. I find that VERY difficult to believe,,,,, |
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Nailzberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-26-11 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
18. Her research was probably asking her grandfather for a school project idea. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 09:35 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. yeah, I've heard this a few times before. n/t |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
25. If you've got British ancestors (as many of us do) you're |
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PatSeg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 10:42 AM Response to Reply #25 |
32. So true |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 08:09 PM Response to Reply #25 |
41. It's a small island |
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Dyedinthewoolliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
27. Well |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
28. I guess this explains BLACKADDER |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
29. which means they're all descendants of Eleanor of Acquitaine |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
30. And that, my friends, is precisely why the Skull and Bones club has the skull of Martin Van Buren |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 10:50 AM Response to Reply #30 |
36. ! |
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divvy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
33. I have heard that % of "Royal Blood" was a determinant. |
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alcibiades_mystery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
34. But Van Buren was a gang leader |
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tblue37 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-27-11 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
35. One of my favorite factoids (from _Harpers Magazine_): the statistical |
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