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I'm a history teacher and tutor.
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Which bit of "Irish convicts" didn't you understand? They "some of them" had no love for the British empire.
It'll have to be a long spit from Ireland to Australia. As I said, I was born in Australia and so were my parents.
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It's tiresome that people continually post that the monarchy costs taxpayers in the UK money when this is clearly not the case.
So what? De Valera signed the condolence book at the German embassy after a certain person died. A grade campaigner.
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Cousin-loving.
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To elaborate more; five of Queen Elizabeth's cousins were hidden away in a mental hospital on the same day 46 years ago.
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And which cousins were these? Members of the royal family or Bowes-Lyons (who aren't even royalty)?
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As the queen mother married into the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, I suppose the mentally handicapped cousins were indeed British aristocracy rather than royal family proper.
Regardless, inbreeding in the royal families / close aristocracy / Rothschild and other assorted people with big sway on the planet is rather interesting.
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Yes? So what's your point? George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are very distant cousins descendants of the Royal House of Scotland (the Stewarts and Edward III)
As I've already said cousin-marriage has been quite popular amongst all classes throughout history. Anthropologist Robin Fox of Rutgers University, suggests that it is likely that 80% of all marriages in history may have been between second cousins or closer.
lol Rothchild conspiracy nut.
School photographs from small villages in 1900s england are particularly interesting. I've tried to identify ancestors 5 know must be in the photo, but half the kids (of the same sex) could easily be your ancestor.
I think marriage is meant in its loosest term, its only a recent widespread thing in those terms.
losing 2/3 of the total population in the plague means many bloodlines were simply exterminated
Go back 25 generations and you (an individual) have a possible 33 million ancestors on one generation line what was the words population 500-700 years ago
Pack animals like lions have one male servicing the whole pride while he is the alpha male, then another takes over. a lot more female lions pass on their genes than males
losing 2/3 of the total population in the plague means many bloodlines were simply exterminated
Go back 25 generations and you (an individual) have a possible 33 million ancestors on one generation line what was the words population 500-700 years ago
Pack animals like lions have one male servicing the whole pride while he is the alpha male, then another takes over. a lot more female lions pass on their genes than males
Also since individual records were kept (1840 onwards), it may have had a discouraging effect on cousin hook ups. before that, whos to know?
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Given that Robin Fox is an anthropologist (he founded the department of anthropology at Rutgers University in 1967 and has remained a professor there for the rest of his career) would suggest that he would make a distinction between history and pre-history. That roughly occurred about 3,500 BC in the Middle East and later in other parts of the world.
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If there was no intermarriage between related people, each person living today would have 33,554,432 individual ancestors in roughly AD 1200.
The combined population of Italy, France and England in the thirteenth century has been estimated somewhere between 33 and 40 million.
The population of the world in 1200 has been estimated to have been roughly 450 million.
40 generations back and we would have 1,099,511,627,77 individual ancestors, assuming no inter-marriage. That's about the year AD 750
The world population in AD 800 has been estimated between 220 million and 261 million.
actually this is a myth in almost all pack animals its been observed not only of males other the "alpha" sneakily getting sex on the sly, but packs often exchange males with males that get accepted into a new pack more likely to become the next "alpha" in fact even the concept of an alpha male has never been observed in the wild outside of hominids. alpha males seem to be a trait only inherit in primates.
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Never seen you criticise Churchill for doing and saying much, much worse things.
came across this and just had to perform a bump. warning- profanity included.
this one from a few months ago.
this one from a few months ago.
