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Post by Mansons2005 on Jul 20, 2015 10:49:51 GMT
That is an interesting story. I'm also impressed that you are so aware and knowledgeable about the life of a third cousin. I can only think of one third cousin with whom I've ever even been in contact. ... And that is only because she is also a genealogical researcher and contacted me once when she found a post I had put on a message board. Your third cousin's actions were also part of her life's legacy -- especially because you know about it and passed the information on to your readers and friends here. Oh, in our family knowing your 3rd, 4th and even 5th cousins was very common. How else could you claim relationships with the minor, former ruling houses of Europe? Which my cousin Tilda was - a Princess no less...............well, at least until her marriage. She married a "commoner" and while she could keep her title she lost her position in the succession - which of course is not a problem since the family no longer rules! Her nephew now holds the title. If he had died without issue (which he has) Tilda would have inherited the title. But it appears she was totally content with a quiet life in Berlin and New York after she married. She may have married a commoner, but he did have money, and they were married for over 50 years. I remember my mother chuckling over writing them an invitation - addressing it to HH Princess XXXXXX and Mr. XXXXXX........................
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Post by Fig on Jul 22, 2015 12:07:17 GMT
NOW it MAY be time to pass out of this life..................there was just and advert on TV for a car - using quotes from Keroac as the voice over............is nothing sacred? ? ...Apparently not!
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Post by Fig on Jul 22, 2015 12:10:39 GMT
A friend of mine knows a lot about that sort of thing (ruling houses of Europe, succession, people who no longer qualify, etc.). We used to have interesting conversations when we both lived in Chicago. Both of us moved away from there quite a while ago now. I knew almost nothing, so mostly learned about them from him. It's interesting that you are related to these people. Are you one of them, too?
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Post by Mansons2005 on Jul 25, 2015 0:49:15 GMT
I guess you could say that I am laterally related to some minor nobility - younger sons of younger sons sort of thing. So in common parlance I am descended from - not in the line of..............and this particular line is on the maternal side, though considering that I am the end of my families particular line, and if things had turned out differently during the war, as my grandfather's heir I could have inherited the the title, even through my mother. But fortunately, many of the "resident" German branch of the family did survive the war, so we don't have one of those "the great-great-great grand niece of Napoleon I is a dressmaker in Secaucus, N.J." ......which she is! Or was.................
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Post by Mansons2005 on Aug 16, 2015 14:00:02 GMT
Julian Bond is gone now too. How odd to remember fondly a man who cuffed you on the head and, screamed "Nigger Lover" into your face and spit on your shirt......
We "white bread/bred" thought that he and the others at SNCC were being overly dramatic when training us for the Freedom Rides. My God, were WE wrong. I had no idea that such ignorance and hate existed in this world until I was dragged off that bus and beaten by a group of men who hated me because I believed in American justice, though I think the more frightening was the sight of their wives/mothers/sisters/girl friends snarling and cheering them on. I am the richer for having known J.B, and Diane, Rudy and those other visionaries. I was always disappointed in Marion Barry's eventual failure as a person, let alone a visionary. The broken jaw I received that day has underscored some of the very principles I have tried to sustain until this day.................but I Have to admit, that I was inordinately proud of having to drink my meals through a straw for all of the weeks afterward............
Keep marching Julian, the world is the lesser without you...........
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Post by Pat on Aug 17, 2015 4:21:19 GMT
Between the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War, those days were disturbing and frightening to me even though I wasn't affected directly beyond the violence shown in TV newscasts.
As a student of human nature, I know how hatred and war come to be. But as someone who "sees a better way," I abhor the senselessness of it all.
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Post by Mansons2005 on Apr 16, 2017 15:33:05 GMT
Just got a "flash back" memory - of the statues of Mercury that used to sit on top of the traffic signals on Fifth Ave. in NYC...I wonder what happened to them............
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