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Being a "Christian" isn't an ethnic, ancestral, or nominal thing for many, if not most, Christian-Americans.— Center for American Progress Action Fund
This one-hour journalistic exploration by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Shelley Saywell takes the viewer beyond the headlines and into the daunting, determined minds and hearts of Hamas, a movement formed in 1987 with one declared aim - to destroy the hard-won New State of Israel through Jihad: through applied resistance to Israels occupation of what Palestinians perceived - and perceive - as their ancestral land.— Torrentreactor.Net
In many cases, a single ancestral organism can give rise to numerous other genetically distinct organisms.— Wired Top Stories
For instance, let's say that our ancestral organism, organism A, lives happily in a nice tropic environment.— Wired Top Stories

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