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In one of the highlights of Obama's stay in Ireland, he began a brief visit to his ancestor's birthplace in the Irish hamlet of Moneygall on Monday.
Obama: US 'Inspired' by Ireland's Efforts to Bring Peace to Northern Ireland 2011
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In one of the highlights of Obama's stay in Ireland, he began a brief visit to his ancestor's birthplace in the Irish hamlet of Moneygall on Monday.
Obama: US 'Inspired' by Ireland's Efforts to Bring Peace to Northern Ireland 2011
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"But it shall be as you wish, so long as my ancient and very-much-to-be-respected ancestor's nose abide in its appointed place."
A NOSE FOR THE KING 2010
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Together we followed their ancestor's convict trail from the Cascades Female Factory to the day they held a Certificate of Freedom.
Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob Deborah Swiss 2010
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Julian Smith/European Pressphoto Agency Ned Kelly's great grand nephew Leigh Oliver, whose DNA provided some of the key evidence, with his ancestor's skeleton SYDNEY—In Australia, the law finally got its man.
Scientists Nab an Australian Outlaw Enda Curran 2011
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I love a book's unique heft in my hands, the creased corners that once held my place or marked a passage another reader found particularly notable, perhaps an inscription from a beloved author or an ancestor's fading "ex libris", the weight of the paper and the scent of ink and dust.
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Overall, Ms. McAdam Freud's work is, like her ancestor's theories, layered and complex — and often as provocative.
Chipping Away at the Life of the Mind Jessica Firger 2011
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If so, I have to say that you would make your ancestor's proud.
Dear Ms Carnation-Noble James Lloyd Davis 2011
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He was so impressed he decided that, having helped restore his ancestor's tomb, he would try to restore his reputation.
150 years after Civil War, descendants deal with legacy 2011
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Together we followed their ancestor's convict trail from the Cascades Female Factory to the day they held a Certificate of Freedom.
Deborah Swiss: The First Female Flash Mob Deborah Swiss 2010
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