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  • While the legend describes how the Great Turkish Empire succeeded to the highest position in the World, it also explains how the creation of their descendance came about.

    The Turkish Legend of Derivation 2007

  • While the legend describes how the Great Turkish Empire succeeded to the highest position in the World, it also explains how the creation of their descendance came about.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • Consequently, people of African decent bonded together, without regard for ethnicity and race, forming a singular identity, based on our descendance from the survivors of the African diaspora, and our shared experience.

    President Obama and the Mixed Race Mix-up 2009

  • Thus, they left a spotless grassland to the descendance, without any trash…

    No Fat Clips!!! : Disappear 2007

  • It will be unfortunate if a perception were to develop that this a reflection of Muendane's descendance into intellectual pauperism.

    "A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE OR A FLAT SPARE TYRE" 1998

  • It will be unfortunate if a perception were to develop that this a reflection of Muendane's descendance into intellectual pauperism.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Dans cette descendance nous mettons notre gloire, et, par consequent, il faut que je contredise votre diagnostic de notre état deplorable.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 - Presentation Speech 1979

  • New-Yorck "qu'on ne peut y penser à abolir l'esclage, ni rien faire de préparatoire à cette intention, sans payer à chaque possesseur d'esclaves le prix actuel de la valeur de ses nègres jeunes et vieux, et le prix estimé de leur descendance supposée."

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

  • Haldat, C.H.A. de, 'Examen critique de l'histoire de Jeanne d'Arc, suivi de la relation de la fete celebree a Dom-Remi, en 1820, et de memoire sur la maison de Jacques d'Arc et sur sa descendance.'

    Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

  • Haldat, C.H.A. de, 'Examen critique de l'histoire de Jeanne d'Arc, suivi de la relation de la fête célébrée à Dom-Remi, en 1820, et de mémoire sur la maison de Jacques d'Arc et sur sa descendance.'

    Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880

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