Known as Freedman, these blacks are descended from slaves once owned by the Nation.
Everyone alive today is descended from a long line of people who did reproduce themselves.
The exceptions, such as hoofed animals and birds have all descended from five-fingered ancestors.
His mother grew up in an upper-middle-class family but was descended from less-than-noble traders and farmers.
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This suggests that all present-day bison are descended from a very small group of animals.
Each local whale has been photographed and classified by matriline, or a family of whales descended from a matriarch.
It seems, therefore, that all of Hawaii's geese, both extinct and living, are descended from Canada geese.
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Over a few short years, the bluetooth earpiece has descended from futuristic marvel to technological faux pas.
At Valletta airport. the Pope carefully descended from the Syrian Airlines plane that carried him from Damascus.
In other words, we are descended from hominid wusses who thrived because they kept away from spiders.
"We're certainly not claiming that this insect descended from the trilobites or anything like that, " comments Professor Hoy.
Descended from Polish peasant farmers, Ms. von Rydingsvard was born to Polish parents in Deensen, Germany, in 1942.
Mr. Wallace has descended from planes in various guises, dressed in a chicken costume and a toga, for instance.
As Morgan descended from the carriage and hurried up the steps of J.
"The authors make a compelling case that H. floresiensis could be descended from an early Homo erectus population, " she said.
We're different because we're descended from those who had the courage and drive to leave feudal, excessive taxing, warmongering governments.
There are more than 200 of them in total, thought to be descended from horses set free by soldiers during WWI.
In it, she conjures sea creatures descended from slaves who drowned during the voyage from Africa, known as the Middle Passage.
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Bees, which are descended from predatory wasps, turned from eating other insects to feeding on flowers some hundred million years ago.
The largest Christian population in the Middle East is the Egyptian community of Copts - Christians descended from the ancient Egyptians.
Polynesians are descended from southeast Asians, and moved across the Pacific from west to east, eventually reaching remote islands such as Easter and Hawaii.
Dedicated fans of the science fiction series Roswell, about teens who are descended from aliens, banded together to launch a Web campaign.
At the end of his routine, Uchimura awkwardly descended from the horse.
Welsh, who was descended from a wealthy merchant family, might have seemed an unlikely investigator of military abuse at the edge of empire.
Using ATDnet, Dr Bennett and his colleagues were able to identify 790 bolts which had descended from the ash cloud created by Eyjafjallajokull.
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In it, he traced back the history of congressional investigations to the 18th century (he was himself descended from early settlers in Massachusetts).
And I think the people in the future, at least some of whom might be descended from that baby saved might also think so.
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The Venetian doctor descended from one of these patrician families, great merchants and secretaries of state, whose surname adorned one of the central squares of the city.
This was to include renegotiation of the country's criteria for citizenship and land rights, which currently exclude several million northerners descended from immigrant workers.
Since today's sedentary city dwellers are recently descended from such people, natural selection may not have had time to purge the genes that cause it.
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