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America's 'Lost Monarchy': The Man Who Would Be King
Newsweek.com ^
| 10/08/08
| Kurt Soller |
Posted on 10/11/2008 8:36:57 AM PDT by Oyarsa
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:36:57 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: Oyarsa
Paul Emery Washington is a direct descendant of George Washington, our nation's first president Lemme guess, Pauly is voting Obama/Palin, right?
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:41:44 AM PDT
by
itsthejourney
(1 of every 10 people you pass in the mall is here illegally)
To: Oyarsa
George Washington never fathered any children, so this man is NOT a direct descendant.
To: SoCal Pubbie
Certainly no legitimate children, and, therefore, probably, no illegitimate children either.
But, hey, historical facts are such boring things.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:44:29 AM PDT
by
Philo-Junius
(One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
To: itsthejourney
You’d know the answer if you had read the article.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:44:50 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: SoCal Pubbie
I caught that error, but he is a descendant of one of Washington’s brothers.
It’s an interesting genealogical case, but I’m glad we don’t have a president.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:46:07 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: Oyarsa
Brain freeze
Ignore “President”; should be “king”
My error.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:46:39 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: Oyarsa
Garbage published by the Liberal MSM is not worth reading.
Half of Free Republic is also not worth reading, because it is a republication of garbage published by the Liberal MSM.
This article is certainly part of that half.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:47:04 AM PDT
by
devere
To: Philo-Junius
It is stated later on in the article that he is descended from one of Washington’s brothers.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:47:21 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: devere
Then why did you bother to reply to a thread posting article you consider “garbage”?
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:48:17 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: Oyarsa
> perhaps the only man in history who turned down the position of monarch.
Not so! Truth in Advertizing!
Julius Caesar refused to become Emperor of Rome. That didn’t stop him getting backstabbed, tho’.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:50:37 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Oyarsa
Not wasting my time. I stopped reading at “direct descendant”.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:51:27 AM PDT
by
itsthejourney
(1 of every 10 people you pass in the mall is here illegally)
To: DieHard the Hunter
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:51:48 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: itsthejourney
and yet you spent enough time to post on an article you failed to complete reading.
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posted on
10/11/2008 8:52:59 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: Oyarsa
So that would be NOT a descendant of George Washington, then?
Then the whole premise of the article disintegrates.
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posted on
10/11/2008 9:01:42 AM PDT
by
Philo-Junius
(One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
To: devere
Half of Free Republic is also not worth reading, because it is a republication of garbage published by the Liberal MSM. This article is certainly part of that half. Aren't you a bundle of joy this morning. I thought this was very interesting. A nice break from the usual poll-watching and doom-mongering.
-ccm
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posted on
10/11/2008 9:02:24 AM PDT
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: Philo-Junius
Not really; one can succeed a monarch without being a direct descendant of that monarch, so long as one is on the royal family.
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posted on
10/11/2008 9:02:57 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: Oyarsa
Cheers, mate. I believe also Oliver Cromwell refused to become King of England, choosing instead to become the Lord Protector.
That said, George Washington was a truly great man.
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posted on
10/11/2008 9:05:49 AM PDT
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: DieHard the Hunter
That he was; and I’m glad he refused the title of Monarch.
A pity that many schoolchildren today learn so little about our founding fathers (other than that they were white, that circumstances really weren’t “all that bad” in America prior to Revolution, and that many of them were slave owners).
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posted on
10/11/2008 9:09:10 AM PDT
by
Oyarsa
To: Philo-Junius
The Stuarts would have had as good a claim as Lawrence’s children.
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posted on
10/11/2008 9:12:10 AM PDT
by
Philo-Junius
(One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law.)
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