Posted on 09/28/2020 12:51:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Genetic markers for the Clan MacDougall... descends from Dougall, King of the Isle of Man and founder of the ancient Scottish Kingdom of the Isles and Lorn. Dougall (c1140-c1207) was the eldest son of Somerled, the ancient warrior sea-king and progenitor of the MacDonald, MacAllister, and MacDougall clans.
Somerled expelled his Scoto-Norse rivals from Argyll, Kintyre and the Isles but was himself a Norseman paternally, having a genetic signature that is more common in Scandinavia than in Scotland.
The first genetic signature for Somerled was discovered and published in 2005 by researchers at the University of Oxford, and since then, the US-based Clan Donald DNA Project has enabled thousands of present-day MacDonalds around the world to trace their ancestry back to their Scottish roots...
At one time, the MacDougalls were one of the most powerful and influential families in Western Scotland. However, their fate was to turn in the early 1300s when the fourth clan chief, Alexander MacDougall, allied the MacDougalls with John Bailliol, in his contest with Robert the Bruce, for the prize of the Scottish Crown...
Several generations later, under the clan leadership of Ewan Gallda MacDougall, much of the MacDougall lands and possessions, including Dunollie Castle near Oban, were restored to the clan. However, over the next few centuries this disruption caused a global dispersal of many MacDougall clansmen and a significant loss of power for the Clan.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Billions and billions served..................
Pottery, animal bones, seeds, nuts, and more tell a tale of what everyday life was like in medieval times in a monastic settlement in Ireland... dating back to the 13th century at the Beamore dig, in East Month, just outside Drogheda. Among the rare finds was evidence that the Cistercian monastery included a sourdough bread bakery and a communal toilet along with its own air-freshening pot... sourdough bakery... the home of a unique Cistercian community, from Normandy in France... A previous dig at the site had unearthed 13th-century French jugs, roof tiles, a corn drying kiln, and dried peas. This proved that the residents practiced crop rotation... During this year's dig, which ended in August, experts unearthed a medieval key, bones from cows, sheep, cats, and dogs along with mixed farm products such as peas, beans, oats, wheat, and rye. Imported fruits such as grapes and figs from France also showed that the monks practiced mixed farming. A timber dash-urn with a paddle used to churn butter, also proved that these monastic farmers were self-sufficient.Medieval monastery treasures found on Meath dig | IrishCentral Staff | September 22, 2020
I’ve got some MacDonald’s and one MacDougall in my tree. None connected to the Isle of Man though.
And I’m just sitting here with Bates and Booths in the woodpile.
/potentially scary ‘mander
That sentence could have been constructed better.
Yes, I know you did not write it.
But in writing, as in real life, it is best to keep the kitchen away from the jakes.
As the breeding program nears its conclusion, humans are selected as the best choice; at the same time, the breeding programs of the other three planets are terminated, and their penultimates never meet their planned mates. Kimball Kinnison meets and marries the product of the complementary human breeding program, Clarissa MacDougall. She is a beautiful, curvaceous, red-haired nurse, who eventually becomes the first human female to receive her own Lens. Their children, a boy and two pairs of fraternal twin sisters, grow up to be the five Children of the Lens. In their breeding, “almost every strain of weakness in humanity is finally removed.”
Maybe, but, they were French.
And the ancient Rodham and Clinton bloodlines?
What about those precious lines? They both certainly involve a lot of blood.
Dick Gaughan - Bonnie Jeannie o'Bethelnie
;^)
I know that’s Doc Smith, but I suspect that somehow, Heinlein would have approved... :P
Hahahahahaha. It is neither necessary nor suitable to love all one’s relations. ;-)
Back when, I think I dated each of those four twins.
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