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  1. 4th June 2012 02:00 PM #61
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anchorman View Post
    ^ Hitler had some nephews in the USA IIRC. One of them even served in the US Navy during WW2.

    They all died childless too
    Are there any famous/royal family trees that have continued on to this very day, i.e Bonaparte, Hapsburg etc?
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    Karl von Habsburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Young Napoleon even looks like him





    It's interesting that there's a fuckload of counts and dukes and princes and shit in countries like Germany that haven't had monarchies for ages
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anchorman View Post
    Karl von Habsburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Jean-Christophe, Prince Napoléon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Young Napoleon even looks like him





    It's interesting that there's a fuckload of counts and dukes and princes and shit in countries like Germany that haven't had monarchies for ages
    Fuck I find that pretty awesome for some reason. Being able to trace anyone's family tree back that far is cool. What about any famous ottomans or romans?
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    The Japanese and Chinese have crazy long genealogies IIRC.

    Pretty sure there are direct descendants of Confucius alive today
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    Quote Originally Posted by sblack View Post
    The Japanese and Chinese have crazy long genealogies IIRC.

    Pretty sure there are direct descendants of Confucius alive today
    This guy actually existed? Isn't a lot of his 'Confucius said' just made up and he didn't actually say that.
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    Im not too versed on ancient Chinese history tbh But he definitely existed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by r dub View Post
    Fuck I find that pretty awesome for some reason. Being able to trace anyone's family tree back that far is cool. What about any famous ottomans or romans?
    I don't think anyone could trace their ancestry back to Ancient Rome because of the dark ages and all that jazz, but there's probably millions of people who are descended from Caesars. I remember reading that one of the first settlers to come to America on the Mayflower in 1620 had ten children who each had fuckloads of kids and now there's tens of thousands of people in the US who are a direct descendant of him. Going back even further with Rome and you can see there must be gazillions of people who are descended from them. Good luck trying to lay claim to the throne though

    The Ottomon Empire only fell in the 1920s so that would be easier to trace Line of succession to the former Ottoman throne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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    Quote Originally Posted by r dub View Post
    This guy actually existed? Isn't a lot of his 'Confucius said' just made up and he didn't actually say that.
    Confucius say man who go through airport security sideways going to Bangkok.
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    Well, Your Honor. We've plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by r dub View Post
    This guy actually existed? Isn't a lot of his 'Confucius said' just made up and he didn't actually say that.
    He certainly did exist, but any of the 'Confucius says' quotes are just jokes and not anything he came up with. You can find The Saying of Confucius online for free pretty easily, some interesting things in there. Accuracy can be an issue because of the translation though.
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    BBC News - Joseph Stalin's deadly railway to nowhere
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    Brutal, woolly mammoth tho
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anchorman View Post
    BBC News - Joseph Stalin's deadly railway to nowhere

    Other prisoners had already endured German prisoner of war camps. When they eventually returned home to the Soviet Union, the authorities branded them traitors and sent them to the Arctic.
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    Brutal, woolly mammoth tho
    Want your own wooly mammoth. Check your backyard (backyard may actually be a farm).
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    Archaeologists unearth 'vampires' in Bulgaria - World - NZ Herald News

    Oh Middle Ages, you so crazy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anchorman View Post

    It's interesting that there's a fuckload of counts and dukes and princes and shit in countries like Germany that haven't had monarchies for ages
    I am related to one

    Look up Thomas Charles Druce.

    We don't know if we are direct relative but its so freaky.
    My dad's name is Thomas as its a family name. My dads Initials are TC Druce.
    Thomas had a relative(really close relative, dont know what though) named Walter.
    My grandfather is Thomas Walter.
    He had another relative name Louise, which is our family name.

    so freakish we must be related.


    Grandfather has been contacted by people about it, but we worked it out, and if we did prove we were related all we would inherit is a title, and shitload of tax. fuqdat
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    Austria, you so crazy

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