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May the Fourth Be With You!
Happy Star Wars Day! Perhaps I should say, “May the Fourth Be With You.” Star Wars Day is a (very) informal commemorative day observed annually on May 4th to celebrate George Lucas’s Star Wars media franchise. Observance of the day has spread quickly through media and grassroots celebrations since the franchise began in 1977. The …
(+) Pedigree Collapse or We Are All Cousins
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. How many ancestors do you have? It is a simple question and would appear to have a simple answer: Any of us can count the number of our ancestors by performing a very obvious mathematical progression: two parents, four grandparents, eight …
(+) Pedigree Collapse or We Are All Cousins
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. How many ancestors do you have? It is a simple question and would appear to have a simple answer: Any of us can count the number of our ancestors by performing a very obvious mathematical progression: two parents, four grandparents, eight …