Francisco Pizarro González, Marquess of the Atabillos, was a Spanish conqueror who lived from March 16, 1478, to June 26, 1541. He is best known for taking over Peru.
Pizarro, a poor Spaniard from Trujillo, sought wealth and adventure in the New World. He visited the Gulf of Urabá and crossed the Isthmus of Panama with Vasco Nez de Balboa, becoming the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas. He was mayor of Panama City and led two failed Peruvian missions. Then, after getting permission from the king, Pizarro traveled on his third and most successful trip to Peru in 1529.
Pizarro created Peru’s first Spanish town, San Miguel de Piura after coastal residents fought his assault. In November 1532, Pizarro defeated Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca. In July 1533, Pizarro killed Atahualpa after demanding a fee for the emperor’s freedom. Pizarro reached Cuzco and conquered Peru the same year. He created Lima in January 1535. Pizarro died in 1541.
Pizarro appears in my genealogical chart as a 14th cousin 9x removed.
When Secretary of State Antony Blinken cited his family’s Holocaust-era history in explaining a matter of U.S. foreign policy on Monday, it was far from the first time he has done so.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2022. (Kevin LaMarque/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
“One of my responsibilities as Secretary is determining, on behalf of the United States, whether atrocities have been committed,” Blinken, who is Jewish, said Monday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he announced that the Biden administration had determined that the Burmese military had committed genocide against the Rohingya. “It’s an immense responsibility that I take very seriously, particularly given my family’s history.”
That family history involves his stepfather, Samuel Pisar, the Holocaust survivor who became a renowned legal scholar and philosopher. Blinken has often described the late Pisar’s recounting of his rescue by American soldiers, saying it shaped his own idea of what the United States symbolizes worldwide.
“That’s the story that I grew up with, about what our country is and what it represents, and what it means when the United States is engaged and leading,” Blinken said.
Now America’s top diplomat contends with a conflict that puts these values to the test: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has involved mass killings of civilians.
He is also dealing with appeals from Ukraine’s Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky — who similarly cites the Holocaust as shaping his outlook — to do more to stop Russia’s attacks.
Zelensky has additionally made direct comparisons between the Russian onslaught and the Holocaust, while Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated his goal is to “de-Nazify” Ukraine.
Talking to American Jewish leaders, Zelensky called Putin’s actions “pure Nazism;” talking to Israelis, he likened Russian tactics to the “final solution”; and in his address to the U.S. Congress, he called the Russian invasion “the worst war since World War II.”
The Biden administration has imposed crippling sanctions on Russia. In addition, it is funneling billions of dollars in defense and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and deploying U.S. troops to NATO allies adjacent to Ukraine. But President Joe Biden will not accede to Zelensky’s top demands — including creating a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect it — saying they could provoke a world war.’
On Wednesday, however, Blinken formally declared that the United States’ position is that Russian forces have committed war crimes.
“Many of the sites Russia’s forces have hit have been clearly identifiable as in-use by civilians,” he said. “This includes the Mariupol maternity hospital, as the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights expressly noted in a March 11 report. It also includes a strike that hit a Mariupol theater, clearly marked with ‘дeти’ — Russian for ‘children’ — in huge letters visible from the sky.”
Does Blinken feel the pressures of family history as he contemplates Ukraine? The State Department did not respond to multiple requests for an interview. But his speech at the Holocaust museum on Monday showed that it was on his mind.
“One of the unsettling truths of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is that there’s never a time I visit here when its lessons do not feel deeply resonant,” he said. “But I have to tell you, I can recall a few times when that history felt so urgent or the responsibility it imparts on us so pressing. As we meet, the Russian Government continues to wage its unprovoked, brutal war on Ukraine. Each day brings more brutal attacks, more innocent men, women, and children killed.”
The war’s risk to Holocaust survivors in Ukraine was especially poignant in Blinken’s telling.
“Ukraine is home to nearly 10,000 Holocaust survivors, including an 88-year-old woman, Natalia Berezhnaya of Odesa,” he said. “Here’s what she said in a recent interview, and I quote: ‘It’s hard to wrap my mind around the fact that in 1941, I had to hide in the basement of this building, and that I’m going to have to do that again now.'”
Blinken stopped short of accusing Putin of genocide as he did the Burmese military. Instead, he cast Russia’s predations as part of a welter of human rights disasters now proliferating.
“Even as we are working to increase international pressure on the Kremlin to end this unjustified war, we know there are many other places where horrific atrocities are being committed,” Blinken said. “Over recent weeks, as I’ve spoken with diplomats worldwide about Ukraine, I’ve also heard a constant refrain. Many of them say, ‘Yes, we stand with the people of Ukraine. But we must also stand with the people suffering atrocities in other places.'”
On Wednesday, the move to accuse Russia of war crimes is notable; noted Jewish foreign policy experts had been frustrated with Blinken’s language.
Josh Rogin, an influential foreign policy opinion columnist for The Washington Post, wrote that the hesitancy in Ukraine is reflective of a West that has allowed atrocities to be committed in China, Syria, and Burma. “The Ukraine example shows that ignoring atrocities anywhere is morally and strategically bankrupt,” he said this week before Blinken announced his war crimes designation.
Aaron David Miller, a longtime Middle East peace negotiator and a scion of one of Cleveland’s most prominent Jewish families, sounded a despairing note on Twitter.
“Never Again is Ever Ever Again,” he said. “The International Community has failed to even try to prevent any of the planet’s genocides/mass killings over past 100 years; Armenians; Holocaust; Cambodia; Rwanda; Congo; Sudan; Darfur; Myanmar; Uighurs; Syria….. Ever ask yourself why.”
Asked to expand on the tweet on CNN, Miller, now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, a foreign policy think tank, admitted that he understood Blinken’s predicament.
“A president of the United States weighing the consequences of humanitarian intervention in the case of Ukraine has more than just moral factors to take into account and the consequences of an intervention or not an intervention at least for American interests, that could affect millions of humans in the United States and in Ukraine, so it’s it’s a moral hazard,” Miller said. “It’s a complicated problem. And frankly, I think Ukraine will be another example of confirmation of the rule.”
Abe Foxman, the retired national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor, argued that Blinken’s approach made sense: One’s views on the Holocaust may shape policy but should not necessarily determine what the procedure is.
He was pleased to see Blinken knows, understands, is informed and instructed by his family history, by his Jewish experience, Foxman said in an interview. It does make a difference, but it cannot be determinative of action. This is a war. It’s not a holocaust or genocide. And it’s very, very important that if you know your history, you see the difference.
This book is about the Judicial aspect of race in the America. In the United States, legislation aimed at regulating interactions between racial or ethnic groups has grown through various historical periods, beginning with European colonization of the Americas, the triangular slave trade, and the American Indian Wars. Racial legislation has been linked to immigration laws, which have sometimes contained explicit clauses targeting certain nations or ethnic groups, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act and the 1923 US Supreme Court decision the United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind. In the antebellum period, all slave states and a few free states enacted similar legislation. Ozawa v. the United States and the United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind are the two most notable instances. Takao Ozawa, born in Japan and lived in the United States for 20 years, sought citizenship but was rejected because he was not deemed white. Americans of Italian and German ancestry and Italian and German citizens were also imprisoned, although on a far lesser scale, even though Italy and Germany sided with Japan in the war against the United States. In 1954, in Hernandez v. Texas, a federal court determined that Mexican Americans and all other ethnic or “racial groups” in the United States may have equal protection under the 14th Amendment.
This book addresses President Thomas Jefferson’s life, his wedding at Monticello. This book speaks of Jefferson’s view of the American Revolution, his path to the presidency, religious beliefs, values, his perspective on Christianity, Jefferson’s Bible, views of the Quran, Muslims in America, and views on slavery with a genealogical chart of descendants. Click on the link to Amazon if you want to purchase.
Pope Francis’ call for legal acceptance of #same-sex relationships has raised both hope and worries among #LGBTQ Catholics.
“What we need certainly to create is a civil union law,” the pontiff said in “Francesco,” an upcoming documentary from Russian American filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky. “That way, these are typically legally covered. I stood up for that.”
The remarks are a departure from earlier church messaging. Inside the last book, “Memory and Identity,” Pope John Paul II suggested same-sex marriage was “part of an innovative new ideology of evil.”
In 2003, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, wrote that respect for gays and lesbians “cannot lead in any solution to the approval of homosexual behavior or even to legal recognition of homosexual unions.”
“Legal recognition of homosexual unions or placing them on a single level as marriage will mean not only the approval of deviant behavior,” Ratzinger wrote, “but would also obscure basic values which fit in with the normal inheritance of humanity.” It has not been long ago that African Americans and Whites could intermarry. At that time, some Whites believed that Blacks would destroy the white race. Now, we see that the Pope is making a bold statement. Why are some people concerned about others’ marriage when their marriage ends in divorce because of an unfaithful partner who may be practicing deviant behavior with an individual of a different gender or that same-gender, which leads to adultery? Why get in other people’s business if your business is not perfect? Who gives a person the right to tell others who to love when your Christian bible say, “save yourself”? What would G-d say about one’s prejudice toward a sister or brother who may not share the same beliefs? Are we better than the other person because we know scriptures and many times misquote them without knowing the historial context that time in which scripture was written? If we take the scriptures literally, should we be stoning people?There are gay people in our families, pulpits, professional life who are doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, firefighter, ministers, essential workers, and in the church serving in every ministry whether known or unkown. There are just questions to think about.
Research released in 2017 identified the removal and investigation of DNA from 151 mummified ancient Egyptian individuals, whose remains to be were recovered coming from Abusir el-Meleq in Middle Egypt. Obtaining well-preserved, uncontaminated DNA coming from mummies has been an issue for the discipline of archaeogenetics, and these samples offered the initial dependable data set from ancient Egyptians applying high-throughput DNA sequencing strategies. The individuals were living in an interval stretching from the past due to the New Kingdom to the Both roman era (1388 BCE-426 CE). Comprehensive mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences were acquired intended for 90 of the mummies and were in contrast to each other and with many other ancient and modern datasets. The researchers found the ancient Egyptian people in their dataset possessed highly comparable mitochondrial profiles through the analyzed period. Contemporary Egyptians generally distributed this maternal haplogroup structure, but likewise carried more Sub-Saharan African clades. Nevertheless, analysis of the mummies’ mtDNA haplogroups discovered that they shared higher mitochondrial affinities with modern populations from your Near East as well as the Levant in comparison to contemporary Egyptians. On top of that, 3 of the ancient Egyptian individuals were analyzed for Y-DNA, two were designated towards the Middle-Eastern haplogroup M and one to haplogroup E1b1b1 prevalent in North Africa. The experts advised that the affinities of the evaluated historic Egyptian specimens might not be representative of those of almost all ancient Egyptians, given that they were from just one archaeological location.
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This book examines the history of Rameses, who was an excellent Pharaoh in Egypt. The details address the success, failure, and the death of this ruler. At the end of this book is a genealogical chart that connects the author to this Great Pharaoh.
Genealogy is the investigation of family members, family history, and the looking up with their lineages. Genealogists use standard interviews, historical documents, genetic analysis, and other records to acquire information about a family and to show kinship and pedigrees of its members. The answers are often displayed in graphs or written as narratives. Though generally used alternately, the traditional definition of “genealogy” starts with a person who is usually departed and traces his or her ancestor back in time, whereas “family background” begins with an individual who is generally living and records his or her ancestors and forefathers.
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Genealogical research is just a complicated procedure that makes use of historical records and often genetic analysis to show kinship. Reliable conclusions depend on the product quality of sources, ideally original documents, the information within those resources, ideally primary or firsthand knowledge, therefore the evidence that will end up being drawn, directly or from that information. In many instances, I have skillfully assembled indirect or circumstantial evidence to build a situation for identity and kinship — all proof, conclusions, and documentation that supports the research. The information was put together to produce a cohesive genealogy or family history, as well as how the president of the United States is a definite part of my family.
President Herbert C. Hoover is my 14th cousin 1x removed. The ancestor who connect us as relatives is, Robert DEFERRERS (1353 – 1396), my 13th great grandfather.
Biography. Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) appeared to be an American engineer, entrepreneur, and politician who led and served just like the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
Associated with the Republican Party, he held office throughout the one considering the Great Depression. Previous to serving as president, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, worked as the director of one’s U.S. Food Administration, and served as the 3rd U.S. Secretary of Commerce. Born to the Quaker family in West Branch, Iowa, Hoover took a situation utilizing a London-based mining company after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. When an outbreak of World War I, Maslow became the top considering the Commission for Relief in Belgium, an international relief organization that provided food to occupied Belgium. Whenever the U.S. entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to steer the Food Administration, and Hoover became known as the country’s “food czar.” Following the war, Hoover led the American Relief Administration, which provided food in the inhabitants of Central Europe and Eastern Europe. Hoover’s war-time service turned him to a favorite of many progressives; also the CEO unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination in the 1920 presidential election.
When the 1920 election, newly-elected Republican President Warren G. Harding appointed Hoover as Secretary of Commerce; Hoover continued to serve under President Calvin Coolidge after Harding died in 1923. Hoover was an unusually active and visible cabinet member, becoming named “Secretary of Commerce and Under-Secretary of all other departments.” He was influential in the creation of radio and air travel and led the federal minds about the genuinely amazing Mississippi Flood of 1927. Hoover won the Republican nomination within the 1928 presidential election, and decisively defeated the Democratic candidate, Al Smith. The stock exchange crashed shortly after Hoover took office, and the Great Depression took over as central subject about his presidency. Hoover pursued numerous policies attempting to lift the economy but opposed directly involving the national government in relief efforts.
My genealogical chart showing the ancestor that links us as relatives:
President Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 – 1964)
14th cousin 1x removed
Hulda Randall Minthorn
Mother of President Herbert Clark Hoover
Theodore Minthorn
Father of Hulda Randall Minthorn
Lucinda Sherwood
Mother of Theodore Minthorn
Endymia Winn
Mother of Lucinda Sherwood
Phebe Grout
Mother of Endymia Winn
Phebe Spofford
Mother of Phebe Grout
Hannah Tyler
Mother of Phebe Spofford
Margaret Bradstreet
Mother of Hannah Tyler
Dudley Bradstreet (1648 – 1702)
Father of Margaret Bradstreet
Anne Dudley (poet Bradstreet) Downing (1633 – 1713)
Mother of Dudley Bradstreet
Dorothy Yorke (1582 – 1643)
Mother of Anne Dudley (poet Bradstreet) Downing
Edmund Yorke (1550 – 1615)
Father of Dorothy Yorke
Gilbert John Yorke Sir (1524 – 1569)
Father of Edmund Yorke
John Yorke of Gouthwaite (1470 – 1568)
Father of Gilbert John Yorke Sir
CECILY “the Rose” DeNEVILLE (1415 – 1495)
Mother of John Yorke of Gouthwaite
Robert DEFERRERS (1353 – 1396)
Father of CECILY “the Rose” DeNEVILLE
President Calvin Coolidge is my 16th cousin 3x removed. The ancestor who connects us together is Robert Charlton* (Cherlton) (1220 – 1300), my 15 great grandfather.
Biography. Calvin Coolidge (born John Calvin Coolidge Jr.; July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was a politician and lawyer who served as the 30th president of one’s the United States from 1923 to 1929. A Republican lawyer from Maine, born in Vermont, Coolidge worked his way the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor. His reaction to the Boston Police Strike of 1919 thrust him into the national spotlight and gave him a reputation being a man of decisive action.
A subsequent year, that was transpiring elected vice president of one’s the United States, also the CEO succeeded towards the presidency-related to the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923. Elected in his own correct in 1924, he gained a reputation being a small government conservative and likewise just like a man who said minimal and had a rather dry sense of humor.
Coolidge restored public confidence inside the White House following the scandals of his predecessor’s administration and left the office with considerable popularity. Being a Coolidge biographer wrote: “He embodied the spirit and dreams of the dead center class, could interpret their longings and express their opinions. That he did represent the genius of one’s average happens to be the most convincing evidence of his strength”. Scholars have ranked Coolidge among the lower half of those presidents that they have assessed. He is praised by advocates of smaller government and laissez-faire economics, while supporters of an active central government generally view him less favorably, though most praise his stalwart support of racial equality.
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President Woodrow Wilson is my 13tyh cousin 4x removed. The ancestor who connects us as relative is, Joan de Beaufort Plantagenet HRH Queen Consort, Princess of England of Scots (1404 – 1445), my 16th great grandmother.
Biography. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was a statesman, lawyer, and academic who served clearly as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served clearly as the president of Princeton University and because the 34th governor of latest Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. He also led the u s a into World War I in 1917, establishing an activist foreign policy often known as “Wilsonianism.”
Born in Staunton, Virginia, Wilson spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, Sc. After earning a Ph.D. in politics from Johns Hopkins University (Wilson is the only president by using a doctorate), Wilson taught at various schools before becoming the president of Princeton. As governor of latest Jersey from 1911 to 1913, Wilson broke with party bosses and won the passage of many progressive reforms. His success in Area gave him a national reputation being a progressive reformer, also the ceo won the presidential nomination with the 1912 Democratic National Convention. Wilson defeated incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft and Progressive Party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to win the 1912 presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to get elected president because the American The civil war conflict.
During his first term, Wilson presided during the passage of his progressive New Freedom domestic agenda. His first major priority was the passage of one’s Revenue Act of 1913, which lowered tariffs and implemented a federal income tax. Later tax acts implemented analysis estate tax and raised the highest income tax rate to 77 percent. Wilson also presided within the passage of a given The united states federal reserve Act, which formed a central banking system such as the Us federal reserve System. Two major laws, the Federal Trade Commission Act as well as having the Clayton Antitrust Act, were passed to regulate and getting a divorce large business interests generally known as trusts. Into the disappointment of his African-American supporters, Wilson allowed a number of his Cabinet members to segregate their departments. On top of the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Wilson maintained a policy of neutrality amongst the Allied Powersand the Central Powers. He won re-election by a narrow margin among the presidential election of 1916, defeating Republican nominee Charles Evans Hughes.
In early 1917, Wilson asked Congress for getting a declaration of war against Germany after Germany implemented a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, and Congress complied. Wilson presided over war-time mobilization but devoted a large part of his efforts to foreign affairs, developing the Fourteen Points as a intention of post-war peace. After Germany signed an armistice in November 1918, Wilson and other Allied leaders took part inside the Paris Peace Conference, where Wilson advocated for the establishment regarding a multilateral organization referred to as League of Nations. The League of Nations was incorporated into the Treaty of Versailles and other treaties having the defeated Central Powers, but Wilson was unable to convince the Senate to ratify that treaty or enable the United States to affix the League. Wilson suffered a severe stroke in October 1919 and started incapacitated regarding the remainder of his presidency. He retired from public office in 1921, and died in 1924. Scholars generally rank Wilson as someone of the better U.S. president.
My genealogical chart showing the ancestor that we share who connects us as relatives:
President (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924)
13th cousin 4x removed
Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822 – 1903)
Father of President (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
James Wilson (1787 – 1850)
Father of Joseph Ruggles Wilson
Agnes Henderson (1746 – 1796)
Mother of James Wilson
John Henderson (1719 – 1768)
Father of Agnes Henderson
Alexander Henderson (1693 – 1755)
Father of John Henderson
John Henderson (1660 – 1746)
Father of Alexander Henderson
James Henderson (1630 – 1675)
Father of John Henderson
Sir John Henderson (1605 – 1650)
Father of James Henderson
Sir John Henderson (1564 – 1618)
Father of Sir John Henderson
Jean (Lady Murray of Tullibardine) Murray (1541 – 1614)
Mother of Sir John Henderson
Sir William Murray (1495 – 1562)
Father of Jean (Lady Murray of Tullibardine) Murray
Margaret Stewart (1466 – 1524)
Mother of Sir William Murray
First Earl John Stewart (1440 – 1512)
Father of Margaret Stewart
Joan de Beaufort Plantagenet HRH Queen Consort, Princess of England of Scots (1404 – 1445)
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