This format, promoted as " AlbuM 1260 " ( spelled as you see it, to denote it's frequency as " AM 1260 "), continued until the 1978 sale of the station to New England Continental Media ( an ancestor company of Salem Communications ), which instituted a Religious format.

There is, of course, the doctrine of original sin, which asserts that each of us as individuals partakes of the guilt of our first ancestor.

The earliest certain ancestor of " A " is aleph ( also called ' aleph ), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet ( which, by consisting entirely of consonants, is an abjad rather than a true alphabet ).

All modern amphibians are included in the subclass Lissamphibia, superorder Salientia, which is usually considered a clade, a group of species that have evolved from a common ancestor.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

They reasoned that if all three families had a common ancestor, we should expect losses to happen at random, not only at the geographical margins of the family, and that the observed pattern is consistent with borrowing.

In the Philippines, ASL is widely understood by the Deaf community, though it is not the ancestor of Philippine Sign Language as sometimes thought.

* In the 1976 science fiction novel Children of Dune, written by Frank Herbert, Agamemnon is mentioned as an ancestor of the Atreides family.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

Note that this is not the same as a monophyly in which all descendants of a common ancestor are included.

According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.

A dividing issue is whether a person is " Folkish ", meaning that an emphasis on ancestry and ancestor worship is a part of their belief system.

The aurochs ( or ; also urus, ( Bos primigenius ), the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa ; they survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs, a female, died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627.

Another likely ancestor of the banjo is the akonting, a spike folk lute played by the Jola tribe of Senegambia, and the ubaw-akwala of the Igbo.

The division Chlorophyta ( green algae ) is considered the ancestor of true plants.

Outside the tree, there is often a reference to the " root " node ( the ancestor of all nodes ), if it exists.

* A node p is an ancestor of a node q if it exists on the path from the root to node q.

The great innovations in dance in the 17th century originated at the French court under Louis XIV, and it is here that we see the first clear stylistic ancestor of classical ballet.

* Tasha, a female borzoi belonging to the noted vet Buster Lloyd-Jones ( founder of Denes natural pet foods ), was born in the UK during the Second World War and is the pedigree ancestor of most British borzoi bloodlines.

The Mongols, in particular the Borjigin, had their holiest Tengriist shrine on Mount Burkhan Khaldun where their ancestor Borte Chinua ( Blue Wolf ) and Goo Maral ( Beautiful Doe ) had given birth to them.

The RCA trademark is used by Sony Music Entertainment and Technicolor, which licenses the name to other companies like Audiovox and TCL Corporation for products descended from that common ancestor.

Music author Peter Manuel has argued that, despite the modern Anglophone focus to calypso-like song forms, their origins lie in the " Afro-French creole culture ", and notes that the ancestor of the word calypso, cariso, was first used to refer to a Martinican singer.

Tech does not have an English accent, as his ancestor did, but sometimes whimpers ( in " Cape Duck "), growls ( in " Family Business " and " The Music Villain ") and even howls ( also in " Cape Duck ").

In Kim Newman's short story " Angels of Music " from the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology series, Carlotta is implied to be the ancestor of Bianca Castafiore from The Adventures of Tintin comic series.

Shards of Honor and Barrayar concern Miles ' parents, while " Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma " concerns a distant ancestor of Cordelia Naismith, Ethan of Athos involves a few minor characters from other Vorkosigan novels, and Falling Free does not involve Miles or any of his family, though in a later novel, Miles encounters the descendants of the characters from Falling Free.

Perhaps the most interesting feature of Logudorian is that, due to the particular history of the area, it has suffered very little contamination and has changed very slowly from Vulgar Latin in comparison to other Latin languages, even though in terms of vocabulary it is not as close to its Latin ancestor as Italian, the most Latin of Romance languages.

The group excludes whales even though DNA sequence data indicate that they share a common ancestor, making the group paraphyletic.

As fiefdoms were divided and subdivided among descendants, so additional sub-surnames known as shi were created to distinguish between different seniority of lineages among the nobles though in theory they shared the same ancestor.

The ut – re – mi-fa-so-la syllables are taken from the initial syllables of each of the first six half-lines of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis, whose text is attributed to the Italian monk and scholar Paulus Diaconus ( though the musical line either shares a common ancestor with the earlier setting of Horace's " Ode to Phyllis " ( Odes 4. 11 ) recorded in the Montpellier manuscript H425, or may even have been taken from it.

Only those who ruled a united Neustrian march are included, though the title " of Neustria " was carried by the earlier margraves of the Breton and Norman marches, the most notable by Robert the Strong, ancestor of these later Capetians.

However, the introduction of the ironclad frigate in about 1859 led swiftly to the decline of the steam-assisted ships of the line, though the ironclad warship became the ancestor of the 20th-century battleship, whose very designation is itself a contraction of the phrase " line-of-battle ship.

The word originates from the ancient Greek city-states, which developed during the Archaic period, the ancestor of city, state and citizenship, and persisted ( though with decreasing influence ) well into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, also meaning ' citizenhood ', while municipium applied to a non-sovereign local entity.

The Minangkabau language is a member of the Austronesian language family, and is closest to the Malay language, though when the two languages split from a common ancestor and the precise historical relationship between Malay and Minangkabau culture is not known.

It is still unclear whether the species in the Acipenser and Huso genera are monophyletic ( descended from one ancestor ) or paraphyletic ( descended from many ancestors )— though it is clear that the morphologically motivated division between these two genera is not supported by the genetic evidence.

It appears though that that they are not so closely related to either as previously thought, and that the owlet-nightjars share a more recent common ancestor with the Apodiformes.

In Brazil, it is very common for Mulattoes to claim that they don't have any Amerindian ancestry, though studies have found that if a Brazilian multiracial can trace their ancestry to nearly 8 to 9 generations back, they will have at least one Amerindian ancestor from their maternal side of the family, which will explain many of their physical features and characteristics.

There is mention in an 11th century manuscript of a Welsh cattle dog, though there is no evidence about whether this is the corgi or an ancestor.

Luwian is closely related to, though not the direct ancestor of Lycian.

These included a torch race from the Piraeus to the Acropolis ( the supposed ancestor of the modern Olympic torch relay that takes place prior to the Games, though in reality the modern torch race was invented as propaganda for Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympic Games ), mock infantry and cavalry battles, a javelin throw on horseback, the apobatai ( a chariot race in which the driver had to jump out of the chariot, run alongside, and jump back in ), the pyrriche ( apparently military exercises accompanied by music ), and the euandrion ( essentially a beauty contest among the athletes ).

Others, however, have disputed this, given there is no plausible case for Nordic dialectical survivals in southwest Britiain, and claiming instead that due to the Cornish origin of the piskie that the term is more probably Celtic in origin, though no direct ancestor of the word is known.

On a visit to the College of Arms, Bond finds that the family motto of Sir Thomas Bond is " The World Is Not Enough ", and that he might be ( though unlikely ) Bond's ancestor.

George Wightman, and hence Edward Wightman, is the ancestor of most people living in the United States under the names " Wightman ," and some called " Whitman ," ( though not including the poet Walt Whitman ).

Even though the present forms developed in Argentina and Uruguay from the mid 19th century, there are records of 18th and early 19th century Tango styles in Cuba and Spain, while there is a flamenco Tangos dance that may share a common ancestor in a minuet-style European dance.

Worthington is killed by the Hellfire Club, though it is hinted that Elizabeth was already pregnant, making her an ancestor of Warren Worthington III.

M. theobaldi itself had teeth intermediate in size between sloth bears and other bear species, though its palate was the same size as the former species, leading to the theory that it is the sloth bear's direct ancestor.

The African Collared Dove is the species thought to be the wild ancestor of the domestic Barbary Dove, though some suggest the Eurasian Collared Dove ( Streptopelia decaocto ) may also have been involved.

Generally reptile-like in appearance and physiology, Dimetrodon is nevertheless more closely related to mammals than it is to any living reptilian group, though it is not a direct ancestor of any mammals.