Nakamura ( '58 ), Verloop ( '48 ), Marchand, Gilroy and Watson ( '50 ), Von Hayek ( '53 ), and Tobin ( '52 ) have all claimed their normal but relatively nonfunctional existence in the human being.

Though his inner thoughts cringed at it, he forced himself to think back, recreating the scene in which Mae claimed to have caught him molesting the child.

He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind.

To his credit, Doubleday never claimed to have invented baseball.

* Secret history, historical events claimed by revisionists to have been deliberately suppressed or forgotten

In the 1920s, he promoted health practices including vegetarianism and claimed to have found the secret of living to 200.

When he became ill, the Alemanni claimed to have put a hex on him ( 78. 15. 2 ).

Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.

But he may have claimed to be a South Carolinian because the state was considering nullification of the Tariff of 1824, which Jackson opposed.

These scholars have claimed this element represents an Old English word amor, the name of a woodland bird.

However, the lower-class foot soldiers continued to think of Adhemar as a leader ; some of them claimed to have been visited by his ghost during the siege of Jerusalem, and reported that Adhemar instructed them to hold another procession around the walls.

Ashdown claimed the Prince said: " I really can't think why we can't have Catholics on the throne ".

A counterpoint to this argument would be that neither Samaria nor Syria where these refugees were claimed to have originated from were actually ever part of Assyria, but were colonies inhabited largely by Hebrews, Nabateans and Arameans respectively.

They pointed out that astrologers have only a small knowledge of astronomy and that they often do not take into account basic features such as the precession of the equinoxes which would change the position of the sun with time ; they commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that " the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year " as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence.

The Lemba people of South Africa and Zimbabwe have claimed that their ancestors carried the Ark south, calling it the ngoma lungundu or " voice of God ", eventually hiding it in a deep cave in the Dumghe mountains, their spiritual home.

Insofar as it carried railroad trains under a city street, some have claimed it be the world's first subway tunnel, though, unlike a modern rapid transit subway, it had no stations.

Some other early Latter-day Saint leaders, including Brigham Young, Orson Pratt and Elizabeth Ann Whitney claimed to have received several words in the Adamic language in revelations.

Dürer's later works have also been claimed to show Protestant sympathies.

Many observers claimed to have determined such parallaxes, but Tycho Brahe and Giovanni Battista Riccioli concluded that they existed only in the minds of the observers, and were due to instrumental and personal errors.

Kirk had long been researching fairies, and the book collected several personal accounts and stories of folk who claimed to have encountered them.

In modern law, the title would have fallen into abeyance between the two daughters of the second son, and nobody else would have been able to claim it even if the abeyance were settled ; in 1597, the grandson of the third son claimed the title and its precedence.

The former claimed to have discovered a treatment for agitation in anyone, and the latter team claimed to have discovered a treatment for psychotic illness.

These Heraclids were a group of Dorian kings who conquered the Peloponnesian kingdoms of Mycenae, Sparta and Argos ; according to the literary tradition in Greek mythology, they claimed a right to rule through their ancestor.

In 2006, a book written by journalist Milorad Bošnjak and machine engineer Slobodan Jakovljević ( a direct descendant of Jakov Obrenović, half-brother of Miloš Obrenović ), it was claimed that Karađorđe's ancestor was an Albanian Catholic from Kelmend called Đin Maraš Klimenta.

Loarn was supposedly the brother of Fergus Mór, whom the descendants of Kenneth claimed as an ancestor.

Some classical-era Rabbis, attacking Solomon's moral character, have claimed instead that the child was an ancestor of Nebuchadnezzar II, who destroyed Solomon's temple some 300 years later.

Julius Caesar claimed her as his ancestor.

Another constraint is that each descendant of the ancestor through whom citizenship is claimed jure sanguinis can pass on citizenship only if the descendant was a citizen at the time of the birth of the person to whom they are passing it.

The discoverers claimed that S. tchadensis is the oldest known human ancestor after the split of the human line from that of chimpanzees.

Pharisees claimed prophetic or Mosaic authority for their interpretation of Jewish laws, while the Sadducees represented the authority of the priestly privileges and prerogatives established since the days of Solomon, when Zadok, their ancestor ( disputed ; see Sadducees ), officiated as High Priest.

Is claimed as an ancestor in both Irish and Hungarian medieval traditions.

Descent from Cerdic became a necessary criterion for later kings of Wessex, and Egbert of Wessex, progenitor of the English royal house and subsequent rulers of England and Britain, claimed him as an ancestor.

She was associated in antiquity with snake-charmers who claimed her as their ancestor.

Caeculus was claimed as the eponymous ancestor of the Roman gens Caecilia, and also perhaps by the lesser known gens Caesia.

She is the daughter of Egobail, the sister of Aillen and / or Fennen, and is claimed as an ancestor by multiple Irish families.

Lengthy legends of his exploits extend throughout the islands, and the kings of Tahiti and Hawaii claimed him as their ancestor.

The federally recognized Umatilla, Colville, Yakima, and Nez Perce tribes had each claimed Kennewick Man as their ancestor, and sought permission to rebury him.

In the 19th century, long after the demise of the other branches, the family claimed name and title of Counts Báthory, since their ancestor Michael had never consented to the sale conducted by his brothers, and in 1852 the Russian government confirmed the legitimacy of their claims.

This noble family descended in the male line from Henry Spencer, claimed to be a descendant of the cadet branch of the ancient House Le Despencer ( died c. 1478 ), male-line ancestor of the Earls of Sunderland, the later Dukes of Marlborough, and the Earls Spencer.

He was claimed as an ancestor of the Roman gens Junia, including Marcus Junius Brutus and Decimus Junius Brutus, the most famous of Caesar's assassins.

Some sources have claimed that Ellis may have actually been giving a demonstration of a sport known as caid, which was an ancient Irish game that is similar to rugby, and is the ancestor of Gaelic football.

This flag was based on their coat of arms, whose pattern is supposed to be derived from the standards of their claimed ancestor, Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas ( 963 – 969 AD ).

The value which Alexander placed on Bucephalus emulated his hero and supposed ancestor Achilles, who claimed that his horses were " known to excel all others — for they are immortal.

Maurin, a French immigrant and something of a vagabond, claimed to be from a family which had occupied the same farm which their distant ancestor had received as a bonus for service in the Roman army.

Therefore, cognitive abilities generally cannot be claimed to derive from a common ancestor, whereas such claims are sometimes made by researchers studying primate cognition.

Emperor Yao was claimed to be the ancestor of Liu Bang.