Beginning with the earliest explorations and excavations, researchers wrote that the Ancient Puebloans are ancestors of contemporary Pueblo peoples.

Following his visit to the city, the 12th century Syrian historian Yaqut al-Hamawi wrote that Mogadishu was inhabited by dark-skinned Berbers, the ancestors of the modern Somalis.

Towards the end of the period of Crusader rule, in 1166 Maimonides visited Hebron, which he apparently thought lay east of Jerusalem, and wrote ,' On Sunday, 9 Marheshvan ( 17 October ), I left Jerusalem for Hebron to kiss the tombs of my ancestors in the Cave.

In between his directing work he wrote four best-selling novels, including America, America, and The Arrangement, in both of which he tells the story of his Greek immigrant ancestors.

John Lawson wrote in his 1709 A New Voyage to Carolina that the Croatans living on Hatteras Island used to live on Roanoke Island and that they claimed to have had white ancestors:

Most notably, among the Sackville descendants, these include writer Vita Sackville-West ( her Knole and the Sackvilles, published 1922, is regarded as a classic in the literature of English country houses ); her friend and lover Virginia Woolf wrote the novel Orlando drawing on the history of the house and Sackville-West's ancestors.

One such came from Nicolaus of Damascus, the court historian for Herod, who wrote that Herod ’ s ancestors were among the historical elite in Jerusalem who had been taken by King Nebuchadnezzar into Babylonian captivity in the sixth century BCE.

During the Revolutionary War in March 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams, who was one of the revisers and signers of the Declaration of Independence, stating, " And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.

Captain William Coit wrote in the Pennsylvania Journal of November 29, 1775, of a story of how he brought captive British sailors ashore " upon the same rock our ancestors first trod.

Barjavel wrote Le Voyageur imprudent ( 1943 ), the first novel to present the famous Grandfather paradox of time travel: if one goes backwards in time and kills one of their ancestors before he had children, the traveller cannot exist and therefore cannot kill the ancestor.

In 1829, Marcus Louis wrote that the ancestors of the Beta Israel related to the Asmach which also called Sembritae (" foreigners ") an Egyptian regiment numbering 240, 000 soldiers and mentioned by Greek geographers and historians.

The most famous clan chief was Donald Cam MacAulay and his ancestors have included the anti slavery campaigner Thomas Babington MacAulay and also Lord MacAulay who wrote A History of England.

He also wrote a book on his ancestors in the Whiskey Rebellion, and delivered a number of papers on Civil War history at meetings of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States veterans organization.

In 1973, it was proposed that the ancestors of Pelomyxa palustris had branched off from the eukaryote line before the advent of mitochondria In 1976, Jean M. Whatley wrote that Pelomyxa palustris " may justly be considered the most primitive eukaryotic organism living today.

As Laughlin once wrote, " none of this would have been possible without the industry of my ancestors, the canny Irishmen who immigrated in 1824 from County Down to Pittsburgh, where they built up what became the fourth largest steel company in the country.

In 1933, he wrote that the Siouan-speaking Keyauwee and Cheraw of the Carolina Piedmont were the most likely Indian ancestors of the people known from 1885 to 1912 as Croatan Indians.

" Charles Solomon of the Los Angeles Times wrote that " fans of television's most popular underachievers will enjoy Groening's The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album a collection of bizarre memorabilia that traces the clan back to their bug-eyed ancestors Sven Simpson, Claretta Ethridge, Mary Frowning Cloud, and Joe Puffing Goat.

In his book Purely Commentary, Slomovitz reproduces three letters written in March and early April 1935, from Chase Osborn defending his claim, Osborn wrote in the first of the letters: " President Roosevelt knows well enough that his ancestors were Jewish.

" Professor of Polish-Jewish history Gershon D. Hundert wrote in 2006 " There is no evidence to support the theory that the ancestors of Polish Jewry were Jews who came from the Crimean Jewish kingdom of Khazaria ", describing Koestler as the " best-known advocate " of the theory.

This pride was expressed as early as the medieval chronicles, where chroniclers wrote about the Goths as the ancestors of the Scandinavians, and the idea was used by Nicolaus Ragvaldi at the Council of Basel to argue that the Swedish monarchy was the foremost in Europe.

Capp himself originated the stories, wrote the dialogue, designed the major characters, rough penciled the preliminary staging and action of each panel, oversaw the finished pencils, and drew and inked the hands and faces of the characters.

According to scholar Alan Dundes, who wrote extensively on the topic, the custom originated among Romani Gypsies in Wales ( Welsh Kale Gypsies ) and England ( English Romanichal Gypsies ).

Based on concepts which mostly originated with Postgate, Firmin did the artwork and built the models, while Postgate wrote the scripts, did the stop motion filming and many of the voices.

The phrase originated from City Hall reporter, John Buchanan, who wrote, " Barnes has made people so happy, they're dancing in the street.

Peter Cartwright wrote the scenario for EV Override and the Australian company ATMOS created the scenario of EV Nova ; both originated as plug-ins for the preceding games before being picked up by Ambrosia as sequels.

" Schreiber's film adaptation of the short story from which the novel originated, which he both wrote and directed, was released in 2005.

" The time and circumstances under which the name South Orange originated will probably never be known ," wrote historian William H. Shaw in 1884, " and we are obliged to fall back on a tradition, that Mr. Nathan Squier first used the name in an advertisement offering wood for sale " in 1795.

Born in Trieste ( then in Austria-Hungary ) as Aron Ettore Schmitz to a Jewish family that originated in Germany, Italo Svevo ( literally Italian swabian ) wrote the classic novel La Coscienza di Zeno ( rendered as Confessions of Zeno, or Zeno's Conscience ) and self-published it in 1923.

brand jeans in the 1960s, more than a decade before he and Bennett jointly wrote and composed, and he originated, the selection.

Paul Shaffer, who did the write-up, wrote that the girl-group sound, originated by them, was " everything to "; he also described their impromptu performance of " Soldier Boy " as inspiring.

On 10 October 1876, he wrote to The Meteor, the Rugby School magazine, that he had learnt from an unnamed source that the change from a kicking game to a handling game had "... originated with a town boy or foundationer of the name of Ellis, Webb Ellis ".

A point of note: the World Wide Web originated when Tim Berners-Lee wrote the ENQUIRE program in Pascal on a Norsk Data NORD-10 running under SINTRAN III at CERN.

The concept of the geostationary orbit was originated by Russian theorist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who wrote articles on space travel at the turn of the century.

As Leigh Montville wrote in The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth, No, No, Nanette had originated as a non-musical stage play called My Lady Friends, which opened on Broadway in December 1919.

As a young girl, Friedan was active in Marxist and Jewish circles ; she later wrote how she felt isolated from the community at times, and felt her " passion against injustice ... originated from my feelings of the injustice of anti-Semitism ".

Capp himself originated the stories, wrote the dialogue, designed the major characters, rough penciled the preliminary staging and action of each panel, oversaw the finished pencils, and drew and inked the faces and hands of the characters.

In his biography of Liebenfels ( Der Mann, der Hitler die Ideen gab, Munich 1985 ), the Viennese psychologist and author Wilhelm Dahm wrote: " The Thule Gesellschaft name originated from mythical Thule, a Nordic equivalent of the vanished culture of Atlantis.

Against Gilles Ménage he wrote a Térence justifié ( 1656 ); he laid claim having originated the idea of the Carte de tendre of Mlle de Scudéry's Clélié ; and after being a professed admirer of Corneille turned against him because he had neglected to mention the abbé in his Discours sur le poème dramatique.

In October 1876, in an effort to refute the assertion that carrying the ball had been an ancient tradition, he wrote to The Meteor, the Rugby School magazine, that he had learnt from an unnamed source that the change from a kicking game to a handling game had ".. originated with a town boy or foundationer of the name of Ellis, William Webb Ellis ".

He has appeared in numerous films that Mamet wrote and / or directed, including House of Games, Things Change, Homicide, Oleanna ( reprising the role he originated in the play of the same name ), Wag the Dog, State and Main, and Spartan.

" The Best Page in the Universe " originated from a text document that Maddox wrote in 1996 aptly named " fifty things that piss me off!

The Sunday Herald wrote in 2003, " The term dogging originated in the early 1970s to describe men who spied on couples having sex outdoors – these men would ' dog ' the couples ' every move and watch them.

" From 1777 on ," wrote historian Bernard Sheehan, " the line of western settlements was under almost constant assault by white-led raiding parties that had originated at Detroit.

Herodotus wrote that the religious community of Aphrodite originated in Phoenicia and came to Greeks from there.

* Olaus Rudbeck, famous Swedish polymath and one of the discoverers of the lymphatic system ( He also wrote Atlantica, a book in which he attempted to demonstrate that all peoples of the world originated in Sweden, and that Uppsala was the lost Atlantis ).