One of the main lineages fled from the Kong ancestral home in Qufu during the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s, and eventually settled in Taiwan.

Boiorix, who may have a Celtic name if not a Celticized Germanic name, was king of the Cimbri after they moved away for their ancestral home of northern Jutland ; Boiorix and his tribe lived around Celtic peoples during his era as J.

However, his ancestral home, a concept important in Chinese society, was the town of Heqiao ( 和橋鎮 ) in Yixing, Wuxi, Jiangsu ( approximately southwest of downtown Wuxi, and from the shores of Lake Tai ).

Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, only thirty miles from his ancestral home of York.

These included criteria that the group maintains a myth or collective memory of their homeland ; they regard their ancestral homeland as their true home, to which they will eventually return ; being committed to the restoration or maintenance of that homeland ; and they relate " personally or vicariously " to the homeland to a point where it shapes their identity.

He was born on 12 April 1550 at the de Vere ancestral home, Castle Hedingham, the only son of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and his second wife, Margery Golding.

Analyses have shown a greater diversity of DNA patterns throughout Africa, consistent with the idea that Africa is the ancestral home of mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam.

His ancestral home was in Yemen, but his grandfather settled in Medina after embracing Islam.

The ancestral home of most Hong Kong people originates from various regions in Guangdong.

They took their name from their ancestral home, the Burg Hohenzollern castle near Hechingen.

After visiting his ancestral home in Suzhou, Pei created a design based on the simple but nuanced techniques of traditional residential Chinese buildings.

After the war he was ill for many months, recovering at the family's ancestral home in Duke's Denver, a fictional setting — as is the Duchy of Denver — about 15 miles ( 24 km ) beyond the real Denver in Norfolk, on the A10 near Downham Market.

He was born in his ancestral home, now known as Kirti Mandir.

Constance Baker Motley ( 1921 – 2005 ), who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King, Jr., has Nevisian heritage and owned a home in Brown Hill, Nevis, near her ancestral home.

Owain remained free but even though his campaign had been successful, and the English armies feared both him and the French — he had lost his ancestral home and was a hunted prince.

As had happened previously, the Lord told the king ( who appears to be a spiritual leader as well as a secular leader ) to lead the righteous Nephites out of the land of Nephi, their ancestral home for the previous 400 years, to a new place.

That cultural name is in turn derived from the name of Scania, the region at the southern extremity of the peninsula that has during periods been part of Denmark, that is the ancestral home of the Danes, and that is now part of Sweden.

The plots share the same basic structure progressing in the same sequence: the stories begin at Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins ; Gandalf sends the protagonist into a quest eastward ; Elrond offers a haven and advice ; the adventurers escape dangerous creatures underground ( Goblin Town / Moria ); they engage another group of elves ( The Elf King's realm / Lothlórien ); they traverse a desolate region ( Desolation of Smaug / the Dead Marshes ); they fight in a massive battle ; a descendant of kings is restored to his ancestral throne ( Bard / Aragorn ); and the questing party returns home to find it in a deteriorated condition ( having possessions auctioned off / the scouring of the Shire ).

The ancestral home of the ethnic Vietnamese, the delta accounted for almost 70 % of the agriculture and 80 % of the industry of North Vietnam before 1975.

A noble Roman family displayed ancestral images ( imagines ) in the atrium of their home ( domus ).

Margaret was born Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose of York on 21 August 1930 at Glamis Castle in Scotland, her mother's ancestral home.

Kapodistrias ' ancestral home in Corfu

She spent much of her childhood at St Paul's Walden and at Glamis Castle, the Earl's ancestral home in Scotland.

There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.

Caracalla, it was claimed, tried to counter this influence by invoking his ancestral spirits.

It is important to note that Alexander was the last known ruler of the Gediminids dynasty to have maintained the family's ancestral Lithuanian language.

Apries was either taken prisoner in the ensuing conflict at Memphis before being eventually strangled and buried in his ancestral tomb at Sais, or fled to the Babylonians and was killed mounting an invasion of his native homeland in 567 B. C. E.

Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, recent analysis of DNA from victims in northern and southern Europe indicates that the pathogen responsible was the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which causes the Bubonic plague, although these were different, previously unknown ancestral variants of those identified in the 20th century.

The ancestral callitrichid would likely have been a " normal " sized cebid that was dwarfed through evolutionary time.

The Dominicans and Franciscans argued that ancestral worship was a form of pagan idolatry that was contradictory to the tenets of Christianity.

The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of paille-maille or pall mall, derived ultimately from Latin words for " ball and mallet ".

The ancestral genome was complex with at least 41 genes including ( 1 ) the replication machinery ( 2 ) up to four RNA polymerase subunits ( 3 ) at least three transcription factors ( 4 ) capping and polyadenylation enzymes ( 5 ) the DNA packaging apparatus ( 6 ) and structural components of an icosahedral capsid and the viral membrane.

An ancestral form existed, known as the gastrea, which was a common ancestor to the corresponding gastrula.

Tacitus suggests that this was the original way the word " Germani " was used – as the name of a single tribal nation, ancestral to the Tungri ( who lived in the same area as the earlier Germani reported by Caesar ), and not a whole race ( gentis ).

In the early 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck believed that the giraffe's long neck was an " acquired characteristic ", developed as generations of ancestral giraffes strived to reach the leaves of tall trees.

This theory was eventually rejected, and scientists now believe that the giraffe's neck arose through Darwinian natural selection — that ancestral giraffes with long necks thereby had a competitive advantage that better enabled them to reproduce and pass on their genes.

Kebaran culture was quite successful, and may have been ancestral to the later Natufian culture ( 10, 500-8500 BC ), which extended throughout the whole of the Levantine region.

The first ancestral hyenas were likely similar to the modern banded palm civet ; one of the earliest hyena species exhumed, Plioviverrops, was a lithe, civet-like animal that inhabited Eurasia 20-22 millions years ago, and is identifiable as a hyaenid by the structure of the middle ear and dentition.

The balopwe was the direct communicator with the ancestral spirits and chosen by them.

Their language, whatever it was, was superseded by the ancestral Shona languages, although Ehret says that a set of Nyasa words occur in cemtral Shona dialects today.

Tanacross is the ancestral language of the Mansfield-Kechumstuk and Healy Lake-Joseph Village bands of Athabaskan people, whose ancestral territory encompassed an area bounded by the Goodpaster River to the west, the Alaska Range to the south, the Fortymile and Tok rivers to the east, and the Yukon Uplands to the north.

Born in Xiamen, Fujian, Qiu grew up in her ancestral home, Shanyin Village, Shaoxing, Zhejiang.

His Victoria Cross is on display at his ancestral house in Village Dab ( Chakwal ), Pakistan.