He wrote for a Jewish audience: like " Q " and " M ", he stresses the continuing relevance of the Jewish law ; unlike Mark he never bothers to explain Jewish customs ; and unlike Luke, who traces Jesus's ancestry back to Adam, father of the human race, he traces it only to Abraham, father of the Jews.

Pei's ancestry traces back to the Ming Dynasty, when his family moved from Anhui province to Suzhou.

The Presbyterian church traces its ancestry back primarily to England and Scotland.

The Presbyterian church traces its ancestry back primarily to Scotland.

The traditional royal genealogy of Urien and his successors traces their ancestry back to Coel Hen ( alias King Cole ), who may have ruled much of the North in the early 5th century.

A rare, isolated clone exist in the Mudgee region that local believe traces its ancestry back to some of the first vines brought to Australia in the 19th century.

Included are Sicilians and Greeks, Corsicans and French, Spanish and Germans, Egyptians and Jews, Circassians, Iranians, and Turks ; also in this mix are Tunisians whose ancestry traces southward across the deserts to Black Africa.

General Dynamics traces its ancestry to John Philip Holland's Holland Torpedo Boat Company.

Sir Nose ’ s last appearance is on Trombipulation ( 1979 ), where he traces his ancestry back to the Cro-Nasal Sapiens, who were especially Funky, leading Sir Nose to reclaim his Funky heritage, along with his son, Sir Nose Jr.

The Macomber turnip traces its ancestry to turnips sowed in Westport shortly after 1876.

Greer was founded by James Manning Greer, a man from the Clan McGregor whose ancestry traces from Scotland, through Ireland.

The PolyGram acquisition included Deutsche Grammophon which traces its ancestry to Berliner Gramophone making Deutsche Grammophon UMG's oldest unit.

UMG's Canadian unit traces its ancestry to a Berliner Gramophone breakaway firm the Compo Company.

His maternal ancestry traces back to passengers on the Mayflower ; his father's, to colonists who arrived about a dozen years later.

Charles, born in 1775 in Warren Co., North Carolina, traces his ancestry to Lodowick and Mira Ann Jeter Murrah of Caroline County, Virginia through their son also named Charles and his wife Margaret ( Peggy ).

Greenleaf's family traces its ancestry back to Edmund Greenleaf, who lived in Ipswich, Suffolk in England before emigrating and settling in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

The division traces its ancestry to the original company formed by Edwin Link, inventor of the airplane simulator.

It is noted that Minamoto Yoritomo brought the destruction of the Taira clan the same way Mitsuhide brought an end to Nobunaga, who traces his ancestry to the Taira clan.

The modern Royal Canadian Air Force, formerly known as Canadian Forces Air Command, traces its ancestry to the unification of Canada's armed services in 1968, and is one of three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces.

According to a supplemental prose story by Robin Furth included in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born ( issues # 7 & # 2, respectively ), Roland's ancestry traces back to Arthur Eld and Emmanuelle Deschain, the daughter of his seneschal, Kay Deschain, while the Crimson King's ancestry traces back to an affair between Arthur and the Crimson Queen.

The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain.

Kythira was a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Peloponesus, so these stories may preserve traces of the migration of Aphrodite's cult from the Middle East to mainland Greece.

The wealth of Amathus was derived partly from its grain partly from its sheep and copper mines, of which traces can be seen inland.

The American explorations of the Argive Heraeum, concluded in 1895, also failed to prove that site to have been important in the prehistoric time, though, as was to be expected from its neighbourhood to Mycenae itself, there were traces of occupation in the later Aegean periods.

He traces the hostility of the two states back to a dispute about the images of the goddesses Damia and Auxesia, which the Aeginetes had carried off from Epidauros, their parent state.

The problem was caused by high residual stresses from cold forming of the cases during manufacture, together with chemical attack from traces of ammonia in the atmosphere.

" However some earlier high zinc, low iron brasses such as the 1530 Wightman brass memorial plaque from England may have been made by alloying copper with zinc and include traces of cadmium similar those found in some zinc ingots from China.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge to an Old English word brycg, of the same meaning, derived from the hypothetical Proto-Germanic root brugjō.

The navy (, ) traces its heritage to Admiral Cochrane's mercenary fleet and to the tiny Portuguese ships and crews that protected the earliest coastal colonies from seaborne marauders.

Corn harvested from the supposed Bt-free zones has shown traces of Bt toxin.

The first traces of therapeutic activities in China date from the Shang dynasty ( 14th – 11th centuries BCE ).

The word " cement " traces to the Romans, who used the term opus caementicium to describe masonry resembling modern concrete that was made from crushed rock with burnt lime as binder.

The Christadelphian religious group traces its origins to Dr John Thomas ( 1805 – 1871 ), who migrated to North America from England in 1832.

Archeology delivers traces of dance from prehistoric times such as the 9, 000 year old Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka paintings in India and Egyptian tomb paintings depicting dancing figures from c. 3300 BC.

For a cohort of persons born in the same year, it traces and projects their life experiences from birth to death.

To Medieval thinking, all things were connected with each other — a mode of thought that finds its traces today in the occult sciences or esoteric thought — ranging from astrology to believing certain minerals have certain beneficiary effects.

: The science which traces the laws of such of the phenomena of society as arise from the combined operations of mankind for the production of wealth, in so far as those phenomena are not modified by the pursuit of any other object.

In 1533, Rumiñahui, burned the city to prevent the Spanish from taking it, thereby destroying any traces of the ancient pre-Hispanic city.

The oldest evidence of human settlement dates from the prehistoric era ; archeological finds from the north of Erfurt revealed human traces from the paleolithic period, ca.

Each clan is identified by a specific place, and traces its origin to a common patrilineal ancestor.

In the 14th century, they began to lose their ethnic identity, traces of their presence however may be found as clan names or toponyms from Afghanistan to Moldovia.

Sayyids are by definition a branch of the tribe of Banu Hashim, a clan from the tribe of Quraish that traces its lineage to Adnan and thence to the Prophet Ismael.

The company traces its history back to the Tsukumo Shokai Shipping company founded by the Tosa clan in 1870.

The family traces their roots to the Rane clan of Marathas.

Hunno-Bulgar legend traces the Dulo clan back to the tribe of a mighty Alan king from which Attila the Hun descended.

The O ' Dowd clan or sept traces its descent from Fiachra, brother of Niall of the Nine Hostages, through Daithi, the last pagan King of Ireland who, legend has it, was killed by a bolt of lightning as he led an army to the foot of the Alps in 455 AD.

" 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.

The history of Pokhariya's Rajput clan traces back to the medieval period.

The Farrell or O ' Farrell clan ( Ó Fearghail in Irish ) is an Irish clan that traces its origins back to the battle of Clontarf in 1014.