The story of descent ( from Israel, to Tarshish, to the sea, to under the sea ) becomes the story of ascent ( from the belly of the fish, to land, to the city of Nineveh ).

The groove of direct hereditary descent in the land of his birth, which he never in thought, and hardly in body, moved out of.

Ontario has over 2 million people of Irish descent, who in greater numbers arrived in the 1820s and the decades that followed to work on colonial infrastructure and to settle land tracts in Upper Canada, the result today is a countryside speckled with the place names of Ireland.

Ancestrally, Samaritans claim descent from a group of Israelite inhabitants from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh ( the two sons of Joseph ) as well as some descendants from the priestly tribe of Levi, who have connections to ancient Samaria from the period of their entry into the land of Canaan, while some suggest that it was from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the Samaritan Kingdom of Baba Rabba.

Pelasgus admits that the land was once called Apia but compares them to the women of Libya and Egypt and wants to know how they can be from Argos on which they cite descent from Io.

Pelasgus admits that the land was once called Apia but compares them to the women of Libya and Egypt and wants to know how they can be from Argos on which they cite descent from Io.

The properties of water cushion the spacecraft enough that there is no need for a braking rocket to slow the final descent as was the case with Russian and Chinese manned space capsules, which returned to Earth over land.

" Okeene was also established in the year of the land run and was surrounded by farmers of German descent.

The first settlers of European descent arrived in the Beemer area by prairie schooner in 1864, seeking land under the Homestead Act.

" We ascended a not very high mesa ( blue bench ) which was level and very stony, traveled about three quarters of a league including ascent and descent, crossed another small river ( Duchesne River ) which near here enters the San Cosme ( Strawberry River ), named it Santa Caterina de Sena, and camped on its banks " " Along these three rivers we have crossed today there is plenty of good land for crops to support three good settlements, with opportunities for irrigation, beautiful cottonwood groves, good pastures, with timber and firewood nearby.

This would strangely mean that the female names are the oldest in Gĩkũyũ land, further confirming its matrilineal descent.

This was necessary because, unlike the Vostok space capsule, no ejection seats were fitted in the Voskhod ; the cosmonauts had to land inside the Voskhod descent module.

To land, the airspeed and the rate of descent are reduced such that the object descends at a slow enough rate to allow for a gentle touch down.

Others such as Clan MacAulay, Clan Mackinnon, Clan Grant, and Clan Gregor claim descent from the Scots King Kenneth Mac Alpin who made himself King of the Picts in 843, founding the Kingdom called after the name of the land Alba ( modern-day Scotland ).

In his second term Adkins signed into law a bill that would prevent anyone of Japanese descent from owning land in Arkansas.

H. A. Whittaker ( 1987 ) proposes that it was Mount Nebo primarily on the basis that it was the location where Moses viewed the promised land and a parallelism in Jesus ' words on descent from the mountain of transfiguration ; " You will say to this mountain ( i. e. of transfiguration ), ‘ Move from here to there ,’ ( i. e. the promised land ) and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.

In particular, they argued that he had been born in Dongola, that he lacked proof of descent from Fatima, that he did not have the prophesied physical characteristics of the Mahdi, and that his manifestation did not conform with the " time of troubles " " when the land is filed with oppression, tryanny, and enmity.

In particular, due its high, parabolic trajectory with a near vertical descent, the mortar can land bombs on nearby targets, including those behind obstacles or in fortifications, such as light vehicles behind hills or structures, or infantry in trenches or spider holes.

Commercial farming families were European by descent, understood title deeds to land and bought and developed large areas of land into commercial farming businesses along western ideas and mostly owned land in the central plateau regions of Zimbabwe.

The usually white owners were forced off the land, often together with their farm workers, who were often of regional descent.

In James City County, Toano became a major shipping point for the area's truck farming and an entire new development planned by a C & O land agent to attract farmers of Scandinavian descent from the colder regions of the American Mid-West emerged at Norge shortly after the turn of the century.

His father, who was of Portuguese Jewish descent, held French nationality and his mother was native Creole.

Some of the internees of European descent were interned only briefly, and others were held for several years beyond the end of the war.

Towards the end of the century Prime Ministers of Scottish descent included the Tory, Peelite and Liberal William E. Gladstone, who held the office four times between 1868 and 1894.

The Louisiana Territory was broken into smaller portions for administration, and the territories passed slavery laws similar to those in the southern states but trying to encompass the preceding French and Spanish rule ( for instance, Spain had prohibited slavery of Native Americans in 1769, but some slaves of mixed African-Native American descent were still being held in St. Louis when the US took over the Louisiana Territory ).

Both ethnically mixed Oromos and those with full Oromo descent held high leadership positions in Ethiopia.

Throughout their existence as a separate culture, Ruthenians formed in most cases rural population, with the power held by local szlachta and boyars, often of Lithuanian, Polish or Russian descent.

He was in reality a puppet ruler, put on the throne by the Roman general of Germanic descent Ricimer, and was mainly interested in religion, while the actual power was held by Ricimer and his nephew Gundobad.

* Major Cajun / Zydeco festivals are held annually in Rhode Island, which does not have a sizable Cajun population but is home to many Franco-Americans of Québécois and Acadian descent.

The Mashantucket Pequot claim descent from the Pequot, who at one time held dominion over the coastal area between the Niantic River of present-day Connecticut, the Wecapaug River in what is now western Rhode Island, to the border of Long Island Sound.

He was drowned when the canoe overturned, and his body was eaten by the araara fish, since held sacred by the Nga Puhi and Rarawa iwi, who claim descent from Rongomai.

This was contrary to the prevailing naturalist belief of the time, which held that socio-cultural and behavioral differences between peoples stemmed from inherited traits and tendencies derived from common descent, then called " race ".

Dred Scott v. Sandford,, also known as the Dred Scott Decision, was a landmark decision by the U. S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves ( or their descendants, whether or not they were slaves ) were not protected by the Constitution and were not U. S. citizens.

The to min are supposed to be descendants of the Kin, who held northern China in A. D. 1100, or of native traitors who aided the Japanese, in 1555-1563, in their descent upon Chehkiang.

The opinion, written by Supreme Court justice Hugo Black, held that the need to protect against espionage outweighed Fred Korematsu's individual rights, and the rights of Americans of Japanese descent.

Due to the Bigods ' descent in the female line from William Marshal, they inherited the hereditary office of Earl Marshal, still held by the Dukes of Norfolk today.

Some hailed the coup as the first time since Liberia's establishment as a country that it was governed by people of native African descent instead of by the Americo-Liberian elite, although persons with no Americo-Liberian heritage had held the Vice Presidency ( Henry Too Wesley ), as well as Ministerial and Legislative positions in years prior.

The medieval earldom created in 1088 was held to be inheritable through a female line of descent, and thus was held by members of several families.

Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali (), in media previously known as the Cuban-Swede (), is a Swedish citizen of Algerian and Finnish descent who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba between January 2002 and July 2004.

The Caste War of Yucatán ( 1847 – 1901 ) began with the revolt of native Maya people of Yucatán, Mexico against the population of European descent, called Yucatecos, who held political and economic control of the region.

Morrade Hakkar ( born January 19, 1972 in Besançon, France ) is a French middleweight boxer of Algerian descent who has held a number of regional championship belts during his 11-year professional career.

Upon the descent of this family to an heiress, the manor became bipartible, i. e. held jointly:

Song-flights are also performed: while singing, the bird takes off, rises to a height of around 2 – 5 metres and then after a short circling flight, makes a slow, ' parachuting ' descent, often with the wings held up in a ' v ' shape.

The alleged physical appearance and ethnicity of the Cagots varied wildly from legends and stories ; some local legends ( especially those that held to the leper theory ) indicated cagots had blonde hair and blue eyes, while those favoring the Arab descent story said cagots were considerably darker.