* 2 Grand Dukes of Luxembourg ( 1964 – present )

All past and present dukes have been descended from Edward I ; see Dukes of Norfolk family tree.

The palace today remains the home of the Dukes of Marlborough — the present incumbent of the title being John George Vanderbilt Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough.

It eventually passed into the hands of the Dukes of Rutland and following a fire, was rebuilt by the wife of the 5th Duke, and gained its present Gothic castle look.

Since the 11th century, two-thirds of the territory of the present municipality of Voeren was in the county of Dalhem, which was a possession of the Dukes of Brabant, and the remaining one-third in the Duchy of Limburg, which also belonged to Brabant after 1288.

Though subsequently the territory passed to the Dukes of Burgundy, Hesdin remained one of a handful of French strongholds, until in 1553 Emperor Charles V ordered the utter destruction of the old fortified town on a rise of ground and built the present town the following year, some from the original site, on the banks of the Canche.

Bes has played for many teams from 1990 to the present such as the Dayton Bombers, Chicago Wolves, Mississippi Sea Wolves, Orlando Solar Bears, Jacksonville Lizard Kings, SaiPa and several other teams including the Dukes of Hamilton.

It was confirmed as a hereditary office to the 9th Earl by Crown charter of novodamus in 1667, and has remained with the Dukes of Argyll to the present day.

The video is mainly based on the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit, although references to the 1980s TV show The Dukes of Hazzard and the film Cool Hand Luke are also present in the video.

It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

There are certainly large areas of understanding in the human sciences which in themselves and even without political invention can help to dispel our present fears.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

Corporations are apt by nature to be impersonal, inhumane, shortsighted and almost exclusively profit-motivated, a picture they could scarcely afford to present to the public.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.

These discoveries are of present interest chiefly to the scientific community ; ;

Second, our military missile program, going forward so successfully, does not suffer from our present lack of very large rocket engines, which are necessary in distant space exploration.

He reviews Steele's entrance into politics and finds that his present difficulties are due to his habit of attributing to his own abilities and talents achievements which more properly should be credited to the indulgence of his friends.

The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.

Thus Burns's `` My love is like a red, red rose '' and Hopkins' `` The thunder-purple sea-beach, plumed purple of Thunder '' although clearly intelligible in content, hardly present ideas of the sort with which we are here concerned.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

They are as decisively present in the Oresteia and Oedipus as in Macbeth, King Lear, and Phedre.

This help is offered to applicants who ordinarily would not undertake the exploration under present conditions or circumstances at their sole expense and who are unable to obtain funds from commercial sources on reasonable terms.

These opinions of the assessors are of significance in indicating what their thinking seems to be at the present time.

Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.

The movement of events is so fast, the pace so severe, that an attempt to peer into the future is essential if we are to think accurately about the present.

Mr. Devey's new responsibilities are in addition to those of his present post as marketing manager of Sprague's Special Products Group, which manufactures a wide line of digital electronic components, packaged component assemblies, and high temperature magnet wires.

It is thick, much like an egg plant's skin, so that poison sprays, if they are used, present no hazard to the consumer.

Calcium, phosphorus and iron are present in worthwhile amounts, and eleven other minerals also have been found in varying trace amounts.

`` The reason you are in the ring today is to show your ability to present to any judge the most attractive picture of your dog that the skillful use of your aids can produce.

Descendants of this marriage included Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester and eventually Cardinal ; Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, grandmother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III ; John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, the great-grandfather of King Henry VII ; and Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots, from whom are descended, beginning in 1437, all subsequent sovereigns of Scotland, and successively, from 1603 on, the sovereigns of England, of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the United Kingdom to the present day.

The idea of a uniquely Canadian monarch has been proffered as an alternative, either one descended from the present queen or coming from a First Nations royal house ; however, there has been no popular or official support for such a change.

Black Swans have also naturally flown to New Zealand, leading scientists to consider them a native rather than exotic species, although the present population appears to be largely descended from deliberate introductions.

A literal interpretation of suggests that the present population of the world was descended from Noah's three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.

Lazarus Stewart, descended upon the village, slaughtered the six Indians present at the time, and burned their houses.

18 September 1776 The Dominguez-Escalante expedition came from the east where they crossed blue bench and descended into Utah north of the present day town of Duchesne.

Red deer descended from the original deer present when the park was enclosed graze in the grounds, as do Highland cattle.

A third branch of the family, the Mourets, descended from Macquart and Dide's daughter, are then introduced before the novel's focus is brought back to the " present ", the night of the coup, via a quite brilliantly told love story.

The present royal family of Thailand is descended from HRH Prince Mahidol Adulyadej of Songkla ( 1891 – 1929 ) and Srinagarindra ( later Princess Mother ) ( 1900 – 95 ) forming the House of Mahidol ( ราชสก ุ ลมห ิ ดล ) ( a cadet branch of the Dynasty ).

Thomas Coventry, 5th baron ( d. 1699 ), was created an earl in 1697 with a special limitation, on failure of his own male issue, to that of Walter, youngest brother of the lord keeper, from whom the present earl of Coventry is descended.

The place where the mother dragon descended was named Hạ Long, the place where the dragon's children attended upon their mother was called Bái Tử Long island ( Bái: attend upon, Tử: children, Long: dragon ), and the place where the dragon's children wriggled their tails violently was called Bạch Long Vỹ island ( Bạch: white-color of the foam made when Dragon's children wriggled, Long: dragon, Vỹ: tail ), present day Trà Cổ peninsula, Mong Cai.

It is then revealed that present day humans are descended from a combination of native humans, Colonial humans, and humanoid Cylons.

They descended from Goídel Glas, a Scythian who was present at the fall of the Tower of Babel, and Scota, a daughter of a pharaoh of Egypt.

The classical school from which Washington and Lee descended was established in 1749 as Augusta Academy, about north of its present location.

At present two disparate populations use the same breed name: the original Agriculture Canada recognised population in Canada, identified by the Working Canine Association of Canada, and its descendants elsewhere, registered by the International Seppala Association ; and the Continental Kennel Club population, which is not descended from the Canadian original.

Some researchers have also posited this etymological relation may show the schiltron is directly descended from the Anglo-Saxon shield wall, and still others give evidence " schiltron " is a name derived from a Viking circular formation ( generally no less than a thousand fighters ) in extremely close formation, intended to present an enemy's cavalry charge with an " infinite " obstacle ( that is, a perimeter horses refuse to breach ).

Samuel Hood's titles descended to his youngest son, Henry ( 1753 – 1836 ), the ancestor of the present Viscount Hood.

** The present members of the House of Orléans are descended from Louise-Françoise through her daughter Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon ;

The present United Brethren Church is descended from the minority who organized under the leadership of Bishop Milton Wright.

The modern domesticated turkey is descended from one of six subspecies of wild turkey: Meleagris gallopavo gallopavo, found in the area bounded by the present Mexican states of Jalisco, Guerrero, and Veracruz Ancient Mesoamericans domesticated this subspecies, using its meat and eggs as major sources of protein and employing its feathers extensively for decorative purposes.

A Pictish aspect was that both Balliol and Bruce descended through female lines from the royal house, and were allowed to present candidacy.

The present Tamil Nadu politics has descended from Periyar and his movement.

Whatever may be the conclusion to which our scientific inquiries may lead us, we should always remember, that by whatever means the Negro, for instance, acquired his present physical, mental and moral character, whether he has risen from an ape or descended from a perfect man, we still know that the Races of Europe have now much in their mental and moral nature which the races of Africa have not got.