My mother's maiden name is Jiraud. Someone told me there  is a monument, somewhere, in France dedicated to General Jiraud.\nIs this true?
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I would sugggest doing a Google search on it.
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Your quote is from Alexis de Tocqueville, who was a member of the French Aristocracy and favored monarchy over democracy. He came to America shortly after the French Revolution to study democracy up close and personal. He didn't like it much, but why would he? He had it pretty good under the French monarchical system. At least understand what it is you're ranting about.
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Haven't found your medal, but the words "ne oublie" are the motto of the Scottish Clan Graham.  They mean "never forget".  Perhaps this helps?
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"ALMOST FOUND", scorbore?  What does THAT mean, other than to say that MJF's foundation has not been successful?\n\nGOOD QUESTION, "french war veteran".  People who fail to thoroughly read the 2100 misleading words of Missouri "Prop 2" may not realize that the low-income women who would "donate" their eggs and be "reimbursed for their expenses" (kind of like selling blood to a private blood bank) will have NO RECOURSE UNDER THE LAW for any medical problems that result, including resulting disability or death.  READ THE WORDS.
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Mary Queen of Scots...Cousin of Elizabeth I mother of  King James I was raised in France though she was not french Devout Catholic reason Elizabeth didn't like her though I believe it was because all of Elizabeths "people" put it in her head that Mary wanted the thrown but she had the last laugh as it was her son James who assended to the thrown of England after Elizabeth died
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She very much has the right, I know the case you speak of, I believe his name is Patrick Stewart, i don't remember his rank.  I think that its horrid that the military has not taken the steps to allow the pentagram to be an accepted religious symbol.  Afterall, it was taken of the hate symbol list a long time ago.  \n\nThis is a story you might enjoy about the military who is trying to put up appearances to get Wiccan solidiers to join,but then dropping the ball of equality.  \n\nI was recently on a military base visitin a friend of mine, she's Gypsy Pagan and I'm Wiccan.  The military ONLY recognizes Wicca and no other pagan religions, so if she wants to go to circle on base, she has to do it with the Wiccan group, but on Andrews AFB, there is no Wiccan group, because they require you have specific accredidations to be the Chaplain representative for that base, you can't just go get a ULC http://www.ulc.org/?destination=ordination ordination, you have to go to college.  (Very hard to find college classes for Wicca)  But there is a circle of nearby Fort Meade, they meet in the chapel like every other relgiion and their meetings are even mosted on the sign outside with all the other meetings with a day of the week and time.  \n\nSo we go to Fort Meade on April 30th for the Beltane ritual and meet in the parking lot, we arrived a little early and were suprised to see what seemed like a SOuthern Baptist group heading into our part of the chapel.  As our chaplain representative arrived, she became bold enought to enter and ask them to move out because, as the sign outside stated, we are alotted this time and had reserved it as an ongoing reservation.  The person she talked to, I believe one of the deacons, asked her what group she was from and then, when she answered, started laughing, he said they had reserved the time slot with the chaplain last week and that they weren't moving.  We called the chaplain, but he never picked up his cell phone, we left several messages, but then just continued our ritual outside while children from the Baptist group continued to gawk at us and make comments.
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Well I think that you mean our real names. not our screen names. Well My name is very unique. it is my mothers maiden name and it means a lot to me to have it. My naem is dirived from a french town named Daubigny. Over time it was shortened to Dabney. There are not alot of Dabney's in the world so when you meet them it is like finding gold. There are two sets of Dabneys, black Dabney and white dabney. The white Dabneys are mainly in Virginia and the black Dabney are in Louisiana wher my family is from. I didn't like my name at first but i feel that I have become a Dabney because of my family and my history. I love my name!
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Here is your answer.\nhttp://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Marie+Antoinette%2c+Archduchess+of+Austriae
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I am so sorry for the loss of your sister and great grandson. How deeply heartbreaking. I lost my 18 yr. old daughter, Jill, in a car accident on August 2, 2002 and her birthday is coming up on March 14th. I have a memorial site for Jill and it has lots and lots of poems on several of her pages. Some of them are copyright that were written just for me and my daughter and others are not.  You are welcome to visit Jill's memorial site and especially look on her birthday and anniversary pages and you are welcome to highlight and copy them.  As long as they were not written exclusively for me and my daughter, you are welcome to use any of the poems you would like.  If you have any questions, or need further direction on finding poems, please feel free to e-mail me at peggyrose011058@aol.com.  God bless you and my prayers are with you, Peggy (myangeljill)
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No, I don't.  Just wanted to give you an FYI--I am also looking for my birth mother and posted a similar question here and Yahoo! pulled it and gave me a violation.  I guess they consider looking for ones birth-mother an invasion of privacy.\n\nBest of luck on your search.\n\nHave a great day.
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Hey, I know you don't know his last name and your mom is gone, so you can't ask her.. Just go with ME!!! And we can go on a rampant search and ask every RANDY in BC if he ever knew your mom.. one of them is bound to know.. YAY!!  (JB says to put up posters)
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Our dirt is our dirt. I'd be suprised to find anything revealing hereby a military member..past or present. I dig to vibe too...but it's too close, you know? Like someone asking about your crazy Aunt Bea.
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Yes i would equally be curious because there's one part of the puzzle missing.  I would pursue this and get as much backing as possible. If you have a really good friend, ask her if she would like to help.  That way if you dont find him you have a close friend to turn to.  If your Mum at least knows his name that's a start.  the look in the births marriages and deaths register for more info.\n\nYou can find him if your Mum is helpful enough to give his name - then go from there.  It wont be easy and i dont envy you in the least but i think it's a good thing wanting to know the other half of where u came from.\n\nGood luck
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Hi Dotti! I got your message, thanks for contacting me. \nIf you're interested here are some other bits of info I've gathered. The stone of scone is also known as the lia fail which is Irish for the stone of destiny, it's believed that Jeremiah brought it with him to Ireland from Israel before the Irish monks took it to the Scottish island of Iona etc.\nOllamh Foladh was the Irish name given to Jeremiah and is mentioned in several places in the annals of Ireland. Now there are two Scotias mentioned in the Irish annals - one of them was the daughter of the pharoh Hectonibus/Nectonibus so that's just something to watch out for when you're researching. You mentioned the flag, another interesting thing is that in Northern Ireland, okay... how to explain this... Ireland is made up of four provinces, three of them are in the republic of Ireland and one of them, Ulster is ruled from Westminster and is part of the United Kindom. The symbol for the province of ulster is a red hand - remember Zarah and Pharez and the midwife tieing a red thread on the hand of one of the babies? The symbol of Ireland is the harp of David which is also on the queen of Englands coat of arms, at one point the king of England was also the king of Ireland which is why the harp is on their coat of arms. And of course the lion of Judah, symbol of Scotland. One last thing, Scotia is the ancient name for Ireland. In the time of Jeremiah Scotland was a province of Ireland and ruled by the Irish high king in much the same way as Northern Ireland is now ruled from England.The Scots retained the name Scotia when the Romans renamed Ireland as Hiberia. The romans often referred to the Irish as the Scotti. Scotland was also mainly populated by Irish migrants. The native language of both the Irish and Scots is Gaelic, the Scots speak an older version of the language but there are still amazing similarities right up to the present day. Scotland also had a native people called the Picts. I hope you find this helpful and I'll try to dig up some of my old notes and web sites over the next few weeks and I'll get back to you if you like. Gb Esther.
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My family has a history of royalty in the countries of Syria, and France. That's on my father's side. On my mother's side, she is Lebanese. Other than that, i have no other nationalities. Other than Canada -- i was born there. But i am an american citizen.\n\nI most identify with my Syrian and Lebanese identities, since my father is from Syria, and my mother from Lebanon. My first name is Lebanese, and my last is Syrian. Doesn't sound foreign though -- Sami isn't a very uncommon name.
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Don't give a damn, you "king".\nBe careful if you talk about a king to a French, you'll be beheaded lol
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The post on June 27th is titled "I want to be a Shanqeet (I'm not sure if the word has a meaning.)"\nThe text translates into:\nIn Al-Masri newspaper today came the following:\nThe early results of Mauritania's poll have shown that the majority of the voters have voted in favor of the new constitution that was suggested by the ruling military council after a coup in August 2005 that ousted president Mo-aweya Ould Taya who has ruled for 21 years (not 26 like some people "meaning the Egyptian president"). The new constitution limits the future heads of state to two terms in office, allows for peaceful handing of power, and gives people the right to vote out the government. \nAn important historical fact: The historical name of Mauritania is the Land of Al-Shanqeet.\nI insist..I want to be a Shanqeeti (i.e. from   the land of Shanqeet).\n***********************\nEnd of translation.\n\nThe writer is indirectly criticizing the political state in Egypt, especially the fact that the president has been in rule for 26 years.\n\nIf you want to know what interests the writer then the following sentence which heads the blog would tell you the whole story:\n"Dreams, illusions, and wishes: aren't all moral standards just that? Even those of the knights?" The blog is tilted "An old knight", that's what the blogger calls himslef.