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From: Tristan Tornado< >
Subject: Re: Joan, The Fair Maid of Kent--recent bio
Date: 3 Dec 1998 11:53:53 -0800


So did you give him one ?

---"D. Spencer Hines" <> wrote:
>
> Vide infra pro risibus.
>
> Yet, this is quite "misleading", to use the current Washington
> legalistic patois. Irrelevant would be a better word.
>
> Joan, The Fair Maid of Kent, is the ancestor of tens, *de minimis* and
> more probably hundreds of millions of folks, including scores on this
> list --- through one SON *alone*-- Thomas, 2nd Earl of Kent [c.
> 1350-1397] who had SIX daughters.
>
> Why, just the other day, a chap was telling me that he was the 18th
> great grandson of Joan, The Fair Maid of Kent and he was asking for a
> handout at the bus stop.
>
> D. Spencer Hines
>
> Exitus Acta Probat
> --
>
> D. Spencer Hines ---- "Heavier than air flying machines are
> impossible." Lord Kelvin, President Royal Society [c.1895]
>
> William Addams Reitwiesner wrote in message
> <>...
>
> <snip>
>
> >The bottom line is the same: there are no surviving descendants of
> the
> >daughters of Joan of Kent. It just took one more generation for them
> to
> >die out :)
> >
> >
> >William Addams Reitwiesner
> >
> >
> >"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc."
>
>
>

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