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Now the institutional descendant of one Roosevelt reform is asking Congress for protection from the other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"I am a descendant of the Urartians, their grandson," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

Goode’s third, “Monsters of God,” premiering Thursday on HBO, is both a direct descendant and forges a new path.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Living in Guadeloupe, Ms. Sinnapah Mary is an Afro-Caribbean artist who is also the descendant of Indian indentured workers brought to the island by the French after slavery ended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

“At camp, they said a descendant of Neptune had caused the disaster. Neptune is the god of earthquakes. But... but I don’t think great-grandfather actually did it. Causing earthquakes isn’t pur gift.”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

"This work points to a completely different way of testing their possible role in cosmic history. Their descendants could leave a gravitational-wave imprint that persists all the way to the present-day Universe."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

They may be able to constrain objects that existed at redshifts greater than 10, even though the mergers of their descendants that create the gravitational waves happen much later in cosmic history.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Some descendants, including the brothers Lyons and Stuart Brown, didn’t join the pact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The Builders, as they became known in New Jersey, also included the Wilf family, whose descendants now own the Minnesota Vikings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

To that end, Cope willed his bones to the Wistar Institute, a learned society in Philadelphia endowed by the descendants of the seemingly inescapable Caspar Wistar.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson