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By cross-breeding plants and animals, our Stone Age ancestors realised they could boost the amount of food they produced.

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From there Williams walked through all we achieved and had yet to achieve, and gamely included the acknowledgment that some of America's first heroes enslaved the ancestors of Black people who, against all the media hype, showed up in force.

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He told Rob Gronkowski, Brady's former NFL teammate, that he looked like “the Nazi that kept burning himself on the oven,” and said host Kevin Hart is so small “that when his ancestors picked cotton they called it deadlifting.”

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Sometimes the influencers revisit the civil war - who won, what happened - and insult their ancestors and even brag about having killed rivals.

From BBC

The farther generations get from their immigrant ancestors, Meneses said, the more they want to know their Portuguese roots, because it is “something that distinguishes them from others,” he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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