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He and Emma enjoyed a remarkably compatible marriage (maybe it was that first-cousin thing).
Heart of Darwin 2008
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He and Emma enjoyed a remarkably compatible marriage (maybe it was that first-cousin thing).
Heart of Darwin 2008
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Psst, Rupert: It's another grounds on which to attack Darwin, who married his first-cousin, Emma.
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Other Huguenot-descended families did make first-cousin marriages (the du Toits and Moutons, for example), so it is not possible to make a blanket statement about the refugees having a different understanding or application of Calvin's precepts than the Dutch-speaking Reformed Church members.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Note 8: The prevalence of first-cousin marriage among elite Amsterdam burghers as well as among farmers and artisans in Neckarhausen raises questions about the class dimension of endogamous marriage.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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Dispatches (C4), which has been even more magnificent than usual this run, gave us a deeply worrying conundrum about first-cousin marriages.
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The consequences of first-cousin marriage can be tragic: each year in Britain hundreds of babies are born with disabilities and a third die before they are five years old.
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Even the inheritance advantage of a first-cousin marriage might not have been worth waiting for.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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It's very interesting that FTA's re-release follows, by about a month, the theatrical debut of its contemporary first-cousin, Theater of War (2008) -- at Film Forum -- which documents the making of the Public Theater's 2006 production of Mother Courage and Her Children with a cast led by Meryl Streep.
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With De Leon bowing out of the Speakership battle, this sets the stage for the openly gay, first-cousin of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to make history in Sacramento.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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