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Her late husband, John Sipes Jr., a Cheyenne chief and great-great grandson of Medicine Water, began recording the history of the Fort Marion prisoners in the 1990s.
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It's her only truly private space; her husband, director Joseph Blatchley, isn't allowed in, although a jacket hand-embroidered with peacocks belonging to his great-great grandmother lives here because it is "the most beautiful thing".
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Look at what we have, banks run amok, wall street captains of industry acting like gods that mere mortals cannot begin to fathom their actions, health care decisions being dictated by the insurance industry for those who can afford the ever rising premiums, two wars that we cannot afford that we are burdening our great-great grandchildren with the debt.
Obama informs top diplomatic, military officials of Afghan decision 2009
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Those question are key, whereas telling people to imagine their great-great grandchildren will be living in a Star Trek paradise in the 22nd century will glean sneers from anyone who doesn't * already* believe it.
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 He is supposedly the great-great grandson of the famous western outlaw that shares the same name.
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How many more generations of white people are going to have to apologize to black people for the fact that their great-great grandparents were slaves.
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It's fairly well known that Frederick Douglass was one of the first and most influential male supporters of the Women's Rights movement, but, what a lot of people don't know is that, without his wife -- my great-great grandmother, Anna Murray-Douglass -- the world may never have known Frederick Douglass.
Robert J. Benz: Women for Women: Nettie Washington Douglass Summons the Strength of Her Gender Robert J. Benz 2011
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It's fairly well known that Frederick Douglass was one of the first and most influential male supporters of the Women's Rights movement, but, what a lot of people don't know is that, without his wife -- my great-great grandmother, Anna Murray-Douglass -- the world may never have known Frederick Douglass.
Robert J. Benz: Women for Women: Nettie Washington Douglass Summons the Strength of Her Gender Robert J. Benz 2011
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It's fairly well known that Frederick Douglass was one of the first and most influential male supporters of the Women's Rights movement, but, what a lot of people don't know is that, without his wife -- my great-great grandmother, Anna Murray-Douglass -- the world may never have known Frederick Douglass.
Robert J. Benz: Women for Women: Nettie Washington Douglass Summons the Strength of Her Gender Robert J. Benz 2011
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Do you expect me to feel guilty about what happened before my ancestors immigrated or (if I was the descendant of the more original settlers) what my great-great ... grandad did?
Yanquico, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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