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  • Re: surprising Relations ------- meeting many US presidents -- Parsing

    From Unknown@3:633/10 to All on Friday, April 24, 2026 23:51:03

    ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) posted:

    James Dow Allen <user4353@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote or quoted:
    From a database of questionable reliability I see that Abe is shown as
    . 1st cousin 6x removed of George Clooney
    . 2nd cousin 2x removed of Robert LaFolette (very famous Senator and Governor)

    Yes, but James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States,
    discovered and published an original mathematical proof.

    (In 1876, while serving in Congress, Garfield developed a unique
    proof of the Pythagorean Theorem using a trapezoid. His work was
    published in the New-England Journal of Education on April 1, 1876.)


    [Yes, but ] ----- what's the rhetorical connection?

    ___________________________


    Diana was the great-great-great-great-grandniece of the famous Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire.

    Princess Diana was a direct descendant of Georgiana?s parents,
    making Georgiana her 4x great-aunt.


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