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Henry Tudor was a direct descendant of the first Duke of Lancaster, raised in exile after his father's death in a previous rebellion.
The fetus inherits genes from its father, as well, and those genes can promote their own survival by extracting more than their fair share of resources from the mother.
After all, I consider myself a black woman with a white father rather than a white woman with a black mother entirely for social reasons.
The other is when I had to say goodbye to my father when he was terminally ill.
Ignoring the warnings of his father, he rose higher and higher.
Years before Icarus was born, his father Daedalus was highly regarded as a genius inventor, craftsman, and sculptor in his homeland of Athens.
It's thought that if female crane flies enjoy this unusual serenade, they'll allow the male to father their offspring.
And even though most of you prepared for Y2K in a very different way, I'm convinced that you are here because some part of you has done the same thing that I have done since the dawn of this new century, since my mother left and my father stayed away and my Lord refused to come.
My mother was an artist, my father was a college professor, and I am truly grateful for my upbringing, because I always felt completely comfortable designing my life exactly as I saw fit.
My father's from a country called Botswana in southern Africa.
My father is the son of a maid from whom he inherited an intense dark chocolate tone.
All of these things are meant to evoke George Washington as the father of the nation.
My mom takes three elements: a bit of information, which is between my father and my mom in this case, raw elements and energy in the same media, that is food, and after several months, produces me.
And it was discovered that my brother, in 1967, and then my father, six months later, had brain tumors.
My father was a Baptist minister, and he believed in miracles, and that God's will would take care of that.
And it was the same thing that I felt when I was growing up, and was hearing these rules of moral conduct from my father, who was a Baptist minister.
It's the son, not the father."
And the caller says, "I am my father."
My father said, "Do not come to me with problems unless you thought of a couple alternatives.
Actually, some believe him to be the father of modern psychology.
So your father also played a large role in your life, mostly by his absence.
I mean, it was exotic that my father was going there.
That night newspapers were all over the house, my father was with his hat in front of his face, manacled to a detective.
EH: So you have a father who's absent, you have a mother for whom apparently nothing is good enough.
When my father was away, I was fooling with a crystal radio set that we had made together, and I caught a signal that turned out to be Father Coughlin.
But I stole the man's identity because I needed the father.
My friend Paul's father graduated from Colorado State University on the GI Bill.
Every weekend for as long as I can remember, my father would get up on a Saturday, put on a worn sweatshirt and he'd scrape away at the squeaky old wheel of a house that we lived in.
The day my father turned 52, I got a phone call.
I immediately moved home to Poughkeepsie, New York, to sit with my father on death watch, not knowing what the next days would bring us.
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