Darwin links
The Ultimate
Creation-Evolution Web Site
The Voyage of the Beagle
another
excellent Darwin site
The Galapagos Islands and the Giant
Galapagos Tortoise,
so important to Darwin in coming to understand evolutionary forces. Now an endangered
species. Browse the web sites of the American Museum
of Natural History, New York, and the National
Geographic Society for more on Galapagos species. They have a great web sites. For a
photo of the Galapagos Giant Tortoise, see the bottom of my Ideal
Vacations page.
Honky Chateau
On my father's side (Joslin-Brown-Roper-Davis-Leighton, Kinney, Hayes,
Richardson), my ancestry is English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and French. The French comes
filtered through generations of co-mingling with fair Saxon wenches, who came with huge
tracts of land (cf. Python, Monty, Holy Grail).
But before they went limey, Joslins lived in and fought for France. The ancestral
chateau actually exists, and was actually built by my ancestors God knows when,
but certainly more than a thousand years ago. (circa 900; a Josceline was living there in
925.) It is in the small town of Morbihan, in Brittany. I've got to go there. Think they'd
give me the keys?
You can see it for yourself by clicking here. But first, equal
time to my mother's family (Down-Hanson (not those
Hanson)- Bushnell-Patterson). They hail from England, Scotland and Sweden, which could
be why I drive a Volvo. Okay, go see the Chateau Josselin. It's about as old as my Volvo.
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