If today’s world map looks like a conglomerate glob of silly putty, smashed by a hammer and stuck together again, it is because the new nations are in large part literally and lineally the heirs ...

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This is a creature of the law akin to trusts. But where it differs from a trust is that it consists of all males lineally descended from a common ancestor, their wives and daughters. From the ...