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Then, at about the same time when colored was anathematized (despite the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has still not changed its name), black was legislated by that community of speakers to supplant Negro and colored, though I cannot recall any riders requiring a capital B . ( Cape Colored —or, more properly, Coloured —is retained in South Africa with a specific denotation of a “person of mixed European and African or Malayan ancestry” [ RHD Unabridged ], in which one must read White for “European” and dark-skinned for “African or Malayan.”
Old World Seriphidium species being equivocal [ 34 35 ] . The current ITS phylogeny suggests that the closest relatives of Tridentatae lie among the New World species of Artemisia , in agreement with McArthur and Plummer [ 20 ] , perhaps sharing a common ancestry with A. filifolia and A. californica , in addition to Sphaeromeria , although monophyly for this subclade is unsupported by the ITS data.
From the Viking raids and settlements a few Norse words of Teutonic ancestry survive with technical legal definitions: gift, loan, sale, bond , and law itself.
Both Leucanthemella and Nipponanthemum are radiate, supporting a radiate ancestry for Subtribe Artemisiinae.
The most insidious blame-the-Jews concept locates Hitler's anti-Semitism in his own putative Jewish ancestry (for which no reliable evidence exists).