Tea at Trianon: Blue Eyed People Have a Single Ancestor

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Blue Eyed People Have a Single Ancestor

From History of Yesterday:

Professor Hans Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine was the one to discover this back in 2008. Based on this study and many others that had been previously done with a focus on the human genome, Professor Eiberg came up with an interesting conclusion stating that the human organism will keep on evolving:
“it simply shows that nature is constantly shuffling the human genome, creating a genetic cocktail of human chromosomes and trying out different changes as it does so.”
Originally, all our ancestors had brown eyes, but a mutation affection the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in humans being born with different colored eyes. Taking into consideration that between 8% to 10% of the global population has blue eyes, it is possible that blue-eyed people have a single ancestor. However, the question that everyone is probably asking is, who is this special ancestor? (Read more.)