Even though little direct evidence survives, stories about Ms Yai Damrongthammasan have been passed down generations from people who knew and met her - attesting, Dr Seeger says, to her charisma.
In his book The Highland Clearances, Prof Eric Richards said the resettling of large numbers of people in a relatively short space of time caused dislocation, "psychic wounds" and a "sense of wrong" that was passed down generations.
Passed down over generations, the legends of the Dolomites read like fairytale accident reports.
The book was passed down through generations of the Talbot family who lived at the abbey.
The West family owned a mountain farm property that had been passed down four generations.
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Rumours passed down through generations of the Trevelyan family claim it may have been over-painted by his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds.
After all, the custom creations will become heirlooms, passed down for generations.
But some groups have expressed concern that this method involves making a genetic change to an egg that can be passed down through generations.
Sometimes, however, a retrotransposon forgets how to have a life of its own, and is just passed down the generations along with the host's genes.
It looks, then, as if the correlations between grammatical features noticed by previous researchers are actually fossilised coincidences passed down the generations as part of linguistic culture.
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Indeed, it is so permanent that it can sometimes be passed down the generations, leading to a lot of excitable talk about the inheritance of acquired characteristics normally regarded as a Darwinian no-no.
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Two of the possibly plagiarized recipes, said in the Pow Wow Chow cookbook to have been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe, are described in a New York Times News Service story as originating at Le Pavilion, a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan.
One tradition that has been passed down through the generations is coffee fortune-telling.
Everyone has a nickname, some earned, and some passed down through the generations.
Amid the desolation, the Japanese could take comfort from the thought that knowledge passed down over the generations had saved some lives.
The parties were formed shortly after the birth of the nation in 1828, and family loyalty to either one is traditionally passed down through the generations.
The couple, who paint porcelain, bone china and enamel boxes, fear their trade will not survive beyond the next 20 years because the skills are not being passed down to future generations.
Yet on Friday and Saturday nights the past two winters, the Wigwam has sat empty, a relic of more prosperous days when General Motors fueled the local economy and Anderson season tickets were passed down through the generations.
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The traditional process passed down orally over generations and still followed today proceeds strictly by hand through more than a hundred steps such as steeping, washing, fermenting, bleaching, pulping, sunning and cutting all of which lasts more than two years.
"All of these herbs are native to the High Atlas, and they serve medicinal purposes passed down by Berber families through generations, " explains Rachida Mouch, advisor to the local Dar Taliba Berber botany project.
Known as "autosomal" analysis, this test involves scanning a million points across each person's genome to look for matches in the patterns passed down to them incrementally from previous generations.
Something, then, is being passed on that is having an effect down the generations.
Carr discussed the indigenous people of Alaska, the Inuit, who traditionally passed down geographic knowledge (wayfinding) and taught younger generations how to read snow drift patterns and changes in their environment visually.
The addition of a tiny amount of DNA from a third person will be passed down the germ line - through the eggs - to subsequent generations.
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