This week's focus is on English notables. Per wikitree.com I am:

18 degrees from Winston Churchill
26 degrees from Douglas Adams
21 degrees from Isabella Beeton
22 degrees from Geoffrey Chaucer
19 degrees from Agatha Christie
21 degrees from Benjamin Disraeli
25 degrees from Stephen Hawking
27 degrees from John Lennon
21 degrees from Horatio Nelson
21 degrees from Florence Nightingale
21 degrees from William Shakespeare
18 degrees from Elizabeth Tudor

More about them:

Sir Winston Churchill, best known as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during
World War II.

Douglas Adams, author, humorist, and screenwriter best known for Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy.

Mrs. Isabella Beeton, journalist, editor, and writer best known for her homemaking and
cooking books.

Geoffrey Chaucer, author best known for The Canterbury Tales.

Dame Agatha Christie, the "Queen of Crime" was an English crime novelist, short story
writer, and playwright considered the best selling novelist of all time.

Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman, Conservative politician, and writer who twice
served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Stephen Hawking, regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since
Einstein.

John Lennon, musician and member of the Beatles.

Vice Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, British Naval officer considered one of the greatest
admirals in history.

Florence Nightingale, celebrated social reformer and statistician, and founder of modern
nursing.

William Shakespeare, poet and playwright widely considered to be the best English
language writer and dramatist of all time.

Queen Elizabeth I of England, one of England's most influential monarchs and the last of
the Tudor line.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust survivors
Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.

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