The ruling Liberal Democratic Party contends that opening royal status to commoners is just one step down a path that will ultimately lead to the abandonment of patrilineal legitimacy, ultimately discarding the sacred Y chromosome.
—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
8 June 2025
Isotopes in the bones of people buried there show that the city attracted people from far and wide, both commoners and elites.
Once known to be a peasant’s dish, according to one story, the addition of feta in the 1960s really put it on the proverbial map.
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CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
19 June 2025
Exacerbating the widespread unrest was the royal family’s close relationship with Grigori Rasputin, a Siberian peasant who claimed to wield control over the health of Alexei, the czar’s only son.
—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 June 2025
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