• Famous Left-Handers

    From Mike Dippel@954:895/1 to All on Wed Aug 13 22:05:44 2025
    Because today is left-handers Day, today's focus is on left-handed celebrities. Per
    wikitree.com I am:

    21 degrees from Prince William Mountbatten-Windsor
    20 degrees from Fred Astaire
    20 degrees from Joe Clark
    22 degrees from Kurt Cobain
    21 degrees from Lefty Driesell
    17 degrees from James Garfield
    18 degrees from Marc Garneau
    20 degrees from Glenn Gould
    21 degrees from Jimi Hendrix
    31 degrees from Ringo Starr
    22 degrees from Kiefer Sutherland
    36 degrees from Paul Verlaine

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    More on each:

    William, Prince of Wales

    Fred Astaire, dancing extraordinaire

    Joe Clark, Canadian Prime Minister

    Kurt Cobain, grunge rock innovator and leader of the band, Nirvana

    Charles "Lefty" Driesell, one of the most successful college basketball coaches in history

    James Garfield, US President

    Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut and politician

    Glenn Gould, eccentric world renown pianist

    Jimi Hendrix, psychedelic rock musician

    Ringo Starr, drummer for the Beatles and solo rocker
    (too bad I am not cousins with Paul McCartney. He's a lefty as well_

    Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor

    Paul Verlaine, French poet associated with the Decadent movement

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

    https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters.

    If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me some basic information by going to:

    https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm
    and click on the 'Request Form' link.

    I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history,
    and I would love to see how WE are related.

    Mike Dippel
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