The narrator speculates that he is a lineal descendant of Doctor Slop from the novel Tristram Shandy.
Brightwell was born at Thorpe, near Norwich, on 27 February 1811, the eldest child of Thomas Brightwell (Ipswich 1787 – Norwich 1868), and his first wife, Mary Snell (1788 – 1815), daughter of William Wilkin Wilkin, of Costessey, near Norwich, and Cecilia Lucy (Jacomb), a lineal descendant of Thomas Jacomb.
He was a lineal descendant of Daniel Carroll and studied at St. Mary's College of Baltimore.
William Livingston, 4th Lord Livingston (d. 1518) {a lineal descendant was Rev. John Livingston, father of Robert Livingston the Elder of New York.
Evander Holyfield vs. Michael Moorer was a professional boxing match contested on April 22, 1994 for the WBA, IBF and Lineal Heavyweight Championships.
The two men had previously fought each other on April 22, 1994 for Holyfield's WBA, IBF and Lineal Heavyweight championships.
As he had not been beaten for either title, Foreman remained the Lineal champion and successfully defended that crown (as well as the lowly regarded WBU heavyweight title) against then-undefeated prospects Crawford Grimsley and Lou Savarese.
It is a collection of three of Farmer's stories from the series Weird Heroes published in the 1970s with the title character, a lineal descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, working for the Acme Zeppelin Corporation as a blimp pilot and private detective.
Isabella, married Sir James Graham, son of William Graham, 7th Earl of Menteith; her daughter Ellinor, or Helen, married Sir Arthur Rawdon, of Moira, lineal ancestor of the Marquis of Hastings.
Two of the most important films of his filmography are Rojo amanecer (1989) and El callejón de los milagros (1995) based in the homonym book by Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley of 1947 (زقق المدق), which breaks the classic lineal plots in films.
On November 16, 2003, Barrera was defeated by Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao in the eleventh round when Barerra's corner threw in the towel, earning Pacquiao his third world championship in third weight division (Barrera was the recognized Lineal champion and his Ring Magazine title was also on the line when he fought Pacquiao).
Michael Moorer vs. George Foreman was a professional boxing match contested on November 5, 1994 for the WBA, IBF and Lineal Heavyweight championships.
Mike Tyson vs. Frank Bruno was a professional boxing match contested on February 25, 1989 for the WBA, WBC, IBF and Lineal Heavyweight championships.
Parque Lineal started construction under the administration of mayor Francisco Zayas Seijo when an injection of $18 million was received from the Government of Puerto Rico as a result of a 1998 Supreme Court order, during the administration of mayor Churumba, and which mandated the Government of Puerto Rico to pay for certain infrastructure improvements in the municipality of Ponce.
Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook Park, near Abergavenny was a 15th-century Welsh knight, and the lineal ancestor of the Herberts of Chirbury.
Through his marriage to Jane Bolling, his children were lineal descendants of Pocahontas.
After the previous fight between the two in which Holyfield was able to regain the WBA, IBF and Lineal heavyweight titles by defeating Bowe via majority decision, Holyfield would face undefeated southpaw Michael Moorer in his first defense.
Riddick Bowe vs. Jesse Ferguson, billed as "The Heavyweight Debate", was a professional boxing match contested on May 22, 1993 for the WBA and Lineal Heavyweight championships.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film four stars out of four and compared Natalie Ravenna's quest to that of the Peter Fonda character in Easy Rider, and called them both "lineal descendants of the most typical American searcher of them all, Huckleberry Finn."
Nonetheless, there were still collateral lineal branches descended from Ieyasu through one of his many children, and the new shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, was chosen from one of these lineal Tokugawa branches.