There are even online novellas like "Rakan bin Williams," about a band of Christian European converts who embraced Al Qaeda and "promised God that they will carry the flag of their distant brothers and seek vengeance on the evil doers".
Ḥabībullāh II was driven from the throne by Moḥammad Nāder Khan and his brothers, distant cousins of Amānullāh.
Sotheby's will also sell a painting of 18th-century Venice commissioned by another of the brothers' distant ancestors, the 4th Earl of Carlisle, from Bernardo Bellotto, Caneletto's nephew, estimated to be worth £3m; a pair of 17th-century Italian cabinets worth £1m and a quartz diorite vase from Roman Egypt that could fetch up to £600,000.
But the connection is very distant – Fiumara was the brother of Christies aunt's husband.
Mr. Kosciusko-Morizet, a distant descendant of a brother of the Polish military officer Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who fought in the American Revolutionary War, said Rakuten had assured him it would respect the French flavor of the company.
"The idea is to build on your efforts," he added, pausing, shovel in hand, listening through the immense silence for the distant whine of his brother's snowmobile — his ride back to shelter.
We know almost nothing of his family and childhood, save a distant and equally genius brother.
She, a few months after giving birth to Salvo, "crept back to her kin and family, who weeks afterwards were massacred in their entirety by an aberrant tribe, right down to my last grandparent, uncle, cousin, distant aunt and half-brother or sister".
While traffic is still softer than it was a year ago, it's hard to believe that claim when the days of having an empty middle seat between you and the passenger at the window seem as distant as the Wright brothers.
