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December 7, 2016 04:51 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/IDbD6QFkSp4/1000-years-of-royalty-nice-ma.html
1000 years of royalty: nice map of Europe's nastiest families
Nadieh Breme's Royal Constellations is a delightful starry visualization of a millenium of familial connections between European royals, and it gets right down to business: "Royal & aristocratic families are known for their fondness of marrying within their own clique."
Pick any two and it draws a line between them, revealing ancestral lines going back to the beginning—from the kings of medieval Wales all the way to the Windsors.
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