D. A. R. friends

English translation: Daughters of the American Revolution

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English term or phrase:	D. A. R. friends
Selected answer:	Daughters of the American Revolution
Entered by:	Shirley Fan

02:35 Feb 1, 2010

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English term or phrase: D. A. R. friends

King Alfred, or Elfred, was born at Wantage, Berkshire, in the year Eight Hundred Forty-nine. He was the grandson of Egbert, a great man, and the son of Ethelwulf, a man of mediocre qualities. Alfred was shrewd enough to inherit the courage and persistence of his grandfather. Our D. A. R. friends are right and Mark Twain is wrong��it is really more necessary to have a grandfather than a father.

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Daughters of the American Revolution

Explanation:
The Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage based membership organisation open to women at least eighteen years of age who can prove lineal bloodline descent from an ancestor who aided in achieving United States independence.
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revol...
also
http://www.dar.org/

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so to the DAR the bloodline of ancestors (eg a grandfather) is more important than just that of the father

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Catharine Cellier-Smart
Reunion
Local time: 09:22

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Daughters of the American Revolution

Catharine Cellier-Smart

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Friends from the Daughters of the American Revolution

Kathryn Litherland

friends of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)

Ildiko Santana

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d. a. r. friends

Daughters of the American Revolution

Catharine Cellier-Smart
Reunion
Local time: 09:22
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 64

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thanks a lot!

14 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

d. a. r. friends Friends from the Daughters of the American Revolution

Explanation:
The DAR is an organization of women descended from those who served in the American Revolutionary War. "Grandfather papers" is the name for the application forms that are submitted and kept on file, indicating the applicants' lineage back several generations.

Kathryn Litherland
United States
Local time: 01:22
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 36

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d. a. r. friends friends of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)

Explanation:
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage-based membership organization of women[1] dedicated to promoting historic preservation, education, and patriotism. DAR chapters are involved in raising funds for local scholarships and educational awards, preserving historical properties and artifacts and promoting patriotism within their communities. DAR has chapters in all fifty of the U.S. states as well as in the District of Columbia. There are also DAR chapters in Australia, Austria,the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United Kingdom. DAR's motto is "God, Home, and Country." Some state chapters of DAR date from as early as October 11, 1890, and the National Society of DAR was incorporated by Congressional Charter in 1896.

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"The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was." /Mark Twain/ :)

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"friends" - it could either refer to supporters of the D.A.R., or actual friends that are members in or supporters of the D.A.R. Is the author a D.A.R. member?

Reference: http://www.dar.org/

Ildiko Santana
United States
Local time: 22:22
Native speaker of:

Hungarian,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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