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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Irish

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In a statistical survey of the Irish carried out by Mr. C. Wesley Dupertuis in the 1940s under the endorsement and guidance of The Division of Anthropology of Harvard University, based on some 10,000 adult males, the following information was gathered and so documented.[16]

The hair color of the Irish is predominantly brown. Less than 3% have black or ashen hair; 40% have dark brown hair. Medium brown hues make up another 35%. Persons with blond and light brown hair account for close to 15%, while approximately 10% have auburn or red hair. Both golden and dark brown shades can be seen in the southwestern counties of Ireland, but fairest hair in general is most common in the Central Plain.[17] Ulster has been evidenced to have the highest frequencies of red hair with the lowest found in Wexford and Waterford.

In further examining pigmentation characteristics (both as a whole and regionally), studies have indicated the Irish are "almost uniquely pale skinned when unexposed, untanned parts of the body, are observed" and "40% of the entire group are freckled to some extent". Moreover, "in the proportion of pure light eyes", data shows that "Ireland competes successfully with the blondest regions of Scandinavia", as approximately 42% of the Irish population have pure blue eyes. Another 30% have been found to possess light-mixed eyes and "less than 1 half of 1% have pure brown".

The complete results of this survey have been condensed and arranged in the Harvard Anthropometric Laboratory (formerly under the close supervision of Professor Earnest A. Hooton) with the cooperation of both governments in Ireland.
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I was searching for a posting that I'd read, being topiced Black Irish and not finding it, found myself here

But what about this beautiful image, raw around the edges as it should be ... and snapped by a mother, just in time for the Christmas of Now



Here we have Black Irish - do we or do we not? - passed along to a babe called Mary?

Now, several of these traits are to be found throughout Britain and Ireland (a near-clone of Paul surprised me on the London Underground , lacking undergirding by academic sampling, filtering and understanding, of course), but extended to us is God's art, surely - warm, cradled and multi-dimensioned ... just in time for a Palestinian Nativity, captured by such a lens once again.

And Mary remains ever-so-lovely, in the deepest sense ... as was her mother, Linda ~ God's eye.

http://tinyurl.com/y9qh9w4

My wife and I saw a "near-clone" of Paul in a nearly empty large natural foods restaurant one afternoon when we were in Berkeley in 1989. In a quiet restaurant in the midi-afternoon lull between lunch and dinner time this clone guy (who looked eerily like Paul) was talking to various members of the restaurant staff in a full-on booming voice. I was thinking what a jerk to be so loud in an otherwise quiet place but finally noticed that all the waitresses and cooks were coming out of the kitchen to get his autograph. Finally had to conclude it was the real Paul, not a clone. Later noted from the local newspapers that the real Paul had indeed been in town promoting a PBS special program that would air the next week.

Cool sighting, Adam. Sighting ... almost like Macca is a bird or something

I'll bet that he would have liked to dine in peace and quiet as you two were doing that day. Bet he doesn't get to enjoy that experience very often in a restaurant.