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Posh's ancestor was Karl Marx's pal!

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20080806
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London, Aug. 6 -- While she is a superstar in her own right, Victoria Beckham also has a family lineage that can leave many people impressed-- she is descended from a pal of Karl Marx, the father of Communism.

Hans Mueller, a historian in the city of Heilbronn found that the ex-Spice Girl's great-great-great-grandad Carl Pfaender was a German revolutionary and was a close associate of Marx.

Mueller said that Pfaender, who was born in 1819, fled to London after uprisings failed to oust Germany's monarch in 1848.

He then ...

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