No official Cardiacs histories or biographies have been published. References to their personal histories and characteristics are common and usually used to comedic effect. Many cultures use storytelling as a way to record histories, myths, and values. According to oral histories and other sources, such mass graves existed. For readers seeking family histories these are good sources of information. Quincy is divided into numerous neighborhoods with individual histories and characteristics. More emphasis was put on the oversight of imperial publications such as dynastic histories. Santa Barbara has a range of neighborhoods with distinctive histories, architectures, and cultures. Sandhill cranes have one of the longest fossil histories of any extant bird. These represent histories of spin networks. Malagasy has a tradition of oratory arts and poetic histories and legends. All of the earliest traditional Clan Mackenzie histories claim descent from a Fitzgerald progenitor. The life histories of choanoflagellates are poorly understood. There were wide variations in these histories. The Bowie family provided a variety of conflicting knife histories.