Reared upon his father's plantation in pioneer country, Bankhead supplemented his meager formal education by avid reading and contact with the issues and the world.

Two of the most notable studies funded by the Pioneer Fund are the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart and the Texas Adoption Project, which studied the similarities and differences of identical twins and other children adopted into non-biological families.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

Reared in England, she studied to be a teacher, earned several scholarships and was graduated with honors from the University of London.

Reared in Homer and a graduate of Homer High School and Methodist-affiliated Centenary College in Shreveport, McClanahan had a distinguised military record.

Reared underground in burrows, the cubs will stay close to the den until they are about four months old.

As compiled in 1997, the recipient of the largest amount of funding ($ 2. 3 million USD ) was Thomas J. Bouchard's landmark twin study, the Minnesota Study of Identical Twins Reared Apart ( MISTRA ), better known as the Minnesota Twins Project.

Reared in Tacoma, Washington, Gilmore attended Washington State University in 1931, where he was a member of the Chi chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity and a member of the Alpha Omicron Chapter of Theta Chi fraternity.

Reared in the Episcopal church, she subsequently became a prominent member and preacher in the Society of Friends, and was married to Robert Mott, of New York, in 1797.

An unrepentant Yancey was pardoned after only a few months, but while incarcerated Yancey wrote for his newspaper, " Reared with the spirit of a man in my bosom — and taught to preserve inviolate my honor — my character, and my person, I have acted as such a spirit dictated.

Reared in Staten Island, New York, she is known for her portrayals of rural landscapes and life in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Reared in Kimball, South Dakota, Ochsner was an unlikely hero of Southern medicine.

: Reared against the arch of heaven, looks she proudly down.

Reared as a traditional Methodist, he was not allowed to listen to the radio or go to the movie theater on Sundays.

This work became the Minnesota Study of Identical Twins Reared Apart ( MISTRA ), better known as the Minnesota Twins Project.

Reared in Ohio, Maharidge was a staff writer for The Plain Dealer and the Sacramento Bee.

It was organized by the king's foster brother, Helmichis, with the support of Alboin's wife, Rosamund, daughter of the Gepid king whom Alboin had killed some years earlier.

In February 1926 Bamberg served as the venue for the famous Bamberg Conference, convened by Adolf Hitler in his attempt to foster unity and to stifle dissent within the young NSDAP.

Whether this was an attempt to foster increasing unity by dissolving legal boundaries between communities, or to effect domination of the Turkish Cypriots by the majority Greek Cypriots, remains controversial.

These images were used in over 200 black newspapers across the country by the government to " foster goodwill with the black citizenry ,".

In historic Prussia, an important motivation for the invention of Kindergarten was to foster national unity by teaching a national language while children were young enough that learning a language was easy.

This vision includes establishing a University College to foster both in-depth and wide-interest, society-interest driven education for upcoming engineers ; establishing a combined Graduate School to manage the graduate programs ; an increase of the student body by 50 percent ; a 50 percent increase in the number of annual Ph. D graduations ; an increase of knowledge valorisation to a campus-wide score of 4. 2 ; increasing the international position of the university to within the top-100 universities ; and increasing the embedding of the university within the city and the Brainport region by transforming the campus into a high-grade science park with laboratories, housing facilities for 700 students and researchers and supporting facilities.

After killing his music tutor Linus with a lyre, he was sent to tend cattle on a mountain by his foster father Amphitryon.

Because of violent behavior on the part of the father, the brother was taken in at the age of 3 by foster parents, who adopted him later.

Even murder is permissible " if it is right for me ," though it is claimed by egoist anarchists that egoism will foster genuine and spontaneous union between individuals.

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

The IMF describes itself as “ an organization of 188 countries ( as of April 2012 ), working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty .” The organization's stated objectives are to promote international economic cooperation, international trade, employment, and exchange rate stability, including by making financial resources available to member countries to meet balance of payments needs.

The governor of Bengal Qutubuddin Koka who was the emperor's foster brother and Sheikh Salim Chishti's grandson was killed by him and consequently he suffered the same fate at the hands of the guards of the Governor.

She is accidentally killed by their foster father when she refuses to try to trick Lex out of his inheritance.

The organization's stated primary purposes are " to advance the ideals and standards of professional cartooning in its many forms ", " to promote and foster a social, cultural and intellectual interchange among professional cartoonists of all types " and " to stimulate and encourage interest in and acceptance of the art of cartooning by aspiring cartoonists, students and the general public.

He helped foster support from the conservatives by enacting several tariffs protecting German agriculture and industry from foreign competitors in 1879.

The effect of the invention of valves for the brass was felt almost immediately: instrument-makers throughout Europe strove together to foster the use of these newly refined instruments and continuing their perfection ; and the orchestra was before long enriched by a new family of valved instruments, variously known as tubas, or euphoniums and bombardons, having a chromatic scale and a full sonorous tone of great beauty and immense volume, forming a magnificent bass.

The last attempt to breed the remaining specimens was done by Whitman and the Cincinnati Zoo, which included attempts at making a rock dove foster passenger pigeon eggs.

A few days after Agnes ' death, her foster-sister, Saint Emerentiana was found praying by her tomb ; she claimed to be the daughter of Agnes ' wet nurse, and was stoned to death after refusing to leave the place and reprimanding the pagans for killing her foster sister.

July 31, 2007-The SMS Forum, a non-profit organization with a mission to develop, foster and promote SMS ( short message service ) to the benefit of the global wireless industry will disband by July 27, 2007

* Ding Yuan, general of Han Dynasty, killed by his foster son, Lü Bu

Orphaned at the aged of four and partially raised in foster homes, by 1944, Stanwyck was the highest paid woman in the United States.

Lisbon had already ( 1179 ) received a charter from Afonso I. Sancho also endeavoured to foster immigration and agriculture, by granting estates to the military orders and municipalities on condition that the occupiers should cultivate or colonize their lands.

The companies, granted a charter by the Portuguese government to foster economic development and maintain Portuguese control in the territory's provinces, would lose their purpose when the territory was transferred to the control of the Portuguese colonial government between 1929 and 1942.

Children, conditioned by this mistaken notion, have feared stepmothers, while adults, by their antagonistic attitudes, have made the role of the substitute parents a difficult one.

Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.

It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.

Amy had to be safe, had to come back to them -- if only to reap that share of life's experiences that were her due, if only to give her parents another chance to do better by her.

Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!

In 1958, the Conference endorsed birth control as the responsibility laid by God on parents everywhere.

However, a growing intellectual sophistication and the new certitudes imparted by courses in psychology and anthropology make the students increasingly critical of their somewhat provincial and overprotective parents.

and it is better to be shamed and criticized by one's parents, who already consider one different and difficult to understand, than by one's peers, who are also experiencing a similar groping for and denial of adult status.

It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had given him as a rule -- beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense of humor with which he was largely supplied -- and it was duty he would perform, though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty.

Baker notes the uncanny way that both authors imply an ironic " justification by ownership " over the subject of sacrificing children — Tertullian while attacking pagan parents, and Swift while attacking the English mistreatment of the Irish poor.

Nobel and his parents returned to Sweden from Russia and Nobel devoted himself to the study of explosives, and especially to the safe manufacture and use of nitroglycerine ( discovered in 1847 by Ascanio Sobrero, one of his fellow students under Théophile-Jules Pelouze at the University of Turin ).

" While chemical issues in the brain that result in anxiety ( especially resulting from genetics ) are well documented, this study highlights an additional environmental factor that may result from being raised by parents suffering from chronic anxiety.

His report of life there covers a wide range of topics, such as marriage in heaven ( where all angels are married ), children in heaven ( where they are raised by angel parents ), time and space in heaven ( there are none ), the after-death awakening process in the World of Spirits ( a place halfway between Heaven and Hell and where people first wake up after death ), the allowance of a free will choice between Heaven or Hell ( as opposed to being sent to either one by God ), the eternity of Hell ( one could leave but would never want to ), and that all angels or devils were once people on earth.

Remaining steadfast to his pedagogy, a forerunner of progressive and democratic schooling, he alienated parents in a later " parlor school " by admitting an African American child to the class, whom he then refused to expel in the face of protests.

As a small child, she travelled with her parents throughout the Empire until she and her siblings ( apart from Caligula ) returned to Rome to live with and be raised by Antonia.

Hesiod describes Alcmene as the tallest, most beautiful woman with wisdom surpassed by no person born of mortal parents.

Certainly his parents, who had worn the purple, were slain by it.

However, by this time, he had also witnessed the failures of his parents ' relationships as well as those of some of his friends.

In 1966, the number of babies born in Japan dropped by over 25 % as parents tried to avoid the stigma of having a daughter born in the hinoeuma year.

Sometime between 1763 and 1764 Salieri suffered the death of both parents and was briefly taken in by an anonymous brother, a monk in Padua, and then for unknown reasons in 1765 or 1766 he became the ward of a Venetian nobleman named Giovanni Mocenigo ( which Giovanni is at this time unknown ), a member of the powerful and well connected Mocenigo family.

He was born on the island of Oenone or Oenopia, to which Aegina had been carried by Zeus to secure her from the anger of her parents, and whence this island was afterwards called Aegina.

However, because organisms can be carriers of genes for albinism without exhibiting any traits, albinistic offspring can be produced by two non-albinistic parents.