The first betrothal was to his distant cousin Aemilia Lepida, but was broken for political reasons.

This game is thought to be a distant cousin of association football and is arguably one of the earliest codes of organised football.

It was not an unnatural decision: his cousin, Louis of Baden, was already a leading general in the Imperial army, as was a more distant cousin, Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria.

There is a dispute as to whether " brother " means someone who has the same father and mother, or a half-brother or cousin or more distant familial relationship.

The song " Going to the Chapel " is then played as we see Henrietta marry a member of the guard, Scarlett marry Chester, David marry his girlfriend, Tom marry his distant cousin Deirdre ( whom he met at Charles's wedding and instantly fell for ), Matthew with a new partner ( Duncan Kenworthy ), Fiona marry Prince Charles ( a joke ), and Charles and Carrie with their son -- presumably not married.

His adaptation of a French operetta by Émile Jonas called The Two Harlequins opened the new Gaiety Theatre, London in 1868, together with his distant cousin, W. S. Gilbert's, Robert the Devil and another piece.

In 1934 Hawks went to Columbia Pictures to make his first screwball comedy, Twentieth Century, starring John Barrymore and Hawks's distant cousin Carole Lombard.

Over the course of the next decade, his experimentation ( and a considerable injection of capital from his marriage to a richly-endowed distant cousin ) transformed the sleepy artisan works into the first true pottery factory.

* Robert Doom-The distant cousin of Doctor Doom.

Also in 1893 he married his distant cousin Marianne Schnitger, later a feminist activist and author in her own right, who was instrumental in collecting and publishing Weber's journal articles as books after his death and her biography of him is an important source for understanding Weber's life.

Cassatt was a distant cousin of artist Robert Henri.

The Sphere-Builders know that in the 26th century, the " Federation " fleet, led by Enterprises distant cousin, the Enterprise-J, will lead an attack against them that will defeat them.

By some accounts, Woodhull claimed to be the nephew of Caleb Smith Woodhull, mayor of New York City from 1849 to 1851 ; in fact he was a distant cousin.

* November 15 – The death of King Frederick VII of Denmark and his succession by his distant cousin Christian IX marks the beginning of the Second Schleswig-Holstein crisis.

* Lazar succeeds his distant cousin, Stefan Uroš V, as ruler of Serbia after most of the nobility in Serbia are killed by the Ottomans in the Battle of Maritsa.

* King James I of Cyprus inherits the title of King of Armenia after the death of his distant cousin Leo VI ( although the Mamluk conquerors from Egypt remain the true rulers ).

One of the most prominent champions of the central route railroad was Asa Whitney ( a distant cousin to cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney ).

* Leo VI succeeds his distant cousin, Constantine VI, as King of Armenian Cilicia ( now southern Turkey ).

Warbeck was permitted to marry James's distant cousin, Lady Catherine Gordon, a daughter of George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly.

Her family had been relatively obscure until, when she was a child, her father, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was chosen with the consent of the great powers to succeed his distant cousin, Frederick VII, to the Danish throne.

When he died in Louveciennes, he was succeeded as duke by a distant cousin, Victor-François, 8th duc de Broglie.

Queen Anne died in 1714, to be succeeded by a distant German cousin George I under the Act of Settlement 1701.

He was the heir apparent of his father's Electorate of Hanover and third-in-line to the British throne of his distant cousin Queen Anne, after his grandmother Dowager Electress Sophia and his father the Elector.

Born in Chelsea, London, to a family descended from Huguenots ( the name was an Anglicisation of " Perthuis "; his full surname being " de Perthuis de Laillevault "), he was the son of noted screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee, who played Chief Warden Hodges in the comedy Dad's Army ( coincidentally, Jon Pertwee was the writers ' first choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in Dad's Army ).

Eta Bootis, or Muphrid, is only 3. 3 light years distant from Arcturus, and would have a visual magnitude-2½, whereas an observer on the former system would find Arcturus as bright as Venus as seen from Earth.

The big loser of these elections was the former President Arnoldo Aleman Lacayo candidate Liberal Constitutionalist Party ( PLC ) who was located in a distant third with a 5. 91 % equivalent to 148. 507 votes.

When the surviving stories were written, Ireland had been Christian for centuries, and the Tuatha Dé were represented as mortal kings, queens and heroes of the distant past ; however there are many clues to their former divine status.

Marshall was a scion of an old Virginia family, as well as a distant relative of former Chief Justice John Marshall.

New developments over the past few years include the recognition of short gamma-ray bursts as a separate class ( likely due to merging neutron stars and not associated with supernovae ), the discovery of extended, erratic flaring activity at X-ray wavelengths lasting for many minutes after most GRBs, and the discovery of the most luminous ( GRB 080319B ) and the former most distant ( GRB 090423 ) objects in the universe.

All the solar planets more distant from the sun than Earth are similar to Earth in that, since they experience many rotations per revolution around the sun, there is only a small difference between the length of the sidereal day and that of the solar day — the ratio of the former to the latter never being less than Earth's ratio of. 997.

As an example of the antipathy toward Mulroney, his former riding fell to the Bloc by a lopsided margin ; the Tory candidate finished a distant third, with only 6, 800 votes — just a few votes shy of losing his electoral deposit.

Catherine the Great and her son and heir, the future Paul I, maintained a distant relationship throughout the former ’ s reign.

He is a distant cousin of former Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee, being the second cousin of Jon Pertwee's father, screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee.

She kills a former servant, fakes a kidnap-murder and tries to frame a distant relative with an interest in the Dawson estate, and almost kills Miss Climpson.

Campbell won decisively on the first ballot, with former party leader Gordon Gibson placing second and Wilson a distant third.

The party was pushed into a distant third place behind the Democratic Party in its former stronghold in the Western Cape which put big questions on the future of the party.

Brantford is sometimes known by its style The Telephone City, as a former city resident, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone on the community's outskirts and conducted the first distant telephone call from the Brantford to Paris, Ontario in 1876.

In this view, the apparent forces that seem to permit discrimination between relative and " absolute " motions should only be considered as an effect of the particular asymmetry that there is in our reference system between the bodies which we consider in motion, that are small ( like buckets ), and the bodies that we believe are still ( the earth and distant stars ), that are overwhelmingly bigger and heavier than the former.

Today when you go to Lake Bonneville you will find that the center of the former lake is about higher than the distant edges.

In the end, Pinchot finished a distant third, behind Pepper and Vare, who went on to defeat former Labor Secretary William Wilson in the general election.

At the 1999 French census, the population of the former Seine-et-Oise was 4, 554, 426 inhabitants, its highest figure ever, as people relocate more and more from the center to the distant suburbs of the metropolitan area of Paris.

Botkin's publicity caught the attention of a distant cousin of Anastasia's, Xenia Leeds, a former Russian princess who had married a wealthy American industrialist.

For a brief period during the late 1980s, North Stars games were telecast over Saint Cloud-based UHF station KXLI ( with Doug McLeod on play-by-play and former Islander goalie Glenn " Chico " Resch on color ), but given the station's distant transmitter location near Big Lake, Minnesota, reception in the Twin Cities ranged from mediocre to non-existent.

In the early stages of the campaign she appeared to be the clear front-runner, but the entirely unexpected decision of the popular former leader Alex Salmond to enter the race just before nominations closed changed everything, and Cunningham ultimately finished a distant second.

The following year, Douglas met and married Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of sculptor Lorado Taft and distant cousin of former President William Howard Taft.

At this point he was already quite distant from his former Communist friends ( having quit the Communist Party in 1951 ); his views were now clearly inclined to economic liberalism.

The management of London Transport aimed to reduce goods services, and it was felt that there was little chance of the more distant parts of the former Metropolitan Railway ever becoming viable passenger routes.

However, he finished a distant second behind Bob Clement, son of former governor Frank G. Clement.

In 1976, an uncommitted slate received the most support, followed by former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, who came in a distant second, but won the most votes of any actual candidate.