Lack of a legitimate heir, however, remained a concern for Władysław I and in 1085 he and his wife Judith of Bohemia sent rich gifts, among which was a life size statue of a child made of gold, to the Benedictine Sanctuary of Saint Giles in Saint-Gilles, Provance begging for offspring.

Born in London and baptised on 24 January 1664, Vanbrugh was the fourth child ( of 19 ), and eldest surviving son, of Giles Vanbrugh, a London cloth-merchant of Flemish-Protestant background, and his wife Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Barker ( by whom Vanbrugh's mother had the first of her twenty children, Vanbrugh's elder half-sister, Elizabeth ), and daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

Although the Scooby Gang later joked that he wore tweed diapers as a child, Giles was in fact a rebellious youth, rejecting his responsibility as a Watcher and dropping out of Oxford University, where he was studying history, when he was twenty-one.

Buffy states that she recognized the Anointed One for what he was as Giles and Ms. Calendar realized he was a child, defying the prophecy ( although it is possible the prophecy referred to Buffy mistaking Vorba for the anointed one ).

Although they have been informally betrothed for some time, her father has made financial sacrifices to give his adored only child a superior education and no longer considers Giles good enough for her.

Another recurring favourite was Chalkie, the tyrannical school teacher who Giles claimed was modelled on one of his childhood teachers, and Larry, the mop-haired child from next door, often seen with a camera.

She alleged Giles began abusing her in 2002, and battered her while she was pregnant with Giles ’ child, and caused her to have a miscarriage.

The marriage was unhappy, and the Countess accused her husband and his manservant ( sexual companion ), Giles Browning ( or Giles Broadway ) of rape, after she bore a child to the manservant.

She returns to the library to find Giles, Xander and Oz, where she realizes that none of them know anything at all about the two child victims.

Zamenhof would later say that he had dreamed of a world language since he was a child.

As a child Felix dreamed to become a Jesuit priest ( and based his later methods on Jesuitism ).

A story from Nevers, which is reproduced in the Golden Legend, states that one night Charlemagne dreamed he was about to be killed by a wild boar during a hunt, but was saved by the appearance of a child, who had promised to save the emperor if he would give him clothes to cover his nakedness.

" She was also remembered as a heroine to Burton Cummings on his 1978 album " Dream of a Child " in the song " Dream of a Child ," including the lines " When I was a child, dreamed that Elvis Presley, was standing on the corner, kissing Brenda Lee ", and in the closing line, " I love Brenda Lee / Brenda Lee loves me / yeah ...".

When Redcap takes the place of a human child, he sets in motion something he had never dreamed of, when the human comes between he and the Fae he wants, what lengths will he go to?

As a child, he had always dreamed of becoming a pilot and after he graduated from high school, he entered the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez where he earned his Bachelor's degree in civil engineering.

She graduated from high school in Kansas City, Missouri where Larson attended the University of Missouri for three semesters and also worked at waitressing and office jobs before giving in to the pursuit of a musical career she'd dreamed of since singing along to the radio as a child.

Although she dreamed of being a famous writer as a child, she only started writing and drawing books when her own children were learning to read.

As a child he dreamed of becoming a priest, and at the age of 13 he entered a Servite monastery in Wisconsin.

Along with her family she listened to a wide variety of recordings including songs by Chilean musician Victor Jara ; as a young child she dreamed of marrying him some day, not knowing he had been killed.

Left for dead, Wilton instead drifts into a mysterious green cloud and finds himself in a bizarre realm of which he always dreamed as a child.

As a child, Roy G. Bivolo always dreamed of a career as an artist, a lofty goal considering he was completely colorblind.

She bought a lakefront inn, The Cedar Lake Inn, a destination she'd loved as a child and somewhere she'd always dreamed of living once she was released from prison.

And yet -- a year to a child is an eternity, and in the memory that phase of one's being -- a certain mental landscape -- will seem to have endured without beginning and without end.

Ridiculing a child for being afraid or forcing him to meet the feared situation alone are poor ways of dealing with the problem ; ;

Apart from being the late maternal grandmother of Nero, she was the late paternal grandmother of Princess Julia Drusilla, the child of Caligula.

Herald photographer Stanley Forman received two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively in 1976 and 1977, the first being a dramatic shot of a young child falling in mid-air from her mother's arms on the upper stories of a burning apartment building to the waiting arms of firefighters below, and the latter ( known as " The soiling of Old Glory ") being of Ted Landsmark, an African American city official, being beaten with an American flag during Boston's school busing crisis.

Textual scholars believe that this is the result of the genealogical passage, in which his children are named, being from a much later source than the Jahwist and Elohist narratives, which make up most of the Joseph narrative, and which consistently describe Benjamin as a child.

* Becher ( meaning first born ), in reference to Joseph being the first child of Rachel

* The scene where Bruce being a child falls into the cave and see a bat as his inspiration and his fear ( also used in Batman Begins ), something not mentioned in the prequels of Tim Burton.

As a mixture of cultures from both countries, being Chicano represents the struggle of being accepted into the Anglo-dominated society of the United States, while maintaining the cultural sense developed as a Latino-cultured, US-born Mexican child.

Mencius says: " When being a child, yearn for and love your parents ; when growing mature, yearn for and love your lassie ; when having wife and child ( ren ), yearn for and love your wife and child ( ren ); when being an official ( or a staffer ), yearn for and love your sovereign ( and / or boss ).

Social conservatives ( in the first meaning of the word ) in many countries generally favor the pro-life position in the abortion controversy and oppose human embryonic stem cell research ( particularly if publicly funded ); oppose both eugenics and human enhancement ( transhumanism ) while supporting bioconservatism ; support a traditional definition of marriage as being one man and one woman ; view the nuclear family model as society's foundational unit ; oppose expansion of civil marriage and child adoption rights to couples in same-sex relationships ; promote public morality and traditional family values ; oppose atheism, especially militant atheism, secularism and the separation of church and state ; support the prohibition of drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia ; and support the censorship of pornography and what they consider to be obscenity or indecency.

Granada hurried to update the programme, with the hope of introducing more issue-driven stories, including Lucille Hewitt becoming addicted to drugs, Jerry Booth being in a storyline about homosexuality, Emily Nugent having an out of wedlock child, and introducing a black family, but all of these ideas were dropped for fear of upsetting viewers.

* Open enrollment is the process of allowing parents to choose which public school their child attends instead of being assigned one ( provided the school has not reached its maximum capacity number for students ).

His daughter Sofia also appeared in all three ( the first two movies uncredited ): as the infant being baptized at the end of the first movie, as a young child on board ship in the second, and in a supporting role as Michael Corleone's daughter Mary in the third.

More importantly, early next year the Pathé production unit down in the south of France in Nice made le Médecin du chateau ( The Physician of the Castle ), in which there are cuts back and forth between criminals threatening a doctor's wife and child, while the doctor himself drives home to rescue them after being warned by telephone.

The three priests answer to Bishop Len Brennan, who has banished them to Craggy Island as punishment for different incidents in their past: Ted for alleged financial impropriety ( apparently involving some money ' resting ' in his account and a child being deprived a visit to Lourdes so that Ted could go to Las Vegas ), Dougal for something only referred to as the " Blackrock Incident " ( resulting in many " lives irreparably damaged "), and Jack for his alcoholism and womanising.

Both armies used child soldiers, mainly between 14 and 17 years of age, the most famous example being Urho Kekkonen who fought for the White Army and later became the longest-serving President of Finland.

Fertility is not shown before 1950. Notable features before that time are fertility being extremely low during the ending years of the Weimar Republic, when it dropped down to about 1. 1 child per woman in 1933.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

With the descendents of Charles I thus either childless ( in the case of William III and Anne ) or Catholic, consideration then fell to the descendants of Elizabeth of Bohemia, the only other child of James I to have reached adulthood.

Any node in the data structure can be reached by starting at root node and repeatedly following references to either the left or right child.

She gave birth to a daughter on 10 November, but the child was weak and lived either only a few hours or at most a week.

While the Trivers – Willard hypothesis predicts that birth sex is dependent on living conditions ( i. e. more male children are born in " good " living conditions, while more female children are born in poorer living conditions ), the probability of having a child of either gender is still regarded as 50 / 50.

A common convention for child windows in IDE-style applications is the ability to collapse child windows, either when inactive, or when specified by the user.

You see a parent beat their child ; you observe that such an action is either good or bad.

A small child has negative buoyancy and will either sink rapidly or have to make a sustained effort to stay near the surface.

Notice that the right child of a left child of the root of a sub-tree ( for example node B in the diagram for the tree rooted at Q ) can become the left child of the root, that itself becomes the right child of the " new " root in the rotated sub-tree, without violating either of those constraints.

More specifically, a high, positive correlation between the intelligence quotients of a parent and a child can be presumed either as evidence that IQ is genetically inherited, or that IQ is inherited through social and environmental factors.

He visits a department store Father Christmas, just like a child, although he asks for a CD from either Dire Straits or Phil Collins.

The Haitian jé-rouges typically try to trick mothers into giving away their children voluntarily by waking them at night and asking their permission to take their child, to which the disoriented mother may either reply yes or no.

" I have never drawn, even as a child, either puppets or silhouettes but rather facades of houses and gates.

Henry did not acknowledge either child, as he did his son Henry Fitzroy, his illegitimate son by Elizabeth Blount, Lady Talboys.

As a small child Williams struggled with an illness ( either diphtheria or rheumatic fever ) which nearly ended his life and left him weak and virtually confined to his house during a period of recuperation that lasted a year.

In Sephardic tradition, the questions are asked by the assembled company in chorus rather than by a child, and are put to the leader of the seder, who either answers the question or may direct the attention of the assembled company to someone who is acting out that particular part of the Exodus.

The disease is caused by an autosomal dominant mutation in either of an individual's two copies of a gene called Huntingtin, which means any child of an affected person typically has a 50 % chance of inheriting the disease.

The mind of a newborn child is regarded as completely " id-ridden ", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and needs immediate satisfaction, a view which equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual — often humorously — with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end, paraphrasing a quip made by former U. S. President Ronald Reagan during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California in which he compared government to a baby.

If a woman gives birth to a second son naturally when the first son was born by Caesarean section, that child is not redeemed either.

The military use of children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities ( child soldiers ), or they can be used in support roles such as porters, spies, messengers, look outs ; or they can be used for political advantage either as human shields or in propaganda.