While in the # 1 spot ( from 11 / 09 / 02 through 1 / 25 / 03 ), " Lose Yourself "' s impressive run kept several top contenders for the # 1 spot from ever reaching # 1, including Jay-Z, Nelly, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera, and especially Missy Elliott, whose single " Work It " was at # 2 for 10 weeks.

Adrienne and Stephen divorced four years later, with Stephen being awarded full custody of the two surviving children, and, subsequently, Stephen's second wife, Christina McCall, adopted the two girls, who eventually became estranged from their mother for several decades.

Catherine had formal custody of Christina from 1631 to 1633, and from 1636 until 1638, years later described by Christina as happy.

This is when he met his first girlfriend Christina Grönvall, with whom he had two children: Peter ( born 1963 ) and Helen ( born 1965 ).

Engelbart has four children, Gerda, Diana, Christina and Norman with his first wife Ballard, who died in 1997 after 47 years of marriage.

The couple had three children: Anna Christina, born 1983, Philip Immanuel, born 1985 and Laura Helene, born 1986.

Brando had a long-term relationship with his housekeeper Maria Christina Ruiz, by whom he had three children: Ninna Priscilla Brando ( born May 13, 1989 ), Myles Jonathan Brando ( born January 16, 1992 ), and Timothy Gahan Brando ( born January 6, 1994 ).

The couple had five children: Christopher ( born 1939 ), Christina ( born December 1, 1941 ), Catalina ( born November 21, 1942 ), Duncan ( born August 4, 1945 ), and Valentina ( born December 26, 1952 ).

Crawford's relationships with her two older children, Christina and Christopher, were acrimonious.

* Theobald ( 1802 – 1881 ; George Pontifex's fourth child ; marries Christina Allaby July 1831 ; has 3 children )

She was married to Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, with whom she had four children: Princess Beatrix ( born 1938 ), Princess Irene ( born 1939 ), Princess Margriet ( born 1943 ), Princess Christina ( born 1947 ).

Maria Christina married King Alfonso XII of Spain on 29 November 1879 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, and became the mother of his only three legitimate children:

Maria Christina with her three children

John and Christina had five or six children:

After her mother's death, she was raised by her father and his second wife, Marianne " Gaby " Landhage, a Swedish model who had been Roussel's longtime mistress and by whom he already had two children, born during Roussel's marriage to Christina.

Anna Christina Radziwill and the late Anthony Radziwill, children of the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, are both descendants of King Manfred through their father Prince Stanislaw Radziwill.

In the book, Christina Crawford claims that she was a victim of child abuse during her mother's battle with alcoholism and that her mother was more concerned about her motion picture career than the well-being of her four children, suggesting she may have adopted them for publicity purposes.

Hutton stated she would often encourage her own children to play with Christina and Christopher to draw them away from their challenges at home.

Savalas, the second of five children, was born as Aristotelis Savalas in Garden City, NY, to Greek American parents Christina ( née Kapsalis ), a New York City artist who was a native of Sparti, and Nick Savalas, a Greek restaurant owner.

He and his wife Anne-Mette ( born 1958 ) married in 1978 and have three children: Henrik ( born 1979 ), Maria ( born 1981 ) and Christina ( born 1984 ).

McCarthy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, one of six children of Charles Joseph McCarthy and Gladys Christina McGrail McCarthy.

Her youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walter Scott ( Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly ; Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, a metrical tale based on the first news of discovery of the last surviving mutineer of the H. M. S. Bounty and a generation of British-Tahitian children on Pitcairn Island in 1811 ; and Blanche part of a projected series of ' Narrative poems on the Female Character ,' 1813 ).

Maria Christina and Muñoz had several children together while trying to keep their marriage a secret.

They have four children: Jackie, Stefan, Christina, and Jason.

Don Luis married in Dresden, 9 August 1788, with Federika Christina von Mercklein, and had three children: Mauricio, Narcisa and Clementina.

Some recent projects have included: Helping rehabilitate a tsunami-struck school in Sri Lanka, performing plays for children in Bangkok, working with children at the Christina Noble Children's Foundation in Ho Chi Minh City and travelling to North Korea to learn about life and affairs in a country that much of the world knows little about, and working in several children's orphanages run by the Happy Tree Organisation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Andersson was engaged to Christina Grönvall after she became pregnant by him as a result of a sexual encounter that they had when Andersson was 16 years old.

His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was appointed regent during his minority.

The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell sembiante ( 1679 ) gained him the support of Queen Christina of Sweden ( who at the time was living in Rome ), and he became her Maestro di Cappella.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

He was the first child of Nils Ingemarsson Linnaeus and Christina Brodersonia.

Christina was the daughter of the rector of Stenbrohult, Samuel Brodersonius.

The film stars Christina Milian ( who previously played cheerleaders in Love Don't Cost a Thing and Man of the House ) and Rachelle Brook Smith, and was released directly to DVD and Blu-ray on September 1, 2009.

Christina was the widow of Miklusz Rokiczani, a wealthy merchant.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

Gustavus Adolphus was born in Stockholm as the oldest son of Duke Charles of the Vasa dynasty and his second wife, Christina of Holstein-Gottorp.

Rock was nominated as Best New Artist at the 2000 Grammy Awards, but lost to Christina Aguilera.

Queen Christina of Sweden's tendency to dress as a man was well known during her time, and excused because of her noble birth ; she was brought up as a male and there was speculation at the time that she was a hermaphrodite.

Even after Christina abdicated the throne in 1654 to avoid marriage, she was known to pursue romantic relationships with women.

Gustavus Adolphus was devoted to his daughter and tried to rear Christina as a boy.

Not long after, however, she was visited by Christina, former queen of Sweden.

* Intro Perelman Website by Christina Sormani, ( CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College ) was used as a framework for this article and a resource for the initial set of links.

The collection remaining at Prague was looted during the last year of the Thirty Years War, by Swedish troops who sacked Prague Castle on 26 July 1648, also taking the best of the paintings, many of which later passed to the Orléans Collection after the death of Christina of Sweden.

Bruce's queen, Elizabeth, his daughter Marjorie, his sisters Christina and Mary, and Isabella MacDuff were captured in a sanctuary at Tain, and sent to harsh imprisonment, which included Mary and Isabella being hung in a cage at Roxburgh and Berwick castles respectively for about four years, and Bruce's brother Neil was executed.

Most likely he spent it in the Hebrides ( possibly sheltered by Christina of Garmoran ) although Ireland is a serious possibility, and Orkney ( under Norwegian rule at the time ) or Norway proper ( where his sister was queen dowager ) although unlikely are not impossible.