Thebe, Alexander's wife and cousin ( or half-sister, as the daughter of Jason of Pherae ), concealed her three brothers in the house during the day, had the dog removed when Alexander had gone to rest, and, having covered the steps of the ladder with wool, brought up the young men to her husband's chamber.

Her brothers then entered and killed Alexander.

Alexander was, like his brothers Edgar and David, a notably pious king.

Of his brothers, Dioscorus followed his father's profession in Tralles ; Alexander became at Rome one of the most celebrated medical men of his time ; Olympius was deeply versed in Roman jurisprudence ; and Metrodorus was a distinguished grammarian in Constantinople.

Alexander Graham Bell experimented with very large man-lifting kites, as did the Wright brothers and Lawrence Hargrave.

She had two brothers, Russell Stephens Mitchell, who died in infancy in 1894, and Alexander Stephens Mitchell, born in 1896.

Bruce, with a small following of his most faithful men, including Sir James Douglas and Gilbert Hay, Bruce's brothers Thomas, Alexander and Edward, as well as Sir Neil Campbell and the Earl of Lennox fled.

The other, led by his brothers Thomas and Alexander, landed slightly further south in Loch Ryan ; but they were soon captured and were executed.

Bruce's family also included his brothers, Edward, Alexander, Thomas, and Neil, his sisters Christina, Isabel ( Queen of Norway ), Margaret, Matilda, and Mary, and his nephews Donald II, Earl of Mar and Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray.

His brothers Dietrich, Alexander and Jakob ( 1734 – 1792 ) also appeared as musicians of Bath.

* February 17 – Rival brothers Ivan Sratsimir and Ivan Shishman become co-Emperors of Bulgaria after the death of their father, Ivan Alexander.

Wider views of Cubism include artists who were later associated with the ‘ Salle 41 ’ artists, e. g., Francis Picabia ; the brothers Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, who from late 1911 formed the core of the Section d ' Or ( or the Puteaux Group ); the sculptors Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky and Ossip Zadkine as well as Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens ; and painters such as Louis Marcoussis, Roger de La Fresnaye, František Kupka, Diego Rivera, Léopold Survage, Auguste Herbin, André Lhote, Gino Severini ( after 1916 ), María Blanchard ( after 1916 ) and Georges Valmier ( after 1918 ).

The son of King Casimir IV Jagiellon and Elisabeth of Austria, Sigismund followed his brothers John I of Poland and Alexander I of Poland to the Polish throne.

The flying wing configuration was studied extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, notably by Jack Northrop and Cheston L. Eshelman in the United States, and Alexander Lippisch and the Horten brothers in Germany.

The deaths of Philip's elder brothers, King Alexander II and Perdiccas III, allowed him to take the throne in 359 BCE.

Berthold was the oldest of four brothers ( the second being Berthold's twin Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ) born into an old and distinguished aristocratic South German Catholic family.

Soon after Antiochus's accession, Media and Persis revolted under their governors, the brothers Molon and Alexander.

Cesare was made commander of the papal armies by his father, Pope Alexander VI, but was also heavily dependent on mercenary armies loyal to the Orsini brothers and the support of the French king.

Alexander Parkes and Spill listed camphor during their earlier experiments, calling the resultant mix " xylonite ", but it was the Hyatt brothers who recognized the value of camphor and its use as a plasticizer for cellulose nitrate.

He was to write on things like the Wright brothers and their first aeroplane, Thomas Edison and his electric light bulb invention, Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone, and Samuel F. B. Morse's invention of the telegraph.

The lots were quickly sold, and the community was named after brothers Horatio and Alexander " Sawny " Catlett.

While the original settlers are not known for certain, early records and deeds mention the following: William and Jacob Waterhouse ( of Kennebunk ), Love Roberts, Alexander Grant, Thomas Lord, Jacob Rhoades, Benjamin and Mark Goodwin ( brothers who built one of the first mills at Goodwin's Mills ), John Low ( who served as town moderator and treasurer ), John Burbank, Joseph Witten, James and William Brock, Mark Ricker, Robert Cousens, Valentine Hill, and Gershom Downs.

Crown prince Willem Alexander and his brothers attended school ( Nieuwe Baarnse School and Baarnsch Lyceum ) in Baarn when Queen Beatrix ( then princess ) and her family lived at Castle Drakesteijn in the village of Lage Vuursche, before they moved to The Hague in 1980.

Grosse Ile historians consider the beginning of ownership and governance of the community by residents of European heritage to have begun on July 6, 1776, when the Potawatomi Indians deeded the island to prominent Detroit merchants, brothers William and Alexander Macomb.

He had also started meeting other important figures who would abet him in this goal in 1856, including César Cui, Alexander Serov, the Stasov brothers and Alexander Dargomyzhsky.

The Ramirez brothers were also along.

We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.

The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.

They were disturbed by his idiotic bravado -- as, when his bodyguard, Yankee Schwartz, complained that he had been snubbed by Dave Miller, a prize-fight referee, chieftain of a Jewish gang and one of four brothers of tough reputation, who were Hirschey, a gambler-politician in loose beer-running league with Torrio and O'Banion, Frank, a policeman, and Max, the youngest.

Palfrey's brothers each received lots of sixteen Negroes, and for bookkeeping purposes it was agreed that all lots were to be valued at $6,666.66.

With four younger children at home, Lucy stepped into her mother's role, and even after the brothers and sisters were grown, she was her father's comfort and stay until he died in 1879.

Police said the boys are natural brothers and were adopted as small children by the Dresbachs.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

Along with his two brothers, he made preparations to resist the government forces that were sent against him.

As proof of devotion to his family, Caligula arranged the most distinguished soldiers available to carry the urns of his mother and two brothers in two biers at noon in Rome, when the streets were at their busiest, to the Mausoleum of Augustus.

Agrippina's two elder brothers and her mother were victims of the intrigues of the Praetorian Prefect Lucius Aelius Sejanus.

Alcaeus and his older brothers were passionately involved in the struggle but experienced little success.

Already closely connected to the Komnenoi through Maria's cousin Irene to Isaac Komnenos, the Komnenoi brothers were able to see the empress under the pretense of a friendly family visit.

As a result, Alexios and Constantine, Maria's son, were now adoptive brothers and both Isaac and Alexios took an oath that they would safeguard his rights as emperor.

The first years of his reign were marked instead by internal disturbances between Afonso and his brothers and sisters.

The Wright brothers were the first to fly in a powered and controlled aircraft.

Previous flights were gliders ( control but no power ) or free flight ( power but no control ), but the Wright brothers combined both, setting the new standard in aviation records.

His two brothers were sentenced to death for piracy by Ladislaus of Naples.

Fortunately in 1972 the brothers Molenaar bailed it out and invested heavily in the club, to the point that AZ ' 67 were successful in the late seventies and early eighties.

His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.

Before Caesar's time they had attached themselves to the Romans, and were honoured with the title of brothers and kinsmen of the Roman people.

He was a successor of Moctezuma and his brothers were Emperors Tizoc and Ahuitzotl and his sister was the Queen Chalchiuhnenetzin.

These negotiations were complicated by the sudden death of Lord George on 21 September 1848, but Disraeli obtained a loan of £ 25, 000 ( equivalent to about £ as of ) from Lord George's brothers Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield.