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Her brother, Nick Toksvig, attended Hull University and was a friend of journalist and Beirut hostage John McCarthy, with whom Toksvig undertook a yachting adventure around Britain in 1995.
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Her brother, Laertes, returns from France, horrified by his father's death and his sister's madness.
( Her father, Charles Schweitzer, was the older brother of Albert Schweitzer's father, Louis Théophile.
Her brother, Marx's uncle Benjamin Philips ( 1830-1900 ), was a wealthy banker and industrialist, upon whom Karl and Jenny Marx would later often come to rely for loans while they were exiled in London.
Her stepfather's brother Frederick became Pope Stephen IX, while both of the following two popes, Nicholas II and Alexander II had been Tuscan bishops.
" Maria Feodorovna was the younger sister of Alexandra, Queen Consort of King Edward VII and mother of George V of the United Kingdom, which helps to explain the striking resemblance between their sons Nicholas II and George V. Her older brother was King George I of Greece.
Her husband died of throat cancer on August 19, 1977 and her brother, her only sibling, died of cancer that November.
Her father, Richard, was the younger brother of Sir Robert Bowes, a descendant of an old Durham family and her mother, Elizabeth, was an heiress of a Yorkshire family, the Askes of Richmondshire.
Her cult was closely identified with that of Diana, who seems to have been represented in the processions that started Circus games, and with Sol Indiges, usually identified as her brother.
Her discoveries included the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be correctly identified, which she and her brother Joseph found when she was just twelve years old ; the first two plesiosaur skeletons ever found ; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany ; and some important fish fossils.
Her godparents were: the Prince of Wales ( her paternal uncle, for whom his brother the Prince George stood proxy ); Princess Ingrid of Sweden ( her paternal cousin, for whom another cousin Lady Patricia Ramsay stood proxy ); the Princess Victoria ( her paternal great-aunt ); the Lady Rose Leveson-Gower ( her maternal aunt ); and the Hon David Bowes-Lyon ( her maternal uncle ).
Her brother, Charles Joseph, and sister Maria Johanna, had already died of smallpox in 1761 and 1762 respectively.
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Her brother Nick Clooney spoke during the dedication for the mural, explaining various images to the crowd.
The present Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, was appointed Lord President of the Council, a ministerial position who presides over meetings of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and has few other formal responsibilities, for this reason.
Following his work with Some Bizzare Records, Flood began working with Mute Records as their preferred producer, helming his first true production project with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on From Her to Eternity ( 1983 – 1984 ) and the follow-up album, The Firstborn Is Dead ( 1984 ).
The film's title is a play on the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me and contains plot elements from James Bond films, Diamonds Are Forever ( Laser Gun Plot and Cloning ), You Only Live Twice ( Secret Volcano Base ), Moonraker ( Outer Space Ventures ), The Man with the Golden Gun ( Mini Me based on character Nick Nack ) and On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( opening sequence in which Vanessa Kensington dies ).
Her BBC colleague Nick Ross stated on Newsnight on the night of her death that retaliatory attacks by criminals against police, lawyers and judges were almost unknown in Britain.
Her music career was profiled in Nick Tosches ' 1984 book, The Unsung Heroes of Rock ' N ' Roll: The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis.
Her older brother, Nick Perri, is a lead guitarist formerly of Shinedown and Philly-based hard rock act Silvertide, and currently plays in SINAI.
Her 2000s works includes TV shows such as Hope Island, 18, The Nick at Nite Holiday Special, and Call of the Wild.
Hell is Invisible ... Heaven is Her / E, the album, was recorded in New York and features Nick Zinner ( Yeah Yeah Yeahs ) and Gibby Haynes ( Butthole Surfers ) guesting on some tracks.
Her main challenger for the seat, Nick King ( Conservative ), secured a voting swing against Brooke of 7. 7 % making her winning majority one of the smallest of the 2010 Election.
This expert panel who gave both written and oral evidence consisted of Nick Hardwick ( Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons ), Paul Cook ( G4S children's services ), Eric Baskind ( British Self Defence Governing Body, Liverpool John Moores University ), Malcolm Stevens ( JusticeCare Solutions ), Laura Janes ( Howard League for Penal Reform ), John Drew ( Youth Justice Board for England and Wales ), Sue Berelowitz ( Office of the Children's Commissioner ) and Carolyne Willow ( CRAE ).
Nick learns that Catherine has a troubled history: Her parents were killed in a boating accident when she was an adolescent, leaving her a fortune ; one of her college counselors, Noah Goldstein, was stabbed in his sleep with an ice pick when Catherine was attending UC Berkeley, and her former fiancé, boxer Manny Vasquez, was killed in the ring during a prize fight in Atlantic City.
The stories announced are: " Old Nick & the Peddler " ( from a Scandinavian folk tale ), " Puss in Boots " ( from a French fairy tale ), " The Milkmaid & Her Pail " ( from an Aesop fable ), " Old Fire Dragaman " ( from an Appalachian Jack tale ), " Momotaro the Peach Boy " ( from a Japanese fairy tale ), " An Agreement Between Friends " ( from a Romanian folktale ), " The Frog Who Became an Emperor " ( from a Chinese folktale ), " The Crane Wife " ( from a Japanese folktale ) and " The Witch Baby " ( from a Russian fairytale ), this last being adapted from one of three unproduced screenplays for the original series by Anthony Minghella.
Her drift to the political right has been mirrored by her journalistic career: she now writes for the Daily Mail, and Nick Cohen wrote in 2011 that she has become vilified by The Guardian, while Phillips herself stated in 2006 that her views are often misrepresented by her former newspaper.
Her most notable television role was opposite Peter Lawford in The Thin Man ( 1957 — 1959 ), where they played Nick and Nora Charles.
Her husband Nick ( Dean Martin ) has remarried ; he and his new wife, Bianca ( Cyd Charisse ), are on their honeymoon when Ellen, rescued from an island where she has been stranded for five years, returns home.
Her current husband, Ira Parks ( Grodin ), is the Los Angeles county district attorney who harbors a jealous disdain towards Nick.
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