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Her great grandfather, Frederick John Rogers, was a professor of physics and Chair of the Physics Department at Stanford University and his wife, Stiles ’ s great grandmother, was the colorful Josephine Rand Rogers, a president of The League of Women Voters, and politically active in the Temperance Movement and in passing Child Welfare Laws.
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Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders.
In addition to being the leader of a great political party and the head of Her Majesty's Government, the modern Prime Minister is the leader of the House of Commons.
Her first child died early and the second was Atje ( c. 1834 – c. 1876 ), Laurence's sister, for whom he had great affection.
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London, is a were ordered to pay fourpence a day towards the upkeep for the King's polar bear ; the bear attracted a great deal of attention from Londoners when it went fishing in the Thames.
Her sister Mary's marriage to Philip brought great contempt to the country, for many of her subjects despised Spain and Philip and feared that he would try to take complete control.
Her maternal grandparents were of mixed European and Eastern Cherokee ancestry ; of particular importance to her as a child was her grandfather, Calvin Clinton Copeland, who was a great source of inspiration and guidance to her as a young child, offering a more pantheistic spiritual alternative to her father and paternal grandmother's traditional Christianity.
Her unofficial status and the unequal payments offered to black soldiers caused great difficulty in documenting her service, and the U. S. government was slow in recognizing its debt to her.
Her aim was to chronicle the towns, cities and great houses of the country.
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.
Her influence became so great that the ultramontane administration of Abel was dismissed because that minister objected to her being made Countess Landsfeld.
Her name is added to a list of great artists and notables in the popular Broadway musical " Rent " in the song " La Vie Boheme ".
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Her performance drew praise from the critics, particularly the great critic and historian Nikolai Bezobrazov.
Her lifelong obsession is to slay the great Beast of London.
Her mother's friend Anna Vyrubova later wrote that Tatiana had a great talent for making clothing, embroidery and crochet and that she dressed her mother's long hair as well as any professional hair stylist.
Her alleged pre-contract of marriage with King Edward IV of England was of great significance to the final fate of the Plantagenet dynasty and outcome of the Wars of the Roses.
Her great dramatic expression earned her the Silver Ariel.
Her husband Brad Darling gave conference presentations about a Satanic conspiracy of great antiquity which he believed now permeated American communities.
Her great love was Endymion, a shepherd / prince or the king of Elis depending on which version you read.
This high number of awards for bravery has been interpreted as a reaction to the earlier defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana-the extolling of the victory at Rorke's Drift drawing the public's attention away from the great defeat at Isandlwana and the fact that Lord Chelmsford and Bartle Frere had instigated the war without the approval of Her Majesty's Government.
Her victory won her the respect and admiration of her peers, among them her own sister Joan Fontaine, who later commented, " Hollywood owes Olivia a great deal ".
Her visions of the Nativity of Jesus had a great influence on depictions of the Nativity of Jesus in art.
Her father attempts to rescue her, but her husband the bird creature becomes angry, causing a great storm.
Her accession as regent and president of the parliament was treated with great enthusiasm.
Her hair, a very dark red color of great luster, appeared to have been left suddenly while being woven into a knotted structure on the top of her head.
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Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.
Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.
Her maternal grandmother was the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium.
Her parents ' marriage had been arranged by Dangereuse with her paternal grandfather, the Troubadour.
Her family lived on a homestead, Ivy Green, that Helen's grandfather had built decades earlier.
Her grandfather, Motilal Nehru, was a prominent Indian nationalist leader.
Her grandfather, Russell Crawford Mitchell, of Atlanta, enlisted in the Confederate States Army in July 1861, and was later severely wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg.
Her grandfather had been an organist at Westminster Abbey.
Her maternal grandfather was the Ban of Slavonia Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia, who apparently descended also from Nemanjić kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughter of Stephen V of Hungary.
Her mother's maternal grandfather was an Italian immigrant ; her mother's other ancestry is Scottish, Irish, and a small amount of Greek.
Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian descent, and her paternal grandmother was a descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.
Her son Vaballathus ( Latin from Aramaic, Wahballat " Gift of the Goddess ") inherited the name of Odaenathus ’ paternal grandfather.
Her paternal grandfather, Juan de Toledo, was a marrano ( Jewish convert to Christianity ) and was condemned by the Spanish Inquisition for allegedly returning to the Jewish faith.
Her paternal grandfather, John Claus Peters, was the son of German immigrants, Claus Peters and Caroline Catherine Eberlin.
Her father was a descendant of the Taliaferros of Virginia ; her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker and director of the American Hospital Association, was first married to Post Cereals ' heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Her curiosity was piqued because she actually had a grandfather whom her family had lost touch with, and whose initials matched those given in the email.
Her alcoholic grandfather physically abused her and Solanas ran away and became homeless.
Her mother's family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime ( Newton-John's maternal grandfather was Jewish, and her maternal grandmother was of paternal Jewish ancestry ).
Her maternal grandfather was David Greer, a RIC sergeant in Castlewellan, County Down, Ireland in the 1880s and who later became a land steward to the Annesley family ( wealthy landlords who built the town of Castlewellan ).
Her maternal grandfather was Zibeon the Hivite son of Seir the Horite.
Her grandfather was an immigrant from England in 1908.
Her grandfather was killed fighting against her uncle, Edward IV of England, at the Battle of Barnet.
Her grandfather had been born a slave and had experienced emancipation in the 1860s.
Her mother was Mary Cadwalader Rawle ( 1850 – 1923 ) whose maternal grandfather was John Cadwalader ( 1805 – 1879 ) and father was lawyer William Henry Rawle ( 1823 – 1889 ).
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