Among the famous people Goodkind comes face to face with in the course of the book besides Nixon are Golda Meir, Zero Mostel, Bert Lahr, Marlene Dietrich, John Barrymore, Ernest Hemingway, Leslie Howard, and the brothers George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.

After the death of his father Dietrich in 1492 and of his two older brothers, he inherited a fortune and possessions.

Frederick travelled with his brothers Dietrich and Engelbert, bishops of Münster and Osnabrück ( both also implicated in the death of the Archbishop ), and the notary of Isenberg with the necessary documents to the Curia in Rome, in order to have the excommunication lifted.

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.

* 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 only two persons who could be identified as the brothers were John ( who was an adviser of the Duchy and a lawyer ) and Jakob ( known as Magister, so probably a doctor ), sons of one Goćwina, who was a doctor in the court of Henry III the White.

The expulsion in 1837 of the seven professors – Die Göttinger Sieben – the Germanist, Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht ( 1800 – 1876 ); the historian Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann ( 1785 – 1860 ); the orientalist Georg Heinrich August Ewald ( 1803 – 1875 ); the historian Georg Gottfried Gervinus ( 1805 – 1875 ); the physicist Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( 1804 – 1891 ); and the philologists, the brothers Jakob ( 1785 – 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( 1786 – 1859 ), for protesting against the revocation by King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover of the liberal constitution of 1833, further reduced the prosperity of the university.

A. Carrel, who accompanied Edward Whymper to the Andes, the brothers Lauener, Christian Almer and Jakob and Melchior Anderegg.

Basel was distinguished for its mathematicians, such as Leonhard Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ), and three members of the Bernoulli family, the brothers Jakob ( 1654 – 1705 ) and Johann ( 1667 – 1748 ), and the latter's son Daniel ( 1700 – 1782 ).

Basel was particularly distinguished for its mathematicians, such as Leonhard Euler ( 1707 – 1783 ), and three members of the Bernoulli family refugees from Antwerp, the brothers Jakob ( 1654 – 1705 ) and Johann ( 1667 – 1748 ), and the latter's son Daniel ( 1700 – 1782 ).

The company grew rapidly after the brothers Ulrich, Georg and Jakob began banking transactions with the House of Habsburg as well as the Roman Curia, and at the same time began mining operations in Tyrol, and from 1493 on the extraction of silver and copper in the present Czech Republic and Slovakia.

A Chapel funded by him and built from 1509 to 1512 is Germany's first renaissance building and contains the tombs of the brothers Ulrich, Georg and Jakob.

Jakob Fugger's brothers Andreas and Hans both died young in Venice.

At the same time, it was renamed into " Ulrich Fugger of Augsburg and brothers " to show the equality of the three brothers involved in business issues, even though Tyrolean sources almost universally speak of the Jakob Fugger company and central contracts of the Hungarian trade were all signed by him.

Since the death of his brothers Georg in 1506 and Ulrich in 1510 Jakob Fugger was now running the Fugger business as the sole policy and decision maker.

Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).

His brothers, all also active within the Continental Congress, were Arthur Lee ( 1740 – 1792 ), Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 1797 ) and Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 1794 ).

His brothers, Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 1794 ), Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 1797 ) and William Lee ( 1739 – 1795 ), were also Revolutionary-era diplomats.

Thomas Ludwell Lee ( 1730 – 1778 ) was a member of the Virginia Delegates and a major editor of George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights ( 1776 ), a precursor to the United States Declaration of Independence, which was signed by his brothers Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 1794 ) and Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 1797 ).