He was also a direct descendant of Abu Bakr from his maternal side, as well as being a paternal descendant of Ali from his father's side.

He was a direct descendant of the last of the Umayyad caliphs, Marwan II, and was thus connected with the Umayyad rulers in Spain, and seems to have kept up a correspondence with them and to have sent them some of his works.

They did so at the invitation of their long-time ally, king Philip V of Macedon, a direct descendant of Antigonus, one of the Diadochi, the generals of Alexander the Great who had shared out his empire after his death in 323 BC.

He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother ; hence, he identified his lineage as Timurid and Chaghatay-Turkic.

Nero was more popular with the general public as the grandson of Germanicus and the direct descendant of Augustus.

One notable use was during the French Revolution, when the dethroned King Louis XVI ( a member of the House of Bourbon and a direct male-line descendant of Hugh Capet ) and Queen Marie Antoinette ( a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine ) were referred to as " Louis and Antoinette Capet " ( the queen being addressed as " the Widow Capet " after the execution of her husband ).

For hundreds of years this isolated population consisting now of 4. 400 inhabitants, has claimed to be the direct descendant of the Cimbri retreating in this area after the Roman aftermath.

" Princess X " was revealed to be Princess Marie Bonaparte, direct descendant of the younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.

In Muriel Spark's 1976 novel The Takeover the eccentric Hubert Mallindaine believes himself to be a direct descendant of Caligula.

A small group of Bahá ' ís in Northern New Mexico believe that these descendants are eligible for appointment to the Guardianship and are waiting for such a direct descendant of Bahá ' u ' lláh to arise as the rightful Guardian.

Biblical tradition maintains that a direct descendant of David will be the Messiah.

The issue of the instrument's exact lineage is still a matter of some debate, and the supposition that the double bass is a direct descendant of the viol family is one that has not been entirely resolved.

* ed ( 1 ) from the Plan 9 from Bell Labs manual, a direct descendant of the original ed.

According to Shinto belief, Jimmu is regarded as a direct descendant of the sun goddess, Amaterasu.

* German MG3, a direct descendant of the MG 42, is still in service with the German Army and others.

On his father's side, Hefner claims he is a direct descendant of Plymouth governor William Bradford.

Edgerton was born in Fremont, Nebraska on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton, a direct descendant of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut and a descendent of Governor William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ) of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower.

Nero was a direct descendant of Augustus and Livia through his mother, Agrippina the Younger.

Not only did the new Caesar belong to both the Julii and the Claudii, but he was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar as well.

Like his uncle Caligula before him, Nero was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar, a fact which made his ascension to the throne much easier and smoother than it had been for Tiberius or Claudius.

In 2006, a book written by journalist Milorad Bošnjak and machine engineer Slobodan Jakovljević ( a direct descendant of Jakov Obrenović, half-brother of Miloš Obrenović ), it was claimed that Karađorđe's ancestor was an Albanian Catholic from Kelmend called Đin Maraš Klimenta.

His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut.

His father was a direct descendant of Matthew Marvin, Sr., who emigrated from Great Bentley, Essex, England in 1635 and helped found Hartford, Connecticut.

In England ( and after 1707 Great Britain ) the Oath of Abjuration denied the royal title of James II's heirs ( i. e. the direct Catholic descendent of the House of Stuart exiled after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 ).

While this may not be a direct adaptation, it does resemble the scene with the hostage situation in Batman: Year One, only replacing James Gordon with Harvey Dent ( Aaron Eckhart ).

The form of hypnotherapy practiced by most Victorian hypnotists, including James Braid and Hippolyte Bernheim, mainly employed direct suggestion of symptom removal, with some use of therapeutic relaxation and occasionally aversion to alcohol, drugs, etc.

The failure of John's French military campaign in 1214 was probably the final straw that precipitated the baronial uprising during John's final years as king ; James Holt describes the path to civil war as " direct, short and unavoidable " following the defeat at Bouvines.

In Shakespeare's day, Banquo was thought to be a direct ancestor of the Stuart King James I ( Banquo's Stuart descent was disproven in the 19th century, when it was discovered that the Fitzalans actually descended from a Breton family ).

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).

The Founding Fathers of the United States rarely praised and often criticized democracy, which in their time tended to specifically mean direct democracy ; James Madison argued, that what distinguished a democracy from a republic was that the former became weaker as it got larger and suffered more violently from the effects of faction, whereas a republic could get stronger as it got larger and combats faction by its very structure.

Henry Selick also went on to direct James and the Giant Peach and Coraline, and Tim Burton went on to direct Corpse Bride.

James claimed direct lineage from the painter Hogarth, and from Judge John Waite, the man who sentenced King Charles I to death.

Its most direct predecessor is DSSSL, a language that performed the same function for full SGML that XSLT performs for XML Some members of the standards committee that developed XSLT, including James Clark, had previously worked on DSSSL.

If she did write, she was probably trying to ensure her own succession by attempting to prevent a direct claim by James.

Stanley was soon retained exclusively by James Gordon Bennett ( 1795 – 1872 ), founder of the New York Herald, who was impressed by Stanley's exploits and by his direct style of writing.

The success of One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest allowed Forman to direct the long-planned film Hair a ( rock opera ) in 1979, based on the Broadway musical by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot.

* 1729 – James Bradley determines the cause of the aberration of starlight, providing the first direct evidence of the Earth's motion

Lee suggests that this is a direct parallel to James who could have been counted as happier if he had not had his daughter, Mary, who betrayed him and usurped his monarchical position.

She has appeared in six James Bond films, including Die Another Day ( 2002 ), Casino Royale ( 2006 ) and its direct sequel Quantum of Solace ( 2008 ), making her the longest-running current cast member of the series.

For example, James Madison, in Federalist No. 10 advocates a constitutional republic over direct democracy precisely to protect the individual from the will of the majority.

In the definition used by scholars such as James Fiskin, deliberative democracy is a form of direct democracy which satisfies the requirement for deliberation and equality but does not make provision to involve everyone who wants to be included in the discussion.

The Duchess of Devonshire campaigned for the Whigs — particularly for a distant cousin, Charles James Fox — at a time when the King ( George III ) and his Ministers had a direct influence over the House of Commons, principally through their power of patronage.

Macaulay states that in a letter on 3 May 1694 Marlborough betrayed the Allied plans to James, thus ensuring that the landing failed and that Tollemache, a talented rival, was killed or discredited as a direct result.

The more common view, held by contributors such as James Fishkin, is that direct deliberative democracy can be complementary to traditional representative democracy.

Examination of the differences shows that the earlier Geneva version is often more direct and modern in style than the later King James, e. g.

About 1870, James Starley, described as the father of the bicycle industry, and others began producing bicycles based on the French boneshaker but with front wheels of increasing size, because larger front wheels, up to 1. 5 m ( 60 in ) in diameter, enabled higher speeds on bicycles limited to direct drive.

As described by modern historian Malcolm Barber in The New Knighthood: " It was during the 1760s that German masons introduced a specific Templar connection, claiming that the Order, through its occupation of the Temple of Solomon, had been the repository of secret wisdom and magical powers, which James of Molay had handed down to his successor before his execution and of which the eighteenth-century Freemasons were the direct heirs.