Hardly had Mrs. Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck, father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty's '' Ford sedan, came screeching to a dust-swirling stop, and a brown face appeared, its nose threatened by shards of what had once been the side window.

His father was the second cousin of King Priam of Troy, making Aeneas Priam's second cousin, once removed.

A story is preserved that once when he was a child, his father took him to the Kaaba, and asked him to pray before the idols.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

He came from a Christian family, despite accounts to the contrary, as in his writings he tells more than once of an aunt who taught him some principles of the Christian faith, and a father who did the same, as well as mentioning ( once ) his mother doing the same.

She remembers that her father was such a fan of Bessie Smith, " he once rode 50 miles on horseback just to see her perform live.

Clausewitz's father was once a lieutenant in the Prussian army and held a minor post in the Prussian internal revenue service.

Elizabeth and Louie were known as “ the bathing Garretts ”, as their father had insisted they be allowed a hot bath once a week.

High continues that, once the gods found that these three children were being brought up in the land of Jötunheimr, and when the gods " traced prophecies that from these siblings great mischief and disaster would arise for them " the gods expected a lot of trouble from the three children, partially due to the nature of the mother of the children, yet worse so due to the nature of their father.

When James V finally managed to escape from the custody of the regents with the aid of his redoubtable mother in 1528, he once again set about subduing the rebellious Highlands, Western and Northern isles, as his father had had to do.

High continues that, once the gods found that these three children are being brought up in the land of Jötunheimr, and when the gods " traced prophecies that from these siblings great mischief and disaster would arise for them " then the gods expected a lot of trouble from the three children, partially due to the nature of the mother of the children, yet worse so due to the nature of their father.

Unlike their father, Hesiod was averse to sea travel but he once crossed the narrow strait between the Greek mainland and Euboea to participate in funeral celebrations for one Athamas of Chalcis, where he won a tripod in a singing competition.

Military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge once famously called Hannibal the " father of strategy ", because his greatest enemy, Rome, came to adopt elements of his military tactics in its own strategic arsenal.

When the land experienced famine, he removed to the Philistine land of Gerar where his father once lived.

Later Jason and Peleus, father of the hero Achilles, attacked and defeated Acastus, reclaiming the throne of Iolcus for himself once more.

After the rumors surfaced that Bay's natural father was a filmmaker, there was much speculation about Frankenheimer, who continued to deny the story and told the Los Angeles Times that there had once been " tests " to determine paternity ( long before DNA testing ).

" Its name came from a conversation Lennon once had with his father.

John initially remained loyal to his father, but changed sides once it appeared that Richard would win.

Originally shamanistic practices that have over time may once have been monotheistic later once since deification of an Earth Mother to the Sky father as a Duality, also including ancestor worship and an addition for a " sun deity ", polytheizing the religion and more deities were incorporated after-wards.

His army needed over a month to reach the line of the Oder River, and once there, his troops encountered strong resistance led by Mieszko and his father.

High recalls that Skaði wanted to live in the home once owned by her father called Þrymheimr (" Thunder Home ").

CNN's preliminary report following the attacks claimed that an unnamed acquaintance relayed " He told me once that his father had tried to kill him when he was a child.

She once stated, " My father is a Syrian Jew whose family immigrated to Brazil.

She was the daughter of citrus fruit magnate John A. Snively, who held extensive properties both in Winter Haven and in Waycross ; Parsons ' father was a famous World War II flying ace, decorated with the Air Medal, who was present at the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

His disciplinarian father Veljko Ražnatović was a Montenegrin Serb who served as a decorated officer in the SFR Yugoslav Air Force, earning high rank for his notable World War II involvement on the Partisan side, while his mother Slavka Josifović whom his father had met in Kosovo during the liberation of Italian-occupied Pristina also took part in the war as a communist activist.

Her father was a decorated Gurkha officer who fought in WW2.

This includes a small, but well decorated, temple of Medinet Maadi in the Faiyum which he and his father dedicated to the harvest goddess Renenutet.

Magneto was born Max Eisenhardt sometime in the late 1920s to a middle class German Jewish family whose father, Jakob Eisenhardt was a highly decorated World War I veteran.

When he returned to the city, he saw that it was being decorated for a wedding and when he asked his father who was getting married, his father replied that Cleomenes was.

She later became a tank pilot and worked as a bounty hunter before shooting a heavily decorated officer, having mistaken him for her father, and failing to deliver colostomy bags to President Hogan, the incontinent Head of State in Australia, resulting in him publicly embarrassing himself at a large international trade conference.

His father — Karl Moritz von Bock — commanded a division in the Franco-Prussian War, and was decorated for bravery at the Battle of Sedan.

His father, Alexander Potemkin, was a decorated war veteran ; his mother Daria was " good-looking, capable and intelligent ", though their marriage was ultimately unhappy.

Tomb KV19, which was one of the most beautifully decorated tombs in the royal valley, had been abandoned by Sethirkhepsef B when the latter assumed the throne as king Ramesses VIII and one of prince Montuherkhopshef's depictions there " bears the prenomen cartouche to Ramesses IX on its belt " thereby establishing the identity of this prince's father.

His father was a decorated soldier ( he won the Military Cross ), who later became a solicitor and judge.

His father was a highly decorated Newark fire fighter.

His father, a decorated World War I veteran, ran a small business on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

His father was a congressman, a U. S. Navy admiral, and a decorated veteran of the Spanish-American War.

Her father later stated that she had been in great spirits, because of her new flat in Holloway, North London, which she had decorated, and there was a possibility of a career upturn.

Two other sections, the Fairyland Caverns and father Goose Village, are rock caves decorated with blacklight-responsive sculptures.

As evidence of her father ’ s eccentricity – and religious fervour – Lucy describes the interior of the house he bought and had decorated in preparation for his marriage and the family he intended to raise there.

Her father ( the grandfather of Eduard ) came from an old Dutch-German family of painters ; some of them decorated several churches in north Bohemia with frescoes.

Serhiy Hrushevsky's father was a highly decorated official ( his awards included the two Orders of Saint Anna and the Bronze Cross, and a title of nobility ).

His father, Albert Schaufelberger ( Senior ), was a decorated fighter and bomber pilot during the Vietnam War.

Frederick Russell Burnham, the highly decorated military scout and father of the international scouting movement, was an early president.

Blaise ' father is a decorated F-18D Hornet pilot and a retired Major of the United States Marine Corps.