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He was the only child of Agrippina the Younger through her first marriage to Domitius, and through her, he was great-great grandson of the Emperor Augustus, great-grandnephew and adoptive great-grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, nephew of the Emperor Caligula, as well as great-nephew and stepson of the Emperor Claudius.
Germanicus was the grandson-in-law and great-nephew of the Emperor Augustus, nephew and adoptive son of the Emperor Tiberius, father of the Emperor Caligula, brother of the Emperor Claudius, and the maternal grandfather of the Emperor Nero.
Charles II, having no direct heir, was succeeded by his great-nephew Philip V, a French prince, in 1700.
Hadrian ’ s elder sister and only sibling was Aelia Domitia Paulina, married with the triple consul Lucius Julius Ursus Servianus, his niece was Julia Serviana Paulina and his great-nephew was Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, from Barcino ( Barcelona ).
The Spanish branch ended upon the death of Charles II in 1700 and was replaced by the Anjou branch of the House of Bourbon in the person of his great-nephew Philip V.
/ great-nephew blood relationship and / or adopted son relationship was commonly found between the rulers of Julio-Claudian dynasty.
# Augustus was the great-nephew of Julius Caesar and his posthumously adopted son.
# Caligula was the great-nephew of Tiberius and his adopted son.
# Claudius was the great-nephew of Augustus ( Claudius was the only one of the five rulers to not be adopted ).
# Nero was the great-nephew of Claudius and his adopted son.
# Nero, as well as being Claudius's great-nephew, was also his stepson, because Nero's mother Agrippina the Younger was Claudius's niece and fourth wife.
After Albert's childless death in 1621, Luxembourg passed to his great-nephew and heir Philip IV of Spain, who through his paternal grandmother Anna of Austria, queen of Spain, Albert's sister, was the primogenitural heir to the Queen Elisabeth of Poland.
Born in Siena, a member of the illustrious banking family of Chigi and a great-nephew of Pope Paul V ( 1605 – 1621 ), he was privately tutored and eventually received doctorates of philosophy, law, and theology from the University of Siena.
His great-nephew Giovanni Antonio Cardinal Facchinetti de Nuce, juniore, was one of two Cardinals appointed during the weeks of Innocent IX's pontificate.
Other close family relatives include Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who was a great-nephew of the last Tsarina.
While Edward the Confessor's great-nephew Edgar Ætheling was also in England, he was deemed too young.
Glenn's family includes his great-nephew born just three days after his historic flight, camera operator Glenn Thomas of New York, who was named in his honor.
The couple had no children, and Armstrong ’ s heir was his great-nephew William Watson-Armstrong.
He was a great-nephew of Emperor Napoleon I of the French.

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* George F. Kennan ( 1904 – 2005 ), diplomat and historian ; the explorer's great-nephew and architect of the U. S. containment over confrontation policy during the Cold War.
He published, during the controversy about whether Scotland was bound by the Act of Settlement 1701 or not, An Historical Essay showing that the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland is Imperial and Independent ( Edinburgh, 1705 ), and later Collections relating to the History of Mary Queen of Scotland ( in 4 vols, Edin., 1727 – 1728 ), both of which were later used extensively by his great-nephew, the historian William Robertson

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Having no living legitimate children, Caesar had adopted his great-nephew Octavius as his son and main heir.
* Anna Angelina, who married ( 1 ) the sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos, great-nephew of emperor Manuel I Komnenos, and ( 2 ) Theodore Laskaris, emperor of Nicaea.
* Timothy J. Disney ( also credited as Tim Disney ), Walt's great-nephew and an American film writer, producer and director
In 1978, Lord Mountbatten of Burma passed the Presidency to his great-nephew, the Prince of Wales.
A. O. Scott, a film critic for the New York Times, is his great-nephew.
The Greuthungic king, Ermanaric, committed suicide and his great-nephew, Vithimiris, took over.
In order to gain political support, he married Agrippina and adopted his great-nephew Nero.
A great-nephew of Jardine who would be taipan from 1874 to 1886, William Keswick ( 1834 – 1912 ), is the ancestor of the Keswick branch ( pronounced Ke-zick ) of the family.
* June 1 – Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial ( Napoléon IV ), great-nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte, Bonapartist pretender to the throne, dies in Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War.
Two of her sons, one by each husband, and two stepsons, also by each husband, became kings of England, as did her great-nephew, William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy.

great-nephew and Trevelyan
Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a consciously dispassionate analysis, that became old-fashioned during his long and productive career.

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He smoked, as did everybody, and imbibed the various alcoholic beverages of that day, although his protestations while at Cambridge and after that he was no drunkard point to reasonable abstinence from the wild drinking bouts of some of the undergraduates and, we must add, of some of their elders including many of the regents or teachers.
The bid from A. Belanger and Sons of Cambridge, Mass., which listed the same officers as Hughes, was $600 per joint.
The Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, preserved in Old English in Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ( Manuscript 383 ), and in a Latin compilation known as Quadripartitus, was negotiated later, perhaps in 879 or 880, when King Ceolwulf II of Mercia was deposed.
Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, in 1953, and he attended King's College School, Cambridge, and The Leys School, Cambridge.
Esquisse d ’ un Programme was published in the two-volume proceedings Geometric Galois Actions ( Cambridge University Press, 1997 ).
The case was designed by industrial designer Allen Boothroyd of Cambridge Product Design Ltd
He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London and later, at Cambridge.
Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.
His thesis advisor in Cambridge was David Wheeler.
The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.
Personal networking was used for the initial recruitment particularly from the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Aberdeen.
The Central Artery, as part of MassHighway's Master Plan of 1948, was originally planned to be the downtown Boston stretch of Interstate 95, and was signed as such ; a bypass road called the Inner Belt ( officially Interstate 695 ) was to pass around the downtown core to the west, through the neighborhood of Roxbury and the cities of Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.
His most famous book in this area is The Skeptical Environmentalist, whose English translation was published as a work in environmental economics by Cambridge University Press in 2001.
According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.
It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.
The site for what would become Cambridge was chosen in December 1630, because it was located safely upriver from Boston Harbor, which made it easily defensible from attacks by enemy ships.
Part of West Cambridge joined the new town of Belmont in 1859, and the rest of West Cambridge was renamed Arlington in 1867 ; Brighton was annexed by Boston in 1874.

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