He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

Here I was accompanied by Mrs. Okamoto ( Fumio's mother ), her son, Mr. Washizu ( a prospective student with whom I have been corresponding for more than a year ), and Mr. Nishima, one of the science teachers.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Agrippina the Younger was thereafter supervised by her mother, her paternal grandmother Antonia Minor, and her great-grandmother, Livia, all of them notable, influential, and powerful figures from whom she learnt how to survive.

Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.

The mother of Napoleon, his consort Maria Louise ( as Concord ), to model whom the author made a further journey to Paris in 1810, the princess Esterhazy and the muse Polymnia ( Elisa Bonaparte ) take their place in this class, as do the ideal heads, comprising Corinna, Sappho, Laura, Beatrice and Helen of Troy.

Indeed, the only person he remains connected to is his dying mother, with whom he shares a tender, yet restrained relationship.

* Aba ( nymph ), Thracian naiad, mother of Ergiscus ( after whom Çatalca or Ergisce, took its name ) by Poseidon

Abd al-Rahman's mother was a member from the Nafza Berbers with whom he found refuge after the murder of his family in 750.

He received his early education from his mother Râbi ' a Sharmi Sultana, from whom he studied history and learned calligraphy.

Norris refused to have anything to do with the man whom he blamed for shaming his mother.

In 1871 he married his mother ’ s maid, Julie Vellay, a vineyard grower ’ s daughter, with whom he would later have seven children.

1016 ), perhaps married firstly with Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden, and later wife of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, by whom she is said to have been mother of Canute the Great, King of Denmark, Norway and England.

He later made plans with German film director Werner Herzog, whom Tom Luddy had introduced to Morris, to return in the summer of 1975 to secretly open the grave of Gein's mother to test their theory that Gein himself had already dug her up.

Eugene's mother, Olympia Mancini, was one of Cardinal Mazarin's nieces whom he had brought to Paris from Rome in 1647 to further his, and to a lesser extent, their ambitions.

Expelled from France Marie joined her mother in Brussels before eloping with a renegade priest to Geneva, with whom she lived unhappily until her premature death in 1705.

" Esther 2: 7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful ; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

We absolutely forbid priests, deacons, and subdeacons to associate with concubines and women, or to live with women other than such as the Nicene Council ( canon 3 ) for reasons of necessity permitted, namely, the mother, sister, or aunt, or any such person concerning whom no suspicion could arise.

The Minoan goddess represented in seals and other remains, whom Greeks called Potnia Thēron ' Mistress of Animals ', many of whose attributes were later also absorbed by Artemis, seems to have been a mother goddess type, for in some representations she suckles the animals that she holds.

The quarters of a personal coat of arms correspond to the ancestors from whom the bearer has inherited arms, normally in the same sequence as if the pedigree were laid out with the father's father's ... father ( to as many generations as necessary ) on the extreme left and the mother's mother's ... mother on the extreme right.

John Bruce's original family name was Knight, but on coming of age in 1805 he assumed the name of Bruce: his mother, through whom he inherited the Duffryn estate, was the daughter of William Bruce, high sheriff of Glamorganshire.

He was closer to his father, whom he spent much of his early life with abroad, than he was to his mother.

Asser in his Life of Alfred claims that Alfred's mother, Osburga, was descended from the Jutes of the Isle of Wight, whom he identifies with the Goths.

On November 14, 1857, Flora gave birth to another daughter, whom the parents named Flora after her mother.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

Katherine was staying at a convent, and her mother felt that, as Thompson himself seems to have suggested, she might eventually stay there.

In his sculpture therefore it would not be possible for him to project anything of what Jesus felt for his mother ; ;

He felt so guilty he would sometimes have nightmares about his mother.

His later decision to attend West Point saddened his mother, who felt that warfare was " rather wicked ," but she did not overrule him.

Her family stopped speaking to her ; his family connection was bruised, as his children felt his marriage was a repudiation of their mother.

The Joplins felt that Janis always needed more attention than their other children, with her mother stating, " She was unhappy and unsatisfied without a lot of attention.

He was inspired by hearing his mother practising the piano in the evenings – mostly works by Chopin and Beethoven – and composed his first piano composition at the age of five, an ' Indian Gallop ', which was written down by his mother: this was in the Lydian mode ( a major scale with a raised 4th scale degree ) as the young Prokofiev felt ' reluctance to tackle the black notes '.

After a while, Prokofiev's mother felt that the isolation in Sontsovka was restricting his further musical development, yet his parents hesitated over starting their son on a musical career at such an early age.

At least 7, 000 people who were deemed to be insufficiently grief-stricken were executed, though it wasn't restricted to humans, cows were slaughtered so that their calves would know what losing a mother felt like.

The name homophonically means " return again "; it was given to Lee by his mother, who felt he would return to the United States once he came of age.

In 1168 Afonso again felt menaced by Ferdinand II's repopulation of the area of Ciudad Rodrigo: he then attacked Galicia, occupying Tui and the territory of Xinzo de Limia, former fiefs of his mother.

Accompanied by her mother, she felt " dangerously sure of herself " as her train neared Los Angeles.

His mother and sisters were especially resentful of Joséphine as they felt clumsy and unsophisticated in her presence.

Cotton later returned to the house with French's mother, who took him away for a few weeks, but he later felt compelled to return, as did Cotton.

Fred and Adele's mother suggested they change their name to " Astaire ," as she felt " Austerlitz " sounded as though it could be the name of a battle.

Because he was deaf-mute, the marriage shocked his mother, infuriated his sister-in-law Olympia Mancini, injured the inheritance prospects of his French nephews and nieces, and so offended Louis XIV that Francis II, Duke of Modena felt obliged to banish from his realm the bride's kinsman, who had acted as the couple's intermediary.

Because he was deaf-mute, the marriage shocked his mother, infuriated his sister-in-law Olympia Mancini, injured the inheritance prospects of his French nephews and nieces, and so offended Louis XIV that Francis II, Duke of Modena felt obliged to banish from his realm the bride's kinsman, who had acted as the couple's intermediary.

Charles of Navarre felt he was entitled to these territories as they had belonged to his mother, the Queen of Navarre but they had been taken from her by the French kings for a paltry sum in compensation.

When Cycnus found that, he felt disgraced and committed suicide by throwing himself into a lake called Conope ; his mother Thyrie did the same.

* Birth pangs are the pains felt by the mother during labor, resulting from contractions of the uterus and pressure on nerves and organs.

When the mother felt the child move in the womb for the first time, it was thought that this was the work of the spirit of the land in which the mother then stood.

However, according to Norman, " In Another Land, was executorially censored by the " mother company " which insisted on removing any music they felt was " too negative " or " too controversial.