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Yellow Wolf was there, nephew of the young chief by an older brother long dead, in whom also the disordered chemistries of youth worked.
He was my nephew, my brother's son, handsome and warm and newly-scrubbed, with happiness upon his face and his face resembled my brother's and mine as well.
The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.
Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.
He was the adopted grandson and biological great, great nephew of the historian Sallust.
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.
However, according to Xenophon, Polydorus was murdered by his brother Polyphron, who was, in turn, murdered by his nephew Alexander — son of Jason, in 369 BC.
Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 1059 ).
Algardi, on the other hand, was embraced by the new pope and the pope's nephew, Camillo Pamphilj.
He also vanquished Alfonso VII of León, came to the rescue of his mother, whose nephew he was, and thus freed the kingdom from political dependence on the crown of his cousin of León.
In addition to being married to Jochebed, Amram is also described in the Bible as having been related to Jochebed prior to the marriage, although the exact relationship is uncertain ; some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint state that Jochebed was Amram's father's cousin, and others state that Amram was Jochebed's cousin, but the Masoretic text states that he was Jochebed's nephew.
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This master returned to Venice, where he soon afterwards died ; but by the high terms in which he spoke of his pupil to Falier, the latter was induced to bring the young artist to Venice, whither he accordingly went, and was placed under a nephew of Torretto.
Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.
Leng was the nephew of composer Carmela Mackenna.
Ajaigarh was founded in 1765 by Guman Singh, a bundela Rajput who was the nephew of Raja Pahar Singh of Jaitpur.

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There are also anthroposophical movements to renew speech and drama, the most important of which are based in the work of Marie Steiner-von Sivers ( speech formation, also known as Creative Speech ) and the Chekhov Method originated by Michael Chekhov ( nephew of Anton Chekhov ).
Because the people wished a younger regent, Anton agreed to appoint his nephew Frederick Augustus Prince Co-Regent ( de: Prinz-Mitregenten ).
Without surviving male issue, Anton was succeeded as King by his nephew, Frederick Augustus II.
* Michael Chekhov, an actor, director, and author ( and nephew of Anton Chekov ) whose technique, largely an outside-in approach and somewhat more metaphysical, diverged from and returned to Stanislavski's over the course of his career.
Jakob's successor was his nephew Anton Fugger, son of his elder brother Georg.
Anton Pann was a successful novelist, Ienăchiţă Văcărescu wrote the first Romanian grammar and his nephew Iancu Văcărescu is considered to be the first important Romanian poet.
He was a nephew of Anton Florian.
In 1784, King David of Imereti revived the duchy and gave it to his nephew Anton.
He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov.
The tenant of the theatre Johann Koháry came into financial difficulties in 1773, he got in 1773 Joseph Keglevich as a curator to his side, the director of the theatre Wenzel Sporck, who was the great nephew of Franz Anton Sporck, who had brought the french horn and Antonio Vivaldi to Prague, got a committee for financing under the chairman Franz Keglevich as his assistance in 1773 and Karl Keglevich became the director of the Theater am Kärntnertor in 1773 to have comparative figures.
Also present there, in those days where Michel Chekhov, nephew of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, the German modern dancer-choreographer, Kurt Jooss and another German Rudolf Laban who invented the dance notation, this experience only added more exuberance to his expressionist dance.
At his death on 30 December 1525 Jakob Fugger bequeathed to his nephew Anton Fugger company assets totaling 2, 032, 652 guilders.

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: see Berthold Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg ( born 1934 ) for Claus's son and Berthold's nephew
He is a nephew of German politician and former cabinet member Otto Graf Lambsdorff.
Since 2004, his nephew Alexander Graf Lambsdorff has represented the FDP in the European Parliament.

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He had designated his nephew, Frederick von Staufen duke of Swabia, also known as Frederick II, Duke of Swabia as his successor.
# 20r: Count Rudolf von Neuenburg ( either Rudolf II, d. 1192, or his nephew Rudolf I, d. 1258 )
On 6 January 1762, he wrote to Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, " We ought now to think of preserving for my nephew, by way of negotiation, whatever fragments of my territory we can save from the avidity of my enemies ", which means, if words mean anything, that he was resolved to seek a soldier's death on the first opportunity.
In the former Royal Family of Saxony Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen adopted and designated as his heir his nephew Alexander de Afif, thus bypassing his agnatic cousin ’ s morganatic son, Ruediger von Sachsen, and his three sons.
At the First International Iridological Congress, Ignaz von Peczely's nephew, August von Peczely, dismissed this myth as apocryphal, and maintained that such claims were irreproducible.
** Georg von Siemens ( 1839 1901 ), banker and politician, nephew of Werner von Siemens
** Hermann ( Werner ) von Siemens ( 1885, Berlin-1986 ), nephew of Werner von Siemens
** Ernst von Siemens ( 1903, Kingston upon Thames-1990 ), nephew of Werner von Siemens
** Peter von Siemens ( 1911, Berlin-1986 ), nephew of Werner von Siemens
He also resorted to bribing witnesses when assault charges were brought against his nephew, leading Bart Simpson to observe that " the system works: just ask Claus von Bülow ".
Prince Alexander was a nephew of Russia's Tsar Alexander II, who had married a sister of Prince Alexander of Hesse ; his mother, a daughter of Count Moritz von Hauke, had been lady-in-waiting to the Tsaritsa.
He also recruited many disciples to the cause most notably James Clark Ross, a nephew of Sir John's, the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the astronomer royal, George Airy.
He was the son of the statesman Field Marshal Axel von Fersen the Elder and the countess Hedvig Catharina De la Gardie ( through her relatives to the Royal House of Vasa ), nephew of Eva Ekeblad and grandson of General Hans Reinhold Fersen.
In 1786 the fief was purchased by Peter von Biron, Duke of Courland, and in 1843 it passed to his daughter Dorothea, the wife of Edmond de Talleyrand, a nephew of the great French diplomat Talleyrand, who spent her retirement years at Żagań.
Königsmarck was grandson to the Swedish Field Marshal Hans Christoff von Königsmarck, Bremen-Verden's governor general in Stade, and nephew to the Swedish Field Marshal Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck.
* In November 2002 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, nephew of reigning abbot Gregor Henckel Donnersmarck, wrote the screenplay for his film The Lives of Others in a cell at the abbey.
He is often referred to as Moltke the Elder to distinguish him from his nephew Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke, who commanded the German Army at the outbreak of World War I.
His nephew, Helmuth Johann Ludwig von Moltke, was Chief from 1906-14.

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