That same year, both his parents died, leaving him a small inheritance which he quickly spent.

When he was about 18 years old, his parents died and left him with the care of his unmarried sister.

Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit publishing it first privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-colour illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co. She became unofficially engaged to her editor Norman Warne in 1905 despite the disapproval of her parents, but he died suddenly a month later, of leukemia.

Those who lived during the Shang Dynasty also believed that their ancestors — their parents and grandparents — became like gods when they died, and that their ancestors wanted to be worshipped, too, like gods.

In a number of nationally publicized cases in the early 1990s, prosecutors charged parents belonging to the Christian Science church with murder or manslaughter after their children died of likely curable ailments without being medically treated.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit began training as a merchant in Amsterdam after his parents died on August 14, 1701 from eating poisonous mushrooms.

The show concerned Phillip Drummond ( Conrad Bain ), a wealthy white widower in New York City who adopted two young black boys after their parents died.

His parents, Petar, a postman, and Marija ( née Mićić ) had nine children, six of whom died in infancy.

His mother, Mary Litogot Ford ( 1839 – 1876 ), was born in Michigan ; she was the youngest child of Belgian immigrants ; her parents died when Mary was a child and she was adopted by neighbors, the O ' Herns.

The couple were also foster parents to a boy named Gerhard von Ahe, son of an SS officer who had died before the war.

His parents died in 86 when Hadrian was ten, and the boy then became a ward of both Trajan and Publius Acilius Attianus ( who was later Trajan ’ s Praetorian Prefect ).

Connick, Jr .' s mother, who died from ovarian cancer, was Jewish ( her parents had immigrated from Minsk, Russia the capital of Belarus and Vienna, Austria ).

His parents had separated, and Belmont died in 1934 in debt, which Bogart eventually paid off.

Her parents died within a few hours of each other from malignant fever, whereupon Grace and her two sisters were adopted by John Tonkin, a surgeon in the town.

For many years, AllMusic. com has stated that his parents " died in an auto accident ", but Ice-T has stated that it was actually he who had been in a brutal auto accident and that was decades later.

" Hoover was buried in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D. C., next to the graves of his parents and a sister who died in infancy.

His father had been born McCoy but took the surname of his neighbors, who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other.

According to his account, he acted as a negotiator with the defenders during the Siege of Jerusalem in 70, in which his parents and first wife died.

Grammer's personal life has been affected by several tragedies: in 1968, his estranged father, whom he had seen only twice since his parents ' divorce, was shot dead ; in 1975, his younger sister, Karen, was abducted, raped, and murdered by spree killer Freddie Glenn ; in 1980, his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident ; and David Angell, close friend and producer of Frasier, died in the 9 / 11 attacks.

Both daughters predeceased their parents ; Volkova committed suicide and Nevelson died from tuberculosis.

She was her parents ' youngest child, but her father was murdered in 1052 and one year later ( 1053 ) her older sister Beatrice ( namesake of their mother ) also died.

The Apostolic Tradition, attributed to Hippolytus of Rome ( died 235 ), describes how to perform the ceremony of baptism ; it states that children were baptised first, and if any of them could not answer for themselves, their parents or someone else from their family was to answer for them.

His parents died in a plane crash at Chicago's Midway Airport only 19 months after his crash in Crete.

* Leland Stanford, Jr. died of typhoid in 1884 ; his parents founded Stanford University in his memory.

But youth asked nothing of its parents -- not a touch of the hand or a kiss given in passing.

( The most illustrious aristocratic youth to have been educated this way may have been Louis XVI, whose parents had him learn the skill of locksmithing.

As a teenager, he became an ardent admirer of Ze ' ev Jabotinsky and Peter Bergson, who were frequent guests in his parents ' home, and joined the Betar ( Brit Trumpeldor ) youth wing of Revisionist Zionism.

During Howard's youth his parents ' relationship began to break down.

His parents pressured the poetically and artistically talented youth into entering a military academy, which he attended from 1886 until 1891, when he left due to illness.

This system of école libre ( Free Schooling ) is mostly used not for religious reasons, but for practical reasons ( private schools may offer more services, such as after-class tutoring ) as well as the desire of parents living in disenfranchised areas to send their children away from the local schools, where they perceive that the youth are too prone to delinquency or have too many difficulties keeping up with schooling requirements that the educational content is bound to suffer.

Tycho later wrote that when he was around age two, his uncle, Danish nobleman Jørgen Thygesen Brahe, " without the knowledge of my parents took me away with him while I was in my earliest youth to become a scholar ".

Section 551, Parental Choice in Television Programming, outlines the effects that violence has on the youth of a nation and addresses how parents should exercise the control to limit and / or block what information their children are in fact viewing and what is being broadcast into their private homes.

Brace feared the impact of the parents ' poverty, in general, and their Catholic religion, in particular, on the youth.

He spent much of his youth traveling with his parents to tourist resorts in Italy, Yugoslavia and Greece.

The " Resolution on Appropriate Affirmative Responses to Sexual Orientation Distress and Change Efforts " also advises that parents, guardians, young people and their families avoid sexual orientation treatments that portray homosexuality as a mental illness or developmental disorder and instead seek psychotherapy, social support and educational services " that provide accurate information on sexual orientation and sexuality, increase family and school support and reduce rejection of sexual minority youth.

While Falcone drifted away from his parents middle-class conservative Catholicism towards Communism, Borsellino was religious and conservative, in his youth he had been a member of the Fronte Universitario d ' Azione Nazionale ( FUAN ), a right-wing university organization affiliated with the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano.

Wagner's plans for the cycle grew backwards from the tale of the death of the hero Siegfried, to include his youth and then the story of the events around his conception and of how the Valkyrie Brünnhilde was punished for trying to save his parents against Wotan's instructions.

Wagner worked backwards from planning an opera about Siegfried's death, then deciding he needed another opera to tell of Siegfried's youth, then deciding he needed to tell the tale of Siegfried's conception and of Brünnhilde's attempts to save Siegfried's parents, and finally deciding he also needed a prelude that told of the original theft of the Rheingold and creation of the ring.

Some examples of groups whose rights are of particular concern include animals, and amongst humans, groups such as children and youth, parents ( both mothers and fathers ), and men and women.

Helsinki Watch heard dozens of stories from children, their parents, lawyers, youth workers and political leaders of children being stopped on the street and hit, kicked and abused again and again by police and soldiers.

The author also alludes to the deaths of Bruce Wayne's parents as being on the night of a movie theater showing of Tyrone Power in The Mark of Zorro, a movie with a release date of November 8th, 1940, a time when Bruce was a youth.

His parents discovered in his early youth that drawing often settled him down and helped focus his attention.

The story of a rebellious teenager who arrives at a new high school, meets a girl, disobeys his parents, and defies the local school bullies was a groundbreaking attempt to portray the moral decay of American youth, critique parental style, and explore the differences and conflicts between generations.

Already in his youth he traveled with his parents and had a particular interest in the geographic circumstances, which he carefully sketched.

The annual youth soccer tournament draws thousands of young soccer players, their parents, siblings and even grandparents to Bullhead City.

The Rude Awakening Program educates the youth and their parents about alcohol abuse and its position as a gateway drug to further and harsher drugs and substance abuse.

Born to wealthy parents in Amsterdam, Netherlands in June 1784, he had relatives in Uden, Noord Brabant, Netherlands and apparently spent time there as a youth.

Counterculture youth rejected the cultural standards of their parents, especially with respect to racial segregation and initial widespread support for the Vietnam War, and, less directly, the Cold War — with many young people fearing that America's nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, coupled with its involvement in Vietnam, would lead to a nuclear holocaust.

In the United States the economic difficulties have led to dramatic increases in youth poverty, unemployment, and the numbers of young people living with their parents.