Having left no heirs, Jiang became the adopted son of Shangqing's wife, or his Aunt, Wang Zhelan, to whom he referred to as " Niang " or " Mom.

It became The Midnighters ' first major R & B hit, spending seven weeks at number 1 on the R & B charts and also selling well in mainstream markets, along with the answer songs " Annie Had a Baby " and " Annie's Aunt Fannie "; all were banned by the FCC from radio air play.

He spent his school summer holidays at the home of his Uncle Tom and Aunt Lizzie in Clayton, his own family having moved to Huddersfield when Henry ceased to be an executioner, and he became very close to his uncle.

But later, as Longworth became more independent and came into conflict with her father and stepmother, Aunt " Bye " provided needed structure and stability.

In 1986 their name changed to Gigolo Aunts ( after the Syd Barrett song, " Gigolo Aunt ", from his 1970 album, Barrett ) and became a staple on the Northern New York music scene, gaining a reputation for frenetic live sets that featured the close harmonies of the Hurley brothers and Gibbs.

He was also interested in history, and thanks to the influence of his Aunt Kathie, with whom he was close for all of his life, he became interested in movies ; he often attended them with her.

Li ' l Bit grows up in rural Maryland during the 1960s with a large extended family: her mother, who became pregnant at a young age ; her grandmother, a God-fearing former child-bride ; her ignorant, sexist grandfather ; her Uncle Peck, who has been affected by experiences in combat and is a recovering alcoholic ; and Aunt Mary, who is in denial of her husband's behavior.

Because all of the other members of the Fraternity at one time or another lived in Aunt Lizzie's place or took meals there, the house became known as " the first Chapter house of Sigma Chi.

When their uncle died in 1856, William and Amasa – along with their cousin Col. Byron Sprague, son of William III, and their mother Fanny Sprague and Aunt Harriet, widow of William III – became partners in the company.

Playing herself as a love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and Southern California, Canova was accompanied by a cast that included voicemaster Mel Blanc as Pedro ( using the accented voice he later gave the cartoons ' Speedy Gonzales ) and Sylvester ( using the voice that later became associated with the Looney Tunes character ), Ruth Perrott as Aunt Aggie, Ruby Dandridge as Geranium, Joseph Kearns as Benchley Botsford and Sharon Douglas as Brenda — with Gale Gordon, Sheldon Leonard, and Hans Conried also making periodic appearances.

The Royalty Theatre in London became unexpectedly vacant, and Penley took it, opening Charley's Aunt there on 21 December 1892.

According to author Sean Egan in the James Kirkwood biography Ponies & Rainbows, Murphy ’ s will left Lee at the financial mercy of his widow ( married subsequent to Lee ), who consequently became the manipulative character Aunt Claire in P. S.

' Helene Deutsche, who was to make her name with her writings on female sexuality ' became paradoxically something of an Aunt Sally ' in feminist circles ... her name tarnished with the brush of a " misogynist " Freud whose servile disciple she is purported to be '.

With the publication of the tale by " Aunt Fanny " in 1852, the bears became a family in the illustrations to the tale but remained three bachelor bears in the text.

However, upon learning that Agatha's demise had been greatly exaggerated, he became energized to her defense.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

But Curtis poured over $1 million into it and in time it again became one of the most popular weeklies of the country.

In earlier business cycles, when this occurred the country usually experienced a sharp upturn in residential construction as mortgage financing became easier to obtain.

Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was mostly self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States House of Representatives during the 1840s.

After this battle and the loss of one of Portugal's most remarkable infantes, the Duke of Braganza became the de facto ruler of the country.

He became the youngest governor in the country at 32.

Following the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, Bursa became one of the industrial centers of the country.

In fact, slaves influenced early development of the music that became country and bluegrass, through the introduction of the banjo and the innovation of musical techniques for both the banjo and fiddle.

In 1942 Beech won its first Army-Navy ‘ E ’ Award production award and became one of the elite five percent of war contracting firms in the country to win five straight awards for production efficiency, mostly for the production of the Beechcraft 18 which remains in widespread use worldwide.

Beatrix and her brother were allowed great freedoms in the country and both children became adept students of natural history.

Greece was the only Balkan country with a navy powerful enough to deny use of the Aegean to the Ottoman Empire, thus a treaty between Greece and Bulgaria became necessary ; it was signed in May 1912.

On 11 August 1960, Chad became an independent country and François Tombalbaye became its first President.

This became the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ) in 1980, as Cape Verde sought to distance itself from Guinea-Bissau, following unrest in that country.

On July 4, 2005, Cape Verde became the third country to sign a compact with the U. S. Government-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation ( MCC ); the five-year assistance package is worth over $ 110 million in addressing rural economic expansion, infrastructure development, and development of the credit sector.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

In 1993, Ange-Félix Patassé became the first elected president of the country.

In May 2010 Chile became the first South American country to join the OECD.

In 2006, Chile became the country with the highest nominal GDP per capita in Latin America.

The country lobbied aggressively for the establishment of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and became the first nation to recognize the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Human Rights Court, based in San José.

The country became independent on 7 August 1960.

The following year, Raúl Castro became Acting President, replacing his brother as the de facto leader of the country.

Deng Xiaoping was the Paramount Leader of China from 1978 to 1992, although he never became the head of the party or state, and his influence within the Party led the country to significant economic reforms.

As the Federation of Gran Colombia was dissolved in 1830, the Department of Cundinamarca ( as established in Angostura ) became a new country, the Republic of New Granada.

Ealdred became involved with the see of Ramsbury after its bishop Herman got into a dispute with King Edward over the movement of the seat of his bishopric to Malmesbury Abbey.

Johnson was the only Southern senator who did not resign his seat during the Civil War ; he became the most prominent War Democrat from the South and supported Lincoln's military policies.

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

Ann Arbor became the seat of Washtenaw County in 1827, and was incorporated as a village in 1833.

Between the 11th and 13th centuries, the Romanesque style Bonn Minster was built, and in 1597 Bonn became the seat of the Archdiocese of Cologne.

In 1529 the city became Protestant under Oecolampadius and the bishop's seat was moved to Porrentury.

Cadillac became the county seat after the so-called " Battle of Manton ," in which a show of force was involved in enforcing a controversial decision to move the county seat from Manton, Michigan.

The church became the seat of the first Latin Patriarchs, and was also the site of the kingdom's scriptorium.

After the Act of Abjuration was proclaimed in 1581 Delft became the de facto capital of the newly independent Netherlands, as the seat of the Prince of Orange.

It became the county seat of Norfolk County.

His chief temple at Nippur was known as Ekur, signifying ' House of the mountain ', and such was the sanctity acquired by this edifice that Babylonian and Assyrian rulers, down to the latest days, vied with one another in embellishing and restoring Enlil's seat of worship, and the name Ekur became the designation of a temple in general.

Sullivan soon became a powerful starmaker in the entertainment world himself, becoming one of Winchell's main rivals, setting the El Morocco nightclub in New York as his unofficial headquarters against Winchell's seat of power at the nearby Stork Club.

On October 16, 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, elected to seat number 17 vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt ; on June 1, 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, i. e. its executive member and spokesperson.

In 834, Hamburg was designated the seat of a Roman Catholic bishopric, whose first bishop, Ansgar, became known as the Apostle of the North.

The Scottish National Party gained its first seat at Westminster in 1945 and became a party of national prominence during the 1970s, achieving 11 MPs in 1974.

More significantly, the HR fitted standard front seat belts ; Holden thus became the first Australian automaker to provide the safety device as standard equipment across all models.

The city of Herat became one of the capitals of his empire, and his grandson Pir Muhammad held the seat of Kandahar.

Once again the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall, became the center of attention for the people in revolt ; this time the Hotel de Ville became the seat of the revolutionary government.

In 1692, as a result of the inheritance of the Palatinate by a Catholic branch of the Wittelsbach family, which threatened to upset the religious balance of the College of Electors, the number of electors was increased to nine, with a seat being granted to the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who became known as the Elector of Hanover ( the Reichstag officially confirmed the creation in 1708 ).

In 1862 he became Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, and in 1868, after losing his seat at Merthyr Tydfil, but being re-elected for Renfrewshire, he was made Home Secretary by William Ewart Gladstone.

On June 8, Adams broke with the Federalists, resigned his Senate seat, and became a Democrat-Republican.

On the restoration of order in the Land of Israel, Usha became the seat of the academy and Judah spent his youth there.

Following boundary changes, Major became Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Huntingdon in 1983 and retained the seat in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.