The Borgia family originally came from the Kingdom of Valencia, and rose to prominence during the mid-15th century ; Cesare's great-uncle Alonso Borgia ( 1378 – 1458 ), bishop of Valencia, was elected Pope Callixtus III in 1455.

Romulus ' father Orestes was a Roman citizen, originally from Pannonia, who had served as a secretary and diplomat for Attila the Hun and later rose through the ranks of the Roman army.

His father was originally a farm-hand and forestry worker who rose to become a forestry manager and stock agent at Halla Ltd. Claims made that Kekkonen's family had lived in a rudimentary farmhouse with no chimney were later proved to be false — a photograph of Kekkonen's childhood home had been retouched to remove the chimney.

Deer were originally brought to New Zealand by European settlers, and the deer population rose rapidly.

The western wall of the Temple Mount rose up from the bottom of this valley to the height of 84 feet, where it was on a level with the area, and above this, and as a continuance of it, the wall of Solomon's cloister rose to the height of about 50 feet, " so that this section of the wall would originally present to view a stupendous mass of masonry scarcely to be surpassed by any mural masonry in the world.

William Penn originally granted land for the inn subject to an annual rent payment of one red rose.

Charles's hammered pennies produced at the Tower originally had a design of a rose on both sides, with the inscription on the obverse and — Justice strengthens the throne — on the reverse.

Very little remains of the castle, which would originally have belonged to the Lamont family but became a royal castle with the Earls of Argyll ( Campbells ) as hereditary keepers, paying a nominal rent of a single red rose to the sovereign.

It originally meant the color of the Kermes dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now also used as a generic term for slightly bluish-red colors that are between red and rose ; besides crimson itself, these colors include carmine, raspberry, ruddy, ruby, amaranth, and cerise.

Tiberius was a Germanic naval officer from the region of Pamphylia and originally named Apsimaros ( Αψίμαρος ), who rose to the position of droungarios of the Cibyrrhaeotic Theme.

Some of the most magnificent statues of New Kingdom Egypt date to his reign " such as the two outstanding couchant rose granite lions originally set before the temple at Soleb in Nubia " as well as a large series of royal sculptures.

Geologically speaking, the whole area was originally under water, and, when the land rose, the chalk Wolds were formed from the skeletons and shells covering the sea floor.

* The Selinko book mentioned above was originally published in 1951 in German, by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, and quickly rose to the best-seller lists around the world.

The sculpture originally rose from the river on its own foundations, abutting the bridge ; since then, the natural sandbar building of a mid-river island, aided by stone-faced embankments called quais, has extended the island, which is planted as the teardrop-shaped Parc Vert Galant in honour of Henry IV, the " Green Gallant " King.

* Crown ( English coin ), originally known as the " crown of the double rose ", was an English gold coin introduced as part of King Henry VIII's monetary reform of 1526 with the value of five shillings ; later a silver coin of the same value

The search for Bhelliom suffers a setback when Ghwerig, the deformed dwarf troll who originally carved the gem into the shape of a rose, retrieves the Bhelliom first after his own centuries-long search to reclaim his beloved gem.

Ratings were originally high after a successful marketing campaign but fell steadily throughout the year until 1993 when they rose dramatically.

The term originally rose to describe the sourcebooks published by White Wolf Game Studio for its World of Darkness games.

Their debts would amount to ten times the loan they had originally taken out, and El Barzón refers to the massive social movement where elements of the traditionally quiet middle class rose up and refused to pay the monstrous sums of money that were expected of them by lending institutions.

Tom Cochrane, a rocker originally from the town of Lynn Lake in Northern Manitoba, rose to fame with his band Red Rider, producing such hits as " Lunatic Fringe ", " Boy Inside the Man " and " Big League ".

The family was originally of humble background, but rose through service to King Henry II.

The Dog Days originally were the days when Sirius rose just before or at the same time as sunrise ( heliacal rising ), which is no longer true, owing to precession of the equinoxes.

Gourley was originally denied a commission due to " defective eyesight ", but later rose to the rank of Captain during his military career.

Of one thing we can be sure: they were not sketched out by the revolutionary theorists of the eighteenth century who formulated the political principles and originally shaped the political institutions of what we term the `` free society ''.

When originally used in Olney, it is unknown what music, if any, accompanied the verses written by John Newton.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

The EPA estimates that by 2010, the overall costs of complying with the program for businesses and consumers will be $ 1 billion to $ 2 billion a year, only one fourth of what was originally predicted.

" Many scholars argue that this collection originally consisted of three independent and anonymous prophecies, two of which were subsequently appended to the book of Zechariah ( as what scholars refer to as Deutero-Zechariah ) with the third becoming the book of Malachi.

Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration, of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields.

Xunzi's opinion is that men originally just want what they instinctively want despite positive or negative results it may bring, so cultivation is needed.

Constans managed to extract the prefecture of Illyricum and the diocese of Thrace, provinces that were originally part of what was meant to be ruled by his cousin Dalmatius as per Constantine I ’ s proposed division of the Empire after his death.

The modern sense of the term first appears sometime around the 12th century ; its popularity spread in the medieval period along with the terms isle, ylle, inis, eilean, oileán There is some confusion on what the term crannog originally referred to, the structure atop the island or the island itself The additional meanings of crannog can be variously related as " structure / piece of wood ; wooden pin ; crow's nest ; pulpit ; driver's box on a coach and vessel / box / chest " for crannóg.

Hunter College – so-named in 1914, originally Female Normal and High School and later the Normal College – had existed since 1870, and later expanded into the Bronx in the early 20th century with what became Herbert Lehman College, but CCNY and Hunter resisted merging.

Many of the producers behind the Super Tuscan movement were originally Chianti producers who were rebelling against what they felt were antiquated DOC regulations.

One might note, however, that what is assumed to be a niche for the Torah scroll in the building probably originally built as a Judeo-Christian synagogue between AD 70 and AD 135 on the traditional site of the Cenacle or upper room of the Last Supper and now identified as the site of the King David's Tomb is oriented not towards the Temple Mount, but towards the site of the Holy Sepulchre, which would seem to indicate that the Christian community that had built it had already began to transfer many of the religious traditions originally associated with the Temple to the sites they associated with Christ's death and resurrection ( such as the burial place of Adam and the centre of the world ).

The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom what is now called Cape Henlopen was originally named.

Differentiation is the formation of cell types, from what is originally one cell – the zygote or spore.

As the Auto Union company originally was situated in Saxony in what became the German Democratic Republic, it took some time for it to regroup after the war ended.

The ambiguous character of the axioms as originally formulated by Euclid makes it possible for different commentators to disagree about some of their other implications for the structure of space, such as whether or not it is infinite ( see below ) and what its topology is.

The first being that much of what we forget is lost soon after it is originally learned.

As a result, all previous hypertext systems were overshadowed by the success of the Web, even though it originally lacked many features of those earlier systems, such as an easy way to edit what you were reading.

Rabbinic tradition holds that the details and interpretation of the law, which are called the Oral Torah or oral law, were originally an unwritten tradition based upon what God told Moses on Mount Sinai.

The Airlock Module's manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas, even recycled the hatch design from its Gemini spacecraft and kludged what was originally designed for the conical Gemini Command Module onto the cylindrical Skylab Airlock Module.

Yet from the still surviving recollections in his mind, the Author has frequently purposed to finish for himself what had been originally, as it were, given to him.

However, as with land archaeology what survives to be investigated by modern archaeologists can often be a tiny fraction of the material originally deposited.

What was originally a self-standing village ( which has now been subsumed within the city ) lies to the north of the toll bridge, originally built by Sir Piers Edgcumbe in 1525, that crossed what used to be the Deadlake or Stonehouse Creek, to the west of Pennycomequick, the south of Stoke village and to the east of Stoke Church.