Like his uncle Caligula before him, Nero was also a direct descendant of Augustus Caesar, a fact which made his ascension to the throne much easier and smoother than it had been for Tiberius or Claudius.

Like his uncle, Jefferson Levy commissioned repairs, restoration and preservation at Monticello, which had been deteriorating seriously while the lawsuits wound their way through the courts in New York and Virginia.

Like other middle eastern ethnic groups, the Baluch claim Arabian extraction, asserting that they are descendant of Amir Hamza, a paternal uncle of Islamic Prophet Muhammad and from a fairy ( Pari ).

Like the pre-Crisis version, this Kara claims to be the daughter of Superman's uncle Zor-El and aunt Alura In-Ze.

Like his uncle, he too came to be known as Sadi Carnot.

Like his uncle, he may have been appointed as a placeholder to allow his father to appropriate the revenues of Lisieux.

In recent years, Cogswell's short story " The Wall Around the World " ( 1962 ) was rediscovered and received much attention, due especially to the many similarities between its protagonist and Harry Potter: Like Potter, Cogswell's Porgie is an orphan boy living with his aunt and uncle, who learns magic in school, flies on a broomstick and is constantly persecuted by a nasty cousin ( who is in this case, however, part of the magical community ).

Like his uncle and grandfather a freemason, Zetland was the society's provincial Grand Master in the North and East Riding of Yorkshire from 1874 to 1923.

Like his uncle, Francesco I, government held no appeal for him, and Tuscany was ruled by his ministers.

Like his grandfather and uncle ( both at Yale ), Bush was a freshman walk-on to the baseball team at Rice University, but abandoned the game by his sophomore year.

Like his father and his uncle, Monivong was a figurehead for the French administration, and the real power was in the hands of the French Resident General.

Like his near contemporary John French, he began his career in the Royal Navy, serving under his uncle Captain Frederick Mitchell on HMS Queen, but vertigo stopped him going aloft.

Like his father and uncle, he was known for bravery on the battlefield, and during the latter half of Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea, fighting beside his father, he helped drive off the Ming army of over 100, 000 men with only 8000 men.

Like his uncle, William Sprague IV had an interest in politics and was elected in 1860 as the Rhode Island Union Party candidate for Governor over the Republican Party whose candidate was seen as too radical.

Like Bertie, he is a member of the idle rich, as his uncle made a fortune on " Little's Liniment ( It Limbers Up the Legs )," and he exists on an allowance ; however, due to occasional scrapes with his uncle he is forced to supplement this income by teaching or betting on horse races.

Like his parents, grandfather, and uncle, Dudley attended Yale University.

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Like his uncle, who had developed several instruments still used today for the delivery of babies, James specialised in the field of obstetrics.

Like his father and uncle, Niekro can throw a knuckleball, and was first allowed to pitch professionally for the Grizzlies in August 2007.

" Like their older brother Beverley, at age 14 Madison and Eston each began training in carpentry, under tutelage of their uncle John Hemmings, the master woodworker at Monticello.

Like his father and uncle Raj is a painter and cartoonist.

Like his uncle, Levy spent a considerable part of his fortune in having Monticello and its grounds restored and preserved.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.

Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

Like many others, he had to work hard, long hours in a struggling family business which, though it was allied to art of a kind -- the design and production of engraved seals -- bore no relation to the painting of pictures.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

Like Achilles in a later generation, he was trained by the centaur Chiron.

Like Emerson, Alcott was always optimistic, idealistic, and individualistic in thinking.

Like the historical Absalom, Absalom Kumalo was at odds with his father, the two fighting a moral and ethical battle of sorts over the course of some of the novel's most important events.

Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.

Like other children of the rich Meccan merchant families, Abu Bakr was literate and developed a fondness for poetry.

Like many ancient historians, Ammianus had a strong political and religious agenda to pursue, however, and he contrasted Constantius II with Julian to the former's constant disadvantage ; like all ancient writers he was skilled in rhetoric, and this shows in his work.

" Like his brother Baldwin III, he was more of an academic than a warrior, who studied law and languages in his leisure time: " He was well skilled in the customary law by which the kingdom was governed – in fact, he was second to no one in this respect.

Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.

Like the BBC Micro, the Electron was constrained by limited memory resources.

Like the previous, this Aeolus was said to have had had twelve children-six sons and six daughters.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.