It is important to note that Alexander was the last known ruler of the Gediminids dynasty to have maintained the family's ancestral Lithuanian language.

A younger brother of the third Viscount remained chairman until 1972, but the Smith family's control slipped away, and the last family member left the board in 1996.

His family's last name was originally Stamatopoulos () but his paternal grandparents shortened the name to Stamos after they moved to the United States from Greece.

Born in Saint-Malo, the last of ten children, Chateaubriand grew up in his family's castle in Combourg, Brittany.

The family suffered from a deficient diet and lived with the constant fear that they would be massacred by their jailers, as an act of revenge on the part of the Nazis, angered at their defeat ( by now becoming increasingly certain ) by the Allies, or that they would be caught in the cross-fire between Allied forces and their captors, who might try to make a desperate last stand at the site of the royal family's internment.

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The last element is understandable, given his family's theological interests, but the more surprising element is the sheer number of texts he owned given his relative poverty as a student.

It draws a parallel between the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many Western nations and the last Russian imperial family's tradition of giving elaborately jeweled egg-shaped creations by Carl Fabergé which contained hidden surprises.

She was also responsible for the improvement and expansion of many of the Clifford family's castles across Northern England, including those at Pendragon ( Mallerstang ), Brough, Skipton and Appleby, the last being her home.

Weddings last three days and are first held at the bride's family's home.

Kuras has spent the last 23 years chronicling the family's extraordinary journey in this deeply personal, poetic, and emotional film.

During 1560s, upon the family's last member passing away, the town became one of the most favorite properties for Polish king and Lithuanian Grand Prince Sigismund II Augustus who had a Renaissance castle built there instead of the medieval one.

He introduces himself to the family's patriarch, their blind father, and experiences kindness and acceptance for the first ( and last ) time.

The River was the last of three 1984 films, including Country and Places in the Heart, that shared the themes of a family's devotion to their farm, the destructive force of nature, an unsympathetic bureaucracy and a determined woman who binds her family together.

His father, Michael, who ran a string of bingo parlors in eastern United States, changed the family's last name in 1946 from " Weinberg " to " Wynn " when Steve was six months old " to avoid anti-Jewish discrimination ".

After ending the siege of Riverrun bloodlessly, one of the last holdouts against his family's authority, he receives word that Cersei wants him to return and defend her in a trial by battle ; however, Jaime learns from Lancel Lannister, who killed the late King Robert at Cersei's behest, that Cersei was indeed having an affair with him as Tyrion had told Jaime when he escaped King's Landing.

The basis of Dent's research is the highly predictable nature of consumer spending based on a family's formation pattern: minimal spending as young adults, increased spending while rearing children, peaking their spending as their children leave home, and then slowing spending during the last 15 years of working life ( 48-63 ) while saving more and preparing for retirement.

The family's rule came to an end when an underground movement the Black Hand, murdered the last sovereign Alexander I, proximately because of his unpopular choice of bride.

The Van Noy family's involvement in the Company ended following the death of the last surviving Van Noy Brother, Henry Clay Van Noy.

During Allied attacks in 1945, the factory ( located just outside Karlsruhe, Germany ) was destroyed in an air raid, the last remaining vestiges of the von Reichenau family's wealth and prominence obliterated in the process.

This was the last time the United States knew the family's location.

The family's oldest son, Thomas, moved to Alabama in 1978 and legally changed his last name to Lee in 1982 after constant questions about whether he was related to the civil rights martyr.

The last pair are taken close to home: one of the damage to his family's barbershop, and another out of his window.

F & SF had previously won several other Hugos under his editorship, which had been famously conducted, at least in the last decade of his tenure, from a table in the Ferman family's Connecticut house.

Some people take the annual mass mailing of cards as an opportunity to update those they know with the year's events, and include the so-called " Christmas letter " reporting on the family's doings, sometimes running to multiple printed pages.

A few letter fragments and documents relating to Accum still exist in his family's possession.

Speaking from the family's home in the Scottish town of Aberfeldy she said: " Peter has been absolutely scrupulous in following the letter of the regulations.

George P. Brett, Jr. made the following comments in a letter dated 23 January 1947 to Daniel Macmillan about his family's devotion to the American publishing industry :" For the record my grandfather was employed by Macmillan's of England as a salesman.

Their departure ( and Opie's ) is explained during the second season, when Howard Sprague reads a letter about the family's relocation.

After the 1865 killing of William and Allen Lowry ( Henry's brother and father ), two local white ministers wrote a letter to the Freedmens Bureau describing the Lowry family's racial status ( c. 1867 ).

On 19 June 1861, Captain John Q. Winfield wrote from his encampment at Hanging Rocks: Captain Winfield's letter illustrated Hanging Rocks ' proximity to some of Hampshire County's wealthiest families and their plantations including George William Washington and his son Robert M. Washington's Ridgedale, Colonel Isaac Parsons ' Wappocomo, the Vance family's Ashbrook, and the Parsons and Inskeep families ' The Rocks.

The family's periodic attempts to return to the mountains were often prompted by Granny due to a perceived slight she received from one of the " city-folk.

" The name is derived from the family's first certain ancestor, Robert the Strong ( b. 820 ), the count of Paris.

His parents Nicolae and Maria Brâncuși were poor peasants who earned a meager living through back-breaking labor ; from the age of seven, Constantin herded the family's flock of sheep.

In the Protrepticus he displays an extensive knowledge of Greek mythology and mystery religions, which could only have arisen from the practise of his family's religion.

Fawkes may have become a Catholic through the Baynbrigge family's recusant tendencies, and also the Catholic branches of the Pulleyn and Percy families of Scotton, but also from his time at St. Peter's School in York.

By 1276, Count Radbot's seventh generation descendant, Rudolph of Habsburg, had moved the family's power base from Habsburg Castle to the Archduchy of Austria.

Bogart returned home to find his father was suffering from poor health ( perhaps aggravated by morphine addiction ), his medical practice was faltering, and he lost much of the family's money on bad investments in timber.

However, the ship's roster from his family's arrival at Ellis Island lists his birthplace as Párdány, Kingdom of Hungary, in what is today the village of Međa in Serbia, not far from the Romanian border.

His main source of income was his colleague, Engels, who derived much of his income from his family's business.

* In John Steinbeck's novel The Winter of Our Discontent, the protagonist Ethan Hawley describes a mandrake root in his family's collection of curios collected on whaling voyages, "[...] We even had a mandrake root-a perfect little man, sprouted from the death-ejected sperm of a hanged man [...]".

Rinaldo that of Monterotondo, Napoleone ( died 1267 ) that of Bracciano and another Matteo Rosso that of Montegiordano, from the name of the district in Rome housing the family's fortress.

After Carlo's death, he enlarged the family's tenure with lands inherited by his wife, another Orsini from Salerno, and most of all he was amongst the favourites of Ferdinand I of Naples, who appointed him as Great Connestable of Naples.

Other scientists, such as Stefan Mundlos of the Max Planck Institute, believe that the family's unusual gait may result from a genetic abnormality.

He remained aloof from politics, despite his family's political prominence.

Contemporary historian Ralph of Diceto traced his family's lineage through Edith to the Anglo-Saxon kings of England and Alfred the Great, and from there linked them to Noah and Woden.

Sergei Diaghilev was born to a wealthy and cultured family in Selischi ( Novgorod Governorate ), Russia ; his father, Pavel Pavlovich, was a cavalry colonel, but the family's money came mainly from vodka distilleries.

In 1975, she emigrated from Taiwan to her family's 36 acre ( 14. 6 hectare ) estate in Lattingtown, Long Island, New York, USA, where she kept a portrait of her late husband in full military regalia in her living room.

Much of the family's wealth came from a copper and later arsenic mine, Devon Great Consols, of which Morris divested himself in the 1870s.

But by 1050, relations between the king and the earl had soured, culminating in a crisis in 1051 that led to Godwin and his family's exile from England.

William Gladstone was educated from 1816 to 1821 at a preparatory school at the vicarage of St Thomas's Church at Seaforth, close to his family's residence, Seaforth House.

Instead, from the time of his marriage, he lived at his wife's family's estate, Hawarden, in North Wales.

As a result of his family's interest in art, from 1937 he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Kay Fisker and Steen Eiler Rasmussen.

To this day the family's shield bears a white horse rising from the waves .. Based on the above, in Cornish author Craig Weatherhill's The Lyonesse Stone trilogy ( The Lyonesse Stone, Seat of Storms, The Tinners ' Way ), the Trevelyan family, drawn into the worlds of ancient Cornish legend, are direct descendants of the Lyonesse flood survivor.

One of the family's keenest customers was Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas James Birch, later Bosvile, a wealthy collector from Lincolnshire, who bought several specimens from them.