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The family's perhaps most prominent lineage comes from Norway, where at least three of his ancestors have been that country's leaders in a position comparable with a modern prime minister: in 16th century, his ancestor Nils Henriksson av Østråt ( Gyldenløve ) served as Lord High Steward of Norway and another ancestor, Vincents Vincentson Lunge, as Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway ; and then in 17th century, yet another ancestor, Jens Ovesonn Bjelke served as Lord High Chancellor of Norway, and was himself descended from king Haakon V of Norway ( the king and his forefathers thus also being Bildt's ancestors ) through his daughter Agnes Hakonardottir, Dame of Borgarsyssel.
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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.
D ' Artagnan found a way to enter into the Musketeers in 1632, perhaps thanks to the influence of his family's friend, Monsieur de Tréville ( Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Troisville ).
" One trend is that fewer homeowners are inclined to do fix-up jobs, perhaps because of time constraints, perhaps because of lack of interest ; one reporter commented " my family's fix-it gene petered out before it reached my generation.
For example, Larson and Chamlee say, on September 21, 1864, John Surratt wrote to Louis J. Weichmann, observing that the family's plans to move into the city were advancing rapidly " on account of certain events having turned up "— perhaps a cryptic reference to either his Confederate activities in general or the conspiracy to kidnap or kill Lincoln.
Catherine remains unconvinced of Sir Robert's sincerity, perhaps not least because of his record of opposition to the cause of women's suffrage, but also due to his dispassionate manner in the midst of the Winslow family's financial sacrifices.
• Naseer Shamma was fond of Sufism ever since his youth, perhaps because of his family's religious nature and hismusic perspective.
While this was perhaps technically legal, so soon after the Crimean War it was utterly unacceptable socially, and in imperial Russia, social-political favor would have been essential to the family's economic recovery.
The construction of the palace begun in 1489 by Benedetto da Maiano, for Filippo Strozzi the Elder, a rival of the Medici who had returned to the city in November 1466 and desired the most magnificent palace to assert his family's continued prominence and, perhaps more important, a political statement of his own status.
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He endowed several church institutions, most prominently his family's Sorø Abbey.
After a period of confusion, Demetrius's son Antigonus II Gonatas was able to establish the family's control over the old Kingdom of Macedon, as well as over most of the Greek city-states, by 276 BC.
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.
As a child she most likely lived at her family's residence of Belclare and Clare Island, but she may have been fostered to another family since fosterage was traditional among Irish nobility at the time.
Thoreau returned to Concord and worked in his family's pencil factory, which he continued to do for most of his adult life.
Alexandra was not their first choice, since the Danes were at loggerheads with the Prussians over the Schleswig-Holstein Question and most of the British royal family's relations were German.
That family's most famous member, Mary of Teck, married George V of the United Kingdom, and the present British Royal Family descends from her.
The Emperors of Eastern Jin had limited power, with most of it concentrated in the royal family's hands, whilst military power was mostly wielded by non-royals.
With the family's finances in jeopardy, Richard travelled regularly to northwest England, where most of his clients were.
The bailiffs entered the family's home just as Eugenia went into labour ; the family protected their most valuable assets by piling them on top of her.
When Emmanuel Philibert came to power in 1553 most of his family's territories were in French hands, so he offered to serve France's leading enemy the House of Habsburg, in the hope of recovering his lands.
Despite later reverses in the family's fortunes, on 13 August 1504 their only child, Jeanne de Commines ( d. 1513 ), made a splendid marriage to the heir of Brittany's most powerful family, René de Brosse comte de Penthièvre ( d. 1524 ).
For most of the year the family's private apartments at Lismore are available to rent by groups of up to twenty-three visitors.
On March 1, however, a faction of the Guise family's retainers attacked a Calvinist service in Wassy-sur-Blaise in Champagne, massacring the worshippers and most of the residents of the town.
As a participant in sacred drama, her image inspires one of the most important fresco cycles in all of Italian painting: Giotto's narrative cycle in the Arena Chapel, next to the Scrovegni family's palace in Padua.
Moberg's most famous work is The Emigrants series of four novels written between 1949 and 1959 that describe one Swedish family's migration from Småland to Chisago County, Minnesota in the mid 19th century.
He tries often to keep his family's perceptions of each other positive or " happy " by defending each of them during their many arguments, but still has the most turbulent relationship with Linda, who looks down on him for his lifestyle and apparent cheapness, despite him giving them money.
This is how he was defined by scholars for most of history, and Graves uses these peculiarities to develop a sympathetic character whose survival in a murderous dynasty depends upon his family's incorrect assumption that he is a harmless idiot.
Shortly after the royal family's move to Chengzhou, a hierarchical alliance system arose where the Zhou king would give the title of hegemon to the leader of the state with the most powerful military ; the hegemon was obligated to protect both the weaker Zhou states and the Zhou royalty from the intruding non-Zhou peoples: the Northern Di, the Southern Man, the Eastern Yi, and the Western Rong.
" Diver " refers to the family's underwater method of hunting for prey, while " red-throated " is a straightforward reference to the bird's most distinctive breeding plumage feature.
As boss of the family, Gigante strengthened the family's stranglehold of some of New York City's most lucrative rackets, including the New York Coliseum, Jacob K. Javits Center, labor racketeering, the drywall business, Concrete Club, Fulton Fish Market, drug trafficking, private waste industry, and gambling.
Married to the former Louene Dance ( 1994 – 2010 ), who preceded him in death by nine months, Palmer Long was otherwise involved in the family's oil and natural gas business and shunned most other political participation beyond personal contributions.
They are, however, quite distinctly united by their anatomy, and the family's phylogeny as well as the most ancient fossils of this order suggest that the original lampriform was indeed rather " opah-shaped ".
Peng's father was forced to sell most of his family possessions for food, and to pawn most of his family's land.
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The town of Holcomb was thrust into national headlines on November 15, 1959, when four members of the prominent Clutter family — Herbert, 48 ; his wife Bonnie, 45 ; daughter Nancy, 16 ; and son Kenyon, 15 — were found bound and shot to death in various rooms of their home, on the family's River Valley Farm on the outskirts of Holcomb.
Balfour Castle, built in the Scottish Baronial style, is one of the island's most prominent features, a reminder of the Balfour family's domination of Shapinsay during the 18th and 19th centuries ; the Balfours transformed life on the island by introducing new agricultural techniques.
One prominent example was the radio and later short-lived TV show Beulah, which featured a black maid named Beulah who helped solve a white family's problems.
She also painted a prominent Atlanta family's four boys in the 1970s.
Another of the family's Jeptha H. Wades ( December 26, 1924-August 8, 2008 ) was a prominent Boston attorney who assisted in the formation of the federal Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Although initially placed beneath the Christmas tree, by the early 19th century a family's " putz " might have also been found on the fireplace mantel, side tables, and other prominent places within the home.
The family's most prominent member was Nils Henriksson ( died 1523 ), Lord High Steward of Norway, who was married with the famed lady Ingegjerd Ottesdotter Rømer, heiress of Austrått.
O Globo is the most prominent print publication in the Marinho family's Brazilian media conglomerate.
Nichol married secondly Elizabeth Pease in 1853, a prominent reformer and member of the Darlington Pease family, much against her family's wishes.
Maitland was prominent in the family's unsuccessful attempt to mount a defence of diminished responsibility, sparing neither his personal privacy nor his standing in the community in the failed attempt to save his brother from execution.
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