I never found it among any of the Chinese with whom I spoke, though granted they were, almost all, members of the official family who, presumably, harbor official thoughts.

The Senate granted him a triumph for his efforts, as only members of the Imperial family were allowed such honours.

In honor of this event, the Colonna family was granted the privilege of using the imperial pointed crown on top of their coat of arms.

Eastern coats of arms are characterized by a pronounced, territorial, clan system – often, entire villages or military groups were granted the same coat of arms irrespective of family relationships.

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 ).

He also gained the freedom of Madame Adrienne Lafayette and issued her and her family American passports ( they had been granted citizenship by the US government for contributions during the Revolution.

After Vespasian did become Emperor in 69 he granted Josephus his freedom at which time Josephus assumed the emperor's family name of Flavius.

The three groups universally accepted among Nostraticists are Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic ; the validity of the Altaic family, while itself controversial, is taken for granted by Nostraticists.

Family tradition held that the Frédy name had first arrived in France in the early 15th century, and the first recorded title of nobility granted to the family was given by Louis XI to an ancestor, also named Pierre de Frédy, in 1477.

A clause to the archival procedures was revised in mid 2008, where if a veteran themselves or ( if deceased ) an immediate member of the family requested the Purple Heart on an Army or Air Force record, the medal would still be granted by the National Archives.

States governments have the power to make laws for all citizens that are not granted to the federal government or denied to the states in the U. S. Constitution. These include education, family law, contract law, and most crimes.

Those outside the Imperial family, like Aulus Plautius under Claudius, might be granted a " lesser triumph ", or ovation.

Spain's King Carlos IV granted the Cuervo family the first license to commercially make tequila.

Admission to the College is granted only to students who need financial assistance ( as determined by the FAFSA ); in general, applications are accepted only from those whose family income falls within the bottom 40 % of U. S. households.

The young woman had been granted a degree of access to Thurmond more appropriate to a family member than to a member of the public.

The continued adherence of Byrd and his family to Catholicism continued to cause him difficulties, though one surviving petition suggests that he was granted permission to practise his religion under licence during the reign of Elizabeth.

Æthelbald granted land to Eanwulf in the territory of the Hwicce, and it is possible that Offa and Æthelbald were from the same branch of the family.

Derrida was born on July 15, 1930, in El Biar ( Algiers ), French Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family originally from Toledo that became French in 1870 when the Crémieux Decree granted full French citizenship to the indigenous Arabic-speaking Jews of French Algeria.

Mushu is granted a position as a Fa family guardian by the ancestors amid a returning celebration.

Mushu is granted a position as a Fa family guardian by the ancestors amid a returning celebration.

The title is ranked below duke, which was mostly restricted to the royal family and those that were held in high enough esteem to be granted such a title.

Eugène's son Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg married into the Russian Imperial family, was granted the style of Imperial Highness and founded the Russian line of the Beauharnais family, while Eugene ` s daughter Joséphine, married King Oscar I of Sweden, the son of Napoléon's one-time fiancée, Désirée Clary.

Lomonosov found it extremely difficult to maintain his growing family on the scanty and irregular allowance granted him by the Russian Academy of Science.

As a demesne of the crown it was granted to John de Molyns, in 1337 whose family held it for about 250 years.

The family estate was situated near Vadstena on Lake Vattern in south central Sweden.

By the death of his father in 1888 he had come into possession of the family estate and had re-assumed its traditions.

The gift is being presented by `` heirs and descendants of the Rutherford family of New Jersey, whose famous estate, `` Tranquility '', was located near the Duncan Phyfe workshop at Andover, N. J..

From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate.

Lincoln was close to the Todds, and he and his family occasionally visited the Todd estate in Lexington.

Aristotle fled the city to his mother's family estate in Chalcis, explaining, " I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy ," a reference to Athens's prior trial and execution of Socrates.

A prominent family with this surname is the Cuban noble family that was involved in Cuban real estate prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

The power of testamentary disposition is basically limited to one-third of the net estate ( i. e. the assets remaining after the payment of funeral expenses and debts ), providing for every member of the family by allotting fixed shares not only to wives and children, but also to fathers and mothers.

His family was prospering ; the estate increased.

The Paolists combining with the royalists defeated the French in two pitched battles and Napoleon and his family went on the run, hiding by day, while the Paolists burned their estate.

Their family estate was at Doma, also known as Höjen or Högen ( locally as Högen 2 ).

Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

Te-cheng's sister, Kong Demao, lives in mainland China and has written a book about her experiences growing up at the family estate in Qufu.

The park, the second largest municipal park in Dublin, is part of a former 2 km² ( 500 acre ) estate assembled by members of the Guinness family, beginning with Benjamin Lee Guinness in 1835 ( the largest municipal park is nearby ( North ) Bull Island, also shared between Clontarf and Raheny ).

Yale's ancestry can be traced back to the family estate at Plas yn Iâl near the village of Llandegla, Denbighshire, Wales.

While his paternal family had become prosperous early on in New York real estate and trade, much of his family's wealth had been built by FDR's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, in the China trade, including opium and tea.

The next year, when Bastiat was 24, his grandfather died, leaving the young man the family estate, thereby providing him with the means to further his theoretical inquiries.

A gardener is any person involved in gardening, arguably the oldest occupation, from the hobbyist in a residential garden, the homeowner supplementing the family food with a small vegetable garden or orchard, to an employee in a plant nursery or the head gardener in a large estate.

Robert Evans, of Welsh ancestry, was the manager of the Arbury Hall Estate for the Newdigate family in Warwickshire, and Mary Anne was born on the estate at South Farm.

Gregory was born in the family estate of Karbala outside the village of Arianzus, near Nazianzus, in southwest Cappadocia.

After enjoying five peaceful years in retirement at his family estate, he died on January 25 in 389.

Although Maria had well-off kin, they were concerned with protecting their own inheritances and taking advantage of investment opportunities rather than settling their mother's estate so Maria's family would be more secure with Herman's younger brother, Thomas Melville, who eventually became a governor of Sailors Snug Harbor.

McLane stated that because the Astros was one of the few franchises in Major League Baseball with only one family as the owners, he was trying to move forward with estate planning.

John Bruce's original family name was Knight, but on coming of age in 1805 he assumed the name of Bruce: his mother, through whom he inherited the Duffryn estate, was the daughter of William Bruce, high sheriff of Glamorganshire.