No matter how many Americans go abroad in summer, probably a hundred times as many gas up the family car, throw suitcases, kids and comic books in the back seat, and head for home.

There were long-running claims of corruption and administrative decay within Labour at local level ( the North-East of England was to become a cause célèbre ), and concerns that experienced and able Labour MPs could be deselected ( i. e., lose the Labour Party nomination ) by those wanting to put into a safe seat their friends, family or members of their own Labour faction.

In 1007, Holy Roman Emperor Henry II made Bamberg a family inheritance, the seat of a separate diocese.

However, when his father died, and a rival to the Borgia family entered the Papal seat, Cesare was overthrown in a matter of months.

Castle Hedingham, the de Vere family seat since the Norman Conquest.

The family seat is Haddo House, Aberdeenshire.

Diogenes says that he abdicated the kingship ( basileia ) in favor of his brother and Strabo confirms that there was a ruling family in Ephesus descended from the Ionian founder, Androclus, which still kept the title and could sit in the chief seat at the games, as well as a few other privileges.

Hatfield House is the seat of the Cecil family, the Marquesses of Salisbury.

The Elector Palatine's seat was conferred on the Duke of Bavaria, the head of a junior branch of his family.

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 ).

(, ), on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony ( Niedersachsen ), Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( later described as the Elector of Hanover ).

Francesco, in his capacity of Captain General of the Venetian armies, was often required to go to Venice for conferences which left Isabella in Mantua on her own at La Reggia the ancient palace which was the family seat of the Gonzagas.

Though he was blind and compelled to keep to his bed, from which he gave audiences and transacted affairs of state, he surrounded himself with capable officials, many of them his Corsini relatives, but he did little for his family except to purchase and enlarge the palace built in Trastevere for the Riarii, and now known as the Palazzo Corsini ( the seat of the Regia Accademia dei Lincei ).

A 1 year old in a car seat attached to the stern pulpit, enjoys sailing with his family.

Tycho was born at his family's ancestral seat of Knutstorp Castle ( Danish: Knudstrup borg ; Swedish: Knutstorps borg ), about eight kilometres north of Svalöv in then Danish Scania, now Swedish, to Otte Brahe ( of the Brahe family ) and Beate Bille ( of the Bille family ).

The family was originally seated in Row 19, in seats C, D, and E ; however, Peter placed the call to his father from seat 30E.

After returning home the Governor was able to raise his family to a position of wealth and political influence which he acquired in 1691 by purchasing the property of Boconnoc in Cornwall which gave him control of a seat in parliament.

* March 8 – Brazil: With the arrival of the Portuguese royal family in Brazil ( 1808 ), the colony became the seat of Portuguese Empire.

The Hohenstaufens were often called Ghibellines, which derives from the Italianized name for the Weibling castle, the family seat in Swabia.

Pavia held out against the domination of Milan, finally yielding to the Visconti family, rulers of that city in 1359 ; under the Visconti Pavia became an intellectual and artistic centre, being the seat from 1361 of the University of Pavia founded around the nucleus of the old school of law, which attracted students from many countries.

Michael and George, formerly the residence of the British governor and the seat of the Ionian Senate, and the summer Palace of Mon Repos, formerly the property of the Greek royal family and birthplace of the Duke of Edinburgh.

From the early 6th century, Regensburg was the seat of the Agilolfing ruling family.

Ruins of the Manor House at Scadbury Park | Scadbury: the Walsingham family seat

In the 17th century the Liechtenstein family was seeking a seat in the Imperial diet, the Reichstag.

The Maguire family was setting up a separate camp nearby.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.

But his prime interest, apart from music, he insisted seriously, was his family -- his wife, daughter and son.

The family was Protestant, but for me it was only irksome and I let it go.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

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

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.

His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

She was Ellen Aldridge, a widow of good repute who was employed by Gorton's wife and lived with the family.

After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

He was shown a warm welcome regardless, and spent the time in Winchester recuperating from his ailment, enjoying his family and arranging his private affairs which were, of course, run down.

Meltzer was a boarder with the Banks family.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.