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From 1851 onwards the census shows the stated age and relationship to the head of household for each individual.
Romans did not mark same-sex relations as " homosexual " if an adult male used a slave or prostitute, characteristically a youth, as his passive partner ( see Homosexuality in ancient Rome ); these relations, however, were expected to play a secondary role to marriage, within which institution an adult male demonstrated his masculine authority as head of household ( paterfamilias ).
The tradition of hiding easter eggs for children to find is also similar to another Passover tradition, whereby the head of the household hides a piece of matza ( the " afikomen ") during the meal.
While on his way, Elijah meets Obadiah, the head of Ahab's household, who had hidden a hundred prophets of the God of Israel when Ahab and Jezebel had been killing them.
These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).
It is traditional for the head of the household to wear a kittel at the Passover seder in some communities, and some grooms wear one under the wedding canopy.
After Schumann's attempted suicide and subsequent confinement in a mental sanatorium near Bonn in February 1854, Brahms was the main intercessor between Clara and her husband, and found himself virtually head of the household.
In very traditional families, the search may be conducted by the head of the household ; in more modern-style families, the children may be the ones who do the search, under the supervision of their parents.
The head of the household repeats the declaration of biyur chametz, declaring any chametz that may not have been found to be null and void " as the dust of the earth ".
In the Old Testament, if the head of a household converted to Judaism, all the males in the house, even the infants, were circumcised.
Paedobaptists challenge credobaptists on this point: Why would a whole household be baptized just because the head of the house had faith?
All sources agree that before his accession, either in his early childhood or later, members of the royal household witnessed a nimbus of fire about his head while he slept, a sign of divine favour, and a great portent.
A snowman is created by making a man shaped figure out of snow – often using a large, shaped snowball for the body and a smaller snowball for the head which is often decorated with simple household items – traditionally including a carrot for a nose, and coal for eyes, nose and mouth ; occasionally including old clothes such as a top hat or scarf.
In addition, unmarried individuals supporting children or certain other relatives may file a return as a head of household.
The income level at which each rate starts generally is higher ( i. e., tax is lower ) for married couples filing a joint return or single individuals filing as head of household.
The Tasmanian devil's large head and neck allow it to generate amongst the strongest bite per unit body mass of any extant mammal land predator, and it hunts prey and scavenges carrion as well as eating household products if humans are living nearby.
In the 2nd millennium, polytheism was expressed through the concepts of the Divine Council and the divine family, a single entity with four levels: the chief god and his wife ( El and Asherah ); the seventy divine children or " stars of El " ( including Baal, Astarte, Anat, probably Resheph, as well as the sun-goddess Shapshu and the moon-god Yerak ); the head helper of the divine household, Kothar wa-Hasis ; and the servants of the divine household, including the messenger-gods who would later appear as the " angels " of the Hebrew Bible.
The tension between these two systems is that Confucianism relies on tradition to make the leader the head of household of all China while Legalism makes standard law that even the emperor should be bound by.
He responds by sending the ageing general Frigeridus with elite reinforcements that Ammianus calls ‘ Pannonian and Transalpine auxiliaries ( Pannonicis et Transalpinis auxiliis ).’ Gratian sends also Richomeres, his Frankish commander of household troops ( comes domesticorum ), at the head of a number of troops drawn from the Gallic field army.
In those cultures and in those times, it was the belief that the husband, as head of the family, had a right and even the duty to discipline his wife and children when he saw fit, and manuals were available to instruct the husband how to discipline his household.
It is traditional for the head of the household and other participants to have pillows placed behind them for added comfort.
By the earliest days of the Republic, every member of a household had at least two names — praenomen, and the genitive form of the pater familias ( head of the family ) name, which became a fixed and inherited nomen ( name ).
Pergami soon rose to the head of Caroline's household, and managed to get his sister, Angelica, Countess of Oldi, appointed as Caroline's lady-in-waiting.

head and would
No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.
It had always seemed strange to Ramey that to disguise himself as a tourist, an ex-truck driver like Horsely would merely pick something outlandish and put it on his head.
In recollection he has said: `` Natural or man-made objects kept coming into my head, but I would suppress them sternly ''.
A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.
He had stood at a little distance, studying her, as though he would walk around next and look at the back of her head.
then a porter from Manning's Fish House would trot in with a tray on his head.
If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.
No auto maker would dream of putting the head on the engine before he fitted the pistons in the block.
From the point of view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken, and from the point of view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; ;
The posse then asked that he send out the women and children as the building would be fired or torn down over his head if necessary to take him dead or alive.
Instead of quelling the dissension, as many captains of the era would have done ( Sir Francis Drake lopped a man's head off under similar circumstances ), Hudson decided to be reasonable.
Each of the organization's ninety-nine members would get two professional posts, such as political affairs officer, a department head or an economist, to start.
`` Buster would solve that quarterback problem just as we head that way ''.
And if you should step inside of such a magnified atom, according to the physics of forty years ago, you would see circulating over your head, down at the sides, and under your feet, some twenty luminous balls about the size of footballs.
And when he was alone again in the cabin, Alexander lowered his head into his arms and wept, for he knew full well what must be done, what in the end would be done.
He saw her emerge suddenly, coming in her unhesitant fashion, her back stiff, her head erect, facing with contempt the night and whatever she would encounter, as if in her extreme disdain and indifference she would pass by all the outraged looks of those whom she might approach.
Loyalty requires affection also to the office of the Sovereign, attachment to royalty, attachment to the law and to the constitution of the realm, and he who would, by force or by fraud, endeavour to prostrate that law and constitution, though he may retain his affection for its head, can boast but an imperfect and spurious species of loyalty ( R v O ' Connell ( 1844 ) 7 ILR 261 ).
Albertus is recorded as having made a mechanical automaton in the form of a brass head that would answer questions put to it.
When they sought advice about this event, an oracle told them to take the head down and bury it, and to make annual sacrifice to Onesilos as a hero, saying that it would be better for them if they did this.
Shortly after the team published its first results in 1940, Fleming telephoned Howard Florey, Chain's head of department, to say that he would be visiting within the next few days.

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