Benigni was born in Manciano La Misericordia ( a frazione of Castiglion Fiorentino ), Italy, the son of Isolina Papini, a fabric inspector, and Remigio Benigni, a bricklayer, carpenter, and farmer.

He was the son of a bricklayer who had raised himself to the status of a gentleman and who, interestingly, owned property adjoining the Curtain theatre in Shoreditch.

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Flowers was born at 160 Abbot Road, Poplar in London's East End on 22 December 1905, the son of a bricklayer.

Walter, born in 1804 in Philadelphia, was the son of mason and bricklayer Joseph S. Walter and wife, Deborah.

Little is known of Cort's early life other than that he was born in Lancaster, England and was the son of a bricklayer and builder.

Lillywhite was born in Westhampnett in Sussex, the son of a bricklayer, John Lillywhite.

Bing was born and raised in northeast Washington, D. C., as a son of a bricklayer.

Hebbel was born at Wesselburen in Ditmarschen, Holstein, the son of a bricklayer.

Brendel was born in central Germany, the son of a freight transporter and one of eight children, attending school through the age of 14 and becoming employed variously as a bricklayer, plasterer, and iron moulder in a foundry.

" On another occasion when Lincoln's son Tad saw Booth perform, he said the actor thrilled him, prompting Booth to give the President's youngest son a rose.

Some accounts place the youth of Midas in Macedonian Bermion ( See Bryges ) In Thracian Mygdonia, A wild rose garden at the foot of Mount Bermion was called by Herodotus " the garden of Midas son of Gordias, where roses grow of themselves, each bearing sixty blossoms and of surpassing fragrance ".

With prestige and military experience, he later rose in rebellion along with his son and his equally militant daughter Princess Pingyang ( d. 623 ) who raised her own troops and commanded them.

Xerxes, eldest son of Darius and Atossa, succeeded to the throne as Xerxes I ; however, prior to Xerxes's accession, he contested the succession with his elder half-brother Artobarzanes, Darius's eldest son who was born to his commoner first wife before Darius rose to power.

Born in Nancy, France, the son of a baker, he trained as an artilleryman and took part in the battles of the French Revolution where he rose through the ranks.

Their son William Henry Harrison and great-grandson Benjamin Harrison both rose to become the President of the United States.

His son and successor, Nicomedes I, founded Nicomedia, which soon rose to great prosperity, and during his long reign ( c. 278 – c. 255 BC ), as well as those of his successors, Prusias I, Prusias II and Nicomedes II ( 149 – 91 BC ), the kingdom of Bithynia held a considerable place among the minor monarchies of Anatolia.

Nemed's son Fergus Lethderg gathered an army of sixty thousand, rose up against them and destroyed Conand's Tower, but Morc attacked them with a huge fleet, and there was great slaughter on both sides.

In the same source, the couple are the founders of the Yngling dynasty and produced a son, Fjölnir, who rose to kinghood after Freyr's passing and continued their line.

Born in Florence, he was the son of a da Andrea Carnesecchi, a merchant who under the patronage of the Medici, and especially of Giulio de ' Medici as Pope Clement VII, rapidly rose to high office at the papal court.

The second son, Stephen III rose to become Palatine of Hungary and in 1444 fell in the Battle of Varna as flag-bearer of Władysław, King of Poland and Hungary.

A few months later, Zareh, son of Peroz rose in rebellion.

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Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, Shmuel's second son, rose to prominence interceding on behalf of the Jews in a number of issues including the May Laws.

Appointed by the Corporation, the committee consisted on twelve advisors under the chairmanship of Charles Reed FSA ( son of the Congregational philanthropist Dr Andrew Reed ) who rose to prominence as the first MP for Hackney and Chairman of the first School Board for London before being knighted.

Alexander Jannaeus ' son, Hyrcanus II, had scarcely reigned three months when his younger brother, Aristobulus II, rose in rebellion, whereupon Hyrcanus advanced against him at the head of an army of mercenaries and his Pharisee followers: " NOW Hyrcanus was heir to the kingdom, and to him did his mother commit it before she died ; but Aristobulus was superior to him in power and magnanimity ; and when there was a battle between them, to decide the dispute about the kingdom, near Jericho, the greatest part deserted Hyrcanus, and went over to Aristobulus.

He was the son of Lucy Sophia Frerichs, a Manchester cotton heiress, and Count Erich Stenbock, of a distinguished Baltic German noble family with Swedish roots which rose to prominence in the service of King Gustav Vasa: Catherine Stenbock was the third and last consort of Gustav Vasa and Queen consort of Sweden between 1552 and 1560.

" Col. George M Studebaker, Clement Studebaker Jr, J M Studebaker Jr, and Sr's son Frederick Studebaker Fish served apprenticeships in different departments and rose to important official positions, with membership on the board.

Taira no Kiyomori, son and heir of Tadamori, rose to the position of daijō daijin ( great minister of state ) following his victories in the Hōgen Disturbance ( 1156 ) and the Heiji Disturbance ( 1160 ).

His private secretary was John Russell Colvin, who rose to be lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces and named his son after him.

His son, Charles Wolcott Ryder, Jr. was USMA class of 1941 who had a distinguished career and rose to the rank of Major General.

A son of Lieutenant-General Hans Reinhold von Fersen, he entered the Swedish Life Guards in 1740, and from 1743 to 1748 was in the French service in the Royal-Suedois, where he rose to the rank of brigadier.

He favoured making peace with France, but his heir, Richard, Duke of York, a descendant of the second son of Edward III, favoured war ; this disagreement precipitated the outbreak of the Wars of the Roses between his supporters, the Lancastrians ( red rose ), and those of the Yorkists ( white rose ).

Mrs. Alice H. Reese, wife of an engineer and mother of a 23-year-old son, was awarded the top prize at a luncheon in the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Smith cheered on his son Nikko as he cracked the top ten finalists of the 2005 edition of American Idol.

The son of Revolutionary War officer Henry " Light Horse Harry " Lee III and a top graduate of the United States Military Academy, Robert E. Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional officer and combat engineer in the United States Army for 32 years.

Taylor found clay cylinders in the four corners of the top stage of the ziggurat which bore an inscription of Nabonidus ( Nabuna ` id ), the last king of Babylon ( 539 BC ), closing with a prayer for his son Belshar-uzur ( Bel-ŝarra-Uzur ), the Belshazzar of the Book of Daniel.

The top level was finished and the building inaugurated by his son, Titus, in 80.

The final tragedy was the suicide of the youngest son, Nicholas who, some years after his father's death, returned to the family's home in London and leapt from the top floor of the five-storey building to his death.

In La Bohème ( 1965 ), perhaps the best-known song by popular singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour, a painter recalls his youthful years in a Montmartre that has ceased to exist: Je ne reconnais plus / Ni les murs, ni les rues / Qui ont vu ma jeunesse / En haut d ' un escalier / Je cherche l ' atelier / Dont plus rien ne subsiste / Dans son nouveau décor / Montmartre semble triste / Et les lilas sont morts (' I no longer recognize / Neither the walls nor the streets / That had seen my youth / At the top of a staircase / I look for a studio-apartment / Of which nothing survives / In its new décor / Montmartre seems sad / And the lilacs died ').

" That year he was far more proud that his son Joseph Meredith graduated as the top doctoral student at the university's business school.

" That year 13 % of the student body was African American, and Meredith's son Joseph graduated as the top doctoral student at the school of business.

If a peer of one of the top three ranks ( a duke, marquess or earl ) has more than one title, his eldest son, not himself an actual peer, may use one of his father's lesser titles ' by courtesy '.

Upon entry to the home, Powell began up the stairs, but was stopped at the top of the stairs by Frederick, the Secretary's eldest son.

In the genealogy given by Herodotus, someone may have grafted the tradition of a Lydian son of Heracles at the top end of it, so that Ninus and Belus in the list now become descendants of Heracles, who just happen to bear the same names as the more famous Ninus and Belus.

In this rendering, Cross has restored the missing top of the tablet ( estimated at two lines ) based on the content of the rest of the inscription, as referring to a battle that has been fought and won by general Milkaton, son of Shubna, against the Sardinians at the site of, surely Tarshish ; Cross conjectures that Tarshish here " is most easily understood as the name of a refinery town in Sardinia, presumably Nora or an ancient site nearby.

On the top tier of the altar were the throne of Shangdi and the son of Shangdi, namely, the founder of the dynasty.

He lived on top of the Laurel Ridge in a home and land given to him by his son Daniel.

Dubbed " New Buffalo Springfield ", the lineup consisted of guitarists Dave Price ( Davy Jones ' stand-in in The Monkees ) and Gary Rowles ( son of jazz pianist Jimmy Rowles ), bass player Bob Apperson, drummer Don Poncher and horn player Jim Price, who later became a top session musician for Delaney Bramlett, The Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker and others.

Avedis III's son Armand Zildjian, also known as the " Father of Artist Relations ," also began hand-selecting cymbals for all the top drummers.

His eldest son, Captain Asaf Ramon, died on September 13, 2009, aged 21, during a routine training flight while piloting his F-16A, 3 months after graduating from the IAF flight school as the top cadet in his class.

While the exact dates of Cheng's study with Yang are not clear, one of Yang's top students, scholar Chen Weiming wrote that Cheng studied six years with Yang .. Cheng, according to Yang's son Zhenji, ghostwrote Yang's second book Essence and Applications of Taijiquan or The Substance and Application of T ' ai Chi Ch ' uan ( Taijiquan tiyong quanshu, 1934 ), for which Cheng also wrote a preface and most likely arranged for the calligraphic dedications.

William ( Bill ) Greeley the son of a Congregational minister, who finished at the top of that first Yale forestry graduating class of 1904 was hand picked by Pinchot to be Region 1 forester of the Forest Service with responsibility over in 22 National Forests in 4 western states ( all of Montana, much of Idaho, and Washington, and a corner of South Dakota ).

He felt himself victimized when he learned that the purchasers knew of a project of building the Massachusetts State House at the top of the hill, and he sent his son John Singleton Copley, Jr., then at the beginning of his brilliant legal career, to Boston in 1796 seeking to annul the arrangement.

One of them, Breogán, built a tower at a place called Brigantia ( probably in the coast of Galicia, near A Coruña ( Corunna ), which was then " Brigantia " ( today Betanzos ) and where a Celtic tribe called " Brigantes " is attested in ancient times — see Tower of Hercules ) from the top of which he, or his son Íth, first saw Ireland.

Coincidentally, 32 years later in 1977, Jim Drucker ( son of Norm Drucker, another top NBA referee ) began a 12-year association with the CBA as its deputy commissioner, commissioner ( 1978-86 ), general counsel and president of CBA Properties.

He graduated in 1912 at the top of his class, which included other prominent young Native Americans, such as Jim Thorpe and Robert Geronimo, a son of the famous Apache warrior.

* June 23 – Piloting a new aerobatic biplane of the Delhi Flying Club, Sanjay Gandhi, the son of Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi, loses control at the top of a loop he is performing over his office near Safdarjung Airport in New Delhi, India.