" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.

His pleograph film camera has been patented already before the Lumière brothers ' invention and he is credited as the author of the earliest surviving Polish documentary titled Ślizgawka w Łazienkach ( Skating-rink in the Royal Baths ), as well as the first short narrative films Powrót birbanta ( Rake's return home ) and Przygoda dorożkarza ( Cabman's Adventure ), both created in 1902.

Constantius II ordered the murders of many descendants from the second marriage of Constantius Chlorus and Theodora, leaving only Constantius and his brothers Constantine II and Constans I, and their cousins, Julian and Gallus ( Julian's half-brother ), as the surviving males related to Emperor Constantine.

Soon dispute plunged the surviving brothers into a civil war that was only settled in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun, which split the Frankish realm into three parts, to become the kernels of France and Germany, with Burgundy and the Low Countries between them.

The death of one king created conflict between the surviving brothers and the deceased's sons, with differing outcomes.

The two surviving brothers, Bayezid and Selim, were given command in different parts of the empire.

Upon his father's death in 1375 he ruled the March of Moravia often quarreling with his surviving brothers and also held the family castle Luxembourg.

Subsequently, his eldest surviving brother, Svyatopolk the Accursed, killed three of his other brothers and seized power in Kiev.

One of Henry V's surviving brothers, John, Duke of Bedford, was appointed senior regent of the realm and was in charge of the ongoing war in France.

In 1229, the two surviving brothers ( Amaury and Simon ) came to an arrangement with King Henry whereby Simon gave up his rights in France and Amaury gave up his rights in England.

The new regime thus established was dominated by the most powerful surviving members of the English ruling class, Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ealdred, Archbishop of York, and the brothers Edwin, Earl of Mercia, and Morcar, Earl of Northumbria.

Nicknamed " Stevie " by the family, he joined eight surviving brothers and sisters — Mary Helen, George Peck, Jonathan Townley, William Howe, Agnes Elizabeth, Edmund Byran, Wilbur Fiske, and Luther.

The surviving brothers of Harald Greyhide fled the country after his death.

After Sam's death, Jack clashed with his surviving older brothers, Harry and Albert Warner.

In London, he is remembered at a memorial in St Paul's Cathedral, paid for by £ 1575 voted by the House of Commons, which also granted pensions of £ 200 to each of his four surviving brothers.

Male preference cognatic primogeniture ( also known as mixed-female succession ) allows a female to succeed if she has no living brothers and no deceased brothers who left surviving legitimate descendants.

Ivan seized the land, much to the surviving brothers ' fury.

Harpo's death was said to have hit the surviving Marx brothers very hard.

He predeceased his father and his three elder brothers, but, since none of his elder brothers had any surviving legitimate children, his daughter, Victoria, succeeded to the throne on the death of her uncle King William IV in 1837.

All his brothers and sisters having predeceased him without surviving issue, he was the last of the line of Bona Sforza.

A royal family typically includes the spouse of the reigning monarch, surviving spouses of a deceased monarch, the children, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, and cousins of the reigning monarch, as well as their spouses.

After his father's death in 1799, Douglas, the last surviving son ( two brothers died in infancy, two died of tuberculosis and two died of yellow fever ), became the 5th Earl of Selkirk.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.

pharmacological effects in vitro on isolated surviving organs and in vivo on blood pressure were assayed ; ;

Among the victims of Messalina's intrigues were Agrippina's surviving sister Livilla, who was charged with having adultery with Seneca the Younger.

They were tried and executed one after the other until, when only one was still alive, the accounting error was discovered and that last surviving treasurer was acquitted.

The surviving children ( all daughters ) were ; Ḍiyá ' iyyih < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( mother of Shoghi Effendi ) ( d. 1951 ) Túbá < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( 1880 – 1959 ) Rúḥá < u > Kh </ u > ánum and Munavvar < u > Kh </ u > ánum ( d. 1971 ).

The Life of Ceolfrith, written in about 710, records that only two surviving monks were capable of singing the full offices ; one was Ceolfrith and the other a young boy, who according to the anonymous writer had been taught by Ceolfrith and was " now a priest of the same monastery ".

Their major objections ( exceptions ) were: firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer ( as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer ), other than to say " Amen "; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister ; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion ; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations ; and fifthly, that all surviving " Catholic " ceremonial should be removed.

Shipments of surviving Bandanese were also sent to Batavia ( Jakarta ) to work as slaves in developing the city and its fortress.

In the 20th century there were close to four hundred manuscripts still surviving, a testament to its former popularity.

George Lansbury and Attlee were among the few surviving Labour MPs who had served in government.

The surviving reels were featured in the BBC documentary The Epic That Never Was ( 1965 ), revealing some of Laughton's most accomplished acting.

Nonetheless, these lost primary sources, along with the works of Seneca and Philo, were the basis of surviving secondary and tertiary histories on Caligula written by the next generations of historians.

He freed all four of her surviving children as they came of age ; the Hemings were the only slave family to go free from Monticello.

Once the round has ended, surviving players retain their equipment for use in the next round ; players who were killed begin the next round with the basic default starting equipment.

The Universalists almost disappeared in Canada, outside of a small rural church in southwest Ontario, and were probably saved in the other two surviving locations by influx of Canadian Unitarians.

The sole surviving episode from series 2 and Do not adjust your stocking were not included.

Only two models of this latter were built and the only surviving example is currently stored at the Lomonosov University in Moscow.

In 1946, Essendon were clearly the VFL's supreme force, topping the ladder after the roster games and surviving a drawn second semi final against Collingwood to win through to the grand final a week later with a 10. 16 ( 76 ) to 8. 9 ( 57 ).

* The Red Book of Westmarch and a surviving copy of it called The Thain's Book, portions of which were " translated " by J. R. R. Tolkien into his books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

The large number of surviving manuscripts of The Reckoning of Time, copied to meet the Carolingian requirement that all priests should study the computus, indicates that many, if not most, priests were exposed to the idea of the sphericity of the Earth.

The oldest surviving gun, made of bronze, has been dated to 1288 because it was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District, Heilongjiang, China, where the Yuan Shi records that battles were fought at that time.

This group, he claimed, were the New Forest coven, and he believed them to be one of the few surviving covens of the ancient, pre-Christian Witch-Cult religion.

According to some sources, over 1. 5 million surviving Red Army soldiers imprisoned by the Germans were sent to the Gulag.

The subfossil remains of now extinct gray whales from the Atlantic coasts of England and Sweden were used by Gray to make the first scientific description of a species then surviving only in Pacific waters.

By coincidence, on the same day that Garnet was found, the surviving conspirators were arraigned in Westminster Hall.