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• Jesus and Adoption
  ...ith Jesus and both his parents being listed, although none was [[adopted]] or fostered in the modern European-American sense of the terms, and both Josep [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• Yevgeny Maximovitch Primakov and Adoption
  ...e sources give 1928). His childhood is something he refuses to discuss and is subject to speculation. ...his has been interpreted to mean he was [[adopted]] or fostered, but there is no confirmation of this.
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• Alexander the Great and Adoption
  ...and Alexander's empire is one of the primary reasons why European culture is based largely on Greek civilization. When he was about 25 he was adopted by [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft and Adoption
  O'Connor, Garry. "Is This Woman Peggy Ashcroft's Secret Sister?" Daily Mail [London], 6 January [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• Dean George Thomas Cain and Adoption
  Cain's birth-father is Japanese-Irish and his mother is white; he identifies himself as Japanese, but has never had any contact wit [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
  2 KB (306 words) - 04:30, 26 February 2018
• Gian Giacomo Caprotti and Adoption
  ...me lovers. Leonardo gave the young Caprotti the name Salaì (Little Devil, or Devil's Offspring), because of his almost intolerable behavior: continually Another protégé, the aristocrat [[Francesco Melzi]], is also believed to have been adopted by Leonardo.
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• Childebert II and Adoption
  ...of convenience of two against the third. Sigibert was assassinated in 575 or 576 and succeeded by his young son, with his mother as regent. [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• Childebert III Adoptivus and Adoption
  Childebert is usually reckoned to be the natural son of Grimoald I, the mayor of the pala [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• Dante Alighieri and Adoption
  ...rew up to be the greatest poet of Italian literature. His most famous work is the Divine Comedy. He was also a diplomat and politician, and his political [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• Eva Frank and Adoption
  ...of the Jewish false messiah Jacob Frank (born Jacob Leibowicz) (1726-91), whose movement was an outgrowth of that of Sabbatai Zvi in the previous century. ...of Empress Catherine the Great of [[Russia]] and an unknown father. There is no evidence to support this story. When Frank himself died in 1791 Eva beca
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• Piers Gaveston and Adoption
  ...mentary evidence of [[adoption]] to support this idea. The book's argument is rejected by most other scholars. [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• Larry Grayson and Adoption
  ...n William S. White to an unmarried girl named Ethel White and [[adopted]] (or fostered - sources differ) by a coal miner's family named Hammond in Nuneat ...p humor and the fact that he never lost touch with his working-class roots or his home town, where he continued to live until his death from a burst appe
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• Adolf Hitler and Adoption
  ...g documents reportedly seized from Hitler's Munich home after World War II is a curious paper, apparently emanating after 1940 from the Gestapo. It sugge ...he particular paragraph where this is mentioned. Its author, David Irving, is a notorious anti-Semite, who denies Hitler's part in the Holocaust. I inclu
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• Joseph the Carpenter and Adoption
  ...of the first, a form of [[adoption]] which has some similarities to the [[adoption]] by the dead practiced in the 19th century by the [[Church of Jesus Christ ...nus, he had this explanation from members of Joseph's family, and the idea is apparently supported by differences in the wording of the texts: Matthew us
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• Roger Lea MacBride and Adoption
  MacBride is described in several sources as the "adoptive" grandson or great-grandson of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), author of the Little Ho I can find no evidence of a formal [[adoption]], but after MacBride graduated from Harvard Law School (1954) he became he
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• Roland and Adoption
  The hero of the medieval epic, the Song of Roland is described in a fourteenth-century Italian version, the Geste Francor, as th [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• Sargon I and Adoption
  ...rts of modern [[Syria]], [[Iraq]], [[Iran]] and [[Turkey]]. His early life is largely a mystery. One ancient Sumerian legend states that he was the son o ...was able to attain his position, but the great king rising from obscurity is a common theme in ancient mythology, serving to emphasize his natural and g
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• Ibrahim Pasha and Adoption
  Ibrahim was the eldest [[adopted]] or birth son (sources disagree) of Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, viceroy of [[Egypt]], [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• William Alexander Bustamante and Adoption
  ...out Bustamante's early life, which he seems to have deliberately concealed or fabricated, but he was probably born in [[Jamaica]] into poverty, one of 13 [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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• Buffalo Child Long Lance and Adoption
  Long Lance (born Sylvester Long) claimed to be a Blackfoot or Blackfoot-Cherokee chief. In fact he was almost certainly not a Blackfoot a ...stor. (Toronto: Macmillan of [[Canada]], 1982); the film Long Lance (1986) is based on this book
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