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• How to Adopt from Armenia
  ...is power of attorney to individuals whom they trust, relatives, friends or acquaintances. ...vice provider]], you apply to be found eligible to [[adopt]] (Form I-800A) by the U.S. Government, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and
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• Edgar Allan Poe and Adoption
  ...the Mackenzies, but he remained in contact with them. When he was six the family moved to England, but they returned to the USA in 1820. ...tal problems and periodic drunkenness, and he was temporarily disinherited by his foster father.
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• Jesus and Adoption
  ...heRichYoungRuler.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''"Christ and the Rich Young Ruler" by Heinrich Hofmann, 1889'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...oseph the Carpenter]]''', but literally the son of God. He was referred to by his contemporaries as the son of Joseph, and the Gospels record that Joseph
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• Wilson Riles
  ...in Louisiana. He was orphaned at an early age, but was fostered by family friends. He worked his way through school and university. Family Friends or Acquaintances/
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• George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen and Adoption
  ...he Society of Antiquaries from 1812 to 1846. From 1813 to 1855 he was more or less continuously in politics, in Parliament, and first as a diplomat (for Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and Adopted People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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• Arthur and Adoption
  ...579px|thumb|'''Statue of King Arthur, designed by Albrecht Dürer and cast by Peter Vischer the Elder, early 16th century'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.} '''''5th or 6th century'''''
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• Oksana Baiul and Adoption
  ...February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, according to different romanizations. Her father abandoned the family when she was two. As a child she wanted to be a ballet dancer, but was over
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• Kathy Burke and Adoption
  ...18 months old, and she spent the next two years in foster care with family friends, until she was able to rejoin her father and two older brothers in a counci ...kend classes at a drama school in 1982. She has appeared in Scrubbers, Nil by Mouth (winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival), Absolutely Fabulo
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• Richard Burton and Adoption
  ...d by his teacher, Philip Burton, who, although too close in age to the boy by a few days to [[adopt]] him, became his [[Legal Guardian|legal guardian]] a ...amous stage and film actors of the 20th century, but his life was saddened by several failed marriages (including two to Elizabeth Taylor) and drink prob
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• CuChulain and Adoption
  ...|410x579px|thumb|'''''Cuchulainn Slays the Hound of Culain'' illustration by Stephen Reid from Eleanor Hull's The Boys' Cuchulain, 1904.'''<br />Source: ...ven pupils in each eye and 14 fingers and toes. He was sent to be fostered by the best men in Ulster, according to ancient Irish custom.
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• Alexandra Dyonysievna Danilova and Adoption
  ...and Alexandra was then separately [[adopted]] by a wealthy St. Petersburg family (sources differ). Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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• Giovanni Battista de Rossi and Adoption
  ...r Genoa. When he was 10 a wealthy Genoese couple, who had become enchanted by the boy on their holidays, persuaded his parents to let them take him home ...or him to go to Rome to study, where he lived with a cousin from his birth family who was a priest.
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• Peter Oelrichs Duchin and Adoption
  ...ys after he was born, and his busy father gave him into the custody of her friends, the extremely wealthy and powerful Democratic Party grandees, Averell and ...father and step-mother, but his father died in 1951. He grew up surrounded by the rich, famous and powerful, and made his own independent career as a ban
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• David Glasgow Farragut and Adoption
  ...ficer who won fame as the commander of the Essex during the War of 1812, a family friend to whom his father sent him after his mother died. ...agut was the first rear-admiral of the US Navy, a position created for him by Congress in 1862. In 1995 the US Postal Service honored him with a 32-cent
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• Percy Leo Fowler and Adoption
  ...Maori in Auckland which he replicated in their new home; one of his close friends was the Ngati Manu aristocrat Nepia Pomare. To solve the impasse Pomare adopted the Fowler boy and performed a purification ceremony on him, which applied
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• Ruth May Fox and Adoption
  ...she was about eight she was raised by a succession of other LDS families, friends and relatives. ...usband took a second wife and Fox was left largely on her own to raise her family. She ran a boarding house, then became a secretary in the Young Ladies' Mut
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• William Lloyd Garrison and Adoption
  ...allery_IMG_4392.JPG |410x579px|thumb|'''Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison by Nathaniel Jocelyn, oil on panel, 1833.'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ekiel Bartlett of the town offered to foster William, and he found a happy family life with the Bartletts. For some years he lived alternately with them and
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• Piers Gaveston and Adoption
  ...ence of [[adoption]] to support this idea. The book's argument is rejected by most other scholars. [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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• Alexander Hamilton and Adoption
  ..._John_Trumbull_1806.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...e boys were separated, with Alexander going to live with his best friend's family until he sailed for the American colonies in 1772.
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• Orson Hyde and Adoption
  ...is father had also died by 1817. He was taken in by neighbors, the Wheeler family, who became his parents until 1823. [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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• Edmund Kean and Adoption
  Kean was the son of a poverty-stricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edm ...t fell out with them and ran away again. By this time he was still only 13 or 14.
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• Jane Lapotaire and Adoption
  ...time when you have to admit you are your own person, and nothing you are, or do, can be blamed on your parents" (Telegraph Magazine, 10 April 1993). ...credits include Shadowlands, Surviving Picasso, Eureka, The Asphyx, Murder by Moonlight, Seal Morning, Lady Jane, Spirit of the Dead, The Dark Angel, and
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• John Doyle Lee and Adoption
  ...and his father was an alcoholic. At seven he went to live with an uncle's family, and stayed with them until he was sixteen. ...e church's leaders and his neighbors, and he was exiled and excommunicated by Brigham Young in 1870. Illness and bad weather also contributed to his decl
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• Roger Lea MacBride and Adoption
  ...and he called her "grandma" and he referred to Rose in an interview as "my adopted grandmother." ...editing family letters and manuscripts and contributing extensions of the family saga from Rose's point of view on his own.
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• Marilyn Monroe and Adoption
  ...oon became mentally ill and was hospitalized, whereupon Monroe was adopted by her best friend. ...o seriously failed her. In one of the foster homes she was sexually abused by a lodger when she was eight.
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• William Tecumseh Sherman and Adoption
  ...r Thomas to be raised by an aunt and William to be fostered or [[adopted]] by his father's prosperous friend, Thomas Ewing, who named him after Chief Tec ...gs of rejection, depression and alienation, which led to him being accused by some of insanity.
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• How to Adopt from Namibia
  ...u with your [[adoption]]. [[Adoption]] service providers must be licensed by the U.S. state in which they operate. The Department of State provides inf ...spective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] must be screened by private or state social workers to determine whether they are eligible to [[adopt]].
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• Maurice Utrillo and Adoption
  ...known painter, and possibly a man named Boissy. He was [[adopted]] in 1891 by the Spanish journalist and architect Miguel Utrillo, although he continued ...normous prices. Unlike some other great artists, his genius was recognized by both the public and the [[ART|art]] establishment while he was still produc
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• Heinrich von Kleist and Adoption
  ...er, who died in 1788. von Kleist was soon sent away to Berlin to be raised by a Lutheran pastor, Samuel Heinrich Catel, where he was unhappy. Aged only 1 ...style after leaving the army in 1799, estranged him from almost his entire family. He also had a speech impediment.
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• William R. Waters and Adoption
  ...age with a middle-aged single woman as a foster child, and was [[adopted]] by her in 1935. He was unable to afford to go to university when he finished h He has never tried to trace his birth family, although he was raised quite near to where they lived and his adoptive mot
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• Arnold Weinstock and Adoption
  ...ly he was looked after by his brothers, then by his brother Harry's wife's family. Encyclopaedia Judaica, edited by Cecil Roth. (Jerusalem: Keter Publishing House, 1971)
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• William Apess and Adoption
  ...broke his arm he was rescued by an uncle and a neighbor and then fostered by whites until he was 15. [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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• Tecumseh and Adoption
  ...be raised by relatives, including Chief Blackfish, who also fostered or [[adopted]] several white captive children. ...ership: that no individual or even tribe could alienate land to the whites or own land individually.
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• Jean Baptiste Charbonneau and Adoption
  ...leave his mother. However in 1811 he became Clark's ward, and was educated by him in St. Louis. When he grew up he returned to the frontier life, but in ...tices towards the Native Americans, who were treated as virtual [[slaves]] by white landowners. He joined the [[California]] Gold Rush, but was unsuccess
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• Lone Wolf II and Adoption
  ...ay-day-te%2C_October_1902.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Portrait of Mamay-day-te by De Lancey W. Gill in 1902'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...Early the next year there was a revenge party, at which he was [[adopted]] by Lone Wolf I to replace Tau ah kia and given the name Lone Wolf. In 1879 he
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