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  • ...still a very young boy and he was brought up by a [[guardian]], Proxenus, who sent him to Plato's academy in Athens about 367. He spent 20 years there an ...us and Assos. He later [[adopted]] Nicanor of Stagirus, Proxenus' son, who also married his daughter.
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  • '''Also known as John Morris''' ...his birth parents for two years, but was sent to boarding school when they were again sent to prison.
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  • Brosnan's parents separated when he was a baby and he was raised by relatives in [[Ireland]] Brosnan is also an adoptive father: his son Chris Brosnan is a film producer.
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  • ...has been named Carruthers Lane. They are not biological siblings, but both were [[adopted]] as infants from the New England Home for Little Wanderers. Kitt ...Scott Hamilton]], and her husband are also the [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] of two boys.
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  • ...has been named Carruthers Lane. They are not biological siblings, but both were adopted as infants from the New England Home for Little Wanderers. Kitty's ...dated fellow skater Scott Hamilton, and her husband are also the adoptive parents of two boys.
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  • ...ed soon after their release, and his mother died soon afterwards, probably also of smallpox, in 1781. Jackson was now still only 14 and an [[orphan]] with ..., raised three other nephews, and also raised a Creek [[orphan]] boy whose parents had been killed in a war directed by Jackson himself in 1814.
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  • ...tive Families of America. He and his wife are also [[Foster Parents|foster parents]]. [[Category: Adoptive Parents]]
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  • ...dia/commons/e/ea/John_D._Lee.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''John D. Lee, a Mormon who was executed in 1877'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} In 1837 he and his wife were converted to the new [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (Mormo
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  • MacBride is described in several sources as the "adoptive" grandson or great-grandson of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), author of the Little Ho ...elected to the [[Vermont]] state legislature in 1962 (Republican), and he also ran for president in 1976 on the Libertarian Party ticket, receiving about
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  • ..."incorrigible." There were no visits, but he did go back to live with his parents for short periods a couple of times. ...he married again four months later. His new wife, Claire Hodgson, a widow, also had a daughter, Julia, and they each [[adopted]] the other's child. Babe Ru
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  • ...o the Cayuse and Nez Perce people of [[Washington]] State. He and his wife were not very successful as missionaries, and in time transferred their attentio ...blamed (and it was the whites of course who brought the measles). In fear or revenge the mission was attacked and 14 people killed, including Whitman an
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  • ...few years are a mystery, but he was born near Tokyo, and when he was four or five he was [[adopted]] by a mirror-polisher named Nakajima Ise. There is s He was already drawing by the age of five. By the age of 10 (or 15) he was apprenticed to a woodblock carver. He was in the workshop of Kat
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  • ...of Nga Moteatea, the largest collection of pre-European Maori songs. Jones also served as second president of the [[New Zealand]] Maori Council and on a nu Dictionary of [[New Zealand]] Biography. Also available at: www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb
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  • ...ry soldiers in a battle, and his body was retrieved and buried by Momaday, who announced the death to the chief. Early the next year there was a revenge p [[Category: Adoptive Parents]]
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