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  • ...then a television researcher. Eventually he became head of Current Affairs for the BBC in Northern Ireland. He married an American who could not live in t [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • In Genoa he so impressed some Capuchin monks that they arranged for him to go to Rome to study, where he lived with a cousin from his birth fam ...cousin left him a large house when he died which he gave over as a refuge for homeless women and prostitutes. He also worked as a prison chaplain and was
    2 KB (259 words) - 20:36, 21 May 2014
  • ...years he lived alternately with them and with his mother, was apprenticed for a short time unsuccessfully to a carpenter, and tried several other trades. ...speeches were also very inflammatory. He spent seven weeks in jail in 1830 for libel, and his rhetoric was so extreme that he even antagonized other promi
    3 KB (442 words) - 04:31, 5 March 2018
  • ...in fact not lovers but adoptive or sworn brothers, like David and Jonathan or Achilles and Patroclus, although the author offers no explicit documentary [[Category: Figures Whose Adoption or Fostering Is Fictitious, Disputed or Unconfirmed]]
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  • ...him. They were now married and he was given the choice of living with them or staying with his now-widowed adoptive father. He chose to remain with his f He is most famous for his creation of the comic character Ifas y Tryc (Evans the Truck), a henpec
    2 KB (225 words) - 16:51, 17 June 2014
  • ...he was kidnapped by Mossad and in 1988 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for espionage and revealing state secrets. He was finally released in April 200 During his imprisonment he was awarded several international awards for peace.
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  • ...-read contemporary women novelists in English. Other books include Boating for Beginners, The Passion, Written on the Body, Sexing the Cherry, [[ART|Art]] [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
    2 KB (245 words) - 05:30, 1 March 2018
  • ...attached to the baby, and named both Pompey's Pillar and Baptiste's Creek for him. Clark asked to have the baby to raise, but at the end of the expeditio [[Category: For Companionship, or for Charitable Motives]]
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