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  • '''French athlete''' ...in Nice (but some sources say on Réunion Island), was adopted by a white French family. She began ice skating aged 10, but was already a trampoline champio
    947 B (126 words) - 20:04, 7 February 2014
  • ...ight children. At 15 he was working, variously as bank clerk, farm laborer and teacher, before going to sea at 19 (or 18). ...ng the Typee people, then "notorious cannibals." He was adopted by a chief and married his daughter, Pe'ue.
    2 KB (310 words) - 20:20, 13 May 2014
  • ...ia. See the entry for the royal house of Hawai'i, the Kawananakoa dynasty; and also that for the [[Chinese Qing Dynasty|Chinese Qing dynasty]], for an exa ...ra Bora, 1861). [[Adopted]] into the dynasty by Pomare II, king of Tahiti, and married Pomare's daughter 'Aimata.
    3 KB (429 words) - 17:18, 2 June 2014

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