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  • ...fe with them is one of the major primary sources about the Peyote religion and the Lipan Apache people. ...Henry. Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians, edited by J. Marvin Hunter. (Albuquerque
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  • ...nt in Brwinow, near Warsaw. Her parents placed her there when she was five and she emerged at the end of the war. Unusually, her father survived the war. ...to help other child survivors of the Shoah trace their original identities and families.
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  • ...the militaristic overtones of scouting, with more emphasis on nature lore, and a great sympathy with Native American philosophies. (Seton had previously b Her father and his first wife also had a born-to daughter who was the novelist Anya Seton.
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  • Douglas was born to an 18-year-old unmarried girl in the northeast of England and placed for adoption in London as a baby. The family included a sister, also ...on and Fostering, and has written books on child protection, mental health and adoption.
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  • ...e emigrated to New Zealand, joining an uncle who was already living there, and working in his hotels until she married an Australian, George Douglas, with ...n a strong Catholic faith (three of her children entered religious orders) and the experience of poor Irish farmers.
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  • ...edge that she was [[adopted]] and destroyed all the related documentation, and her adoptive mother threatened to kill anyone who revealed the secret. [[Category: Social Services and Social Sciences]]
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  • ...about eight she was raised by a succession of other LDS families, friends and relatives. ...also an active suffragette, president of the [[Utah]] Women's Press Club, and a local Republican Party official. She died aged 104.
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  • ...re all put into care and George also spent time in reform school (borstal) and prison. ...e should have been born a girl, having previously thought he might be gay, and at the age of 24, while a catering manager in a London hospital, George Rob
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  • ...s then raised by relatives. He came to England after Hitler came to power, and was educated at Cambridge. [[Category: Social Services and Social Sciences]]
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  • ...whom she loved, died when she was 10. Her step-father sexually abused her and tried to murder her when she disclosed the [[abuse]]. ...divorced after 28 years. She used part of her divorce settlement to found and publish the influential feminist women's magazine, Lear's Magazine, from 19
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  • ...portive, nurturing environment. Most of the children went on to university and successful adult lives. ...of [[California]], Irvine, and married with children. His book, The Home, and other papers, make a cogent case for the reinstatement of good orphanages a
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  • ...nd 800 miles/1300km!) on Ponape island in the Pacific (now the main island and capital of the Federated States of Micronesia), where they were captured by ...he first reliable account of the island, its people, history and language, and he was the first European to visit the ancient megalithic ruins on the offs
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  • ...care in a number of placements. When he left care he joined the Air Force and served in the Gulf war. ...Person of the Year award given at the World Congress in 1995 in [[Japan]] and in 1993, he was chosen as one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans by the U.S
    2 KB (261 words) - 04:29, 26 February 2018
  • ...into at least four families of the Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux and Crow people, and he is a Northern Cheyenne chief. He is an expert in their language and history and has written several important books, earning him the name Stone Forehead, a
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  • ...t on radio and television programs about adoption, an expert court witness and professional lecturer. He has been a college teacher at Fordham University and wrote Adoption Healing: A Path to Recovery (2000).
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  • ...the Haganah. Later she went to Paris to study psychology at the Sorbonne, and emigrated to the USA in 1956. ...th Show, have made her famous, as have her books, newspaper columns, video and computer software.
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  • ...n tight. [[China]] since the early 1990s has increased its global outreach and participation in [[international]] [[organizations]]. ...ina]] is the world's fourth largest country (after [[Russia]], [[Canada]], and US). Mount Everest on the border it shares with [[Nepal]] is the world's t
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  • ...a baby son. To support her family she now became a canning factory worker and farm laborer. ...r of the Te Awapuni Women's Institute, of the Maori Women's Welfare League and of the Maori Education Foundation.
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  • ...s/5/57/Hurston-Zora-Neale-LOC.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Hurston between 1935 and 1943'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ned town of Eatonville, [[Florida]]. Her father, a carpenter and minister, and his wife had eight children.
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