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  • ==Loss and Grief== [[File:Loss-and-Grief.jpg|thumb|450px]]
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  • ...mation changes rapidly and therefore, some information may be out of date, and/or contain inaccuracies, omissions or typographical errors. ...fered to provide reasonably necessary food, clothing, appropriate shelter, and treatment for the child
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  • ...pandemic and his father sent him to live with and be adopted by her sister and brother-in-law, an impoverished mining family in West Virginia. He graduate ...87-88 and minority leader 1980-87. He is famous as a legislative tactician and is still in the Senate after 40 years.
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  • ...(later Pope Callistus III). He collected religious offices from his teens and was elected pope in 1492 after bribing other cardinals. ...o Savonarola in 1498. He fathered at least four children, including Cesare and Lucrezia.
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  • Bayard and his siblings were [[adopted]] by their uncle, John Bubenheim Bayard, when t ...re]], which is still active in the 20th century, including two of his sons and two grandsons, all US senators from [[Delaware]].
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  • ...slight, Stromboli, Anastasia, Murder on the Orient Express, Autumn Sonata, and A Woman Called Golda. She received three Oscars. Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • '''British musician, actor, and hotelier''' ...Trendle was born in Stoke Newington, London, and raised by his great-aunt and -uncle, believing his mother was his Auntie Lily. He overheard that he was
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  • '''English-Dutch-American religious and political leader''' ...other remarried in 1593 and William was then raised by his grandfather and uncles as a farmer.
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  • ...ractices healing in a village near Brecon, Wales, working with both people and animals. [[Category: Medicine and Allied Professions]]
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  • '''American minister and educator''' ...ined congregational ministry with the presidency of [[Washington]] College and then Jefferson College until he resigned with ill health in 1845.
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  • ...emic and his father sent him to live with and be [[adopted]] by her sister and brother-in-law, an impoverished mining family in [[West Virginia]]. He grad ...87-88 and minority leader 1980-87. He is famous as a legislative tactician and stayed in the Senate after 40 years until he passed away in June of 2010 du
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  • ...mber of important battles during the Thirty Years' War against the French, and was the first general to defeat Napoléon (his uncle by marriage) in a majo When Duke Albert died in 1822 he left his collection of 14,000 drawings and 200,000 prints in trust to Carl, which formed the nucleus of the Albertina
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  • '''American sports- and businesswoman''' ...e Europeans, and agitated successfully for greater equality in prize money and publicity for women players.
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  • ...venience of two against the third. Sigibert was assassinated in 575 or 576 and succeeded by his young son, with his mother as regent. ...581 Chilpéric also adopted Childebert. Gontran ceded lands to Childebert and thus overturned Chilpéric's move. But when Chilpéric died in 584, to be s
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  • ...include The Heart of Darkness, Nigger of the Narcissus, Under Western Eyes and Lord Jim. [[Category: Uncles and Aunts, Parents' Uncles and Aunts]]
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  • ...Eumenes I, depicting the head of Eumenes' uncle Philetaerus on the obverse and seated Athena, patron deity of the city of Pergamon, on the reverse.'''<br ...western [[Turkey]]). Eumenes succeeded to the throne when Philetairos died and obtained Pergamum's full independence from the Selucids, also declaring him
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  • ...as three, was the birth nephew and adoptive son of Theodore Frelinghuysen, and a member of a long-established political dynasty in [[New Jersey]]. ...torney general in 1861, US senator from [[New Jersey]] 1866-69 and 1871-77 and secretary of state under President [[Arthur]] from 1881 to 1885. He was als
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  • ...her aunt for the next eight years. She rejoined her mother on her release and followed her footsteps into films. ...eared in two American films: Target (1985) and Crime and Punishment (1970) and in the television series MacGyver (1986). She also has a career as a hand p
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  • '''English Poet and Dramatist''' ...time (the Beggar's Opera and the libretto for Handel's Actis and Galatea), and some of it flopped; but his influence on English literature, particularly t
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  • ...mpany. She came to London in 1897 for a six-week run at the Empire Theatre and stayed for 10 years as their prima ballerina. ...and gradually reduced her appearances, retiring from regular work in 1917 and giving her last public performance in 1933. She was president of the Associ
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  • ...e was eight. His relationship with his mother was never very satisfactory, and his [[reunion]] with his birth sister did not result in a lasting relations After school he went into the retail trade, selling musical instruments and then clothing, but he is now a fashionable body-piercer in Johannesburg.
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  • .../1/12/Grey_Owl.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney) writer and conservationist'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...merican/English wife. He was fostered from the age of four by two paternal aunts who took him from his mother/raised him very strictly after his mother move
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  • ...ub to Minneapolis-St. Paul in 1960, as the [[Minnesota]] Twins. In 1984 he and his sister sold their interests in the club, ending 72 years of Griffith fa [[Category: Business and Industry]]
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  • ...en he was nine. He and his brother and sister were separated and raised by uncles. Hoover was sent from [[Iowa]] to live with an uncle in [[Oregon]] when he ...h of the Government. In 1921 he became secretary of commerce under Harding and held the same post under Coolidge.
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  • ...y of Cluny aged 14, took his vows a year later, was prior by the age of 21 and abbot in 1049. ...asilica, the largest church in the world at the time, consecrated in 1095, and he was a leading organizer of the First Crusade.
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  • Ivan, the great-grandson of Czar Ivan V, was born on 13 August 1740 and [[adopted]] on 27 October as her heir by Empress Anna Ivanovna (1693-1740), ...büttel (1714-74), and Anna Ivanovna's nephew. She died the following day, and the baby Ivan became Czar of all the Russians. [[Russia]] was effectively
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  • ...n 1826. His mother remarried in 1830 but her husband disliked her children and little Thomas was sent to live with relatives. His mother in any case died ...als, although sometimes erratic in his behavior, and he was a loyal friend and lieutenant to General Robert E. Lee.
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  • ...tricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edmund Kean, who committed suicide when he ...ress. He was also adopted by a family named Clarke, but fell out with them and ran away again. By this time he was still only 13 or 14.
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  • ...dless. He went on the Grand Tour of Europe in 1786-88, went into business, and eventually inherited their estate at Godmersham, Kent. His grandson edited "Jane Austen's Brothers and Sister." Available at: www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/janelife.html#janesibl
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  • ...father was an alcoholic. At seven he went to live with an uncle's family, and stayed with them until he was sixteen. ...doctrine of plural marriage, and was part of the flight to Winter Quarters and then to [[Utah]].
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  • ...nd a soldier), was [[adopted]] by another family and raised in [[Norway]], and she did not trace her birth family until 1996. ...often in trouble with the headmaster; he and friends also stole from shops and threw stones at trains.
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  • ...ncle. He trained as a doctor but was wealthy enough to be able not to work and to devote his time to writing. ...The Narrow Corner, Catalina, The Magician, The Casuarina Tree and The Moon and Sixpence.
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  • ...joined his mother in [[New York]], but the [[reunion]] was not successful and he briefly worked in the merchant navy before jumping ship in [[Cuba]]. ...he soon showed the talent which eventually made him one of the most famous and highly-paid actors in the world.
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  • ...tario, [[Canada]] to live by his childless aunt and uncle, who adopted him and a niece in 1948. This was a move reluctantly supported by his birth parents ...smanship) in 1967 and 1968, was voted onto the NHL All-Star Team six times and elected to the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983.
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  • ...nd oil refining industries, but Bill lived first with his father's brother and then with his mother's brother, Pendleton Vanderver, who was also a conside ...record in 1936, for Bluebird followed by about 60 more tracks for Bluebird and well over 200 for other studios.
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  • ...ederick of Holstein-Gottrop and Anna, the daughter of Czar Peter the Great and was born in Kiel, [[Germany]]. ...ven Years' War. This antagonized the Russian nobility, and he was deposed, and then assassinated on 7 July 1762. In this the nobility had the backing of t
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  • ...s after he was born (in [[Switzerland]]) and he was then raised by an aunt and uncle. ...ised him until he was 10, and then gave him to the [[custody]] of his aunt and uncle, who sent him to boarding school.
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  • ...hs old and his mother left home, leaving him to be brought up by his uncle and aunt, a poor farming family in [[Maine]]. His uncle died when he was seven. ...in Boston. He had already begun his lifetime habit of ceaseless curiosity and learning.
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  • ...r years old, and that when he was a year old he was kidnapped by his nurse and not returned to his mother for three years.) He did not see her again until He wrote Tales of a Tub, A Modest Proposal, and most famously, Gulliver's Travels. When he died he left money for the const
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  • ...died less than a year later, before he could rejoin the family. The widow and her sons settled in the Midlands where the boys began their education. ...Their guardian was the parish priest, but they actually lived with an aunt and then a Mrs. Faulkner.
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  • ...eubach-Lautern, went to school there, and then studied theology in Ellwang and Tübingen, before being ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1819. ...the death of the Bishop of Rottenburg, Johann Baptist von Keller, in 1846, and considerable disagreement about his successor, von Lipp was appointed by Ro
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  • Welch's mother died when he was five and he was raised by his aunt. ...ed albums for Richard in the 70s, wrote some of Richard's best-known songs and "discovered" Olivia Newton-John. He stayed with the band for the next 30 ye
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  • ...boy and raised by an aunt. He was a gardener, then worked for a wholesaler and then began to preach in 1878. ...to 1932, head of the Welsh Independent [Congregationalist] Church in 1927 and editor of Y Dysgedydd from 1922 to 1928. He won more bardic competitions th
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  • ...rg/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/WilliamWirt.png |410x579px|thumb|'''between 1810 and 1834'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...d]], but his father died when he was two and his mother when he was eight, and he became the ward of his uncle Jasper.
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  • ...o another three children) Wordsworth's mother died when William was eight, and their father died five years later. Although the family had been well off ( ...ent to live with various uncles. William and Dorothy were especially close and the separation was very painful for them, but in 1795 she inherited enough
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  • ...o another three children) Wordsworth's mother died when William was eight, and their father died five years later. Although the family had been well off ( ...ent to live with various uncles. William and Dorothy were especially close and the separation was very painful for them, but in 1795 she inherited enough
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  • Bayard and his siblings were [[adopted]] by their uncle, John Bubenheim Bayard, when t ...re]], which is still active in the 20th century, including two of his sons and two grandsons, all US senators from [[Delaware]].
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  • ...eubach-Lautern, went to school there, and then studied theology in Ellwang and Tübingen, before being ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1819. ...the death of the Bishop of Rottenburg, Johann Baptist von Keller, in 1846, and considerable disagreement about his successor, von Lipp was appointed by Ro
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  • '''Ngati Kahungunu ([[New Zealand]] Maori) judge and administrator''' ...Williams (Welsh), but soon afterwards he was given to his mother's sister and her husband as a [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whangai]]. His mothers were from
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  • ...In 1862, after the [[Minnesota]] Sioux uprising he escaped with his uncle and grandmother into Manitoba, to avoid white reprisals. His father, Many Ligh ...o school in the Dakota Territory. For the next 17 years he attended school and college, eventually graduating from Boston University Medical School.
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