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  • Dottie, Enrico. "Roots of Ambition: Famous Businessmen Who Were [[Adopted]]." Available at: www.parentsplace.com/ferti [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...the future [[Alexander the Great]]. His first wife was Pythias, niece and adoptive daughter of his patron, King Hermeias of Atarneus and Assos. He later [[ado Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...blems and periodic drunkenness, and he was temporarily disinherited by his foster father. He is famous for his short stories and poems, such as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit an
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  • ...ith Jesus and both his parents being listed, although none was [[adopted]] or fostered in the modern European-American sense of the terms, and both Josep [[Category: Mythological, Traditional and Divine Figures]]
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  • He was also the foster-brother of Clitus [[Niger]] (see Roman Empire), according to some sources. [[Category: Adoptive Parents]]
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  • ...he Society of Antiquaries from 1812 to 1846. From 1813 to 1855 he was more or less continuously in politics, in Parliament, and first as a diplomat (for Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and Adopted People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...e was born in [[Washington]], DC and adopted as a baby of two weeks into a wealthy entertainment-industry family in Westchester, [[New York]]. His [[adoption] Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and Adopted People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • Pope Alexander VI was born into the wealthy and corrupt Borgia family of Valencia, [[Spain]] and adopted by his materna [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • Allan was [[adopted]] aged one month by a wealthy British-South African couple, John and Janet Fry. John Fry died when she wa She has been a model and married a wealthy South African, Gordon Schachat, but later had an affair with Eugene Terre'B
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  • '''''5th or 6th century''''' '''King of the Silures or British folk hero'''
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  • ...with him until he was 19, Astor always knew who his birth father was. His adoptive father died in 1980 when he was 13. [[Category: Addiction or Abuse (drugs, Alcohol or Gambling)]]
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  • ...ohann Sebastian grew up to be the most gifted of them all, one of the most famous organists and composers in history. Just before his 14th birthday, Johann l ...umber of whom also became famous musicians and composers. He was primarily famous in his lifetime as an organist and harpsichordist, especially for his skill
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  • Bankhead was famous for her outrageous behavior on and off stage; she had problems with alcohol [[Category: Addiction or Abuse (drugs, Alcohol or Gambling)]]
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  • [[Category: Adoptive/Foster Family Included Birth Child(ren)]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]] [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]
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  • Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992) [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • [[Category: To Further Family or Political Alliances]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...n Scrooby led by William Brewster (one source states that Brewster was his adoptive father). The congregation emigrated to the Low Countries to escape persecut [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • [[Category: Figures Whose Adoption or Fostering Is Fictitious, Disputed or Unconfirmed]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...me lovers. Leonardo gave the young Caprotti the name Salaì (Little Devil, or Devil's Offspring), because of his almost intolerable behavior: continually [[Category: Anti-social or Disruptive Behavior, Adhd]]
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  • [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]] [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]
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  • ...gory: Priest, Religious, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Patron, Apprentice Master or Owner]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...of convenience of two against the third. Sigibert was assassinated in 575 or 576 and succeeded by his young son, with his mother as regent. ...in 584, to be succeeded by his baby son Clotaire II, Gontran attacked his adoptive son, but only succeeded in taking part of his kingdom.
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  • [[Category: Figures Whose Adoption or Fostering Is Fictitious, Disputed or Unconfirmed]] [[Category: To Further Family or Political Alliances]]
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  • ...born sometime between 1906 and 1910, and was orphaned as a baby. She was a foster child in a feckless, poverty-stricken family (she got her first pair of sho ...ld more speed and altitude records than any other person in the world, man or woman.
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  • His most famous rôle is [[Arthur]] Daley in Minder, but he has never been out of work, in [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]
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  • [[Category: Adoptive/Foster Family Included Birth Child(ren)]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...in battle could only be cooled by being immersed in icy water three times or by being confronted by a legion of bare-breasted women. At 17 he fought the Cross, T.P., and Stover, C.H. Ancient Irish Tales. (Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books, 1988)
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  • ...died, Custis built Arlington House, in Arlington, VA, as a tribute to his adoptive father/step-grandfather and to hold his belongings. He also published sever [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...rents|foster parents]], and Alexandra was then separately [[adopted]] by a wealthy St. Petersburg family (sources differ). Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]] [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]
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  • [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]] [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]
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  • ...9px-Jean_Cocteau_b_Meurisse_1923.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Jean Cocteau, the adoptive father of Dermit, in 1923'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...las, Anthony. "Losing out in Adoption: Priority Should be Given to Keeping Families Together," The Guardian [London], 23 August 2000. Also available at: societ [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...nd his busy father gave him into the custody of her friends, the extremely wealthy and powerful Democratic Party grandees, Averell and Marie Harriman. ...ep-mother, but his father died in 1951. He grew up surrounded by the rich, famous and powerful, and made his own independent career as a bandleader and piani
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  • [[Category: Mythological, Traditional and Divine Figures]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]] [[Category: Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families]]
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  • [[Category: Mythological, Traditional and Divine Figures]] [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • [[Category: Family Friends or Acquaintances]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • Foyster and O'Neil, adoptive half-brother and -sister, are associated with Borley Rectory (see image), k Adelaide, along with Mrs. Foyster, was the focus of the most famous episode of poltergeist activity in history, which lasted from October 1930
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  • ...ut five. He could speak no English and after a week he was taken in by the wealthy judge Anthony Wilson, an uncle of Patrick Henry. He stayed in Wilson's care After the war he became wealthy and was appointed sergeant-at-arms of the [[Virginia]] House of Delegates.
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  • [[Category: Adoptive Parents]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • Frelinghuysen, whose father died when he was three, was the birth nephew and adoptive son of Theodore Frelinghuysen, and a member of a long-established political [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...in fact not lovers but adoptive or sworn brothers, like David and Jonathan or Achilles and Patroclus, although the author offers no explicit documentary Chaplais, Pierre. Edward II's Adoptive Brother. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994)
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  • ...made her début in the USA and returned several times until 1917. Her most famous role was as Swanhilde in Coppélia. In 1910 she married and gradually reduc [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...r was a television writer. Her parents divorced when she was eight and her adoptive father died when she was 11 [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...l-to-do dairy farmers near Johannesburg, and had two born-to children. His adoptive father died when he was eight. His relationship with his mother was never v [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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  • ...ators baseball team in 1955, after the death of his uncle and adoptive (or foster, sources differ) father, the player-owner-manager Clark Calvin Griffith (18 [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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