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  • ...ssibly based on the life of a real person, possibly a Tirynthian prince or noble. [[Category: Mythological, Traditional and Divine Figures]]
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  • [[Category: Adoptee/Fosteree Married Adoptive/Foster Sibling]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • Hyllus was the son of [[Heracles]] and either Deianira or Melite. [[Heracles]] had helped Aegimius in his battle with the Lapiths, an [[Category: Mythological, Traditional and Divine Figures]]
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  • [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] [[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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  • Kean was the son of a poverty-stricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edm ...t fell out with them and ran away again. By this time he was still only 13 or 14.
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  • ...as adopted by Thomas and Catherine Knight, Austen family cousins, who were wealthy but childless. He went on the Grand Tour of Europe in 1786-88, went into bu [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...see: [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]). In turn, Lee had 18 or 19 such sealed sons, including George Laub (Lee), W.R. Owens (Lee), Miles A Lee, John D. Mormonism Unveiled; or, The Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop John D. Lee .... (St. L
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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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  • MacBride is described in several sources as the "adoptive" grandson or great-grandson of Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), author of the Little Ho He and his wife, Susan, were also [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]].
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  • ...[[Tonga]] for four years before being rescued, being tutored by one of his adoptive father's wives. [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...ed at the age of 10 and raised by an uncle. He trained as a doctor but was wealthy enough to be able not to work and to devote his time to writing. [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • McAuley was born to a happy, devout, wealthy Catholic family but her father died when she was seven. Her mother moved th ...pted by a Mr. and Mrs. Callahan, distant relatives, who were childless and wealthy. They, too, were Protestants, but McAuley converted both of them to Catholi
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  • Taylor, Noreen. "The Next Famous McCartney." [interview]. Available at: www.jibboo.com/beatles/listclub/heat [[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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  • ...iously as bank clerk, farm laborer and teacher, before going to sea at 19 (or 18). [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • [[Category: Sent to Boarding School, Apprenticed or Fostered as Part of Normal Traditional Child-Rearing]] ...gory: Priest, Religious, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Patron, Apprentice Master or Owner]]
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  • ...he state, who was also the father of [[Washington]] Jefferson Bennett, the adoptive father of Andrew Buist Murray. Memminger was a lawyer and became a member o [[Category: Adoptive/Foster Family Included Birth Child(ren)]]
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  • ...y is partly based on the life of one of several real King Midases) is most famous for his short-sighted wish that everything he touched would turn to gold. ...lo gave Midas the ears of a donkey, and in shame, Midas either disappeared or committed suicide.
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  • ...ra was the son of a Jewish family in Bologna, [[Italy]]. When he was five (or a baby, sources differ) he became very ill and his illiterate nurse, a Cath In June 1858, when he was six or seven years old Papal gendarmes forcibly removed him from his birth family
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  • ...[[Washington]] Jefferson Bennett, the son of Thomas Bennett, Jr., and the adoptive brother of [[Christopher Gustavus Memminger]]. [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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  • ...ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely wealthy and powerful, ruled over by men (mostly) with a wide range of titles in add ...didates if no competent born-to son were produced (an obviously unsuitable or treasonous born-to son could be excluded from the succession). If the ruler
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  • ...tely acculturated, eventually became a chief himself, before being rescued or escaping. ...ow O'Connell got to Ponape originally, there is no doubt about the tattoos or the extent of his knowledge of the island.
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  • ...ia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Carroll_O%27Connor.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Hugh's adoptive father, Carroll O'Connor'''''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} O'Connor was born in Rome and [[adopted]] by the famous American actor Carroll O'Connor (All in the Family) and his wife while he w
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  • Foyster and O'Neil, adoptive half-brother and -sister, are associated with Borley Rectory, known as "the 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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  • The story is the basis of one of the most famous play cycles of ancient [[Greece]], by Sophocles. [[Category: Mythological, Traditional and Divine Figures]]
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  • ...wealthy [[New York]] manufacturer, who also [[adopted]] an older girl. His adoptive father died when he was nine. His mother and he then moved to [[California] 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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  • Joy, Camden. The Last Rock Star Book, Or: Liz Phair, a Rant. (Portland: Verse Chorus Press, 1998) [[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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  • ...l benefactors of the poor and to offer hospitality to a long succession of famous literati and others for many years, including Lord Byron, the Duke of Welli The "Ladies of Llangollen" remain two of the most famous personalities in Welsh history.
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  • [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]] [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]
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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: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...ve son of Charlemagne: "Charles loved him so much, that he kept him as his adoptive son ["figiuolo adottivo"], and Charles called him son most of the time; and [[Category: Mythological, Traditional and Divine Figures]]
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  • [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...hasize his natural and god-given authority (especially when coupled with a divine parent), and kings would cultivate such tales to enhance their prestige, in "Birth Legend of Sargon of Akkad," translated by B.R. Foster. In: The Context of Scripture: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical Wor
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  • [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] ...gory: Priest, Religious, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Patron, Apprentice Master or Owner]]
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  • Short was the [[adopted]] son (or possibly protégé) of President Thomas Jefferson. He was born into a well- ...ncil of State. After retiring from the diplomatic service he became a very wealthy landowner.
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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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  • ...r of [[Maryland]], 1900-04, and US Senator from [[Maryland]], 1908-21. His adoptive father was also a politician, including Senator from [[Maryland]] in the US [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...r adoptive family. She may also have later spent time in a children's home or "women's residence." Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...In 1644 she published the first of eight collections of music. She became famous not only for her music but for her position as leader of the salon surround [[Category: Anti-social or Disruptive Behavior, Adhd]]
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  • [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • Tolstoy was born the son of a noble landowner in [[Russia]] but his mother died when he was two and his father He is most famous today as one of the greatest novelists in history, his most famous novels being War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
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  • ...roness von Trapp and their 10 children, are one of the world's most famous families, and the subject of one of the most successful stage musicals and films in ...e still a postulant she was sent to be governess to a sick daughter of the wealthy widowed Baron Georg von Trapp, a retired naval captain. The rest is musical
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  • Tydings is the adoptive son of Millard Evelyn Tydings. [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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