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  • ...g/760px-Hoffman-ChristAndTheRichYoungRuler.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''"Christ and the Rich Young Ruler" by Heinrich Hofmann, 1889'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.o ...son of God. He was referred to by his contemporaries as the son of Joseph, and the Gospels record that Joseph married '''[[Mary the Virgin]]''' knowing sh
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  • ...850 to 1177, and other ancient sources, these are some of the fostered men and women: ...ve with him, and he then took sole possession of their lands in [[Norway]] and [[Sweden]].
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  • ...hts worker, who adopted him. He has suffered racial abuse from both whites and blacks. ...Calls and Strictly Business; his television shows include In Living Color and Later.
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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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  • ...jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Statue of King Arthur, designed by Albrecht Dürer and cast by Peter Vischer the Elder, early 16th century'''<br />Source: Wikiped '''''5th or 6th century'''''
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  • ...February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, according to different romanizations. ...father bought her a pair of skates when she was four to help her slim down and she began winning competitions when she was nine.
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  • ...not unusual for adults to be adopted as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...y "native" clans or tribes, done as a photo-opportunity for the politician and for publicity by the tribe.
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  • ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...y "native" clans or tribes, done as a photo-opportunity for the politician and for publicity by the tribe.
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  • '''English-Dutch-American religious and political leader''' ...is mother remarried in 1593 and William was then raised by his grandfather and uncles as a farmer.
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  • ...n foster care with family friends, until she was able to rejoin her father and two older brothers in a council flat in Islington, London. Her childhood wa ...), Absolutely Fabulous, Harry Enfield and Chums, Common as Muck, Tom Jones and others.
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  • '''English captive and Maori chief''' ...captured eaten. He escaped because he happened to touch the chief's cloak, and thus became tapu.
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  • ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...y "native" clans or tribes, done as a photo-opportunity for the politician and for publicity by the tribe.
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  • ...the boy on their holidays, persuaded his parents to let them take him home and have him properly educated. ...chaplain and was famous as a confessor. He died following a stroke in 1764 and was canonized in 1881 by Pope Leo XIII. His saint's day is 23 May.
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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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  • ...er owner when he was 14 and quickly learned the printing trade and editing and was an excellent journalist. ...ominent abolitionists. Nevertheless he remains one of the most influential and effective of all white abolitionists.
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  • ...atroclus, although the author offers no explicit documentary evidence of [[adoption]] to support this idea. The book's argument is rejected by most other schol Hamilton, J.S. Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, 1307-1312: Politics and Patronage in the Reign of Edward II. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press
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  • ...wish population of Europe, but also the Roma, homosexuals and the mentally and physically handicapped. ...f the children were slow in developing socially, psychologically, mentally and even physically.
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  • ...years living with the Cherokee people, learning their language and customs and developing a deep sympathy for them. ...ed him The Raven. This was probably both a mark of his cultural acceptance and a way of securing his position as a trader with the Cherokee at a store he
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  • ...er was serving in the US Army during the War of 1812 when his mother died, and his father had also died by 1817. He was taken in by neighbors, the Wheeler ...ted the following year and went on to become a major figure in LDS secular and religious history. From 1847 to 1852 he was in charge of Mormon immigration
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  • ...o informally fostered a succession of homeless children. When he was seven or eight he discovered that one of the other people living in the house was hi ...Star and News of the World. He also broadcasts regularly on the BBC radio and television services.
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