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  • ...the Porrajmos), homosexuals, and other groups they believed were dangerous or inferior to the white "Aryan" people, as they called themselves. ...n parents managed to send their children to hide with sympathetic families or in convents and monasteries inside Nazi-occupied countries before they them
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  • Short was the [[adopted]] son (or possibly protégé) of President Thomas Jefferson. He was born into a well- ...y: Priest, Religious, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Patron, Apprentice Master or Owner]]
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  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] ...y: Priest, Religious, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Patron, Apprentice Master or Owner]]
    2 KB (283 words) - 06:23, 28 February 2018
  • ...ersion in 1900 to the Roman Catholic church. Their guardian was the parish priest, but they actually lived with an aunt and then a Mrs. Faulkner. ...eam writing the monumental Oxford English Dictionary, and in 1920 became a teacher at the University of Leeds.
    3 KB (423 words) - 01:52, 1 March 2018
  • ...st. While still a young child he was [[adopted]] by Guillaume de Villon, a priest. ...inal (including the murder of a priest and robberies from churches and his priest uncle) - he spent time in Prison, was banished to the provinces, and narrow
    2 KB (224 words) - 07:11, 27 February 2018
  • [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] [[Category: Parent(s) in Prison or Labor Camp, Executed]]
    3 KB (375 words) - 03:54, 5 March 2018
  • ...purpose; often two tribes would raid each other for [[captives]] for years or centuries. The European and Arab enslavement of Black Africans is undoubted ...ividual [[adopted]] captive was intended as a replacement for a dead adult or child, and would assume the identity and status of the dead person. This is
    6 KB (899 words) - 03:11, 26 February 2018
  • [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
    2 KB (233 words) - 04:08, 3 March 2018
  • Eifion, Alltud. John Ystumllyn or Jack Black: The Story of His Life and Tales About Him ... (Criccieth: D. Tr [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
    2 KB (301 words) - 18:16, 28 May 2014
  • ...or "mother," the proprietress of a geisha or tea house, herself a geisha, or to a middleman who would sell her on. Geisha who have daughters might also At some point during her training or apprenticeship a promising geisha may be singled out by her okiya as her su
    3 KB (512 words) - 06:06, 28 February 2018
  • ...reate his own wife. In the late 1760s he [[adopted]] two unrelated orphans or foundlings, whom he named Sabrina Sidney and Lucretia, then aged 11 and 12. [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
    4 KB (571 words) - 03:36, 24 February 2018
  • "Africans in America: Revolution: Teacher's Guide: People & Events: Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833." [Includes portrait]. A [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]]
    3 KB (446 words) - 18:49, 3 March 2018
  • ...ported to his family to have been killed (sources differ: either in battle or executed for rebellion by the Meiji government), and according to custom, t ...rything. Unfortunately Siro fell in love with the daughter of Jigoro Kano, master of Kodokam judo and defected to that [[system]]. Saigo senior then chose Ma
    2 KB (308 words) - 05:01, 4 March 2018
  • ...out Bustamante's early life, which he seems to have deliberately concealed or fabricated, but he was probably born in [[Jamaica]] into poverty, one of 13 [[Category: Figures Whose Adoption or Fostering Is Fictitious, Disputed or Unconfirmed]]
    3 KB (364 words) - 04:29, 5 March 2018
  • [[Category: For Companionship, or for Charitable Motives]] [[Category: Family Friends or Acquaintances]]
    3 KB (417 words) - 05:26, 1 March 2018
  • ...Highland University, where he was an outstanding student and trained as a teacher. And he also worked for a while on a farm in [[New York]]. In the early 190 [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
    2 KB (381 words) - 17:49, 28 February 2018
  • ...ncinnati, [[Ohio]], and orphaned as a young child. He was then raised by a priest in [[Kentucky]] until he was 16. He worked as a pinsetter in a bowling alle ...y: Priest, Religious, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Patron, Apprentice Master or Owner]]
    2 KB (351 words) - 07:13, 27 February 2018
  • [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] ...y: Priest, Religious, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Patron, Apprentice Master or Owner]]
    3 KB (473 words) - 04:14, 24 February 2018
  • [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
    3 KB (399 words) - 19:49, 3 March 2018
  • When the family returned home young William, now 14 or 15, was apprenticed to a notoriously corrupt and rapacious lawyer, Walter B ...ve quietly in the rebuilt Parihaka, and was a professional interpreter and teacher of Maori. When he died he was buried at Leppertown, coincidentally where Ca
    5 KB (836 words) - 16:23, 17 June 2014

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