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  • '''American writer and feminist''' ...es who adopted her. She was raised in poverty on a farm in the rural South and now farms in Pennsylvania.
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  • '''Also known as Marta Skavronskaya and EkaterinaAlexeevna''' ...advisor, and married him in 1712. She was crowned empress-consort in 1724 and when Peter died without leaving a son, she was proclaimed the first empress
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  • ...wo angelic beings transported him to Heaven, where he met God face to face and was told he would be able to foretell the future. ...organizations: Morris Cerullo World Evangelism, and Jewish World Outreach, and is particularly concerned with evangelizing other Jews.
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  • ...ather was a wastrel and a vagabond, her mother died in 1895, and Gabrielle and a sister were then abandoned in an [[orphanage]] until adulthood, while two ...fashions of the day. She soon rose to be the queen of Paris haute couture and remained the most powerful figure there for six decades, at one time employ
    2 KB (362 words) - 06:01, 28 February 2018
  • '''American pilot, journalist, and businesswoman''' ...ht years old), whose mother beat her birth children as well as Jacqueline, and was working when she was eight, so she never had a proper education, teachi
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  • '''Irish hero figure and supreme champion of Ulster''' ...n each eye and 14 fingers and toes. He was sent to be fostered by the best men in Ulster, according to ancient Irish custom.
    2 KB (359 words) - 04:09, 26 February 2018
  • ...kholm. She was [[adopted]] there by an American family of Swedish heritage and emigrated with them to the USA when she was 10. ...ut turned to singing in her teens. She studied in [[New York]] and Berlin, and made her professional operatic début in Cologne in 1895 as Azucena in Il T
    3 KB (363 words) - 20:14, 3 March 2018
  • ...re all put into care and George also spent time in reform school (borstal) and prison. ...e should have been born a girl, having previously thought he might be gay, and at the age of 24, while a catering manager in a London hospital, George Rob
    2 KB (320 words) - 18:24, 28 May 2014
  • ...erwards, probably also of smallpox, in 1781. Jackson was now still only 14 and an [[orphan]] with no near relatives. ...boy in 1809 (his wife's nephew, (Andrew, Jr.), raised three other nephews, and also raised a Creek [[orphan]] boy whose parents had been killed in a war d
    3 KB (378 words) - 03:57, 24 February 2018
  • Massow was adopted aged 12, after four previous families and two other names. He is dyslexic and left school with only two 'O' levels, but he is now a multi-millionaire fin
    1 KB (188 words) - 16:02, 27 May 2014
  • ...ts]]. He spent the rest of his childhood in institutions, often physically and emotionally abused. He was apprenticed to a tool-maker and eventually owned his own tool-sharpening company.
    1 KB (173 words) - 17:20, 20 May 2014
  • ...years later he was sent to live on a farm because of problems between him and his mother. ...high school class, but he showed business flair from an early age, and he and his brother bought a failing pizza parlor in 1960 for $975, which became th
    2 KB (260 words) - 04:14, 5 March 2018
  • Morley was orphaned at the age of 11 and sent to a naval training ship. ...e was chairman of Mecca Ltd. (responsible for introducing Bingo to the UK) and director of the Grand Metropolitan Group.
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  • ...d management group and non-executive chairman of [[Guardian]] Media Group, and was appointed head of the UK Treasury review of institutional investment in [[Category: Business and Industry]]
    1 KB (161 words) - 17:00, 2 June 2014
  • ...s are available. Children are screened for HIV when they enter orphanages, and traditionally only those who were HIV negative were approved for [[adoption ...e allowed to [[adopt]], but there have been cases in which single American men were approved to [[adopt]]. There is no official upper age limit on parents
    3 KB (403 words) - 20:51, 28 May 2015
  • Fertility refers to the ability to conceive and carry a child to birth. [[Infertility]] is a disease of the reproductive [[ ...ize the egg. Then the fertilized egg must be able to implant in the uterus and grow into a healthy embryo/fetus in an environment that supports its develo
    2 KB (394 words) - 20:54, 28 May 2015
  • ...her tests that are available for the home include the Cervical Mucus test, and an Ovarian Reserve Test. ...a comprehensive medical exam of both the woman and the man and will order and complete several tests for both partners in order to come up with the diagn
    3 KB (477 words) - 21:46, 29 May 2015
  • ...eas secondary [[infertility]] is when a couple has had a child or children and has later found themselves not able to become pregnant or carry a child to ...e both just as likely to be the cause of the [[infertility]] as the other, and sometimes it can't be pinpointed who is the one with the [[fertility]] issu
    3 KB (537 words) - 22:06, 29 May 2015
  • ...ome common, with thousands of children being [[adopted]] by single men and women every year. ...ut 5 percent are by singles. While the bulk of these adoptions are done by women, approximately 10 percent of the membership of one single parent adoptive s
    2 KB (390 words) - 22:56, 29 May 2015
  • ...nsonby was 13. Her stepfather took no interest in the now destitute child, and she was fostered by her father's cousin, Lady Betty Fownes, although she sp ...Robert Southey. They remained at the house, which they renamed Plas Newydd and considerably enlarged, until their deaths.
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