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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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  • ...re separated out and educated to become members of the Ruling Institution, or bureaucrats. ...tian has gradually ceased. They became hopelessly corrupt and inefficient, and the entire force was massacred in 1826 on orders of Sultan Mahmud II.
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  • ...nealogies given for St. Joseph in the Biblical gospels of Luke (chapter 3) and Matthew (chapter 1) appear to contradict each other. ...of the first, a form of [[adoption]] which has some similarities to the [[adoption]] by the dead practiced in the 19th century by the [[Church of Jesus Christ
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  • ...tricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edmund Kean, who committed suicide when he ...t fell out with them and ran away again. By this time he was still only 13 or 14.
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  • ...ally, while favoring his sister. His mother eventually returned to England and rescued him. He then went to a brutal boarding school until he rejoined his ...include Plain Tales from the Hills, Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Kim, and the Just So Stories.
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  • ...caught the eye of the chief, was [[adopted]] by him to replace a dead son, and given the name Toki 'Ukamea (Iron Axe). He remained in [[Tonga]] for four y Sacks, Oliver. The Island of the Colour-Blind; and Cycad Island. (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 249-50
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  • ...iously as bank clerk, farm laborer and teacher, before going to sea at 19 (or 18). ...ng the Typee people, then "notorious cannibals." He was adopted by a chief and married his daughter, Pe'ue.
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  • ...e was. Then she went to live with her mother, who soon became mentally ill and was hospitalized, whereupon Monroe was adopted by her best friend. ...ge]] until she married for the first time at 16 in order to get out of the care [[system]] which had so seriously failed her. In one of the foster homes sh
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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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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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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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  • ...and their Maori mercenaries. Weeks of massive searches failed to find her and her mother soon died. ...European past, could not speak English again until she was a mature woman, and did not know she wasn't a Maori by birth, although she was conscious of loo
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  • ...into at least four families of the Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux and Crow people, and he is a Northern Cheyenne chief. He is an expert in their language and history and has written several important books, earning him the name Stone Forehead, a
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  • ...er to the court of Teyrnon Twrf Liant, where he was named Gwri Wallt Eurin and fostered for four years. He was enormously strong as a child, like [[Heracl ...eri by his mother. He grew up handsome, fair and master of all manly arts, and succeeded his father as king-prince of Dyfed.
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  • ...ily which had lost three sons in wars (the couple also had a surviving son and two daughters), who named him Oninga. .... But in 1653 he did escape and rejoin white society, becoming an explorer and fur trader.
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  • ...410x579px|thumb|'''Faustulus discovers Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf and woodpecker. Painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1616'''<br />Source: Wikipedi ...Tiber (compare Maui and [[Moses]]). But they drifted ashore and were found and fostered by a wolf (see Feral Children) until they were discovered by the r
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  • ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...ompared with the award of the freedom of a city. It is not the same as the adoption of captives. This directory contains three representative examples of honor
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  • ...ash, later Maconaquah (Little Bear Woman). She lived with the [[Delaware]] and Miami people for the rest of her life. ...hief named Shepancavah. When he became deaf, he resigned the chieftainship and they established a trading post called Deaf Man's Village.
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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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  • ...ce to a merchant and his wife. His father died the year after he was born, and his mother entrusted him to a painter, Gregorio Lazzarini. ...commission was in 1719. He worked in fresco and oils and also did drawings and etchings. He worked for several years in Bavaria, for the prince-bishop of
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  • ...died less than a year later, before he could rejoin the family. The widow and her sons settled in the Midlands where the boys began their education. ...Their guardian was the parish priest, but they actually lived with an aunt and then a Mrs. Faulkner.
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  • ...e involved in trying to smooth the inevitable contact between these people and European civilization. Rejected by her family after she escaped, she returned to the Yanoami, and in 1997 she was still living with her children as a poverty-stricken Yanoam
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  • ...lack of a proper Prussian devotion to discipline, order and "correctness," and his aimless lifestyle after leaving the army in 1799, estranged him from al ...ly small but very important body of plays, short stories, novellas, essays and poems.
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  • ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...ompared with the award of the freedom of a city. It is not the same as the adoption of captives. This directory contains three representative examples of honor
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  • '''African-Dutch-German academic and philosopher''' ...in, Greek, Hebrew, French, German and Dutch. He became a lecturer at Halle and Wittenberg universities, but in the 1750s, after his patroness' death, he w
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  • ...er brother, Timon. Bauro reigned for a short time but also had no children and the succession passed to his nephew, Tokatake, but without him being [[adop ...Arirei, the niece and [[adopted]] daughter of the previous uea, Kaiea III, and the birth daughter of Kaiea III's sister, Kinateo. Arirei is the first know
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  • ...rashtra, Bogams in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and '''Basavis''' in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...o a devadasi also become devadasi. There are still many thousands of girls and women in devadasi positions.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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  • ...captain. In Leiden he attended school, learned several European languages and in 1742 he became a clergyman after theological school at the University th ...s the author of a book defending slavery as a road to Christian redemption and European civilization. He went to the Gold Coast ([[Ghana]]) on a mission,
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  • ...nd raised in [[Alabama]]. He helped translate St. John's gospel into Creek and also wrote hymns in the language. Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduc
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  • ...onally intended as food, sometimes used as hostages, more often as slaves, and sometimes also [[adopted]] into the victorious tribe. ...structure, to such an extent that their Dinka origin was never mentioned, and their origin was completely undetectable to outsiders.
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  • '''Seminole (Native American) teacher and missionary''' ...hip captain named Bemeau, whose name he took. He became a ship's carpenter and converted to Christianity.
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  • '''Algonquin (Native American) captive and translator''' ...educational and religious material for Native American converts. An island and harbor in
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  • ...es and turned over to white soldiers. He was [[adopted]] by a white couple and sent to a military academy where he was an outstanding student. In 1884 he graduated from divinity school and was ordained an Episcopalian [Anglican] priest in 1889. He returned to his
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  • ...ently believed he was a Native American, always identified himself as one, and registered his son as a Native American on his birth certificate). ...was then raised by a Kiowa stepfather and Cheyenne stepmother. In 1868 he and his stepmother were captured by white soldiers, part of General Custer's tr
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  • Henry Jackson and Pitt River Charley were captured as boys by the Klamath and Modoc people before 1864. They remained with their captors until after the ...s, when they would communicate with the dead, and during these dances song and teachings were revealed to them.
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  • Assiniboine (Native American) captive and warrior leader of the Lakota Sioux ...) and named him Hohay (Jumping Bull). Hohay became devoted to Sitting Bull and when he retired from warfare, Jumping Bull took his place as war leader.
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  • ...Tai May (not a person but a sacred image, part of the Sun Dance religion) and was responsible for unwrapping the image during important rites. He lived t Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduc
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  • ...Jackson]] and [[Pitt River Charley]] were captured as boys by the Klamath and Modoc people before 1864. They remained with their captors until after the ...s, when they would communicate with the dead, and during these dances song and teachings were revealed to them.
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  • Shenandoah was born a Susquehannock Indian but he was captured during a war and [[adopted]] into the Oneida tribe. He rose to become one of their two param ...war casualty, and in some societies had to become completely acculturated or be killed. Such adoptees were often adults when captured, but could be smal
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  • ...the family estate, his age at the time being variously estimated at eight and 13. ...different culture, speaking a totally different language from his captors, and terrified out of his mind at what had happened to him.
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  • ...n Maharashtra, Bogams in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...o a devadasi also become devadasi. There are still many thousands of girls and women in devadasi positions.
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  • ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...appoint him heir apparent. This parallels similar customs in ancient Rome and during the [[Chinese Qing Dynasty]].
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...with their main centers in Tokyo and Kyoto. The tradition is centuries old and continues today, although the heyday of the geisha was before World War II. ...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
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...media.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Meller-Zakomelski.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Traditional depiction of Abram Petrovich Gannibal'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ar, who had him baptized and gave him the names Petrovitch (after himself) and Hannibal (after the African Roman general).
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  • ...ving been [[adopted]] or fostered. (The abnormally common death dates 1848 and 1849 are because of a terrible measles epidemic, introduced by white settle ...pted]] by Kaikio'ewa, Governor of Kauai. His brothers, kings Kamehameha IV and V, were also adoptees.
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  • ...few years are a mystery, but he was born near Tokyo, and when he was four or five he was [[adopted]] by a mirror-polisher named Nakajima Ise. There is s ...was in the workshop of Katsukawa Shunsho and Katsukawa's heir until 1792, and then studied with other craftsmen for several more years. He was one of the
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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  • ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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  • ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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  • ...ia. See the entry for the royal house of Hawai'i, the Kawananakoa dynasty; and also that for the [[Chinese Qing Dynasty|Chinese Qing dynasty]], for an exa ...ra Bora, 1861). [[Adopted]] into the dynasty by Pomare II, king of Tahiti, and married Pomare's daughter 'Aimata.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...her brother and sister, who were captured by the Hidatsa people, enslaved, and became acculturated. ...neau and Sacagawea as guides and interpreters. Sacagawea was then pregnant and gave birth to her first child, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, at Fort Mandan in
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  • ...i government), and according to custom, the entire family - wife, children and others, at least 14 people in all - committed ritual suicide in shame. ...Siro fell in love with the daughter of Jigoro Kano, master of Kodokam judo and defected to that [[system]]. Saigo senior then chose Masayoshi Sokaku Minam
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  • ...e Black Hawk War (1832) and survived two assassination attempts by the Sac and Fox tribes. ...aubena Grove, [[Illinois]], but local settlers bought him land near Seneca and built him a house, where he spent the rest of his life.
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  • ...y just about every culture which had the opportunity, was powerful enough, and needed the labor slaves could provide. ...cases slavery was degrading psychologically and physically for its victims and morally brutalizing for its practitioners.
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  • ...a party from the Te Arawa tribe, led by Pango. Pango kidnapped Te Waharoa and took him back to the Rorotua area where he was raised. ...e Waharoa took responsibility for the physical safety of the missionaries, and saw that the stations were restored.
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  • ...[Ghana]] (and to a lesser extent, in [[Benin]], [[Nigeria]] and [[Togo]]), traditional religious beliefs have given rise to the practice of trokosi, literally "sl ...rely, a boy) to the shrine as the god's slave. This may be for a few years or permanent, although the is possible for the family to ransom the girl at th
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  • ...er brother, Timon. Bauro reigned for a short time but also had no children and the succession passed to his nephew, Tokatake, but without him being [[adop ...Arirei, the niece and [[adopted]] daughter of the previous uea, Kaiea III, and the birth daughter of Kaiea III's sister, Kinateo. Arirei is the first know
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...ill too young to leave his mother. However in 1811 he became Clark's ward, and was educated by him in St. Louis. When he grew up he returned to the fronti ...e joined the [[California]] Gold Rush, but was unsuccessful in prospecting and died on his way to new gold fields in [[Montana]].
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  • Horn Chips was orphaned as a young child and raised by his grandmother. Later he was [[adopted]] by the uncle of [[Crazy ...nowledged as the man who saved traditional Lakota religion from extinction and he trained a number of successors. His family still dominates native religi
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  • ...a department store in Rotorua he was made a ward of court at the age of 10 and put into his grandparents' [[custody]] as a [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whang ...and civil rights. He was then appointed head of the Iwi Transition Agency, and then chief executive of Te Puni Kokiri, the NZ Ministry of Maori Developmen
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  • ...In 1862, after the [[Minnesota]] Sioux uprising he escaped with his uncle and grandmother into Manitoba, to avoid white reprisals. His father, Many Ligh ...o school in the Dakota Territory. For the next 17 years he attended school and college, eventually graduating from Boston University Medical School.
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  • Hensley's mother died when he was a baby and he was fostered by his grandmother for five years, until she died. Then he He became a secular and spiritual leader of the Winnebago, Dakota and Ojibwa peoples, spreading the Peyote religion among them.
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  • ...é where he worked and where he slept on the floor. He wanted to go to sea and a few years later walked to Baltimore, where he signed on as a cabin boy. H ...primacy has been ignored. He also fathered several African-Inuit children, and there are still Inuit who acknowledge him as their ancestor.
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  • ...wling alley and then became a mechanic. In 1917 he joined the armed forces and served in [[France]]. ...or military field hospitals (vital for the storage of blood and medicines) and kitchens.
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  • ...ption (see Roman Empire), where a childless or sonless couple adopts a boy or man as their heir. He was the birth brother of Sato Eisaku, who also became ...from 1957 to 1960. His high-handed political tactics lost him many allies, and he was forced to resign in 1960, but he continued to serve in the House of
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  • ...ption (see Roman Empire), where a childless or sonless couple adopts a boy or man as their heir. He was the birth brother of Sato Eisaku, who also became ...from 1957 to 1960. His high-handed political tactics lost him many allies, and he was forced to resign in 1960, but he continued to serve in the House of
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  • ...09, "after 1911," "last reported living in Rome in 1911," 1911?, and "date and place of her death are unknown." ...college in 1859. She was accused of trying to poison two fellow-students, and in spite of being acquitted (her lawyer was [[John Mercer Langston]]), she
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  • ...ge party, at which he was [[adopted]] by Lone Wolf I to replace Tau ah kia and given the name Lone Wolf. In 1879 he succeeded to the chieftainship. ...the lands of the Kiowa, once covering [[Oklahoma]], [[Kansas]], [[Texas]] and part of [[Mexico]], had been reduced to 160 acres per person.
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  • ...eau of Indian Affairs boarding school he became a famous football fullback and was an active Methodist. He interpreted for [[Lone Wolf II]] in [[Washingto Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduc
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  • ...children and so [[adopted]] Maretu, who was the son of a Rarotongan woman and a French man. ...l administrator, W.E. Gudgeon. In 1902 he was appointed an associate judge and advisor on native customs to the Rarotongan Land Titles Court.
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  • ...itionalist Winnebago family, Mountain Wolf Woman converted to Christianity and then to Peyotism. ...in her birth family. She was an influential member of the Peyote religion, and foretold her own death in 1960.
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  • ...schools. The acknowledged reason for this was to eradicate Native American and Alaskan Native culture. ...ny respects this was like the treatment meted out to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children.
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  • ...a recent biography which attempts to get at the truth from both the white and Maori sides. ...illage of Mawhitiwhiti, son of a Christian lay preacher, Te Karere Omahuru and his wife, Hinewai, during a time of ferment, following the Maori Wars of a
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas. ...appoint him heir apparent. This parallels similar customs in ancient Rome and during the [[Chinese Qing Dynasty]].
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...to the Ngati Apa and Ngati Rauru tribes. He was [[adopted]] by Ria Hamuera and brought up on family land at Te Kawau. In 1912 his senior kinswoman, Mere R ...phet and healer. His reputation spread rapidly throughout the Maori people and he became the center of a community of believers. Initially he told his fol
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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  • ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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