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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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