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  • Bramwell Bronté, her biography of the troubled elder brother to the Bronte girls. The fact that their mother had been Cornish no doubt added to her interest. ...
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  • Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis (95 B.C.E.–46 B.C.E.), known as Cato the Younger to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder ...
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  • on March 31, 1797, at the age of 52. Soon after, the elder daughter died at the age of four, leaving Joanna to inherit Equiano's estate which was ...
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  • against Islam. London, UK: Smith, Elder. * Bennett, Clinton. 1992. ... from original sources. London, UK: Smith & Elder. * Muir, William ...
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  • He is known as the elder brother of Lord Krishna and worshipped by some devotees of Vaishnavism. Reverence of Balarama is especially popular ...
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  • He is often known as William Pitt the Elder to distinguish him from his ... But his military career was destined to be short. His elder brother ...
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  • :* Declining food or drink offered by an elder. :* Picking up chopsticks ... :* Using chopsticks or a spoon with a left hand; most elder citizens ...
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  • and the daughter of a mariner. Paul had an elder brother, Félix, who committed ... to Florida in order to be near his elder daughter, Mary, Dirac spent ...
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  • the political rivalries of court. When his elder brother, Duke Taehn, was ... parents and children, husband and wife, elder and younger, superior and ...
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  • either be democratic or led by a lay member. An elder or member of a pastoral team supervises groups of several, perhaps five, cell churches. A pastor ...
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  • c.348 B.C.) in the Alcibiades, Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.), Plutarch (c ... According to tradition and Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Zoroaster ...
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  • | father =Theodosius the Elder | mother =Thermantia ... a senior military officer, Theodosius the Elder, Theodosius accompanied his ...
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  • struggling with each other, and that the elder would serve the younger. ... this period Laban deceptively gives him the elder daughter, Leah, with whom ...
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  • * [http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/wyatt.htm Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder (1503-1542)] by Anniika Jokinen Category:Writers and poets ...
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  • #039;s strategy of choosing Myeongbok over his elder brother, because it meant a longer period of regency. ==Wielding royal power== ...
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  • notable minister was William Pitt, the Elder. Pitt was appointed a Secretary ... As Secretary of State for the Southern Department, Pitt the Elder ...
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  • His youth was spent in solitude, and when his elder brother, William, came home, he wreaked havoc in the quiet surroundings. De Quincey's mother ...
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  • son, Naungdawgyi (literally "Royal Elder Brother," born August ... his successor, his grandson Bagyidaw (Royal Elder Uncle), who in turn was given ...
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  • reveal that after the Third Buddhist Council, the elder (thera) Mahárakkhita was sent to the Yona country and he preached Dharma among the Yonas and ...
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  • Jacobite Rising of 1745. In 1746, he joined his elder brother, John Adam, as an assistant to his father, and after their father's death in 1748, ...
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