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  • and their level of authority. The idea of royal blood in other societies ... 眞骨), which included the rest of the royal family, as well as the Bak and ...
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  • Changdeokgung is one of the finest examples of Confucian royal architecture ... constructed for the use of the royal family and palace women. The ...
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  • all of the representatives of the royal family had fled from Seoul. When ... clan of the Yi's, the Joseon royal family, were barely surviving ...
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  • describe the photograph as an offical royal family portrait. A royal family ... woman's clothing, only worn by the royal family, reflected high-rank, ...
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  • The Royal Ballet is Great Britain's most prestigious ballet company ... granted a Royal Charter. The British royal family has been personally involved ...
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  • Joseon monarch, Gojong, decisively wielded royal power for ten years before ... Seven years later, King Gojong and the royal family took up residence in the ...
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  • 10, 1731, in Nice, France, where his family was living at the time. ... as an experimenter and a member of the Royal Society. It was from this ...
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  • The Divine Right of Kings is a political and religious doctrine of ... Catholic tradition dealt with the issue of royal absolutism with the doctrine ...
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  • bureaucrat or a man of ability from the royal family, to advise the young king ... replaced Greater Yun as the majority in the royal court and brutally ousted ...
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  • age. He almost certainly sang in the Chapel Royal during Mary Tudor's ... A royal influence on Byrd was Queen Mary, who spent her brief reign ...
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  • that were held by many members of the royal household, by members of ... King Taejong with an gold imperial seal and royal patent. After setting up ...
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  • 1128 to 1169. Under Khun Chuang, a single family ruled over a far-flung territory ... [[Image:Buddhist temple at Royal Palace in Luang Prabang.jpg|thumb ...
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  • in 586 B.C.E. The member of a prestigious family, he was the son of Ahikam ... advice from prophets, priests, and other royal advisers regarding what policy ...
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  • the usual form of authority, the term "royal charter" was common ... Charters were issued in medieval times by Royal decree, perhaps giving ...
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  • Soon after his arrival in Korea with his family, Allen's medical ... Allen continued to provide medical care to the royal family, and to ...
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  • Lynch (1675-1738) served in the First Royal Assembly (1721-1724) and ... surname to Lynch in order to inherit the family estate. His sister, Sabina ...
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  • Ahlsell. By the time of his birth, his family already figured prominently ... forced to declare bankruptcy and moved his family to Stockholm. Four years ...
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  • eggs he designed for the Russian royal family until he was forced to ... ==The Royal Family== In 1885, the first Faberge Easter egg was presented ...
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  • anguish. Eventually she shook free of her family's expectations. She ... her decision to enter nursing to her family in 1845, evoking intense ...
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  • intermarriage. Examples abound in every royal family; in particular, the ruling ... Other examples of royal family intermarriage include: *Some Egyptian ...
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  • governors were also members of the royal family. While belief in the Pharaoh’s ... governors) no longer belonged to the royal family, which meant that they ...
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  • by rivalry amongst the various Joseon royal family branches (even King U ... Ming Dynasty under the Zhu Yuanzhang, the royal court in Goryeo split into ...
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  • the Goryeo dynasty, at a time when rival royal clans were vying for political ... was a descendant of a powerful merchant family at Songdo, which controlled ...
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  • Cromer was born at his family estate, Cromer Hall, in Norfolk. He belonged to a branch of the famous banking family, the Barings, originally ...
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  • had married their daughters into the royal family for almost a century, ... through marriages with members of the royal family. The Ansam Kim clan monopolized ...
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  • of an earlier English King, Stephen, into the royal family. ... * Weir, Alison. Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy ...
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  • François Boucher was born in Paris to a family of little means. His ... of France. The contest was organized by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture ...
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  • being given frequent access to the royal children. She was particularly ... betrothal was not considered official. The family's politics made them ...
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  • the famous Jharoka-e-Darshan (Balcony for Royal Appearance), Masjidi Gate. ... Shah Nahar Canal. Engineers brought Shah Nahar (Royal canal), later ...
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  • importance. Many images of her show simple family gatherings with her husband ... Many images depict the whole royal family in domestic scenes. Nefertiti ...
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  • America's equivalent of the "royal family." ... were perhaps the closest thing to a royal family that America has ever ...
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  • had political ambitions. Close ties between royal families, though, has sometimes ... baptized in Martinique, to a slave-owning family that owned a sugar plantation ...
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  • His family was fairly large and Gainsborough led an uneventful young ... however Gainsborough remained the Royal family's favorite painter ...
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  • touring the continent and northern Africa with his family. ... reputation and won him membership in the Royal Society of London in 1907 ...
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  • caryophyllus, of the Caryophyllaceae family, widely cultivated for its ... is a member of the flowering plant family Caryophyllaceae, commonly ...
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  • is disputed by several branches of the royal family, although the line of ... Malacca. In 1457, he married into the royal family of Sulu and founded the ...
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  • with the help of relatives, sent him to the Royal Seminary in Como with the ... In 1774 he became professor of physics at the Royal Seminary, and ...
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  • resisted Henry VII. Robert Aske, of the family of Aske Hall in Richmond ... into the body politic of the English Royal Domain, thus contributed ...
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  • German Emperor Frederick III and Princess Royal Victoria, who was the eldest ... by the Civil War, and the legitimacy of the royal election was based upon the ...
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  • a country that had welcomed the deposed royal family (Farmer, 1997). Though ... remaining members of the Anglo-Saxon royal family). Though she demurred ...
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  • Spencers, had been close to the British Royal Family for decades. Her maternal ... monitored by the British government and royal family. These seeds of suspicion ...
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  • Peacock. In 1813, he became a fellow of the Royal Society of London after submitting ... Herschel was gradually drawn back to the family tradition of studying astronomy ...
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  • foul play by a rival branch of the royal family, the Andong Kim clan, ... ladies and princesses of the royal family, unless politics beckoned ...
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  • dictatorship ruled with a cruel hand in the royal court. The Buddhist community ... #039;s agreement to send the Imperial Family as hostages. Goryeo sent ...
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  • The Medici family was a powerful and influential Florentine family ... the agriculture based Mugello region, the family first achieved power through ...
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  • 1450 – May 29, 1500), a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese ... who believe that the human race is one family and that ultimately people ...
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  • of deciduous shrubs in the flowering plant family Oleaceae (olive family), ... The plant family to which forsythia belong, Oleaceae, or the olive ...
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  • The Bagrationi dynasty (bagrationt'a dinastia) was the ruling ... persisted as an Imperial Russian noble family until the 1917 February Revolution ...
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  • received international recognition. His family had ruled the Hejaz since ... to efforts by members of the Jordanian royal family to promote inter-religious ...
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  • Protestant King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant ... Through a crash program of selling off Royal demesnes, Lord Treasurer ...
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  • London. Though he readily found work at the Royal Albert Dock, his commission ... there. Dabbling in politics, despite his family's Liberal Party sympathies ...
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  • Harper. After his father died in 1873, his family moved to Manchester. Assisted ... including photographs of the same, to the Royal Society. After completing ...
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  • bought by Michael Pascal, a captain in the Royal Navy. As the slave of a naval ... where he returned to a life at sea in the Royal Navy. (McKay 2006) ...
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  • Daewongun's policies had increased. Royal officials called for Gojong ... of character out-weighed her lack of family influence in the royal court. ...
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  • The Academy has had a long association with the Royal Family and we ... from Richard Cawston's documentary Royal Family to the SFTA in the early ...
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  • It is possible that, without the royal patronage provided by Bimbisara ... Later, Ashoka the Great would take royal patronage of Buddhism a step ...
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  • In the same year, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society and, in 1718, joined ... the moon. Private letter published in The Family Memoirs of the Rev. William ...
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  • Distylium), both in the Hamamelidaceae family, are not closely related to hazel. ... The genus Corylus usually is placed in the birch family Betulaceae ...
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  • carrying out one's duties to family and society, serving the ... to have had a sage who would advise the royal family in spiritual matters, ...
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  • a comet, but upon informing the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, the later ... of instruments to astronomers and to the royal family. In 1783, he ...
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  • became discontent with the presence of any royal power but himself. ... bothered to do, make the Carolingian name royal in law as well as fact. Pepin ...
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  • of only six music directors of the renowned Royal Concertgebow Orchestra of ... in the Netherlands. Mengelberg's family would include several prominent ...
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  • power struggles between aristocratic and royal prerogative, the reign of ... would appear to be an attempt to buttress royal authority by nurturing relations ...
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  • and German, and was known as Beccle by family and friends. ... by her gender. Beginning her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London ...
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  • Matilda's descendants, the Plantagenet royal line was established when ... in August 1100, Henry I quickly seized the royal treasury and the crown. His ...
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  • Kucharsky whose portraits of the royal family include one of Louis XVII ... After the arrest of the royal family during the French Revolution ...
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  • by King Charles III and members of the royal family for official and state ... among contemporary commoners and the Royal Family alike. ...
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  • Abbey is a church owned directly by the British royal family. ... abbey was saved from destruction due to its royal connections, when it was ...
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  • or prestigious families will often have a family crypt or vault, in which ... privately owned and used for specific family or other groups, but usually ...
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  • human rights and civil liberty—challenged royal power. ... Joan was highly influential in royal politics and corresponded with ...
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  • houses. Adam was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts in 1758, ... Robert studied at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, then entered the ...
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  • also known as Lydia Kamakaeha Paki, had the royal name of Liliuokalani given ... whereby a child is adopted into a royal family in order to secure a higher ...
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  • == Family life and education == in Washington, DC, to an Arab-American family distinguished for its public ...
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  • while others who only had prestigious family lines for centuries wound ... capital city of Chang'an, the Yan family migrated south below the ...
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  • earned him commendation as a fellow of the Royal Society. Wedgwood's ... d. 1766), Josiah was raised within a family of English Dissenters. After ...
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  • Kashmir. Having won the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1891 ... India (now Pakistan) to a British military family, John Younghusband and his ...
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  • time, a tradition was started within the royal Russian family that included ... by the Bolsheviks, and the Fabergé family fled to Switzerland, where ...
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  • of Coupvray, near Paris, France into the family of Simon-René and Monique ... the Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles (Royal Institution for Blind Youth ...
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  • He served in the last four Royal Assemblies in the colony and in its ... 1775 when Lord William Campbell, the last Royal governor, dissolved the assembly ...
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  • (1862–1926), head of the Bonaparte family. Philippe the Count of Ravenstein, no such royal decrees were ever issued. ...
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  • he painted the King and the Queen, royal family pictures, portraits of ... Goya painted the Spanish royal family, including Charles IV of Spain ...
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  • Born to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, except for a family tradition ... them those of several members of the royal family and numerous British and ...
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  • United States who freed himself and his family in May 1862, and subsequently ... stop at a nearby ship to pick Smalls' family and other crew's relatives ...
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  • of England for the establishment of the The Royal Academy of Arts of which ... well received everywhere she went, the royal family especially showing her ...
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  • of Manasseh, in the town of Ophrah. The family, like many Israelites of ... weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family." ...
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  • Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" in "Jizi" comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family ...
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  • Gideon and Maria Gerhard Appenzeller. His family attended the Emmanuel Reformed ... ==Transplanting the Family to Korea== After leaving the U.S. on February ...
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  • * Family Emballonuridae (sac-winged bats or sheath-tailed bats) ... * Family Rhinopomatidae (mouse-tailed bats) * Family Craseonycteridae ...
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  • by the leading members of the British Royal Family, the Prime Minister, leaders ... Other members of the British Royal Family watch from the balcony ...
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  • outstanding poets patronized by the royal family of Travancore. The reign ... * [http://www.4dw.net/royalark/India/trava5.htm Royal Website]. ...
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  • later life lacked the religious cynicism of royal contemporaries such as Frederick ... In the 1760s, smallpox claimed several victims in the royal family ...
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  • == Royal titles == * Royal titles in Latin: Sigismundus Tertius Dei gratia rex Poloniæ ...
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  • from place to place as a tea merchant. His family of nine lived in a humble ... Robert’s eldest daughter, and began a family while moving around setting ...
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  • Princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil, of the royal Hashemite family. At the ... The Hashemite royal family is closely interlinked into the life of ...
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  • England. He has remained the patron saint of the Royal Family. ... George. He remained the patron saint of the Royal Family. ...
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  • and Company. His descendants, the Du Pont family, were one of America's ... 0787638900). They were a distinguished family in France with connections ...
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  • and the elimination of the entire royal family. Following assumption ... been seen by a few trusted members of the royal family. ...
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  • Period (fifth century B.C.E.), only the royal family and the aristocratic elite ... Xing were surnames held by the immediate royal family. They are generally ...
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  • Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famous family of Count ... of ceremonies, later as grand master of Royal Hunting, visiting Europe ...
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  • member of a Kakhetian princely family of the third rank, vassals ... joined the Russian Senate, and retained his royal style until May 6, 1833, ...
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