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  • by his father, Mathias Haydn, due to the elder Haydn's overt religious leanings to the extent that he began each important letter he wrote ...
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  • a loyal supporter of Maximinus Thrax. The elder Gordians died. population of Rome was still shocked by the elder Gordian's fate, so that ...
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  • writers consciously created a pattern in which the elder "brother" of heir came to serve the younger, as part of a historiography justifying ...
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  • Strauss a contract for fear of angering the elder Strauss. However, Strauss ... the revolutionary years of 1848-49, the elder Strauss remained loyal to ...
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  • this marriage: Sri Chand and Lakhmi Chand. The elder son was a deeply spiritual person and founded a sect known as Udasi. He is known as Baba Sri ...
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  • to the Reformational trifold leadership of Pastor-Elder, Lay-Elders, and Deacons. Third, with his newfound position on baptism, a whole new concern ...
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  • Hunyadi has sometimes been confused with an elder brother or cousin John, himself ... Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár), next to his elder brother John. ...
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  • Offering (BWV 1079) was composed by the elder Bach. However, it brought ... 1079). The king presented a theme to the elder Bach and asked him to spontaneously ...
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  • in 1447 C.E. Prince Yangnyǒng, the elder brother of King Sejǒng, wrote the calligraphy for the three Chinese characters (崇禮門) that designated ...
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  • his mother Emelia, grandmother Macrina the Elder, sister Macrina the Younger ... The two only became reconciled as the elder lay upon his deathbed. ...
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  • known as the Studion, immediately, but the elder Symeon instructed him to wait, gradually preparing his young pupil for monastic life while ...
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  • the highly successful Victoria Theatre for the elder Oscar and was an innovative producer of vaudeville (he is generally credited with inventing ...
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  • is probably the plant mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History under the name of Amoracia, and recommended by him for its medicinal qualities ...
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  • after the death of his only remaining elder brother, Edward, so that ... of the Exchequer), James Craggs the Elder (the Postmaster General) ...
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  • for the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus are Pliny the Elder's Natural History [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/36 ...
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  • she played, sang and talked. Her father's elder brother Viram Deo, who succeeded to the throne, arranged her marriage at the age of 16 with ...
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  • earlier than the deity Earth and was her elder sister. It was believed that ... Another sacrifice was led, not by a shaman but by an elder who knew ...
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  • all the rest is commentary." —Hillel the Elder; Talmud, Shabbat 31a ===Zoroastrianism=== *~700 B.C.E. "That nature only is good when ...
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  • at the time, since Alfred had three living elder brothers. A letter of Leo ... six children together, including Edward the Elder, who succeeded his father ...
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  • * Elder – While most adult male Church members hold the office of ... * President – In a ward, the Elder's Quorum President is referred ...
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  • first in a European language in Pliny the Elder's Historia Naturalis ... quot;), which appears in Pliny the Elder's account. Roman animal ...
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  • this is the parish priest, but may be a starets (Elder, a monk who is well-known for his or her advancement in the spiritual life, or any individual ...
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  • mass shows close stylistic parallels with the elder composer. Obrecht seems to have had a succession of short appointments, many of which ended ...
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  • of a Stylite: Perspectives on Simeon the Elder." Vigiliae Christianae ... * Thurston, Herbert. "Simeon Stylites the Elder" in the ...
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  • Julia Caesaris (sister of Julius Caesar), elder sister of Caesar. He put ... to Augustus' daughter Julia the Elder. However, Marcellus died ...
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  • much more urbane than Berndt. Karen's elder brother was also named Berndt ... At this time, she developed a crush on her elder brother, who became embarrassed ...
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  • Keynes outlived his elder son Maynard by three years and died in 1949 in Cambridge, England. He was 97 years old. His wife Florence was also ...
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  • Yuri was the third of four children, and his elder sister helped raise him while his parents worked. Like millions of people in the Soviet Union, ...
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  • him from his father, William Pitt the Elder, who also served as Prime ... William Pitt the Younger, second son of William Pitt the Elder (afterward ...
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  • human flesh. The Roman scholar, Pliny the Elder, quoting Euanthes claimed ... of a Terrible Superstition. London: Smith, Elder, 1865. ISBN 0766183076 ...
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  • several notable Latin writers, including Seneca the Elder and Seneca the Younger, Lucan and Quintilian. Martial professes to be of the school of Catullus ...
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  • Pliny the Elder’s Pliny's Natural History stated that the "Imperial Porphyry" had been discovered at an isolated site in Egypt ...
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  • by Susan E. James suggests that the "Elder Lady" mummy (found in ... KMT article "Who is Elder Lady"] egyptology.com ...
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  • his mother Emelia, his grandmother Macrina the Elder, his sister Macrina the Younger, and his brothers Basil and Peter, the latter of whom became ...
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  • of Mesopotamian deities, such as the Elder Gods Lahmu and Lahamu (the ... In her rage, the elder goddess decided to use her generative power ...
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  • exact copies of them had been published by the elder Carsten Niebuhr, who had lost his eyesight over the task. It was Niebuhr who brought the ...
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  • The elder Agassiz took his son and emigrated to the United States in 1849. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying ...
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  • *Cieutat, Victor J., Krimerman, Leonard I., and Elder S. Thomas. Traditional logic and the Venn diagram; a programed introduction. San Francisco: ...
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  • was being balanced in the hands of his elder brothers, doing acrobatic ... the show had lost O'Connor's elder brother Billy to scarlet ...
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  • many of his early works have been attributed to the elder master, ... *Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder (c. 1474-1475 ...
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  • to the final version of the will, Antipas' elder brother Archelaus was to become king of Judea, Idumea, and Samaria, while Antipas would rule Galilee ...
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  • and Korea, the distinction between the roles of elder and younger siblings is determined by the cultural norms. The eldest son is expected to assume ...
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  • Maria Sklodowska maintained a deep relationship with her elder sister ... Eventually, with monetary assistance from her elder sister Bronia ...
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  • trumpet, and tuba. He began to play drums in his elder brother Joe’s band at the age of six. He played and sometimes led bands from his early years ...
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  • Besides his manufacturing business, the elder Goodyear ran a farm, and ... of farm tools and machinery designed by the elder Goodyear (Iles 1912, 177). ...
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  • Jack became co-head of production along with elder brother Sam. Warner pp. 100-101. Sam died in 1927 (just before the premiere of the first "talking ...
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  • strength. He served on the Genroin, (Council of Elder Statesmen), where he strongly supported a more authoritarian version of government against the views ...
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  • Jia Yuanchun is Baoyu's elder sister by the same parents and ... Wang Xifeng, alias Phoenix, Sister Feng is Baoyu's elder cousin ...
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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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