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  • ...y and he was brought up by a [[guardian]], Proxenus, who sent him to Plato's academy in Athens about 367. He spent 20 years there and eventually founded ThinkQuest Competition Team 18775. "Aristotle's Life." Available at: [http://generationterrorists.com/bio/aristotle.html]
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  • [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...ee years old (his father had disappeared before he was born and his mother died in 1811) and he was fostered (never formally [[adopted]]) by a merchant nam [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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  • Byrd was born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. His mother died in 1918 or 1919 during the flu pandemic and his father sent him to live with and be ad Who's Who in America, 1996
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  • Young, Jeffrey S. The Journey Is the Reward. (Glenview: Scott Foresman Trade, 1988) [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • Monaghan's father died when he was four, and he and his younger brother were put into care by thei ...g pizza parlor in 1960 for $975, which became the foundation of his Domino's Pizza franchise empire.
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  • Who's Who in America, 1996 Family Friends or Acquaintances/
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  • ...e school when he was 10, and succeeded to the earldom when his grandfather died in 1801. ...he Society of Antiquaries from 1812 to 1846. From 1813 to 1855 he was more or less continuously in politics, in Parliament, and first as a diplomat (for
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  • ...Melbourne. She started singing professionally when she was 18 and quickly became well known as a Gilbert and Sullivan, classical opera and concert singer. B [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • ...naval captain and slave trader and his Creole servant-mistress. His mother died soon after his birth and his father took him home to [[France]], where he w ...ess (he went bankrupt twice and was imprisoned for debt in 1819), and only became famous as a nature artist and naturalist later, after going to Britain and
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  • ...th and last child of Johann Ambrosius and Maria Elisabeth Bach. His mother died in 1694 and his father in 1695. The nine-year-old [[orphan]] and his brothe ...mposers in history. Just before his 14th birthday, Johann left his brother's family to make his own way in the world, first as a paid chorister in Lüne
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  • ...February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, according to different romanizations. Her mother died of cancer in 1991. She was then fostered by her coach, Stanislav Koretek, b
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  • ...Public Library in 1875 and rose to be chief librarian by 1885. In 1908 he became the first head of the new National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. He wrot Who's Who in Wales, edited by Arthur Mee. (Cardiff: Western Mail, 1921)
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  • ...her father was Speaker of the House of Representatives 1936-40. Her mother died shortly after she was born, and she was sent to be raised by her grandparen [[Category: Addiction or Abuse (drugs, Alcohol or Gambling)]]
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  • ...8 (at his own farm near Kingsessing, near Philadelphia), now named Bartram's Garden. His fifth son, William, was also a noted naturalist. Bartram was a [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • ...were [[adopted]] by their uncle, John Bubenheim Bayard, when their father died. [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...e was two and her father when she was 12. She then lived with an aunt, who died six months later, and then with an uncle. Her first film was Munkbrogreven "Ingrid Bergman's Biography." [Includes portrait]. Available at: [http://diva.eecs.berkeley.e
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  • ...s Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During the first few Roberts listened to Deacon's dictation and repeated it to Sangster, who wrote it down in longhand. After
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  • ...judge named John Green. With him on the same train was Andrew Burke, who became his good friend and was later governor of [[North Dakota]]. ...established a school for Native Alaskan children. He left the ministry and became active in the logging industry. He was appointed territorial governor in 18
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  • Bradford was born into a well-off family in Yorkshire, but his father died in 1591. His mother remarried in 1593 and William was then raised by his gr [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • ...s that he could heal other people, but it was not really recognized by him or others until he was in his late 20s, when he attended a spiritualist church [[Category: Multiple or Unspecified]]
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  • ...when he was actively homosexual, but was also married and had a family. He died of AIDS. Who's Who in America, 1996
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  • ...d]] by an uncle in [[Pennsylvania]]. He graduated from college in 1794 and became a teacher, and was licensed by the Presbyterian church to preach in 1799. H [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • ...irth. He was orphaned at the age of four and became a ward of the Children's Aid Society, which sent him on an Orphan Train to Noblesville, Indiana, whe ...boy. After marriage, Burke and his wife settled in North Dakota, where he became successively a bookkeeper, bank cashier, county treasurer of Cass County, a
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  • ...flat in Islington, London. Her childhood was happy in spite of her father's alcoholism. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...adult, he was described as the richest man in the world) - and his mother died in 1859. He was sent to Harrow, where he won prizes for English and Latin v ...rt to Catholicism, and was the model for the central character in Disraeli's novel Lothair.
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  • ...portrait.jpg/479px-Robert_Byrd_official_portrait.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''U.S. Senator Robert Byrd of [[West Virginia]], 2005'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.o Byrd was born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. His mother died in 1918 or 1919 during the flu pandemic and his father sent him to live with and be [[
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  • ...ent coming of the Messiah, and moved to Cairo, then Tripolitania, where he became personal physician to Osman Pasha, the bey of Tripoli. When Rabbi Nathan of ...this important and interesting episode in Jewish history we owe to Cardozo's published books and surviving letters.
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  • Cerullo was born the fifth child of a Jewish family but his mother died when he was very young and his father placed him in an Orthodox orphanage. [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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  • ...facts seem to be that her father was a wastrel and a vagabond, her mother died in 1895, and Gabrielle and a sister were then abandoned in an [[orphanage]] "Michael Moffa's Tribute to the Legendary House of Chanel: Coco Chanel Biography." [Includes
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  • ...to help save time in her expanding business empire, and she got her pilot's license in 1932 (it took her only two days to go solo and 20 to get her lic ...ld more speed and altitude records than any other person in the world, man or woman.
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  • The story he told of himself was that he became bar mitzvah at 13, studied for the rabbinate and was ordained. ...n their Jewish identity and religious practices. He was soon converted and became an evangelist himself, preaching to other Jews. He studied at a Christian s
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  • Commager was orphaned as a child and raised by his mother's father in Toledo and Chicago. He became a famous college professor, teaching at New York University, Columbia Unive
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  • [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]] [[Category: War or Persecution]]
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  • Cornwell was born Patricia Daniels to a married couple. When she was five or seven (sources differ) her father abandoned the family for another woman. H [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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  • ...rktown (1781), George and Martha adopted his six children (that is, Martha's grandchildren), including young George [[Washington]] Parke and Nelly Custi ...ok of recipes and formulae which in many way parallels the work of Britain's Mrs. Beeton.
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  • ...dia/commons/6/6f/Portrait_de_Dante.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Dante Alighieri's portrait by Sandro Botticelli'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • Davies' father died when he was a child and when his mother remarried he was [[adopted]] by his ...Adoption/Fostering when Parent Began New Relationship, Conflict With Step-parent]]
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  • ...s Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During the first few Roberts listened to Deacon's dictation and repeated it to Sangster, who wrote it down in longhand. After
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  • Dean was born to a married couple but when his mother died of cancer in 1940 his father sent him to [[Indiana]] to live with his grand ...t a cause, the angry youth of the post-war period, the first teenagers. He died in an automobile accident.
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  • [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • ...lrichs, who was shunned by her family for marrying beneath her. His mother died only six days after he was born, and his busy father gave him into the cust ...ent back to live with his remarried father and step-mother, but his father died in 1951. He grew up surrounded by the rich, famous and powerful, and made h
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  • ...His mother died of childbirth fever days after he was born, and his father died in 1547, leaving Edward King of England at the age of 9. His [[guardian]] and Lord Protector was his mother's brother, Edward Seymour, who initially controlled the country, but he was o
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  • ...War of 1812, a family friend to whom his father sent him after his mother died. ...ell. David Glasgow Farragut: Courageous Navy Commander. (Chicago: Children's Press, 1991) (People of Distinction Biographies)
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  • ...er of prophecy. When his training was complete he went up to the High King's palace and was made leader of the Fianna. ...ser Barbarossa and King [[Arthur]]. He is credited with building the Giant's Causeway between [[Ireland]] and Scotland.
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  • ...t of Latter-day Saints]] (Mormons) five months after her birth. Her mother died in 1855 and her father was then sent away on church work, so until she was ...he [[Utah]] Women's Press Club, and a local Republican Party official. She died aged 104.
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  • ...739 and his father in 1740), raised in Swansea and educated in Bristol. He became a Baptist minister in England and wrote a number of poems and hymns, many o [[Category: Parent(s) Died, Disappeared or Became Incapacitated]]
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  • Frelinghuysen, whose father died when he was three, was the birth nephew and adoptive son of Theodore Frelin [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • In early adulthood he became an ardent abolitionist and spent the decades fighting slavery, dedicating h [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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