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  • ...7/7a/Eric_Bloodaxe_Norse_king_of_York_952_954.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Coin of Eirik Bloodaxe'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...rs the years 850 to 1177, and other ancient sources, these are some of the fostered men and women:
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  • ....org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Leonardo_Salai.JPG |410x579px|thumb|'''Drawing of Salai by Leonardo da Vinci'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} '''Also known as Salai and Andrea Salaino'''
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  • ...school until he rejoined his parents in [[India]] when he was 17, to work as a journalist. He and his wife lived in [[Vermont]] for a short time but returned to England. His books include Plain Tales from the Hills, Jungle Book, Captain
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  • ...when she was six, leaving her in Britain with a relative who ran a girls' school. Her father died soon afterwards and she did not see her mother again until ...e court was considerable at the time of the beginning of the modernization of [[Thailand]].
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  • ...surround himself with young and handsome disciples ... [and] adopted them as his own offspring." Pall Mall Encyclopaedia of [[ART|Art]]. (London: Pall Mall Press, 1971)
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  • ...The practice of whangai is very ancient: the first tamaiti whangai is said to have been the hero Maui. ...ended family]], and even then the whanau is not an isolated unit, but part of more inclusive units, extending even beyond the tribe.
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  • Hurston was born in the all-Black and Black-governed town of Eatonville, [[Florida]]. Her father, a carpenter and minister, and his wife ...hool to [[adopt]] her. This did not happen, but at 13 she went to be nanny to her brother's children.
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  • ...vernment or mission boarding schools. The acknowledged reason for this was to eradicate Native American and Alaskan Native culture. ...their backgrounds. In many respects this was like the treatment meted out to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children.
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