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  • ...older brother was raised by their grandfather and his younger sister was [[adopted]] by a different family, the Mackenzies, but he remained in contact with th Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...Jesus and both his parents being listed, although none was [[adopted]] or fostered in the modern European-American sense of the terms, and both Joseph and Jes Complete Who's Who in the Bible, edited by Paul Gardner. (London: HarperCollins Religious, 199
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  • According to the Bible (Exodus 1-2) Moses was fostered or adopted after his mother, Jochebed, placed him in a basket on the Nile (compare ''' ...idore Epstein, principal of Jews' College, London, writes that he "was the adopted son of an Egyptian princess, identified by some with Hatshepsut, the sister
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  • ...he Ministry of Social Affairs about orphanages which release orphans to be fostered in the foster family's home. ...ents]], you need to meet the requirements of [[Egypt]] as described in the Who Can [[Adopt]] section.
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  • ...s triggered a number of inquiries from U.S. [[adoption]] service providers who want to learn how the disbandment will affect pending cases. The U.S. Embas *U.S. citizens who have lived in Kenya for fewer than three continuous years are prohibited fr
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  • ...t Malaysian entities, depending on whether the [[adoption]] is of a Muslim or non-Muslim child. '''''Only Muslim prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive Adoptions of children who are not related to the prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] ar
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  • ...initiation of the adoption process. The marriage can be civil, religious, or traditional, as long as it is registered. Civil marriages are registered w ...ces (USCIS) determines [http://adoption.state.gov/adoption_process/who.php Who Can Adopt] under U.S. immigration law.
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  • ...e lack of judicial resources in South [[Sudan]] may mean that any adoption or [[custody]] decree issued by courts in South [[Sudan]] may be insufficient ...and Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) determines who can [[adopt]] under U.S. immigration law.
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  • ...nts|adoptive parents]] that before an immigrant visa may be issued to an [[adopted]] child, a U.S. consular officer must ensure that the adoption is legal und ...-604) to verify the child's orphan status prior to the issuance of an IR-3 or IR-4 immigrant visa. Depending on the circumstances of a case, this investi
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  • ...rs the years 850 to 1177, and other ancient sources, these are some of the fostered men and women: ...viser''', 9th century? Ingjald was the son of the high king, Onund. He was fostered by the regional king Svipdag the Blind of Upsal. Ingjald succeeded as high
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  • ...born poor and Black in Louisiana. He was orphaned at an early age, but was fostered by family friends. He worked his way through school and university. Who's Who in America, 1996
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  • ...raised by his sister. Later he was fostered by his teacher, Philip Burton, who, although too close in age to the boy by a few days to [[adopt]] him, becam ...ms included My Cousin Rachel, The Robe, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Who's Afraid of [[Virginia]] Woolf, The Taming of the Shrew, Look Back in Anger
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  • Caprotti was a student of the immortal Leonardo da Vinci, who was his frequent model and collaborated with him in some of his paintings. ...me lovers. Leonardo gave the young Caprotti the name Salaì (Little Devil, or Devil's Offspring), because of his almost intolerable behavior: continually
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  • ...e Marrano family. (The Marranos are the Jews of [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] who involuntarily converted to Christianity in the 14th century and later, many [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • ...y from home at 15, when his father died, to be in the theater. He was then fostered informally by the actors Alistair and Joan Sims, whom he met when he and Al Sothworth, June. "George Cole on Work, His Two Wives and the Child Who Rejected Him," Daily Mail [London], 16 August 1995, p. 18
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  • ...ere was also a cousin named Mark McManus - who grew up to become the actor who played Taggart in the British television detective series. [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • ...r his mother moved to London to remarry. He probably never saw his father, who died/was murdered before 1907. His deception was not malicious and there were always people who knew his true identity, which became public only days after his death from
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or Shoah, in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire Jewi ...en were taken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until after the war
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  • One of several versions of his life states that Heracles was [[adopted]] by Hera, wife of the god Zeus. Another version of his life states that he ...rtue and music. He killed Linus in a fit of temper and was sent then to be fostered by some shepherds in the mountains, where he further developed his incredib
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  • ...o informally fostered a succession of homeless children. When he was seven or eight he discovered that one of the other people living in the house was hi Who's Who, 1997
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  • Kereluk, who was Miss [[Canada]] in 1984, is the Canadian counterpart to the British Mr. She was orphaned at an early age and was fostered or adopted by a family with nine other children. She frequently mentions her [[adoptio
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  • ...gland, where they were fostered until 1877 by a rigidly Calvinistic family who abused him physically and emotionally, while favoring his sister. His mothe Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...went to [[India]] 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 he [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • ...she was 18 she was adopted by a Mr. and Mrs. Callahan, distant relatives, who were childless and wealthy. They, too, were Protestants, but McAuley conver Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and Adopted People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...r, who soon became mentally ill and was hospitalized, whereupon Monroe was adopted by her best friend. Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and Adopted People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or Shoah, in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire Jewi ...en were taken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until after the war
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  • ...o the court of Teyrnon Twrf Liant, where he was named Gwri Wallt Eurin and fostered for four years. He was enormously strong as a child, like [[Heracles]]. When Teyrnon realized who the child's parents were, he returned him. He was renamed Pryderi by his mo
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  • ...ildren) until they were discovered by the royal herdsman, Faustulus, who [[adopted]] them. [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • ...e fostered or [[adopted]] by his father's prosperous friend, Thomas Ewing, who named him after Chief Tecumseh. Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or [[Shoah]], in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire ...en were taken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until after the war
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  • ...s. The influential journalist and film critic André Bazin rescued him and fostered him. ...The 400 Blows, Jules et Jim, The Wild Child (about a feral child), The Man Who Loved Women, The Bride Wore Black, and he acted in Close Encounters of the
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  • Who's Who, 1998 [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • ...blamed (and it was the whites of course who brought the measles). In fear or revenge the mission was attacked and 14 people killed, including Whitman an [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • ...ntally separated from their families during migrations or other movements, or possibly exposed in the wild as a form of infanticide/birth control. It is Almost all examples are either fictional (such as Tarzan and Mowgli) or legendary (such as Afrasiab, King of Turan, in the Shah-nama; King Zahhak o
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  • ...and [[Switzerland]], fostered and ultimately [[adopted]] by a Swiss family who refused to discuss his traumatic past with him. ...memories, a construct based on false memories (recovered memory syndrome), or a conscious and deliberate fraud. The consensus now is that the book is a d
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  • ...andmother broke his arm he was rescued by an uncle and a neighbor and then fostered by whites until he was 15. [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • Griffis was born to a white father, a famous scout, and a mother who was half Osage (there is some dispute about this, but Griffis apparently be When he was four he was captured by Kiowas, who killed his mother, and was then raised by a Kiowa stepfather and Cheyenne s
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  • ...ers of the families are generally recognized as having been [[adopted]] or fostered. (The abnormally common death dates 1848 and 1849 are because of a terrible ...son of Princess Kalani- Ahumanu- i-Kaliko -o-Iw i-Kauhipua -o-Kinau, was [[adopted]] by Kaikio'ewa, Governor of Kauai. His brothers, kings Kamehameha IV and V
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  • ...ti atawhai) is a child who is nurtured or raised by someone other than his or her birth parents. The practice of whangai is very ancient: the first tamai ...ucate them as experts in various traditional skills or types of knowledge, or give them to other families to strengthen family alliances, although this l
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  • ...be raised by relatives, including Chief Blackfish, who also fostered or [[adopted]] several white captive children. ...ership: that no individual or even tribe could alienate land to the whites or own land individually.
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  • ...ard College. At Barnard she became a student of anthropologist Franz Boas, who encouraged her to collect African-American and Caribbean folklore. Her race [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • ...f her employer (whose daughter he later married), who had him educated and fostered by an elderly lay brother, Don Antonio Salanueva. Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...eft his father, who was unable to afford to educate the brilliant boy, and fostered by a better-off family. Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • At first the boy was fostered by another mercenary and his wife. The next few months are shrouded in unce ...g school, where he was the only child. He was then taken to live with Fox, who was now, for the third time, Premier of the colony, and his wife. Fox had n
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  • Her daughter, A'Lelia, was an adoptive mother, to '''Mae Walker Perry''', who was president of her grandmother's company from 1931 (when her mother died) [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • ...ty older adoptees go through in the [[adoption]] process and understanding who they are and want to be. ...rs. You can look at pictures, letters, writings or go to familyhistory.org or other sites to find more information and create an account.'''
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