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• Jesus and Adoption
  ...g/760px-Hoffman-ChristAndTheRichYoungRuler.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''"Christ and the Rich Young Ruler" by Heinrich Hofmann, 1889'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.o ...son of God. He was referred to by his contemporaries as the son of Joseph, and the Gospels record that Joseph married '''[[Mary the Virgin]]''' knowing sh
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• Norwegian Ruling Families and Adoption
  ...850 to 1177, and other ancient sources, these are some of the fostered men and women: ...ve with him, and he then took sole possession of their lands in [[Norway]] and [[Sweden]].
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• Tommy Davidson
  ...hts worker, who adopted him. He has suffered racial abuse from both whites and blacks. ...Calls and Strictly Business; his television shows include In Living Color and Later.
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• Henry Lehmann and Adoption
  ...fe with them is one of the major primary sources about the Peyote religion and the Lipan Apache people. ...Henry. Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians, edited by J. Marvin Hunter. (Albuquerque
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• Arthur and Adoption
  ...jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Statue of King Arthur, designed by Albrecht Dürer and cast by Peter Vischer the Elder, early 16th century'''<br />Source: Wikiped '''''5th or 6th century'''''
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• Oksana Baiul and Adoption
  ...February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, according to different romanizations. ...father bought her a pair of skates when she was four to help her slim down and she began winning competitions when she was nine.
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• Robert Thompson Batley and Adoption (under Honorific Adoption)
  ...not unusual for adults to be adopted as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...y "native" clans or tribes, done as a photo-opportunity for the politician and for publicity by the tribe.
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• Daniel Boone and Adoption (under Honorific Adoption)
  ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...y "native" clans or tribes, done as a photo-opportunity for the politician and for publicity by the tribe.
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• William Bradford and Adoption
  '''English-Dutch-American religious and political leader''' ...is mother remarried in 1593 and William was then raised by his grandfather and uncles as a farmer.
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• Kathy Burke and Adoption
  ...n foster care with family friends, until she was able to rejoin her father and two older brothers in a council flat in Islington, London. Her childhood wa ...), Absolutely Fabulous, Harry Enfield and Chums, Common as Muck, Tom Jones and others.
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• James Caddell and Adoption
  '''English captive and Maori chief''' ...captured eaten. He escaped because he happened to touch the chief's cloak, and thus became tapu.
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• Herbert Cole Coombs and Adoption (under Honorific Adoption)
  ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...y "native" clans or tribes, done as a photo-opportunity for the politician and for publicity by the tribe.
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• Giovanni Battista de Rossi and Adoption
  ...the boy on their holidays, persuaded his parents to let them take him home and have him properly educated. ...chaplain and was famous as a confessor. He died following a stroke in 1764 and was canonized in 1881 by Pope Leo XIII. His saint's day is 23 May.
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• Ruth May Fox and Adoption
  ...about eight she was raised by a succession of other LDS families, friends and relatives. ...also an active suffragette, president of the [[Utah]] Women's Press Club, and a local Republican Party official. She died aged 104.
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• William Lloyd Garrison and Adoption
  ...er owner when he was 14 and quickly learned the printing trade and editing and was an excellent journalist. ...ominent abolitionists. Nevertheless he remains one of the most influential and effective of all white abolitionists.
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• Piers Gaveston and Adoption
  ...atroclus, although the author offers no explicit documentary evidence of [[adoption]] to support this idea. The book's argument is rejected by most other schol Hamilton, J.S. Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall, 1307-1312: Politics and Patronage in the Reign of Edward II. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press
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• Helena and Adoption (under Nazi Germany)
  ...wish population of Europe, but also the Roma, homosexuals and the mentally and physically handicapped. ...f the children were slow in developing socially, psychologically, mentally and even physically.
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• Samuel Houston and Adoption
  ...years living with the Cherokee people, learning their language and customs and developing a deep sympathy for them. ...ed him The Raven. This was probably both a mark of his cultural acceptance and a way of securing his position as a trader with the Cherokee at a store he
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• Orson Hyde and Adoption
  ...er was serving in the US Army during the War of 1812 when his mother died, and his father had also died by 1817. He was taken in by neighbors, the Wheeler ...ted the following year and went on to become a major figure in LDS secular and religious history. From 1847 to 1852 he was in charge of Mormon immigration
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• Derek Jameson and Adoption
  ...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 ...Star and News of the World. He also broadcasts regularly on the BBC radio and television services.
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• Janissaries and Adoption
  ...re separated out and educated to become members of the Ruling Institution, or bureaucrats. ...tian has gradually ceased. They became hopelessly corrupt and inefficient, and the entire force was massacred in 1826 on orders of Sultan Mahmud II.
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• Joseph the Carpenter and Adoption
  ...nealogies given for St. Joseph in the Biblical gospels of Luke (chapter 3) and Matthew (chapter 1) appear to contradict each other. ...of the first, a form of [[adoption]] which has some similarities to the [[adoption]] by the dead practiced in the 19th century by the [[Church of Jesus Christ
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• Edmund Kean and Adoption
  ...tricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edmund Kean, who committed suicide when he ...t fell out with them and ran away again. By this time he was still only 13 or 14.
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• J. Rudyard Kipling and Adoption
  ...ally, while favoring his sister. His mother eventually returned to England and rescued him. He then went to a brutal boarding school until he rejoined his ...include Plain Tales from the Hills, Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Kim, and the Just So Stories.
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• Robert Laurent and Adoption
  ...ter Field) and his own parents decided he could return to America with him and study [[ART|art]]. ...Rome, Paris and London, eventually deciding on sculpture as his medium. He and Field founded an artists' colony in [[Maine]] in 1909 where Laurent taught
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• Mabon Mab Modron and Adoption
  ...y years. His rescue was one of the six impossible tasks imposed on Culhwch and his companions (knights of King [[Arthur]]'s Round Table) by the giant Ysba The Mabinogion, trans. by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones. (London: Dent, 1949) (Everyman's Library)
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• William Mariner and Adoption
  ...caught the eye of the chief, was [[adopted]] by him to replace a dead son, and given the name Toki 'Ukamea (Iron Axe). He remained in [[Tonga]] for four y Sacks, Oliver. The Island of the Colour-Blind; and Cycad Island. (London: Macmillan, 1996), pp. 249-50
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• Herman Melville and Adoption
  ...iously as bank clerk, farm laborer and teacher, before going to sea at 19 (or 18). ...ng the Typee people, then "notorious cannibals." He was adopted by a chief and married his daughter, Pe'ue.
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• Marilyn Monroe and Adoption
  ...e was. Then she went to live with her mother, who soon became mentally ill and was hospitalized, whereupon Monroe was adopted by her best friend. ...ge]] until she married for the first time at 16 in order to get out of the care [[system]] which had so seriously failed her. In one of the foster homes sh
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• Nazi Germany and Adoption
  ...wish population of Europe, but also the Roma, homosexuals and the mentally and physically handicapped. ...f the children were slow in developing socially, psychologically, mentally and even physically.
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• Bhanu Pratap Singh and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 10)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• James F. O'Connell and Adoption
  ...tely acculturated, eventually became a chief himself, before being rescued or escaping. ...ow O'Connell got to Ponape originally, there is no doubt about the tattoos or the extent of his knowledge of the island.
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• Caroline Perrott and Adoption
  ...and their Maori mercenaries. Weeks of massive searches failed to find her and her mother soon died. ...European past, could not speak English again until she was a mature woman, and did not know she wasn't a Maori by birth, although she was conscious of loo
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• Peter John Powell and Adoption
  ...into at least four families of the Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux and Crow people, and he is a Northern Cheyenne chief. He is an expert in their language and history and has written several important books, earning him the name Stone Forehead, a
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• Pryderi and Adoption
  ...er to 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 [[Heracl ...eri by his mother. He grew up handsome, fair and master of all manly arts, and succeeded his father as king-prince of Dyfed.
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• Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Adoption
  ...ily which had lost three sons in wars (the couple also had a surviving son and two daughters), who named him Oninga. .... But in 1653 he did escape and rejoin white society, becoming an explorer and fur trader.
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• Romulus and Remus and Adoption
  ...410x579px|thumb|'''Faustulus discovers Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf and woodpecker. Painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1616'''<br />Source: Wikipedi ...Tiber (compare Maui and [[Moses]]). But they drifted ashore and were found and fostered by a wolf (see Feral Children) until they were discovered by the r
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• Frithjof Schuon and Adoption (under Honorific Adoption)
  ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...ompared with the award of the freedom of a city. It is not the same as the adoption of captives. This directory contains three representative examples of honor
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• Frances Slocum and Adoption
  ...ash, later Maconaquah (Little Bear Woman). She lived with the [[Delaware]] and Miami people for the rest of her life. ...hief named Shepancavah. When he became deaf, he resigned the chieftainship and they established a trading post called Deaf Man's Village.
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• Aloizy Twardecki and Adoption (under Nazi Germany)
  ...wish population of Europe, but also the Roma, homosexuals and the mentally and physically handicapped. ...f the children were slow in developing socially, psychologically, mentally and even physically.
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• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Adoption
  ...ce to a merchant and his wife. His father died the year after he was born, and his mother entrusted him to a painter, Gregorio Lazzarini. ...commission was in 1719. He worked in fresco and oils and also did drawings and etchings. He worked for several years in Bavaria, for the prince-bishop of
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• J.R.R. Tolkien and Adoption
  ...died less than a year later, before he could rejoin the family. The widow and her sons settled in the Midlands where the boys began their education. ...Their guardian was the parish priest, but they actually lived with an aunt and then a Mrs. Faulkner.
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• Helena Valero and Adoption
  ...e involved in trying to smooth the inevitable contact between these people and European civilization. Rejected by her family after she escaped, she returned to the Yanoami, and in 1997 she was still living with her children as a poverty-stricken Yanoam
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• Heinrich von Kleist and Adoption
  ...lack of a proper Prussian devotion to discipline, order and "correctness," and his aimless lifestyle after leaving the army in 1799, estranged him from al ...ly small but very important body of plays, short stories, novellas, essays and poems.
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• Conrad Weisner and Adoption (under Honorific Adoption)
  ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...ompared with the award of the freedom of a city. It is not the same as the adoption of captives. This directory contains three representative examples of honor
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• Anton Wilhelm Amo and Adoption
  '''African-Dutch-German academic and philosopher''' ...in, Greek, Hebrew, French, German and Dutch. He became a lecturer at Halle and Wittenberg universities, but in the 1750s, after his patroness' death, he w
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• Baiteke and Adoption (under Kiribati)
  ...er brother, Timon. Bauro reigned for a short time but also had no children and the succession passed to his nephew, Tokatake, but without him being [[adop ...Arirei, the niece and [[adopted]] daughter of the previous uea, Kaiea III, and the birth daughter of Kaiea III's sister, Kinateo. Arirei is the first know
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• Basavis and Adoption (under Devadasi)
  ...rashtra, Bogams in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and '''Basavis''' in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...o a devadasi also become devadasi. There are still many thousands of girls and women in devadasi positions.
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• Bhayats and Adoption (under India - Princely States)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Bogams and Adoption (under Devadasi)
  ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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• Jacobus Capitein and Adoption
  ...captain. In Leiden he attended school, learned several European languages and in 1742 he became a clergyman after theological school at the University th ...s the author of a book defending slavery as a road to Christian redemption and European civilization. He went to the Gold Coast ([[Ghana]]) on a mission,
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• John Davis and Adoption
  ...nd raised in [[Alabama]]. He helped translate St. John's gospel into Creek and also wrote hymns in the language. Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduc
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• Captives and Adoption
  ...onally intended as food, sometimes used as hostages, more often as slaves, and sometimes also [[adopted]] into the victorious tribe. ...structure, to such an extent that their Dinka origin was never mentioned, and their origin was completely undetectable to outsiders.
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• John Bemo and Adoption
  '''Seminole (Native American) teacher and missionary''' ...hip captain named Bemeau, whose name he took. He became a ship's carpenter and converted to Christianity.
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• Cockenoe and Adoption
  '''Algonquin (Native American) captive and translator''' ...educational and religious material for Native American converts. An island and harbor in
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• Sherman Coolidge and Adoption
  ...es and turned over to white soldiers. He was [[adopted]] by a white couple and sent to a military academy where he was an outstanding student. In 1884 he graduated from divinity school and was ordained an Episcopalian [Anglican] priest in 1889. He returned to his
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• Joseph Griffis and Adoption
  ...ently believed he was a Native American, always identified himself as one, and registered his son as a Native American on his birth certificate). ...was then raised by a Kiowa stepfather and Cheyenne stepmother. In 1868 he and his stepmother were captured by white soldiers, part of General Custer's tr
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• Henry Jackson and Adoption
  Henry Jackson and Pitt River Charley were captured as boys by the Klamath and Modoc people before 1864. They remained with their captors until after the ...s, when they would communicate with the dead, and during these dances song and teachings were revealed to them.
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• Jumping Bull and Adoption
  Assiniboine (Native American) captive and warrior leader of the Lakota Sioux ...) and named him Hohay (Jumping Bull). Hohay became devoted to Sitting Bull and when he retired from warfare, Jumping Bull took his place as war leader.
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• Loki Mo Keen and Adoption
  ...Tai May (not a person but a sacred image, part of the Sun Dance religion) and was responsible for unwrapping the image during important rites. He lived t Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduc
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• Pitt River Charley and Adoption
  ...Jackson]] and [[Pitt River Charley]] were captured as boys by the Klamath and Modoc people before 1864. They remained with their captors until after the ...s, when they would communicate with the dead, and during these dances song and teachings were revealed to them.
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• Shenandoah and Adoption
  Shenandoah was born a Susquehannock Indian but he was captured during a war and [[adopted]] into the Oneida tribe. He rose to become one of their two param ...war casualty, and in some societies had to become completely acculturated or be killed. Such adoptees were often adults when captured, but could be smal
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• John Ystumllyn and Adoption
  ...the family estate, his age at the time being variously estimated at eight and 13. ...different culture, speaking a totally different language from his captors, and terrified out of his mind at what had happened to him.
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• Devadasi and Adoption
  ...n Maharashtra, Bogams in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...o a devadasi also become devadasi. There are still many thousands of girls and women in devadasi positions.
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• Damodar Rao and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 7)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Fatehsinh I Raje Sahib Bhonsle and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 1)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Rajaram II Raje Bhonsle and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 1)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Geisha and Adoption
  ...with their main centers in Tokyo and Kyoto. The tradition is centuries old and continues today, although the heyday of the geisha was before World War II. ...or "mother," the proprietress of a geisha or tea house, herself a geisha, or to a middleman who would sell her on. Geisha who have daughters might also
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• Hamir Singh II and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 4)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Abram Petrovich Hannibal and Adoption
  ...media.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Meller-Zakomelski.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Traditional depiction of Abram Petrovich Gannibal'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...ar, who had him baptized and gave him the names Petrovitch (after himself) and Hannibal (after the African Roman general).
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• Hawai'ian Royal Families and Adoption
  ...ving been [[adopted]] or fostered. (The abnormally common death dates 1848 and 1849 are because of a terrible measles epidemic, introduced by white settle ...pted]] by Kaikio'ewa, Governor of Kauai. His brothers, kings Kamehameha IV and V, were also adoptees.
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• Hokusai and Adoption
  ...few years are a mystery, but he was born near Tokyo, and when he was four or five he was [[adopted]] by a mirror-polisher named Nakajima Ise. There is s ...was in the workshop of Katsukawa Shunsho and Katsukawa's heir until 1792, and then studied with other craftsmen for several more years. He was one of the
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• Jiji Bai Sahib Maharaj and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 2)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Jogatis and Adoption (under Devadasi)
  ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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• Lakhaji Tamachi Jadeja Sahib and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 3)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Muralis and Adoption (under Devadasi)
  ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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• Natis and Adoption (under Devadasi)
  ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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• Thevardiyar and Adoption (under Devadasi)
  ...rashtra, '''Bogams''' in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basavis in Karnataka, and Thevardiyar in Tamil Nadu) are found all over [[India]]. ...vadasi]] also become [[devadasi]]. There are still many thousands of girls and women in [[devadasi]] positions.
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• Pomare Dynasty and Adoption
  ...ia. See the entry for the royal house of Hawai'i, the Kawananakoa dynasty; and also that for the [[Chinese Qing Dynasty|Chinese Qing dynasty]], for an exa ...ra Bora, 1861). [[Adopted]] into the dynasty by Pomare II, king of Tahiti, and married Pomare's daughter 'Aimata.
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• Shahu II Raje and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 2)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Shahu Shivaji II Bhonsle and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 2)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Shahu Shivaji Raje Bhonsle and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 1)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Sacagawea and Adoption
  ...her brother and sister, who were captured by the Hidatsa people, enslaved, and became acculturated. ...neau and Sacagawea as guides and interpreters. Sacagawea was then pregnant and gave birth to her first child, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, at Fort Mandan in
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• Saigo Siro and Adoption
  ...i government), and according to custom, the entire family - wife, children and others, at least 14 people in all - committed ritual suicide in shame. ...Siro fell in love with the daughter of Jigoro Kano, master of Kodokam judo and defected to that [[system]]. Saigo senior then chose Masayoshi Sokaku Minam
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• Shabbona and Adoption
  ...e Black Hawk War (1832) and survived two assassination attempts by the Sac and Fox tribes. ...aubena Grove, [[Illinois]], but local settlers bought him land near Seneca and built him a house, where he spent the rest of his life.
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• Slaves and Adoption
  ...y just about every culture which had the opportunity, was powerful enough, and needed the labor slaves could provide. ...cases slavery was degrading psychologically and physically for its victims and morally brutalizing for its practitioners.
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• Tamaiti Whangai and Adoption
  ...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 ...ly" is "whanau," which applies to the [[Extended Family|extended family]], and even then the whanau is not an isolated unit, but part of more inclusive un
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• Te Waharoa and Adoption
  ...a party from the Te Arawa tribe, led by Pango. Pango kidnapped Te Waharoa and took him back to the Rorotua area where he was raised. ...e Waharoa took responsibility for the physical safety of the missionaries, and saw that the stations were restored.
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• Trokosi and Adoption
  ...[Ghana]] (and to a lesser extent, in [[Benin]], [[Nigeria]] and [[Togo]]), traditional religious beliefs have given rise to the practice of trokosi, literally "sl ...rely, a boy) to the shrine as the god's slave. This may be for a few years or permanent, although the is possible for the family to ransom the girl at th
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• Bauro and Adoption (under Kiribati)
  ...er brother, Timon. Bauro reigned for a short time but also had no children and the succession passed to his nephew, Tokatake, but without him being [[adop ...Arirei, the niece and [[adopted]] daughter of the previous uea, Kaiea III, and the birth daughter of Kaiea III's sister, Kinateo. Arirei is the first know
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• Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 3)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Doctrine of Lapse and Adoption (under India - Princely States)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Duleep Singh and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 5)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Fateh Singh and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 4)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Jashwant Singh and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 9)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Lakshman Singh II and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 10)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Nana Saheb and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 6)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Pratapsinhji I Bhonsle and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 1)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Raisinhji Vibhaji and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 3)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Jean Baptiste Charbonneau and Adoption
  ...ill too young to leave his mother. However in 1811 he became Clark's ward, and was educated by him in St. Louis. When he grew up he returned to the fronti ...e joined the [[California]] Gold Rush, but was unsuccessful in prospecting and died on his way to new gold fields in [[Montana]].
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• Horn Chips and Adoption
  Horn Chips was orphaned as a young child and raised by his grandmother. Later he was [[adopted]] by the uncle of [[Crazy ...nowledged as the man who saved traditional Lakota religion from extinction and he trained a number of successors. His family still dominates native religi
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• Wira Gardiner and Adoption
  ...a department store in Rotorua he was made a ward of court at the age of 10 and put into his grandparents' [[custody]] as a [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whang ...and civil rights. He was then appointed head of the Iwi Transition Agency, and then chief executive of Te Puni Kokiri, the NZ Ministry of Maori Developmen
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• Charles Alexander Eastman and Adoption
  ...In 1862, after the [[Minnesota]] Sioux uprising he escaped with his uncle and grandmother into Manitoba, to avoid white reprisals. His father, Many Ligh ...o school in the Dakota Territory. For the next 17 years he attended school and college, eventually graduating from Boston University Medical School.
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• Albert Hensley and Adoption
  Hensley's mother died when he was a baby and he was fostered by his grandmother for five years, until she died. Then he He became a secular and spiritual leader of the Winnebago, Dakota and Ojibwa peoples, spreading the Peyote religion among them.
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• Matthew Alexander Henson and Adoption
  ...é where he worked and where he slept on the floor. He wanted to go to sea and a few years later walked to Baltimore, where he signed on as a cabin boy. H ...primacy has been ignored. He also fathered several African-Inuit children, and there are still Inuit who acknowledge him as their ancestor.
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• Frederick McKinley Jones and Adoption
  ...wling alley and then became a mechanic. In 1917 he joined the armed forces and served in [[France]]. ...or military field hospitals (vital for the storage of blood and medicines) and kitchens.
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• Kishi Nobusuke and Adoption
  ...ption (see Roman Empire), where a childless or sonless couple adopts a boy or man as their heir. He was the birth brother of Sato Eisaku, who also became ...from 1957 to 1960. His high-handed political tactics lost him many allies, and he was forced to resign in 1960, but he continued to serve in the House of
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• Nobusuke Kishi and Adoption
  ...ption (see Roman Empire), where a childless or sonless couple adopts a boy or man as their heir. He was the birth brother of Sato Eisaku, who also became ...from 1957 to 1960. His high-handed political tactics lost him many allies, and he was forced to resign in 1960, but he continued to serve in the House of
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• Edmonia Lewis and Adoption
  ...09, "after 1911," "last reported living in Rome in 1911," 1911?, and "date and place of her death are unknown." ...college in 1859. She was accused of trying to poison two fellow-students, and in spite of being acquitted (her lawyer was [[John Mercer Langston]]), she
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• Lone Wolf II and Adoption
  ...ge party, at which he was [[adopted]] by Lone Wolf I to replace Tau ah kia and given the name Lone Wolf. In 1879 he succeeded to the chieftainship. ...the lands of the Kiowa, once covering [[Oklahoma]], [[Kansas]], [[Texas]] and part of [[Mexico]], had been reduced to 160 acres per person.
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• Delos Knowles Lonewolf and Adoption
  ...eau of Indian Affairs boarding school he became a famous football fullback and was an active Methodist. He interpreted for [[Lone Wolf II]] in [[Washingto Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduc
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• Maretu II and Adoption
  ...children and so [[adopted]] Maretu, who was the son of a Rarotongan woman and a French man. ...l administrator, W.E. Gudgeon. In 1902 he was appointed an associate judge and advisor on native customs to the Rarotongan Land Titles Court.
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• Mountain Wolf Woman and Adoption
  ...itionalist Winnebago family, Mountain Wolf Woman converted to Christianity and then to Peyotism. ...in her birth family. She was an influential member of the Peyote religion, and foretold her own death in 1960.
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• Native American and Alaskan Native Children and Adoption
  ...schools. The acknowledged reason for this was to eradicate Native American and Alaskan Native culture. ...ny respects this was like the treatment meted out to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children.
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• Ngatau Omahuru and Adoption
  ...a recent biography which attempts to get at the truth from both the white and Maori sides. ...illage of Mawhitiwhiti, son of a Christian lay preacher, Te Karere Omahuru and his wife, Hinewai, during a time of ferment, following the Maori Wars of a
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• Rajaram I Bhonsle and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 2)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Rajaram III Bhonsle and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 1)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji and Adoption (under India Princely States: 3)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Ranmalji II and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 3)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Rat-Children of Shah Daula and Adoption
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana and Adoption
  ...to the Ngati Apa and Ngati Rauru tribes. He was [[adopted]] by Ria Hamuera and brought up on family land at Te Kawau. In 1912 his senior kinswoman, Mere R ...phet and healer. His reputation spread rapidly throughout the Maori people and he became the center of a community of believers. Initially he told his fol
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• Sajjan Singh and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 4)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Sardar Singh and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 4)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Sawant Singh and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 8)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Shahaji III and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 1)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Shahu II Raje and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 1)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Swaroop Singh and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 4)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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• Venkuiraje Bhonsle and Adoption (under India - Princely States: 1)
  ...i Shivaji Raje Bhonsle was the founder and sovereign of the Maratha Empire and in essence the father of all Maratha Princely States of_India'''<br />Sourc ...mostly) with a wide range of titles in addition to the familiar maharajahs and rajas.
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