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4 unusual facts about Family


Actias sinensis

The Chinese moon moth (Actias sinensis) is a moth of the Family Saturniidae.

Family

According to the work of scholars Max Weber, Alan Macfarlane, Steven Ozment, Jack Goody and Peter Laslett, the huge transformation that led to modern marriage in Western democracies was "fueled by the religio-cultural value system provided by elements of Judaism, early Christianity, Roman Catholic canon law and the Protestant Reformation".

Anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan (1818–1881) performed the first survey of kinship terminologies in use around the world.

The X-Family

It starred George Hu and other members of Wu Hu Jiang, Chen De Xiu and Kirsten Ren, the little sister of Selina from S.H.E.


1969 in organized crime

December 10 - Michele Cavataio and three of his men are killed in the Viale Lazio in Palermo by a Mafia hit squad including Bernardo Provenzano, Calogero Bagarella (an elder brother of Leoluca Bagarella the brother-in-law of Totò Riina), Emanuele D’Agostino of Stefano Bontade’s Santa Maria di Gesù Family and Damiano Caruso a soldier of Giuseppe Di Cristina, the Mafia boss of Riesi.

Abbot's Chair

In 1433 the monks leased all of Glossopdale to the Talbot family, later Earls of Shrewsbury.

Abdoul Mbaye

Abdoul Mbaye is the eldest in a family of three brothers and five sisters, including Cheikh Tidiane Mbaye, CEO of Sonatel.

Alkincoats Hall

It passed down through Parker family from father to son via Thomas, Robert (1720–1758), Thomas (1754–1819), a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) and Deputy Lieutenant {D.L.} of Lancashire, to Thomas Parker (died 1832), an Army captain, J.P. and D.L. who also bought Browsholme Hall from his cousin.

Ariano Irpino

The likely reason for this connection is that series creator David Chase traces his mother's family origins to Ariano.

Arthur Vivian

He left college in 1855, on his father's death, to manage the family's copper smelting and rolling works and colliery at Port Talbot.

Bellendena

However, the genus has an anatomical feature, laterocytic stomata (having 3 or more parallel specialised subsidiary cells), which it shares with the Platanaceae (next closest relatives to the Proteaceae) and no other Proteaceae, which indicate it diverged from all other members of the family first.

Berkleasmium

Berkleasmium, Zobel, 1854, is a fungus genus belonging to the family Dematiaceae.

Blue of Sint-Niklaas

The Van Beveren, also a fur-rabbit breed, is family and has been bred in the same region of Flanders, the Waasland.

Cañete, Cuenca

It is the birthplace of Álvaro de Luna and the origin of Sephardi Jew family Canetti (the most famous member of which is Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elias Canetti) —in fact, Canetti is a bastardisation of Cañete—.

Chevet, West Yorkshire

The house was built in 1529 by the Nevile family and was bought in 1765 by Sir Lionel Pilkington, 5th Baronet and passed down through the Pilkington family.

Chimerin 1

When lipid diacylglycerol (DAG) binds to the C1 domain, CHN1 is transferred to the plasma membrane and negatively regulates Rho-family small GTPases RAC1 and CDC42, thus causing the morphological change of axons by pruning the ends of axon dendrites.

Danko Grlić

He was born in Gračanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina,but in 1931 together with his family he has moved to Zagreb.

Danneskiold-Samsøe

The present comital family number the noble families Ahlefeldt, Frijs-Frijsenborg, Kaas, Trolle, Thott, Ulfstand, Ulfeldt, Huitfeldt, Sehested, Gyldenstierne, Rosenkrantz, Rantzau, Reventlow, Brahe, Ruud, Grubbe, Gabel, Krag to Juellund, and Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs among their ancestress-linked relatives.

Diane Mott Davidson

Evergreen is where Mott Davidson currently resides with her family.

Donough MacCarthy, 4th Earl of Clancarty

In 1706 he bought the island and seigneurie of Rottumeroog where he lived with his family until they were washed away by the Christmas flood of 1717.

Esther de Berdt

Esther de Berdt was born in London, England, into a family descended of Protestant refugees from Ypres, who had fled the "Spanish Fury" led by the Duke of Alba.

Fabrice Kwizera

Kwizera began his studies at Cibitoke II Primary School but moved to Kenya with his family as a refugee in 2002, having spent time living in Uganda.

Finmere

Subsequently the manor passed to the Earls of Gloucester, in whose family it stayed until the 4th Earl of Gloucester died without a successor in 1314.

G. V. Belyi

His family moved from there to Ukraine, and he began his studies at the Kiev Physics and Mathematics School but moved from there to Moscow State University.

Giovanni Bentivoglio

Giovanni I Bentivoglio (died 1402), first ruler of Bologna from the Bentivoglio family

Jacopo da Carrara

Jacopo II da Carrara, (died 1350), of the Carraresi family, was the capitano del popolo of Padua from 1345 until his death

James David Santini

In 1990, Santini and his family appeared as contestants on the nighttime version of Family Feud.

James Pyke Thompson

In 1924 the land surrounding the family house in Canton, Cardiff was also presented to the city; it was renamed Thompson's Park.

Kalhora

At his death, the leadership of the tribe was contested between two branches of the family, the Kalhora and the Daudpota.

Kazuo Aoki

Aoki was born to a farming family in Sarashina District, Nagano prefecture (now part of the city of Nagano), and was trained as a lawyer, graduating from the Law School of Tokyo Imperial University in 1916.

Kingsbury family

Sarah Kingsberry was the first family member born in the New World, and was born in 1635 in modern day Boston.

Ming Hsieh

His family was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution as a part of China's upper middle class having ties with the old national government moved to Taiwan (Yingzhou, Ming's grandfather, was famous high-ranking official of Republic of China); as a result, his family was forced to move in 1966 to a small village near Panjin.

Nightmare Theatre

For most of its run, the late-night program opened with a shot of a mist-shrouded castle (in actuality, a touched-up Addams Family Haunted House Aurora model kit), accompanied by sound effects borrowed from Walt Disney's Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House and music pilfered from Neal Hefti's score for the 1966 Roddy McDowall film Lord Love a Duck.

Pablo González Velázquez

According to the art historian Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, who is the provider of all known biographical details, Velázquez was born in Jaén and was the head of a family of artists; his sons Antonio González Velázquez, Alejandro and Luis were all painters.

Paigah Palace

In the hierarchy of nobles of Hyderabad, the Paigah family ranked immediately next to the ruling family of Nizams.

Phyllodesmium longicirrum

Phyllodesmium longicirrum feeds on soft coral Sarcophyton trocheliophorum (family Alcyoniidae).

Princess Helene Dolgoruki

Sometime around 1843-1847 General Fadeyev was appointed Imperial Councillor to the Viceroy of the Caucasus (perhaps First Viceroy Count (later Prince) Mikhail Vorontsov although Blavatsky says "Woronzoff"), and the family moved from Saratov to an even more imposing castle at Tiflis.

Project 21

According to its web page, Project 21 is "an initiative of the National Center for Public Policy Research to promote the views of African-Americans whose entrepreneurial spirit, dedication to family and commitment to individual responsibility has not traditionally been echoed by the nation's civil rights establishment." Notable members include: Council Nedd II, Michael King, Deneen Borelli, Kevin Martin, Jesse Lee Peterson and Mychal Massie.

PSA TU engine

The PSA TU engine is a family of small four-cylinder engines used in the Peugeot and Citroën range of cars.

Roger de Beler

That the family was settled in Leicestershire we know from a license obtained by the judge in 1316 to grant a lay fee in Kirkby-by-Melton, on the Wrethek in that county, to the warden and chaplains of St. Peter, on condition of their performing religious services for the benefit of the souls of himself and his wife Alicia, his father and mother, and ancestry generally.

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

In 1951 her family moved to Queens, where she would graduate from John Adams High School in 1959.

Senoueix Bridge

Common plants: heather belonging to the family of Ericaceae.

Sikh practices

No benefits are gained by where and to which family the person is born to – All have to undertake the rigours of Simran (meditation) and Sewa (selfless service) to progress spiritually.

Taiwan saddled carpetshark

The Taiwan saddled carpetshark, Cirrhoscyllium formosanum, is a carpetshark of the family Parascylliidae found around Taiwan, between latitudes 28°N and 21°N, at depths down to 110 m.

Thomas Bertram

He is not particularly kind to his cousin Fanny Price, the poor ward of his parents who has come to live with his family.

Tiyasha

This shows the journey of a man Sudipto (Saswata Chatterjee) defying the odds in maintaining a healthy and a happy family.The story revolves around Sudipto and Riya (Chandrayee Ghosh) and Tojo (Soham BasuRoychowdhury), their son.

Tolj

Tolj is a Serbo-Croatian surname of a family originating from a small town called Greda in the district of Ljubuški in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tulsi chaura

Tulasī or Holy Basil is an aromatic plant in the family Lamiaceae which is native throughout the Old World tropics and widespread as a cultivated plant and an escaped weed.

Utah Sucker

The Utah Sucker, Catostomus ardens, is a sucker of the family Catostomidae found in the upper Snake River and the Lake Bonneville areas of western North America.

Valsad

Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury's family name (Bulsara) is derived from the former name of the city.

Walton, Somerset

There is no evidence in the parish registers or other documents pertaining to Walton to support the popular notion the family of William Henry Smith the founder of W H Smith came from Walton.

Wintzenheim

It was administered by the Ribeaupierre family and later by the Counts of Lupfen and, in the 16th century, by Lazarus von Schwendi (also known as Lazare de Schwendi).

Yuneec Power Drive 20

The family of engines is designed to use the company's own power controller, Lithium polymer battery pack and charger, as an integrated package of components.

Yves Duteil

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), in 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family.


see also

4P/Faye

4P/Faye (also known as Faye's Comet or Comet Faye) is a periodic Jupiter-family comet discovered in November 1843 by Hervé Faye at the Royal Observatory in Paris.

Africa Inland Mission

He and his family moved to Africa and for the next two decades he provided strong, if not undisputed, leadership for the headquarters, established in 1903 at Kijabe, Kenya.

Antonio Barolini

His stories, translated into English by his wife, Helen Barolini, appeared in The New Yorker and then were collected and published as Our Last Family Countess, and other Stories.

António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama

After another eight years, on 14 May 1878, King Luis raised him still higher to Duque de Ávila e Bolama (Duke of Ávila and Bolama), thus making him the first non-noble-born individual so honored, especially in view of the fact that the title of Duke was, traditionally, granted in Portugal solely to members of high nobility and relatives of the Portuguese Royal Family.

Ashley Olsen

Nominated - TV Land Awards Quintessential Non-Traditional Family (with Candace Cameron Bure, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin, Mary-Kate Olsen, Bob Saget, John Stamos and Jodie Sweetin)

Carmen Baroja

Closing down after six issues her father went back to his profession as a mining engineer taking the family to Burjassot near València, Cestona in Guipúzcoa and San Sebastián.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

Her baby perished also, and mother and son were later interred together at the Hoyt family plot in Charlestown, New Hampshire.

DLX3

The Distal-less (Dlx) family of genes comprises at least 6 different members, DLX1-DLX6.

Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood

On the death of the childless Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood, Edward inherited the Lascelles family fortune made in the West Indies through customs positions and slave trade.

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

In 1899, Emma married one of the last of the great Cope family from Bramshill House in Hampshire, John Hautenville Cope.

Florin Krasniqi

In 1998-99, he raised $30 million from the Albanian community in the United States for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and smuggled hundreds of high-powered American sniper rifles to Kosovo for guerrillas, which were distributed by his extended family clan in the region.

Georg Glockendon

As a member of the Glockendon family of artists, he was the father of miniaturist and woodcutter Albrecht, who took over the family workshop, and master illuminator Nikolaus.

Helleborus niger

Although the flowers resemble wild roses (and despite its common name), Christmas rose does not belong to the rose family (Rosaceae).

Jerusalem artichoke

Despite its name, the Jerusalem artichoke has no relation to Jerusalem, and it is not a type of artichoke, though both are members of the daisy family.

Joel Dykstra

He and his family lived in Europe for nine years while Dykstra worked for Lasmo Energy.

Joël Prévost

Born in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France, Prévost was adopted soon after birth by a family from northern France, renamed Jean-Luc Potaux, and grew up at Trith-Saint-Léger, close to the border with Belgium.

Kim Taylor

Taylor recently starred in director Matthew Porterfield's forthcoming independent film, I Used to Be Darker, about a pregnant Northern Irish runaway who seeks refuge with family in Baltimore, MD, only to find her aunt on the verge of divorce.

Louisa Aldrich-Blake

Born in Chingford, Essex, the daughter of a rector, she moved with her family to Welsh Bicknor.

Lynne Carver

The Sampson family were prominent Kentuckians for several generations, where her grandfather, William Sampson, had served as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court during the American Civil War.

Manhanset Chapel

In 1986, the Osofsky family donated the chapel to the Shelter Island Historical Society, which restored it to the 1924 period of its significance when it was used by the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.

Medici giraffe

Lorenzo had built special stables for it, either at the family's villa at Poggio a Caiano or in the Via della Scala in Florence itself, with heating to protect it from the damp Florentine winters.

Passiflora capsularis

Passiflora capsularis (red grandilla) is a member of the Passifloraceae family with vanilla scented, delicate white flowers around 5cm in diameter.

Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China

According to informed academic observers such as Cheng Li, a scholar at Brookings Institution, and Susan Shirk of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, rise in the Chinese political system and selection to the Standing Committee depends more on family connections and loyalty to powerful patrons than on ability.

Porhoët

The noble Breton family line of Porhoët is represented in modern times by the Franco-Breton House of Rohan.

Pyrolaceae

It included the four genera Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia, and Pyrola, and sometimes also the eight genera formerly usually placed in the family Monotropaceae.

The Torrents of Greed

Stone notes to Schiff (Steven Hill) that he fears a family war, resulting in many murders.

Tim Willoughby

Having left Goldman Sachs in late 2007, Willoughby was due to start work at the firm of Citi Smith Barney on 10 January 2008, but died suddenly on 9 January 2008 after suffering a heart attack on board a flight from the United States to Singapore, returning home from a family holiday in New Mexico.

Vasily Blyukher

Despite his German surname, he was not of German descent as is sometimes written: the name was given to his family by a 19th-century landlord after a famous Prussian Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

Wartenberg Trust

WartenbergTrust is a global multi-family office, wealth management and investment advisory firm established in 1921 to manage financial and other assets of the Wartenberg family in German-speaking Europe and from 1931 also in France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the US and Italy.