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8 unusual facts about Family


Amin J. Barakat

In 1977, Barakat and co-authors J.B. D'Albora, M.M. Martin, and P.A. Jose described four siblings with familial nephrosis, nerve deafness, and hypoparathyroidism.

Familial

Family, a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence

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.

Family system

Family, a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by comparable legal relationships

Family/Affair

After two hours of "Afternoon Delight" (as Christina tells Betty, who thought she meant the song, and later referenced by Dwayne after his romp with Wilhelmina), they make their escape with the book as Wil headed to the shower...only to have Wil return and find Betty's earring!

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.

We Are Him

The album features extensive contributions from various musicians, including the members of Akron/Family, Hungarian violinist Eszter Bálint, classical music composer Paul Cantelon, cellist Julia Kent, Bill Rieflin, and singer-songwriter Larkin Grimm.


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.

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.

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.

Also

Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO), a program developed by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)

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.

Ariano Irpino

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

Avraham Yehoshua Heshel

A scion of famous rabbinic families, on both his father's and his mother's side (his family can be traced back to Maharam Padua and Saul Wahl), Avraham Yehoshua Heshel showed great promise even at an early age.

Baba Sawan Singh

Sawan Singh Grewal was born into a Sikh family on 27 July 1858 in village Jatala, District Ludhiana.

BINA48

Attorney and Cofounder of the Terasem family of organizations, Dr. Martine Rothblatt, during a mock trial at the International Bar Association Conference 5 in San Francisco on September 16, 2003, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent a corporation from disconnecting an intelligent computer known as BINA48.

Carlton Ware

Leslie Green, who had previously worked as a chauffeur for the family, was convicted of the murder and hanged at Winson Green Prison on 23 December 1952 by Albert Pierrepoint.

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.

Danko Grlić

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

Dart Drug

Dart Group remained a viable company that was involved in a vicious family feud (see Herbert Haft for details).

Diane Mott Davidson

Evergreen is where Mott Davidson currently resides with her family.

DLX3

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

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.

Emma Elizabeth Thoyts

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

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.

Firdaus Kanga

This, along with the story of a young disabled man's sexual awakening as family life crumbles around him makes Sixth Happiness an interesting exploration of modern, urban India.

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.

Fountain Hughes

Hughes appealed to Jefferson's grandson to try to keep his family together: Thomas Jefferson Randolph purchased Hughes' wife and his three sons and took them with Wormley to his plantation of Edgehill.

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.

Glenmalure Park

When the Cunningham family took over the club in the 1930s, the stadium was named Glenmalure Park in honour of the Cunningham's ancestral home in the Glenmalure valley in the Wicklow Mountains.

Helleborus niger

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

Henry F. May

Born in Denver, Colorado, he was reared in Berkeley, California and spent a formative year in Europe with his family as the youngest of three children.

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

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.

Josiah S. Carberry

The lecture, on "Archaic Greek Architectural Revetments in Connection with Ionian Philology" was, of course, never given, and when asked, John Spaeth obligingly provided false details about the professor's (fictional) family and (non-existent) academic interests.

Judith Keppel

Keppel's father was a Lieutenant Commander in the Fleet Air Arm, who moved with the family to various naval postings around Britain until they settled in London when she was 17.

Lined pocket mouse

The lined pocket mouse (Chaetodipus lineatus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.

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.

Martin Mutschmann

Born in Hirschberg on the Saale in the Principality of Reuss Younger Line, Mutschmann moved while he was young with his family to Plauen in Saxony.

Opostegidae

Opostegidae or "white eyecap moths" is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order that is characterised by particularly large eyecaps over the compound eyes (see also Nepticulidae, Bucculatricidae, Lyonetiidae).

Passiflora capsularis

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

Phyllodesmium longicirrum

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

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.

PSA TU engine

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

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

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

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.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, of Beauclerc

They had a large family, including John Scott, the eldest son who became the second Baronet of Beauclerc on the death of his father and Mason and William Martin Scott, England international rugby union players.

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.

The Torrents of Greed

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

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.

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.

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.


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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.

Andrew Waterhouse

He lectured at Kirkley Hall Agricultural College.Drawing on his background in this semi industrial town his early poetry reflects on the town and his family and is evocative of the period (1970s) and the place.

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.

Berkleasmium

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

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—.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

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

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.

Diana Whitney

In 1991 Whitney along with Kenneth Gergen, Mary Gergen, Sheila McNamme, Harlene Anderson, David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva founded the Taos Institute as a community of scholars and practitioners dedicated to furthering relational practices in the fields of organization development, family therapy and education.

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.

Herbert Westfaling

Westfaling was born in London, England, the son of Harbert Westphaling, whose family originated in Westphalia (Germany).

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.

Jorge and Lorena Gamboa

In 1996 they joined Good News in Bad News Places Ministries and in 1998 they began their own full-time ministry as overseas evangelists preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, imparting family seminars and have been in more than 50 countries around the world since they started.

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.

Kórnik

Kórnik Castle, built in the 14th century, but designed and rebuilt in the 18th century in neogothic style by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel for the Działyński family.

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.

Manuel Mujica Láinez

In spite of their proud ancestry, the Mujica-Laínez family was not notably well-off by this time, and Manucho went to work at Buenos Aires' newspaper La Nación as literary and art critic.

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.

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.

Quely

Quely is a family-run company founded in Majorca, Spain, in 1853, that manufactures biscuits, baked goods, and chocolate-coated products.

Rocky Mountain locust

Another vivid portrayal of the depredations of the locust can be found in Ole Edvart Rølvaag's Giants in the Earth, based in part on his own experiences and those of his wife's family.

Senoueix Bridge

Common plants: heather belonging to the family of Ericaceae.

Shaker Elsayed

Elsayed also served as an unofficial spokesman for the family of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who was convicted of plotting to assassinate President Bush.

Smallmouth velvet dogfish

The smallmouth knifetooth dogfish, Scymnodon obscurus, is a harmless sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found in the central Atlantic between latitudes 65°N and 36°S, from the surface to 1,450 m.

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.

Virginia Van Upp

After The Guilt of Janet Ames with Rosalind Russell, Van Upp left Columbia to spend time with her family.

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.

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).