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unusual facts about Scion


City Chase

The event has been sponsored in the past by Bell ("Bell City Chase") and is now sponsored by Scion ("The Scion City Chase").


Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath

The scion of a distinguished family of the Kindaite tribal nobility, he played a minor role in the Second Islamic Civil War (680–692) and then served as governor of Rayy.

Ahmed al-Mirghani

Al-Mirghani was the scion of the venerated Mirghani family of Sudan and the great-great grandson of Al Sayyid Mohammed Uthman al-Mirghani al-Khatim.

Alexander Nisbet

Scion of the ancient Borders family of Nisbet of Nisbet House, near Duns, Berwickshire, Alexander Nisbet was a grandson of Adam Nisbet, an Edinburgh lawyer.

Antimachus I

Other historians, like Narain, mark him as independent of Euthydemid authority, and probably a scion of some relation to the Diodotid dynasty .

Argentine legislative election, 1912

A visit to Rome in 1909 gave the scion of one of Argentina's most powerful families at the time, Roque Sáenz Peña, the opportunity to meet the governing party's nemesis - the exiled leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), Hipólito Yrigoyen.

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.

Beni Alfons

One of two proposed derivations for 11th century count García Ordóñez would make him a scion of the dynasty.

Benizelos Rouphos

Rouphos was born in Patras in 1795, a scion of the wealthy Rouphos-Kanakaris family.

Benjamin de Rothschild

Benjamin is a scion of the secondary, (non-wine-making) Parisian Rothschild dynasty.

Berthold-Bezelin

Jackman cites Berthold of Ham (d. 1101), advocate of Prüm and documented with the Vianden cognomen, as a probable scion of this family and founder of the House of Vianden, a Sponheim branch.

Cao Peng

Cao Peng was born into one of the most influential families in the once thriving trading centre of Jiangyin, related both to Cao Yuyuan, the famous court censor of the late Qing, and more distantly to the great Cao family (of which the most famous scion was Cao Xueqin) that had risen in the world from the 18th century.

Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster

Claire is the elder child of Robert Booth, FCMI, of Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire (born 1948 at Rotherham and a scion of the ancient Cheshire Booth family) by his wife Barbara Patricia (daughter of Wilfred Robert Hitchin).

CoreStates Financial Corporation

The Second Bank of the United States was directed for most of the period 1816 to 1836 by Nicholas Biddle, the nation's first chief banker and scion of the city's most iconic family.

Daisy Dick

In October 2009 she married Charles Berkeley, scion of Berkeley Castle.

Eduard Anton Eugène van Meeuwen

Lodewijk Cornelis Josephus Andreas van Meeuwen and scion of the catholic noble family Van Meeuwen (titled as a jonkheer), studied law at the university of Leiden and was a lawyer in 's-Hertogenbosch.

Étienne Laspeyres

Laspeyres was the scion of a Huguenot family of originally Gascon descent which had settled in Berlin in the 17th century, and he emphasised the Occitan pronunciation of his name as a link to his Gascon origins.

Félix Dehau

Félix-Étienne Dehau (1846–1934), Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, was a scion of a bourgeois family of Lille, France, an art collector, a patron of schools, orphanages and churches, and for 62 years, from 1872 to 1934, mayor of the commune of Bouvines.

Find the Light

Among the first intake of students are a scion of a noble family Tam Chi Tung (Bosco Wong) and a commoner Wong Ng (Ron Ng), despite their differences the two become bosom friends.

Flag of Austria

The origin of the Bindenschild has not been conclusively established, it possibly derived from the Styrian margraves of the Otakar noble family, who themselves may have adopted the colours from the descendants of the Carinthian duke Adalbero (ruled 1011–1035), a scion of the House of Eppenstein extinct in 1122.

Frank Atha Westbury

Another favourite theme was that of the prodigal son: the struggle of a disgraced scion of a well-to-do family to redeem himself in society and his father’s eyes.

Frenchpark

A distant cousin of the de Freynes was Charlotte Despard (née French) (1844–1939), a scion of the French family of High Lake, a British-born, later Irish-based suffragist, novelist and Sinn Féin activist.

Godfrey Mark Palmer

As the scion of a famous business family in North East England, Palmer took an interest in shipping and the large industrial works on Tyneside.

Guy of Dramelay

Guy was a scion of the Dramelay (or Trimolay, Tremolay) family from the namesake village in Burgundy, who had held the Barony of Chalandritsa since 1209, when a "G. of Dramelay" (possibly "Guy", in which case this would be Guy I) is attested.

James Thornton

James Worth Thornton (1906–1983), businessman and scion of the Thorntons of Indiana

Joseph Medill Patterson Albright

Albright is the scion of a media empire, the grandson and namesake of Joseph Medill Patterson, founder of the New York Daily News who had rivaled William Randolph Hearst in the 1930s.

Juan María Vicencio de Ripperdá

His father was a scion of the ancient Dutch noble house of Ripperda.

Julius Pomponius Laetus

Laetus was born at Teggiano, near Salerno, the illegitimate scion of the princely house of Sanseverino, the German historian Ludwig von Pastor reported.

Leeds South by-election, 1908

The Conservatives originally seemed to be favouring the candidacy of Sir Henry Fairfax-Lucy, scion of the well-known Lucy family.

Losalini Raravuya Dovi

He was a scion of the chiefly clan of the Tui Nairai or paramount chief of Nairai island in the Lomaiviti Group.

Lyudmila Zhivkova

In connection with her esoteric interests, she designated 1978 "Roerich Year", having encountered like-minded scion of Russian émigrés Svetoslav Roerich in India in 1975.

Michael Rowntree

Rowntree was the scion of two distinguished Quaker families the Rowntrees and the Harveys, his wife Anna was a member of another prominent Quaker family, the Crosfields.

Millstatt Abbey

Millstatt Abbey was founded as a proprietary monastery by the Chiemgau count Aribo II (1024–1102), a scion of the Aribonid dynasty and former Count palatine of Bavaria, and his brother Poto on their estates in the newly established Duchy of Carinthia.

Moshe Halberstam

Rabbi Moshe Halberstam (April 1, 1932 – April 26, 2006) was the son of Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam of Tschakava, a scion of the Sanz dynasty, and of the daughter of Rabbi Sholom Moskowitz of Shotz of London.

Mountain Wilderness

Mountain Wilderness was founded in 1987 in Biella, Italy during an international conference convened by Ludovico Sella, scion of a prominent piedmontese family of financiers, statesmen and mountaineers, among which Quintino Sella, the 19th century founder of the Italian Alpine Club.

Neill Cooper-Key

They had two sons and two daughters; the second- but only surviving- son, (Kevin) Esmond Peter (1943-1985), married Lady Mary-Gaye Georgiana Lorna Curzon, third daughter of the 6th Earl Howe, whose daughter by her second husband, property magnate and scion of baronets John Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, is the actress Isabella Calthorpe.

Robert Habersham Coleman

He was the fourth- and last-generation scion of a family which controlled Cornwall Iron Furnace, in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, a major coal-burning ironmaking facility that was founded in 1742 by Peter Grubb and which produced pig iron, domestic products and, during the American Revolution and Civil War, cannon barrels.

Schönhausen Palace

In 1662 Countess Sophie Theodore, a scion of the Holland-Brederode family and wife of the Brandenburg general Christian Albert of Dohna, acquired the lands Niederschönhausen and Pankow, then far north of the Berlin city gates.

Scion tC

For the 2009/10 Formula Drift seasons, Tanner Foust competed using a Rockstar, AEM and Toyo Tire sponsored Scion tC converted to RWD, built by Papadakis Racing.

Scott Goodson

During his career, he has worked for major brands such as PepsiCo, Google, Heineken, P&G, Starbucks, Smart Car, Scion, Emirates, Frito-Lay, Jim Beam and Wal-Mart's Sam's Club.

Sultan Muliloda Datumulok

Sultan Muliloda Macarangcat Dimaporo Datumulok (born in March 15, 1935, died March 14, 2013) was a noted politician and scion of many principalities in the Province of Lanao del Sur (Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Lanao del Sur), in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ARMM in the Phillipines.

Uri D. Herscher

Seeking donated clothing for the children, he met Robert D. Haas, a classmate and scion of the Levi Strauss family, noted for its philanthropy; this friendship proved instrumental to his later endeavors.

Whyville

One of Whyville's major corporate sponsors is Scion which launched its first virtual world presence in Whyville, where users can use clams to purchase customizable Scion xB, Scion xD, and Scion tC cars.

William Hanes Ayres

He usually did not list his party affiliation on his campaign literature instead listing himself as "Your Congressman." He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1970 to the Ninety-second Congress defeated by John Seiberling, an Akron Democrat and scion.

Wolfert Acker

Abraham's connection to the Van Tassel family is cited in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and it was through their association with a rebellious Van Tassel scion during the revolutionary period that the Ackers lost Wolfert's Roost.

Wyndham Meredith Manning

Wyndham Meredith Manning (1890–1967) was a South Carolina politician and the scion of a political dynasty in that U.S. state.


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