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Family Law
Family Law Most Western legal systems have a body of law known as family law. This body of law concerns itself with defining familial relations, attaching and defining of legal consequences to those relationships and their dissolution, and the transition of individuals into new family... Read more |
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Nuclear family
Nuclear Families The term nuclear family can be defined simply as a wife/mother, a husband/father, and their children. However, this straightforward structural definition is surrounded by a cloud of ambiguity and controversy. Most of the debates have centered around three questions. First, is the... Read more |
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Hussein ibn Talal
Hussein ibn Talal Hussein ibn Talal (born 1935) became at the age of 18 the king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, a strategic central state in the Middle East. He was regarded in the West as a moderate Arab leader. King Hussein, born in Amman, was the scion of the illustrious Hashemite... Read more |
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Orsini
Orsini , powerful Roman family that included three popes and numerous other churchmen, soldiers and statesmen. The eponymous ancestor was one Ursus. Giacinto Orsini, who became Pope Celestine III in 1191, founded the family's greatness. Matteo Rosso Orsini was elected a Roman senator in 1241, and in... Read more |
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Dual-Earner Families
Dual-Earner Families The language of dual-earner families developed in research on families in industrialized societies. The term was needed to describe what was then a new family form that arose when women who had once worked inside the home, doing everything from nurturing work to family... Read more |
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David Geffen
David Geffen1943family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">– Principal, DreamWorks SKG Nationality: American. Born: February 21, 1943, in New York City, New York. Education: Attended University of Texas, Austin, and Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Family: Son of Abraham Geffen and Batya... Read more |
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Stephanie Mills
Stephanie Mills 1957family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">– Vocalist Entered Talent Shows Passed Over for Film Role Family Threatened with Eviction Selected... Read more |
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jaeger
jaeger , common name for several members of the family Stercorariidae, member of a family of hawklike sea birds closely related to the gull and the tern. The skua is also a member of this family. Jaegers and skuas are stocky, powerfully muscled birds with long, pointed wings, long tails, strong,... Read more |
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Dave Pirner
Soul Asylum Rock band For the Record… Critical Raves, Public Indifference Major-Label Blues Success With Union Selected discography Sources In a review of Soul Asylumfamily:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">family:Lucida Sans... Read more |
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Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein , 1937-2006, Iraqi political leader. A member of the Ba'ath party , he fled Iraq after participating (1959) in an assassination attempt on the country's prime minister; in Egypt he attended law school. Returning to Iraq in 1963 after the Ba'athists briefly came to power, he played a... Read more |
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