| 单词 | great-uncle |
| 例句 | We all watched as Danny pulled the prayer shawl his great-uncle had given him around his shoulders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And then, one noon in August, Marie- Laure leads her great-uncle and Dr. Geffard up the long stairs and out into the sunlight and asks if it is safe to cross. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Almost from birth, a child is taught the values of the Dinka, which my great-uncle had in abundance. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is his uncle a great guy or is he a great-uncle?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z A big station clock rattles off a relentless advance of seconds, and Marie-Laure sits beside her great-uncle and listens to the wasted and wretched shamble off the trains. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Surely,” she says, “my great-uncle and I are not the only people sleeping beneath our own roof tonight.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her great-uncles wool coat hangs from the hook in the foyer; she puts it on. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The clock on the Customs House looking down, like a great-uncle, on us all. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Investigation showed that Claudette Colvin was being raised by her great-uncle and great-aunt, respectively a “yard boy” and a “day lady,” as maids were called. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Wherever her great-uncle is, could he have survived this? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z All evening she has been marching her fingers around the model, waiting for her great-uncle Etienne, who owns this house, who went out the previous night while she slept, and who has not returned. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The gelding was mine, a gift from a great-uncle on my mother’s side. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Smoke: her great-uncle says it is a suspension of particles, billions of drifting carbon molecules. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She runs her own computer consulting business out of an old house on Schuyler Place that she inherited from her two great-uncles. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were driving to Cincinnati, Ohio, to visit my great-uncle Clancey, on mother’s side of the family. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Here she checks the trip wire her great-uncle built beneath the telephone table on the landing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The maggot third great-uncle even shouted “Ho Chi Kuei!” at the boy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yep. I have a great-uncle on my dad’s side in Puerto Rico, but I haven’t spoken to my da—You need to stop asking questions.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Late in the evening, Marie-Laure descends the ladder and falls asleep in her grandfathers bed to the sound of her great-uncle working above her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Joe’s great-uncle gagged as if he had just swallowed a cat. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Do you think your late great-uncle is celebrating you somewhere? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The tables were crowded with tall people reaching for bowls of food and talking too loud; cousins and great-uncles and friends from far away. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I never saw this great-uncle but I'm supposed to look like him--with special reference to the rather hard-boiled painting that hangs in Father's office. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “You mean who do I live with in my great-uncle Milton’s apartment?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Number 4: the tall, derelict bird’s nest of a house owned by her great-uncle Etienne. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A Dinka man who follows these rules and maintains the values he learned as a boy can grow up to be a great leader, like my great-uncle. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you hadn’t told them to go to hell we wouldn’t be in all this hot water,” the great-uncle bitterly complained. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One evening she sits at the kitchen table while her great-uncle reads aloud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Would the older generation of great-aunts and great-uncles think she was a bad mom? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Her great-uncle seems kind, curious, and entirely sane. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Here a great-uncle drowned when he was three. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My father and great-uncle got their knives and spears and left their houses to meet the other men of the village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My great-uncle Milton’s apartment has two bedrooms, and I guess it’s considered big for New York. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Your great-uncle—?” Now Marie-Laure wonders what memories crawl over the woman across from her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Even at the highest tides, it doesn’t get more than waist-deep. Back then the tides might have been lower. We used to play in here as boys. Me and your grandfather. Sometimes your great-uncle too.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “But,” she says, walking over to me and placing her hands on my shoulders, “Puerto Rico isn’t a bad idea. We could fly for free and stay with your great-uncle Ermenio in Old San Juan.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z My great-uncle Terry, Robbie’s husband, had abandoned a career as a plumber for the same reason, instead becoming a Pullman porter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My great-uncle lived just a little while longer, and then he died too. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing! Just a dumb model of this town and a broken promise. Just Madame, who is dead. Just my great-uncle, who is frightened of an ant.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “You may talk to my great-uncle when he returns.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Then we will go visit my uncle. Your great-uncle. In Saint-Malo.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Of course. Their great-uncle had five pools with swans. And falcons in the roof.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z On Saturday mornings my great-uncle, the ex-river pirate, did the shopping. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We stayed with my great-uncle Thomas during our visits, another sibling of Dandy's. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “You need to come with me. “I am waiting for my great-uncle.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I know, right? Milton. It sounds like a Jewish great-uncle.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Fill them up, her great-uncle has taught her, whenever you can. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “That’s right. But your great-uncle, when he came home”—Madame hunts for the proper phrasing—“he was not the same as when he left.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z For three days she does not meet her great-uncle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When it is fully dark, Marie-Laure follows her great-uncle up the stairs, through the sixth-floor room, and up the ladder into the attic. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “So, was all that about your great-uncle and stuff true?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Their quiet dignity reminded me of my great-uncle Terry, who’d lived downstairs when I was growing up on Euclid Avenue, mowing our lawn dressed in wingtips and suspenders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When I was a young boy, my great-uncle Aleer-Manguak was killed while trying to protect our cattle from a lion. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She throws herself at her great-uncle and hangs her arms around his neck. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He walks in the tweed trousers of Marie-Laure’s great-uncle; over his shoulder, he carries his duffel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “You get right to it, don’t you? Your great-uncle inherited the house from his father, who was your greatgrandfather. He was a very successful man with plenty of money.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The Jesse mentioned here was the great-uncle who raised my grandfather, Charles. Family history, distilled: My ancestor Nathan "Nearest" Green, Jack Daniel's and my dad's sobriety 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z Why he went: The concert was being held at the farm owned by his great-uncle, Max Yasgur. Woodstock Keepsakes and Flashbacks 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z My great-uncle had signed a secret pact with the FBI and the State Department to screen Americans for political affiliations. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Before him, his father, brothers, cousins and four great-uncles all had the same job. For 175 years, this is the restaurant that has epitomized New Orleans 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Its author, a late great-uncle of mine, had been a high school chemistry teacher. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Perhaps these works were discovered in the attic of the artist’s crazy great-uncle who recently died and for whom Mr. Vasell happens to be named. Art in Review: CHRIS VASELL: ?The Estate of Chris Vasell? 2010-12-16T23:41:09Z Shinola goods are designed to look like legacy products, something a great-uncle might have bequeathed, minus the scratches. The luxury-goods company Shinola is capitalizing on Detroit Forty years after Zola’s death “a tragic rerun” of anti-Semitism saw Mr Rosen’s great-uncles deported to Auschwitz, along with 76,000 other French Jews. Giant of France 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Or maybe it’s more like visiting your hermit great-uncle who digs hunting. | Manly Goods 2010-10-08T19:38:00Z He was brought to a hospital, and eventually taken in by his great-uncle and cousin. Divisive Battle Over Elián González Reverberates on a Miami Stage 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Bruce Flanagan, a great-uncle of the bride who became a Universal Life Minister for the event, officiated. Tyler Flanagan-Arguelles, Mark Szandzik 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z They included a distant cousin of mine, Joe Evans, who was aged 19 at the time – a fact that I discovered by chance in a conversation with my great-uncle over two decades ago. Painting the pit men: writers must dig for the real Chilean miners 2010-10-14T15:40:00Z That drama, “Taking a Stand,” was first performed at South Carolina State last February and included Zachary Delano Middleton, then a senior, playing his own great-uncle, who was one of those killed. A Time of Darkness Illuminated Onstage 2010-10-20T21:55:00Z Years ago, when Mussard was starting in the family ateliers, a great-uncle, Robert Dumas, explained that this was the fundamental difference between Hermès and other companies selling expensive goods. T Magazine: Waste Not, Want It 2011-09-29T22:07:11Z Prince Charles, speaking with his great-uncle in one episode, perhaps put it best: “It’s all a bit messy.” ‘The Crown’: Who Is Princess Anne? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z He began doing odd jobs in a mill owned by his great-uncle. Rediscovering my family's history through cornmeal dumplings 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Manu grew up in an ashram in which everyone was devoted to her great-uncle. A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The short nondenominational ceremony with Roman Catholic references was led by Ms. Van Metre’s great-uncle, the Rev. Albert G. Cohen, a United Church of Christ minister. Nascar Driver Kurt Busch Finds His ‘Shooting Star’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z As a physician and the child’s great-uncle, you are in an ideal position to continue to express interest in this young girl’s development. Perspective | Ask Amy: Physician uncle suspects niece’s child has autism. Should he say something? 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z He quoted his great-uncle and used phrases like “oh my gravy.” Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-01T22:40:24Z In fact, along with elderly maternal great-uncles, who are often the households’ second-in-charge, younger uncles are the pivotal male influence on children. The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Mr. McBride grew up in Philadelphia, where his father, Lee Smith, and great-uncle Howard Cooper are respected bassists. Christian McBride, Newport Jazz Festival Star, Becomes a Backstage Player 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z And I have an entire litter of nieces and nephews — eleven of them now — and today they are having kids, which makes me a great-uncle. Fox News' Bill Hemmer: Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without family and home 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Melody has inherited the worldly effects of her great-uncle, Father Hashimoto: a Bible, an origami bird, a box of letters from Suresh. ‘Letters of Suresh’ Review: Returning to the Fold 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Her Italian immigrant great-uncle made millions but learned only three words of English: “Stick ’em up.” Music Review: ‘Deana Sings Dino,’ at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-08-16T21:15:52Z His great-uncle was a collector, and he left his Japanese paintings to McLaughlin’s mother. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z I had my great-uncle Allan in two plastic Red Apple Grocery bags and was a little unsure how to pitch his ashes overboard one moment without inhaling him the next. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z The hotel serves a version of the Singapore Sling that is made by a gin named Sipsmith; it’s produced by Sam Galsworthy, a Brit whose great, great, great, great, great-uncle is Sir Raffles. The Raffles Singapore Embarks on a Modern Journey 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z A great-aunt and a great-uncle also encouraged her to sing, and while she was reluctant to sing in church, she began playing piano and writing songs for herself when she was 9. Baby Rose Writes Music With Intention, ‘Not to Fit Into a Box’ 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z He’ll do impressions: in between songs at his well-wrought show on Monday night at Carnegie Hall, he mimicked a plummy old voice coach and a hoarse great-uncle. Music Review: Chris Cornell, Solo, at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-11-23T23:03:46Z My great-uncle on my mother’s side was a Minnesota train conductor on the Dan Patch line, named for a 20th-century harness race horse, which thundered between the Twin Cities and Northfield. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z So as a result, all my relatives got summer jobs at the park, and my great-uncle Jimmy became general manager for 40 years — a legend in Coney Island, Jimmy of Steeplechase, he was called. Brooklyn, Before It Was a Global Brand: Walk Its History 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Andy’s wife, Karen, too, was looking for the grave of her great-uncle, Arthur Howard, who was buried within Ypres. The 52 Places Traveler: A Pilgrimage to Ypres 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z An ex-policeman who had been pushed out of the force, he is following in the footsteps of his great-uncle - and caring for the former detective, now beset with what today would be called dementia. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z One of Ms. Gorokhova’s great-uncles is taken away in the middle of the night, and later shot, for making an anti-Soviet joke. 2010-01-12T23:49:00Z Last year, she generated headlines by writing on Facebook that her great-uncle was misogynistic and racist — assertions some Disney historians and family members dispute. Abigail Disney Builds a Dialogue on Gun Control 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Though I had never met my great-uncle, I felt related to him on a deep core level. My great-grandparents died in the Holocaust and were almost forgotten 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z He writes: “Stories hung in the air about French and Polish great-aunts and great-uncles, who were there before the war and weren’t after. ‘What happened?’ Michael Rosen: ‘Stories hung in the air about great-aunts and uncles who’d gone’ 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z But at 66, the Arizona man is delving into the history of his great-uncle Harry Houdini in a journey at the heart of a new series on the Science Channel. Arizona man finds magic moments in TV show on uncle Houdini 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z So I grabbed my camera and went to spend time with my great-uncle, Henry. In ‘Cane Fire,’ When an Image of Paradise Creates Loss 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z The second piece of research Rosen found hard to write about was the report of his other paternal great-uncle Martin’s arrest. Michael Rosen: ‘Stories hung in the air about great-aunts and uncles who’d gone’ 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z Interspersed with works he’s acquired through trades with artist friends over the years are pieces of furniture from his mother’s Manhattan apartment, where he lived throughout his childhood, as well as paintings by his great-uncle. An Artist’s Life in Objects, From a Warhol Print to a Postmodern Lamp 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z A great-uncle who divorced and mismanaged his way out of his own fortune threw himself from the roof of a Sheraton hotel. In ‘Jell-O Girls,’ a Dark Family History Behind a Candy-Colored Dessert 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z “My great-uncle was always keen that people should not be afraid to think for themselves and be confident to seek the truth in life, whatever that may be.” Museums Special Section: Entering World of Literature’s Great Sleuth 2014-03-19T20:37:03Z He was also pedigreed — his great-uncle was the first dean of the law school at Howard University and one of the first black men elected to Congress. Review | A look at what brought Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes together. And what tore them apart. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Davis had a decidedly dim view of his great-uncle until, at 23, he had one of his few encounters with the man. Review | A dual portrait of Herman and Joe Mankiewicz offers an intimate look at the Hollywood brothers 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z “Waltz for George” relates the fate of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk, where Willgoose’s great-uncle died. The Archival Delights of Public Service Broadcasting 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z My great-uncle, until the day he died, would say, ‘You were no bigger than a loaf of bread.’ Robert Battle, Alvin Ailey?s New Leader 2010-05-07T13:42:00Z “I don’t think you should sneer at my great-uncles for being cod-Irish, if you talk in slogans you found in skips.” Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Today, when he speaks of his father, he means Willie Horne, his great-uncle. Robert Battle, Alvin Ailey?s New Leader 2010-05-07T13:42:00Z Private investigator Cork O’Connor races to help his wife, her great-uncle who is an Ojibwe healer, and a mysterious stranger escape from hunters who are tracking them. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z In moving passages, he describes the deaths of his father, who worked for a theater company, and his great-uncle, a Resistance war hero. How France Became a Dangerous Place to Be a Jew 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z “You’re a bit of a fake yourself, I think. You’re no nearer the old country than I am. Your great-uncles didn’t know the words either. So you might want supporting reasons. Adjuncts.” Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z But when her great-uncle, Scrooge, passes by and she tells him she’s busking, he begs to differ. Review: In ‘A Christmas Carol in Harlem,’ Scrooge Wants to Make You Laugh 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z One of his great-uncles was the first black congressman from Virginia. Langston Hughes Just Got a Year Older 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z A short film about Till’s case, “My Nephew Emmett,” told from the perspective of the great-uncle whose home Till was taken from, was nominated for an Oscar this year. With Emmett Till Reference, Camille Cosby Invokes Oft-Used Cultural Touchstone 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Why did they put my great-aunts and great-uncles in these camps? Michael Rosen: ‘Stories hung in the air about great-aunts and uncles who’d gone’ 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z I’ve always been fond of my great-uncle: gentle, curious, loving towards animals, playful and affectionate. Should I be ashamed of my grandfather? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z I did have an Uncle Rex, a great-uncle twice removed, or something like that, who had been a farmer and then moved to Lansing. David Means on Waiting for the High to Kick in 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z My great-uncle Charles was chased out of the Old Country for somehow producing forks that were always white-hot. Not-to-Be-Missed Shouts of 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In turn, the elderly composer had known, for the first 10 years of his life, his great-uncle, Charles Darwin. Review | In ‘150 Glimpses of the Beatles,’ bits and pieces make up a poignant portrait 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z He is a son of Lindsay Palermo and Kurt Adams of Leverett, Mass. The groom’s great-uncle, who raised his father, was the author Kurt Vonnegut. Kiana Scott, Alexander Adams 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Mel and Steve Ray are brothers who portray their own grandfather and great-uncle, one of whom was arrested by the other. Review: In ‘Bisbee ’17,’ Anti-Union Violence Haunts an Arizona Town 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z “We never had a chance to talk about what happened,” to the great-uncle who died at the Dozier School in 1937, Due says. Black horror is having a big moment. So is its pioneer, Tananarive Due 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z And along the way, he would make my late great-uncle, who is buried at Normandy, part of his journey. Traveling with Milley: A reporter recalls how America’s top soldier was most at home with his troops 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The Indigenous reserve where the children live, next to the small town of Araracuara in the department of Amazonas, is extremely remote, according to their great-uncle, Fidencio Valencia. Colombian Children Rescued in Jungle Had Been Fleeing for Their Lives 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr Coltman said his great-uncle had travelled back to Hawick in 1917 to see his mother when he got a fortnight's leave and it was later that year that he died. Langholm soldier Richard Musgrave laid to rest more than 100 years on 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z Walker described the person as “a third-degree relative,” which typically means a cousin, a great-aunt or great-uncle, or a great-niece or great-nephew. Disney lawsuit judge removes himself from case but not for reasons cited by DeSantis 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Shell’s great-uncle is Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive lineman Art Shell, who spent his 15-year career with the Raiders. Buffalo Bills ink deal with Brandon Shell to add veteran offensive line depth 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Geena Davis and her family were returning from dinner in their small Massachusetts town when her great-uncle Jack, 99, began drifting into the oncoming lane of traffic. How Sexist Is Hollywood? Check Out Geena Davis’s Spreadsheet 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Unlike his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian eliminated all political rivals and set up a permanent hereditary emperorship. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z My great-uncle also came from Van and in 1915 saw his entire family murdered. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Emmett arrived in Money, Miss., on Saturday, Aug. 21, 1955, to stay with cousins and his great-uncle Moses Wright, who also was Parker’s grandfather. Emmett Till’s accuser died without recanting. But Emmett’s cousin saw what happened. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z They were parents, grandparents, great-aunts and great-uncles, ranging in age from their 50s to their 80s and beyond, and together they braved frigid temperatures to protest all through the night, and to rock. A ‘Rocking Chair Rebellion’: Seniors Call On Banks to Dump Big Oil 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z My strong great-uncle, swinging from the rafters, lost weight. A round barn rises in rural America. There is grief and hope in its rafters 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Up until three years ago, his parents, grandparents, great-uncles, great-grandparents and his cousin all lived there together. Exodus from Cuba: The children left behind as wave of emigration swells 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z And last month it was my great-uncle who died.’ COVID-19 deaths top 100,000 in California: 'Nobody ... anticipated this toll' 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z His great-uncle and guardian, Go Shin Maung, told the paper his nephew wanted to work for the UN. What happened next to the Thai cave rescue boys? 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The infant, named Aya — Arabic for “a sign from God” — by hospital workers, may be able to leave the hospital as soon as Tuesday or Wednesday, according to her great-uncle, Saleh al-Badran. Newborn saved from rubble in quake-hit Syria in good health 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z With her parents and all her siblings killed, her great-uncle will take her in. Syria orphans from quake taken in by overwhelmed relatives 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z I had a great-uncle who fought with the American Expeditionary Forces in France in World War I, serving in an ambulance unit that tended the wounded on the Western Front. Opinion | It’s not American history without Black history 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Adding fuel to the fire, Simon is Jewish, with a great-uncle who died in the Holocaust. Review: Terrific dramatic thriller 'Man in the Basement' may remind you of people you know 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z A gift from his great-uncle, it was a small black Sid Taylor rooster, with a touch of red on its wings. Cockfighting Is Illegal in the U.S. Why Does It Breed so Many Fighting Birds? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z While her family made it through that harrowing initial period when little was known about the coronavirus, last month she lost two grandparents and a great-uncle after they caught COVID-19. Chinese who lost relatives to COVID angry at failure to protect elderly 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Talking to the BBC, the cardinal said he arrived with a reputation of being "God's Rottweiler", but left being compared to "everybody's favourite great-uncle or just uncle". Pope Francis and world leaders pay tribute to Benedict XVI 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z When Hirsch asked Spielberg what his great-uncle sounded like, Spielberg responded, “We hardly understood a word he said.” How Judd Hirsch steals 'The Fabelmans' in just one scene 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z However, Mrs Castle's grandson recalled how his great-uncle had been keen on gadgets and owned two sets of binoculars he would have bought new. Danville Neil: DNA evidence sees man convicted of siblings' murder 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Tree’s great-uncle Conrad wrenched open a hatch into the rear alley, which was surrounded by police officers. She Was Killed by the Police. Why Were Her Bones in a Museum? 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Telles, 45, was the product of a politically connected family from El Paso, whose great-uncle had served as the city’s first Mexican American mayor and President John F. Kennedy’s ambassador to Costa Rica. How a Las Vegas newsroom set out to solve a colleague’s killing 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “My uncles would clip out the newspaper anytime my great-uncle would come out.” Column: He helped thousands of Latino students, including me. Do they remember him? 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Adul, a 12th grader, is proficient in five languages and once dreamed of becoming a local doctor, said his great-uncle and guardian, Go Shin Maung. 4 Years After Thrilling Cave Rescue, Sleepy Park Readies for Onslaught 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z The other lost his favorite great-uncle to an IRA terrorist attack. Opinion | What Biden can teach the king 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z My granddaughter would like to invite only those great-aunts and great-uncles to whom she feels closest — which would be only a fraction of my husband’s many siblings. Advice | Miss Manners: How do we keep a wedding small without offending family? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Her brother, my great-uncle, tended a huge arbor of grapes outside their Bakersfield home. How gardening may extend your life and make it better 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama recalled that his great-uncle, Charles T. Payne, was one of the liberators of the Ohrdruf subcamp, and underscored Buchenwald’s role in ensuring that the horrors of the Holocaust would never be forgotten. Trees Dedicated to Holocaust Victims Are Destroyed at Buchenwald 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In August 1955, Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives for a summer vacation in Mississippi, where he would stay with his great-uncle, Moses Wright. Emmett Till’s family calls for woman’s arrest after finding 1955 warrant 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Jamison’s great-uncle, who joined Islam during the civil rights movement, was the first out of six converts in their family. We asked Muslims how they’re giving back during Ramadan. Here’s what you said 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z However, she worries that if she invites great-aunts and great-uncles on our side of the family, she would be obliged to invite her father’s siblings as well. Advice | Miss Manners: How do we keep a wedding small without offending family? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z The shooter's great-uncle used to do bookkeeping for Martinez, and his grandfather has eaten at his restaurant for years. Uvalde’s “back-the-blue” values collide with outrage over police response to school shooting 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z A few years later, while an undergraduate at the Kyiv Institute of Foreign Languages, Kurkov learned he had had two great-uncles who were sent to the Gulag in the 1930s. How Ukraine’s Greatest Novelist Is Fighting for His Country 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z I’m one of the legions touched by gun violence: the suicide of a favorite great-uncle, the slaying of a distant cousin, an infant, by a stray bullet in a gang shootout. The Week When Sports Would Not Let America Look Away 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Alfred’s great-uncle, Raymond E. Baldwin, who died in 1986, had served as Connecticut’s governor, a United States Senator representing the state and its chief justice. Alfred Baldwin, Lookout for Watergate Burglars, Dies at 83 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z His great-uncle Raymond E. Baldwin served as Connecticut governor, chief justice of the state Supreme Court and a U.S. senator. Alfred Baldwin, chief Watergate eavesdropper and lookout, is dead at 83 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z “I think my great-uncle chose to leave it to me because he knew that, of all the children, I would understand it and make it the most it could be,” he says. On Italy’s Adriatic Coast, an Ancestral Home on the Verge of a Second Act 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z “My grandmother and great-uncle planted it as a grave marker for their parents, adjoining Tubman’s grave,” said Judith, referring to Tubman’s grandniece and grandnephew. Celebrating Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday in Auburn, N.Y. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Some of his family members were executed by the Nazis, including three great-uncles. For many Jews, Ukraine brings up memories of pogroms, antisemitism and Nazi collaboration. But Jewish life in Ukraine is no longer what it was. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Volodymyr Zelensky has often told his "story of four brothers" - his grandfather and three great-uncles - all of whom fought in the Soviet Army against Nazi Germany. Babyn Yar: Anger as Kyiv's Holocaust memorial is attacked 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z But throughout it all, your great-uncle asks: What has changed so significantly to keep you from suffering Trayvon’s fate? A letter to my great- nieces and nephews on the 10th anniversary of the killing of Trayvon Martin 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z “My great-uncles were four-man pilots. My dad was training, he was an Olympic hopeful, in four-man. I don’t know. Maybe it’s just in my DNA.” In 4-man, US Olympic bobsledder Hunter Church raring to go 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z To that, I offer the words of my great-uncle, who survived numerous deportations and death camps. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: These captions could have been better 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z He was raised by his great-uncle and his aunt in the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City. As director of the Ailey company, Robert Battle pushed his own creativity aside. The pandemic brought it back. 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z “We want you to think about her every single day,” Michael Dolphin, a great-uncle, pleaded into a cluster of TV cameras outside House of Winston funeral home in South L.A. Column: Now we know Tioni Theus' name. Her family asks: 'Don’t let her be forgotten' 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z During the Depression, a great-uncle who worked for the railroad would alert my grandfather when a coal train was coming through town. Train robberies — great or pedestrian — are nothing new in California 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The company founded by her grandfather and great-uncle repeatedly returned fire, at one point calling her assertions a “gross and unfair exaggeration of the facts.” Documentary Critical of Disney, From the Disney Family 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Now the documentary film producer and philanthropist has done what the company her grandfather Roy O. Disney founded with her great-uncle Walt has been doing for nearly a century: She made a movie. At Sundance, Abigail Disney calls out corporate greed. Beginning with Disney 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z In an interview with police, Harmony’s great-uncle told officers he saw her with a black eye in July 2019. Wife of missing girl’s father charged with welfare fraud 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Her great-uncle is said to have been the first Black baby born there more than a century ago. Santa Monica's message to people evicted long ago for the 10 Freeway: Come home 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Till’s great-uncle testified that Bryant and Milam were accompanied by a third person with a voice “lighter” than a man’s when they abducted Till, indicating the possible presence of a woman. Details of Emmett Till killing still a mystery as probe ends 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z After the day’s last meeting, walking near a room filled with photos of his great-uncle, Dr. Forrest said he needed to find a pathway to wealth for the company. Can a Carbon-Emitting Iron Ore Tycoon Save the Planet? 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z “I’m really proud of what my grandfather and great-uncle did,” Disney says early in the documentary. At Sundance, Abigail Disney calls out corporate greed. Beginning with Disney 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z My great-uncle was its territorial governor, appointed by James Monroe, and was elected to the governorship when Alabama entered the union. What Should I Do With My Portrait of a Slaveholding Ancestor? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z He was also taught to regard his great-uncle, Joseph, as a fraudulent, womanizing try-hard. Mank's grandson tells all: A tragic portrait of the screenwriting brothers Mankiewicz 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr Mitchell, whose great-uncle died aged 42 in 1937, remembered being taken as a child to the ceremony when it first went on display. Battle of Britain: Restored Spitfire unveiled in Stoke-on-Trent 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Roberts’ great-uncle, Bill Blizzard, was a union subdistrict state organizer and a leader of the march. Deadly 1921 coal miner revolt in West Virginia remembered 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Caruso’s Grocery is the principals’ most personal statement yet; the place is named for a store Babin’s Sicilian great-uncles and paternal grandmother operated in Baton Rogue. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 7 favorite places to eat right now 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Her great-uncle had built the house in 1958, and “it would be nice to keep it in the family,” she says. A ‘new adventure’: Pandemic drives demand for vacation homes 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z “Your grandfather wrote the greatest movie of all time,” Davis was told as a boy, “and your great-uncle is responsible for the biggest disaster of all time.” Mank's grandson tells all: A tragic portrait of the screenwriting brothers Mankiewicz 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z In the morning, their great-uncle dresses them and combs their hair. These twins are 5 years old. They lost both parents to covid-19. They were not able to hold the newborn child, instead seeing him on video chat while he stayed with a great-uncle until the family members recovered. Patients in India are desperate for care. This family turned to a doctor 7,700 miles away. 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z His paternal grandparents lived in Amherst County, and a great-uncle lost an arm while serving in the Confederate Army. John W. Warner, senator from Virginia and force on military affairs, dies at 94 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Musa’s grandfather and great-uncle, both young men at the time, were among those who remained. After Arab-Jewish violence erupts inside Israeli towns, a divided country may never be the same 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z Quinton’s great-uncle Norman T. Brown, a school bus driver, also ran the town’s general store, where he peddled everything from coal oil to wheels of cheese, often extending credit. Free Black men and women founded an Eastern Shore village to avoid attention. Now their descendants want to share the stories. 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z A great-uncle was elevated to the peerage, and a second cousin shared the Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming for penicillin. Apple employees circulate petition demanding investigation into "misogynistic" new hire 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z After the season, Meinerz retreated to Canada, where he stayed at a fishing camp his great-uncle owned. How a small-school lineman turned himself from ‘the guy with the gut’ into an NFL prospect 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The images were taken by the great-uncle of a former pupil, who then contacted the school. Duke of Edinburgh: Scotland to fall silent to remember Prince Philip 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Sachi Hamilton is proud to know her great-uncle, baseball legend Jackie Robinson, played such a vital role in baseball and the civil rights movement. Cody Bellinger has hairline fracture in left fibula, out indefinitely for Dodgers 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Her great-uncle, boxer Billy Conn, twice fought Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship. Chasing Ledecky: Leah Smith keeps coming after US star 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z One of Meir’s great-uncles died from Covid last year, shortly before Passover, and his grandfather Yosef was hospitalized for 10 days with the virus months later. A Family’s Passover Tradition: Making Matzo in Their Backyard 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z My great-uncle had a picture of a stringy-haired, blue-eyed white Jesus hanging over his bed. Teaching a child to hate or be ashamed of himself is a sin 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z It was all inspired by her great-uncle who knew all too well what that struggle was like. 8-year-old Wisconsin girl creates charity to help homeless children 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z A great-uncle shared with him a family Bible that had belonged to his own great-grandmother, who was born into slavery in 1865, just before Emancipation. A Teenager Was Bullied. His Ancestors Saved Him. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Spencer was Diana’s great-great-great-uncle, and also a great-uncle of Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill, according to the website of the Roman Catholic diocese of Shrewsbury. Ancestor of Britain's Prince William on path to Catholic sainthood 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z My grandfather was already buried in a downtown Constantine cemetery adjacent to my great-grandmother and great-uncle. Coronavirus in Algeria: 'No-one could travel to say goodbye to grandpa' 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z He eventually helped build an organization – in a town run by Joseph “Little Joe” Regino, author Russell Shorto’s great-uncle – that generated, by one estimate, $40 million in the 15 years after World War II ended. Johnstown native’s book explores gambling, murder, the mob 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z The public apology marks a sharp reversal of fortune for Abe, a political blue-bloods whose grandfather and great-uncle also served as premiers. Japan ex-PM Abe apologises, corrects parliament statements on funding scandal 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Bearpaw and three of his siblings joined the military, following a great-grandfather who fought in the Civil War, a great-uncle who served in World War I and a father who was one of Darby’s Rangers. Perspective | Behind a national memorial for Native American veterans, stories of slow loss, swift change and boots two sizes too big 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z His great-uncle received a Purple Heart certificate fighting in World War I, and both he and his father served in the U.S. Navy vet turned musician calls for unity, patriotism in 9/11 tribute 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Then a great-uncle took over, followed by her grandfather, then an “umpteenth cousin” and finally her father. One Family Has Delivered the Mail by Boat for 115 Years. Is This the Last? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z He is struggling with idealistic young liberals and older, affluent white Democrats, the sort of voters who in an earlier era idolized his grandfather, Robert F. Kennedy, and his great-uncles. In Massachusetts, Markey Outflanks Kennedy by Running as Bold Insurgent 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Abe hailed from a wealthy political family that included a foreign minister father and a great-uncle who served as premier. Japan's Shinzo Abe sought to revive economy, fulfil conservative agenda 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z On Monday he surpassed a record for longest consecutive tenure as premier set by his great-uncle Eisaku Sato half a century ago. Japan PM Abe set to hold news conference amid health concerns 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z My American great-uncle, as it turned out, helped build the very same atom bombs that destroyed Hiroshima, and three days later, Nagasaki. Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Mabo, who was Mills’s great-uncle, is revered by Indigenous Australians to such a degree that his landmark campaign for their land ownership rights has long prompted calls for a national holiday in his name. ‘The Better I Got in Sports, the Worse the Racism Got’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Wedel-Morales’ family said his remains will be returned to Oklahoma and laid to rest at Fort Gibson National Cemetery, where his great-uncle is buried and his grandfather plans to be interred. Dead Fort Hood soldier deemed 'deserter' reinstated to active duty, will receive military funeral 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z Her great-uncle and great-aunt were sick, their conditions deteriorating, in need of intensive care. Hundreds of health care workers lost their lives battling the coronavirus. Now a series of ‘what ifs’ haunt their friends and colleagues. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Her great-uncle came to England at the age of 17 to help the war effort, settling in London afterwards. The black British history you may not know about 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z His great-uncle died of the coronavirus a few days ago, and Mr. Noor said he is losing track of how many other relatives and constituents are dying. Two Crises Convulse a Nation: A Pandemic and Police Violence 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z In the chaotic aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, an uncle was kidnapped, and a great-uncle was killed by armed militias, forcing her family to seek refuge in Jordan. Global pandemic: Through the eyes of the world’s children 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z Toren’s great-uncle, the wealthy Jewish industrialist and art collector David Friedmann, was forced to flee and the Nazis pillaged his extensive collection. Lives Lost: Holocaust survivor reclaimed Nazi-looted artwork 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z He snapped a photo of her outside in bare feet, wearing her dress and the white coat she inherited from her great-uncle, a doctor who died last year. A new doctor’s fast track from med student to covid-19 fighter, in a hospital filled with loss 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z My wife’s families were incarcerated in camps during World War II, even while her great-uncles were serving in an all-Japanese American battalion of the U.S. John Cho: Coronavirus reminds Asian Americans belonging is conditional 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z He said his great- great-uncle happened to be one of the founders of Frontier Days. Deserted icons: Frontier Days important bonanza for Cheyenne 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z The Kennedy family has been beset by tragedy, including the assassinations of McKean’s grandfather and great-uncle in the 1960s and the death of her cousin Saoirse Kennedy Hill last year. Search for Kennedy family members missing in Chesapeake Bay has ‘turned from rescue to recovery’ 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z In a show about the scars of war that never heal, and the memories of those who were lost, the crucifix allows Zaromatidis to bring his great-uncle with him onstage every night. ‘Bandstand’ actor finds, in a forgotten relative, a kinship with his onstage character 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z But Kennedy has also drawn support from older voters, who may fondly remember when his great-uncle was president and when his grandfather represented New York in the Senate and then served as U.S. attorney general. Rep. Kennedy calls Markey a ‘good senator’ but argues for ousting the incumbent 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Richard III's great-uncle Edward, his parents and his brother Edmund are buried at the 15th Century church. Richard III family church completes £1.5m repairs 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z She allegedly witnessed the murder of my great-uncle David. I have lived my life in the shadow of Auschwitz. This is what it has meant | Jason Stanley 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Maciel, born in a small town in the central Mexican state of Michoacan, came from a distinguished Catholic family, with two great-uncles who were Mexican bishops. Mexican Catholic group says late leader Marcial Maciel abused at least 60 minors 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z The performer didn’t even know his great-uncle existed before he went down a genealogy rabbit hole last year, around the time he was auditioning for “Bandstand.” ‘Bandstand’ actor finds, in a forgotten relative, a kinship with his onstage character 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z In the 1960s, an urban teen stays with his rural great-uncles and listens to their fantastic tales. Movies on TV this week: 'The Wizard of Oz' on Thanksgiving and more 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Naval Academy and that five great-uncles served in World War II. One of them, Kent said, survived the Bataan Death March as a Japanese prisoner of war in the Philippines. Public servants use impeachment hearings to offer lessons of history and military service in rejoinder to Trump 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “It was just everyday life for them,” Bailey once told the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals, referring to the work her great-aunt and great-uncle pursued. Azellia White, trailblazer for African American women in aviation, dies at 106 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z A great-uncle was the celebrated humorist Ring Lardner, whose sons included Ring Lardner Jr., the Oscar-winning screenwriter. George Lardner Jr., Washington Post reporter who received Pulitzer for investigation of his daughter’s murder, dies at 85 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z As he prodded his family for details about his great-uncle, one relative found a box of Cloutsis’s belongings, including a cross that Zaromatidis now wears as a part of Donny’s costume. ‘Bandstand’ actor finds, in a forgotten relative, a kinship with his onstage character 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z In this exquisite family memoir, the ceramicist explains how he came to inherit a collection of 264 netsuke – small Japanese ornaments – from his great-uncle. The 100 best books of the 21st century 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z His great-uncle is Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud and a man often called “the father of public relations.” Long Before ‘Netflix and Chill,’ He Was the Netflix C.E.O. 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z One great-uncle was president, two others were senators who also ran for president. Analysis | Reps. Kennedy and Cheney consider their choices in the call of familial ambition 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Yet these assumptions also ignore the cutthroat side of the Kennedy family: the congressman’s grandfather, Robert, and his great-uncle, Edward, both challenged sitting Democratic presidents. A Kennedy-Markey Primary? Massachusetts Is Jolted 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z When I was in my 20s, a great-uncle asked what I was doing these days. Opinion | I’m 57. Am I Grown Up? 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z This was sadly the case for another great-uncle of mine, Freddy Macias, a Korean war Purple Heart winner and a joyous storyteller who passed away last year. Texas has a long history of anti-Mexican racism. My family lived it 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z In the mix are great-aunts and great-uncles, along with two or three generations of cousins and folks who have been friends of the family forever. Opinion | What I learned about the Democrats at a family barbecue in North Carolina 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z In an account later confirmed by Valencia’s 96-year-old great-uncle, the Texas Rangers and U.S. soldiers killed her great-grandfather and 14 other men and boys. Mexican Americans saw own racial terror before ‘Red Summer’ 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z At just 28 Elkann was thrust into the role of Fiat vice-chairman after the deaths of his grandfather and great-uncle “because there was really nobody else” to take the wheel. Elkann enlists Renault to drive Fiat family fortunes 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z “I barely heard a word about this great-uncle she had,” he said. Filmmaker highlights little-known WWII troopship sinking 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The magazine claimed the name holds a special place for Prince Charles, who’s beloved great-uncle and mentor, Earl Louis Mountbatten, was assassinated by the IRA in 1979. Princess Diana rejected original royal baby names for Princes William and Harry, book claims: ‘No thank you’ 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z His grandfather and two great-uncles homesteaded in Cherry County, so he spent summers in the Sandhills as a teenager helping with branding and other cattle work. Kearney man carries on father’s legacy through saddle shop 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z When he was four, someone at a museum in Texas gave him a fragment of dinosaur bone, which he took to his great-uncle. The Day the Dinosaurs Died 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Mr Brown's great-uncle set up the company more than 100 years ago. Firm bids to shift 30 tonnes of buttons 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z He said his family migrated to California following socialist great-uncles who became Petaluma chicken farmers. A dinner in Jerusalem draws stars from the American food universe 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In the nineteen-thirties, her great-uncle Thornton Prince III was a handsome pig farmer and fond of women. The Family Business That Put Nashville Hot Chicken on the Map 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Laquan’s great-uncle, the Rev. Marvin Hunter, said it was a qualified victory that a police officer was going to prison for murder. Jason Van Dyke Sentenced to Nearly 7 Years for Murdering Laquan McDonald 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z DePalma’s great-uncle Anthony, who lived in Pompano Beach, took him under his wing. The Day the Dinosaurs Died 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Since then, Hardeen wanted to learn everything about the great-uncle he never met. Harry Houdini’s great-nephew explains why he wanted to explore late magician’s secrets in docuseries 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z But at 66, the Arizona man is delving into the history of his great-uncle Harry Houdini in a new series on the Science Channel. Arizona man finds magic moments in TV show on uncle Houdini 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z But Lina's great-aunt and great-uncle, who had raised her, were hesitant. Scores of migrant girls quietly vanishing from Indonesia 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z But Lina’s great-aunt and great-uncle, who had raised her, were hesitant. Scores of migrant girls quietly vanishing from Indonesia 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Instead, the great-uncle remained at home and grew up on the farm. Yankton special education instructor honored with award 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z His grandfather, a cousin and a great-uncle also were bishops. Lester Kinsolving, Episcopal priest and pesky White House questioner, dies at 90 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z In Llamas’s case, her great-uncle was ill, and her mother, who was born in Algeciras but lived in Gibraltar, longed to see him. As Brexit looms, Spain eyes taking greater control over Gibraltar 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Her great-uncle had to reconstitute the tribe after its members scattered during the Civil War. The Indians were right, the English were wrong: A Virginia tribe reclaims its past 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Andrew Glinkerman said the cars belonged to his great-uncle, Jack Smith, who’d amassed them a long time ago and hadn’t touched them much in the past 30 years. Dozens of classic cars saved from collapsed barn up for sale 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z My great-uncle Johnny was among the last U.S. servicemen to be killed in action during World War I; he died of his wounds on Oct. Opinion | Trump let a little rain keep him from honoring America’s fallen war heroes 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Their great-uncle met their grandfather at an Army camp during the war, and that led to his introduction to their grandmother, explained Elizabeth Foxwell, 55, of Alexandria. Nation’s capital honors veterans 100 years after the end of World War I 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Others marched for great-uncles and great-great-uncles; a fallen generation never to become fathers and known only through sepia photographs and the names chiselled on local war memorials. 'A nation's thank you': 10,000 pay tribute to war dead in the people's procession 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z When I explained the story of my great-uncle, he studied me for a minute and said, “I’ve got something to show you.” A Marine’s mysterious death in World War I’s final days still haunts his family 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z The tribal land where he believes his great-uncle should be interred was confiscated from his clan over a century ago. 10,000 miles from Paris, a Pacific island chain is set to decide whether to cut ties with France 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z McDonald’s great-uncle Marvin Hunter, who has attended much of the trial, asked people to channel their energy into the polls rather than into anger. 'We've got to break the cycle': calls for justice as verdict looms in Laquan McDonald killing 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z He is an only child who grew up without a mother but who shared the house with his father, grandmother, great-uncle and two great-aunts. Red Hook: the hip New York enclave caught between gentrification and climate change 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z My son, who died in his teens in 1991, was given a World War II artifact by his great-uncle. What Should I Do With Old Racist Memorabilia? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Every time I gazed at it, I marveled at how little I knew about my great-uncle. A Marine’s mysterious death in World War I’s final days still haunts his family 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z A great-uncle apparently bought it after the sheet of 100 was broken up, and after the great-uncle died, the great-aunt left it to the man’s mother in the 1930s. An Inverted Jenny Surfaces. The Flawed Stamp Had Not Been Seen Since 1918. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z As the proud great-uncle of three infants, I’m extremely conscious of the delights of participating in the lives of a new generation. Can I Contact the Grandkids I Discovered on a DNA Website? 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z They said the eight victims were Zykaj’s great-uncle, the great-uncle’s wife and two sons, and other members of their extended family. Albania: Police seek 24-year-old in slaying of 8 relatives 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z It was 1957 when little Lindy Luby’s great-uncle showed up at her house near Benton, Mississippi, where the family had lived for generations. Pride and prejudice? The Americans who fly the Confederate flag 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z This, I knew, was my great-uncle, my grandmother’s beloved brother. A Marine’s mysterious death in World War I’s final days still haunts his family 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Born and raised in the same town as her great-uncle, her upbringing was "steeped in politics". The NHS - a Bevan family business 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Daniel Sr.’s brother, Piper’s great-uncle, William, lived his life as a Caucasian man of distinction, founding the Piper Aircraft Corporation and making his name as “the Henry Ford of Aviation.” Adrian Piper’s Show at MoMA is the Largest Ever for a Living Artist. Why Hasn’t She Seen It? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z One of the great-uncles painted pictures and sold them on the railings of Hyde Park. My grandad was captured by Russians in the second world war and kept alive 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z There were seven golfing Turnesa brothers—Marc's grandfather, Mike, and great-uncles. U.S. Open 2018: Why the pros are wearing white ribbons at the U.S. Open - Golf Digest 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Exactly what happened to my great-uncle isn’t recorded in regimental reports, which describe minor mopping-up operations on Nov. 2 but no significant clashes. A Marine’s mysterious death in World War I’s final days still haunts his family 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z On Wednesday night travelling fans could already be seen singing in the central squares as Moscow submitted to World Cup fever like a sombre great-uncle dancing at a wedding. World Cup beauty and outrage takes on the dizzying oddity of Russia | Barney Ronay 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z A 98-year-old great-uncle told her Tutu was still alive and in her late sixties, which would fit with her apparent age in the painting. Woman in the picture: is Nigeria’s legendary Tutu still alive? 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z That doesn’t sit well with Stokes, who thinks her great-uncle deserved that second Medal of Honor, and is lobbying for him to earn that honor posthumously. Museum gives former slave who won Medal of Honor his due 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z And from a worldly great-uncle, a passion for politics. After November’s tumult, Va.’s new speaker seeks footing in remade House 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z But in researching her genealogy after college, Persley discovered that her grandfather’s brother, her great-uncle, continued to identify as African American back in Macon and became a celebrated architect. They considered themselves white, but DNA tests told a more complex story 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z But operatives within the Democratic party believe the young politician might first seek to represent Massachusetts in the US Senate, following in the footsteps of his legendary great-uncle, the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Joe Kennedy's State of the Union response: Trump ushered era of divisiveness and hatred 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The red-haired Kennedy was elected to the House in 2012, returning the family to Congress two years after the retirement of Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy, the son of Joe Kennedy III’s great-uncle Ted. Dem SOTU response: ‘Bullies may land a punch’ but don’t win 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Kennedy was elected to the House in 2012, returning the family to Congress two years after the retirement of Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy, the son of Joe Kennedy III’s great-uncle Ted. Kennedy: ‘Bullies may land a punch’ but don’t win 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Next week, the young Kennedy will follow in the footsteps of his other great-uncle, Edward Kennedy, who delivered the Democrats' official response to Ronald Reagan's State of the Union address in 1982. Joe Kennedy to respond to Trump speech 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z In 1982, his great-uncle, the late senator Kennedy, was part of a group of Democrats who delivered the formal response to Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union address. Rep. Kennedy will deliver Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union speech 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Among those he is formally accused of murdering are several relatives: two great-uncles, his father-in-law, and his mother - the most recent alleged victim, who died in 2011. 'Deacon of death' on trial in Bruges 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Kennedy has also tried to build a reputation for reaching across the political aisle, something his great-uncle U.S. White House hopes always high in Massachusetts, despite size 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z He insisted his great-uncle encouraged him to run for the seat in a phone call a few days before the congressman resigned. Race for Conyers seat shapes up as contentious family affair 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z In a phone interview, Ian Conyers said that his great-uncle encouraged him to run for the seat days before deciding to step down. John Conyers to Leave Congress Amid Harassment Claims 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Conyers told the newspaper his great-uncle – the longest-serving current member of the House – “is not resigning. He is going to retire.” John Conyers 'will not seek re-election' amid sexual harassment allegations 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Her great-uncle, a former revolutionary, was accused of being an enemy of the state, charged as a foreign spy and imprisoned for 17 years. After Fleeing Anti-Semitism in Russia, Finding Hope and a Home in the U.S. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z These paintings show that Sherlock Holmes's purported great-uncle and his great-great-grandfather share an aquiline nose and piercingly intelligent eyes — two of the characteristics featured in Paget's illustration. Crime fiction: Sherlock Holmes [mdash] a family likeness? : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Cleary remembers the celebration that marked the end of World War I and meeting a great-uncle who crossed the Plains in a covered wagon. An appreciation of Beverly Cleary: both children’s author and memoirist 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z His great-uncle “still enjoys healthy support in our district,” he said. John Conyers to Leave Congress Amid Harassment Claims 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z If, like his great-uncle Edward, he inclines towards thespianism, the school performs eight different productions and a nativity play every year, and has its own sound and lighting crew. Prince George arrives for first day at £18,000-a-year prep school 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “My great-uncle operated a still on the Niobrara River during Prohibition,” Bill said. Nebraska distillery uses Prohibition recipe for whiskey 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z White leaders in Phillips County subsequently formed the “Committee of Seven,” consisting of prominent public officials and planters — including the Solomon brothers’ great-uncles — to investigate the massacre. Arkansas town hopes to create memorial for 1919 massacre 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z At family reunions and holiday dinners his whole life, he has heard about his great-uncles fighting each other in the Civil War’s Battle of Shiloh. In the wake of Charlottesville protests, a Kentucky mayor wants to remove Confederate statues 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z The boy's great-uncle Marcel Jacob and his wife Jacqueline were placed under formal investigation for kidnapping resulting in death. Grégory Villemin case: Former French judge found dead - BBC News 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z On their first date, my dad told my mom that he someday wanted to name a son Tyler, after his great-uncle, a teacher who wrote American history textbooks in the 1940s. Tyler’s at the Plate, and on the Mound, and in the Field ... 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Dijon Prosecutor Jean-Jacques Bosc said Friday that a great-aunt and great-uncle of Gregory Villemin are accused of kidnapping and illegal confinement followed by death. French cold case: Relatives charged in boy’s 1984 death 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Local newspaper L’Est Republicain reported that they were a great-uncle, great-aunt and aunt of Gregory’s and that they are suspected of complicity in the killing. French cold case: Arrests over 1984 killing of 4-year-old 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z The third story concerns one of Sebald’s great-uncles, Adelwarth, a German immigrant who worked as a valet in the United States, and whose life, as an immigrant and a closeted homosexual, bore immense strains. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z “She had a social conscience and she did try to give back,” said Boehme, whose great-uncle worked for Winchester as an orchardist. Guns, ghosts and guilt: Helen Mirren portrays the widow whose Winchester Mystery House defies logic 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Congressman Joe Kennedy III said that Obama “exemplified the values we’re here to celebrate,” and how politicians on both sides of the aisle were inspired by his great-uncle who “challenged” his country. Barack Obama urges Congress to find political courage and defend his healthcare reforms 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z And my great-uncle asking about the marriage thing: “When do you want to get married … in 10 years?” Perspective | Love, marriage, kids — life doesn’t follow a set timeline. So don’t expect it to. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama mangled World War II events when he said his great-uncle helped liberate Auschwitz, which would have been possible only if his great-uncle had been a Soviet soldier. With Civil War Remark, a President Who Doesn’t Go by the (History) Book 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z The children’s great-uncle was found dead Thursday at his home in a nearby town. The Latest: Arkansas toddler found dead, 2nd child missing 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z David Tincher never knew his great-uncle Harry Tye, but he had vivid memories of his grandmother gazing at the picture on her mantel of the big brother who never came home from the war. A Marine comes home from the war after more than 70 years 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z He believed he was watched over by his paternal grandfather and a great-uncle who were killed fighting for the Confederacy, according to D’Este’s biography. WWII made George Patton a hero, but the ‘Great War’ made him a commander 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z My great-uncle smiled and nodded, and that was the end of the conversation. Perspective | Love, marriage, kids — life doesn’t follow a set timeline. So don’t expect it to. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z His great-uncle Victor, he recounts with pride, was a French communist executed by the Nazis; his father worked in a coal mine; Evrard himself was a card-carrying French communist for 36 years. French far-right candidate showcases ex-communist converts 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z The camp had been owned by the same family for several generations, and an eccentric great-uncle who taught archery wrote the newsletter. “The Prairie Wife” 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z In the early part of the last century my two great-uncles died young of lung cancer. The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Even in war, his great-uncle kept his sense of humor, Stubbs said. A soldier who starved to death in a North Korean prison camp is coming home — 65 years later 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z His grandfather and great-uncle won an Academy Award for the screenplay of “Casablanca.” At Yale, Theo Epstein Made a Splash as Newspaper’s Sports Editor 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The boy who would have become my great-uncle, who had been sleeping in the same bed as his two brothers, including my future grandfather, was killed when the roof of their building collapsed. Powerful Earthquake in Italy Kills at Least 241 and Shatters Towns 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z “My boys are helping,” Doris said, referring to Gavin’s great-uncles, both of whom are single. Grandparenting today: ‘At grandmother’s house we stay’ 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The unnamed boy's great-uncle and great-aunt in South Carolina petitioned the court for custody, and the request was granted by a judge on Monday. Ohio boy in graphic heroin photo finds new home - BBC News 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Stubbs, who was born 14 years after Minard died, knows about his great-uncle only through stories he heard from family members. A soldier who starved to death in a North Korean prison camp is coming home — 65 years later 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Timothy Durrah, 53, Noble’s great-uncle, added that “Milwaukee is one of the most prejudiced cities there is.” Racial Violence in Milwaukee Was Decades in the Making, Residents Say 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Mallon and Wallechinsky tried circulating the photo as widely as possible, hoping someone might recognize their great-uncle or grandfather, but no one piped up. This Boy Might Be the Youngest Ever Olympian—No One Knows Who He Is 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Research on Ancestry.com and other sites turned up three great-uncles who were Union soldiers. A Personal Sort of Time Travel: Ancestry Tourism 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z When she was younger, she said, she enjoyed spending time with her grandparents and great-aunts and great-uncles to listen to family stories. Kansas woman helps African American families fill in blanks 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The Duchess of Cornwall will lay a wreath at the grave of her great-uncle, Captain Harry Cubitt, who was killed on the Somme in September 1916 while serving with the Coldstream Guards. Battle of the Somme: Queen to lead centenary remembrance events - BBC News 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Nolan, who teaches high-school government and history, said supporting the military in a civilian role isn't the same as serving in uniform, as one of his grandfathers and a great-uncle did. Deaf teacher's quest for armed service inspires students 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z He says a hearing grandfather and great-uncle served in uniform. Deaf teacher's quest for armed service inspires students 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z He said his great-uncle owned the property at the time, and his mother was the curator. Fire 50 years ago destroyed home, left a landmark 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Roth first hunted mushrooms in Maquoketa with his great-aunt and great-uncle when he was about 5 years old. Morel collector takes the chance to find mushrooms in Asbury 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The pocket watch chain once belonged to his great-uncle, Frank Charles Thiel, whose murder in 1885 inspired the naming of Bloody Gulch Road. EXCHANGE: The legend of Bloody Gulch Road lives on 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Almost nine years ago, she sent a letter to the Army War College seeking the remains of her great-uncle. Woman seeks relative’s remains from Indian boarding school 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z He is also the great-uncle of Star Wars actress Daisy Ridley, although he died aged 88 in 1984 - eight years before she was born. The real-life wars of Dad's Army actor Arnold Ridley - BBC News 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Though my father, grandparents, great-grandparents and great-uncles and great-aunts all had been prominent actors in their day, my parents weren’t in the business when I was born. Drew Barrymore, Child Star of ‘E.T.,’ Finds Her Way Home 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z His great-uncle Daddy C, who lived near Goose Creek, saw everything in terms of race. The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Willard Scott, the genial great-uncle of TV weather reporting, retired today after a 35-year run on the “Today” show. As Willard Scott retires, friends and fans remember his D.C. roots 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Now that even your octogenarian great-uncle spends half his day “liking” the latest Trump news on Facebook, politics is officially on the table. Want to sound smart over turkey? Here are your 2015 Thanksgiving talking points. 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z A Guyanese immigrant, Officer Randolph Holder was drawn to law enforcement by the example of his father, grandfather and great-uncle, all of whom served the police department in their home country, relatives said. For Randolph Holder, Slain New York Officer, Police Work Ran in the Family 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But on the bright side, it will also get your great-uncle Charlie out of purgatory! You can avoid congestion when the pope visits your city. Just do the following. 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z "Let us hope the ejected Chinese were puppets!" my great-uncle wrote. Witnessing Japan's surrender in China - BBC News 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But he was thrust unexpectedly into leading the family holdings a half-decade later, after the deaths of his grandfather and his great-uncle Umberto. Industrialist Heir to the Fiat Dynasty Charts His Course 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Her offices are decorated with paintings, many from the art collection of her great-uncle Ambrose, that reflect her family’s generations-long interests in horses, polo and hunting. Clark Family’s Quiet Fame and Wealthy Legacy Abide at Cooperstown 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The voice, which has the timbre of a great-uncle sharing confidences in the pitch of night, is about to pack up its tales and retire after four decades. With grace and sly charm, Garrison Keillor prepares to exit 'Prairie Home Companion' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z It comes a day after the Royal couple visited the County Sligo village of Mullaghmore, where the prince's great-uncle was murdered. Royal couple to arrive in Belfast on third day of Royal visit - BBC News 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In the middle, in the uniform of a British major general, sat my great-uncle, Eric Hayes. Witnessing Japan's surrender in China - BBC News 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Prince Charles is visiting the place in the Republic of Ireland where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten was murdered by the IRA in 1979. Prince Charles visits Lord Mountbatten 1979 IRA murder site - BBC News 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The Prince of Wales is to visit the Irish village where his great-uncle Lord Mountbatten and three other people were killed by a Provisional IRA bomb 36 years ago. Prince Charles to visit scene of 1979 Mountbatten murder 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Charles adored his great-uncle and was devastated when he died. Prince Charles, in Ireland, meets with Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z It hung in a sunroom of Friedmann’s villa, where his father, his great-uncle and guests would play cards. Nazi-looted art finds its way back to original owner’s descendants 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It was clear to my great-uncle that the Japanese army in Nanjing was not happy with its orders. Witnessing Japan's surrender in China - BBC News 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Opening her laptop, Tomomi Takemoto studies a 70-year-old map of this claw-shaped island, searching for the burial site of her great-uncle, a Japanese infantryman who was killed in one of the Pacific War's bloodiest battles. Map may hold key to lost World War II bones at Pacific battle site 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z It was a family-run criminal enterprise, and Fryer's great-uncle would live out his years in prison. Meet the economist who grew up among crack dealers and won a ‘mini-Nobel’ for his research on race 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Jacob Lincoln, Abraham’s great-uncle, built the house in 1800, according to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Lincoln homestead offers look into past 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z William's grandson, Alexander Mackenzie, said he was "proud and sad in a way" to be named after his late great-uncle. Great war exhibition begins tour 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z A New Jersey man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing $1 million from his great-aunt and great-uncle by persuading them to invest their retirement savings in a high-risk, money-losing investment venture, officials said. New Jersey man admits stealing $1 million from family in fraud 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Farrell follows his great-uncle Elmon T. Gray, and Gray’s father, Garland Gray — both former state senators — in the General Assembly. Va. delegate and son of Dominion Resources CEO says he is his own man 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z The family was of a mixed economic background: one of Miranda’s great-uncles, on his father’s side, was the founder of the Independence Party in Puerto Rico, but other relatives were solidly working class. Hip-Hop Hamilton 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Texas on Wednesday executed a 41-year-old man convicted of stabbing three people to death with a screwdriver, including his great-uncle and great-aunt, in a San Antonio home robbery in 1993, a prison officials said. Texas executes man for 1993 triple murder in San Antonio home 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Texas plans to execute on Wednesday a man who was convicted of stabbing three people to death with a screwdriver, including his great-uncle and great-aunt, in a San Antonio home robbery in 1993. Texas to execute man for triple murder in San Antonio home 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z “My great-uncle built all this,” said Sarah-Beth White, 57, gesturing to rows of shelving packed with bolts of colorful textiles. Where Elmo’s People Shop: Broadway Silk Store in Astoria 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z In 1939, Hall’s great-uncle, Onus T. Hall, also a Durham sheriff’s deputy, was similarly killed in the line of duty. Family maintains tradition of fighting fires 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z He knows he faces long odds to succeed, not unlike his great-uncle, Wes Matthews, who matriculated to the N.F.L. in the 1960s from a small program, Northeastern State in Oklahoma. Auston Matthews, a 17-Year-Old Prodigy, Is Evidence of Arizona’s Flourishing Hockey Scene 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z She said her son had just buried his great-uncle, but he didn't seem depressed. FBI investigates suspicious death of North Carolina teen Lennon Lacy 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z She said that her son had just buried his great-uncle but that he didn’t seem depressed. FBI investigates suspicious death of North Carolina teen Lennon Lacy 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z Rep. Joe Kennedy III, the Massachusetts Democrat whose great-uncle is the Kennedy Center’s namesake, was also partial to the Boss’s performance. At Kennedy Center Honors gala, longtime producer’s departure is hot topic 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Rice was buried on Wednesday after an emotional funeral where his great-uncle Michael Petty delivered impassioned remarks about why the public can’t allow his nephew to die in vain. Family of Tamir Rice files complaint against Cleveland, police 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z At Rice’s funeral Tuesday morning, the boy’s great-uncle called on the Cleveland community and the entire country to remember Rice by demanding changes to law enforcement policies, including a restructuring of officer training. St. Louis County PD on Tamir Rice shooting: 'Kids will be kids?' 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z His grandfather served in the Korean War, his great-uncle fought in World War II, and his cousin is a colonel in the Marines. Virginia veteran opens up home as retreat 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z He said he appreciated the continuing brand, “especially in an era not as dedicated to craftsmanship as my great-uncle was.” Resurrecting the Artistry, and the Name, of a Singular Guitar Craftsman 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z A Boston Brahmin who was to the manner born — his maternal great-uncle, Frank Crowninshield, was the founding editor of Vanity Fair; he overcame polio; attended Harvard; and got to work early and often. Ben Bradlee’s Charmed, Charming Life 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The slain Julius was his great-uncle, and the young relative stepped into the legend’s name and a large portion of his power soon after Brutus, Cassius and the other assassins did their work. Book review: ‘Augustus: First Emperor of Rome,’ by Adrian Goldsworthy Hughes’s great-uncle, Joe Allen, served in the 1st Vermont Cavalry, which trained in Annapolis at a site called Camp Harris. Historians in Annapolis search for clues to a Civil War past a proposed development site I don't care about the songs your bloody great-uncles used to sing on a Saturday night.'' Hilary Mantel: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: August 6th 1983 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Epstein’s father is the novelist Leslie Epstein, and his grandfather and great-uncle — Philip and Julius Epstein — wrote the screenplay for the film “Casablanca.” As Cubs Slowly Rebuild, There’s Shouting From the Rooftops 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Growing up, the old-timers would tell him how important his great-uncle had been. Unmarked trophy serves clue to lost tennis champion 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Davis knows Brown’s great-uncle, who was to deliver the eulogy. Mourners pack St. Louis church for Michael Brown's funeral 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z It has gathered steam more recently as Annapolis resident George Hughes turned up new information in his quest to track a great-uncle who served as a Union soldier. Historians in Annapolis search for clues to a Civil War past a proposed development site His children—my grandmother and great-uncle—never made it to the war memorial where he rests, never even knew where it was, until decades later, when my father tracked it down. On World War I Centenary, Chasing a Soldier's Memory His family had ties to the British army: Waheed's grandfather and great-uncle served in the jungles of Burma during the second world war, and a cousin is currently in the Parachute Regiment. My brother, the suicide bomber: why British men go to Syria 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z About a decade ago, Hunt began a more concerted effort to research his great-uncle, diving through Internet archives, compiling a detailed, 90-page listing of Joe Hunt tennis matches. Unmarked trophy serves clue to lost tennis champion 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z For three terms, Cardin has held the same legislative seat in Annapolis that his uncle, grandfather and great-uncle held before him. Poll shows two candidates for Md. attorney general are locked in a tight battle When Taylor returned from Germany after a stint in the Army in 1964, his great-uncle got him a job, and he has been a staple around the New York Racing Association’s tracks ever since. The Masters of Place and Time for Belmont’s Races 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z They share the top floor of the house where Angela was raised with her 90-year-old great-uncle, while her parents – both retired - live below. South Europe's families offer short-term fix to pensions crisis 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The original owner, Mr. Benedict, was the great-uncle of the seller, Antoinette Weiser, who grew up in an apartment in the carriage house but now lives in New Mexico. | For $13.4 Million, Hitching Post Included 2014-04-25T18:18:38Z An 18th Century chapel where the great-uncle of poet Dylan Thomas preached is set to be restored to its former glory. Poet's great-uncle's chapel grant 2014-03-23T12:00:58Z They were from the same village originally, distant cousins—she had a great-uncle with his mother’s surname. Zadie Smith: “Moonlit Landscape with Bridge.” 2014-02-03T05:00:00Z For Taylor, it was a great-uncle, Earl Williams, who fostered his love of the racetrack. The Masters of Place and Time for Belmont’s Races 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z It was only years later, as an adult, that she discovered her great-uncle Warren had been accused of trying to assault a white woman. Strange Fruit: An enduring protest 2013-11-25T00:32:28Z "More investment and effective social investment, more equality, more social justice, that's a way of building peace," said Santos, 62, whose great-uncle Eduardo Santos once held the office he now occupies. Colombia's Santos says support of Venezuela, Cuba key to peace talks 2013-09-25T23:49:19Z Some 25 years ago, Ms. Rendall, whose great-uncle sailed the floating bank, took up the mantle of the U.K.'s only full-time flying banker. In the U.K., One Banker Appears Out of Thin Air 2013-08-22T04:24:57Z At a news conference, the boys' great-uncle, Dave Rose, described their final day together. VIDEO: 'They were two typical children' 2013-08-06T20:49:47Z On Aug. 21, 1955, Emmett Till arrived in Money, Miss., about 30 miles from Drew, to stay at the home of a great-uncle, Moses Wright. Willie Louis, Who Named the Killers of Emmett Till at Their Trial, Dies at 76 2013-07-25T02:38:48Z McIlroy, whose great-uncle is believed to have died at the hands of a pro-British paramilitary group in East Belfast in 1972 for being a Catholic in a Protestant neighborhood, feels the tug of Britain. McIlroy, a Native Son, Divides Ireland 2013-07-13T15:20:15Z “My great-uncle died just after I was born, but my grandfather and I became extremely close,” Jesse Smith said. Open Rookie Reconnects and Rebuilds His Game 2013-06-13T02:18:43Z In addition to a great-grandfather, a grandmother and a great-uncle who were alcoholics, her mother drank too much, fighting her despondency about cancer with alcohol and tranquilizers. Christine Quinn Opens Up About Her Struggles Against Bulimia and Alcoholism 2013-05-14T06:01:12Z Are you, perhaps, the cheek-pinching great-uncle of this person and thus entitled to a little slack? How to talk about a woman’s looks 2013-04-05T11:45:00Z Ethan, who according to a great-uncle had already experienced a share of turmoil in his short life, had been found to have Asperger’s syndrome. Midland City Wins Its Battle With Kidnapper 2013-02-06T02:35:45Z At the end of a presentation that was predominantly smiling children and daily life, my great-uncle asked, “So how can we help these people?” Introducing Africa to the OMG crowd 2013-02-04T22:47:00Z Bill's great-uncle Tom, who was off work on the day of the disaster, followed his mining career with a stint as Labour MP for Whitehaven in Cumbria from 1910 to 1918. Haunting photographs unlock the story of a colliery tragedy 2012-11-22T16:41:41Z We hear stories about them, like my great-uncle who was the head of his village during the invasion. Celebrity grandparents and grandchildren 2012-11-16T22:59:00Z “What our forefathers did is going down the drain, never to be remembered,” said Donna Raab, 68, whose great-uncles helped build La Casa. Italian-American Group Suing Columbia for Misuse of Building Development Gift 2012-08-24T03:09:12Z A devout Catholic whose great-uncle was the archbishop of Cologne, Wehling asked the Pope why he had sought Regenokine therapy and was told: "Because your treatment comes from God." Taking a shot 2012-08-22T05:55:01Z His great-uncle was the archbishop of Cologne, and as a boy he met the future Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger. Athletes With Chronic Pain Turn to Novel Blood Treatment 2012-07-10T17:04:33Z Disturbed by her likeness to her great-uncle, she left Germany more than 30 years ago and lives in a remote home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Living with a Nazi name 2012-05-23T00:32:40Z An even more relevant analogy, longtime politicians say, is that Joseph Kennedy is a natural, as were his illustrious great-uncles. Letter From Washington: A Young Kennedy Follows the Family Template 2012-05-13T15:30:07Z I wanted to go out and try my hand at coffee in British East, but my old great-uncle kicked up a fuss. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z He inherited a large estate from his grandfather, James Brown, and from his great-uncle, Robert Oliver. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z And how lustily old Squire Griffin of Garth, the great-uncle of this young man, now come to meet the mail, had longed to lay his cane about their disloyal shoulders! Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Himmler, key architect of the Holocaust, was her great-uncle and her grandfather and his other brother were also in the Nazi party. Living with a Nazi name 2012-05-23T00:32:40Z Upon the walls of the great lower hall are many family pictures, among them that of the Chaworth whom Byron's great-uncle had slain. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z "My great-uncle lives in London, but he is away just now." The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z Another picture of a comfortable-looking old gentleman in a powdered wig is the portrait of a high legal dignitary, well known in his day as Theobald Wolfe, a great-uncle of Mrs. Alexander. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z There is, of course, the Princess Wilhelmina, the wife of William, a woman possessed of all the strength and executive ability of her great-uncle Frederick, the late King of Prussia. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z It may have been very desirable to show that Rossini was of distinguished ancestry, and that he had a great-uncle, who, in the middle of the sixteenth century, was governor of Ravenna. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z And you sailors has rough ways—my great-uncle Dexter always said so. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z I was placed at one chosen for me by my great-uncle, Mr. Serjeant Stillingfar. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z Then suddenly, someone shouts, “That voice from the spirit world you are hearing whose first name begins with a J is my great-uncle Jasper!” The Fifth Down: Tebow Is Redefining Excellence, One Handoff at a Time 2011-11-18T21:11:00Z But these weren’t just any Antarctic photographs: They were from Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition of 1910-13, in which Scott and several other men, including Mr. Wilson’s great-uncle, Edward Wilson, died while returning from the pole. Books on Science: Antarctic Odyssey, Through the Lens of Robert Falcon Scott 2011-10-17T21:05:18Z He was your great-uncle, and he married Sally Dickison, whose father, old Adam Dickison, was in the shoemaking line, and died rich. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z "I only know that great-uncle Dexter was terrible rough ... terrible rough." The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z You want to hear how somebody in Rome knows about your great-uncle Burton, don't you? Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z “It’s from your great-uncle,” exclaimed Bab, giving Stephen the note to read. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z The first Japys who "matter" were two brothers, the grandfather and great-uncle of my father. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z A worker in Battery Park, Chris Voltaire — “Like the philosopher; he’s my great-uncle.” — scoffed at the talk of a hurricane. City Room: Battery Particularly Vulnerable to Flooding From Hurricane 2011-08-26T21:50:53Z "My great-uncle Dexter sailed twelve times round the Horn," said Mother with modesty. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Of course he wanted to know about his great-uncle. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z They were all staying at the same hotel, somewhere in the Italian lake country—Barbara and her mother and my great-uncle Stephen and his friend. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z A great-uncle of Mother's went out to Auckland years and years ago, and married a native. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z After all is said You are the Auntie of my children, And the great-niece of my wife's great-uncle, Not to say the sister-in-law of my children's father. Outlook Odes 2011-08-16T02:00:47.257Z She prated of a great-uncle who married a niece of Lord Campbell—a cousin underscored in her records as Laird of Barula—the grand Makemies, the high-stepping Gabies, and the learned Gobies. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z "I never saw my great-uncle but once or twice in my life." Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Personally, you are the most sensible and true gentleman I have known on a college staff since my great-uncle passed out. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z This one focuses on her great-uncle, a celebrated musician who, family lore says, decided to lie down and die after his wife broke his instrument, a tar, over her knee. Andrew D. Arnold: Five Gripping Graphic Novels for Grownups 2006-10-05T14:05:00Z I'm not against people claiming for compensation, despite what my great-uncle experienced. Mau Mau uprising: Your stories 2011-07-21T15:48:29Z "My terrible great-uncle again, I suppose!" said Her Highness with a deprecatory smile. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z According to previously published reports, the great-uncle, Joseph McIlroy, moved into a Protestant area of East Belfast when the Troubles were at their height. Northern Ireland?s McIlroy Transcends Boundaries 2011-07-11T04:12:19Z But my maternal great-uncles—I think I forgot to say they were related to me through my mother—they were men of peppery tempers and they could not understand this. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Don’t bring up religion around your great-uncle, and try not to mention the recent demise of the family goldfish when your little sister is within earshot. Green: Wooing Voters (or Not) With a Climate Pitch 2011-07-06T22:09:10Z Only hint the propriety of cutting it off to your great-uncle or your grandfather, and you may rely on being cut off with a shilling yourself. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z She is much older than I am, and she says she remembers well the name of my family, and that my great-uncle, Aunt Agnes' father, died a heretic! Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z The same logo was once seen as sufficiently bellicose to form the focal point of another crest — that of the Ulster Volunteer Force, the organization that murdered McIlroy’s great-uncle. Northern Ireland?s McIlroy Transcends Boundaries 2011-07-11T04:12:19Z Although each of the current Turnesas competes in local tournaments, the family stardom now falls to Marc, who is said to have his grandfather Mike’s putting stroke and the short game of his great-uncle Willie. Golfing Family Has a Grandson in the Open 2011-06-13T20:26:55Z Like his great-uncle, Ming Flanagan is defending turf cutting for fuel It is easy to get stuck in the mire when covering turf wars. For peat's sake 2011-06-09T13:41:44Z While I was there, I was much with this great-uncle; I bear his name. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Your great-uncle brought it to me from China, when I was just your age, Mollie! The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z His great-uncle, the Duke of Cumberland, carved "Klosterseven" on the Brunswick monuments. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z The little boy's great-uncle made the identification, said Rhonda Brewer, the stepmother of the child's uncle. Body of missing baby boy identified in Missouri 2011-05-26T05:40:15Z As she played, she found an obituary for a great-uncle and for her grandmother. Finding Family Lore Online 2011-05-18T20:49:13Z My mother's great-uncle, on her mother's side, was a Ewart of Stoke Charity, a little place in the south of England. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Especially Charles and Alfred were at times the guests of their great-uncle Samuel Turner, vicar of Grasby and curate of Caistor, who afterwards left his property and parish livings to his favorite, Charles Tennyson Turner. Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z What had brought about the poor gentleman's undoing had been his taking over the hounds, when Lord St. Amant's great-uncle had given them up. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z Ah, your uncle—or great-uncle is he?—I'm not much of a hand at remembering the ins and outs of families—is hard hit. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z One was my great-uncle and I spent 10 years tracing the story of that night, and reuniting their families. 'Disastrous night' 2011-04-15T23:22:49Z In December he received a captain's commission in the Kildare Militia, of which his great-uncle, the Earl of Mayo, was colonel. The Earl of Mayo Rulers of India 2011-04-11T02:00:13.067Z In 1838, he acquired property left him by his great-uncle, Rev. S. Turner, and assumed the name of Turner by royal license. Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z His great-uncle had been jailed at Abu Salim, also in a routine sweep, and was among the roughly 1,200 men massacred there in 1996. Magazine Preview: On Libya?s Revolutionary Road 2011-03-30T14:23:43Z "It will, of course, be a severe blow to your great-uncle; all the more so that Mr. Lucius Cheffington is in deplorably weak health." That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z A photograph of my great-uncle turned up in the archive. The last yarn of Bradford mill 2011-03-27T21:00:02Z Inheritances from her childhood include a Civil War-era flag owned by a grandmother’s great-uncle from the North who fought with the Union forces. | Upper East Side: Apartment 10E, ?as in Effervescent? 2011-03-26T15:33:10Z At the end of dinner the stranger said, 'Perhaps, sir, you are not aware that you have been dining with a notorious highwayman?'—'No, indeed,' said my great-uncle, not the least discomposed. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Eighteen miles away, gathered around a computer at International Tool and Manufacturing Inc., are her father, grandparents and great-uncle. Hospital webcam delivers stream of love 2011-03-15T18:33:29Z The Hiroshima native's great-uncles and great-aunts were killed by the American atomic bomb that leveled the Japanese city at the end of the World War II. Shadows of Hiroshima: Radiation Risk Casts Pall over Japan's Earthquake Zone 2011-03-15T23:02:21Z Of the poet's father we only learn that he was a mighty hunter, and further, that he and his poet-son were engaged in litigation respecting the inheritance of the poet's grandfather and great-uncle. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z Bob Lebruc was my great-uncle and for a long while he ran a freight wagon from Salt Lakes to this country. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z I had a great-uncle, and as I am a very old man, you may imagine that my great-uncle was alive a very long time ago. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The Tucson spirit is what first attracted my great-uncle Bernard Friedman, 95, who moved there in the 1940s. Arizona's Great Divide 2011-02-13T05:30:00Z To the splendid collection of pictures which he inherited from his great-uncle, the 3rd duke of Bridgewater, he made numerous additions, and he built a noble gallery to which the public were allowed free access. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z And there is every reason to believe that the great-grandfather, the grandfather, the great-uncle, the son, were all as tranquil and contented and happy as well-to-do scholars in a prosperous university city should be. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z His great-uncle Jack DeNiro, often called by the family “Jack of All Trades,” worked in commercial and residential real estate here and in Florida. The Name Rings a Bell 2011-01-29T23:52:39Z Why, her great-uncle was a judge, and her second cousin was lieutenant-governor of the State. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z "I suppose he is, papa, for aunt told me his great-uncle is a duke, and his grandfather, who died about six months ago, left him a beautiful estate in Westmorland, and twelve thousand a year." Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z You had, my dear madam, a great-uncle, Alfred Plankenhorst, who was a rich man and an old bachelor. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z He distinguished himself so remarkably by his success in his early studies that, on the death of his great-uncle Alexander when he was only nineteen, he was appointed to succeed him. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z His grandfather and great-uncles were members of the All-India Muslim League, which campaigned for a separate state for Muslims, and his father served as a provincial minister during the 1950s. Pakistan 2010-12-07T12:39:15Z Johnson never served in uniform, but two of his uncles were Tuskegee Airmen, and a great-uncle was one of the Navy's first black officers. 'Don't ask, don't tell' report authors speak out 2010-12-01T03:12:00Z British tourist Ellie Bland was holding hands with her great-uncle on Daytona Beach in March when she was killed, according to the accident report. Child Deaths Test Fla.'s Beach Driving Tradition 2010-09-18T20:09:00Z Belonging by descent to the comparatively obscure families of the Octavii and Atii, Augustus attached peculiar importance to the glories of the Julian line, which he inherited through his great-uncle and adoptive father. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Nevertheless he was determined to brew beer, and was anxious to do so if possible on the spot where his great-uncle Bungall had commenced operations in that line. Rachel Ray I believe he was your great-uncle by marriage. The Jonathan Papers My great-uncle used to say he stood six feet two, and walked like an emperor on a love-spree. The Valiants of Virginia In the first place, Mr. Worthington was my great-uncle, and I visited at his Chicago home very often, so that is the way I came to know Margaret. Dolly's College Experiences Left to myself, I rode without ambition though getting many falls, and more often to Rathbroughan where my great-uncle Mat lived, than to any place else. Reveries over Childhood and Youth Your great-uncle Sefton has died, and left you half his immense property. Man and Maid He was buried quite quietly, in the same vault as his great-uncle Henry, Duke of Gloucester, beside their common ancestress, Mary, Queen of Scots. The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History He said, looking fixedly before him:— "Since our great-uncle, the Archbishop Hubert, no one of our family has entered the service of the church; I shall—" "You?" Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine His grandfather, the Duke of Kent, presided at the first anniversary dinner, and his great-uncle, the Duke of Sussex, took a deep interest in it. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 My great-uncle, the field-marshal, in armor, and with the marshal's baton in his hand, gave orders. Black Diamonds I cannot forget that a great-uncle, Phinias Nicholas, laid the foundations of our fortune by stealing cattle in the days of the Early West and selling them at an amazing profit. "And That's How It Was, Officer" Your grandfather,—I should say your great-uncle, bought this lace for me in Brussels. Hildegarde's Harvest One of these crusades was led by Cardinal Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, and great-uncle of King Henry VI. of England; another, by a famous Italian cardinal, Julian Cesarini. Sketches of Church History From A.D. 33 to the Reformation My own great-uncle of the mother's side, he was one of the masons that set up the stone slab. The Wouldbegoods My great-uncle, the archbishop, in full canonicals, celebrated mass before the requiem altar; my grandfather, the chancellor, had large parchment documents before him, upon which he affixed the state seal. Black Diamonds He had married early in life a young kinswoman, the daughter of the Sultan Mohammed VII., his great-uncle. Oriental Women Your great-uncle paid something more than the price asked on that account. Hildegarde's Harvest Children love to listen to stories about their elders, when they were children; to stretch their imagination to the conception of a traditionary great-uncle or grandame, whom they never saw. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time He was the son of a president much esteemed at Dijon, and the brother of Madame de Chantal, consequently the great-uncle of Madame de S�vign�, who was the grand-daughter of the latter. Priests, Women, and Families She was a mere child when her great-uncle, King Louis, died in 1270. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens “In the multitude of councillors the Bible declares there is wisdom,” said my great-uncle, “but I have always found in them distraction.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) One of these was an old great-uncle, Justizrath V�th�ry, brother of both his grandmothers, and a gentleman of Hungarian origin. Weird Tales, Vol. II. Now, old Francis," began my great-uncle, knocking the snow from his fur coat in the entrance hall, "now, old man, is everything prepared? Weird Tales. Vol. I Old Crow," he began slowly, "was my great-uncle. Old Crow "If he was your great-uncle you should think of him with respect," she said. The Weans at Rowallan |
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