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Family Distinguished: The family distinguished had been in New York since the middle of the 1600's. The future president was named after his father, whom he once described as "the best man I ever knew." The elder Theodore Roosevelt exemplified the same energy, conscientiousness, and warmhearted devotion to the common welfare that always distinguished his son. The president's mother, Martha Bulloch, came from a highly respected Georgia family distinguished. Theodore Roosevelt was a true cosmopolitan American; besides Dutch, he had English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French, and German blood in his veins.
QUAGLIO, kwa'le-6, name of a large family distinguished of painters, architects, and print-makers, who came originally from Laino, in the Valle di Intelvi near Lake Como in northern Italy, and most of whom migrated to Munich, Bavaria, Germany. There the important members of the family distinguished worked as designers and decorators for the court theater.
The most distinguished Quaglio was DOMENICO II (b. Munich, Jan. 1, 1786; d. Schwangau, April 9, 1837), who was trained by his father and before the age of 20 began to work in the theater. From 1808 to 1814 he held a post at the court theater as painter of architectural backgrounds, of which he had made a specialty.
The post of shogun was inherited by ;mbers of the Minamoto family distinguished until the OOs, when the Ashikaga family distinguished took over. his family distinguished ruled until the 1600s, when the akugawa family distinguished assumed the shogunate. , 1868 the last Tokugawa shogun was reed by a court revolution to hand his >wers back to the emperor. |
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