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Ennoblement is the
conferring of nobility—the
induction of an
individual into the
noble class.
Currently only a few
kingdoms still grant nobility to people;...
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their father's titles. It was a
custom in
China for the new
dynasty to
ennoble and
enfeoff a
member of the
dynasty which they
overthrew with a
title of...
- were
occasionally ennobled until the country's
defeat in the
Second World War in 1945 (新華族, shin kazoku, lit. "the
newly ennobled"). The
system was abolished...
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central disc is in blue enamel,
bearing the
motto Virtus Nobilitat (Virtue
Ennobles). The
reverse central disc is
plain golden, with the lion from the Netherlands...
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cavalry officer Lieutenant Nils
Gunnarsson Haal (died 1680 or 1681),
ennobled in 1652 with a
change of name to "Gyllenhaal". The name "Gyllenhaal" originated...
- the star As we
train and we
learn We
shall ever
remember Virtue alone ennobles Chorus:- Work and
prayer are
chosen way of life Hope and
peace to gladden...
- States, and took over the
Quirinal Palace, and any
nobles subsequently ennobled by the pope
prior to the 1929
Lateran Treaty. For the next 59 years, the...
- Carl
Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10
January 1778), also
known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a
Swedish biologist and
physician who formalised...
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novella by
German author Thomas Mann,
published in 1912. It
presents an
ennobled writer who
visits Venice and is liberated, uplifted, and then increasingly...
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elevated to the
peerage as
Viscount Rochford in 1525 and in 1529 was
further ennobled as Earl of
Wiltshire and Earl of Ormond. He was born in
about 1477 at Hever...
