wiktionary descendant descendent Descendant or Descendent may refer to Lineal descendant , a blood relative in the direct line of descent Collateral descendant , a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor Descendant astrology , the point directly opposite from the Ascendant, or Rising Sign Descendents , a punk rock band from southern California Descendants film Descendants film , a 2008 short film The Descendant short story The Descendant short story , a short story by H. P. Lovecraft The Descendants novel The Descendants novel , a novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings The Descendants film The Descendants film , a 2011 film by Alexander Payne A descendant node in a tree structure , or a subordinate in a hierarchy See also Ascendant Ancestor disambig pt Descendente simple Descendant ... more details
Refimprove date March 2012 Infobox television show name The Descendant br image File The Descendant Promotional poster.jpg 280px caption genre Period drama runtime 60 minutes approx. creator director Jason Kok br Ng Wing Yi producer Jason Kok writer Teh Kean Guan location executive producer Sampson Yuen br Francis Foo starring Yeo Yann Yann br Debbie Goh br Steve Yap br Frederick Lee br Tan Hau Yen opentheme Xianghuo by br Yeo Yann Yann and Debbie Goh endtheme Hu by br Wu Jiahui picture format 16 9 HDTV country Malaysia distributor Primeworks Studios Sdn Bhd br Juita Entertainment Sdn Bhd composer Wu Jiahui language Chinese Language Mandarin network ntv7 first aired 9 February 2012 last aired num episodes 30 preceded by Secrets For Sale followed by Laws of Attraction TV Series related The Iron Lady Malaysian TV series The Iron Lady br Age of Glory Malaysian TV series Age of Glory website The Descendant Simplified Chinese Literally Incense is a Malaysian 2012 mega blockbuster Mandarin drama series produced by Juita Entertainment for ntv7 . It is scheduled to air every Monday to Thursday, at 10 00pm on ntv7, starting 9 February 2012. This 30 episode period drama is set on the incense industry. Casting was made on June 25, 2011 and started filming on 7 July 2011. Plot Chen Yulin Steve Yap is forced to marry Shen Danfang Yeo Yann Yann to inherit her family s incense making business. Yulin has also promised his father in law to let their first child to follow Dan Fang s family name to ensure the continuity of the bloodline. On the day of their marraige, Yulin was surprised when he realized Yuhua Debbie Goh , his long time lover, is now his sister in law. Cast Main Cast class wikitable width 55 style background cornflowerblue color white align center style width 25 Cast style width 30 Role Description Phua Chee Kin Xie Hongyi Danfang and Yuhua s father Yeo Yann Yann ... 20 episodes zh Ntv7local DEFAULTSORT Descendant, The Category Malaysia Chinese dramas ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image Natal Chart Adam.jpg thumb right The descendant is directly across from the ascendant As in the chart, in the three o clock position In astrology , the descendant is the point directly opposite, or 180 degrees away from the ascendant . The descendant forms the cusp of the House astrology Seventh house seventh house of the horoscope and refers to partners or relationships. The descendant is ruled by the seventh sign of the zodiac, Libra astrology Libra , and its ruler planet, Venus . The sign the seventh house is in is, for astrologers, the sign of people you are the most attracted by, you easily get along well with and you are most likely to start a love relationship with, if backed up by other zodiacal aspects. DEFAULTSORT Descendant Astrology Category Technical factors of astrology Category Astrological house systems Astrology stub cs Descendent fr Descendant astrologie it Discendente ru Dsc ... more details
A lineal descendant , in legal usage, refers to a blood relative in the direct line of Kinship descent . The children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. of a person. Adopted children, for whom adoption statutes create the same rights of heirship as child children of the body , come within the meaning of the term lineal descendants, as used in a statute providing for the non lapse of a devise where the devisee predeceases the testator but leaves lineal descendants. Among Federally recognized tribes Native American tribes in the United States , tribal enrollment can be determined by lineal descent, as opposed to a minimum blood quantum . ref http www.indiancountrytoday.com opinion editorials 59728202.html Tribal citizenship in crisis. Indian Country Today. 18 Sept 2010 retrieved 14 Oct 2010 ref Lineal descent means that anyone directly descended from original tribal enrollees could be eligible for tribal enrollment, regardless of how much Indian blood they have. Collateral descendant A collateral descendant is a legal term for a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor , and thus a niece , nephew , or cousin . ref cite web url http dictionary.law.com Default.aspx?selected 230 title Collateral descendant work law.com Law Dictionary accessdate 2012 02 05 ref See also Blood quantum laws Notes reflist DEFAULTSORT Lineal Descendant Category Kinship and descent Category Legal terms Category Property law law stub biology stub pl Zst pny th ... more details
Afro Descendant is a shortened term to refer to a person of African Descent. It refers to a person who is of African descent, but not African themselves. Commonly the term refers to the descendant of a victim of the Trans Atlantic slave trade . The term is used in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action to refer to ... a specific victim group who continue to suffer racial discrimination as the historic legacy of the transatlantic slave trade ref http www.un.org en events iypad2011 ref ref http www.un.org WCAR durban.pdf ref and throughout United Nations literature and documents to refer to people of African Descent who are descendant of African slaves and have to a large extent lost their Universal Declaration of Human Rights human rights . ref http olddoc.ishr.ch hrm archive CHRWG WGAD WGAD 5thSession.pdf ref ref http ap.ohchr.org documents E CHR resolutions E CN 4 RES 2003 30.doc ref ref http ap.ohchr.org documents E CHR resolutions E CN 4 RES 2002 68.doc ref ref http www.ohchr.org EN Issues Racism WGAfricanDescent Pages WGEPADIndex.aspx ref ref http www.ohchr.org EN NewsEvents Pages UNurgesactiononAfricandescendants.aspx ref ref http www.un.org en letsfightracism africandescent.shtml ref See also Black People African diaspora Afro American peoples of the Americas Notes reflist African diaspora Category African diaspora Category Ethnic groups in Central America Category Ethnic groups in Latin America Category Ethnic groups in North America Category Ethnic groups in South America Category Ethnic groups in the Caribbean Category Peoples of the African diaspora Latin America ... more details
In mathematics , in the field of group theory , a subgroup of a group mathematics group is said to be descendant if there is a descending series starting from the subgroup and ending at the group, such that every term in the series is a normal subgroup of its predecessor. The series may be infinite. If the series is finite, then the subgroup is subnormal subgroup subnormal . See also Ascendant subgroup References cite book title Sylow Theory, Formations, and Fitting Classes in Locally Finite Groups author Martyn R. Dixon publisher World Scientific year 1994 isbn 9810217951 page 6 Category Subgroup properties Abstract algebra stub ... more details
saved book title Royal descendant subtitle America cover image cover color Royal descendant America Victor Emmanuel III of Italy Elena of Montenegro Princess Yolanda of Savoy Princess Mafalda of Savoy Umberto II of Italy Giovanna of Italy Muriel Paget Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Roosevelt Halsted James Roosevelt ... more details
Infobox film name Descendant image Descendent.jpg caption director Kermit Christman br Del Tenney writer Kermit Christman Screenplay br Margot Hartman starring Jeremy London , br Katherine Heigl br Arie Verveen distributor budget released runtime language English followed by Descendant is a 2003 film starring Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London based on the story The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe . Plot Ethan Poe, a writer living in the shadow of his infamous ancestor, is under deadline to finish his next book. He moves to a smalltown to concentrate on his novel and meets Anne who falls for the troubled writer. When the shadow of Poe s ghost falls over the two lovers women turn up murdered in Poe etic fashion. Ethan is the Police s prime suspect. Is Anne next to be murdered? Can she save herself from the dark curse on the Poe family? ref Descendant, dir. Kermit Christman and Del Tenney, perf. Katherine Heigl and Jeremy London, DVD, York Horror, 2003. ref References Reflist External links Imdb title 0331466 Descendant 2000s drama film stub ... more details
Infobox film name The Descendant of the Snow Leopard image image size caption director Tolomush Okeyev producer writer Tolomush Okeyev br Mar Bajdzhiyev starring Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev music cinematography Nurtai Borbiyev editing distributor released 1984 runtime 134 minutes country Film Russia language Russian budget The Descendant of the Snow Leopard lang ky , lang ru , translit Potomok belogo barsa is a 1984 in film 1984 cinema of the Soviet Union Soviet drama film directed by Tolomush Okeyev . It was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement. ref name Berlinale cite web url http www.berlinale.de en archiv jahresarchive 1985 03 preistr ger 1985 03 Preistraeger 1985.html title Berlinale 1985 Prize Winners accessdate 2011 01 11 work berlinale.de ref Cast Dokhdurbek Kydyraliyev as Koshoshash Aliman Zhankorozova as Saikal Doskhan Zholzhaksynov as Mundusbai Gulnara Alimbayeva as Aike Ashir Chokubayev as Kassen Marat Zhanteliyev as Sayak Dzhamal Seidakhmatova as Begaim Gulnara Kydyraliyeva as Sulaika K. Akmatova as Batma Ajbek Kydyraliyev as Kalygul Akyl Kulanbayev as Karypbai Svetlana Chebodayeva Chaptykova as Sonun References reflist External links imdb title id 0087937 title The Descendant of the Snow Leopard DEFAULTSORT Descendant Of The Snow Leopard Category 1984 films Category Soviet films Category Russian language films Category 1980s drama films Category Films directed by Tolomush Okeyev USSR film stub ... more details
Infobox short story See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name The Descendant author H. P. Lovecraft country United States language English language English genre Horror fiction Horror short story publication type published in Leaves publisher media type pub date 1938 The Descendant is a story fragment by American literature American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft , believed to have been written in 1927 in literature 1927 . ref name Joshi and Schulz, p. 66 Joshi and Schulz, p. 66. ref It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938 in literature 1938 , after Lovecraft s death. ref http www.hplovecraft.com writings fiction de.asp H. P. Lovecraft s The Descendant , The H. P. Lovecraft Archive. ref Inspiration Lovecraft may have been referring to this attempt at a story when he wrote that he was making a very careful study of London ...in order to get background for tales involving richer antiquities than America can furnish. ref H. P. Lovecraft, letter to August Derleth, April 15, 1927 cited in Joshi and Schultz, p. 66. ref Characters Lord Northam Lord Northam is a harmlessly mad Londoner who who screams when the church bells ring. Once a scholar and aesthete who studied at Harrow School Harrow and Oxford , he has become thin and grey and wrinkled before his time and seeks...not to think through books of the tamest and most puerile kind . He only begins to explain the fear he lives under when confronted with a copy of the Necronomicon . The details of the character evoke two of Lovecraft s favorite British writers He lives in Gray s Inn , where Arthur Machen lived for many years, and is the nineteenth Baron of a line whose beginnings went uncomfortably far back into the past , recalling Lord Dunsany , who was the eighteenth baron of a line founded in the 12th century. ref name Joshi and Schulz, p. 66 Northam s sampling of various worldviews ... External links wikisource The Descendant DEFAULTSORT Descendant Category Short stories by H. P ... more details
For Lycus mythology Lycus disambiguation A son of Lycus brother of Nycteus , Lycus appears in Euripides s Heracles Euripides Heracles . Originally from Euboea , he seized power in Ancient Thebes Boeotia by killing Creon , who at the time was regent for the son of Eteocles , Laodamas . Lycus mistreated Creon s family, throwing them out of their house and depriving them food and clothing. ref Euripides, Heracles , line 54. ref However, Creon was the father in law of the hero Heracles , who returned unexpectedly to Thebes and slew Lycus. Laodamas succeeded him as king. ref Tripp, Edward. Crowell s Handbook of Classical Mythology . New York Thomas Y. Crowell, Company, 1834, p. 352. ref References reflist Theban Kings Category Theban kings Category Mythological kings Category Greek mythology de Lykos Sohn des Lykos fr Lycos fils de Dirc ru fi Lykos Lykoksen poika ... more details
Moza can refer to in biblical context a son of Caleb a kinship descendant of Saul Motza ancient ancient Motza or modern Motza , near Jerusalem the Meuse River in Europe disambig ... more details
Robert Beckwith may refer to Rob Beckwith , English footballer Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith , last surviving descendant of Abraham Lincoln hndis Beckwith, Robert ... more details
The Nohai means dog in Mongolian language . People with this name Nogai Khan , Mongol general of the Golden Horde and descendant of Chinggis Khan . Qara nogai , the Ilkhanid commander in the 13th century. disambig ... more details
In J. R. R. Tolkien s fictional universe of Middle earth, Arveleg is the name of two Kings of Arthedain Arveleg I , and his descendant Arveleg II hndis Category Article Feedback 5 nl Arveleg pl Arveleg ... more details
In J. R. R. Tolkien s fictional universe of Middle earth, Argeleb Lord of Silver is the name of two Kings of Arthedain Argeleb I , and his descendant Argeleb II . hndis nl Argeleb pl Argeleb ... more details
Kalckreuth may refer to Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth 1737 1818 , Prussian field marshal Leopold, Graf von Kalckreuth 1855 1928 , German Impressionist painter, descendant of Friedrich Adolf Elfie von Kalckreuth Eva Anthes , actress disambig ... more details
Immaculate Heart may refer to Immaculate Heart of Mary , a religious doctrine related to Sacred Heart of Jesus Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary , a religious order Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary , a religious order, and its descendant institutions. disambig ... more details
Ali Raza may refer to Ali ar Ridha , seventh descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the eighth of the Twelve Imams S. Ali Raza , Indian film screenwriter and director Ali Raza field hockey hndis Raza, Ali ... more details
Leipzig School may refer to Leipzig school sociology Junggrammatiker Leipzig school painting New Leipzig School , its descendant dab Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages it Scuola di Lipsia ... more details
wiktionary Shahzadah Shahzade variant spellings Shahzadeh , Shahzadah may refer to Shah Shahzade Shahzade , a prince of the Iran royal house The son or male line descendant of an Ottoman Sultan Turkish ehzade , IPA tr ehza de pron Disambig tr ehzade ... more details
Adnan may refer to Adnan , descendant of Ishmael and ancestor of prophet Muhammad Adnan name , Arabic name ACV 300 Adnan AIFV , the Malaysian variant of the ACV 300 Armoured Fighting Vehicle disambig DEFAULTSORT Adnan ... more details
Armine Wodehouse may refer to Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet c. 1714 1777 , MP for Norfolk Armine Wodehouse MP 1860 1941 , MP for Saffron Walden, descendant of the above hndis name Wodehouse, Armine ... more details
Muhammad Shukri may refer to Muhammad Shukri author 1935 2003 , Moroccan writer Mohammad Shukri cricketer , Malaysian cricketer Muhammad Shukri Effendi , or Johannes Avetaranian, Turkish descendant of Muhammad, Christian convert and missionary hndis Shukri, Muhammad ... more details
G rgya feminine G rg , descendant of Garga is an Indian patronymic and may refer to a king of the Gandharvas a grammarian predating P ini , see Vyakarana the author of the Samaveda Padapatha a Brahmin gotra system Brahmin gotra disambig es Garguia ... more details
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