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  2. List of noble houses - Wikipedia

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    Many noble houses (such as the Houses of York and Lancaster) have birthed dynasties and have historically been considered royal houses, but in a contemporary sense, these houses may lose this status when the dynasty ends and their familial relationship with the position of power is superseded. A royal house is a type of noble house, and they ...

  3. List of fictional nobility - Wikipedia

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    The head of House Harkonnen and a main villain who is the arch-enemy of House Atreides. Baron and Baroness Von Troken Princess Diaries: A Noble family who once rule the Kingdom of Genovia. Baroness von Hellman Cruella: The noble fashion designer in the "House of Baroness" and the widowed mother of Cruella de Vil. Admiral Lord Hornblower

  4. Noble House (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Noble House is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is the fourth book published in Clavell's Asian Saga and is chronologically the fifth book in the series. The "Noble House" in the title is the nickname of Struan's, the trading company first introduced in Clavell's Tai-Pan .

  5. Wolves in heraldry - Wikipedia

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    Coat of arms of Łobez, Poland. The wolf has been widely used in many forms in heraldry during the Middle Ages.Though commonly reviled as a livestock predator and man-eater, the wolf was also considered a noble and courageous animal, and frequently appeared on the arms and crests of numerous noble families.

  6. Swedish nobility - Wikipedia

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    The Swedish House of Nobility in Stockholm, Sweden. Ruins of Alsnö Castle, where the first known ordinance of Swedish nobility was given in 1280 by King Magnus III. The Swedish nobility (Swedish: Adeln or Ridderskapet och Adeln, Knighthood and Nobility) has historically been a legally or socially privileged class in Sweden, and part of the so-called frälse (a derivation from Old Swedish ...

  7. Kāhili - Wikipedia

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    The standard could be used as a fly-brush and were waved over the sleeping noble [8] or royal by servants, and these kāhili-bearers working in the sleeping chambers were called haʻakuʻe, [9] and were necessarily of the same gender as their master. [10] [a] A ha'aku'e was a kāhili bearer of the same sex as the person they served. [11]

  8. Template:Infobox family - Wikipedia

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    The first image is intended to be a full heraldic achievement, coat of arms, or a crest, badge, seal, emblem, banner, standard, or other identifying symbol. Its size will be fairly constrained by default. A caption and alt text should be used to identify it.

  9. Ancient Egyptian royal titulary - Wikipedia

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    The royal titulary or royal protocol is the standard naming convention taken by the pharaohs of ancient Egypt.It symbolised worldly power and holy might, also acting as a sort of mission statement for the duration of a monarch's reign (although sometimes it even changed during the reign).