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  2. Nero - Wikipedia

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    After Caligula's death, Claudius became the new emperor. Nero's mother married Claudius in AD 49, becoming his fourth wife. [i] [4] On 25 February AD 50, [ii] Claudius was pressured to adopt Nero as his son, giving him the new name of "Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus". [iii] [12] Claudius had gold coins issued to mark the adoption. [13]

  3. Nero Wolfe - Wikipedia

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    "The name Nero Wolfe has magic in Italy," wrote Rex Stout's biographer John McAleer. In 1968, the Italian television network RAI paid Stout $80,000 for the rights to produce 12 Nero Wolfe stories. "He agreed only because he would never see them," McAleer wrote. From February 1969 to February 1971, Italian television broadcast 10 Nero Wolfe TV ...

  4. Sporus - Wikipedia

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    Sporus (died 69 AD) was a young slave boy whom the Roman emperor Nero had castrated and married as his empress during his tour of Greece in 66–67 AD, allegedly in order for him to play the role of his wife, Poppaea Sabina, who had died the previous year.

  5. Julio-Claudian dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Upon becoming emperor, however, he added the Julian-affiliated cognomen Caesar to his full name. [citation needed] Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) was a great-great-grandson of Augustus and Livia through his mother, Agrippina the Younger. The younger Agrippina was a daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, as well as ...

  6. Nero Wolfe supporting characters - Wikipedia

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    And, thinking he was clarifying the matter, Rex Stout's biographer John McAleer asked the author, "Is Orrie Cather's given name Orrin?" "Probably," Stout replied. [14] In the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002) and the series pilot, The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2000), the role of Orrie Cather is played by Trent McMullen.

  7. Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr.

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    Hubert Blaine Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.

  8. List of Sons of Anarchy and Mayans M.C. characters - Wikipedia

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    His birth name is Happy which is based on Happy Loman from Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman. Lowman is played by real-life Hells Angel David Labrava . [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Happy Lowman portrays the enforcer as a member of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club along with being affiliated with the Tacoma, Washington SOA charter but later ...

  9. Nero Julius Caesar - Wikipedia

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    Nero Julius Caesar (c. AD 6–31) was the adopted grandson and heir of the Roman emperor Tiberius, alongside his brother Drusus. Born into the prominent Julio-Claudian dynasty , Nero was the son of Tiberius' general and heir, Germanicus .