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Simone Arianne Biles (born 14 March 1997, Columbus, Ohio) is an American artistic gymnast and the most decorated gymnast in history, with 11 Olympic medals (7 gold) and 30 World Championship medals (23 gold). At Rio 2016 she won team, all-around, vault and floor gold plus beam bronze; at Tokyo 2020 she won team silver and beam bronze after withdrawing from several finals to protect her safety and wellbeing; and at Pa…
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The House of Habsburg was one of the most powerful royal dynasties in European history, ruling Austria from 1282, supplying almost every Holy Roman Emperor between 1438 and the empire's dissolution in 1806, and reigning over Spain and its overseas empire from 1516 to 1700. Named for a castle in what is now Switzerland, the family rose from modest Swabian counts to sovereigns of lands stretching from the Danube to the Andes, and its senior line ended only in 1918 with the fall of Austria-Hungary. ## Origins The dynasty takes its name from Habsburg Castle in the Aargau, in present-day Switzerland, held by a family of counts with scattered lands in Swabia and Alsace. Its fortunes changed in 1273, when the prince-electors chose Rudolf I as King of the Romans after a long interregnum. Rudolf defeated Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1278, took the duchies of Austria and Styria, and granted them to his sons, moving the family's centre of gravity permanently to Vienna. Two centuries later the marriage of Maximilian I to Mary of Burgundy, and of their son Philip the Handsome to Joanna of Castile, converted a regional Alpine power into a continental one within a single generation. ## Notable members Charles V inherited Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, Naples and the Spanish Americas, and on his abdication in 1556 divided them: Spain and the Low Countries to his son Philip II, the Austrian lands and the imperial title to his brother Ferdinand I. The Spanish branch ran from Philip II through Philip III and Philip IV to Charles II, whose death in 1700 without an heir set off the War of the Spanish Succession. The Austrian branch ran from Ferdinand I through Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III to Charles VI, whose daughter Maria Theresa became the only woman to rule the Habsburg lands in her own right. Her marriage to Francis I Stephen of Lorraine founded the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, which produced Joseph II, Leopold II, Marie Antoinette, Francis II, and the long-reigning Franz Joseph I. ## Significance For six centuries the Habsburgs shaped the map of Europe less by conquest than by marriage, holding together a multilingual realm of Germans, Hungarians, Czechs, Poles, Italians, Croats and others under a single crown. They led the Counter-Reformation, halted Ottoman expansion at Vienna in 1683, and gave Europe both the Thirty Years' War and the Congress system that followed Napoleon. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 triggered the First World War, and the abdication of Charles I in 1918 ended Habsburg rule. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founder of the royal line | Rudolf I of Habsburg, King of the Romans from 1273 | | Family seat | Habsburg Castle, Aargau; later Vienna, Graz and Madrid | | Height of power | Charles V (1500 to 1558), ruler of Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, Naples and Spanish America | | Spanish line | Philip II to Charles II, 1556 to 1700 | | Austrian line | Ferdinand I to Charles VI, 1521 to 1740 | | Habsburg-Lorraine | From Maria Theresa and Francis I Stephen, 1736 onward | | Last reigning monarch | Charles I of Austria, who left government in 1918 | | Principal titles | Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of Austria, King of Spain, Hungary and Bohemia |
The Uchimura family of Nagasaki is the gymnastics family of Kohei Uchimura, two-time Olympic all-around champion, whose parents were both gymnasts. His younger sister Haruhi also competed in the sport, and he is widely regarded as the greatest male all-around gymnast of all time. ## Origins Kohei Uchimura was born on 3 January 1989 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture. His parents, Kazuhisa and Shuko Uchimura, had both been competitive gymnasts, and they opened Sports Club Uchimura in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, where Kohei began training in 1992, at the age of three. His younger sister, Haruhi, grew up in the same gym and also became a gymnast. ## Notable members - **Kohei Uchimura**, two-time Olympic all-around champion (2012, 2016) and six consecutive times world all-around champion. - **Kazuhisa Uchimura**, former gymnast and co-founder of Sports Club Uchimura. - **Shuko Uchimura**, former university gymnast who coached at the family club. - **Haruhi Uchimura**, Kohei's younger sister and a gymnast. ## Significance Kohei Uchimura's dominance was unprecedented. Between 2009 and 2016 he was unbeaten in the all-around at world and Olympic level, winning six straight world titles and back-to-back Olympic golds, and he led Japan to the team title at Rio 2016. The foundation for all of it was a small family club in Nagasaki, run by two parents who had competed in the sport themselves. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Family home | Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan | | Best-known member | Kohei Uchimura, artistic gymnast | | Family gym | Sports Club Uchimura, Isahaya | | Olympic golds | 2012 all-around, 2016 all-around and team | | World all-around titles | Six in a row, 2009 to 2011 and 2013 to 2015 | | Retirement | Announced 10 January 2022 |
The Gandhi family is the direct biological lineage of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), the Indian independence leader known as Mahatma Gandhi, tracing his descendants through his wife Kasturba Gandhi and their four sons down to his great-grandchildren active in India, South Africa and beyond. This family is entirely distinct from the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, whose surname comes from Indira Gandhi's husband Feroze Gandhy and shares no blood relation with Mahatma Gandhi at all. ## Origins The family's roots lie in Porbandar, in the Kathiawar region of present-day Gujarat, where Mohandas Gandhi was born to Karamchand Gandhi, diwan (chief minister) of the princely state, and his wife Putlibai. Gandhi married Kasturba Makhanji Kapadia in 1883, and the couple's shared life, spanning his legal training in London, two decades of activism in South Africa, and his return to lead India's independence movement, produced four sons: Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas and Devdas. Each son's branch of the family took a markedly different path, from journalism and diplomacy to activism against apartheid, while remaining bound by their shared descent from Mohandas and Kasturba. ## Notable members Manilal Gandhi carried his father's work to South Africa, editing the newspaper Indian Opinion for decades; his children Arun Gandhi and Ela Gandhi became, respectively, an internationally known peace educator and an anti-apartheid Member of the South African Parliament. Devdas Gandhi became a leading Indian journalist as editor of the Hindustan Times, and his four children with Lakshmi Gandhi, Rajmohan, Ramchandra, Gopalkrishna and Tara, went on to prominence as a historian, a philosopher, a diplomat-turned-Governor of West Bengal, and a writer. The family's fourth generation includes Tushar Gandhi, a great-grandson through eldest son Harilal's line, known for his writing on his great-grandfather's life and legacy. ## Significance Across four generations, the Gandhi family has remained closely tied to the causes Mohandas Gandhi championed: nonviolent resistance, civil rights, journalism in service of public life, and constructive social work, carried forward in India, South Africa and internationally rather than concentrated in any single institution or country. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Patriarch | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) | | Native place | Porbandar, Gujarat, India | | Spouse | Kasturba Gandhi (1869-1944) | | Sons | Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, Devdas | | Generations covered | 4 (parents to great-grandchildren) | | Members in this tree | 21 | | Distinct from | The Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty |
The Chopra family is one of Hindi cinema's most influential filmmaking dynasties, founded by brothers Baldev Raj (B.R.) Chopra and Yash Chopra, whose respective studios, B.R. Films and Yash Raj Films, shaped Bollywood across seven decades. Beginning with B.R. Chopra's socially conscious dramas of the 1950s and continuing through Yash Chopra's romantic epics and his son Aditya Chopra's era as head of Yash Raj Films, the family has produced directors, producers, and actors spanning four generations, and remains active at the top of the Indian film industry today. ## Origins The Chopra family originates from Lahore, in what was then British India's Punjab province, where the brothers' father raised his family before the 1947 Partition forced its relocation to independent India. Baldev Raj Chopra, born in 1914, was the elder of the two brothers and began his career as a film journalist before turning to directing and, in 1955, founding B.R. Films. He brought his much younger brother, Yash Chopra, born in 1932, into the industry as an assistant, launching a partnership between two studios that would go on to define mainstream Hindi cinema. ## Notable members B.R. Chopra directed landmark films including Naya Daur (1957), Waqt (1965), and Nikaah, and later produced the television adaptation of the Mahabharata (1988-1990) with his son, director Ravi Chopra, who also directed the hit family drama Baghban (2003). Yash Chopra, meanwhile, founded Yash Raj Films (YRF) in 1970 and directed a string of romances, including Deewaar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Chandni, Darr, and Veer-Zaara, earning him the nickname the "King of Romance." His wife, Pamela Chopra, contributed to YRF's costumes and music for decades. Their elder son, Aditya Chopra, debuted as a director with the era-defining Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and now chairs Yash Raj Films, while their younger son, Uday Chopra, built a career as an actor and producer, notably in the Dhoom franchise. Aditya Chopra is married to actress Rani Mukerji. ## Significance Between them, B.R. Films and Yash Raj Films helped define mainstream Hindi cinema's social dramas, historical epics, and romances across the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, and YRF remains one of Bollywood's largest and most powerful studios under Aditya Chopra's leadership. The family is sometimes confused with actress Priyanka Chopra, who shares the surname but is not related to this dynasty in any way; the two Chopra families are entirely distinct. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Founding generation | Brothers B.R. Chopra (1914-2008) and Yash Chopra (1932-2012) | | Studios founded | B.R. Films (1955), Yash Raj Films (1970) | | Landmark productions | Naya Daur, Waqt, Deewaar, Mahabharat (TV), DDLJ, Veer-Zaara | | Current head | Aditya Chopra, chairman of Yash Raj Films | | Origin | Lahore, British India (pre-1947 Punjab) | | Not related to | Actress Priyanka Chopra and her family |
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