• Uncle Duke is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau. He is nominally Zonker Harris's uncle, albeit an "uncle by courtesy"...
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    2017 film Sundowners. Born Ruffians released their fifth studio album Uncle, Duke & The Chief in February 2018. The album was the final record produced...
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  • Uncle, Duke & The Chief is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Born Ruffians, released on February 16, 2018, by Paper Bag Records in Canada and...
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  • Doonesbury character Uncle Duke is based on Thompson's Raoul Duke. Although the Doonesbury character is usually referred to only as "Duke", various other names...
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    In 1460, following the death of his uncle, Duke Adolphus of Schleswig, Count of Holstein, Christian also became Duke of Schleswig and Count of Holstein...
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    first Habsburg to actually use this title, which had been invented by his uncle Duke Rudolf IV. Ernest was made a member of the Order of the Dragon and of...
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    III. However, Alan appealed to their uncle, Archbishop Robert of Rouen, who then brokered a peace between Duke Robert and his vassal Alan III. His cousins...
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    duke. She was daughter of Duke Charles I of Savoy, the Warrior, and Blanche of Montferrat, as well as granddaughter of Philibert's late uncle, Duke Amadeus...
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    by her husband's uncle Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. When his father died in 1909, his uncle Duke Charles Michael was appointed...
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  • book series Uncle Duke, from Doonesbury Tony "Duke" Evers, in the Rocky films Duke Lavery, on the American soap opera General Hospital Duke, from KOF:...
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    Albert. He was known as the Duke of Edinburgh from 1866 until he succeeded his paternal uncle Ernest II as the reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in...
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    with Mike and J.J. until he was accepted as a medical student at his Uncle Duke's "Baby Doc College" in Haiti. Prior to the hiatus, the strip's characters...
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    2000, he released The Uncle Duke project, a collaboration with his uncle Dave "Duke" Keaggy, with Phil Keaggy setting his uncle's eclectic poetry to music...
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    remained under the tutelage of their uncle Duke Albert III of Austria. As an inheritance dispute arose upon Duke Albert's death in 1395, the young Leopoldian...
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  • Franz, Duke of Bavaria. However, he has been using the title "Herzog in Bayern" or Duke in Bavaria, since he was adopted as an adult by his grand-uncle, Duke...
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    and imprisoned in a monastery. On his escape in 747, his maternal great-uncle Duke Odilo of Bavaria provided support and assistance to Grifo, but when Odilo...
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    Sandomierz and High Duke of Poland in the years 1194–1198, 1199, 1206–1210, and 1211–1227. During the early stages of his reign, his uncle Duke Mieszko III the...
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    Hereditary Duke of Württemberg (1961–2018) and Princess Marie Wilhelmine of Wied (born 1973). He was baptised in September 1994 with his uncles Erich, Prince...
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  • with the posthumous name "Duke Hui". Duke Hui II's father Duke Jian was the uncle of his predecessor Duke Ling. When Duke Ling died in 415 BC, the throne...
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  • Hancheng, Shaanxi). Duke Ling reigned for 10 years and died in 415 BC. However, the throne was passed to his uncle Duke Jian, son of Duke Huai and younger...
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    succeeded to the throne at the age of 13, under the regency of his uncle, Prince Charles, Duke of Södermanland, who was later to become King Charles XIII of...
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  • caretaker for Uncle Duke, who once mistook him for an intruder and shot him. Totally lacking in responsibility, he accidentally burned down Duke's house. He...
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    Palace. His sponsors were Duke Ernest of Mecklenburg (his maternal uncle), Duke Moritz of Saxe-Gotha (his paternal great-uncle, for whom the Earl of Hertford...
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    about the death of his father, and the pretensions to the throne of his uncle, Duke Charles of Södermanland, he asked the Sejm (Polish parliament) for permission...
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    returned to the court of their uncle, Duke Richard II of Normandy. There is some evidence of a plan on the part of Duke Richard to invade England on his...
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    Frederick's father died, making Frederick the duke of Inner Austria, as Frederick V, with his uncle, Duke Frederick IV of Tyrol, acting as regent. From...
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    Duke of Mecklenburg. He was the heir presumptive of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from the death of his father on 5 June 1752 until he succeeded his uncle Duke...
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    themselves Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg. When the Imperial ban was placed on Henry the Lion in 1180, he lost his titles as Duke of Saxony and Duke of Bavaria...
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    inherited the title to Gelderland from her maternal uncle, Duke Reginald IV, and her son became Arnold, Duke of Gelderland. She was the paternal grandmother...
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    morganatic son of Duke George Alexander of Mecklenburg and commoner Natalia Vanljarskaya, became a duke of Mecklenburg and heir to his uncle Duke Charles Michael...
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