The convention saw 100 of Scotland's clan chiefs assembled together for the first time in recorded history.
Madiba is Mandela's clan name and is widely used to refer to him.
"Madiba" is Mandela's clan name, which is widely used in the nation.
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While that project won't break ground until at least 2004, a more immediate threat comes from Albuquerque's Maloof clan.
Despite Aquino's vows that her clan's 6, 000-hectare sugar estate in central Luzon would be part of the New Philippines, it remains in the Old World.
Ahmad Saba, a doctor and a member of the powerful Kafarneh clan in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, says he (and, he estimates, some 1, 200 of his kinsmen) has been unable to go to work in Gaza City for three months because of a feud between the Kafarnehs and the city's Dughmush clan.
But then there's family lore of how Xander (the Baldwin clan's nickname for him) always had that special charisma.
Then there's the Salazar clan, which will become the third brother duo ever to serve in the Senate and House simultaneously.
As much as I love and cherish every member of my husband's massive multigenerational clan, their celebrations operate at an unfamiliar frequency.
Given Somalia's history of clan warfare, this is quite a feat.
There's the Edwards clan - after Gareth, of course - the Quinnells - enough said there too - the Williamses - JPR - and the Joneses - Stephen.
The Kafarnehs' previous dispute, with Beit Hanoun's rival Masri clan, started after a minor collision between a car and a donkey cart and ended up claiming eight lives.
The key factors are cultural and generational divisions, the victim's refusal to toe a line and a reaction against a family or clan's self-proclaimed code or rules.
But the scandal will taint the Bolkiah name and could dilute the clan's absolute hold on the oil-rich country.
Ten minutes' walk up the valley from his two-room house he pointed out where the Zhu clan's palace once stood.
He sold his stake in 2007 in a deal that may have solidified the clan's claim to be among Pakistan's wealthiest.
The Pritzker clan's wealth came partly from the Hyatt and Royal Caribbean Cruise lines, businesses he says they built from the ground up.
Kawakami inherited the clan's ancient scrolls when he was 18.
Officials later confirmed that his younger brother, Ramon, the clan's enforcer, was among several men killed in a gun battle with police in Mazatlan, a Pacific resort, last month.
The hood ornament on this jalopy is the rusted voice of Gonjasufi, who may just be the most unusual man on the mic since Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard.
We feel that our moral principles should be universal, but we simultaneously feel that there is something special about our obligations to our own group, whether it's a family, clan or country.
For centuries it was part of the rich fishing grounds of West Cork's O'Driscoll clan, and the locals would not have been averse to the odd shipwreck giving them an opportunity for plunder.
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But Mr Dimon's departure may have strengthened clan loyalties.
"When you join the Mulliez clan, it's like joining a religious community, " Gerard's son told a French newspaper.
At least 14 people have died in clashes to end the siege of a village in Malaysia's Sabah province by a Philippines clan, police say.
Citing a report by Malaysia's ambassador, he said 10 of the clan had been arrested.
Rahul, Sonia's son, is the latest member of the clan to take a prominent role in politics.
Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics, Mr Galloway said he believed clan-based politics was "gone for good" in Bradford West.
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