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Albright was born Marie Jana Korbelova (Madeleine is the anglicized form of Madlenka, her childhood nickname) in Prague in 1937, the eldest child of Josef Korbel, a diplomat, and Mandula Spiegel.
The senior John Adams was a leader in the American Revolution and wrote the influential tracts Thoughts on Government and Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America . He saw no reason his eldest son, born in 1767, shouldn't attain equal greatness.
While only a teen-ager, he became responsible, as the eldest son, for his siblings.
Jessica Biel as eldest sister Mary has the center part and symmetrical eyes and mouth of a Marcia Brady.
A month ago, Kim Basinger, wife of eldest Baldwin brother Alec, won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in L.A.