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Decade Snapshot 1920s/A-Z
Occasionally, I find a need to peruse some data. Here is the product of just that. I looked at the Top 1000 for the USA from 1920 and created this list. Out of the Top 1000 names on the 1920 name list,...
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Babies in the early ’90s
Let’s number-crunch. Courtesy of my sister, I got my hands on the class lists for her year (grade) at school. The names totalled around 150, and when we factor in the sixth form class list, who are two...
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Name Spot of the Week: Eurovision
Alexander Rybak, 2009 winner, from aardling.com The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the entertainment highlights of the year for me, although I abstain from getting too tied up with the block voting...
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Canadian Grand Prix
2010 Podium l-r Maclaren Mercedes Team Principal, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, from f1-gp.info We’ve got a little longer to wait for the Canadian Grand Prix, since it isn’t until...
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We Named Her/Him Twice
Think Twice, from becstables.com International variants of names can be a pain, can’t they? I’ve started to see quite a few girls named Isabella Elizabeth recently, which is odd given that Isabella is...
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Sibset of the Week: The Hicks
David Nightingale Hicks, from npgprints.com We’re looking at two generations of a family this week, because they all bear such facinating names. David Nightingale Hicks was a reknowned interior...
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John Smith
He’s the nom de plume of Doctor Who, and he’s also the man opening the London Olympics tonight: Well, maybe not As it so happens, the guy whose hands wave around at the beginning, and voice exclaims...
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Spot of the Week: Friends&Names
After compiling together this post, I couldn’t help but notice that in one way or another a friend was involved in each one of the inspirations. I have a friend called Siobhan, and made a passing...
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Papal Names
Pope Benedict XVI, from themoderatevoice.com Yesterday the current Pope, Benedict XV, announced his resignation in a move that shocked many. Why so? Because he’s the first pope in about 600 years to...
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