This is where names like Jansdottir came from (Jan's daughter). These last names are less common in the US, but can still be found in communities that can trace their ancestry to the Nordic Countries. Locative last names Besides just naming people after their parents, back in the Middle...
We explored de- rived allele sharing patterns in a wide set of Eurasian populations contrasting sharing with the westernmost Uralic speakers (Saami, Finns, Estonians, Hungarians) on one hand and European populations (Swedes, Poles, French) on the other. We found that it is the admixture with...
Elizabeth– The mother of John the Baptist. SpelledElisabethin the King James Bible, though Amish seem to favor the “z” form. Means “God is my oath.”Lizzieis a popular form in some Pennsylvania communities. Emma– An old French name of Germanic origin, at first a short form of compo...
Footnote5but later Heron equates the step, βῆμα, to 2.5 feetFootnote6thus making a double step, exactly as in the Roman system, equal to 5 feet—with this relation, the stadion of 600 feet amounts to 240 steps.Footnote7Although related in this way to the ancient metrological...
The next day we walked together in the local YMCA before heading to Key Largo to eat lunch in your mom’s favorite seafood restaurant. You sat on a high chair and ate all the French fries ignoring the chicken fingers that came with it while clapping, on occasions, to the sound of regga...
Disclosed is a system for performing online data queries. The system for performing online data queries is a distributed computer system with a plurality of server nodes each fully redundant and capab
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Court cards: There was a trend during the 15th century for French card manufacturers to designate the court cards as literary and historical figures. There was never an adopted standard, but certain personages were commonly used in this time. As a result, the Kings are also sometimes called ...
The genetic origins of Uralic speakers from across a vast territory in the temperate zone of North Eurasia have remained elusive. Previous studies have shown contrasting proportions of Eastern and Western Eurasian ancestry in their mitochondrial and Y ch