Gott-names - In the era of Pietism (17th/18th century) it was popular to create German male names withGott(God) plus a pious adjective.Gotthard("God" and "hard"),Gotthold(God and "fair/sweet"),Gottlieb(God and "love"),Gottschalk("God's servant"),Gottwald(God and "rule"),Gottwin(...
Currently, the most popular last name in America is Smith, with a total count of 2,442,977 people who have the surname. The surname Smith occurs roughly 828 times per 100,000 people in the U.S. The table below shows the most common last names with statistics on the heritage and ancest...
The first car to have this name was the Audi 100 C2 Avant, although it was a liftback (car with a Coupé roof and a big tailgate hinged at the top) and not a station wagon.I couldn’t figure out the exact reason why Audi decided to use this name, but as ‘Avant’ is French ...
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 word arose in the late 1700s when Etienne de Silhouette, a French minister of finance, imposed high taxes on the French upper classes during the Seven Years War. Because painted portraits were too pricey and photography hadn’t been invented yet, these profile cut outs were an inexpensive...
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
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...
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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 ...
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