Each time the Dungeon Master asks me what I’m going to do when we encounter adversaries, my first reply is ‘Rossen!!’, since I love to attack in melee and rush in without thinking it through too much. Plus we enjoy good strong ale. Thank you, Alvra! What a cool gift! Your s...
Dutch Boy Names Aart Aart means “eagle like” and pronounced as ART. Abe Abe means “noble strength” and pronounced as AYB. Abraham Abraham means “father of a multitude” and pronounced as A-bra-hahm. Abraham is a classical biblical name. In the Bible, he was the first of the ...
As a foreigner raising two young kids in the Netherlands and married to a Dutch entrepreneur, it wasn’t all that easy co-writing my first book. The actual writing happened six weeks after I gave birth to my second son Matteo. And it had to be written in six months. It was a whirlwi...
Bellevilleans are more than likely to be gathering at Fischer's.And chances are just as likely that Ken Fischer will be waving to most of those diners and calling them by their first names.Unless he is flying his private plane for a weekend retreat at the Lake of the Ozarks or a quick...
The worddawning, a poetic word for dawn or the first beginnings of something, comes from the same Proto-Germanic root, and from it we get the worddawn(to begin to brighten with daylight, to start to appear) [source]. The unrelated worddawis an old name for thejackdaw...
If you’re lucky, the family will have some unusual first names and you’ll be able to go back further. Feel free to ask me again once you’ve hit your new brick walls:)” Why yes, I’ve already hit new ones already. That didn’t take long at all. “You might also be ...
They knew the names of every leading actor and actress. The actor came out from behind the curtain. That 'Ayumi' kid, only 13 but has performed in movies and theatres as a child actor since she was five. Every actor has cold feet just before the beginning of a show. The first speech...
The park was also less than 1/2 mile from the first house my grandparents, Cornelius Reyst and Jennie Smouter Reyst, rented on Hibbard Avenue around 1914. Located very close to the affluent subdivision, Indian Village, it appears the park attracted the well-to-do by the attire that the ...
nice teachers, a good location, one-hour lessons and computer science. At the very reputable Barlaeus Gymnasium, she took part in a classroom debate about whether meritocracy should be used in assigning schools rather than a lottery. Shouldn’t the children with the highest grades get first ...
The first, and hence oldest is ‘male person considered in the relation of his consanguinity to other children of the same parents’, with the second being ‘name to address a little boy whose name one does not know’.[8] Another 7 (3.3 %) types occurred with more than one person...