were sharing some of the most common Old English last names to help you uncover your family history. Lee, Lewis, Long, Lumbard, Lyon, Maddern, Marshall, Martin, Mason, This last name originated from the British Isles, and is actually taken from the Greek name Alexandros, which refers...
Many there are that can fall, but few can arrive at the felicity of falling gracefully. Alexander Pope ‘He’s going to the dirt’ –– expression used by tower hands when someone falls from a 1,000 ft. radio tower When you first begin to fall, from a tree, a ladder, a cliff, fo...
Instead, they had multi-part first names. Sometimes, Americans would take part of this first name and make it a last name. For example, a translation of a Native American name could mean "Makes a song like a bird" in English, and the Americans would say the last name of that man ...
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names but also the wider social impact and the stories behind these choices. From vintage names that hark back to early Hollywood starlets like Janet Gaynor to those with a long lineage reflecting a rich history, such as Alexander, the landscape of baby names offers an insightful reflection of...
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Hanway (1753/4: 209ff). wrote only that ‘Riza Kouli Myrza…formed a confederacy with a few other persons, to deprive his father of his life,’ and says nothing of a broader rebellion, nor did Jones (1770/2). 7. Jones (1770/2: 122–123), on the other hand, describes an ambush...
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Considered that sad girl who was always hysterical. Once Universal dropped her she fell into the Poverty Row limbo of bit parts. Her brief marriage to Ross Alexander ended when he shot himself in the barn in 1937, and Anne became a quiet alcoholic until her death from cancer in 1966. Dr...
When Eva (Eileen Baral) gets a wonderful Creole doll she names Numa from her riverboat King grandfather, tensions ignite and Nell comes face to face with the mystical world where the woodbine twineth. A nether region between life, death, and the realms you cannot see with the naked eye. ...