BONIFACE: Short form of Latin Bonifatius, meaning "good destiny/fate." In use by the French and occasionally the English. BOOKER: English occupational surname transferred to forename use, originally denoting both a "book-binder" and a "scribe." BRAD: Short form of English names beginning with...
Edna St. Vincent Millay was a poet and playwright; in 1923, at 31, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, she was terrifically famous, and today hers is one of the few women’s names anyone can summon when asked to identify a female writer. When I think of Edna St. Vincent Millay...
Edelgard: Meaning you would've answered differently were you not a mercenary. Shez: Uh, yeah. If I was a farmer, for example, I'd be hounding you day and night to end the war. Sure, you say you're gonna bring this "bright and beautiful future," but am I really gonna suffer for...
The only thing is that you have to be in tune with the moon as the low tide was preventing us from swimming in the turquoise lagoon in mornings: meaning if you can’t swim and need shallow waters this IS real paradise on earth! The greenery as well inside the island made our stay ...
Right now, the fate of such research is uncertain in the U.S. Prompted by executive orders from the new presidential administration, the National Science Foundation has been combing through active research projects to see if they include words that might violate...
She was so kind, always remembered our names and had customer service that was out of this world! She always made us feel like royalty during our stay. Our house keeper Paovesh was another amazing staff member. The room was immaculate and always helped us with anything we needed. When he...
“moved” to North Carolina did no such thing; North Carolina came to them. Fortunately the records in many of those northeast North Carolina counties have not suffered the fate Nasemond endured, and the families can be traced there in later generations. The remaining Lineage Groups, to date,...
I watchedBluewith as blank a slate as I could muster. Of course I had already heard the extensive buzz, partly because I am obsessed with queer narratives in any form, partly because my social media network fits the exact niche that would want to inject all kinds of meaning into a ten ...
(N = 7), the meaning of “underage” (N = 5), special kind of relationship such as teacher–pupil (N = 5), liking almost everything (N = 4), special scenario such as public sex (N = 4), food play sex (N = 3), dominant becoming a subordinate (N...
198 Probably one of the most misunderstood topics about dairy farming is the “mystery” of what happens to the male calves. Female cows are the only ones that can be milked. So what happens to the bulls. Quickly searching Google, I found it hard to find a dairymen’s answer on this ...