Much like today, there was a greater number of individual names given to girls than boys. Just over 22,000 girls were given the most popular nameMary; half the number of the almost 55,000 boys who were given the most popular boys' name,William. The same was true of the second most p...
Rankings have changed since 2020, with some names moving up and down on the list. Meanwhile, names that have been popular in recent years, including Paisley and Lilian, are no longer among the top 50. Instead, there are some newcomers to the list. Here's the complete list of the top 5...
Definitely rank baseball ahead of Ice Hockey. Popular in All of North America (Canada, USA, Mexico, Central Am, and Latin Am.) parts of South America, East Asia, even the Netherlands (professional league is over 100 yrs old), and growing in Australia. Ice Hockey is played strictly in Ca...
In theDance Class, you see a group of girls and their mothers who are standing around and watching the practice of one young girl. Watching the dancer is the famous ballet master Jules Perrot. While more than 100 years have gone by, you could easily picture a scenario like this today i...
China is the biggest market in the world, and many countries such as Germany, the USA, the UK and Russia do a lot of business there. Let's have a look at some important tips to help you be successful with these nationalities. Firstly, you must be punctual with Germans. Even 5 ...
In 2013, NoViolet Bulawayo took the world by storm with her incredible debut,We Need New Names. (It has been argued that that book is actually one ofthe best debuts of the decade, a sentiment that I wholeheartedly agree with.) Now, the Booker-prize finalist is back.Gloryis set in a...
36. MI5 in the UK Image Source The Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6) began operations in October 1909 as a single organization, the Secret Service Bureau, staffed initially by only two officers: the fifty-year-old Royal Navy Commander Mansfield Cumming an...
Le tour de France 2014 is proving to be a real road of trials for the peloton, with several big names forced to retire from the race before the first rest day. But it’s not all bad news; going into Stage 11 Aussie rider Richie Porte is currently in second place behind Vincenzo Niba...