Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes,while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch. Toward the end of the evening, I commented that women frequently complain that their husbands don’t talk to them. This man quickly ...
Learn how surname suffixes changed in Scandinavia throughout the 18th and 19th centuries with this handy chart. READ MORE SPANISH The Correct Order for Spanish Surnames Learn the correct way to order Spanish surnames, as well essential background on Spanish naming customs. ...
The courage that he displayed throughout the course of the Civil War made him a hugely popular figure in his home state of Maine. After the war was over, Joshua Chamberlain served as Governor of Maine from 1866 to 1970 and later served as President of Bowdoin College. He died in 1914 at...
Schäfer with the umlautnumbers some 220,000 in Germany today and is the eleventh most common surname.The surname is prevalent throughout the country, especially in the south in states such as Hesse, Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz, and Baden Württemberg.The Scheffer spelling has persisted in the ...
There have been 23,813 surnames recorded throughout the history of China, of which 5,662 surnames are still in active use today, however, the top 100 make up 85.9% of the 1.39 billion population in China. In fact, 42.9 % of the Chinese people share the same 10 family names!
● La Gazzetta di Modena3, the main daily newspaper in the city of Modena, active throughout the time span analyzed. It is a moderate, generalist daily, not politically aligned (except of course during the fascist period). ● L'Unità (local edition of Modena), available for the years ...
Estimates have been based on the Ministry of Defense's electronic file which includes French soldiers killed during the First World War and on the Surname file produced by the Insee. While the human losses attributable to the World War I are unevenly distributed throughout the territory, showing...
"Britannia Jinky Jersey Limited has agreed to work together with the Equality and Human Rights Commission to further enhance its staff training and procedures in order to further promote equality throughout its business," a spokesman said in a statement posted by the Commission. MORE: P...
patterns are only the most common and variations do exist. In the past, Hispanic naming patterns were less consistent. Sometimes, sons took the surname of their father, while daughters took that of their mother. The use of double surnames didn’t become common throughout Spain until the 1800...
The Carroll surname (and variants such as O'Carroll) can be found throughout Ireland, including Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Kerry, Kilkenny, Leitrim, Louth, Monaghan, and Offaly. There is also a MacCarroll family (anglicized to MacCarvill) from the province of Ulster. Clarke One of the...