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Our list of Jane Austen-inspired baby names includes surnames, vintage names, and nickname names that pay homage to one of the world’s great authors.
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August 8, 2021 6:22 PM
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If you know Major League Baseball history, no doubt you’re familiar with Kenesaw Mountain “Ken” Landis, who served as professional baseball’s first commissioner from 1921 to…
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June 8, 2021 11:44 AM
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The Eiffel Tower was created by civil engineer Gustave Eiffel for the Paris Exposition of 1889 (which marked the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution). It took more than two years to construc…
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May 7, 2021 10:27 AM
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[After the Revolution] French nomenclature, among the educated classes and those whom they influence, has been pretty much a matter of taste. Devotion, where it exists, is satisfied by the insertion of Marie, and anything that happens to be in vogue is added to it. Joséphine flourished much in the first Bonaparte days; but Napoléon…
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January 1, 2021 10:31 AM
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GIRLS Florilla - a woman born in New York state in the early 1800s Harkey - a woman of Indiana from the 19th century LaWanna - the name of a state representative where I live. Her nickname was Lou. She was 85 when she died so she was born in 1835. I'm curious where the name came from and how Lou came to be her nickname. Thorena - a woman from Indiana born in the second part of the 19th century
BOYS Babel - this was a 19th century fellow from Indiana
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October 26, 2020 5:25 PM
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From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, December 21, 1898. On a shortlist of political figures who've left their mark in two different states
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October 24, 2020 11:00 AM
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From the Bismarck Tribune, September 23, 1933. An important name in North Dakota politics in the first half of the 20th century, th
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October 24, 2020 10:59 AM
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From the University of Minnesota Gopher yearbook, 1905. The North Dakota State Blue Book of 1929 recently yielded the name C.W. Burnham
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October 1, 2020 5:05 AM
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The baby name Enola has traveled a strange and wandering path across the 1800s and 1900s to become Sherlock's little sister.
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September 20, 2020 5:35 PM
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From the Washington Evening Star, June 20, 1924. Diplomat Cornwall Hart Loomis holds the sad distinction of being th
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September 20, 2020 5:18 PM
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From the Florence Morning News, January 18, 1953. "Close scrutiny of the public and private life of the Honorable Lanneau Durant Lid
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August 31, 2020 9:59 AM
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From the Elizabeth City Independent, July 29, 1921. North Carolina resident Dascar Octavius Newberry was, like many previousl
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August 28, 2020 3:33 AM
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From the Ohio Manual of Legislative Practice, 1914. A leading county official and citizen residing in Tiffin, Ohio at the turn o
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August 22, 2021 6:08 PM
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Charles and Effie Dickey of Maine married in 1881 and went on to welcome 22 children — 14 girls, 8 boys — from the 1880s until the 1910s. Here are the names of all the kids: Emma Mae (b…
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July 20, 2021 6:45 PM
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Gen. Zachary Taylor acquired the nickname “Old Rough and Ready” during the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) in Florida. He garnered even more national attention a few years later, during…
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May 7, 2021 10:38 AM
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Wilhelm I., Friedrich III., Wilhelm II. – im sogenannten Dreikaiserjahr 1888 sind zwei Kaiser gestorben und zwei Kaiser gekrönt worden ... Weiterlesen
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January 9, 2021 3:39 PM
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Bridgerton names are part of the Netflix series’ enthralling fantasy, but may not represent real early 19th century naming practices.
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October 30, 2020 6:32 PM
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From the Men of Progress, Wisconsin, 1897. The Strangest Names In American Political History makes its first stop in Wisconsin for 202
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October 26, 2020 5:24 PM
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Victorian baby names feel fresh and strong, even as other vintage names rise up the charts. We round up the best popular and unique Victorian picks.
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October 24, 2020 10:59 AM
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From the Leaves of Healing, May 1902. The career of Visscher Vere Barnes is examined today, and it is indeed a career filled wit
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October 12, 2020 4:47 PM
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The Waipa in the late 19th century. In November of 1878, a baby boy was born aboard the New Zealand ship Waipa, which was under the command of Capt. John Gorn at the time. The baby, “born in …
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September 30, 2020 2:14 PM
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From the 1905 Arkansas legislative composite photograph. The Strangest Names In American Political History begins a nearl
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September 20, 2020 5:25 PM
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Portrait from the Aiken Journal and Review, February 23, 1927. During a long life that extended ninety years, Peronneau Finle
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September 3, 2020 4:18 AM
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From the Raleigh News and Observer, March 9, 1905. Sharing a first name with the famed Greek mythological figure that wa
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August 28, 2020 3:43 AM
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From the Crittenden Recorder Press, November 6, 1913. Crittenden County, Kentucky native Trice Cowan Bennett found distinction a
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