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October 4, 2019 12:17 PM
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The interesting name Gorizia was a one-hit wonder in the U.S. baby name data in the middle of the 1910s: 1917: unlisted1916: unlisted1915: 5 baby girls named Gorizia [debut]1914: unlisted1913: unli…
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July 22, 2019 3:49 AM
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This freshly released book provides readers with an increased understanding of and sensitivity to the many powerful ways in which personal names are used by both perpetrators and victims during wartime.
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June 7, 2019 7:56 AM
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Dee-Day White was born on 6 June 1944 and says he is very proud of his unusual name.
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March 16, 2019 8:48 AM
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, thousands of American parents responded with memorial and patriotic baby names.
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March 6, 2019 7:12 AM
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Miraj Singh Rathore was the name given to the baby, born minutes after the Indian fighter jets wrecked havoc on the Balakot terror camp.
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March 6, 2019 5:23 AM
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The Wing Commander was captured by the Pakistani Army after his warplane crash-landed in PoK following an aerial dogfight with fighter jets of the Pakistan Air Force near the Line of Control.
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March 1, 2019 2:45 AM
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A week ago I posted about a baby who was named for the air raid shelter he was born in. Here’s a somewhat similar story: A baby girl was born to an Irish mother living in London around the st…
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February 22, 2019 7:17 AM
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[He] was the first baby to be born in a shelter. He has been named John Anderson Plume, after Sir John Anderson, Minister for Home Security, after whom Anderson shelters are called.
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December 19, 2018 7:32 AM
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Military dogs are part of the family, and USAA has put together a comprehensive list of the most popular names for our patriotic pups.
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November 9, 2018 6:12 PM
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For Veteran s Day, unusual names from the annals of World War 1.
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July 18, 2018 5:43 PM
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These strong girl names inspired by archers come from literature and pop culture, myth and modern stories, too.They could make great choices for a daughter.
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July 15, 2018 5:41 PM
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“In a few years, a little Belgian kid in Neufchateau is going to begin to wonder how in hell his name got to be James E. Goforth Halter, instead of Francois or Albert like his little friends.”
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March 18, 2018 6:41 PM
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Taisto is a Finnish male name meaning "battle". Origin: Finnish
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August 3, 2019 11:19 AM
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Bellona is the name of a Roman goddess of war, the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Enyo. Bellona comes from Latin bellum meaning "war "which comes from an older form of the word, duellum, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w-, *dew- (to injure, destroy, burn). Origin: Proto-Indo-European
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June 27, 2019 5:19 PM
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The Civil War’s Battle of Malvern Hill was fought on July 1, 1862, near the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. And, as with the battles of Fort Sumter and Gettysburg, Malvern Hill had…
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May 22, 2019 6:47 PM
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Fort Sumter — the sea fort near Charleston, South Carolina — wasn’t fully built yet in the spring of 1861 when the Battle of Fort Sumter kicked off the Civil War. The Second Battl…
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March 14, 2019 4:40 AM
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We love Scarlett and Jade, Ava and Ivy. So why not Navy? This nautical color name has become one of the fastest rising rarities in recent years.
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March 6, 2019 5:38 AM
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“My daughter-in-law delivered baby boy last evening and we named him Abhinandan in honour of the IAF pilot. We are proud of the pilot and therefore we named him (the baby) Abhinandan,” Janesh Bhutani, grandfather of the child, told reporters.
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March 2, 2019 1:54 PM
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“We named our child Mirage Rathore to commemorate strike on Pak by Mirage jets. We hope he’ll join security forces when he grows up.”
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February 27, 2019 6:01 AM
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British ISIS bride Shamima Begum has named her newborn son Jarrah after her first son, who died in infancy — and in honor of a jihadi warlord who slaughtered Jews, according to a report. Begu…
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January 29, 2019 2:47 AM
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The baby name “Atom Bomb” — cool and edgy, or horrible mistake?
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December 7, 2018 5:54 PM
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The attack on Pearl Harbor happened on December 7, 1941 — 77 years ago today. The next year, usage of the baby name Pearl, which had been trending downward since the 1920s, increased nearly 3…
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August 16, 2018 3:08 PM
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Baby name history is like a fossil record of culture. You can see broad trends in society over generations, but also individual moments frozen in time. Today we're turning back the clock to look at the American homefront in World War I, as captured by baby names.
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July 15, 2018 6:11 PM
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From Cannon to Pistol, Remington to Colt, firearms are making their mark on American names.
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June 24, 2018 5:13 PM
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It was actually his middle name; he was born Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant in Georgia in 1920. His father fought in World War I, and at one point a French soldier named Boudleaux — or something similar — saved his life.
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