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Baltic Babies
It is twenty years ago today that the United States recognized the independence of the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia from the former USSR. Seems like a good opportunity to take a look...
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Rune Names — Os
Os is yet another Rune which ended up interpreted in different ways in the medieval period. The form it takes in the various alphabets is as follows: Eldar Futhark: *Ansuz Anglo-Frisian: Os or Ós...
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Nook’s Pick of the Grannies
There are distint signs now that the pace is gathering in the rehabilitation of names long consigned to granny (or rather great-granny status, as most grannies nowadays are called things like Carol...
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What the Dickens! — Part II
In celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, here is Part II of the best of the names from Dickens’s works for babies… and cats. Lupin — believe it or not, J.K. wasn’t the first...
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