In March of 2009, journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were captured by North Korean soldiers. In June, they were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in a prison camp.
When former president Bill Clinton flew to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-il in August, the journalists were finally pardoned and released.
Yesterday, Laura [...]
Headline-grabbing baby names are a weakness of mine. I’ve blogged about dozens over the years, but I’ve never really kept track of all the posts…until now!
Here’s a timeline of all those newsworthy baby names, sorted by the year in which each baby was born:
1892: Numidian
1903: Sarto
1909: Theodore
1910: Cleveland, Sufficient
1929: Airlene
1933: Karina
1935: Meadows Brook
1936: Benito Mussolini
1944: [...]
Posted in Baby Names, Baby Names from Places, Baby Names from Politics, Boy Names, Girl Names, Meaningful Baby Names, Unique Baby Names | Also tagged abs-cbn, airlene, aoyun, auden, aussie, australia, australis, autumn, barcelona, benito, brook, cape cod, carlee, cleveland, crimson, daniella, edan shaw, fabiola, frank, gala, george, good hope, hajez, helsinki, jeep, jesus, jorge, joseph, karina, keane, laa-laa, lady gaga, leorita, li, mash, meadows, metallica, monique-lucie, noah, normah, numidian, samantha, sarah, sarto, silvio, sky, sufficient, tami, taylor, theodore, torah, tracy, tsunami, val, wrigley, ya hang, zoe
I wrote a letter to a friend not long ago, and the act of writing something longhand (which I rarely do anymore) made me wonder: which baby names can be written in cursive without lifting the pen from the page?
Turns out that many names can be written this way–so long as they don’t contain letters [...]
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Laura Ling Names Daughter for Sister and Bill Clinton