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#73080 06/18/02 07:08 AM
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OH. Thanks for the info on Quisling. Interesting that he didn't come up in the subjects I did on WWII... maybe he was mentioned briefly... although come to think of it, Scandinavia seems to get left out of a lot of general Euro history, which seems a bit unfair to me.

Did someone already mention John Hancock for signature? (How sad that I know that, about US history, and not about Quisling... ah, the holes in my education!)


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heather, rowan, lily, poppy, daisy, etc are all names, and in english a hell of a lot of surnames are words as well, as covered extensively: fletcher, archer, thatcher, miller, baker, butcher, smith, i could go on but even i get the drift. perhaps more interesting are words like hooker, originally a rug maker and now a prostitute and all because of a famous general. can anyone add to this example? words that have changed their meaning because of a well known person?


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Dear dodyskin: in High School I knew a guy so handsome he got teased because his name was "Flower".
Many years later I found out that this meant the same thing as "Fletcher" but was much older.


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...meant the same thing as "Fletcher" but was much older.

Leave me out of this. I didn't even know the guy.



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beauty's a flower, but love is the jewel that wins the world


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