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  List of people known by one name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of people famous enough to be known unambiguously by one of the following:
See List of fictional people known by one name for a list of such people.
Note also that most names in the list will be unusual since common names are likely to be ambiguous and to need a context.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_people_known_by_one_name   (809 words)

  
 Comments on 7819 | MetaFilter
and the hand is blurry because the mascot name is wiped out in an attempt to keep the school she attended (and was probably attending at the time) from being identified or she was holding a ball in that photo, obscuring the jersey.
It is well known now that one of the things which contributes to the success in fighting cancer is the willpower and courage of the patient.
And if people stop opening their hearts and wallets for real people in need of help because of this (regardless if it's true or not) then they were living in a make-believe world anyway.
www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/7819   (17172 words)

  
 Debunking the Christian Myth -
The real origin of this name is, however, to be sought in the cap of cloud which often covers the mountain, and serves as a barometer to the inhabitants of Lucerne.
The attribution of a great name of the distant past to a book by its real author, who thus effaced his own personality, was, in some cases at least, a mere literary fiction which deceived no one except the ignorant.
In other cases, where the assumed name did not stand as a symbol of a type of a certain kind of literature, the intention was not without a degree of at least objective literary dishonesty.
www.truthbeknown.com /kimball.htm   (3885 words)

  
 TomDispatch - Tomgram: Politics in an Age of Fiction
His name is Landon Parvin and he wrote Laura's words, just as he wrote Nancy Reagan's smash "second hand clothes" routine for the Gridiron dinner in 1982, which was also meant to play against type and "humanize" her ("Second-hand clothes, I give my second-hand clothes to museum collections and traveling shows.
The men who were creating the fiction of the Reagan presidency were also gaining a certain news parity with the man who was president without somehow destroying the idea of the President himself.
But if George and Laura Bush would under any circumstances be fictions of a sort (as well as living, breathing human beings), the nature of this presidency has clearly been pushed to inhumanly fictional extremes.
www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=2428   (4063 words)

  
 Thousands of NAMES for your dog, horse, cat, pet or child from Chinaroad Lowchens of Australia -
A short list of women's names culled from secondary sources ranging from the 12th to the 17th century.
Names from two early census records taken on Guam, in 1728 and 1759, telling the story of the horror and despair of a people brutalized by war, disease and slavery.
Full list of gang names in each state of the US This list of notable war heroes are outstanding examples of men of honorable service as chosen by their chain of command and their comrades in arms
www.lowchensaustralia.com /names.htm   (3047 words)

  
 List of fictional people known by one name - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of fictional people famous enough to be known unambiguously by one of the following:
The name is usually and erroneously given to the monster.
Igor - in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, a clan of servants from the region of Überwald, all of whom are named Igor
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_fictional_people_known_by_one_name   (1594 words)

  
 Forbes.com - Magazine Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If fiction can be regarded as a culture's subconscious, then it's clear that we are a nation obsessed with the very rich.
Known as "the richest boy in the world," Rich learned ropes at Rich Industries from father Richard.
Known for his bare-knuckled boardroom style, despite socialite manners.
www.forbes.com /2002/09/13/400fictional_print.html   (1539 words)

  
 Whiskey Bar: Donald Rumsfeld's Battle With The Truth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
People are seething with anger- the pictures of Abu Ghraib and the Brits in Basrah are everywhere.
People would rather be dead than sexually abused and degraded by the animals running Abu Ghraib prison.
He asks Iraqis to not let these pictures reflect on their attitude towards the American people… and yet when the bodies were dragged through the streets of Falloojeh, the American troops took it upon themselves to punish the whole city.
billmon.org /archives/001465.html   (16861 words)

  
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Fictional characters have been known to walk the earth, either when allegedly real folks like you and me have taken on assumed identities, or when whole people have been invented for one use or another.
In 1817, a poor British lass named (perhaps) Mary Baker managed to pass herself off as a shipwrecked “Princess Caraboo” of “Javasu,” with the help of a Portuguese sailor who claimed to understand her invented language.
Some people are manufacturing on-line personæ that are complete with realistic pathos, tragedy, disease, and trauma, and then they go on to suck up the virtual sympathy of other folks on-line.
www.sniggle.net /fakefolx.php   (1845 words)

  
 Whiskey Bar: Twilight of the Neocons?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Probably known by all here, but just to add to Billmon's post, is that the CIA's assesment of Soviet nuclear capabilities erred on the side of over estimation, which in turn means that the Neocons were way overboard in their assessment.
I'm willing to give people a lot of benefit of the doubt, but we've had no explanation at all for the curious laxity of the administration toward Al Qaeda in the first eight months of their tenure, and I'm just not sure that having forgotten about the previous attempt on the WTC explains it.
More people in the world have greater liberty and wealth than anytime in human history and the US is at the beggining of its 3rd consecutive decade long economic expansion thanks to (or maybe inspite of) both Democrat and Republican administrations.
billmon.org /archives/000924.html   (18606 words)

  
 The colour of my mind….   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I was wearing heels, it’s not like all these people hadn’t actually seen me since they’d had me — being in a small community also means that every single one of them probably saw me perform as Marian the Librarian my senior year, so my physical appearance itself wasn’t horrible shocking.
North Carolina just… fits me somehow… despite its horrendous drivers and remnants of racial issues and lack of young single people… it is going to be hard (harder than I expected) to leave behind the mountains and seasons and the amazing people and relationships and memories I have there.
For those of you who have never written any larger work of fiction, this is a character that you didn’t know you were going to create until they just sort of show up and start talking.
www.rmfo-blogs.com /graceycat   (6112 words)

  
 The Funny Pages
Random names for English towns: Randomly creates some lovely names of towns that you might find as you travel around the UK.
Name That Theme Song: We play the theme to a TV show or movie, and you try to guess it.
Country songs are known for their creative titles and lyrics.
funnies.paco.to   (1764 words)

  
 Glossary of People: Ma
Born at Lossiemouth, England, he became well known as a propagandist of socialist ideas and in 1893, together with Keir Hardie, founded the Independent Labour Party of which he remained a member until 1930.
Unfortunately a fuller explanation of Marcy’s thoughts and writings may never be known since she left no personal papers and much of what she had in personal records was taken during a Department of Justice raid on her home in 1919.
In 1870 she took action in the Irish struggles by publishing in a French paper revelations of the treatment of the Irish political prisoners by the English bourgeoisie; by this means she forced the Gladstone government to conduct an investigation into the question.
www.marxists.org /glossary/people/m/a.htm   (8944 words)

  
 Bush Lies...
The vice president was banking, as Dr. Dean did on "This Week," on a cultural environment in which fiction and nonfiction have become so scrambled  and can be so easily manipulated by politicians and show-biz impresarios alike  that credibility itself has become a devalued, if not archaic, news value.
What he didn't tell Congress and the American people is that he would later take from $.6 to $1 trillion out of that "lock box" to cover his tax cuts.
In the fall of 1990, members of Congress and the American public were swayed by the tearful testimony of a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only as Nayirah.
www.bushwatch.com /bushlies.htm   (7102 words)

  
 Focus on the Family Magazine: If I Had Faked the Resurrection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yet at least 16 individuals are mentioned by name as witnesses in the various accounts, and the mention of Joseph of Arimathea as the man who buried Jesus would have been terribly dangerous if the gospel accounts had been faked or embellished.
Lee Strobel has written, "People will die for their religious beliefs if they sincerely believe they're true, but people won't die for their religious beliefs if they know their beliefs are false.
"While most people can only have faith that their beliefs are true, the disciples were in a position to know without a doubt whether or not Jesus had risen from the dead.
www.family.org /fofmag/cl/a0023957.cfm   (1588 words)

  
 ArtsJournal: About Last Night
Our interests are wide-ranging, and we think there are plenty of other people like us out there in cyberspace, plus still more who long to wander off their beaten paths but aren't sure which way to turn.
Maybe it's a heartless thing to say when there are still people down there in the muck, but it's tragic to think of all those beautiful trees, in the park and on the Uptown streets that I drove through every day, toppled and on the ground, waiting to be chopped into bits and trucked away.
I did, and I was also fortunate enough to spend quite a bit of time with her in the year and a half before she died.
www.artsjournal.com /aboutlastnight/archives20050828.shtml   (14327 words)

  
 The Mumpsimus
Literary fiction, then, is the opposite of escapist, bringing the reader to reflect on life, the universe, and everything.
Yes, short fiction isn't as popular as it was in, say, 1955, but no short fiction of any type is. No, the magazines aren't selling as well as they did in the early '80s, but that's true for most magazines these days.
Science fiction and fantasy are not the only styles of writing capable of accomplishing such feats, but they may be the only styles of writing capable of making such feats expansive ones, because the best speculative fiction aims to create its own world with each new story.
mumpsimus.blogspot.com /2004_04_01_mumpsimus_archive.html   (8805 words)

  
 Wayne Madsen Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In that case, Robert M. Fenner was listed as counsel for the NCUA with Roberts.
Ford's name appeared as the author of an NSA intelligence report on intercepts of Iraqi communications that concluded, contrary to Bush administration claims, that there was no evidence to support the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Although McCarthy will be best known for taking on President Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 Democratic primaries as one of the two major anti-war candidates (the other was Robert F. Kennedy), he also became a champion for third parties, having run for president in 1976 as an independent, winning three-quarters of a million votes.
waynemadsenreport.com   (10329 words)

  
 LA Weekly: TV: Eyes of Veronica Mars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The line is so cruelly witty yet crushingly sad that its sting is felt long after the flashback scene that follows, showing the party and the spiked drink and the waking up to panties on the floor and the horrible, tearful realization.
Veronica is keen to dig, though, because not only did the investigation destroy the career of her sheriff dad (Enrico Colantoni) after he single-mindedly pursued Lilly’s father, but the outcome — somebody else was arrested — humiliated Veronica’s status-conscious mother into fleeing.
What the gumshoe fiction template does, then, is showcase how much teenagers are desperate to make sense of, or find the solution to, the chaotic ups and downs of their world.
www.laweekly.com /ink/04/50/tv-abele.php   (1534 words)

  
 Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Foglios are tormenting their audience with a fill-in Fan Fiction story by Shaenon K. Garrity and Phil Foglio for the next two weeks.
Antarctic Press (216-219) has been climbing up my list of favorite publishers with their recent books.
More on Sony: An uninstaller is finally released, a musician editorializes about the rootkit, another attempt to warn people is made, and don't use the uninstaller redux.
realtegan.blogspot.com   (6266 words)

  
 SoMA Review - Postmodern Evangelicals? - Patton Dodd
Dan, whose name approximates the pilgrim hero of another Christian trilogy, is led by a Virgil-like scientist-philosopher-ex-pastor named Neil Everett Oliver, who prefers to be called by his initials, Neo.
But he has been bold to instigate a public airing of those contradictions, and his critics would be wise to spend their energies on reordering McLaren’s project rather than merely lambasting it.
And if he is going to keep talking about whether or not people will go to hell, he may have to get used to people telling him that he can.
www.somareview.com /postmodernevangelicals.cfm   (1842 words)

  
 List of Female Pirates
Elizabeth Shirland (fictional), alias "Cutlass Liz" — 1604, Atlantic.
Ki Ming (this may be another name for P’en Ch’ih Ch’iko).
This list was put together by Joan Druett and John Richard Stephens,
www.deadmentellnotales.com /onlinetexts/womenlist.shtml   (725 words)

  
 Weapon of Mass Distraction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Well, as she walked away, I saw this printed across the back of my little girl’s red sweatshirt in bold white caps, the name by which she’s known to her inner circle of friends: MIDOL.
By destroying Russia, these people (terrorists) destroy one of the main pillars of the Islamic world in the struggle for rights (of Islamic states) in the international arena, the struggle for their legitimate rights,” Putin was quoted by Itar —Tass as saying, drawing applause from Chechen parliamentarians.
So it seems, even to Christians–theoretically, at least, the people who should be most willing to accept the existence and the influence of the supernatural on our lives.
www.derekpgilbert.com /index.php   (3258 words)

  
 List of people known as The Great - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
List of people known as The Great - InfoSearchPoint.com
The following people normally have the words "the Great" appended to their names.
William the Bastard, better known as William I of England or William the Conqueror
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/The_Great   (126 words)

  
 Froggy Names!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
So you have a pet frog, but what to name it?
This is a list of names that other kids have named their pet frogs!
Froggy Names for Pairs or Groups of Frogs
allaboutfrogs.org /info/nameit.html   (647 words)

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