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This category is for masculine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language masculine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
These old-fashioned boy names are due to come back around in a big way. ... The top names for boys in the early 20th century included John, William, James, George, Robert and Richard.
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Frederick Walker (1840–1875) – English Social Realist painter and illustrator in watercolours and oils; Albert Moore (1841–1893) – English painter especially of languorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world; Alexander Rossi (1841–1916) – British artist specializing in genre works
Billy Boy: United States 1912 [19] Variant of the traditional English folk song "My Boy Billy", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Bingo: Several other titles... [d] Great Britain 1780 [20] [21] Attributed the song to William Swords, an actor at the Haymarket Theatre of London. The identity of "Bingo" in the song is formally ambiguous.
brigand active in the southern region of the Madras Presidency during the early 20th century, shot to death by police. Kayamkulam Kochunni: 1818–1859 –1859 India: a heroic outlaw known as the Robin Hood of Kayamkulam who lived during the early 19th century in Travancore (present-day Kerala). His stories are often associated with his friend ...
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',