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River is a given name of English origin taken from river, the English ... 150 names for boys since 2021. It has ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls in ...
Delaware: After the Bay, named for Thomas West, Baron De la Warre, first English colonial governor of Virginia. [15] Fraser: Named for Simon Fraser, who confirmed it was a separate river from the Columbia. Hackensack: probably from Unami Delaware ahkinkèshaki, "place of sharp ground". [16]
Peter Pan, created by J. M. Barrie in 1902, is a boy who fled to the magical Neverland and refused to grow up. The Blue Lagoon, created by H. de Vere Stacpoole in (1908) tells the story of two English children, a boy and a girl, stranded on a deserted tropical island in the Polynesia.
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Naiads were often the object of archaic local cults, worshipped as essential to humans. Boys and girls at coming-of-age ceremonies dedicated their childish locks to the local naiad of the spring. In places like Lerna their waters' ritual cleansings were credited with magical medical properties. Animals were ritually drowned there. Oracles might ...
St. Loo is a resort town on the south English coast, commonly referred to as the English Riviera and is a setting for several Agatha Christie stories. St. Mary Mead, England Agatha Christie: Miss Marple series An earlier mention of St. Mary Mead exists in the Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train.
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All or almost all rivers in Europe have alternative names in different languages. ... Drammen River (English variant), Drammenselva (Norwegian), Drammenselven (Danish