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Steve is a player character from the 2011 sandbox video game Minecraft.Created by Swedish video game developer Markus "Notch" Persson and introduced in the original 2009 Java-based version, Steve is the first and the original default skin available for players of contemporary versions of Minecraft.
One of the most-recognised persons with the surname Booth, is John Wilkes Booth, an American actor, better known for being the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. At the time of the British Census of 1881, [ 1 ] its relative frequency was highest in Cheshire (4.2 times the British average), followed by Derbyshire , Yorkshire , Lancashire ...
During the Plantation period, settlers carried the name to Ireland. Thom(p)son is also the English translation of MacTavish, which is the Anglicised version of the Gaelic name MacTamhais. [4] According to the 2010 United States Census, Thompson was the 23rd most frequently reported surname, accounting for 0.23% of the population. [5]
Vaughan and Vaughn are surnames, originally Welsh, though also used as a form of the Irish surname McMahon. [1] Vaughan derives from the Welsh word bychan, meaning "small", and so corresponds to the English name Little and the Breton cognate Bihan. The word mutates to Fychan (Welsh:) an identifier for a younger sibling or next of kin.
Persson chose to commission the music from Rosenfeld, meaning the artist still retains ownership of all the music he made for Minecraft. [1] Both the soundtrack albums also contain music not intended for the game, "extending the album into a more cohesive piece that can be played on its own." [1]
Abrams is a surname related to Abrahams, Abram, Abrahm and Abraham. It developed independently in the Jewish diaspora, England, Germany and the Netherlands. [1] The name and its variants have been found in England since the medieval era in the Domesday Book and Hundred Rolls. [2] As of 2014, it is most commonly found in the United States. [3]
Sharp is an English language surname, cognate to the German scharf. It is also akin to words which have the sense of scraping, e.g. Latin scrobis 'ditch', Russian skresti 'to scrape'. [citation needed] Recorded variations of the surname include Sharp, Sharpe, Shairp, Sharpes,Sharps [1] and the diminutives Sharpin, Sharplin and Sharpling.
The surname McGovern (Irish: Mág Samhradháin), is of Irish origin and is found predominantly in the counties of Cavan (among the fifteen most common names), Fermanagh and Leitrim. The Irish name is Mag Samhradháin, meaning the Son of Samhradhán , and the clan or sept takes its name from one Samhradhán who lived c. 1100 AD descended from ...