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The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
Heinz Stücke has been cycling around the world since 1962. Arthur Blessitt has been walking around the world carrying a 45 lb (20 kg) wooden cross since 25 December 1969, covering 42,279 miles (68,041 km) through 324 countries. As of 13 June 2008, aged 67, he had walked in every country of the world, since when he has returned to some.
over 2 years 31 May 1928 June 1930 Southern Cross from Oakland, California [39] [40] Captain Ford and Crew one month 2 December 1941 6 January 1942 Pan American World Airways' Pacific Clipper the Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat NC-18609(A) the first commercial plane flight to circumnavigate the world from Treasure Island, San Francisco to ...
Here are the most popular girls' and boys' names of every decade, according to data collected by the Social Security Administration. Ivan Makarov / Wikimedia Commons 1880s: Most Popular Boy Names
Without further ado, here’s a list of the most popular boy and girl names from 2005, according to Social Security Administration (SSA) and Name Census data. Most Popular Girl Names From 2005 1 ...
According to the Social Security Administration, the most popular baby names of the 1920s were “taken from a universe that includes 11,372,808 male births and 12,402,235 female births.”
Torbjørn C. "Thor" Pedersen (born 19 December, 1978) is a Danish traveller and adventurer known for the Once Upon a Saga project: a journey to visit every country in the world without the use of air travel. The project lasted for over nine years, and Pedersen visited all of the planned 203 nations before finally returning to Denmark by ship ...
In fact, there’s a whole theory to support the trend of bringing new life to old-fashioned baby names dubbed the 100-Year Rule; per the rule, it takes 100 years for an old-fashioned name to ...