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Given name Metta (given name) Given name Mette: Given name Onyx: Onyx Given name / surname From the quartz gemstone Onyx. [5] Opal: Opal (given name) Given name Pearl: Pearl (given name) Given name Pegeen: Given name Peggy (given name) Given name Diminutive name derived from Margaret. Pnina: Given name Jewish feminine given name meaning "pearl ...
This is a list of notable people whose names or pseudonyms are customarily written with one or more lower case initial letters. This list includes names starting with "ff", which is a stylised version of an upper-case F, and one name with "de" followed by an upper case letter, which is standard practice for tussenvoegsels. There are large ...
A pseudonym is a name adopted by a person for a particular purpose, which differs from their true name. A pseudonym may be used by social activists or politicians for political purposes or by others for religious purposes. It may be a soldier's nom de guerre or an author's nom de plume.
De Profundis is a two-player game in which players create the game's narrative by writing each other letters in the style of horror author H. P. Lovecraft. (Designer Michal Oracz wrote the sourcebook as a series of letters in Lovecraftian style which tell of the transcription of a game that the author of the letters saw in a dream.) [1] The game has almost no role-playing game mechanics.
Unusual names have caused issues for scientists explaining genetic diseases to lay-people, such as when an individual is affected by a gene with an offensive or insensitive name. [14] This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell ...
Chemical nomenclature, replete as it is with compounds with very complex names, is a repository for some names that may be considered unusual. A browse through the Physical Constants of Organic Compounds in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (a fundamental resource) will reveal not just the whimsical work of chemists, but the sometimes peculiar compound names that occur as the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Code names" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total.
Abyss debuted in The Avengers (vol. 5) #1, and was created by Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opeña. [6] She is an alien who is composed of living gas and can manipulate the minds of others. Abyss comes into conflict with the Avengers before eventually joining them to stop the Incursions and being killed in battle with the Beyonders .