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POPSpatryn top 4 results urban dictionary: a race of demigod like humanoids. Death Gate Cycle Patryn Agent Patryn Family Tree and Genealogy Patryn one of thousands of Talkgold members Capital Crime existence ;)
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POPSQuiz: Amy Winehouse Question: What the hell is she drinking? A. Red Wine (what else can u drink if u got such a surname???) B. Grape Juice (and i mean real juice) C. Black Tea (hilarious) D. Bat's blood (Ozzy's of course)
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POPSSurname Meanings Just like the first name site, only with surnames. It has most names I can think of. Good for wasting some time, if you're into that sort of thing.
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POPSAnti-Jihad 'University': Bringing Insurgents In From The Cold
While I was not permitted to talk privately with detainees, I visited both Camp Cropper, near Baghdad International Airport, and remote Camp Bucca, near Basra in southern Iraq. A major tipping point in the program, say officers, was when detainees began volunteering for the classes being offered. Although al-Qaida detainees and the Takfiris (another group of religious extremists) pressured fellow Iraqis against participating in the very popular religious discussions, over 3,000 detainees have done so. “After Iraqis here learn how to read and write, they can read the Koran themselves for the first time,” says Sheikh Ali, a Sunni who counsels detainees and who, like most of the Iraqis working in the program, declined to have his surname used and must live in an American-guarded compound to avoid reprisals. “I’ve seen detainees break down and cry when they realize that the conduct they thought was sanctioned by God is actually a sin.”
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POPSThe name-letter effect “We’ve shown time and time again that people are attracted to people, places and things that resemble their names, without a doubt.” In studies that make believers in free will squirm, Dr. Pelham’s team asserts that names and the letters in them are surprisingly influential in people’s lives. In one experiment, participants of both sexes evaluated a young woman more favorably when the number on the jersey she was wearing had been subliminally paired with their own names on a computer screen. “Self-similarity is really one of the largest driving forces of behavior of social beings,” said Jeremy Bailenson, the director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab. There are more prosaic reasons that people may feel connected to their Googlegängers, though. They may share a name because they belong to the same ethnic group, or their families may have had similar aspirations for them.
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POPSBlind to self-evident racism Clinton and McCain should have joined Obama in calling America to racial reconciliation, rather than "savoring political advantage"
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POPSCharles Richter Suffered With Asperger's - "I need not tell you that right now there are all the necessary means to create a decent world. The chief obstacles are ignorance; greed; militarism; nationalism; and the violence that stems either from a psychotic impulse to destruction, or from a feeling of inferiority and a desire for revenge." - It is painful to hear the same arguments now that we’re used to justify the two great wars -and along with them the same half truths, and probably some of the same lies". - In spite of the great development of information services the world has ever known, I think that no ordinary citizen has any real access to the facts on which he might base sound judgment on the national and social issues of our times". Hough closes her story by asking: " here we would be if Charles Richter's brain had been wired according to standard blueprints". The answer could be to on
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POPSSun Jian Yun I never knew that "andthesuccessor" was a word. I think the fact that Sun Jianyun (孫劍雲) shares the same surname as the ancient Chinese warlord Sun Jian (孫堅) is ironic and somehow suiting, considering how legendary the Suns and their Wu dynasty are by now (incidentally, Sun Jianyun's father supported the development of Wu-style taijiquan).
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POPSClans: backbone to Scotland's culture "The succession of the clan chief in the Celtic tradition was decided by the system of "tanistry", an ancient law that brought members of the ruling elite together to choose the next heir. This system ensured that a strong leader was always chosen, but inevitably led to conflict and fracturing of some clans. When Malcolm III became King in 1058 he adopted the English Feudal system and also changed the language of court from Gaelic to English. To some extent this was the start of the intensification of the struggle between Lowland Scotland and Highland Scotland that was to reach its zenith in Culloden."
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