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The Lithuanian Activist Front or LAF (Lithuanian: Lietuvių Aktivistų Frontas) was a Lithuanian underground resistance organization established in 1940 after the Soviets occupied Lithuania. Its goal was to free Lithuania and regain its independence.
In most cases, the names are "one-off" Latinized forms produced by adding the genitive endings -ii or -i for a man, -ae for a woman, or -orum in plural, to a family name, thereby creating a Latinized form. For example, a name such as Macrochelys temminckii notionally represents a latinization of the family name of Coenraad Jacob Temminck to ...
Lafayette or La Fayette, is originally a surname or a toponym coming from the Occitan words la faieta and that designates a beech forest. Due to the fame of American Revolutionary War commander Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette , Lafayette is also a given name in the United States.
Globally, the city with the largest numbers of people named Weeks is Bristol, United Kingdom, located in the south western county of Somerset. [5] In the US, there were 51,976 people in 1990 with the last name Weeks, making it the 675th most common last name. The table below compares this with the corresponding enumerations of related names at ...
Two Weeks in Lagos (theatrically as Duas Semanas em Lagos) is a 2019 Nigerian comedy drama film directed by Kathryn Faseghaa dn co-produced by director herself with Sarah Inya Lawal. [1] The film stars Mawuli Gavor and Beverly Naya in the lead roles whereas Joke Silva , Jide Kosoko , Toyin Abraham and Okey Uzoeshi made supportive roles.
Most day names among the Mole-Dagombas are usually given to girls, and few are given to both sexes. Most Ghanaians have at least one name from this system, even if they also have an Arabic or western name. Notable figures with day names include Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name [1] that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.
[5] [6] The family name (surname) are always given after close relatives and sometimes friends. [5] [6] Since Ashanti names are always given by the men, if a couple receives a son as their first born-baby then the son is named after the father of the husband and if the baby is a girl then she will be named after the mother of the husband.