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Mudd is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Daniel Mudd (born 1956), American CEO, son of Roger Mudd; David Mudd (1933–2020), English politician; Harvey Seeley Mudd (1888–1955), American mining engineer, namesake of Harvey Mudd College; Henry T. Mudd (1913–1990), American businessman, son of Harvey
Modder: from Afrikaans meaning "mud". Mooi River (KwaZulu-Natal) and Mooi River (Vaal): from Afrikaans meaning "beautiful". Niger: from the Tuareg phrase gher n gheren meaning "river of rivers", shortened to ngher. Nile: from Greek Neilos (Νεῖλος), sometimes derived from the Semitic Nahal "river." Nossob: from Khoikhoi meaning "black river".
Murad I (1326–1389), often nicknamed Hüdavendigâr—from Persian: خداوندگار Khodāvandgār —"the devotee of God", the third sultan. Received the name Murad through a play on the Arabic word "mordd", which means "wish" or "desire".
Meaning and notes American Samoa: 1911 [111] [note 1] (July 17) English and Samoan: American + Sāmoa: The CIA World Factbook says "The name Samoa is composed of two parts, 'sa', meaning sacred, and 'moa', meaning center, so the name can mean Holy Center; alternately, it can mean 'place of the sacred moa bird' of Polynesian mythology."
Monowi - Meaning "flower", this town was so named because there were so many wild flowers growing in the vicinity. Nehawka - An approximation to the Omaha and Otoe Indian name of a nearby creek meaning "rustling water." Nemaha - Named after the Nemaha River, based on an Otoe word meaning "swampy water." [53]
For most of Earth’s history, hardly any of the mucky stuff existed on land. It finally started piling up around 458 million years ago, changing life on the planet forever.
Mud is a liquid or semi-liquid mixture of water and soil. Mud or MUD may also refer to: Construction material ... Mudd, a surname; Mudd Jeans, a women's clothing brand
Samuel Mudd's name is sometimes given as the origin of the phrase "your name is mud," as in, for example, the 2007 feature film National Treasure: Book of Secrets. However, according to an online etymology dictionary, the phrase has its earliest known recorded instance in 1823, ten years before Mudd's birth, and it is based on an obsolete sense ...