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  2. List of valkyrie names - Wikipedia

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    Name Name meaning Referred to as a valkyrie in Brynhildr "Armor battle" or "bright battle" [6] Skáldskaparmál: Eir "Peace, clemency" [7] or "help, mercy" [8] Nafnaþulur: Geirahöð Connected to the Old Norse words geirr ("spear") and höð ("battle"). [9] Appears in some manuscripts of Grímnismál in place of the valkyrie name Geirölul [9 ...

  3. Valyrian languages - Wikipedia

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    Peterson created the Astapori dialogue by first writing the text in High Valyrian, then applying a series of regular grammar and sound changes to simulate the changes in natural languages over a long period of time. [34] For example, Astapori Valyrian has lost all long vowels (designated with a macron) and most diphthongs. [12]

  4. List of chess players by peak FIDE rating - Wikipedia

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    Highest-ranked American player (since 2015), formerly highest-ranked Italian player (2007–2015) 4 Armenia Germany United States: Levon Aronian: 2830 2014-03 1982 Formerly highest-ranked Armenian player (2005–2021) 5 Philippines United States: Wesley So: 2822 2017-02 1993 Formerly highest-ranked Filipino player (2009–2014) 6 Azerbaijan

  5. A History of the Valyrian Steel Dagger, From 'Game of ... - AOL

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  6. Top 1,000 baby boy names in the U.S. - AOL

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    The Social Security Administration has ranked 1,000 of the most popular baby boy names in 2022 — the most recent data available — and there are almost too many options to choose.

  7. These baby names used to be popular. Why they are ... - AOL

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    It was ranked 823 among the most popular baby names in 2023. 331 baby girls were named Karen in 2023. But Karen was on the way out long before the name came to be used as an insult.

  8. Wizards in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Wizards like Gandalf were immortal Maiar, but took the form of Men.. The Wizards or Istari in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction were powerful angelic beings, Maiar, who took the physical form and some of the limitations of Men to intervene in the affairs of Middle-earth in the Third Age, after catastrophically violent direct interventions by the Valar, and indeed by the one god Eru Ilúvatar, in the ...

  9. List of kings of Babylon - Wikipedia

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    The list is broken at critical points, and it is possible that five additional kings, whose names thus do not survive, could be inserted between the end of the Babylonian interregnum and the reign of Ninurta-apla-X. [107] Lists of Babylonian rulers by modern historians tend to list Ninurta-apla-X as the first king to rule after Baba-aha-iddina ...