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wheelchairman
05-27-2007, 08:25 PM
Per [...] hit the west coast of Sweden and Norway on the morning of 14 January 2007. In Sweden six people died [...] and approx. 300,000 households were left without electricity.
6 Deaths
One man in his 60s died when his car was hit by a falling tree in Jönköping County on 14 January. A woman who was traveling with him was slightly injured in the accident.
A 9-year-old boy in Motala died after a tree fell on him at around midday on 14 January.
A 24-year-old truckdriver was killed in Ullared when his truck was hit by a tree, 14 January.
A 61-year-old man died in Malmö harbor in an accident due to [Per], 14 January.
Two more men died on January 15 when working in the woods in the aftermath of [Per]
SOURCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_(storm)
wheelchairman
05-27-2007, 08:32 PM
This article has been rated as Low-importance
:( That sucks.
ilovellamas
05-27-2007, 08:46 PM
Lucky. Wiki on me just talks about my name. :( I wanna have a wiki about killing people.
DeAtHsTaR
05-27-2007, 08:52 PM
According to Wikipedia, I'm TWO characters in Lord of the Rings, one of which DIED ON MY BIRTHDAY, and I'm also an obsolete unit of measurement.
All About Eve
05-27-2007, 09:05 PM
The name Alec may refer to:
Alec Baldwin, an Oscar-nominated American actor
Alec Douglas-Home, a former Prime-Minister of the United Kingdom.
Alec Guiness, an Oscar winning English actor
Alec John Such, American bassist and former member of the rock band Bon Jovi
The American Legislative Exchange Council a United States political orginization
Alec Berg, writer on Seinfeld
lolz Obi-Wan.
noodlesfan
05-27-2007, 09:06 PM
I'm a small cut or scratch.
0r4ng3
05-27-2007, 09:11 PM
This thread quickly became a "wikipedia your name" thread. Well I for one shall not be a part of it!
Okay, I lied.
Apparently, my name means "God's gift" in Hebrew. Incidentally, that's what it means in every language.
ilovellamas
05-27-2007, 09:20 PM
What else would it be? Let's discuss this supposed Scandinavian destruction? Nobody cares about Scandinavia. :P
Nobody cares what wiki says about our names, either... whoops.
noodlesfan
05-27-2007, 09:20 PM
I just checked my name again, the result freaked me out!
Link (http://www.myspace.com/dtoxrockers)
Jakebert
05-27-2007, 10:30 PM
Jacob means "Struggled with God". Hmm.
coke_a_holic
05-27-2007, 10:45 PM
Michael (b March 17, 1973, Cameroon, Africa - d. April 19, 2000) . . . had a working vocabulary of over 600 signs in American Sign Language, taught to him by Koko, a female gorilla; Dr. Francine Patterson (to whom the gorillas referred using the sign "penny"); and other staff of Stanford University. Michael, an orphan, spent most of his life in Woodside, California, where he became a local celebrity and well-known painter, creating colorfully vivid impressionist works.
im ded guyz. i luv paintz tho
DeAtHsTaR
05-27-2007, 11:35 PM
Michael (b March 17, 1973, Cameroon, Africa - d. April 19, 2000) . . . had a working vocabulary of over 600 signs in American Sign Language, taught to him by Koko, a female gorilla; Dr. Francine Patterson (to whom the gorillas referred using the sign "penny"); and other staff of Stanford University. Michael, an orphan, spent most of his life in Woodside, California, where he became a local celebrity and well-known painter, creating colorfully vivid impressionist works.
im ded guyz. i luv paintz tho
lulz, you were born on the same day as me too!
Lizardus
05-27-2007, 11:40 PM
Per [...] hit the west coast of Sweden and Norway on the morning of 14 January 2007. In Sweden six people died [...] and approx. 300,000 households were left without electricity.
6 Deaths
One man in his 60s died when his car was hit by a falling tree in Jönköping County on 14 January. A woman who was traveling with him was slightly injured in the accident.
A 9-year-old boy in Motala died after a tree fell on him at around midday on 14 January.
A 24-year-old truckdriver was killed in Ullared when his truck was hit by a tree, 14 January.
A 61-year-old man died in Malmö harbor in an accident due to [Per], 14 January.
Two more men died on January 15 when working in the woods in the aftermath of [Per]
SOURCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_(storm)
Cold hard killer!
Whiplash
05-28-2007, 03:34 AM
Rolf is a male given name. It originates in the Germanic name Hrolf, itself a contraction of Hrodwulf, a conjunction of the stem words hrod ("renown") + wulf ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is Hrólfr.
Notable Rolfs/Hrolfs include:
Hrólf Kraki, legendary king of Denmark
Hrolf Ganger, Icelandic Viking Jarl
Rolf Berend, German politician
Rolf Ekéus, Swedish diplomat
Rolf Gindorf (born 1939), German sexologist
Rolf Gölz (born 1962), German road and track cyclist
Rolf Harris, Australian painter
Rolf Singer (1906–1994), German mycologist
Rolf Wideröe (1902–1996), Norwegian particle physicist
Also:
Dr. Ida P. Rolf, American physiologist and inventor of Rolfing
Rowlf the dog
I like my name better then before.*shines*
wheelchairman
05-28-2007, 04:31 AM
People, no one cares about your shitty names. STOP.
ninthlayer
05-28-2007, 05:01 AM
People, no one cares about your shitty names. STOP.
I care about yours sugarcakes.
Grabbal
05-28-2007, 05:02 AM
I had to post this.
Even may refer to:
* Even language, a language spoken by the Evens
Now stop!
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