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MOST POPULAR BABY NAMES OF 2007 |
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Sunnis say he named no successor; Shi'ites say he picked his son-in-law |
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The Baseball Hall of Fame's Iron Horse |
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Girls' No. 1: Like a Dickinson, a Post or a Litella |
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"Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia, the gods themselves throw incense" |
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Proverbially, to work hard is to "keep your nose to" this |
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Edsel II has been a director of this, his family company, since 1988 |
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Though Kali, a goddess of this religion, is fearsome & fierce, she's worshipped in Bengal as the Supreme Mother |
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Boys' No. 2: Collins, Kidd, "Row The Boat Ashore" |
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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" |
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According to the nursery rhyme, if you were born on a Tuesday, you're full of it |
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Former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn is on the board of this soda company |
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The Druze, who permit no conversion or intermarriage, live mainly in Syria & this neighboring Mideast country |
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Girls' No. 7: de Havilland, Newton-John (I really can't think of another Newton-John, can you?) |
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"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more" |
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One of the 7 deadly sins, it's from the Latin for "to swallow" |
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It sounds odd that James Firestone joined this Ohio company's board in 2007 |
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From the Spanish for "way of the saints", it came with the Yoruba to Cuba |
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The Ice Man of 1970s tennis |
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Boys' No. 4: Reynolds, Logan, Tree National Park |
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"The play's the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" |
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A period of pregnancy, or a time for the development of an idea |
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Drinking & driving do mix: Andrew Taylor, CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, is a director of this hyphenated beer company |
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As you might expect, this influential Christian mystical thinker was born in Sweden, in 1688 |
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The NBA's Agent Zero, aka Hibachi, aka The Black President |
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Boys' No. 7: Burgess, Eden, Wayne (he of the "Mad" variety) |
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"The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?" |
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It's the London borough famous for a royal observatory |
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The chief of medicine at Mass. General is on this company's board, so he can keep an eye on the Lipitor & Xanax |
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