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In recognition of this achievement, the lepidopterists have christened some recently discovered specimens of the Polyommatini with Nabokovian names, such as Madeleinea lolita .
Such sanity has been rare in discussions of child rearing in the "century of the child," as the 20 th was christened at its start by historians and social reformers.
It is comforting to find that Dolley Madison was christened Dorothea , and perhaps not so comforting that Molly shows up also in gun molls gangsters girlfriends.'
Then in the third century, in the era of the Three Kingdoms, it was christened “Jianye.”
Perhaps no issue better illustrates the poverty of our political and intellectual culture than the so-called debate over Black English, or as it has now been christened, Ebonics.