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Man, this baby name thing really has a life of its own. I got quite a few e-mails over the weekend suggesting this site:http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html.
Which I wrote about a while back, believe it or not. What makes this site cool is how they display the data--each name is a layer (in alphabetical order from top layer to bottom), and any name can be followed across for over a century to see how its popularity changed over time.
From Rob Slifka, a few additions to the Yamato information from last week:
Some minor corrections for the Yamato piece as I just finished a documentary on it this morning :
- US estimates were that she was the size of our biggest ships when in reality she was 2x the size! Our excellence in intelligence started long before Iraq. Seriously though, the architects didn't even know what they were building. Sort of the like the movie "The Cube" - they each built one piece in isolation.
- The armor under water was insanely strong, but weakest in one point - the front of the ship. - Torpedos were ordered to only hit one side of the ship so as to capsize it. Deck fires didn't ignite the ammunition, the ammunition ignited itself from being tossed around during the tumult of capsizing.
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