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1877: The great Lakota warrior and chief named Crazy Horse surrendered at Fort Robinson.
Then, a man named Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a book titled "Being and Nothingness."
Then we crossed the border into Syria, went to Aleppo, which, turns out, is named after Abraham.
This is a lovely book by a friend of mine named Lee Siegel, who's a professor of religion, actually, at the University of Hawaii, and he's an expert magician, and an expert on the street magic of India, which is what this book is about, "Net of Magic."
I'm working with a young computer-animator documentarian named Nick Deamer, and this is a little demo that he's done for me, part of a larger project some of you may be interested in.
At this time we're living in the Bronx, and in the building next to where I lived there was a guy named Johnny.
On his bed is a girl from the neighborhood named Sheila.
There's a famous Harvard Business School study on a woman named Heidi Roizen.
One in particular is a judge named Robert Russell.
Shortly after her visit, I was introduced to a nuclear physicist at Mayo named Michael O'Conner, who was a specialist in cardiac imaging, something I had nothing to do with.
Let's go all the way back to 1932 when, on a peanut farm in Georgia, a little baby boy named Roosevelt Grier was born.
He's named after the Star Trek character.
And this was the 1960s when actually all the streets in this neighborhood were named after Confederate war generals.
An Ethiopian woman named Derartu Tulu turns up at the starting line.
If you're wondering why the Tarahumara don't fight and don't die of heart disease, why a poor Ethiopian woman named Derartu Tulu can be the most compassionate and yet the most competitive, and why we somehow were able to find food without weapons, perhaps it's because humans, as much as we like to think of ourselves as masters of the universe, actually evolved as nothing more than a pack of hunting dogs.
SK: And we're going to talk about one in particular that's named "osunality."
One woman I knew who was a fellow at a program that I ran at the Rockefeller Foundation was named Ingrid Washinawatok.
For two years, he hardly made any money, a tiny stipend, but he apprenticed with this incredible housing developer named Tasneem Saddiqui.
My final story is about a young, beautiful man named Josephat Byaruhanga, who was another Acumen Fund fellow, who hails from Uganda, a farming community.
MA: Well the interesting part was I was asked what it was like to be the first woman Secretary of State a few minutes after I'd been named.
I kept getting this call from this oncologist named David Agus.
One of my favorite is that people named Dennis are disproportionately likely to become dentists, people named Lawrence become lawyers, because unconsciously we gravitate toward things that sound familiar, which is why I named my daughter President of the United States Brooks.
And one of the most beautiful descriptions I've come across in this research of how minds interpenetrate was written by a great theorist and scientist named Douglas Hofstadter at the University of Indiana.
He was married to a woman named Carol, and they had a wonderful relationship.
But one of my students, a freshman named Charlotte, was not convinced.
My parents named me Sarah, which is a biblical name.
And I set up Kanchi, because my organization was always going to be named after my elephant, because disability is like the elephant in the room.
The voice was created by a company in Scotland named CereProc.
This was a computer-assisted instruction system, which in those days ran on a computer named ILLIAC.
Does anybody remember that?" (Applause) "The Sun Times sent me to the Cannes Film Festival with a portable computer the size of a suitcase named the Porteram Telebubble.
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