Newborns Named Corona & Covid (India) – Legend of Creation of Duluth Ship Canal (MN)

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/born-during-coronavirus-lockdown-raipur-twins-named-corona-and-covid/story-Rv8vyFY5jOQKcI5o6B2f6O.html

Hindustan Times [India]

3 April 2020

Born during coronavirus lockdown, Raipur twins named ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’

The pandemic caused by a new virus may have brought the world to its knees, but that has not deterred a couple in Chhattisgarh to name their newborn twins as ‘Corona’ and ‘Covid’. […] The names, they said, would remind them about all the hardships they conquered amid the lockdown, ahead of a successful delivery on the intervening night of March 26-27 at a government hospital here. However, the couple said they may change their decision later and rename their kids. […]

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https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/community/history/5027405-Digging-the-canal-Duluth%E2%80%99s-defining-creation-myth

Duluth News Tribune [MN]

5 April 2020

Digging the canal: Duluth’s defining creation myth

The initial digging of Duluth’s ship canal was fairly simple. The steam-powered dredging tug Ishpeming began chewing through Minnesota Point in September 1870, stopped when the ground froze in November, and started again in late April 1871, finishing the initial cut on April 29. Over the years those events have evolved into an extraordinarily tall tale that many still believe. […]

French Children Named “Clitorine” – Suspicious Van in Kroger Parking Lot –The Green Lady (Philadelphia, 1959)

https://www.thelocal.fr/20200212/how-frances-most-embarrassing-baby-name-doesnt-actually-exist

The Local [France]

12 February 2020

How France's 'most embarrassing' baby name doesn't actually exist

The fact that some people call their children Clitorine in unwitting reference to the clitoris (which incidentally is the same word in French in case you were searching for it) seems to be quite widely accepted in France. Except that they don't. The data from French statistics body INSEE does not list it, neither does the Paris electoral roll or the register of deaths. It seems that the nearest this has ever come to being a real name was in the title of a series of pornographic novels from the 1970s. […]

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https://www.pjstar.com/news/20200212/east-peoria-pd-no-kroger-van-in-kroger-parking-lot-isnt-full-of-kidnappers

Journal Star [Peoria, IL]

12 February 2020

East Peoria PD: No, the Kroger van in the Kroger parking lot isn’t full of kidnappers

EAST PEORIA — Social media chatter about a white van filled with possible kidnappers in a Kroger parking lot is not just greatly exaggerated, it’s flat-out untrue. […] In fact, police say, the van is owned by The Kroger Co. and employees in the van are not doing anything unlawful. […]

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https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/backintheday/back-in-the-day-green-lady-legend-struck-fear-into/article_07edda3a-9b55-5f54-8343-512e9d90512d.html

Philadelphia Tribune [PA]

15 February 2020

Back in the Day: 'Green Lady' legend struck fear into kids

[…] The Green Lady was viewed as an urban legend. However, for children, she took on real life and had many of us afraid to go out at night and caused chaos in our elementary schools. So, are you dear reader wondering about the history of The Green Lady? Well, let me take you back to an Oct. 9, 1959, article that appeared in The Philadelphia Tribune titled “Rumored ‘Green Lady’ Cause of School Panic.” […]

A Baby Girl Named "Female"

William Lynwood Montell, Tales from Kentucky Nurses (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 76.

The Hospital Didn’t Name the Baby

A lady delivered a beautiful baby girl at an area hospital without any complications. When she was ready for discharge and the hospital was inquiring regarding the baby’s name to be placed on the birth certificate, she stated that the hospital had already named the baby.

When questioned further, she stated that the baby’s name was on the bassinet. The person completing the birth certificate was confused and told the mother that the hospital did not name the baby, that this was her decision. She adamantly told the person that they did name the baby and her name was Female, pronounced Fee Mah Lee, which is how she pronounced the name.

Now the hospital only puts “baby girl” or “baby boy” on the card in the nursery bassinet.

Janet Smith, Irvine, January 14, 2013.