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To: Frantzie

X looks to me like a white parent or grand parent.


9,116 posted on 08/13/2009 10:24:43 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: shield; MestaMachine
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barack_(disambiguation)&redirect=no
Barak (Hebrew: בָּרָק‎, “Lightning; Shine”), Al-Burāq (Arabic: البُراق‎ al-Burāq “lightning”) The meaning of the name Barack is Blessed-NOT TRUE MUBARAK means blessed.
Note on this list the ONLY two people with the name Barack. People named Barak or Barack:

Barak Badash, Israeli football player.
Barak Bakhar (born 1979), Israeli football player.
Aharon Barak (born 1936), former President of the Supreme Court of Israel.
Daphne Barak, Israeli-American interviewer.
Ehud Barak (born 1942), former Israeli Prime Minister.
Josef Barák (1833–1883), Czech politician, journalist, and poet.
William Barak (1824–1903), the last traditional elder of the Wurundjeri-willam clan in Australia.
Ze’ev Barak, pseudonym used by Wolf Blitzer (being the Hebrew translation of his name).
Barak Epstein (born 1979), American film director.
Barak Moshe (born 1991), Israeli football player.
Barack Obama (born 1961), 44th and current president of the United States.
Barack Obama, Sr. (1936–1982), Kenyan economist and President Barack Obama’s father.
Barak Sopé (born 1955), Vanuatu politician.
Barak Yitzhaki (born 1984), Israeli football player.

Barack Obama was named after his father Barack (Obama) Sr.
Originally from Kenya, he came to the United States as a student.
Barack was named the “2007 Name of the Year” by iVillage.com’s “The Baby Name Wizard” [1]
According to Barack Obama’s website the following etymological definitions are offered:
barik: blessed (Arabic)
baraka: blessing (Arabic)(Kiswahili)
baraka: also berakhah, in Judaism, a blessing usually recited during a ceremony
baruch: Also related to “berakhah” or bracha (Hebrew: berakhot), which is a blessing.
baraka: also barakah, in Arabic and Islam, meaning spiritual wisdom and blessing transmitted from God “Baraka”, a rarely used French slang term for luck, derived from the Arabic word

NAMESAKES
Barack (Barry) Obama, Sr. – Father of the President of the United States, Barack Obama

FAMOUS PERSONS
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States of America.

NO OTHER BARACKs SEEM TO EXIST.

9,123 posted on 08/13/2009 10:47:09 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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