Lois

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HISTORY AND ORIGIN

The name Lois is thought to have come from the Greek work loion meaning desirable.^[1] It is an ancient name being mentioned in the New Testament as the name of Timothy's grandmother (Timothy being a young preacher mentored by Paul; the New Testament has two letters written to him), however it is relatively new to the English world, not surfacing in England until the 16 century,^[1] and starting to be used in America by the 1800s. ^[1]

POPULARITY

Lois was in the top 200 girls' names from 1880 until 1970 when it had fallen to the rank of 254th. In the thirties, it was at the height of its popularity being ranked the 24th most given girl's name and the 47th most popular overall. However, after 1970, its usage waned and it suffered a sharp decline, falling out of the top 1000 names in 1984.^[1]

FACTS

• Lois Lane, perhaps the most famous comic book character of all time, without the aid of super powers, has been hanging around Clark Kent and his super alter ego since 1938. DC Comics was able to milk the romantic tension between Clark and Lois for over fifty years before finally giving in and marrying the couple in 1996. Talk about your long engagements.^[1]

• Hi and Lois Flagston are the quintessential suburban couple, or at least as defined by Beetle Bailey comic strip creator Mort Walker. The couple got their big break when Lois' brother Beetle dropped in for a quick visit in 1954. Later that year, they were featured in their own strip in 32 newspapers and today, the Flagston family can be read in over 1000 papers worldwide. ^[1]

• Lois was the name of Timothy's grandmother and is said to have been a woman of sincere faith in God, as the apostle Paul remarks in the opening verses of his second letter to the young preacher.

FAMOUS PERSONS

• Lois Maxwell is well known to all James Bond fans. She played Miss Moneypenny, the secretary to the head of British Intelligence known only as 'M'. Although she was an successful actress, having a won a Golden Globe at the age of 20 for he role in That Hagen Girl, before Bond, she will be best remembered for her scenes of flirtatious sparing with Sean Connery, George Lazenby and Roger Moore. She played Miss Moneypenney in all of the Bond films made by Connery, Lazenby and Moore, with the exception of Never Say Never Again. ^[1]

• Lois McMaster Bujold is an awarding writer of Science Fiction. She has written over 20 books and has won two Nebula Awards for Falling Free and The Mountains of Mourning and three Hugos for The Mountains of Mourning, The Vor Game, Barrayar, and Mirror Dance. She and her two children reside in Minneapolis.^[1]

• Lois Chiles, born in Alice, Texas, is an American actress most famous for playing Roger Moore's leading lady in Moonraker. Before acting, she was a successful model for Glamour magazine and was considered one of the supermodels of the seventies. As an actress she had an uncanny ability to be cast in roles of the murder victim. Such was the case when she played the role of Linnet Ridgeway Doyle in the film adaptation of Agatha Christy's Death on the Nile with Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. She acknowledges that her claim to fame will be as the Bond girl, Dr. Holly Goodhead, and believes that it "is a fun way to be remembered".^[1]

NAMESAKES

• LOIS (LocationOne Information System) is an on-line database designed to assist companies that are looking to relocate or to expand into other sites. This database helps commercial enterprises identify and evaluate the economic advantages being offered by more than 6,500 communities across 16 states. ^[1]

• Lois was the name given to a hurricane classified as a tropical depression in the Atlantic on November 4, 1966. On the 8th it was upgraded to a category 1 hurricane with winds from 64 to 82 miles per hour. Lois was the last storm of the 1966 season, she never made landfall and died somewhere north of the Azores.^[1]

OTHER LOIS'S

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Author:Allen Mercer

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