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"Better late than never" has become my current attitude on getting more acquainted with history. Recently I discovered a show called " Horrible Histories " that goes over aspects of history that I didn't even know about. I think of my history teacher from Junior High School,who was even more droll than Ben Stein's character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off . His history class was the first time I ever fell asleep in a classroom while class was in session. He was a strict teacher who was very by the book. For all those reasons I really didn't like the class and didn't get the best introduction to history.  As I became an adult I realized there was A LOT of history that my teachers never went over. Mainly all I learned about growing up was American history, so needless to say the gaps were quite big. One of the first things I learned about was the inventor by the name of  Nikola Tesla . I grew up only hearing about Edison and "his"...

 I've always wondered what makes a name work for both boys and girls. When I thought about it I have always been surrounded by guys with girl names and girls with guy names growing up. For example I knew a female Michael and a male Ashley. As I grew up and was introduced to glam rock, gender and sexuality became a gradient. Guys like Alice Cooper became a major influence for more reasons then one. I always liked my name Becca, never really took a shine to Beck and I loathe Becky.  I did some research on unisex and gender neutral names. I had one main question in mind "What makes a name gender neutral?" or "How does a name become unisex?" It seems in the literary past unisex names came about to create intrigue over the sex of the character. Another interesting thing I found out is that gender neutral baby names are rising in popularity . Some people think gender ambiguous names are a bad thing, and they'd probably call it "politically correct." B...