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[Facts] Re: Almanzo...
by
Looli
(guest)
1/8/2003, 4:23 PM
in reply to
a message by Yahalome
I've learned that
Mansur
(with its variant spellings_ means "victorious" and also "Divinely aided."
El is just the Latinized verion of
Al
which means the. Thus Al-Mansur (the victorious) got turned into Almanzo.
Looli,
(which is Arabic for pearls)
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