Ayn Rand, born Alisa Rosenbaum, based her professional first name on a Finnish one [see above]. The source of her last name, however, has been a mystery. Although its origin is still uncertain, recent biographical research by Drs. Allan Gotthelf and Michael Berliner has eliminated one possible source. An oft-repeated story claims that Ayn Rand took her last name from her Remington Rand typewriter while she was living in Chicago in 1926. This is false and we would like to put the error to rest.

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According to Jim Horning (personal communication, January 20, 1998) and John Guttag (personal communication, March 28 1998): "The name was not selected at PARC (hence from the Sunset Western Garden Book), but at MIT. The project had been known informally there as 'Bicycle'." One day Mike Dertouzos [director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science] and John were talking on the phone.

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Facets of Ayn Rand, a memoir by Charles and Mary Ann Sures. Complete text available on the Web, or in print from the Ayn Rand Bookstore Ayn Rand's Life: Highlights and Sidelights," by Harry Binswanger (audio recording available from Ayn Rand Bookstore) Ayn Rand and the Atlas Shrugged Years: Reminiscences and Recollections," by Mary Ann Sures with Harry Binswanger (audio recording available from Ayn Rand Bookstore)

The Archaeologica Scotica: transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland article from 1792 presents an explanation of the origin of the name Scotland. [NOTE: Adobe Acrobat file] The full title of the article is An Inquiry into the Origin of the Name of the Scottish Nation, presented to the Society of Antiquaries, at Edinburgh, December 1780.

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The Dictionary of American Names, page 232, states that a Whipple was originally "one who came from Whimple (white stream) in Devonshire [England]." According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, Whimple is from the Welsh "gwyn" (white) and "pwll" or "poll" (pool, stream). Variant forms of the name include Winple, Wimpoll, and Wympol. The oldest record of the name is in the Domesday Book (A.D. 1086), where it is spelled "Winple.

The earliest origins can be traced to Socrates who declared, “you can know a man by his mark” more than 2,000 years ago. One of the first documented books on graphology date back to Spain in 1552. Writings on Graphology were also published in 1622 by an Italian doctor of medicine and philosophy. The European masters of this science did most of their work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

quot;...The word "pope" means father. In ancient Greek it was a child's term of affection but was borrowed by later Latin as honorific. Both Greek-speaking Eastern and Latin-speaking Western Christians then applied it to priests and bishops and patriarchs ('head of the family'); and still today priests of the Orthodox Churches of Greece, Russia and Serbia call their parish priests 'pope'. Gradually, however, Latin started to restrict its usage.

Acadia probably stems from a name given to the area by the explorer, Giovanni Verrazano, when he sailed by in 1524. The shoreline reminded him of a part of Greece named Arcadia.

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Ayn Rand was a twentieth-century novelist and philosopher. She wrote several popular novels and developed a philosophy known as "Objectivism." A brief overview of Objectivism can be found at the website of the Ayn Rand Institute. Rand was born on February 2, 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She moved to the United States in 1926 (arriving February 18) and became a naturalized US citizen on March 13, 1931. She died of heart failure on March 6, 1982 in New York City.

Please consult the The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, edited by Harry Binswanger. This book is a mini-encyclopedia of Objectivism, containing the key passages from the writings of Ayn Rand and her associates on 400 topics in philosophy and related fields.

Ayn Rand died on March 6, 1982, of heart failure. She was buried in Kenisco Cemetery in Valhalla, N.Y., next to her husband Frank O'Connor (who died in 1979). See also: "To the Reader," by Harry Binswanger, The Objectivist Forum, Vol. 3, No. 1.

She worked for quite a few film companies in Los Angeles and New York City intermittently (while working on her writing projects) between 1926 to 1951. Here is a partial list. She worked for Cecil B. DeMille from 1926-27, as an extra, writer and reader; for RKO (1929-32) in the wardrobe department; for Universal (1932) as a writer; Paramount (1934) as a writer; for Hal Wallis at Paramount (1943-48) as a writer.

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