An Egyptian man, Jamal Ibrahim called his newly born daughter Facebook to express support for the revolution the organizers of which were actively using social networking websites, TechCrunch website reported referring to Al-Ahram newspaper.
“A young man in his twenties wanted to express his gratitude about the victories the youth of 25th of January have achieved and chose to express it in the form of naming his firstborn girl ‘Facebook’,” the website quotes Egyptian newspaper.
Revolution in Egypt was first staged via social networking websites and partially broke out with the creation of anti-government groups on Facebook calling for the first protests in Cairo.
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Egyptian Newly Born Girl Named “Facebook”
on Monday, February 21, 2011
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Shark attacks rose 25 percent last year across the globe
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The number of reported shark attacks last year increased globally but declined in Florida, the shark capital of the world, according to an annual report released Monday by the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File.
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