Thursday, March 14, 2013

Shaw R!!P Meets Shah R!!P

So what are the chances of two notable persons, one a "Shaw" and the other a "Shah being listed on Wikipedia's Death in 2013 site under March 9th, note this excerpt: 
As you can see, they aren't royalty, butt politicians.   I mentioned Viren Shah in an earlier post entitled, RIIP: Norman King, Claud King, Viren Shah and Princess Lilian... , so A.R. Shaw was added after otherwise I would have added him to the title given the obvious relationship, note the etymology:

shah (n.) Look up shah at Dictionary.comtitle of the king of Persia, 1560s, shaw, from Persian shah, shortened from Old Persian xÅ¡ayathiya "king," from Indo-Iranian *ksayati "he has power over, rules" from PIE *tke- "to gain control of, gain power over" (cf. Sanskrit ksatram "dominion;" Greek krasthai "to acquire, get," kektesthai "to possess").

Note this excerpt from A.R. Shaw's wiki page:
 A.R. "Arch" Shaw (February 4, 1922 – March 9, 2013) was an American educator and legislator.   Born in Hanks, North
Audd that Hanks would crop up considering my last post where I mention actor Tom Hanks. 

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