James
The name James is a variant of the name Jacob, Hebrew for "one who holds by the heel, outwitter".James comes from the Low Latin Jacomus, a variant of the Latin Jacobus, which comes from the Hebrew Yakob. It came to English through Old French[?] James, another form of Jacques or Jaques. Related names are the Italian Jacopo and Iago, and Spanish Diego and Santiago.
Its hypocoristics[?] are Jim and Jimbo.
Several people named James are mentioned in the New Testament, including two, possibly three apostles, and one "brother of Jesus", although it is unclear whether some of these references are to the same person.
- St. James the Great or St. James of Compostela, brother of John the Apostle;
- St. James the Less[?].
One of the books of the New Testament is the Epistle of James.
James was the name of seven Kings of Scotland, two of whom were Kings of England as well.
- James I
- James II
- James III
- James IV
- James V
- James VI of Scotland and I of England
- James VII of Scotland and II of England
- James VII and II's son, James Francis Edward Stuart, the "Old Pretender," was called by the Jacobites James VIII of Scotland and III of England.
James was also the name of two Kings of Aragon.
James is the name of a band from Manchester, England, formed in 1982 and, according to reports, dissolved sometime in 2001, probably best known for their hit single, "Laid".
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contained for the most part, flooded-gum, under which bulrushes and
we crossed numerous little drains, that intersected each other in every
marshes of the Macquarie, I prognosticated to my companion that we should
further, when we found ourselves on the banks of one of considerable size.
plain of red sandy soil, covered with rhagodia alone, and without a tree
was extremely depressed to the eastward. After continuing along this
receding from water, and that the fires of the natives, which were no
to be leading W.S.W. from the opposite quarter. We had undoubtedly struck
channel of communication between it and the Morumbidgee, at least such was
continuing a northerly course, we turned to the S.E., and, after again
passed through a dense brush of cypress and casuarina in our way to it.
CONNECTION OF LACHLAN WITH MORUMBIDGEE.
Considering our situation as connected with the marshes of the Lachlan,
serves as a drain to the latter, to conduct its superfluous waters into
by the creek at the termination of its marshes into Morrisset's Chain.
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