According to Pliny the Elder, Scipio Aemilianus was the first man to shave daily.
The origin of the name Boeing is Welsh. The family emigrated to the US from Germany, where they were called Böing, but this was a Germanisation of the Welsh patronymic ab Owen.
In Pembrokeshire there is a Church of St Elvis.
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