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The Name Alex

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Origins of Alexander the Great

In the year 1107 AD, the son of King Malcolm III becomes King Alexander. Two generations later, two Alexander's are King of Scotland for basically all the 1200s. Scottish culture also develops a lot of variants of Alexander in particular, Alistair. You know, Scottish history fills with Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone and Alexander Fleming discovering penicillin.

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