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Definition: BECKER

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A European fish (Pagellus centrodontus); the sea bream or braise.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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"Becker" is a common misspelling or typo for: beckers, beckern.

Date "Becker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)

Common Expressions: BECKER

Expressions Definition
A. G. Becker A. G. Becker & Co., Inc. was an investment bank based in Chicago, Illinois. (references)
Albrecht Becker Albrecht Becker (14 November 1906-22 April 2002) was a production designer, photographer, and actor, who was imprisoned by the Nazi regime for the charge of homosexuality. (references)
Becker muscular dystrophy A form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Boris Becker Boris Franz Becker (b. November 22 1967 in Leimen, Germany) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam champion, an Olympic Gold Medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon. Since retiring from the professional tour, colorful aspects of his personal life have kept him in the headlines. (references)
Britta Becker Britta Becker (born May 11, 1973) is a German hockey player who made her debut in the German women's field hockey team in 1991 and was the youngest in the Olympic squad in 1992. She was part of the 1995 winning team in the European Cup and the bronze medal winning team in the 1998 World Cup. She retired in 2004 when her team Germany won the Olympic gold medal. (references)
Carl Becker House Carl Becker House or Becker House, founded in 2005, is the second of five new residential colleges at Cornell University. (references)
Carl L. Becker Carl Lotus Becker (1873-1945) was an American historian. He was born in Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa. He studied at the University of Wisconsin. (references)
Charles Becker Charles Becker (July 26 1873 - July 30 1915) was a New York police officer executed for allegedly ordering the murder of a Manhattan gambler, Herman Rosenthal. Becker was the first American policeman executed for murder and the scandal that surrounded his arrest, conviction, and execution was one of the most important in Progressive Era New York. (references)
Cristiane Luise Amalie Becker Cristiane Luise Amalie Becker (1778 - 1797), German actor, was the daughter of a theatrical manager and dramatic poet, Johann Christian Neumann, and made her first stage appearance in 1787 at Weimar. (references)
Edward Roy Becker Edward Becker is a Senior Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 2003, his term as the Chief Judge of the Circuit ended and he assumed senior status. (references)
Elisabeth Becker Elisabeth Becker was born in Neuteich (Nowy Staw), Poland on 20 July 1923 to a German family. In 1936, she joined the NSDAP and BDM. (references)
Heinrich Becker Heinrich Becker (1770 - 1822), German actor, whose real name was Blumenthal, was born at Berlin. (references)
Ingrid Becker North Rhine-Westphalia) (née Ingrid Becker) (sometimes incorrectly Ingrid Mickler in result lists) is a former German athlete and a double Olympic champion. (references)
Jurek Becker Jurek Becker (* September 30, 1937, Lodz (Poland), † March 14, 1997, Berlin) was a German writer. (references)
Kaethe Becker Kaethe Becker was a female guard at several concentration camps during the last months of World War II. (references)
Karl Becker Karl Becker (1775-1842) was a German philologist. (references)
Konrad Becker Konrad Becker is a hypermedia researcher and interdisciplinary content developer, Director of the Institute for New Culture Technologies/ t0, Public_Netbase and [http://world-information.org World-Information.Org], he has been active in electronic media as an artist, writer, composer as well as curator, producer and organizer. Since 1979, numerous intermedia productions, exhibitions, and event designs for international festivals, cultural institutions and electronic media. Publication of media works, electronic audiovisuals and theoretical texts, lectures and positions at various universities and participation in conferences and symposia. He was member of various boards and committees on Information- and Communication Technologies and culture and worked as a consultant. (references)
Kuno Becker Kuno Becker (born January 14 1978 in Mexico City) is a Mexican actor. (references)
Mount Becker Mount Becker (75°6'S"72 2°W') is a prominent mountain 1 miles northeast of Mount Boyer, in the Merrick Mountains, Ellsworth Land. These mountains were discovered from the air and photographed by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947-48, under Finn Ronne. The mountain was named by Ronne for Ralph A. Becker, legal counsel who assisted in the formation of RARE and in obtaining financial support for the expedition. (references)
Nicolaus Becker Nicolaus Becker (1810 — 1845) was author of the "Wacht am Rhein", he was also a lawyer's clerk. (references)
Oskar Becker Oskar Becker studied and published in philosophy and phenomenology of mathematics. He was a peer of Edmund Husserl. (references)
Philip Becker Philip Becker (Oberotterbach, Bavaria, Germany, April 25, 1830- July 4, 1898), was the first German-born mayor of Buffalo, New York. (references)
Sherburn M. Becker Sherburn M. Becker (1877 - 1949) was mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1906 to 1908. Becker was elected in 1906, defeating the incumbent, David Rose, who had served four terms as Milwaukee's mayor. Becker was known as the "boy mayor", having been elected at age 29. Becker served only one two-year term; David Rose was elected once again to his final term in 1908. (references)
Véronique Becker Véronique Becker (born at Moyeuvre-Grande, Lorraine, 1965) is a French contemporary painter. (references)
Walter Becker Walter Carl Becker (born February 20, 1950 in New York, New York) is the guitarist (and sometimes electric bassist) half of the duo at the core of the jazz-rock group Steely Dan. Becker is a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY, class of 1967. (references)
Wilhelm Adolf Becker Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1796 - September 30, 1846), German classical archaeologist, was born at Dresden. (references)
William D. Becker William D. Becker (Born October 23 1896 in East St. Louis, Illinois - Died August 1 1943 in St. Louis, Missouri) was the thirty-ninth Mayor of Saint Louis (from 1941 to 1943). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Extended Definition: BECKER


Becker

Becker is one of the German-language surnames, along with Bäcker and Baecker, that derive from the /bɑːk/-/bɛk/ root, which refers to baking. The surname began as a name for a baker (and thus his family).

Becker may refer to any of the following:

People

  • Albrecht Becker (1906–2002), German production designer, photographer, actor, imprisoned by Nazis for homosexuality
  • Ansgar Becker, German software developer (see HeidiSQL)
  • Barbara Becker (born 1966), ex wife of Boris Becker
  • Benjamin Becker (born 1981), German tennis player (not related to Boris Becker, below)
  • Benton Becker (born 1938), Attorney for President Ford and Negotiator of Nixon Pardon
  • Boris Becker (born 1967), German tennis star
  • Brandon Becker (born 1980), U.S. novelist
  • Britta Becker (born 1973), German field hockey player
  • Carl/Karl Becker
  • Carlos Becker Westphall, contributions on network management
  • Charles Becker (1870–1915), first U.S. police officer executed for murder
  • Christine Becker, member of U.S. women's saber team
  • Cornelius Becker, German theologian (see Becker Psalter)
  • Cristiane Luise Amalie Becker (1778–1797), German actress
  • Dietrich Becker (1623?–1679?), German Baroque violinist and composer
  • Dirk Becker (born 1966), German politician
  • Donald Becker, programmer
  • Douglas Becker, American/Belgian choreographer, teacher
  • Edmund Becker, German footballer
  • Edward Roy Becker (1933–2006), U.S. appeals court judge
  • Elisabeth Becker (1923–1946), German concentration camp guard during World War II
  • Elizabeth Becker, U.S. journalist and author
  • Ernest Becker (1925–1974), cultural anthropologist
  • Franz Becker (born 1918), German footballer
  • Gary Becker (born 1930), Nobel Prize-winning economist
  • Gavin de Becker (born 1954), U.S. specialist in security issues
  • Heidi Becker (born 1940), Austrian-born model
  • Heinrich Becker (1770–1822), German actor
  • Heinz Becker (1915-1991), German baseball player
  • Helmut Becker (1927–1989), German viticulturist
  • Howard Becker
  • Ingrid Becker (born 1942), German athlete
  • Jacques Becker (1906–1960), French screenwriter and film director
  • Jason Becker (born 1969), Neo-classical metal guitarist
  • Jean Becker (1833-1884), German violinist and composer
  • Jean Becker (born 1938), French director, screenwriter, and actor
  • Jonathan Becker (born 1954) famous photographer for Vanity Fair
  • Jurek Becker (1937–1997), German writer
  • Jürgen Becker, dramatist, author
  • Kaethe Becker, German concentration camp guard during World War II
  • Karl/Carl Becker
  • Konrad Becker, hypermedia researcher and interdisciplinary content developer
  • Kuno Becker (born 1978), Mexican actor
  • Lawrence C. Becker (born 1939), U.S. academic, philosopher
  • Lydia Becker (1827–1890), British suffragist and amateur scientist
  • Marc Becker, U.S. professor of Latin American studies
  • Margaret Becker, an award-winning composer, singer, speaker and writer
  • Marie Becker (1877–?), Belgian serial poisoner
  • Marshall Becker, devoted a monograph to the applications of the Health Belief Model (HBM) (mid-1970s)
  • May Lamberton Becker (1873–1958), U.S. journalist and literary critic
  • Meret Becker (born 1969), German actress and singer
  • Oskar Becker (1889–1964), German philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian of mathematics
  • Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (1828-1890), German ophthalmologist
  • Paul Becker, U.S. bodybuilder and gay porn star
  • Peter Emil Becker, German doctor (see Becker's muscular dystrophy)
  • Philip Becker (1830–1898), first German-born mayor of Buffalo, New York
  • Pierre Becker , geologe french
  • Ralph Becker
  • Rich Becker (born 1972), U.S. baseball player
  • Ruth Elizabeth Becker (1899–1990), Kansas schoolteacher and Titanic survivor
  • Sally Becker, volunteer in Bosnia and Kosovo
  • Samuel Becker, Developed websites for popular video games
  • Samuel William Becker, U.S. dermatologist who documented Becker's nevus
  • Sandra Lynne Becker (born 1947), 1965 Miss California
  • Sandy Becker (1922–1996), U.S. television announcer
  • Sean Becker (born 1975), New Zealand curler
  • Sherburn M. Becker (1877–1949), mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Theodor Becker (1840–1928), German civil engineer and entomologist
  • Thorsten Becker (born 1980), German footballer
  • Tom Becker, British children's author
  • Vaneta Becker, U.S. politician from Indiana
  • Véronique Becker (born 1965), French contemporary painter
  • Vincent Becker (born 1993), Famous Lacrosse player
  • Walt Becker (born 1968), U.S. director, writer, and actor
  • Walter Becker (born 1950), musician
  • Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1796–1846), German archaeologist
  • William D. Becker (1896–1943), mayor of St. Louis, Missouri
  • Wolfgang Becker (born 1954), German filmmaker
  • Alice Becker-Ho (born 1941), French poet
  • Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), Spanish poet
  • Simon Fisher-Becker (born 1961), British actor
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), German expressionist painter
  • Carlos Becker Westphall, contributor to the field of network management

Places

Businesses

  • A. G. Becker, former U.S. investment bank
  • Becker Entertainment, Australian entertainment company
  • Becker's Milk, Canadian convenience store chain

Educational

  • Becker College, Worcester and Leicester, Massachusetts
  • Carl Becker House, residential college at Cornell University, named after Carl L. Becker

Medical

Characters

  • Captain Becker, Primeval character

Other

  • Becker (TV series), a CBS sitcom starring Ted Danson
  • Becker Psalter (1602), German metrical psalter published by Cornelius Becker
  • Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker (2004), rock album by The Coral
  • Pettkus v. Becker (1980), Canadian family law decision

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Becker". Image Credit.



Topics by Level of Interest: BECKER

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Boris Becker 148     20 mm Becker 7
Juliet Becker 98     A. G. Becker 3
Becker County, Minnesota 46     Abigail Becker 3
Gary Becker 35     Albert Becker 2
Round Lake Township, Becker County, Minnesota 34     Albrecht Becker 5
Spruce Grove Township, Becker County, Minnesota 34     Annika Becker 6
Spring Creek Township, Becker County, Minnesota 34     Art Becker 3
Maple Grove Township, Becker County, Minnesota 33     Barbara Becker 4
Becker 33     Beals Becker 5
Forest Township, Becker County, Minnesota 32     Becker 33
George Becker 22     Becker (TV series) 22
Becker (TV series) 22     Becker Arena 2
Becker Farm Railroad 20     Becker College 6
Oskar Becker 17     Becker County, Minnesota 46
Kurt Becker 16     Becker Entertainment 3
Joe Becker 16     Becker Farm Railroad 20
Becker Township, Cass County, Minnesota 16     Becker High School 3
Elbow Lake, Becker County, Minnesota 16     Becker House (Ohio) 5
Jillian Becker 15     Becker Island 4
Sugar Bush Township, Becker County, Minnesota 15     Becker Psalter 2
Kuno Becker 14     Becker Township 2
Charles Becker 13     Becker Township, Cass County, Minnesota 16
Benjamin Becker 13     Becker Township, Minnesota 2
Becker Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota 13     Becker Township, Sherburne County, Minnesota 13
Richard Becker 13     Ben Becker 4
Château Marquis d'Alesme Becker 12     Benjamin Becker 13
Suzy Becker 12     Bernard Becker 3
Walter Becker 12     Boris Becker 148
Jason Becker 11     Brandon Becker 3
Ruth Becker 11     Britta Becker 5
Ralph Becker 11     Burton Becker 3
Jean Becker 10     Carl Becker 3
Kathrin Becker 10     Carl Heinrich Becker 6
Carl L. Becker 10     Carl L. Becker 10
Ralph Becker (Utah) 9     Carlos Becker Westphall 5
Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker 9     Château Marquis d'Alesme Becker 12
Heidi Becker 9     Charles A. Becker 7
Margaret Becker 9     Charles Becker 13
Sean Becker 8     Christine Becker 2
Hans-Josef Becker 8     Cornelus Becker 2
Gerhold K. Becker 8     Cristiane Luise Amalie Becker 4
Ingrid Becker 8     Cynthia J. Becker 2
Edward Roy Becker 8     Data Becker 4
Ernest Becker 8     David Becker Tribune 7
Jacques Becker 8     Dietrich Becker 4
20 mm Becker 7     Dirk Becker 2
David Becker Tribune 7     Donald Becker 3
Sandy Becker 7     Douglas Becker 7
João Batista Becker 7     Edmund Becker 7
Edmund Becker 7     Edward Roy Becker 8
Howard S. Becker 7     Elbow Lake, Becker County, Minnesota 16
Douglas Becker 7     Elisabeth Becker 5
Charles A. Becker 7     Elizabeth Becker 5
Sally Becker 7     Ernest Becker 8
Ross Becker 6     Estadio Municipal Germán Becker 5
Pettkus v. Becker 6     Forest Township, Becker County, Minnesota 32
Theodor Becker 6     Frank J. Becker 4
Carl Heinrich Becker 6     Franz Becker 3
List of Becker episodes 6     Fritz Becker 4
Becker College 6     Gary Becker 35
Josh Becker 6     Gavin de Becker 5
Harold Becker 6     George Becker 22
Konrad Becker 6     Gerd Becker 2
Annika Becker 6     Gerhold K. Becker 8
Becker House (Ohio) 5     Gustav Becker House 3
Elizabeth Becker 5     Hans-Josef Becker 8
Jean Becker (director, actor) 5     Harold Becker 6
William D. Becker 5     Heidi Becker 9
Britta Becker 5     Heinrich Becker 3
Carlos Becker Westphall 5     Heinz Becker 5
Joe Becker (baseball) 5     Helmut Becker 3
Tom Becker 5     Herbert L. Becker 4
Paul Becker 5     Howard Becker 2
Peter Becker 5     Howard P. Becker 3
Hugo Becker 5     Howard S. Becker 7
Marc Becker 5     Hugo Becker 5
Muriel Gustavo Becker 5     Ingrid Becker 8
Heinz Becker 5     Jacques Becker 8
Albrecht Becker 5     Jason Becker 11
Beals Becker 5     Jean Becker 10
Gavin de Becker 5     Jean Becker (director, actor) 5
Estadio Municipal Germán Becker 5     Jean Becker (violinist) 4
Elisabeth Becker 5     Jillian Becker 15
Terry Becker 5     João Batista Becker 7
Meret Becker 4     Joe Becker 16
Polly Becker 4     Joe Becker (baseball) 5
Ralph Elihu Becker 4     Josh Becker 6
May Lamberton Becker 4     Juliet Becker 98
Sandra Lynne Becker 4     Jurek Becker 3
Ben Becker 4     Kaethe Becker 3
Frank J. Becker 4     Karl Becker (general) 2
Cristiane Luise Amalie Becker 4     Karl Becker (painter) 2
Nikolaus Becker 4     Karl Becker (philologist) 2
Barbara Becker 4     Kathrin Becker 10
Rich Becker 4     Konrad Becker 6
Dietrich Becker 4     Kuno Becker 14
Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker 4     Kurt Becker 16
Becker Island 4     List of Becker episodes 6
Data Becker 4     Loftus Becker 3
Lydia Becker 4     Lydia Becker 4
Neal Dow Becker 4     Lyle M. Becker 3
William W. Becker 4     Maple Grove Township, Becker County, Minnesota 33
Fritz Becker 4     Marc Becker 5
Wolfgang Becker 4     Marcus Becker 3
Herbert L. Becker 4     Margaret Becker 9
Jean Becker (violinist) 4     Marion Becker 2
Wilhelm Adolf Becker 4     May Lamberton Becker 4
Norma Becker 3     Meret Becker 4
Carl Becker 3     Merle Becker 3
Loftus Becker 3     Moe Becker 2
Heinrich Becker 3     Mount Becker 3
Vaneta Becker 3     Muriel Gustavo Becker 5
Art Becker 3     Neal Dow Becker 4
Lyle M. Becker 3     Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker 9
Howard P. Becker 3     Nikolaus Becker 4
Becker Entertainment 3     Norma Becker 3
Jurek Becker 3     Oskar Becker 17
Kaethe Becker 3     Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker 4
Walt Becker 3     Paul Becker 5
Mount Becker 3     Peter Becker 5
Gustav Becker House 3     Pettkus v. Becker 6
Merle Becker 3     Philip Becker 2
A. G. Becker 3     Polly Becker 4
Franz Becker 3     Ralph Becker 11
Bernard Becker 3     Ralph Becker (Utah) 9
Burton Becker 3     Ralph Elihu Becker 4
Helmut Becker 3     Rich Becker 4
Sherburn M. Becker 3     Richard Becker 13
Marcus Becker 3     Rolf Becker 2
Abigail Becker 3     Ross Becker 6
Thomas Becker 3     Round Lake Township, Becker County, Minnesota 34
Donald Becker 3     Ruth Becker 11
Becker High School 3     Sally Becker 7
Brandon Becker 3     Sandra Lynne Becker 4
Karl Becker (general) 2     Sandy Becker 7
Becker Psalter 2     Sean Becker 8
Rolf Becker 2     Sherburn M. Becker 3
Becker Arena 2     Spring Creek Township, Becker County, Minnesota 34
Marion Becker 2     Spruce Grove Township, Becker County, Minnesota 34
Albert Becker 2     Sugar Bush Township, Becker County, Minnesota 15
Moe Becker 2     Suzy Becker 12
Christine Becker 2     Terry Becker 5
Cynthia J. Becker 2     Theodor Becker 6
Upper Becker Creek Cone 2     Thomas Becker 3
Karl Becker (philologist) 2     Thorsten Becker 2
Dirk Becker 2     Tom Becker 5
Cornelus Becker 2     Upper Becker Creek Cone 2
Karl Becker (painter) 2     Vaneta Becker 3
Becker Township 2     Walt Becker 3
Thorsten Becker 2     Walter Becker 12
William Becker 2     Walter Becker (alternative meanings) 2
Walter Becker (alternative meanings) 2     Wilhelm Adolf Becker 4
Becker Township, Minnesota 2     William Becker 2
Gerd Becker 2     William D. Becker 5
Howard Becker 2     William W. Becker 4
Philip Becker 2     Wolfgang Becker 4

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Translations: BECKER

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Brazilian Portuguese bica (tap, faucet, fountain, gutter, pandora). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, Becker. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 点头示意 (beck, becker, becks), 招手示意 (beck, becker, becks), 小河 (brook, beck, becker, becks, rill), becker 矫形外科学 (becker orthopedics). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, Becker. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 小河 (brook, rivulet, runnel, rill, beck), 點頭示意 (beck, becker, becks, motion), 招手示意 (beck, becker, becks), becker 矯形外科學 (becker orthopedics). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, Becker. (volunteer & more translations)
Français pageau commun (Becker, common Pandora, king of the breams, Pandora, Spanish sea bream), pageot rouge (Becker, common Pandora, king of the breams, Pandora, Spanish sea bream). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, Becker. (volunteer & more translations)
French pageau commun (Becker, common Pandora, king of the breams, Pandora, Spanish sea bream), pageot rouge (Becker, common Pandora, king of the breams, Pandora, Spanish sea bream). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, Becker. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew ג'ייסון בקר (Jason Becker). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, Becker. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit ג'ייסון בקר (Jason Becker). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, Becker. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese ベッカー (Becker), デベッカー (de Becker), ゲーリー・ベッカー (Gary Becker), ボリス・ベッカー (Boris Becker). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Becker. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese bica (tap, faucet, conduit, fountain, spout). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, Becker. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: BECKER

Language Translations for “Becker” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag Bathageckathager (Becker). Additional references: Athag, Becker. (volunteer)
Double Dutch Bageckager (Becker). Additional references: Double Dutch, Becker. (volunteer)
Leet |>£¢]{£[z (Becker). Additional references: Leet, Becker. (volunteer)
Oppish Bopeckoper (Becker). Additional references: Oppish, Becker. (volunteer)
Pig Latin Eckerbay (Becker). Additional references: Pig Latin, Becker. (volunteer)
Terran B pigeo (Becker). Additional references: Terran B, Becker. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi Bubeckuber (Becker). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Becker. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: BECKER

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Latin 500 BCE - 1700 Pagellus erythrinus (Pandora, Becker, king of the breams, Spanish sea bream, common pandora), Pagellus canariensis (Pandora, Spanish sea bream, common pandora, Becker, king of the breams). Additional references: Latin, Becker. (volunteer)
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