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On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.
Immanuel Velikovsky
Born
Daniel
Day
Days
Father
First
Following
Forefathers
Hills
His
I Was Born
Me
Memory
Name
Possibly
Samuel
Son
Thought
Walk
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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
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