Facsimile comes from two Latin roots: facere, meaning to make, and simile, meaning like. Fax machines are so called because they copy and transmit facsimiles of documents, or faxes for short, over phone lines. Grammatically speaking, photocopiers also make facsimiles, but oddly enough those are referred to as copies â not faxes.
Ismail Ibn Sharif. Just look at that handsome dashing figure, with his piercing gaze and manly beard. This stud is supposed to have fathered his 700th son in 1721, and while his final total number of daughters is unknown, it is at least 342, putting him at over 1000 direct children.
Victoria wanted her sons to grow up like Prince Albert. The only one who resembled his father was Prince Arthur, the third of the boys, later Duke of Connaught. He was her favourite-he did what he was told and had a successful military career. The son with whom Victoria quarrelled most was the eldest, Bertie.