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.
Share. The greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b. 1707â c. 1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia.