What are the most hated baby names in the US?

Search: most hated baby names in the US

Why: On reddit, Parents: Have you ever later regretted the name's you gave your child at birth?, a conversation:

A mom - Although two of my sons' names are popular (they weren't 28 and 25 years ago), I'm quite pleased with all four of my kids' names.
A user - Brayden and Cayden, eh?
The mom - Hunter and Logan.
The user - lol, d-bag names.
The mom - I really had no idea Hunter and Logan had any negative connotations.
The user - Hunter does. It's in the top 10 most hated male baby names in the US.

Logan is my middle name. Hunter is my brother's.

Answer: They are!

Top Hated Girl Names

Nevaeh
Destiny
Madison
Mackenzie
McKenna
Addison
Gertrude
Kaitlyn
Makayla
Bertha
Hope

Top Hated Boy Names

Jayden
Brayden
Aiden
Kaden
Hunter
Hayden
Bentley
Tristan
Michael
Jackson

Source: Time, BabyNameWizard,

The More You Know: These lists come from a book called The Baby Name Wizard: A Magical Method for Finding the Perfect Name for Your Baby. Author Laura Wattenberg conducted an informal survey:

I ended up tallying the viewpoints of hundreds of U.S. messageboard participants, comprising almost 1,500 name mentions. Many of the discussions were on parenting forums, but a good number were simply chatter on forums of diverse kinds/

Among the results she found:

People dislike “gender-bending names” (when a boy name becomes a girl name like Addison) and names they can't spell. People also often backlash against once popular names – these names too, must know what it's like to be Britney.

The survey that a small minority of people people dislike “ordinary” names, but you know what? I bet those kids with “boring” names are thanking their parents for sparing them torment at recess.

There is also commentary about each of the names on the list here. Highlights:

Nevaeh. A landslide winner, no surprise. In the most recent edition of my book, I wrote "Nevaeh may be the most stylistically divisive name in America." Grounds for objection included look, sound and origin, the whole package.

Destiny. This name seemed to run afoul of two groups: people annoyed by "virtue names," and people who grouped it with other dreamy choices like Heaven and Candy as "stripperish."



Michael. The whipping boy for people who scorned "common" names. Names like Matthew, Sarah and Emily also came up several times. (Notably, they were the most likely names to be defended by others in the conversation.)

Jayden. The overwhelming theme for boys' names was a backlash against the rhyming -ayden family. Many felt there were just too many of these names, and "it's getting really old." Others said the names sounded too childish or feminine. The names were often mentioned as a group, but Jayden was frequently singled out.

Mackenzie. Often presented in a group with other Mc- names, which several posters described as "low class."

McKenna. See Mackenzie above.

Makayla. See Mackenzie above.

But alas, as someone in the comments wrote:

Most people DO NOT like my kids names, Jency & Tesher (both boys), but I"M the one that has to live with them NOT everyone else!

True... well, except poor Jency. And Tesher.

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How long have people been using the word "embarrass"?

Search: embarrass etymology

Why: In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:

"Ah, sir! I have been looking for you. Do you know the history of Spain?"

Now, one might know the history of one's own country by heart; but in the condition I was at the time, with troubled mind and head quite lost, I could not have said a word of it.

"Well," continued Captain Nemo, "you heard my question! Do you know the history of Spain?"

"Very slightly," I answered.

It doesn't say "embarrassed," but I think maybe he was. That book is from 1870.

Answer: Since the 16th century! It's from Italian in, "into," + barra, "bar" = imbarrare, "to hamper, hinder." Then French:

• embarrasser (1670s) - "perplex, throw into doubt"
• embarras de richesse (1726) - "the condition of having more wealth than one knows what to do with"
• embarrass (1828) - "make [someone] feel awkward"
  

In a medical context, embarrassment is a synonym for distress, or physiological difficulty of some kind, such as fetal embarrassment or respiratory embarrassment.

Source: EtymOnline

The More You Know: The science of embarrassment is called emderatology. Employers often use it to examine the way their employees deal with different situations.

Also, just about everyone on the planet, everyone who has ever lived! has been embarrassed at one time or another. Not just you! Isn't that comforting?

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What kind of plant is this?

Search: desk plants

Why: I recently moved to a window seat on the west side of my office. At about 3:30 every day, the sun gets over the top of the building and sets my whole desk on fire. At least the ocean is pretty.

Anyway, I got a plant, but I don't know what it is or how to take care of it. All the lady told me was to "be careful; sun that hot will burn anything in its path." It has longish green leaves with points, and the centers of some of them are yellow or white with speckles.

Answer: It's a dieffenbachia, aka "dumb cane"! I think!

(I first thought it was an aglaonema, but I realize now that I was wrong. Dead wrong.)

The dumb cane needs:

• Moist soil, so water frequently or mist (check)
• Moderate to low lighting (erm)
• To be within 5-8 feet of a window (...)

No problem; I can just move it to the other side my desk when the sun shows up. My desk is unreasonably long, I think even longer than my body. And let's be honest: it will be dead soon no matter what I do. The only plant we've been able to keep alive at home is the growth shooting out of an old onion in the fruit bowl.

Who wants to suggest a different kind of desk plant that I can leave in the full sun of a west-facing window?

Source: Sterling Gardens (Neenah, WI), Houseplant Care Tips

The More You Know: Like many houseplants, the dieffenbachia is poisonous to dogs. You know what else is poisonous to dogs? Beef jerky. Bella chewed through a bag of it the other night and spent all of yesterday barely able to lift her head (except to diarrhea).

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What's an argonaut?

Search: argonaut; argonaut animal; jason argonauts

Why: I have been listening to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. (To answer your question: yes, it's amazing.) In it:

At five o'clock in the afternoon, just before that brief twilight that links day with night in tropical zones, Conseil and I marveled at an unusual sight.

It was a delightful animal whose discovery, according to the ancients, is a sign of good luck. Aristotle, Athenaeus, Pliny, and Oppian studied its habits and lavished on its behalf all the scientific poetry of Greece and Italy. They called it "nautilus" and "pompilius." But modern science has not endorsed these designations, and this mollusk is now know by the name argonaut.

I only know that word from the They Might Be Giants song "Birdhouse in Your Soul":

There's a picture opposite me of my primitive ancestry
Which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free
Though I respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts

Answer: It is an animal and also a Greek hero!

First, the animal. It is in the octopus family! The book goes on to say:

These graceful mollusks were swimming backward by means of their locomotive tubes, sucking water into these tubes and then expelling it. Six of their eight tentacles were long, thin, and floated on the water, while the other two were rounded into palms and spread to the wind like light sales. I could see perfectly their undulating, spiral-shaped shells, which Cuvier aptly compared to an elegant cockleboat.

The animal can leave its shell, but it never does. It's sometimes called the "floating octopus." It's not very big. Here's what it looks like:

And the other one:

The Argonauts were a band of heroes in Greek mythology who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, the Argo, which was named after its builder, Argus.

He needed the Golden Fleece to claim the throne, which his asshole uncle stole from his dad. The story is told in the poem Argonautica.

Source: Wikipedia, Wikipedia

The More You Know: Jules Verne (another of my birthday twins) wrote about space travel and submarines before those things existed, by as much as 25 years. I don't know how he wrote about all these sea creatures and tribal people in such detail, because he never even sailed around the world or nothin. He actually traveled very little, and his only balloon ride lasted 24 minutes. As far as I can tell, all his facts are true.

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What's the little divot above your lip called?

Search: divot in upper lip

Why: I have a zit there, right in that space between my lip and my nose.

Answer: The philtrum!

Literally philtrum means "love potion." The bit of your lip just below it is called the "Cupid's bow," and the Greeks figured it was sexy.

This is basically a map of where people get dumb-looking piercings ^

In humans, the philtrum is formed where the nasomedial and maxillary processes meet during embryonic development. When these processes fail to fuse fully in humans, a cleft lip (sometimes called a "hare lip") can result. A flattened or smooth philtrum can be a symptom of Fetal alcohol syndrome or Prader-Willi syndrome.

Many mammals have them, too.

Source: Askville by Amazon

The More You Know: Theories on the reason for its existence:

• According to the Jewish Talmud, God sends an angel to each womb and teaches a baby "the entire Torah." Before the baby is born, the angel touches it between the upper lip and the nose and all that was learned is forgotten; the philtrum is formed when the angel "shushes" the baby to cause it to forget its holy knowledge. Other stories say that it is an indent left by the finger of God.
• It makes that part of your upper lip more flexible, which lets you be more expressive.
• It's extra skin so that it doesn't get stretched out when you smile, chew, do other facial expressions, etc. It's just stored as a little "divot" because the skin bulges up on both sides of the nose.
• It is just an incidental depression caused by the attachment of your superior labial frenulum on the inside of your mouth, which holds your lip in place.
• It serves as a tiny canal for any overflow from the nose.
• It's a place to rest your index finger while you are thinking or reading email. It sorta helps you stay centered.
  

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What flowers last the longest?

Search: what flowers last the longest

Why: Like, when cut? I buy fresh flowers maybe once every 2 weeks. They look good for 10 days or so, but when they start to wilt, it's just the pits. The ones that leak petals are the worst.

Lookin good.

Answer: Here is a handy list:

Short-lived: Irises
Slightly longer: Gerbera daisies and tropical flowers like heliconia
A solid investment: Peonies, roses, lilies and flowering branches
Even better: Mums, carnations and gladiolas
The winner: Orchids

That's funny, because orchids are notoriously finicky / dead. I have some mums in a bottle in the breakfast room.

My mom used to put gladiolas on our kitchen table. I don't know if I can do it, but I would like the height.

I'll think about it.

Source: Shine from Yahoo!

The More You Know: Some tricks for improving longevity:

• "The shorter you cut the flower, the longer they'll last, because the water has less stem to travel up to reach the flower."
• Mmake sure the container is spotlessly clean when you begin, as any leftover residue may tend to "sour" the water.
• If you drop half an asprin in their water when they start wilting, they will perk up and last for another few more days.
• Asprin, a little sugar or Sprite in the water does improve longevity.
• Add just a drop of Clorox to your water it will prevent bacteria from growing in the water and your flowers will last longer.
• Cut flower ends at an edge, and when flowers look droopy, recut and change water.
• Cut flowers under water so not to seal the ends when cutting. Tulips perk up when vodka is added to the water.
• Remove any leaves from flower stem. It helps the flower live longer.
• Use lukewarm water, not cold, and change the water often.
• Dont put them in the sun. They last much longer in a cooler spot and no leaves in the water.

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When do all the TV shows start up again? (Fall 2011)

Search: [I searched for them individually. Thank me later!]

Why: Just in case my DVR is all booked up and I forget I have to actually watch some stuff when it airs.

Answer: I am using mostly the same list as last time, even though I don't watch a lot of these abominations, plus some newer ones. Here you goesies:

• 30 Rock - early 2012
  
• 90210 - Sept. 13 (Tues.)
  
• American Idol - Jan. 22, 2012 (Sun.)
  
• America's Next Top Model - Sept. 14 (Wed.)
  
• Archer - Jan. 2012
• The Bachelor - TBA
  
• The Big Bang Theory - Sept. 22 (Thu.)
  
• The Biggest Loser - Sept. 20 (Tues.)
• Boardwalk Empire - Sept. 25 (Sun.)
  
• Bones - Nov. 3 (Thu.)
  
• Breaking Bad - early 2012
  
• Burn Notice - June 23 (it's on now!!)
  
• Californication - Jan. 8, 2012
• Cougar Town - Nov. 2011
  
• Dancing with the Stars - Sept. 19 (Mon.)
  
• Desperate Housewives - Sept. 25 (Sun.)
  
• Dexter - Oct. 2 (Sun.)
  
• Entourage - I think it's over. There will be a movie someday.
  
• Family Guy - Sept. 25 (Sun.)
  
• Fringe - Sept. 23 (Fri.)
• Game of Thrones - TBA
  
• Glee - Sept. 20 (Tues.)
  
• Gossip Girl - Sept. 26 (Mon.)
  
• Grey's Anatomy - Sept. 22 (Thu.)
  
• House - Oct. 2 (Mon.)
  
• How I Met Your Mother - Sept. 19 (Mon.)
  
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Sept. 15 (Thu.)
• The Killing - TBA
  
• Mad Men - March 2012
• The Middle - Sept. 21 (Wed.)
  
• Modern Family - Sept. 21 (Wed.)
  
• The Office - Sept. 22 (Thu.)
• Parks & Recreation - Sept. 22 (Thu.)
  
• Private Practice - Sept. 29 (Thu.)
  
• Project Runway - It's on Thursdays now!!
• Raising Hope - Sept. 20 (Tue.)
  
• Saturday Night Live - Sept. 24 (Sat!)
  
• The Simpsons - Sept. 25 (Sun.)
  
• Supernatural - Sept. 23 (Fri.)
  
• SVU - Sept. 21 (Wed.)
• Top Chef - 2012?
• True Blood - It's on now Sunday nights!! And then again in Summer 2012
  
• Two and a Half Men - Sept. 19 (Mon.)
  
• The Vampire Diaries - Sept. 15 (Thu.)
• The Walking Dead - Oct. 16 (Sun.)
  
• Weeds - Currently airing Mondays!!
  

Source: mostly Wikipedia

The More You Know: And some new ones (these are the ones I've heard of):

• Alcatraz - mid-season 2012, Fox
  
• Apartment 23 - mid-fall 2011, ABC
  
• Awake - mid-fall 2011, NBC
  
• Charlie's Angels - Sept. 22 (Thu.) ABC
  
• Free Agents - Sept. 14 (Wed.), but it will later move to a different time, NBC
  
• A Gifted Man - Sept. 23 (Fri.) CBS
  
• Grimm - Oct. 21 (Fri.) NBC
  
• Last Man Standing - Oct. 11 (Tues.) ABC
  
• Napoleon Dynamite - wut - mid-fall 2011, Fox

• New Girl - Sept. 20 (Tues.) Fox
  
• Once Upon a Time - Oct. 23 (Sun.) ABC
  
• Pan Am - Sept. 25 (Sun.) ABC
  
• Person of Interest - Sept. 22 (Thu.) CBS
  
• The Playboy Club - Sept. 19 (Mon.) NBC
  
• Revenge - Sept. 21 (Wed.) ABC
• Ringer - Sept. 13 (Tues.) CW
• Suburgatory - Sept. 28 (Wed.) ABC
• Terra Nova - Sept. 26 (Mon.) Fox
• 2 Broke Girls - Sept. 19 (Mon.) CBS
• Unforgettable - Sept. 20 (Tues.) CBS
• Up All Night - Sept. 14 (Wed.) NBC
• Whitney - Sept. 22 (Thu.) NBC
  

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What's the song in the "30 Minutes or Less" trailer?

Search: 30 minutes or less trailer song

Why: Listen. It kinda sounds like "Kids" by MGMT, but way slower.

Answer: Oh, it totally is MGMT! Except it's in a song called "Opposite of Adults" by some bright young opportunity-seizers called Chiddy Bang. Wut.

Source: YouTube

The More You Know: The original (nightmare version):

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How do clams reproduce?

Search: oysters bivalves procreate

Why: On reddit, Oyster eggs:

Answer: Bivalves (clams, cockles, mussels, oysters, scallops, etc.) reproduce by external fertilization!

Marine bivalves reproduce by releasing prodigious numbers of eggs and sperm into the water, where external fertilization occurs. The fertilized eggs then float in the surface plankton.

Within 48 hours after fertilization, the embryo develops into a minute, planktonic, trochophore larvae. This stage is followed by another larval form, the veliger, which settles to the seabed and transforms into an adult.

In freshwater bivalves, the eggs are retained in the gill chambers of the female, where they undergo fertilization and develop into a peculiar larval form, the glochidium.

Upon its release, the larva attaches to passing fish, and lives as an ectoparasite for several weeks before settling.

Oyster eggs are commonly sold as food for coral in saltwater aquariums.

Source: Science

The More You Know: But how do pearls form? First, anatomy:

Then (from HowStuffWorks):

As the oyster grows in size, its shell must also grow. The mantle is an organ that produces the oyster's shell, using minerals from the oyster's food. The material created by the mantle is called nacre. Nacre lines the inside of the shell.

­The formation of a natural pearl begins when a foreign substance slips into the oyster between the mantle and the shell, which irritate­s the mantle. It's kind of like the oyster getting a splinter. The oyster's natural reaction is to cover up that irritant to protect itself. The man­tle covers the irritant with layers of the same nacre substance that is used to create the shell. This eventually forms a pearl.

So a pearl is a foreign substance covered with layers of nacre. Most pearls that we see in jewelry stores are nicely rounded objects, which are the most valuable ones. Not all pearls turn out so well. Some pearls form in an uneven shape -- these are called baroque pearls. Pearls, as you've probably noticed, come in a variety of various colors, including white, black, gray, red, blue and green.

So basically, pearls are cysts that the oysters make to protect themselves from foreign objects. Some farmers even irritate their oysters on purpose to create "cultured pearls"!

Fun fact: Oysters are among the only frutti di mare that I don't eat.

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What are "jumelles" in French?

Search: jumelles, jumelle

Why: On reddit, Ulric Collette Splits Portraits to Show Facial Similarities in Family Members:

PORTRAITS GÉNÉTIQUES

Mère / Fille: Francine, 56 ans & Catherine, 23 ans

Soeur / Frère: Karine, XX ans & Dany, 25 ans

Père / Fils: Denis, 53 ans & William, 28 ans

Jumelles: Laurence & Christine, 20 ans

And so forth. (There are more.)

Answer: "Binoculars"!

What?

Oh wait, also "twins"!

Apparently only a specific set of twins.

Source: Google Translate

The More You Know: And a video:

Portrait génétique from Ulric Collette.

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What offensive thing did Tommy Hilfiger allegedly say on Oprah?

Search: tommy hilfiger oprah

Why: On reddit, Abercrombie asks 'Jersey Shore' cast not to wear their brand, and in the comments:

oswyn, Yesterday 09:01 PM

Poor A&F is worried about the brand image because the wrong people are wearing it. Some may find this funny because the Jersey shore group seems easy to ridicule. But if A&F said the same thing to another group for example African Americans I think we'd be rightfully appalled. Can anyone remember the backlash against Tommy Hillfiger because of what he allegedly said on Oprah? It should be the same here.

I can not remember that.

Answer: Nothing! Here was a forward that yourmomsilliteratefriend@aol.com sent you in 1996:

Tommy Hilfiger on Oprah

Hello, please read.... and pass on if you haven't already! Everyone needs to see this.

God for Oprah!!!! I'm sure many of you watched the recent taping of The Oprah Winfrey Show where her guest was Tommy Hilfiger. On the show, she asked him if the statements about race he was accused of saying were true. Statements, like"...if I had known African-Americans, Hispanics, Jewish and Asians would buy my clothes, I would not have made them so nice. I wish these people would *NOT* buy my clothes, as they are made for upper class white people."

His answer to Oprah was a simple "YES". Where after she immediately asked him to leave her show. My suggestion? Don't buy your next shirt or Perfume from Tommy Hilfiger. Let's give him what he asked for. Let's not buy His clothes, let's put him in a financial state where he himself will NOT be able to afford the ridiculous prices he puts on his clothes.

BOYCOTT PLEASE...., & SEND THIS MESSAGE TO ANYONE YOU KNOW

Nothing empowers people quite like their own survival!

The rumor stemmed from a fake interview in a Filipino tabloid. Also, Oprah never even met Tommy Hilfiger until 11 years after the alleged kicking-off incident, in May 2007.

She kind of looked like an alien.

Source: Snopes

The More You Know: Anyhoo, CNN says that Abercrombie stock has fallen 9% since they dissed "Jersey Shore," which I guess means they had a lot more orange fistpumping investors than they thought. But I'm not surprised.

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Where is the Aral Sea?

Search: aral sea

Why: On reddit, TIL That the disappearing of the Aral Sea has left behind a desert filled with shipwrecks:

Muynak is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Home to only a few thousand residents at most, Muynak's population has been declining precipitously since the 1980s due to the recession of the Aral Sea.

But I am American and t.f. haven't looked at a world map since AP History in 12th grade.

Answer: Over here!

Source: Google Maps

The More You Know: From that page:

The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest saline body of water, it has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. By 2004, the sea had shrunk to 25% of its original surface area, and a nearly fivefold increase in salinity had killed most of its natural flora and fauna. By 2007 it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into three separate lakes, two of which are too salty to support fish. The once prosperous fishing industry has been virtually destroyed, and former fishing towns along the original shores have become ship graveyards. With this collapse has come unemployment and economic hardship.

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Did Elizabeth and Philip marry before or after she became Queen?

Search: queen elizabeth

Why: I just saw this darling thing on reddit, After all these years, they still look at each other the same way:

Answer: They were married first! In sequence:

• 1921 (June 10th) - Philip is born in Corfu, Greece (he is 90)
• 1926 (April 21) - Elizabeth is born (she is 85)
• 1934 - They meet for the first time
• 1937 - They meet for the second time
• 1939 (July) - They meet for the third time and begin to exchange letters (she is 13)
• 1947 (Nov. 20) - They marry

• 1952 (Feb. 6) - Elizabeth's father George VI dies; Elizabeth (25) is proclaimed queen regnant throughout her realms
• 1953 (June 2) - Elizabeth is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ceylon, and Pakistan, and Head of the Commonwealth.

Elizabeth wore a gown commissioned from Norman Hartnell, which was embroidered with floral emblems for countries of the Commonwealth: English Tudor rose, Scots thistle, Welsh leek, Irish shamrock, Australian wattle, Canadian maple leaf, New Zealand silver fern, South African protea, lotus flowers for India and Ceylon, and Pakistan's wheat, cotton, and jute.

Source: Wikipedia

The More You Know: Here is what Wikipedia says about the day George VI died:

In early 1952, Elizabeth and Philip set out for a tour of Australia and New Zealand by way of Kenya. On 6 February 1952, they had just returned to their Kenyan home, Sagana Lodge, after a night spent at Treetops Hotel, when word arrived of the death of Elizabeth's father.

The thing is that I'm 99% sure I stayed in that hotel at some point in 2000. There was a watering hole right outside where elephants came, and they put hot water bottles in the beds at night. There is a picture somewhere in the universe of a monkey reaching in through our window (it was kind of slatted) and taking a Tic Tac out of my hand. I will hunt it down when I go home in a few weeks. Stay tuned.

Anyway, also, this is interesting, I think:

With Elizabeth's accession, it seemed likely that the royal house would bear her husband's name. Lord Mountbatten thought it would be the House of Mountbatten, as Elizabeth would typically have taken Philip's last name on marriage; however, Queen Mary and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill favoured the retention of the House of Windsor, and so Windsor it remained. The Duke complained, "I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children." In 1960, after the death of Queen Mary and the resignation of Churchill, the surname Mountbatten-Windsor was adopted for Philip and Elizabeth's male-line descendants who do not carry royal titles.

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How do you remove chewing gum from glass?

Search: gum off a window

Why: I had an accident. Man, that new Mentos gum sure is sticky.

Answer: There are 4 ways!

1. Use canned air. You can buy it at an office supply store to shoot dust and crumbs out of your keyboard. Blast some on the gum, and it should harden and pull right off.
2. Freeze it. Rub an ice cube along the gum, holding it in place until the gum freezes and the ice cube melts. The gum should come right off.
3. Zap it with bug and tar remover. Sold at auto supply stores, this stuff is designed to removed smushed bugs and tar.
   
4. Use official gum-remover like they do at movie theaters. You can buy it at an industrial cleaning supply store.
   

Source: eHow

The More You Know: Canned air comes out at -26 degrees Celsius / -14.8 degrees Fahrenheit. Here's a list of 101 Things to Do with It!

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Who was Belle (the Disney Princess) modeled after?

Search: disney character modeled

Why: I am reading "6 Beloved Characters That Had Undiagnosed Mental Illnesses" on Cracked. Nevermind that I have never seen Beauty and the Beast (but, in fact, recorded it this past weekend and sat down to watch it for the first time ever just last night [but did not make it past the opening credits because Chandler wouldn't shut up about Angela Lansbury]), but I just noticed that she sort of looks like a Kardashian.

Answer: Oho, jackpot! There's a whole list of Disney Characters and Who They Were Modeled After. Get ready to learn, everyone (even though many of these are just bodies, not face). First of all:

Belle (Beauty & the Beast) - Audrey Hepburn and Vivien Leigh

(also pictured: what those 2 would look like if they mated)

but also!

Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) - Audrey Hepburn

Esmerelda (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) - Demi Moore (who also voiced her)

Ariel (The Little Mermaid) - Alyssa Milano

Ursula (The Little Mermaid) - Divine

Tinkerbell (Peter Pan) - dancer and mime Margaret Kerry

The Evil Queen (Snow White) - Helen Gahagan in the film She (1935)

Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves) - dancer Marge Champion (also the model for the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio and the Dancing Hippo in Fantasia)

and some boring ones:

Alice (Alice In Wonderland) - Kathryn Beaumont (her voice, and also Wendy in Peter Pan)
Captain Hook (Peter Pan) - Hans Conried (who also voiced him) & a Spanish King
Pocahontas (Pocahontas) – Irene Bedard (who also voiced her)
Jasmine (Aladdin) - Beth Henn, animator Mark Henn sister

Source: Screen Team Show

The More You Know: And also:

Peter Pan (Peter Pan) - Bobby Driscoll

who also played the little dandy kid in Song of the South!!

and is therefore tied up in 2 of my favorite things at Disneyland, Splash Mountain and this sign.

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