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Johnny Shines's birth name is John Ned Shines.
Razor Shines's birth name is Anthony Razor Shines.
Olympia Shines's birth name is Adam Rogers.
It means The One Who Shines.
the name Brighton means a dazzling person who shines brightly
I think the phrase comes from a Ralph Ellison short story by the name of "Battle Royal." The exact quote is: "Bring up the shines, gentlemen! Bring up the little shines!" It appears to me to be a derogatory name for African Americans. This short story was expanded and became the novel, "The Invisible Man." I do not know if the word "shines" was used in that novel.
Compact
Another name for the optic nerve head is the optic disc.
Numbers are added to the end of a disc's name when the disc is trying to connect to itself somewhere within the network set up. It assumes it has found a disc with an identical name and so to avoid confusing itself it will add a number to the name of the "new" disc to differentiate it from the the original disc - which of course, being the same disc, now has the same name and number added and so next time it tries to connect it adds 1 to the name of the new disc....... repeat as required.
The North Pole.
The meaning of the African Luo name Ochieng is "born when the sun shines."
DVD stands for "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc". Both refer to the DVD that we all know, the disc.