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Ironically he was stabbed to death while wearing a kevlar vest.


In addition to the other comments, it should be noted that soft body armor materials aren't useful against edged weapons, the required physical properties are very different.


    noja 4 hours ago | link | parent | flag
    Ironically he was stabbed to death while wearing a kevlar vest.
You need to work on your reading comprehension:

    Stephanie L. Kwolek
    Stephanie L.
    Stephanie
Stephanie is literally the first word in the title and article.


Both men and women are called "Stephanie", although in the US it is mostly a female name.

http://www.babynames.it/boyname/Stephanie-meaning.htm

The mistake was to assume a male. It doesn't matter what the name was.


That pages looks auto-generated and awfully spammy. Apparently Elizabeth is a boys name, too [1].

[1] http://www.babynames.it/boyname/Elizabeth-meaning.htm


Here's a less spammy site.

http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1890s.html

I don't see what the problem is. "Elizabeth" is a boys name for a tiny number of boys. Both sites mention the tiny number and the old dates, clearly.

(This is one of the things Google fails at, I think. "Stephanie" is unlikely to be a name for a man i. english speaking nations, but Google pretty much only returns me English results. Perhaps they need a switch to "allow whole world www results" rather than locking me out of all those other languages.


That page doesn't load for me but I take it on face value that what you say is there.

I personally feel it's more likely that Elizabeth is universally a girl's name and data from the 1890's is not inputted into electronic systems with 100% accuracy.


That does not make sense.




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