You may be planning for a holiday and maybe wondering how your goldfish can survive when your are not around. It has been proven that goldfish can take around 8 days to two weeks without food and still be fine. Therefore, you should only ask a friend or a neighbor to feed your goldfish if you are planning to be away for longer than two weeks.
Johns Hopkins: The University's Founder. Johns Hopkins was born in 1795. He inherited his unusual first name from his grandfather, who was named after Johns' great grandmother, Margaret Johns. When Johns was 17, his mother sent him off to Baltimore to work for his uncle, a wholesale grocer.
The surname Hopkins was first found in Oxfordshire at Swalcliffe where a family of this name has resided since the 13th century and had nineteen proprietors who had the personal name of John. Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom.