Place name origins only have little relation to the Roman names (e.g. Chester - 'Deva', Winchester - 'Venta Belgarum' etc.). Many English places derive part of their name from the river upon which they were built, but in the 16th century many English rivers were renamed with back-formations from towns on their banks. Cambridge, perhaps uniquely, illustrates both effects: originally "Grontabricc", a bridge on the Granta, the name became "Cantebruge" and then "Cambrugge", from which the river was renamed Cam. The vast majority of place names in Wales are Welsh by origin, containing elements such as Llan-, Aber-, Pen- etc. Along the south
Krishna Venta Krishna Venta Krishna Venta (born Francis Herman Pencovic; March 29, 1911 – December 10, 1958) was the leader of a California religious group in the 1940s and 1950s. Venta founded his WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in the Simi Valley, California. Pencovic was born in San Francisco in 1911 to Albert Pencovic and his wife Maude Busenbach. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Romania; his mother was born in Utah. Pencovic graduated from high school in Elko, Nevada. He married twice and served in the United States Army during World War II. After