The town changed its name on October 22, 1909 in honor of Oklahoma Senator Thomas Gore, who was serving as one of Oklahoma's U. S. senators immediately after statehood.

And as for a sign of recognition for his influence on those that watched his weather reports, and Woods ' live drawings of Gusty, a special honor came to him in April 2005, when Gusty was named Oklahoma's state cartoon.

* Oklahoma's Langston University is named in his honor, as are

Beckham County, Oklahoma, was named in his honor at the suggestion of a Kentuckian who was serving as a delegate to Oklahoma's constitutional convention in 1907.

As miners and prospectors started coming to the area, to work the Centennial Mine ( also called the Downey Load and Centennial Vein ), they reestablished a community on the old work camp site in 1876 and named the town Centennial in honor of the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and founding of the United States.

In 1970, the Centennial Theatre, named in honor of Cedar Point's 100th anniversary, was built.

The Centennial Race, along portions of the Iditarod Trail, was the brainchild of Dorothy G. Page, who wanted to sponsor a sled dog race to honor mushers.

* International Boulevard, near Centennial Olympic Park, was renamed Andrew Young International Boulevard, in honor of his involvement in bringing the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.

In 1996, he received the Harvard Centennial Medal, an honor given by the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to recipients of graduate degrees from the School for their " contributions to society ".

The prize contests are named " Centennial " in honor of the 100 years since the Wright brothers ' first flight in 1903.

A 37 ¢ US Commemorative Stamp in honor of the NWR Centennial was issued as part of the celebration.

Belknap requisitioned portrait paintings by various artists for previous Secretaries of War to be displayed in honor of the United States Centennial.

Belknap conceived an idea to make a series of portraits of previous civilian heads of the War Department in honor of the then upcoming 1876 U. S. Centennial.

These guitars were the " Centennial Series " in honor of one hundred years of Gibson, and were the last significant number of American made Epiphone guitars.

Johnson's dory, named the " Centennial " in honor of America's 100th Anniversary, was outfitted with three watertight compartments to prevent sinking if swamped and to hold his supplies.

APSA administers the Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs, which provides conference and research space for scholars, and Pi Sigma Alpha, the honor society for political science students.

It is located in Atlanta, Georgia ( where the company's headquarters are located ) at Pemberton Place ( named in honor of John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola ), a complex located across Baker Street from Centennial Olympic Park that is home to the Georgia Aquarium and future Center for Civil & Human Rights.

" In 1991, it was renamed in honor of Albert Columbus Tate, the 1894 Centennial class valedictorian.

Centennial Towers West and Centennial Towers East were named in honor of the centennial of Nebraska statehood.

During the university's Centennial celebration in 1987, the Alumni Center was named in honor of Walter G. Sellers Sr., a 1951 CSU graduate.

In 2005, Ray became the only Governor or former Governor to have received Iowa's highest civilian honor, the Iowa Award, by the Iowa Centennial Memorial Commission.

One evening during a severe thunderstorm, Willis was hosting a rock concert in honor of her anniversary working at the radio station in Centennial Park in downtown Metropolis.

Osage was renamed Bentonville in honor of Thomas Hart Benton, a senator from Missouri who strongly supported Arkansas statehood.

When Indiana claimed official statehood in 1816, Decatur's name was as well known and revered as any star or celebrity today, thus when the town of Decatur was founded in 1836 it took its name in honor of the war hero.

In 1865 the name of the settlement was changed to Benton Harbor in honor of Thomas Hart Benton, a Missouri Senator who helped Michigan achieve statehood.

He named this village " Tiffin " in honor of Edward Tiffin, first governor of Ohio and later member of the United States Senate, and a man who had fought to finally win statehood for the Ohio Territory in 1803.

A petition for statehood for what would have become known as the State of Franklin ( named in honor of Benjamin Franklin ) was drawn at the delegates session in May 1785.

Palermo International Airport has been named Falcone-Borsellino Airport in honor of the two judges and hosts a memorial of the pair by the local sculptor Tommaso Geraci.

In Paris, at a banquet held in his honor on April 4, 1859, a laurel wreath was placed over the head of a bust of Morphy, carved by the sculptor Eugène-Louis Lequesne.

The park is named in honor of a respected wood sculptor from Richwood.

However, his friend, the sculptor and restorer Bartolomeo Cavaceppi managed to persuade him to travel to Munich and Vienna, where he was received with honor by Maria Theresa.

Later recipients included Thomas Babington Macaulay ( 1853 ), John C. Frémont ( 1860 ), Theodor Mommsen ( 1868 ), Charles Darwin ( 1868 ), Thomas Carlyle ( 1874 ) ( who never accepted any other honor ), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1875 ), William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ( 1884 ), Heinrich von Treitschke ( 1887 ), Johannes Brahms ( 1887 ), Giuseppe Verdi ( 1887 ), William Henry Flower ( 1899 ), Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1901 ), Luigi Cremona ( 1903 ), John Singer Sargent ( 1908 ), Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1910 ), Otto Lessing ( sculptor ) ( 1911 ), Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( 1911 ), Sir William Ramsay ( 1911 ), Max Planck ( 1915 ), and Rudolph Sohm ( 1916 ).

The Ludlow Monument is a granite memorial by sculptor Hugh Sullivan erected by the United Mine Workers of America ( UMWA ) at Ludlow, Colorado in 1918 to honor the victims of the Ludlow massacre.

It is called " Tacca " in honor of the sculptor and, just as the original's,

In 1980, a memorial museum was opened in honor of Seibo Kitamura, a noted sculptor.

The new name was in honor of Italian Renaissance sculptor Cosimo Rosselli.

His native town, Jayuya, erected a statue in his honor, sculpted by well-known Puerto Rican sculptor Tomas Batista, in the " Plaza de Recreo ( town square ) Nemesio R. Canales ".

* Andrea da Grosseto Monument, made between 1973 and 1974 by sculptor Arnaldo Mazzanti, it is located in Piazza Baccarini, opposite the Archeological Museum, in honor of Andrea da Grosseto, the distinguished scholar who in 1268 translated the Moral Treatises of Albertanus of Brescia by providing a first example of Italian literary prose.

The sculptor Pablo Serrano spent his youth in Crivillén, and there is a museum on his honor.

In World War I, 156 people from Băileşti died on the battefield ; in 1924 sculptor Iordănescu constructed the Monument of Băileşti Heroes in their honor.

A monument in Zagreb by sculptor Robert Frangeš Mihanović was raised in his honor.

A statue was commissioned from the Yugoslav sculptor Slavomir Miletić in honor of this era, and the statue, “ The Woodworker ” (“ De Houtwerker ”), was installed on 20 June 2004.

She first met Marcel Duchamp in 1923 at a ball given in her honor by American sculptor Mariette Benedict Mills, the mother of a close friend.

The court later added a footnote to tourist materials, calling it a " a well-intentioned attempt by the sculptor to honor Muhammad ".

As a sculptor, he received a medal of honor in Madrid for his The Cider Press, and he made four caryatids of The Seasons for the Appellate Court House, New York.