The franchise then held a naming contest to publicize the team, promising a $ 1, 000 war bond to the winner.

Instead, the name Seattle Seahawks (" Seahawk ", another name for Osprey ) was selected on June 17, 1975 after a public naming contest which drew more than 20, 000 entries and over 1, 700 different names.

* Concorde Avenue was named in a 1995 street naming contest in honour of the 50 years ' peace ( 1945 – 1995 ) in Europe since the Second World War.

The name " Destroyers " came from a naming contest and alluded to the naval ship of the same name, one of which sits outside the HSBC Arena in the nearby Buffalo Naval and Serviceman's Park.

The following year, a naming contest held among the MacRae staff yielded the slogan “ Speed on in your Speedos .” The brand name was born.

The Roughnecks introduced the new mascot at a media event on January 26, 2012, and later unveiled the name after holding a naming contest.

The new ferry, named the Marilyn Bell I after a naming contest, went into service on January 22, 2010.

Later in 1976, MSD renamed the zoo the Washington Park Zoo after a naming contest.

Also in 2006, three orangutans were born and named Jinnga, Kembali and Budi through a TVO Kids naming contest.

The next morning, Karla gets a phone call from a radio station and wins a contest for a holiday to the Caribbean by naming the capital of Brazil as Rio.

Nimiq is an Inuktitut word for " that which unifies " and was chosen from a nationwide naming contest in 1998.

It has the capability to load and unload the C-130, C-141, C-5 and C-17, as well as the commercial DC-10, L-1011 and B-747 freighters. The equipment was named to honor Tunner by an industry naming contest.

The naming contest rules, however, state that although the poll results will be taken into account, NASA has ultimate discretion in choosing an appropriate name for the node.

The name " Axiom " was determined by a naming contest held by Isuzu, and was won by Dr. Hakan Urey from Redmond, Washington, who suggested the name and won his own Axiom in 2001.

The authority changed its name in 1994 to LYNX via a public naming contest.

After a naming contest and vote among students and faculty ( which included some tongue in cheek nominations such as " Yankee Stadium ", the Jerry Brown Arena, the Corrugated Fortress ), it was eventually given the generic name " Campus Events Center ".

* During the naming contest for a Hungarian bridge, Colbert Nation forum members developed a bot to stuff the ballot box.

" Shortly after, Beaver launched a contest requesting the community to assist him in naming the team's mascot.

From 1908 to 1915, the University of Kentucky's student newspaper was called The Idea, but it became the Kentucky Kernel following a naming contest in 1915.

" name was chosen through a naming contest, with " WAM " being an acronym for " What Adults are Missing "; until 2008 as WAM !/ Encore Wam, imported shows for children and teens also aired during the daytime hours.

The name Harborfields came from a combination of the older names of Centerport ( ex Little Cow Harbor ) and Greenlawn ( ex Old Fields ), selected from an entry by Billy Lefko and Robert Comito in a naming contest in about 1958.

The project's rhyming name was submitted by Joyce Monger and won a naming contest.

A naming contest in 1926 won by Oregonian sports editor L. H. Gregory made the Webfoots name official, and a subsequent student vote in 1932 affirmed the nickname, chosen over other suggested nicknames such as Pioneers, Trappers, Lumberjacks, Wolves, and Yellow Jackets.

The St. Catharines Falcons name came from a naming contest for the new junior team.

Himmler modified a variety of existing customs to emphasize the elitism and central role of the SS ; an SS naming ceremony was to replace baptism, marriage ceremonies were to be altered, a separate SS funeral ceremony was to be held in addition to Christian ceremonies, and SS-centric celebrations of the summer and winter solstice were instituted.

In August, the Party's Eleventh Congress was held in Beijing, officially naming ( in ranking order ) Hua Guofeng, Ye Jianying, Deng Xiaoping, Li Xiannian, and Wang Dongxing as new members of the Politburo Standing Committee.

The individual curiae are further divided into ten gentes, held to form the basis for the nomen in the Roman naming convention.

The arena was completed the same year the team was founded, with the naming rights originally being held by Arrowhead Water.

Horse racing has also left its mark in the naming of roads in Singapore such as Race Course Road in Little India where horse racing was first held in Singapore and Turf Club Road in Bukit Timah where Singapore Turf Club used to be before moving to its current location in 1999.

During 2006 a year long celebration was held commemorating the 250th anniversary of the naming of the town.

When he devised his table, Julian calendar years were identified by naming the consuls who held office that year — he himself stated that the " present year " was " the consulship of Probus Junior ", which he also stated was 525 years " since the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ ".

Supporters of Lancaster's founder, John Prescott ( 1604 – 1681 ), wished to name the new settlement Prescottville, but the Massachusetts General Court considered such a request from a common freeman presumptuous, given that at that time, not even a governor had held the honor of naming a town after himself.

WH Smith reopened its Australian operation in March 2011 following the collapse of A & R / Borders who held the naming rights in Australia.

However the United Nations intervened, naming Douglas MacArthur commander of its forces, and UN-US-ROK forces held a perimeter around Pusan, gaining time for reinforcement.

Although Trygve and Aud filed a complaint against Nederland involving money and naming rights in 2005, Frozen Dead Guy Days is still alive ; the most recent celebration was held March 4 – 6, 2011, and the next is scheduled for March 2-4, 2012.

With the completion of the new capital, Rama I held an official ceremony naming the new capital.

The township was originally held intact by John Cleves Symmes, with the apparent intent of naming it as the academy township for his purchase.

It is perhaps a mark of the great affection held by the Spanish people for Cervera that even the government of Republican Spain acknowledged him as a man of " great patriotic fervor ," to the point of naming a light cruiser after him.

It was selected by the head of the MTR Corporation, the parent company of Octopus Cards Limited, in a naming competition held in 1996.

# The Court held that the petition was incorrect in naming the secretary of defense as the respondent instead of the commanding officer of the naval brig who was Padilla's actual custodian for habeas corpus purposes.

This was followed by a naming ceremony for both aircraft held at Glasgow's Renfrew Airport on 18 March 1955, when each aircraft was named after a famous Scottish medical pioneer ( G-ANXA, the second aircraft to be delivered on 23 February 1955, was named John Hunter while G-ANXB, the first aircraft to be delivered on 12 February 1955, was named Sir James Young Simpson ).

However, the Ravens and the Maryland Stadium Authority held firm in their right to negotiate naming rights fees.

While it was originally intended to be the German Grand Prix, owing to a dispute with Hockenheim over the naming rights of the race, the race was eventually held under the title " Großer Preis von Europa " ( European Grand Prix ).

It was rarely used in the Roman calendar and in the early Julian calendar — naming the two consuls that held office in a particular year was dominant.

On January 15, 1956, he held a meeting and announced that he was naming his new style of karate Isshin-ryu.

It opened on March 27, 1999, as Irwindale Speedway and held that name until Toyota purchased the naming rights to the facility in 2008.