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He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Albrecht Dürer the Younger later changed " Türer ", his father's diction of the family's surname, to " Dürer ", to adapt to the local Nuremberg dialect.
The spelling of his name was changed after the beginning of the series ; his nameplate and office door spells his surname " McVicar " in early episodes.
He changed the spelling of his name in 1734, because the fact that his surname ' Home ' was pronounced ' Hume ' in Scotland was not known in England.
Blyton and Darrell Waters married at the City of Westminster Register Office on 20 October 1943, and she subsequently changed the surname of her two daughters to Darrell Waters.
On 20 February 1844, in accordance with his mother's will, he changed his surname from ' Bulwer ' to ' Bulwer-Lytton ' and assumed the arms of Lytton by royal licence.
James Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933, to Susie ( née Behlings ) Brown ( August 8, 1916-February 26, 2004 ) and Joseph (" Joe ") Gardner ( March 29, 1911-July 10, 1993 ) ( who changed his surname to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him ).
In 1971, Marvin was sued by Michelle Triola, his live-in girlfriend from 1965 to 1970, who legally changed her surname to ' Marvin '.
Sometime after moving to Los Angeles in 1918, he changed his surname to " Rickenbacker ".
His descendants took the surname Koshkin, then changed it to Zakharin, which family later split into two branches: Zakharin-Yakovlev and Zakharin-Yuriev.
The " Fox " surname was changed from the German " Fuchs " during the 1870s.
The family name was originally de Pouey, but was changed to Bernadotte-a surname of an ancestress-at the beginning of the 17th century.
For the sake of his budding comedic career, he changed his surname to " Prinze ", which he chose because, according to his friend David Brenner, he originally wanted to be known as the King of comedy, but Alan King already had that last name, so he would be the Prince of comedy instead.
It was also around this time Freddie changed his surname to " Mercury ", inspired by the line " Mother Mercury, look what they've done to me ," in the song My Fairy King.
The first name was changed in 1910 to Edward and the surname corrected to de Valera.
Some surviving members of the Shang royal family collectively changed their surname from the ancestral name Zi ( 子 ) to the name of their fallen dynasty, Yin.
At the age of 18, he emigrated to the United States, where he joined the Poale Zion party and changed his surname to Rabin.
Maher changed his name to Johnny Marr to avoid confusion with Buzzcocks drummer John Maher, and Morrissey performed under his surname alone.
Similarly, David Walliams changed one letter in his surname due to there being another " David Williams ".
Terry O ' Quinn of Lost fame changed his surname from Quinn to O ' Quinn as another registered actor already had the name Terrance Quinn.
By way of example, the actor / writer / director Albert Brooks was born " Albert Einstein " and changed his surname so that his name would not be a distraction that would evoke the renowned physicist of the same name.
She has changed her premarital surname and kept it for life because she thinks daughters should take their mother's surnames and keep them after their marriage.
In Taiwan, the government strictly regulates when one's surname, given name, or both may or may not be changed, under the Name Act ( 姓名條例 ) since 1953 with 10 articles, totally amended into 14 articles in 2001, and the Enforcement Regulations of the Name Act ( 姓名條例施行細則 ).
An individual's surname, or that of a family, may be changed by applying to the Department and providing a " good and sufficient reason " for the change.
A married woman can change her surname to that of her husband or join her maiden name with her husband's surname, and a divorced woman may return to her previous surname, without applying or paying a fee ; but she must notify the department so that the details in the Population Register can be changed.
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In the next few months of comparative silence, Pike waited patiently until conditions were perfect for a new attack, and then, displaying a remarkable grasp of the subtleties of political infighting, gained from his first bout with Woodruff, he used these changed conditions to excellent advantage.
He recalls with a wry smile the wit who said, on returning from a homecoming reunion, that he would never go again because all his class had changed so much they didn't even recognize him.
Beginning with the October 1959 issue of the Journal, the method of production of copy for photo-offset reproduction was changed from varityping to hot typesetting.
The direction in which the arrow points shows how the maturity level of the growth center was changed at Completion from the level at Onset.
It was possible to maintain aerobic conditions in the pond by regular additions of sodium nitrate until the temperature decreased and the algae population changed from blue-green to green algae.
Twenty-four hours had changed him from a performer to a freak.
`` For one thing you can stop keeping that child in starched dresses and changed from the skin out nineteen times a day ''.
He stopped and looked at the picture of his son, the picture on his desk which had changed with the years from a laughing baby to a candidate for Hanford College.
The evolution of the Greek art seems to go parallel with the Greek philosophical conceptions, which changed from the natural-philosophy of Thales to the metaphysical theory of Pythagoras.
More complex assistive technology devices have been developed over time, and as a result, sports for people with disabilities " have changed from being a clinical therapeutic tool to an increasingly competition-oriented activity ".
Angola changed from a one-party Marxist-Leninist system ruled by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), in place since independence in 1975, to a multiparty democracy based on a new constitution adopted in 1992.
The Hebrew and Nabataean alphabets, as they stood by the Roman era, were little changed in style from the Imperial Aramaic alphabet.
is an example of associativity because the parentheses were changed ( and consequently the order of operations during evaluation ) while the operands 5, 2, and 1 appeared in exactly the same order from left to right in the expression.
Catching the impulse from Hilary and confirmed in it by the success of Arian psalmody, Ambrose composed several original hymns as well, four of which still survive, along with music which may not have changed too much from the original melodies.
With the shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, art likewise changed its focus, as much in its content as in its mode of expression.
Naval armour has fundamentally changed from the Second World War doctrine of thicker plating to defend against shells, bombs and torpedos.
But as the war changed his attitude and personality, poems and other aspects of his past life become something Paul could not remember having any link to, and he learns to disconnect himself from his feelings.
When Salieri retired from the stage, he recognized that artistic styles had changed and he felt that he no longer had the creative capacity to adapt or the emotional desire to continue.
The stadium name temporarily changed from DSB Stadion to AZ Stadion, as it was considered undesirable that the stadium was linked with a non-existent bank.
The AFL logo was incorporated into the newly minted AFC logo, although the color of the " A " was changed from blue and white to red.
The governors were appointed from both Catholic and Protestant cantons and since they changed every two years, neither faith gained a majority in the County.
However, in the 1850s the traffic changed dramatically, and Aberdour Harbour became a popular destination for pleasure steamers from Leith.
When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.
The games were originally meant to be loaded from tape, but were later changed to load from ROM.
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