On January 30, 2011 An-Tiki, a raft modeled after Kon-Tiki began a 3, 000 mile, 70-day journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the Canary Islands to the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas.

The MOBA title League of Legends features a hero modeled after a Spartan hoplite.

A Norwegian diplomat, working with the League of Nations as a High Commissioner for Refugees beginning in 1919, proposed the idea of a forced population transfer modeled on the earlier post Balkan-war Greek-Bulgarian mandatory population transfer of Greeks in Bulgaria to Greece, and Bulgarians in Greece to Bulgaria.

" The Anti-Defamation League noted that " extremist chatter on the Internet has praised Rudolph as ' a hero ' and some followers of hate groups are calling for further acts of violence to be modeled after the bombings he is accused of committing.

In the summer of 1919, the League to Enforce Peace published a book of essays modeled on the Federalist Papers called The Covenanter: An American Exposition of the Covenant of the League of Nations.

Another Hourman, an android from the 853rd century that was modeled on Rex Tyler's DNA, served with both the Justice League and the Justice Society for a time.

He formed a new group called the “ Vietnamese Restoration League ” ( Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội ), modeled after Sun Yat-Sen's republican party.

The premise is that the characters were sons or daughters of members of a superhero team called the Freedom Brigade, a parody of the Justice League of America, and most of the Inferior Five were takeoffs of other popular DC characters, while Merryman's appearance was specifically modeled on Woody Allen.

Fox Sports ' president David Hill modeled many aspects of the show from The Footy Show, a sports talk show which covered the Australian Football League in Australia ( Hill's home country ).

The format of the series was modeled after an Australian professional lifesaving circuit called the Nutri-Grain Surf League.

The organization appears to have been modeled after the American Trade Union Educational League established by Communist trade union leader William Z.

The Junior World Series was the name given to a postseason series between champions of two of the three high-minor baseball leagues, modeled on the World Series of Major League Baseball.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

The Agriculturalists believed that the ideal government, modeled after the semi-mythical governance of Shennong, is led by a benevolent king, one who works alongside the people in tilling the fields.

One of Alan's most notable works was one he modeled after Boethius ’ Consolation of Philosophy, to which he gave the title De Planctu Naturae, or The Plaint of Nature, and which was written most likely in the late 1160 ’ s.

* 1874 – Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in the United Kingdom.

AA sprang from The Oxford Group, a non-denominational movement modeled after first-century Christianity.

Its design was modeled after English football stadiums with the objective being to give fans a closer view of the pitch.

Like the previous plan by Sensi, this new stadium is to be modeled after English stadiums.

All of this cosmic evolution after the inflationary epoch can be rigorously described and modeled by the ΛCDM model of cosmology, which uses the independent frameworks of quantum mechanics and Einstein's General Relativity.

The Agriculturalists believed that the ideal government, modeled after the semi-mythical governance of Shennong, is led by a benevolent king, one who works alongside the people in tilling the fields.

Their most famous coach was the Concord Coach, modeled after the coronation coach of King George III.

When the team debuted in 1968, the Bengals ' uniforms were modeled after the Cleveland Browns.

While the new ex-colonial states appeared to follow the blueprint of the idealized state-centralized government, territory enclosed by defined borders, and citizenry with defined rights -, as well as accessories such as a national flag, an anthem, a seat at the United Nations and an official economic policy, they were in actuality far weaker than the Western states they were modeled after.

After the CCC disbanded, the federal agencies responsible for administration of public lands organized their own seasonal fire crews, modeled after the CCC, which performed a firefighting function formerly done by the CCC and provided the same sort of outdoor work experience for young people.

The park was modeled after New York City's Central Park and originally shared its name.

The Lusitanii, a pre-Celtic people dominating the lands northwest of Iberia, successfully held off the Roman Empire for many years with a variety of innovative tactics and light weapons, including iron-bladed short spears and daggers modeled after Iberian patterns.

Under the banner of Christian Social Party, he later on established a one-party dictatorship rule largely modeled after fascism in Italy, banning all other Austrian parties including the Social Democratic Labour Party ( SDAPÖ ).

Dollfuss modeled Austrofascism after Italian fascism juxtaposed to Catholic corporatism and anti-secularism, dropping Austrian pretences of reunification with Germany as long as the Nazi Party remained in power.

In Des Teufels General ( The Devil's General ) of 1954, a Luftwaffe general named Harras loosely modeled after Ernst Udet, appears at first to be cynical fool, but turns out to an anti-Nazi who is secretly sabotaging the German war effort by designing faulty planes.

In 1919, the government of Spain raised the Spanish Foreign Legion and modeled it after the French Foreign Legion.

( Rossum's Universal Robots ), Karel Čapek's 1921 play which coined the term robot ; the play was written in Prague and while Capek denied that he modeled the robot after the Golem, there are many similarities in the plot.

The three areas of focus for USAID / Guatemala's program are modeled after the Millennium Challenge Account areas — ruling justly, economic freedom, and investing in people.

After 1966 it was consciously modeled after the Chinese Red Guards.

It was modeled after the DBX debugger, which came with Berkeley Unix distributions.

For about the next 10 years, the country saw a steady process of secular Westernization through Atatürk's Reforms, which included the unification of education ; the discontinuation of religious and other titles ; the closure of Islamic courts and the replacement of Islamic canon law with a secular civil code modeled after Switzerland's and a penal code modeled after the Italian Penal Code ; recognition of the equality between the sexes and the granting of full political rights to women on 5 December 1934 ; the language reform initiated by the newly founded Turkish Language Association ; replacement of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet with the new Turkish alphabet derived from the Latin alphabet ; the dress law ( the wearing of a fez, is outlawed ); the law on family names ; and many others.

Moore modeled anonymously on the covers of a number of record albums and auditioned for the role of the older daughter of Danny Thomas for his long-running TV show, but was turned down.

Initially modeled on the Anglican ideals of older, European institutions, the University of New Brunswick was founded in 1785 as the Academy of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

King's College was founded with a strong religious affiliation and was generally modeled on older English universities which were residential, tutorial and Anglican.

Many of the older residence halls were designed by Cope & Stewardson and are known for their Collegiate Gothic architecture, modeled after Cambridge University.

The school, modeled on Yates ' own experiences as an adolescent at Avon Old Farms School, is called Dorset Academy, a small private institution dependent on its now senile founder, a wealthy older woman named Abigail Church Hooper, a thinly-veiled reference to Avon Old Farms founder Theodate Pope Riddle.

He modeled the spelling of あだち ( rather than 安達 ) for his family name after the example of his older brother, manga artist Tsutomu Adachi.

* The StreetRat is modeled after an older 60's Volkswagen Beetle model

The East Texas Convention was modeled after the older ( now defunct ) Southern Musical Convention established in 1845 by Benjamin Franklin White, the compiler of The Sacred Harp.

Speedy appears to be modeled after the animated Teen Titans series version, though older and better built than his Titans counterpart.

Bart was modeled after Groening's older brother, Mark, but given a different name which was chosen as an anagram of " brat ".

He substituted " Bart ", an anagram of " brat ", for his own name, and modeled the character after his older brother, Mark.