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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.
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In January 1844, Alcott moved his family to Still River, a village within Harvard but, on March 1, 1845, the family returned to Concord to live in a home they named " The Hillside " ( later renamed " The Wayside " by Nathaniel Hawthorne ).
Bauxite was named after the village Les Baux in southern France, where it was first recognised as containing aluminium and named by the French geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821.
* Balmoral bonnet, an unbrimmed cap common in Highland dress, named for the Scottish village and castle
The Battle of Świecino ( named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland ) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years ' War.
Georgy Canaan lists Crete as one of the protectorates established by the Canaanites ( Phoenicians ) who named it the village, Cret ( Arabicقرية ).
He named the new element after the village of Ytterby where large concentrations of yttria and erbium are located.
The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.
The village of Oakley, burnt to the ground by the dragon early in the story, may also be named after Oakley, Buckinghamshire, near to Thame.
Under the guidance of two village priests, Millet acquired a knowledge of Latin and modern authors, before being sent to Cherbourg in 1833 to study with a portrait painter named Paul Dumouchel.
To avenge the deaths, Frémont attacked a Klamath Tribe fishing village named Dokdokwas, that most likely had nothing to do with the attack, at the junction of the Williamson River and Klamath Lake, on May 10, 1846.
It also participates in the Schengen Group ( named after the Luxembourg village where the agreements were signed ), whose goal is the free movement of citizens among member states.
A second village was started at Ball Bay, named after the captain of HMS Supply, Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball.
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" In urban areas roads may diverge through a city or village and be named as streets, serving a dual function as urban space easement and route.
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The village of Perranporth (' Porthpyran ' in Cornish ) hosts the annual inter-Celtic festival of ' Lowender Peran ', which is also named in honour of him.
It proved fever-ridden and was abandoned, a new village being laid out on higher ground and named Lydenburg in memory of their sufferings at the abandoned settlement.
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Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.
Doubleday Field at West Point, New York, where the Army Black Knights play at Johnson Stadium, is named in Doubleday's honor.
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Born on June 24, 1835, she was named Elizabeth Peabody Alcott in honor of the teaching assistant at the Temple School.
In the Philippines, the Albertus Magnus Building at the University of Santo Tomas that houses the Conservatory of Music, College of Tourism and Hospitality Management, College of Education, and UST Education High School is named in his honor.
* Ephesos, a Lydian Amazon, after whom the city of Ephesus was thought to have been named ; she was also said to have been the first to honor Artemis and to have surnamed the goddess Ephesia.
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Each of the Greek ethne were said to be named in honor of their respective ancestors: Achaeus of the Achaeans, Danaus of the Danaans, Cadmus of the Cadmeans ( the Thebans ), Hellen of the Hellenes ( not to be confused with Helen of Troy ), Aeolus of the Aeolians, Ion of the Ionians, and Dorus of the Dorians.
The Sakharov Prize, which is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, is named in his honor.
The Sakharov Prize, established in 1988 and awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, was named in his honor.
There are also streets named in his honor in Amsterdam, Amstelveen, The Hague, Hellevoetsluis, Leiden, Purmerend, Rotterdam and Utrecht.
This ship was originally named the USS Kearsarge, but was renamed in honor of the previous Hornet CV-8 ( famous for the Doolittle raid ), which was lost in October 1942.
Two aircraft carriers, and were simultaneously in commission and in operation during World War II, and Franklin therefore had the distinction of having two simultaneously operational US Navy warships named in his honor.
Other memorials to Buddy Holly include a street named in his honor and The Buddy Holly Center, which contains a museum of Holly memorabilia as well as a Fine Arts Gallery.
Yersin named it Pasteurella pestis in honor of the Pasteur Institute, where he worked, but in 1967 it was moved to a new genus, renamed Yersinia pestis in honor of Yersin.
It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders.
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