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His middle name, Gordon, was given to him in honour and memory of Charles George Gordon, a British army officer killed in Khartoum in 1885.
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This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.
It has been believed that this was also why Peirce used " Santiago " (" St. James " in Spanish ) as a middle name, but he appeared in print as early as 1890 as Charles Santiago Peirce.
" Bell " was the middle name of Haworth's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, whom Charlotte later married.
The name comes from the uppercase " humps " in the middle of the compound word, suggestive of the humps of a camel.
Some sources later, and even today, list his middle name erroneously as " Tecumseh ", apparently as a result of being nicknamed " The Chief " by teammates.
Clark's middle name is given variously as either Joseph or Jerome, the latter in allusion to creator Jerry Siegel.
Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.
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His middle name, Marlais, was given in honour of his great-uncle, William Thomas, a Unitarian minister and poet whose bardic name was Gwilym Marles.
:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.
She used a pseudonym Mary Pollock for a few titles ( middle name plus first married name ).
He received his middle name in honor of Henry Ford, as he was born at the Henry Ford Hospital.
At this time Wright changed his middle name from Lincoln to Lloyd in honor of his mother's family, the Lloyd Joneses.
The standard 7-inch mix ( by the name of " Cowboys & Indians ") featured a pop / radio-oriented production that dispensed with a section of the song's middle eight altogether.
His middle name “ Enrico ” was changed to “ Henry ” ( the English form of Enrico ) when he was a child.
Her birth name ( maiden name ) may be reflected in her children's middle names ; her own middle name ; or dropped entirely.
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Elementary-school students attend the Gordon Barkell Elementary School ( formerly Hancock Elementary School ), middle school students Hancock Middle School and high-school students Hancock Central High School.
As such it was central to George Orwell's novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying, as a symbol of the middle class's need to maintain respectability-according to Gordon Comstock, the novel's protagonist.
" Goalkeeper Tommy Lawrence came through the club's junior teams, so Shankly now had his " strength through the middle " and the team building continued with the transfer of wing half Gordon Milne from Preston.
In the middle 1970s, Fisher-Price produced the Sesame Street town, with various Sesame Street stores, a bridge with stop lights and Sesame Street characters such as Bert, Ernie, and the only Little People toys that have been modeled after celebrities -- Loretta Long ( Susan ), Roscoe Orman ( Gordon ) and Will Lee ( Mr. Hooper ).
In the middle of the ' square ' ( as it is known locally ) is the Inverurie and District War Memorial, capped by a lone Gordon Highlander looking out over the town.
The middle name of " Gordon ", in replacing Poe's connection to the Allan family, was turned into a reference to George Gordon Byron, a poet whom Poe deeply admired.
It thus tends to reflect the kingdom theology of Gordon Fee's radical middle approach to Christianity, which characterizes the role of the church as manifesting God's kingdom on earth.
Peter Gordon, a professor of planning and economics at the University of Southern California's School of Urban Planning and Development, argues that many households in the United States, Canada, and Australia, especially middle and upper class families, have shown a preference for the suburban lifestyle.
Generally it is Gordon who uses the Batsignal to summon Batman, and it has become a running joke of sorts that the Dark Knight will often disappear in the middle of the discussion when Gordon's back is turned.
Gordon Park is a small residential area in the middle of Brisbane's northern suburbs and the smallest suburb within Brisbane City Council.
* Hendrik Jacob Wikar and Robert Jacob Gordon meet Khoikhoi, Geisiqua and Tswana tribes along lower and middle Gariep which Gordon names Orange River in honour of the Netherlands Stadtholder
The film's sequel The Dark Knight adapted many elements of this story, the setting of Batman, Gordon, and Harvey Dent talking on the roof of the Gotham City Police Department is taken from this story and used in The Dark Knight, as is Gordon's line " he does that " to Dent when Batman disappears from the conversation in the middle of Dent's sentence.
Jeff, who had been running up front all day, hit Robby during a caution flag to retaliate and finished in the middle of the pack ( although it was all moot, as Gordon had clinched the 2001 Winston Cup championship at Atlanta the week before ).
Gordon temporarily left 24 in the middle of the 2004 season to re-join Minear, this time as co-creator of another FOX series, The Inside.
Economists Milton Friedman, Gordon Tullock, Bryan Caplan, and Paul Krugman Furthermore, Roger Garrison argues that a false boom caused by artificially low interest rates would cause a boom in consumption goods as well as investment goods ( with a decrease in " middle goods "), thus explaining the jump in unemployment at the end of a boom.
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Waddell, the newspaperman, was a fellow in his middle forties, with a graying crewcut, heavy-framed glasses, and a large jaw padded with fat.
Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.
It was in order to avoid the stuffy routine of middle class life that Holmes became a detective in the first place.
He specifies, `` in the middle period of the Nineteenth Century it was colored by Christian supernaturalism, in the Twentieth Century it was affected by naturalism.
The Indians who came aboard ship to collect the mail also interested her greatly, even if she was suitably shocked, according to the customs of the society in which she had been reared, to find them `` naked, except a piece of cotton cloth wrapped around their middle ''.
That spring Welcome To Our City was selected for production by the 47 Workshop and it was staged in the middle of May.
The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.
In the middle of the century, with a circulation of 90,000, the Post was one of the most popular weeklies in the country.
It stands in the middle of what was once the Forum of Constantine, who brought it from Rome.
It was then distilled at least three times from a trap at -78-degrees to a liquid air trap with only a small middle fraction being retained in each distillation.
An attempted middle course might lead to devices like a 5000-word alphabetized dictionary from which every fiftieth word was selected.
The next thing he knew he was reporting for duty as commanding officer of Troop H, 7th Cavalry, in the middle of corps maneuvers in Japan.
On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.
Surely she was just a trifle fatter around the middle??
The fisherman was right in the middle of the Deep.
Then Heywood Sullivan, Kansas City catcher, singled up the middle and Throneberry was across with what proved to be the winning run.
A middle aged woman opened a window on the third floor of her house which was behind the wall, she threw out a few belongings and then jumped ; ;
Such an analysis speedily reveals why the middle number of the Lo Shu, 5, was so vitally significant for the Chinese ever since the earliest hints that they had a knowledge of this diagram.
Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.
The middle section of the program was made up of short numbers, naturally enough of unequal merit, but all of them pretty good at that.
But this was only the middle of July.
Foner argues that Lincoln was a moderate in the middle, opposing slavery primarily because it violated the republicanism principles of the Founding Fathers, especially the equality of all men and democratic self-government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
The Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was one of the first Greek buildings utilizing the solution to put the dominating form in the middle, and to complete the descending scale of height with other figures sitting or kneeling.
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