According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

Although in later times Hecate's dog came to be thought of as a manifestation of restless souls or demons who accompanied her, its docile appearance and its accompaniment of a Hecate who looks completely friendly in many pieces of ancient art suggests that its original signification was positive and thus likelier to have arisen from the dog's connection with birth than the dog's demonic associations.

" Therefore, being always free from original sin, the doctrine teaches that from her conception Mary received the sanctifying grace that would normally come with baptism after birth.

" Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called ...

Stout revealed the reason for the change in a letter obtained by his authorized biographer, John McAleer: " In the original draft of Over My Dead Body Nero was a Montenegrin by birth, and it all fitted previous hints as to his background ; but violent protests from The American Magazine, supported by Farrar & Rinehart, caused his cradle to be transported five thousand miles.

According to the Kabbalah and the school of Rashba, the original three queens of the demons, Agrat Bat Mahlat, Naamah, Eisheth Zenunim, and all their cohorts give birth to children, except Lilith.

Two innovations were added: 1 ) adoption was meant to ensure the " best interests of the child ;" the seeds of this idea can be traced to the first American adoption law in Massachusetts, and 2 ) adoption became infused with secrecy, eventually resulting in the sealing of adoption and original birth records by 1945.

His original birth name was Wayland, meaning land by the highway, but it was changed after a Baptist preacher visited Jennings ' parents and congratulated his mother for naming him after the Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas.

On de Valera's original birth certificate, his name is given as George De Valero and his father is listed as Vivion De Valero.

In 2003, the bicentenary of Berlioz's birth, his achievements and status are much more widely recognised, and his music is viewed as both serious and original, rather than an eccentric novelty.

When a person assumes the family name of his or her spouse, this name replaces the person's original family name, which then becomes a maiden name or birth name.

The registrar of civil status may authorize a name change if: 1 ) the name the person generally uses does not correspond to the name on their birth certificate, 2 ) where the name is of foreign origin or too difficult to pronounce or write in its original form, or 3 ) where the name invites ridicule or has become infamous.

For example, the original Command & Conquer gave birth to the now-common " tank rush " tactic, where the game outcome is often decided very early on by one player gaining an initial advantage in resources and producing large amounts of a relatively powerful but still quite cheap unit — which is thrown at the opposition before they have had time to establish defenses or production.

It refers to the conception and birth of a sentient creature ( generally a human ) who is the material manifestation of an entity, god or force whose original nature is immaterial.

It was not until 1986, prior to a trip to Italy and while applying for a US passport to travel abroad, when his mother provided him with the hand-written copy of his original birth certificate that Holmes learned the name of his biological father, Carl Estes.

The China O ' Brien films have a limited cult film status but have gained notoriety in the late 1990s because a then-unheard of singer / songwriter Tori Amos ( then going by her birth name Ellen Amos ) recorded a song, " Distant Storm ," which can only be heard by viewing the original film.

There are three categories of Spanish citizenship: de origen ( original citizenship ) which is exclusively acquired at the moment of birth, mainly to a Spanish parent, and which can never be lost ; and that which is acquired through a predetermined period of legal residency in Spain, known as por residencia.

The third category is por opción ( by choice ), this is given to some people of Spanish origins that, though not complying with the requisites to attain the original citizenship, are able to prove close ties to Spain ; this option is given mainly to the children of people that have attained or recovered Spanish citizenship after their birth, but it has age limits and one must exercise this choice prior turning 20 ( in some countries, like Argentina, prior turning 23, as majority of age is attained at 21 there ).

Those whose father or mother were born original Spaniards ( regardless of their place of birth, whether they are still living, or whether they currently hold Spanish nationality ) and those whose grandparents emigrated due to political or economic reasons will have the right to de origen Spanish nationality.

Regardless of their place of birth, the adult children and grandchildren of original Spaniards ( original Spaniards are those who, at the moment of their birth, were born to people who possessed Spanish citizenship ) can also access Spanish nationality on softer terms than other foreigners: they require just 1 year of legal residence, and they are exempted from work restrictions.

After reassuming her original form, she gave birth to a girl, Keroessa.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

We don't know his original name, but it seems that he was absorbed by the more powerful Apollo, who stood by the " Mistress of the animals ", becoming her brother.

This request was immediately approved in a meeting presided by Carlos Bowers, who had proposed the name " Alumni " to the original football team 50 years before.

It was inspired by the English garden city movement ; hence the original English name Park ( in the Catalan language spoken in Catalonia where Barcelona is located, the word for " Park " is " Parc ", and the name of the place is " Parc Güell " in its original language ).

The solution, stationer, is an anagram of into tears, the letters of which have burst out of their original arrangement to form the name of a type of businessman.

was the original title of Howard Spring's novel My Son, My Son !, later adapted for the film of the latter name.

The Haggada identifies them as separate people, the second being the first Abimelech's son, and that his original name was Benmelech (" son of the King ") but changed his name to his father's.

" But in the original, the sentence starts not with the name Crantor but with the ambiguous He, and whether this referred to Crantor or to Plato is the subject of considerable debate.

According to Rudbeck, Atland means fatherland, and it was the original name of Atlantis.

Most original Cuyp paintings were signed by him, and in the script manner in which his name was inscribed.

The Latin name for that settlement, " Bonna ", may stem from the original population of this and many other settlements in the area, the Eburoni.

The more recently discovered group were given the name Entoprocta, while the original " Bryozoa " were called " Ectoprocta ".

The name Byzantium is a Latinization of the original name Byzantion.

" Nonetheless, Edwards joined several others as an original fellow or trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the former name for Brown University ), the first Baptist college in the original thirteen colonies, and now one of the Ivy League universities.

The original Boston Herald was founded in 1846 by a group of Boston printers jointly under the name of John A. French & Company.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Stowey Rummel was internationally famous, a crafter of a genuine Americana in foreign eyes, an original designer whose inventive childishness with steel and concrete was made even more believably sincere by his personality.

He claims that he was denied due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment, because ( 1 ) at a hearing before a hearing officer of the Department of Justice, he was not permitted to rebut statements attributed to him by the local board, and ( 2 ) at the trial, he was denied the right to have the hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim.

Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.

He says that he was not permitted to rebut before the hearing officer statements attributed to him by the local board, and, further, that he was denied at trial the right to have the Department of Justice hearing officer's report and the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as to his claim -- all in violation of the Fifth Amendment.

That Prokofieff's harmonies and forms sometimes seem professionally routine to our ears, may or may not indicate that he was less of an `` original '' than we prefer to believe.

This original capsule contained a battery and a transistor oscillator and was about 1 cm. in diameter.

when the insoluble fraction was suspended in a volume of saline equal to that of the original serum sample, no complete antibody activity could be detected.

Approximately ten days after the questionnaire was mailed, a follow-up airmail postcard was sent to each of the original names.

In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.

Down in Concord, New Hampshire, was a flier in the right place at the right time: Robert S. Fogg, a native New Englander, had been a World War 1, flying instructor, barnstormer, and one of the original planners of the Concord Airport.

`` To be creative is to have the ability to cause to exist -- to produce where nothing was before -- to bring forth an original production of human intelligence or power ''.

What remained lacked the original verve but it was at least dignified, as befitting the tragic circumstances.