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homage and team
However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Paul Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team.
A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.
Since then, in Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, Spidey, Iceman, and the Human Torch have begun living together at Aunt May's house and have been working as a team as another homage to the series ( because Liz, as Firestar, was a member of the X-Men in this continuity ).
In 1999, the team was renamed Barangay Ginebra Kings in homage to its fans.
However, in homage to the Car Acrobatic Team, Snake is leader of his own racing team, named " Hydra-Cell ".
Also in right field, and part of the 100 level seating bowl, is an area of seats know as " Kaline's Corner " an homage to Hall of Fame right fielder Al Kaline who once played for the Tigers when the team played in Tiger Stadium.
The CF-18 is used as a primary element of the new logo for the Winnipeg Jets NHL hockey team, as an homage to the city's connection to the RCAF / CF as well as an earlier Olympic gold medal winning team, the Ottawa RCAF Flyers.
Gatchaman helped establish the convention of the five member hero team that has been emulated in later series, most notably the successful tokusatsu Super Sentai franchise ( a genre exemplified by the English series adaptation of the Power Rangers franchise many years later ); in fact, the Sentai series Chōjin Sentai Jetman was in many ways an homage to Gatchaman.
In 2011, on the centenary year of the 1911 IFA Shield win, a Bengali movie titled Egaro was produced to pay homage to the winning team.
An obvious parody of the DC Comics all-star superhero team, the Justice League of America, Fifi's character of Scentanna was an homage to the JLA's classic magic-wielding sorceress, Zatanna.
In 2004 the team introduced new road jerseys and alternate caps that paid homage to the Travs ’ home city.
( The team name also pays homage to the oil industry which has been a large part of the Tulsa economy.
After a contest, the team became the “ Steeldogs ,” paying homage to the steel industry that helped grow the city into an industrial giant during the early 20th century.
Originally called the “ Martyrs of Chicago ”, in homage to the eight anarchists imprisoned or hanged after the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago, the team joined the " Fútbol de competencia " league playing its first game against Club La Prensa, which it lost by a catastrophic scoreline of 12 – 1.
The team name pays homage to the area's long naval history.
In " Patriot Act ", Vigilante was a part of the team that paid a homage to The Seven Soldiers of Victory when he and his other teammates, one of them including Shining Knight, were faced against General Wade Eiling.
In the process, the tribe gave permission to the team to adopt subtle and tasteful imagery, in order to pay homage to the team's history and new connection with the tribe.
More recently, independent women wrestlers Lacey and Rain have started using the name Minnesota Home Wrecking Crew in homage to the Andersons ' classic tag team.
The club changed its name to Cotonifício Rodolfo Crespi Futebol Clube in 1925, and in 1930, the club changed its name again, to Clube Atlético Juventus, because Count Rodolfo Crespi was a supporter of Juventus of Italy, but the team colors are a homage to Italian club Fiorentina, because Rodolfo Crespi's son, Adriano, was a supporter of the club from Florence.
In issue 14, the DNAgents engaged in a " non-crossover " with the Teen Titans comic — each team faced a homage of the other ( the DNAgents met " Project Youngblood ", the Titans dealt with the genetically-engineered " ReCombatants ").

homage and poem
In the winter of the same year he returned to his Denmark, bringing with him as a peace-offering his fine descriptive poem, the Labyrinth, in Danish, and was received with unbounded homage.
Henry David Thoreau's poem " Though All the Fates " pays homage to " New England's worm " which, in the poem, infests the hull of " he vessel, though her masts be firm ".
An unknown 14th-century poet paid homage to her in this poem:
In Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem, The Revolt of Islam, Shelley quotes a verse of Chapman's as homage within his dedication " to Mary__ __ ", presumably his wife Mary Shelley:
It's a witty homage to his close friend, the poet William Carlos Williams, and a transliteration into paint of his poem, " The Great Figure ".
Robert Herrick's poem Twelfe-Night, or King and Queene ( published 1648 ) describes the election of king and queen by bean and pea in a plum cake, and the homage done to them by the draining of wassail bowls of " lamb's-wool ", a drink of sugar, nutmeg, ginger and ale.
According to the author's epilogue, the poem is a homage to the beauty of spring.
Four lines which probably once stood at the beginning of a poem pay homage to Julius Caesar shortly before his assassination, on the eve of his projected campaign against the Parthians:
The ZTT Records label and the Swedish 80s new wave pop act Zzzang Tumb were named in homage to the poem.
The Transcendtalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, who spent his life in Concord, Massachusetts, paid homage to it in his poem " The Rhodora: On being asked, Whence is the flower?
Though its subversive theme was apparent to most readers, the poem escaped censorship due to conflicts among the censors and, in the second edition, a prefatory homage to Tsar Nicholas I.

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In his youth he took part in the so-called " massacre of the ditch ", when from 700 to 5, 000 people come to pay homage to the princes who were killed by order of Al-Hakam.
Various rock and roll histories have asserted the singing group The Hollies were named in homage to Buddy Holly.
Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.
Internally, Alpha processors were also identified by EV numbers, EV officially standing for " Extended VAX " but having an alternative humorous meaning of " Electric Vlasic ", giving homage to the Electric Pickle experiment at Western Research Lab.
These designs were partly an homage to the fastidious geometry of the famous French landscape architect André Le Nôtre ( 1613 – 1700 ).
As she was an heiress to Louis I of Hungary herself, the expeditions were for the most part peaceful and resulted in Petru I of Moldavia paying homage to the Polish monarchs in September 1387.
Warren suggests that when Rhys and Owain were obliged to do homage to Henry in 1163 they were forced to accept a status of dependent vassalage instead of their previous client status, and that this led to the revolt.
These rulers of Zaragoza, Girona, Barcelona, and Huesca were enemies of Abd ar-Rahman I, and in return for Frankish military aid against him offered their homage and allegiance.
In 1951, the mortal remains of Mascagni were transferred from Rome to Livorno, where finally Mascagni received an official homage.
All Scots were also required to pay homage to Edward I, either in person or at one of the designated centres by 27 July 1291.
In the Kingdom of Naples difficulties necessitating certain concessions in respect of feudal homage were raised by the liberal minister Tanucci, and more serious disagreements arose with Leopold II ( 1790 – 92 ), later emperor, and Scipione de ' Ricci, bishop of Pistoia and Prato, upon the questions of reform in Tuscany ; but Pius VI did not think fit to condemn the decrees of the synod of Pistoia ( 1786 ) till nearly eight years had elapsed.
According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, the three touch-sensitive light-up bars on the Enterprise-D's transporter console were an homage to the three sliders used on the duotronic transporter console on the original Enterprise in The Original Series.
Edward was still unwilling to travel to France to give homage ; the situation in England was febrile ; there had been an assassination plot against Edward and Hugh Despenser in 1324, there had been allegations that the famous magician John of Nottingham had been hired to kill the pair using necromancy in 1325, and criminal gangs were occupying much of the country.
" In classical times similar homage was often paid to the gods, and people were known to kiss the hands, knees, feet, and the mouths, of their idols.
The original terms insisted on by the Han court were that, first, the chanyu or his representatives should come to the capital to pay homage ; secondly, the chanyu should send a hostage prince ; and thirdly, the chanyu should present tribute to the Han emperor.
Huhanye made two more homage trips, in 49 BC and 33 BC ; with each one the imperial gifts were increased.
In 1329 Duke John of Ścinawa paid homage to King John of Bohemia, who upon the death of John's brother Duke Przemko II of Głogów in 1331 invaded the lands, which were incorporated into the Kingdom of Bohemia and shared the political fortunes of the Silesian crown land.
The dialogue was homage to both the 1948 and 1968 film versions of the story which were in turn based on the original novel.
These bargains were formalized in a ceremony known as " bondage " in which a serf placed his head in the lord's hands, akin to the ceremony of homage where a vassal placed his hands between those of his overlord.
They took it as a homage to the American group, but they changed their name when they were threatened with a lawsuit by the producer duo.
These rumors were based on the poetical homage rendered her by the former and the prolonged stay in Paris of the latter.
There Constantine and his son were offered an honorable capitulation — but were beheaded in September on their way to pay homage to Honorius at Ravenna.
Senior clergy, particularly in the Roman Catholic Church, were to have their rings ( the symbol of their authority ) kissed by lay persons while they were on bended knee, while cardinals in an act of homage at the papal coronation were meant to kiss the feet of the Supreme Pontiff, the Pope.

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