" Some of the high honors ZZ Top have achieved include induction into Hollywood's RockWalk in 1994, the Texas House of Representatives naming them " Official Heroes for the State of Texas ", a declaration of " ZZ Top Day " in Texas by then-governor Ann Richards on May 4, 1991, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

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.

The Texas state legislature created the county in 1854, naming it after James Coryell.

* The Eagle Extra-Weekly newspaper, first published on June 21, 2007 as ' The Eagle ', then changed to ' The Eagle Extra ' on March 6, 2008 due to a naming conflict with The Eagle newspaper in Texas.

On July 22, 1881, Bowie incorporated as a city in Montague County, Texas, naming itself after James Bowie.

On May 13, 2010, the Marshall City Commission enacted an official declaration naming Marshall as the " birthplace " of boogie-woogie music, and embarked on a program to encourage additional historical research and to stimulate interest in and appreciation for the early African-American culture in northeast Texas that played a vital role in creating boogie-woogie music.

The city of El Paso, Texas later honored Robbins by naming a park and a recreational center after him.

The Smirnoff company had the naming rights to the Smirnoff Music Centre, a concert amphitheater in Dallas, Texas from 2000-2008.

The naming system followed the RCA convention of CA for analog, CD for digital, but did not relate to the Texas Instruments SN7400 series numbering scheme.

An example of benign usage was the previous naming of Boondocks Road in Jefferson County, Texas, originally named " Jap Road " when it was built in 1905 to honor a popular local rice farmer from Japan.

Generally, roads found west of ( or Interstate 35 in some locations ) are designated Ranch to Market Roads, while those located east of US 281 are designated Farm to Market Roads, though there are exceptions to this naming system, such as in Henderson County in East Texas or in Reeves County West Texas.

United Supermarkets owns the naming rights to United Spirit Arena at Texas Tech University.

Cisneros ’ mayoral success for elevating San Antonio ’ s reputation and economic base as a leading city in the nation led to Texas Monthly in 1999 naming him its Texas Mayor of the Century.

Tri Polyta ( formally PT Tri Polyta Indonesia Tbk ) brought a lawsuit in the district court of Serang, naming ninety-seven defendants, including AIM Capital Management, Houston, Texas ; Cargill Financial Services Corp., Minnetonka, Minn .; Invista Capital Management, Des Moines, Iowa ; BNP Paribas Asset Management, New York ; Oaktree Capital Management, Los Angeles, Calif .; Cerberus Capital Management, New York ; Euroclear, Brussels, Belgium ; Millennium Partners, New York.

TRMPAC was founded on September 5, 2001, with the goal of naming a Republican Speaker in Texas and promoting the Republican party's agenda within the state.

* Private Mew, from Brownsville, Texas, who has no family back home but finds one in the outfit, exemplified by his naming beneficiaries for his G. I.

Sixth Street was formerly named Pecan Street under Austin's older naming convention, which had east-west streets named after trees and north-south streets named after Texas rivers ( the latter convention remains in place ).

Santos " Sandy " Alomar, Sr., or in the Spanish naming system Santos Alomar Conde (; ; born October 19, 1943 in Salinas, Puerto Rico ) is a former Major League Baseball second baseman who played for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves ( 1964 – 66 ), New York Mets ( 1967 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1967 – 69 ), California Angels ( 1969 – 74 ), New York Yankees ( 1974 – 76 ), and Texas Rangers ( 1977 – 78 ).

During the course of his work in Texas, Pearson founded the town of Natalia, naming it after his daughter, Natalie Pearson Nicholson.

The University of Texas honored legendary football coach Darrell K Royal, who never served, but did lead Texas to three national championships and eleven Southwest Conference titles, by officially naming the stadium after him in 1996.

Progressive Farmer magazine honors Kent County and Chestertown by naming it # 1 in Best Rural Places to Live in America for 2008.

Shot in black-and-white, Mala Noche earned its director almost overnight acclaim on the festival circuit, with the Los Angeles Times naming it the year's Best Independent Film.

People is perhaps best known for its yearly special issues naming " Most Beautiful People ", " The Best Dressed ", and " The Sexiest Man Alive ".

On December 14, 2009, a new lawsuit was filed naming fourteen defendants including Best Buy, JVC, Samsung and others.

Eurogamer commended Elaine's design as " worthy of acclaim ", naming her the " Best Female Supporting Character " in their 2001 annual Gaming Globes awards, while IGN described her alongside Guybrush and LeChuck as one of " the most beloved adventure characters of all time ".

In 2009, Car and Driver effectively recanted naming the Alliance to their 1983 Ten Best list, stating, " the Alliance proved that Wisconsin workers could assemble a Renault with the same indifference to quality that was a hallmark of the French automotive industry.

Streep and Hathaway received most of the critical attention initially, but Blunt proved to be equally memorable, with Entertainment Weekly naming her the Best Female Scene-Stealer in their end-of-summer special issue.

IGN lamented that its experimental style was not conducive to high sales, naming it GameCube's Best Game No One Played in their 2005 awards.

“ After naming Lynds the Best Suspense writer of the 1970s ”, Baker and Nietzel continue, “ the Crime Literature Association of West Germany praised him as follows:

Adobe's Coding Conventions and Best Practices suggests naming standards for ActionScript that are mostly consistent with those of ECMAScript.

They have received industry awards from publications such as Fortune in the United States, which named Cintas among its " Most Admired Companies " for eight consecutive years, and Report on Business Magazine, naming the company one of Canada's Best Employers.

Yes released their seventeenth studio album, Open Your Eyes, in November 1997 on the Beyond Music label, who ensured that the group had greater control in packaging and naming the album.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono paid tribute to the show in the naming of their second album, Unfinished Music No. 2: Life with the Lions.

First American was very visible in the Nashville area and carried a large load of sponsorships, most notably the now-closed First American Music Center, to which it held naming rights for just one season before selling to AmSouth.

Prior to the 1999 season, naming rights were sold to locally-based First American National Bank for five years, and the venue was renamed First American Music Center.

Music was also negative, naming the song " agonising " and said that " this is a track so insulting in its cynical appropriation of hip-hop culture that you almost fail to notice that lyric: ' Used to have a little / Now I've got a lot / I'm still Jenny from the block.

Yet, even after all these stratagems, the conscience of Christian liberality is still not laid to rest, any more than is the conscience of Harvard University for having done the abject penance for its rejection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Divinity School Address of naming its hall of philosophy after him.

In order to help reestablish his name and improve the image of his business from the earlier controversies associated with the dangerous explosives, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance " Nobel's Safety Powder ", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for ' power '.

* 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.

The Academy for Science and Design in New Hampshire honored Albertus by naming one of its four houses Magnus House.

For instance, patients with naming deficits ( anomic aphasia ) might show an inability only for naming buildings, or people, or colors.

Note electrode naming for diodes is always based on the direction of the forward current ( that of the arrow, in which the current flows " most easily "), even for types such as Zener diodes or solar cells where the current of interest is the reverse current.

During this year the Navy and Air Force agreed on standardized naming conventions for their missiles.

Yet another explanation is that, while derived from the afore mentioned root, the name of the sea is related to naming for various forms of water and related substances in several European languages, that might have been originally associated with colors found in swamps.

In 1754 Carl von Linné ( Carl Linnaeus ) divided the plant Kingdom into 25 classes in a taxonomy with a standardized binomial naming system for animal and plant species.

There was an element naming controversy as to what the elements from 104 to 106 were to be called ; the IUPAC adopted unnilseptium ( symbol Uns ) as a temporary, systematic element name for this element.

In 1994 a committee of IUPAC recommended that element 107 be named bohrium, not nielsbohrium, since there was no precedence for using a scientist's complete name in the naming of an element.

The naming scheme for " Bollywood " was inspired by " Tollywood ", the name that was used to refer to the cinema of West Bengal.

The naming of this son was to stand as a prophecy against the reigning house of the Northern Kingdom, that they would pay for that bloodshed.

The name " baryon " comes from the Greek word for " heavy " ( βαρύς, barys ), because, at the time of their naming, most known elementary particles had lower masses than the baryons.

A legacy of this ballot measure that survives was the naming of streets in the vicinity of the proposed capitol grounds for the counties of California.

In the 1994 edition, the name of the entry was changed to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as it is officially recognised by the United Nations ( awaiting for the resolution of the Macedonia naming dispute ).

Generally it refers to a system for naming chemical compounds.

There are well-defined systems in place for naming chemical species.

# phylogenetic systematics, which uses the above together with the principle of only naming clades as its source of information for taxonomy.

The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) divides the waters of the Columbia and its tributaries into three freshwater ecoregions, naming them: Columbia Glaciated, Columbia Unglaciated, and Upper Snake.

This practice can lead to the controversial question of which research group actually discovered an element, a question that has delayed naming of elements with atomic number of 104 and higher for a considerable time.

The Cahn – Ingold – Prelog rules are distinctly different from those of other naming conventions, such as general IUPAC nomenclature, since they are designed for the specific task of naming stereoisomers rather than the general classification and description of compounds.