" Dr. Silverstein recalls he chose the name after perusing a book of mythology at home one evening, early in 1960.

Radim chose a clerical career as did Adalbert, and took the name Gaudentius.

Hevelius chose the name Asterion ( from the Greek ' αστέριον, meaning the " little star ", the diminutive of ' αστηρ the " star ", or adjective meaning " starry ") for the northern dog and Chara ( from the Greek χαρά, meaning " joy ") for the southern dog, as Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, in his star atlas.

Somers asked the local newspapers to come up with a new name, and they chose " Indians ".

In 1903, the 16-year-old Chiang went to Ningbo to be a student, and he chose a " school name " ( 學名 ).

) The school name that Chiang chose for himself was Zhiqing (; means " purity of intentions ").

At that time, church affiliation was required to register for conscientious objector status, and in 1865 Thomas chose for registration purposes the name Christadelphian.

As the French colony of Middle Congo ( Moyen Congo ) also chose the name Republic of Congo upon receiving its independence, the two countries were more commonly known as Congo-Léopoldville and Congo-Brazzaville, after their capital cities.

James Joaquin chose the name Dylan for " DYnamic LANguage.

Thomas ' father chose the name Dylan, which could be translated as " son of the sea ", after Dylan ail Don, a character in The Mabinogion.

( His parents chose " his kooky name "— he would be known as Zowie for the next 12 years — after the Greek word zoe, life.

She chose that name after being told by producer Lee Shubert to drop her real name and claims she was inspired by two cosmetics bottles in her dressing room, one labeled Evening in Paris and the other by Elizabeth Arden.

The person credited with the second vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction " vermouth " in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, a herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.

Popper chose falsifiability as the name of this criterion.

He chose the name " to denote the general appearance of a solution of sulphate of quinine and similar media ".

The House takes its name from Habsburg Castle, a fortress built around 1020 – 1030 in present day Switzerland by Count Radbot of Klettgau, who chose to name his fortress Habsburg.

Orton chose the name as an allusion to Terence Rattigan's " Aunt Edna ", Rattigan's archetypal playgoer.

Although the indigenous Gilbertese language name for the Gilbert Islands proper is Tungaru, the new state chose the name " Kiribati ," the Gilbertese rendition of " Gilberts ," as an equivalent of the former colony to acknowledge the inclusion of islands which were never considered part of the Gilberts chain.

He chose the name lutecium for the new element but in 1949 the spelling of element 71 was changed to lutetium.

It may be assumed that her preferred name was " Marina " or " Doña Marina ," since she chose it and it has not acquired the negative connotations that engulfed the name " Malinche " after her death.

The first Acadian settlers in the Moncton area established a marshland farming community and chose to name their settlement Le Coude ( The Elbow ).

He chose a medieval legend of incest, Gregorius Vom Stein, and freely borrowed and parodied other myths of the West, mixing themes, language, peoples and times in a master myth in which the old forms continually renew themselves, as in his previous treatment of Joseph.

Due to the large percussion section utilized in the Broadway musical West Side Story, composer Leonard Bernstein chose to utilize a string section without violas.

His realms appear to have been divided with the West Saxons recognising Ælfweard while the Mercians chose Æthelstan who had been raised at Æthelflæd's court.

The London Docklands Development Corporation ( LDDC ), needing to provide public transport cheaply for the former docks area to stimulate regeneration, considered several proposals and chose a light rail scheme using dock railway infrastructure to link the West India Docks to Tower Hill and to run alongside the Great Eastern line out of London to a northern terminus at, where a disused bay platform at the west of the station was available, for interchange with the Central Line and main lines.

Tension from the incompatibility of the two aims grew: whoever chose Rome and the West must renounce the East, and vice versa.

West Berlin inevitably chose the Kurfürstendamm and the area around the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, while East Berlin built up Alexanderplatz and turned Frankfurter Allee ( which they renamed Stalinallee in 1949, Karl-Marx-Allee in 1961 ), into their own showpiece boulevard.

In the West in about the year 500, Benedict became so upset by the immorality of society in Rome that he gave up his studies there and chose the life of an ascetic monk in the pursuit of personal holiness, living as a hermit in a cave near the rugged region of Subiaco.

After the 1863 Wheeling Convention, 48 counties in the northwest separated to form a new state of West Virginia, which chose to remain loyal to the Union.

Therefore Gaiseric freed Licinia Eudoxia ( thus fulfilling Daniel's prophesy ) and her daughter Placidia ( Olybrius ' wife ), but did not stop his raids on Italian's coasts, in order to press for the election of his candidate on the Western throne, but his project failed, because Ricimer, who had become the Magister militum of the West, chose Libius Severus as new Emperor ( 461 – 465 ).

It was designed and implemented by Senemut at a site on the West Bank of the Nile River near the entrance to what now is called the Valley of the Kings because of all the pharaohs who later chose to associate their complexes with the grandeur of hers.

The remaining pre-war population was treated as Germanized Poles and a policy of re-Polonization was pursued throughout the country Most of these " Autochthones " chose to emigrate to West Germany from the 1950s through 1970s ( between 1970 and 1988 55, 227 persons from Warmia and Masuria moved to Western Germany ).

The British, however, on their arrival in the late eighteenth ( 18th ) century, chose to develop Calcutta, now the capital city of West Bengal, as their commercial and administrative center in South Asia.

The most influential man in the West, Castinus, chose as his successor Joannes, a high-ranking officer.

Arnold, whose business activities before the war had included sailing ships to Europe and the West Indies, carefully chose the site where he wanted to meet the British fleet.

Rosenberg chose his new name from Esquire magazine articles he read about then West German economics minister Ludwig Erhard and the philosopher and physicist Werner Heisenberg.

Olgilvie ) or Hesperia ( meaning " Star of the West "), he chose Moline.

The subsequent discovery of natural gas on West 3rd Street in 1888 boosted the town ’ s growth even further as several additional industries chose to locate there.

Grover's Mill in West Windsor was the site Orson Welles chose for the Martian invasion in his 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.

As Aspar could not sit on the throne because of his barbaric origin, he opposed Anthemius whose prestige would have made him independent and chose a low-ranking military officer, Leo ; in the West, as his barbaric origin barred Ricimer from the throne, it was Majorian who received the purple.

While serving as an instructor at West Point, Moore taught then-Cadet Norman Schwarzkopf, who called Moore one of his " heroes ," and cites Moore as the reason he chose the infantry branch upon graduation.

The motorway engineers here chose to follow the route of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway engineered by Joseph Locke ( now part of the West Coast Main Line ) where the motorway runs in a split-level cutting above the railway in the descent from Shap Fell through the Lune Gorge into southern Cumbria.

After 1976 the majority of émigrés who left on visas for Israel ' dropped out ' in Vienna and chose to resettle in the West.

Not all chose to return to the West, however.

At Lord's the West Indies chose to bat and reached 324 / 5 before Snow took 5 / 114 to get them out for 380.