`` Named after the ballet.

Named after a local brewer.

Named in honor of Neda Soltan, a young woman killed in unrest after the Iranian elections, it planned to offer help with proxy servers and anonymizers.

Named after American revolutionary, patriot, and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972.

Named after the Renaissance astronomer Galileo Galilei, it was launched on October 18, 1989, by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission.

Named for Dr. LaVerne W. Noyes, who also donated the funds to see that Alumni Hall could be completed after sitting unfinished and unused from 1905 to 1907.

Named after Boltzmann's H-theorem, Shannon denoted the entropy H of a

Named after King Amanullah Khan, it is said to be the first, the biggest and the most modern city in the history of Afghanistan.

Named after the Greek goddess Gaia at the suggestion of novelist William Golding, the hypothesis postulates that the biosphere has a regulatory effect on the Earth's environment that acts to sustain life.

Named after Wolfgang Franz von Kobell ( 1803-1882 ), German mineralogist.

Named after the Kickapoo tribe native to the area.

Named after the Roots brothers who designed and invented it, this lobe pump works by displacing the liquid trapped between two long helical twisted rotors, each fitting into the other when perpendicular at 90 °, rotating inside a triangular shaped sealing line configuration, both at the point of suction and at the point of discharge.

One of the first stars in the SAO catalogue to be named after someone is SAO # 13268-Calaunan, Named after Rio Therese Calaunan Capistrano.

Named after the Inklings is The Inklings Society based in Aachen, and their yearbook, Inklings Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik, published from 1983 by Brendow, Moers.

Named after British computer scientist Alan Turing, Turing is used primarily as a teaching language at the high school and university level.

Named after Italy's then dictator prime minister, Benito Mussolini, they were abandoned upon his ousting in 1943, and eventually returned as the Grand International Prize of Venice in 1947 ( see Golden Lion ).

Leigh next sought the role of Blanche DuBois in the West End stage production of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire and was cast after Williams and the play's producer Irene Mayer Selznick saw her in The School for Scandal and Antigone ; Olivier was contracted to direct.

Named after the nearby city of Winona, Winona Laura Horowitz was born in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

Named after Meriwether Lewis and after Victor Trevitt's hometown of Lewiston, Maine ; but people don't know that was the reason Vic Trevitt shouted the idea out.

; Named after Imam Hasan ibn Ali

Named after Henry L. Stimson, United States Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration ( 1929 – 1933 ), the policy followed Japan's unilateral seizure of Manchuria in northeastern China following action by Japanese soldiers at Mukden ( now Shenyang ), on September 18, 1931.

Named after her deceased older sister.

He became " one of the consummate filmmakers of the 20th century " after directing a string of successful films, including, A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and East of Eden ( 1955 ).

Named by the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition ( 1958 – 59 ) after Vida ( Vaida ), a sledge dog of the Nimrod Expedition, 1910-13.

Named the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCAMLR-pronounced camel-lahr ), it now manages the fin fish ( mostly toothfish ) and krill fisheries in the Southern Ocean.

Named by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition ( NZGSAE ) ( 1961-62 ) because of their general inaccessibility.

Named by the British Antarctic Expedition ( 1907 – 09 ) for Lt. Georges Lecointe, who was second in command of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition ( 1897 – 99 ) under Adrien de Gerlache.

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for Martin C. Predoehl, United States Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) meteorologist at McMurdo Station, 1961 – 62 and 1962-63.

Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition ( NZGSAE ) ( 1961-62 ) for Prince Andrew, Duke of York, son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for James S. Sherwin, ionospheric scientist at Little America V, 1958.

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for John C. Albright, United States Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) geologist on the South Pole-Queen Maud Land Traverse, 1964-65.

Named by US-ACAN for Bela Csejtey, U. S. Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) geologist at McMurdo Station, 1962-63.

Named by US-ACAN for Charles H. Summerson, U. S. Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) geologist to the Mount Weaver area, 1962-63.

Named by US-ACAN for Peter R. Vogt, United States Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) geologist at McMurdo Station, 1962-63.

Named by US-ACAN for Arthur J. Boucot, U. S. Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) geologist at Byrd Station and to the Horlick Mountains, 1964-65.

Named by Australasian Antarctic Expedition after the Commonwealth of Australia.

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) ( 2004 ) after James R. Balsley, U. S. Geological Survey, who conducted airborne magnetometer near this peak during U. S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47 ; later Chief, Branch of Geophysics, United States Geological Survey ( USGS ).

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for Henry M. Eldridge, Antarctic cartographer, Branch of Special Maps, U. S. Geological Survey.

Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Argentina, which for many years from 1955 maintained a scientific station on the Filchner Ice Shelf at the General Belgrano or Ellsworth Station site.

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for the Naval Air Station Patuxent River ( at Cedar Point, Maryland ) located on the south side of the mouth of the Patuxent River.

Named by US-ACAN for the U. S. Naval Support Force Antarctica, which provided logistical support for the United States Antarctic Program during this period.

Named by the NZ-APC after Rear Admiral Byrd, US Navy, American Antarctic explorer.