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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 ).

* Other dramatisations: 10, 000 Black Men Named George ( 2002 ); Matewan ( 1987 ); American Playhouse —" The Killing Floor " ( 1985 ); Salt of the Earth ( 1954 ); The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ); Black Fury ( 1935 )

Named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788.

Named in honor of George and Ira Gershwin, this newly created award recognizes the profound and positive effect of popular music on the world ’ s culture.

Named after George Washington, first President of the United States of America, the area was first settled by those seeking both economic and political freedoms in this frontier land of vast timber and mineral resources.

Named for President George Washington, it is the smallest county in Oklahoma in total area, adjacent to the largest county in Oklahoma, Osage County.

Named in honor of George Washington, the City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital.

Named in honor of 2d Lieutenant George Allison Whiteman ( 1919 – 1941 ).

Named for its first postmaster, George Deming, its population was 353 at the 2010 census.

Named after Britain's King George III, George Town is located on the north-east corner of Penang Island.

Named for Captain George Vancouver, the fort was located on the northern bank of the Columbia River in present-day Vancouver, Washington, near Portland, Oregon.

Named in the list of beneficiaries were British MP George Galloway and his charity, the Mariam Fund ; former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua ; and Shaker al-Kaffaji, an Iraqi-American businessman, India's foreign minister, Natwar Singh, was removed from office because of his role in the scandal.

* George Caleb Bingham Middle School ( Formerly George Caleb Bingham 7th Grade Center ) In The Independence Public School District in Independence, Missouri Was Named After Him Because he served on the Independence Public School District Board Of Education.

* Heyer-Bayer Park – Named after longtime Irondequoit residents Arthur F. Heyer and George Bayer who donated the land to the town

Named in honor of the conductor George Georgescu ( 1887 – 1964 ), an important figure in the development of Romanian classical music who was born in the Tulcea county, the contest was at first open only to Romanian music school and high school students but began admitting international students in 1995.

; New Brunswick: Named in honour of the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the future King George IV of the United Kingdom, son of King George III of the United Kingdom.

; Prince Edward Island: Named in 1798 after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the son of King George III of the United Kingdom and lieutenant-general in British army in Canada.

Named for General ' Chinese ' Charles George Gordon of the British army, who was killed during the Mahdi uprising in 1885, it was officially opened on 8 November 1902 by Kitchener himself.

Shorty George: Named for George Snowden.

Named after actor Gary Cooper, Gary R. Stewart was born in the Letcher County, Kentucky, town of Jenkins, the son of George and Georgia Stewart.