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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 ).

Named " Madelyne Pryor ", the unaware clone meets Cyclops in a situation engineered by Sinister and the two fall in love, marry, and have a child, Nathan Christopher Summers.

Named after John Hassell, a retired sea captain, who was responsible for opening up extensive areas in the south of the State during the 1850s as he extended his pastoral leases east from Frankland as far as Jerramungup.

Named first equerry in March 1627 he became in less than three years captain of the châteaux of St Germain and Versailles, master of the hounds, first gentleman of the bed-chamber, royal councillor and governor of Meulan and of Blaye.

Named captain of the team in 1992 ( after serving as a co-captain in 1990 – 91 ), Sakic is regarded as one of the most able team leaders in league history and was able to motivate his team to play at a winning level.

Named the Flames captain at the start of the 2003 – 04 season, Iginla was the first black captain in NHL history.

* Named captain of the Cold, Hard Football Facts. com " All-Time 11 " ( 2006 )

Named captain in 1922, Conacher led the Argonauts to another undefeated season in IRFU play, finishing with five wins and one tie, as he rushed for 950 yards.

Named captain as a sophomore, Carroll tied the school record for most assists in a game with 3 and finished the year as a second-team All-ACC selection.

Named captain in 1951, Schmidt won the Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player that year.

Named an alternate captain in 2006 – 07, he appeared in 62 games, scoring ten points.

Named the team's captain after the trade of longtime captain Bob Nevin, he became the first Ranger-and only the sixth NHL player-to score 50 goals in a season, nearly doubling his previous best marks ; with his linemates Ratelle and Gilbert, the GAG Line totalled 139 goals and 325 points en route to leading the team to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Named for American Revolutionary war soldier Cornelius Harnett, who was also a delegate to the Continental Congress.

Named after General José Antonio Mexía, a Hispanic hero for the Republic of Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, the town was founded near his estate.

Named after the mythical beast qilin, Kylin () is an operating system developed by academics at the National University of Defense Technology in the People's Republic of China, and approved for use by the People's Liberation Army.

Named for his beloved association with San Antonio, Texas, and the Alamo, Krueger envisioned that the Alamo Scouts, consisting of small teams of highly trained volunteers, would operate deep behind enemy lines to provide intelligence-gathering and tactical reconnaissance in advance of Sixth U. S. Army landing operations.

Named after Major General James Birdseye McPherson, this fort was founded by the U. S. Army in September 1885.

Named in 1883 by Frederick Schwatka, US Army officer and explorer, after James Gordon Bennett Jr ( 1841 – 1918 ), editor of the New York Herald, who was sponsor of Schwatchka's search for the remains of the Franklin Expedition, 1878-81.

Named after famous Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, Hawkins was born in the U. S. Army hospital at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Named after Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army, Sherman's neckties were railway rails destroyed by heating them until they were malleable and twisting them into loops resembling neckties, often around trees.

Named after Raja Udham Singh, it serves as the district capital and the Northern Command headquarters of the Indian Army.

Named after William Petty, Marquess of Lansdowne, second Earl of Shelburne ( family name Petty-FitzMaurice ), Shelbourne Road runs south-east from Haddington Road and skirts the site of the former British Army barracks at Beggars Bush.

Named after a weapon ( sabre ) used by soldiers on horseback, the term originated in cavalry and horse artillery units of the British Army.