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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 after the protagonist in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, a role his father played in the Royal Shakespeare Company and he would later play himself, Rafe always had ambitions to act.

Named after François Viète ( more commonly referred to by the Latinised form of his name, Franciscus Vieta ), the formulas are used specifically in algebra.

Alex North ’ s score for the 1951 film version of A Streetcar Named Desire was released on a 10-inch LP by Capitol Records and sold so well that the label later re-released it on one side of a 12-inch LP with some of Max Steiner's film music on the reverse.

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.

* Isao Tomita ’ s 1978 album Kosmos features a track titled “ The Sea Named ‘ Solaris ’ ”, based upon the character-thematic J. S. Bach music selections in Tarkovsky ’ s film.

Named Murphy ’ s Settlement, Sarah Barton Murphy is known to have assembled the premier Protestant Sunday School west of the Mississippi River.

Named for the nearby creek, Antelope began as a tiny community along the Great Northern Railway ’ s Bainville to Scobey branch line in 1910.

Named after the Oregon county from which the camp ’ s commanding officer hailed, it consisted of a group of cabins along the west bank of Squaw Creek, about three miles northeast of Sisters.

Named after England ’ s Earl of Huntingdon, Huntingdon Township was founded on April 6, 1772 in Pennsylvania.

He began his film career in Hollywood at the age of 10, in Victor Fleming ’ s film A Guy Named Joe, with Spencer Tracy.

2009: Cate Blanchett plays Blanche Dubois in the Sydney Theatre Company ’ s production of A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Liv Ullmann

Named for Bryn Mawr ’ s late professor of Classical Archaeology, the Rhys Carpenter Library was designed by Henry Myerberg of New York and opened in 1997.

Named Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, after her mother, ' Lizzie ' Siddall was born on 25 July 1829, at the family ’ s home at 7 Charles Street, Hatton Garden.

Named after the 16th century king of Poland of Hungarian extraction, the Foundation ’ s mission is to support the development of an open, democratic society in Poland and other Central and East European countries.

Named after her father ’ s favorite character — Ethel in William Makepeace Thackeray ’ s The Newcomes — she was one of the twentieth century ’ s most elegant, beautiful and gifted actresses.

Named in honor of Western writer Wallace Stegner, the annual lecture features discussions about the writer ’ s relationship with the physical and psychological territories in which he or she resides.

* Named a “ visionary ” as one of Utne Reader magazine ’ s “ 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World ” 2008

Named for one of the United States ’ original seven astronauts and the first person in space twice, Virgil T. “ Gus ” Grissom, Grissom Hall opened in 1967.

Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, restaurants, hotels, an Amtrak station, a San Francisco Bay Ferry ferry dock, the historic Heinold ’ s First and Last Chance Saloon, the ( re-located ) cabin Jack London lived in the Klondike, and a movie theater.

Named after Brendan Corish, the local Labour TD, Howlin ’ s father was a trade union official who served as secretary of the Irish Transport and General Workers ' Union in Wexford for 40 years.

* Various Persons Named Kevin O ’ Brien.

Named after the Duke of Richmond, who was the newly appointed Governor General of the Canadas, the village of Richmond was laid out in a grid on the north bank of the Jock River ( which for a while was renamed the Goodwood after the Duke ’ s English estate ).