`` 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 for Richard Doyle, who fought during the Barbary Wars and was killed while in service in 1807.

Named after the nearby town of Torres Vedras, they were ordered by Arthur Wellesley, Viscount Wellington, constructed by Sir Richard Fletcher, 1st Baronet and his Portuguese workers between November 1809 and September 1810, and used to stop Masséna's 1810 offensive.

Named to the North Carolina Council of State in 1824, Owen returned to the state senate in 1827 but was elected Governor by the General Assembly in December 1828, narrowly defeating Richard Dobbs Spaight, Jr. in a vote of 96 to 92.

Named by Admiral Richard E Byrd for William Horlick, of the Horlick's Malted Milk Corp., a supporter of the Byrd expedition of 1933-35.

Named by US-ACAN for Richard L. Urbanak, meteorologist at Byrd Station in 1960.

Named by US-ACAN for Richard V. O ' Connell, seismologist at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, winter 1967.

Named in honor of the Mandelbrot set, the Mandelbrot Competition is a mathematics competition founded by Sam Vandervelde, Richard Rusczyk and Sandor Lehoczky that allows high school students to compete individually and in four-person teams.

Named for a Richard Brautigan poem, they formed in 1989.

Named by US-ACAN for Richard L. Armstrong, USARP geologist at McMurdo Station, 1967-68.

Named The Blue Gardenia Murderess by newspaper columnist Casey Mayo ( Richard Conte ), Norah tries to remember the details of her ill-fated night.

Named after Richard Treacy Henry the pioneer conservationist, and from 1894 to 1910, custodian of Resolution Island, New Zealand he was the last known survivor of his species from mainland New Zealand and was believed to be more than 100 years old.

Named after the latter, the movie starred Richard Todd as Gibson and Michael Redgrave as Barnes Wallis.

Richard Kipling, " A Scholar Named Mr. Justice Linde ," Western Law Journal Newspaper ( then published by L. A. Daily Journal ), March – April, 1980, p. 1

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

Named in honor of A. Barton Hepburn.

Named after the American architect, Walter Burley Griffin, designer of the cities of Canberra and Griffith, the highway links the two cities via Yass and the Barton Highway.

Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.

Named for Justin Smith Morrill who created the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, Morrill Hall was completed in 1891.

Named Paolo, this ghola is to be " conditioned " by Khrone's sadistic ghola of Baron Harkonnen to become a twisted version of Paul, who will serve the shadowy needs of Krone's mysterious masters, Daniel and Marty.

Named after Scottish anatomist Charles Bell, who first described it, Bell's palsy is the most common acute mononeuropathy ( disease involving only one nerve ) and is the most common cause of acute facial nerve paralysis.

Named for Hans Christian Ørsted ( often rendered Oersted in English ; 14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851 ), a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism.

Malden was a first-generation Serbian-American who won the 1951 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in A Streetcar Named Desire and was nominated in 1954 for his supporting role in On the Waterfront.

Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and " warrior priest " who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782 ; known alternately as " Serra's Chapel " and " Father Serra's Church ," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that the padre Junipero Serra celebrated mass.

Named for Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, whose name has also been honored in De Soto County, Hernando County was briefly renamed Benton County in 1844 for Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton, a strong supporter of territorial expansion who aided in the county's creation.

Named after his maternal grandfather, Romanos was married, as a child, to Bertha, the illegitimate daughter of Hugh of Arles, King of Italy, who changed her name to Eudokia after her marriage.

She won the Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with Katherine Cornell ( who won for the female lead in Antony and Cleopatra ) and Judith Anderson ( for the latter's portrayal of Medea ).

Dillsboro: Named after the Dills Family who founded the town, the township is home to the town of Dillsboro.

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

He wrote " The Father of a Boy Named Sue ", in which he tells the story from the original song from the father's point of view, and the 1962 song " Boa Constrictor ", sung by a man who is being swallowed by a snake ( recorded by the folk group Peter, Paul, and Mary ) although it is now better known as a children's playground chant.

Named after a regular poster who often wrote humorous trolls.

Named after the regular poster ' Captain Gym Z. Quirk ' who first raised this.

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 as Scawfell Island in 1879 by Staff Commander E. P. Bedwell of the British Royal Navy who surveyed and named many islands of the Whitsundays in 1879 in SS Llewellyn.

Named after Thomas Fenwick, a planter from England who settled in Maryland, Fenwick Island lay in the part of Delaware which was claimed by Lord Baltimore and his heirs during the Penn-Baltimore border dispute.

by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr .. Christopher Walken and Susan Sarandon portray two painfully shy people who find one another through a community theater production of " A Streetcar Named Desire ", in which they portray the tempestuous Stanley and Stella Kowalski.

Named after Riley Jean Tomlinson, a local toddler who accidentally drowned in a swimming pool, the park was built in 2001 and contains two-and three-story wooden castles and other structures for children's play ( along with swings, slides, and similar playground equipment ).

Named in honor of Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis R. Jewell, Sixth Kansas Cavalry, who died November 30, 1862, of wounds received in the battle of Cane Hill, Ark.

Named for Captain Paschal Hickman, a Kentucky officer who was killed by Indians in the Massacre of the River Raisin during the War of 1812, it is the county seat of Fulton County.

Named for Luther Conant who taught for 17 years in the school district, served on the School Committee, and was Town Moderator for 40 years.