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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 German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldt began as a telegraph station located on the Carlton Trail, a wagon route used in the early days of Western Canada as a route from Fort Garry ( Winnipeg ) to Fort Edmonton.

Named after the Jia River whose course it followed, it ran from Xiazhen ( modern Weishan ) on the shore of Shandong's Weishan Lake to Suqian in Jiangsu.

Barker's Creek: Named for the creek which originates and flows through the township before entering the Tuckasegee River.

Canada: Named for the tall ridges, narrow valleys, and sharp peaks of this part of the county, the main waterway is the East Fork of the Tuckasegee River which flows into the River Township before joining the West Fork, becoming the Tuckasegee River.

Caney Fork: Named for the creek that flows through the township, Caney Fork, which empties into the Tuckasegee River at East LaPorte.

River: Named for the Tuckasegee River, which converges from two streams into one within the township, it is served by NC 107 and NC 281.

Named as an official district as early as 1693, it was bounded on the north by the Little Egg Harbor River ( now known as the Mullica River ), and on the south by the Great Egg Harbor River and its southern branch the Tuckahoe River.

Named after the thundering waters of the Kawarau River.

Named for the slide that was a fixture on the northeast side of the Eel River and the southwest portion of Christian Ridge just to the northwestern edge of town.

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

Named after the old Älvsborg Fortress off shore from Gothenburg, Sweden, it was located on the Delaware River near Alloway Creek.

Named in honor of the county's namesake, Joseph McDowell, the greenway follows the flow of the Catawba River.

Named for the Shenango River, Shenango Township was incorporated in 1796 as a part of Beaver County, Pennsylvania ; Lawrence County did not yet exist.

Named for the Lackawaxen River that flows twelve miles ( 19 km ) through the township, the European-American settlement in 1798 adopted the Lenape name meaning " swift waters ".

Named after the nearby Jordan River, the limits of the city begin on the river's western bank and end in the eastern foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains, where Kennecott Copper Mine, the world's largest man-made excavation is located.

Named after the 3rd Duke of Cleveland, it spans the River Avon at Bathwick, and enabled further development of Georgian Bath to take place on the south side of the river.

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 after Saint Stephen, the city first appears in the historical record in the Middle Ages as Saint-Étienne de Furan ( after the River Furan, an affluent of the Loire ).