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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 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 Tonkawa tribe, the city of Tonkawa was founded in March 1894, by Eli V. Blake and Wiley William Gregory.

Named by the Ojibwe, the neighboring Omanoominii ( the Menominee tribe, whose endonym is Mamaceqtaw, " the people ") is named after this plant.

Named for Veleda, a priestess and prophet of the Germanic tribe of the Bructeri.

Named after the major river that feeds it, this bay area forms part of the traditional homeland of the Wabanaki Indians, in particular the Penobscot tribe ( also named after this river ).

Named after Agilulf, a semi-legendary prince of the Germanic Suebi tribe and descendant of King Hermeric of Galicia, the first duke of their line mentioned in any documents, and probably the first, was Gariwald ( Garibald I ).

Named after the Niani tribe of The Gambia.

Named after Richard Barton who settled in the area in 1841, it was his desire that this section of the native forest should remain whilst the city of Upper Hutt gradually took shape and land was cleared for farming and settling.

Named by colonists after the Duke of Wellington, the native Māori people called it Maungarei and used it for centuries as a pā or hill fort.

Named after the Abbot of Iona Saint Eunan, a native of Donegal and patron saint of the Diocese of Raphoe, it celebrated its centenary in 2006.

Named for historian and diplomat George Bancroft ( 1800 – 1891 ), who negotiated the first of these agreements with Prussia, then known officially as the North German Confederation, the Bancroft treaties were mainly intended to prevent individuals from using naturalization as a way to avoid military service and other legal obligations in their native countries.

Named after her philanthropist grandmother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, she is Rupert Murdoch's second daughter and the eldest of three children born of his second marriage in 1967 to former employee Anna Torv, a Roman Catholic native of Glasgow, Scotland.

Named after the flightless native New Zealand bird, the Takahe, it was initially one of the roadhouses planned by Henry George ( Harry ) Ell as part of his scheme to preserve the natural state of the Port Hills which overlook Christchurch and Lyttelton harbour.

Named for a pioneering Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus ( Jesuit Order ), the Mission is also known as the " place where the water appears ," as there were once natural springs in the area.

Named for the major coal deposits in the area, the county seat and largest city, is Price.

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 for John Charles Major, a representative to the state's 1906 Constitutional Convention, the area was originally settled by large numbers of Kansas Mennonites.

Named for Frederick W. Lander ; chief engineer of a federal wagon route through the area in 1857.

Named for the distinctive emerald green water that fills them, the two lakes created by the original developers of Emerald Hills still exist to enhance the beauty of the area.

Named for Mount Charleston, the highest point in the area, the town is in a valley of the Spring Mountains to the northwest of Las Vegas, noted for its hiking trails, and for the Mount Charleston Lodge, a rustic hotel.

Named for Chester C. Atwood, an early settler of what would later became Hughes County, Oklahoma, an educated farmer, extensive area landowner, and elected Commissioner of Hughes County.

* Named for noted quarries in the area

Named Limekiln Pike, and still in existence today, it was one of the first roads in the area.

Named for the famous coal city Newcastle upon Tyne in England, the area contains large veins of anthracite coal and has a long history of coal mining ; strip mining continues there to the present day.

Named for a herd of elk that wintered in the area, it is part of the Provo – Orem, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Named after St Guthlac, who preached in the area during the 8th century, its name is recorded in the Domesday Book as Goullakarres.

* Marchena ( Bindloe ) Island: Named after Fray Antonio Marchena, it has an area of 130 square km ( 50 sq mi ) and a maximum altitude of 343 m ( 1, 125 ft ).

* Pinzón ( Duncan ) Island – Named after the Pinzón brothers, captains of the Pinta and Niña caravels, it has an area of 18 square km ( 7 sq mi ) and a maximum altitude of 458 m ( 1, 503 ft ).

* Pinta ( Abingdon ) Island – Named after the Pinta caravel, it has an area of and a maximum altitude of.

* Santa Fé ( Barrington ) Island – Named after a city in Spain, it has an area of 24 square km ( 9 sq mi ) and a maximum altitude of 259 m ( 850 ft ).

Named for Brighton, England, it remained a farming and brick-making community until the 20th century, when the town began its evolution into an upscale suburban residential area, occupying some.

Named after Lucille Little, MSU's Little Company is a touring troupe of students in the Theatre Department that performs plays and conducts workshops for up to 100 schools in the area each year.

Named ' SuperSchools ' these new schools are to combine numerous schools in the area.

Named for deceased Lt. Col. Thomas M. Wagner, Fort Wagner measured 250 by, and spanned an area between the Atlantic on the east and an impassable swamp on the west.

Schwab and his KECO Entertainment acquired the group in a management-led LBO from the Taft Broadcasting Company, which had built Kings Island in Cincinnati using cast off rides from Cincinnati's Coney Island and to this day there is a small area in the Cincinnati park called " Coney Island " ( Named " Coney Mall " in later years ) still featuring some of those original rides.

Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of 26 km².