`` 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 its sponsor, South Carolina Senator Ben Tillman, the Tillman Act prohibited corporations and nationally chartered ( interstate ) banks from making direct financial contributions to federal candidates.

Named for Revolutionary War leader Robert Anderson, the county is located in northwestern South Carolina, along the Georgia border.

Named for Julia McCarthy who taught at the South Acton School from 1906 to 1952 and Marion Towne who was a teacher in the primary and secondary schools in Acton from 1921 to 1959.

Named for the Sisseton ( or Sissetowan ) division of the Native American Sioux, the city is located a few miles north of the tribal seat of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate at Agency Village, South Dakota.

Named after Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, Phillip Island forms a natural breakwater for the shallow waters of Western Port.

Named in honor of Corporal John Collier, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his service during the Korean War, this sports complex is located on Yongsan South Post and features basketball, racquetball, volleyball, baseball, softball, aerobic, and weight training facilities, and also offers authorized patrons a variety of instructor-lead fitness training programs.

Named in honor of the leading American general of the Revolution, Washington Allston graduated from Harvard College in 1800 and moved to Charleston, South Carolina for a short time before sailing to England in May 1801.

Named after the Trinity River, which flows between Fort Worth and Dallas, the TRE was launched on December 30, 1996, shortly after the inaugural service of Dallas ' light rail system, operating from Union Station to the South Irving Station in Irving.

Named after the Monaro region in New South Wales ( although pronounced differently ), the Monaro was introduced in July 1968 as a two-door pillarless hardtop coupe available in three models: the basic Monaro coupe, Monaro ' GTS ' coupe and Monaro ' GTS 327 ' coupe.

Named in an attempt to encourage more tourism traffic through the lands of various AmerInd tribes in southern South Dakota, it passes through or near the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation, the Rosebud Indian Reservation, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, crossing the James River Valley, the Missouri River near Fort Randall Dam, portions of Pine Ridge, and the High Plains of South Dakota, connecting the urban areas of the middle Missouri River with the Black Hills.

Named simply after its position within the ground, the South Stand was originally an undeveloped embankment which was later remodelled as a standing terrace.

* Golden Loop ( Originally Named White Lightnin ') at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Named after Tony Maloney, a long-time Luna Park employee, Maloney's Corner was built on land purchased from the New South Wales government and the State Rail Authority during the 1994 development, so that supports for the Big Dipper could be built.

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for John C. Albright, United States Antarctic Research Program ( USARP ) geologist on the South Pole-Queen Maud Land Traverse, 1964-65.

Named for Captain Carl Anton Larsen, the master of the Norwegian whaling vessel Jason, who sailed along the ice front as far as 68 ° 10 ' South during December 1893.

Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant John R. Swadener, U. S. Navy, navigator of the ski-equipped R4D in which Rear Admiral George J. Dufek made the first aircraft landing at the geographic South Pole, on October 31, 1956.

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

Named by US. ACAN for Jay T. Shurley, biologist at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, summer 1966-67.

Named by US-ACAN for Lt. Sidney Tolchin ( MC ) U. S. Navy, officer in charge of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the winter of 1959.

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for Stephen E. Terwileger, hospital corpsman at South Pole Station in 1967.

Named after the song " My Petite Bijou " by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross ( bijou means ' jewel ' in French ), Phillips was born in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and is the daughter of John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas and his then-wife Geneviève Waïte, a South African model, artist, and actress.

* Named the 2012 South Korea International Law Firm of the Year at the Chambers Asia-Pacific Awards.

Named after Hendrik van der Bijl, an electrical engineer and industrialist, Vanderbijlpark is home to Vanderbijlpark Steel ( previously part of ISCOR ( South African Iron and Steel Corporation ), now part of the global company ArcelorMittal ).