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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 by one of the founders ( General J. A.

Named after Fremont, Nebraska, the hometown of two of its founders, L. H. Griffith and E. Blewett, it is situated along the Fremont Cut of the Lake Washington Ship Canal to the north of Queen Anne, the east of Ballard, the south of Phinney Ridge, and the southwest of Wallingford.

Named after its founders — Thomas Burgess ( 1756 – 1837 ), Thomas Bowdler ( 1754 – 1825 ) and Thomas Phillips ( 1760 – 1851 ) — it is a resource for teaching, research and scholarship within the University.

Named for one of the Pern colony founders, Admiral Paul Benden, Benden Weyr was first led by M ' hall ( Michael Connell ), rider of bronze Brianth and son of the Fort Weyr Weyrleaders, and his weyrmate Torene, rider of gold Alaranth.

Named after John Oliver ( 1856 – 1927 ), Premier of British Columbia.

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

Named in honor of the late legendary sports broadcaster and former Basketball Hall of Fame President Curt Gowdy, the prestigious awards are given annually to one member of the print and one member of the electronic media whose efforts have made a significant contribution to the game of basketball.

* McNulty Hall – Named for Msgr.

Named to the Academic All-American Hall of Fame in 2001 and as such received the Dick Enberg Award.

* Named to the Mariners Hall of Fame

Named for its primary legislative sponsor, state senator Timothy Sullivan, a Tammany Hall politician, it dates to 1911, and is still in force, making it one of the older existing gun control laws in the United States.

* Buck Shaw Stadium: Named after Lawrence T. " Buck " Shaw, the school's football coach ( 1936 – 1942 ) and an inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame.

Named for shipbuilder Winslow Hall, the city of Winslow was incorporated on August 23, 1947 ; on February 28, 1991, the City of Winslow annexed the rest of the island, officially becoming the City of Bainbridge Island, Washington.

* Gregory Hall Named for twenty-year, SUNY Fredonia President Dr. Leslie R. Gregory, Gregory Hall is the oldest residence hall on campus, opened in 1950.

* Alumni Hall Named in appreciation of the contributions of Fredonia's alumni, Alumni Hall opened in 1957.

* Nixon Hall Named for Samuel Frederick Nixon, member of the Fredonia Council from 1932 to 1952, formerly President of the Chautauqua and Erie and Dunkirk and Fredonia Telephone Companies, member of the American Association of Museums, Vice President of the Genesee Historical Society, and Trustee and President of the Chautauqua County Historical Society ; Nixon Hall opened in 1963.

* McGinnies Hall Named for Joseph A. McGinnies, member and speaker of the New York State Assembly from 1916 to 1935 and member of the Fredonia Normal Board for Visitors for twenty years, McGinnies Hall opened in 1959.

* Chautauqua Hall Named for Chautauqua County, Chautauqua Hall opened in 1962.

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 for Dr. Robert Kasling, professor of Geography for twenty-one years who last taught the class of 1967, Kasling Hall opened in 1970.

Named for famous cartoonist and “ Peanuts ” comic strip illustrator Charles Schulz, Schulz Hall opened in 1970.

Named for famous short-story writer, journalist and novelist Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway Hall opened in 1970.

* Named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1986

Named after the late Robert Hanneman, Jr., a potato geneticist at the University of Wisconsin and friend of the college, Hanneman Hall houses Maranatha's nursing program and science department.