Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

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

Named IBM 4680 OS, IBM originally chose DR Concurrent DOS 286 as the basis of their IBM 4680 computer for IBM Plant System products and Point-of-Sale terminals in 1986.

* Trinocs: Named for their three eyes ; they also have three fingers on each hand and a triangular mouth.

Named by humans for the creatures in H. G.

She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a

He initially gained popularity for recreating the role as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a Tennessee Williams play that had established him as a Broadway star during its 1947-49 stage run ; and for his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One ( 1953 ), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.

Brando brought his performance as Stanley Kowalski to the screen in Kazan's adaptation of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for that role, and again in each of the next three years for his roles in Viva Zapata!

Riccardo Gaudino, historian for the America500 Birthday Extravaganza Movement ( 2007 – 12 ) led the campaign for Who Named America?

Named for the god Nergal, it may have been used for some ceremonial purpose, as it is the only known gate flanked by stone sculptures of winged bull-men ( lamassu ).

Named for the god Adad.

Named for the Sun god Shamash, it opens to the road to Arbil.

* Tribunus laticlavius, Broad Band Tribune: Named for the broad striped tunic worn by men of senatorial rank, this tribune was appointed by the emperor or the Senate.

Named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, the first skinheads were greatly influenced by West Indian ( specifically Jamaican ) rude boys and British mods, in terms of fashion, music and lifestyle.

Named for King James I, it was founded in May 1607 by Christopher Newport.

She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O ' Hara, alongside Clark Gable, in the American Civil War drama Gone with the Wind.

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.

* Other dramatisations: 10, 000 Black Men Named George ( 2002 ); Matewan ( 1987 ); American Playhouse —" The Killing Floor " ( 1985 ); Salt of the Earth ( 1954 ); The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ); Black Fury ( 1935 )

Named for Dr. Lewis Holladay, a prominent Virginia physician, the Holladay House has witnessed almost two centuries of American history.

* Named a Bicycle Friendly Community by the League of American Bicyclists

Named after George Washington after it came under American control, the town was first settled during the rule of the Spanish Empire.

Dan Bern's 2001 song " Turning Over ," from the album New American Language, begins " Sittin ' in that town in New Mexico / Named after a game show.

Named after Nathan Hale, a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War who was captured at a tavern in Halesite.

Named for Dr. Joseph Warren, a Patriot and soldier who fell at Bunker Hill in Boston during the American Revolutionary War, it was incorporated in 1779.

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 in honor of the Marquis de la Fayette, a major hero of the American Revolutionary War, Fayette County, West Virginia was created in 1831.

* Named a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 1997.

Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films such as In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, and Road to Perdition.

Named after Robert Fisk, a British journalist and author who writes on the Middle East, the term was employed in 2001 by various American conservative and libertarian bloggers who reposted Fisk's dispatches on their own blogs, along with paragraph-by-paragraph commentary that challenged, countered, and / or mocked Fisk's viewpoints.

Named after an unfinished Blondie song, Parallel Lines was ranked at number 140 on Rolling Stone < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, number eighteen on NME < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 100 Best Albums of All Time, and number seven on Blender < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time.

Named after American soldier, congressman, and folk hero Davy Crockett, it was one of the smallest nuclear weapon systems ever built.

* 12 Kim Hunter, 79, American stage, television and Oscar-winning film actress ( played " Stella Kowalski " in the original Broadway and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire ).

The great American playwright, Tennessee Williams, author of A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie among others, studied theatre and playwriting as an undergraduate student at the University but did not attend The Writers ' Workshop.

Named after the " South American soldier and statesman, Simón Bolívar, then at the height of his power ", Buckner did not begin school until age nine, when he enrolled at a private school in Munfordville.

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 Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers, he is disturbed by the ignorance in modern-day American society and media.

* A Man Named Spade and Other Stories ( 1944 ) ( contains three Sam Spade stories from The American Magazine and Colliers -- listed above )

Named after him are lunar impact crater Urey, asteroid 4716 Urey and the H. C. Urey Prize, awarded for achievement in planetary sciences by the American Astronomical Society.

Alex North ( December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991 ) was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score ( A Streetcar Named Desire ) and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood ( Viva Zapata!