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

Named after Valladolid, at the time the capital of Spain, the first Valladolid in Yucatán was established by Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo's nephew on May 27, 1543 at some distance from the current town, at a lagoon called Chouac-Ha in the municipality of Tizimin.

Named after the Spanish city of Buenavista de Valdavia

Named after Pedro Medina, a Spanish engineer, by Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, New Spain in 1689.

Named " Puerto del Desengano ", Spanish for " bay of disenchantment ", by Alessandro Malaspina in 1792, upon finding that the bay was not the entrance to the legendary Northwest Passage.

Named for Galvarino, the heroic Araucanian chief condemned by the Spanish soldiers to have his hands cut off and then to be freed as a living lesson to other Indians.

Named after the Venerable Bede of England, San Beda College was established by Spanish Benedictine monks in Manila during the onset of the American colonial era.

Named in the 1800s by the Spanish, its name means " Creek of the Wild Pigs.

Named after English explorer William Baffin, it is likely that the island was known to Pre-Columbian Norse of Greenland and Iceland and may be the location of Helluland, spoken of in the Icelandic sagas ( the Saga of Erik the Red ( Eiríks saga rauða ) and the Grœnlendinga saga ).

Named for the famous English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, Raleigh has been home to such famous Mississippians as Governor Robert Lowry, Governor / U. S. Senator Anselm McLaurin and pioneer William H. Hardy.

Named after Antarctic explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, the base is managed by the Australian Antarctic Division ( AAD ).

Named for the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen by the Norwegian expedition of 1928 – 29, under Captain Nils Larsen, while exploring this area in February, 1929.

Named after the famous explorer and politician William Charles Wentworth, the town is 34 km to the west ( via the Calder Highway ) of the Victorian regional city of Mildura.

Named after the First Nations village of Hochelaga encountered in 1535-1536 by the explorer Jacques Cartier, this neighbourhood at one time was believed to be the location of the prehistoric village.

Named for the area's first seigneur and French explorer Robert René Cavelier de La Salle ( born at Rouen, France in 1643, died in Texas in 1687 ).

Named in 1883 by Frederick Schwatka, US Army officer and explorer, after James Gordon Bennett Jr ( 1841 – 1918 ), editor of the New York Herald, who was sponsor of Schwatchka's search for the remains of the Franklin Expedition, 1878-81.

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 by the NZ-APC after Rear Admiral Byrd, US Navy, American Antarctic explorer.

Named Prince of Wales Island by the Scottish Arctic explorer, Dr. John Rae, it was subsequently shortened to Wales Island.

Named after explorer John McDouall Stuart, it was initially created in 1947 as one of the five inaugural electoral divisions of the Northern Territory Legislative Council.

Named in honor of explorer John Charles Frémont and located in the heart of the downtown casino corridor, Fremont Street is ( or was ) the address for many famous casinos such as Binion's Horseshoe, Eldorado Club, Fremont Hotel and Casino, Golden Gate Hotel and Casino, Golden Nugget, The Mint, and the Pioneer Club.

Named for the Dutch explorer Willem Barents ( who actually never sighted the island ), it is a part of Søraust-Svalbard Nature Reserve.

Named after Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez, Galveston's first European settlements on the island were constructed around 1816.

Named regent of France for Louis XV until Louis attained his majority in February 1723, the era of his de facto rule was known as the Regency ( 1715 – 1723 ).

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 after Alphonse de Lamartine, the French poet and historian, who sprang into such wonderful popularity during the French Revolution of 1848.

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 ).

Named Compagnon de la Libération in 1941, he received the Croix de guerre ( War Cross ) with six citations after the Liberation, as well as the medal of the Resistance.

Named after José de Salamanca,

** Named after Louise de La Vallière, her mother's predecessor as Louis XIV's official mistress ; La Vallière was also her godmother ;

Named for M. H. de Young, the San Francisco newspaper magnate, the De Young Museum is a fine arts museum that was opened January 1921.

Named after the chair Bernard Stasi, ombudsman of the ( French ) Republic ( médiateur de la République ) since 1998, and consisting of 20 members ( among which Régis Debray ), it was set up by the president of the Republic Jacques Chirac on 3 July 2003.

Named after the nearby Odéon theatre, the station is located under the Carrefour de l ' Odéon, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

La Salle University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U. S. Named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, the school was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.

: Named after the moving table in La séance de spiritisme ( 1931 ), which is the short that begins the collection.

The song is featured in The Simpsons episodes " A Streetcar Named Marge ", " El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer ( The Mysterious Voyage of Homer )", and " Chief of Hearts ".

Named by the British Antarctic Expedition ( 1907 – 09 ) for Lt. Georges Lecointe, who was second in command of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition ( 1897 – 99 ) under Adrien de Gerlache.

Named after Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton who laid the foundation stone in October 1844, the dock was completed in 1847.

Named for the 10-day Tour de France automobile race, not the famous bicycle race of the same name, a number of 250 GT " Tour de France " Berlinettas were sold for GT races from 1956 through 1959.

Named after Villagarcía de Arosa, a municipality in the province of Pontevedra, Spain, it was only available as a three-door, four-seater hatchback.