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 " Baraka ", its earliest colonizers are later driven out by rivals from Al-Andalus and flee to the Loire Valley, where they found the city of Nsara.

Named for its deeper preorbital constriction.

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 in honor of James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States, the county is located in the east of the state, along its border with New Jersey.

Named by early settler Heman Ely for the French province of Lorraine, its county seat is Elyria and its largest community is the Lake Erie port city of Lorain.

Named as an official district as early as 1693, it was bounded on the north by the Little Egg Harbor River ( now known as the Mullica River ), and on the south by the Great Egg Harbor River and its southern branch the Tuckahoe River.

Named after the Wharncliffe Viaduct, its original name was the " Coach and Horses ".

Named for its founder Robert Scott, the city is the county seat of Jackson County.

One of the most distinguished stories about this city and its people was published in 2005 in the book An Angel Named Zabar.

Named after its founder, Tom McCall, it is situated on the southern shore of Payette Lake, near the center of the Payette National Forest.

Named for its location in a series of lakes, a post office was established in May 1903.

Named after Chief Pontiac, the city was best known throughout its history for its General Motors automobile manufacturing plants including Fisher Body, Pontiac East Assembly ( aka.

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 the " Stanley R. Mickelson Complex " ( northwest of Grand Forks AFB ), the North Dakota ABM site received its complement of nuclear-tipped LIM-49 Spartan and Sprint Missiles during the following spring.

Named for Ambrose Lambert who owned the original townsite, Lambert is contiguous to Yewed to its east.

Named for its founder, Peter Orwig, from West Brunswick Township in 1823.

Named for a Quinault chief in 1905, its population was 824 at the 2000 census.

Named for its first postmaster, George Deming, its population was 353 at the 2010 census.

Named for the Cinque Ports town of Romney, Kent, England by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the town still bears placenames and symbols from its colonial past such as its Marsham Street, named for Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney.

Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and " warrior priest " who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782 ; known alternately as " Serra's Chapel " and " Father Serra's Church ," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that the padre Junipero Serra celebrated mass.

Named after the Gondi people who live there ( though they can also be found in other parts of India ), the name of the ancient continent of Gondwanaland was derived from Gondwana, because some of the earliest rock formations of this continent were first investigated in part of the region, in modern Orissa.

Named Fort Raymond for his son ( also known as Fort Manuel ), it was the first such outpost in the upper Missouri region.

Named after the Thebaid region of ancient Egypt.

Named after the Caucasus region of Circassia.

Named after the Salento region in Italy.

Named after Venezuela's first non-military president, José María Vargas, Vargas comprises a coastal region in the north of Venezuela, bordering Aragua to the west, Miranda to the east, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Capital District to the south.

Named Radio Bundelkhand after the Bundelkhand region of central India where it is located, the radio station is licensed to the Society for Development Alternatives ( DA ) ( a Delhi-based NGO ).

Named for the Saura Native Americans who were early inhabitants of the region, the rocky tops of the Sauratown Mountains are the remnants of a once-broad layer of rock that covered the region.

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 after Edward Colville Griffith who surveyed the region prior to the U. S. purchase.

Named for the 1845 Rancho Cuyamaca Mexican land grant, the region is now dominated by the Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.

Named cultivars from this region include ' Eisregen ', ' Eiswinter ', ' Karl Fuchs ', ' Kashmir ', ' Polar Winter ', and ' Shalimar '.

Named by the northern party of the NZGSAE which explored this area, 1963 – 64, for the international harmony existing in Antarctica and in particular for the fact that five nations participated in exploration of this region.

Named after Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, the University is residential cum affiliating in nature, with jurisdiction over Garhwal district of the region.

Named Governor of Mutsu province in 1083, Yoshiie took it upon himself, without orders from the Imperial Court, to bring some peace and order to the region.