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 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 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 his paternal grandfather Victor Amadeus I he was their only child.

Named after David Baltimore, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, these groups are designated by Roman numerals and discriminate viruses depending on their mode of replication, and genome type.

The band is also well known for their intricate multi-part vocal harmonies ( such as those found on certain Gentle Giant songs ) and use of counterpoint on cuts such as " Gibberish ", " Thoughts ( Parts I and II )", " June ", " A Guy Named Sid Pt. 5: Sid's Boy Choir ", and " Devil's Got My Throat.

Named when liquor smugglers had to dump their cargo.

Named for the whitetail deer tail placed in their hats, the Bucktails marched out of Smethport and into history.

Named by pioneers for their chief occupation.

Named for the band members ' tendency to stare at their feet and guitar effects pedals onstage rather than interact with the audience, acts like My Bloody Valentine, and later Slowdive and Ride created a loud " wash of sound " that obscured vocals and melodies with long, droning riffs, distortion, and feedback.

Named after their ranch in Chatsworth, California, the company was named Desilu.

Following World War II, it became common to see veterans wearing their uniform trousers with their T-shirts as casual clothing, and they became even more popular in the 1950s after Marlon Brando wore one in A Streetcar Named Desire, finally achieving status as fashionable, stand-alone, outer-wear garments.

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 for their occupations as skilled manual laborers, they are a group of Amateur ( mostly incompetent ) actors from around Athens, looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertainment for the royal wedding party of Theseus and Hippolyta.

Although renowned for their commercially successful 1998 single " Iris ", they have had several other notable and popular singles include " Name " from 1995's A Boy Named Goo, " Broadway ", " Black Balloon " and " Slide " from 1998's Dizzy Up The Girl, which produced five top-10 singles, and " Here Is Gone ", " Sympathy " and " Big Machine " from 2002's Gutterflower.

Named The Last One, it showed all six cast member starting new lives: Rachel moving to Paris but later returning after Ross says he loves her, Monica and Chandler finally having children when their surrogate gives birth to twins, Joey is still living in his apartment with a job on Days of our Lives while Phoebe and Mike decide to have children.

Named for their shape, bowstring trusses were first used for arched truss bridges, often confused with tied-arch bridges.

Named for their properties under a polarizing microscope.

Named for their lighter appearance under a polarization microscope.

Named after the three towns which form their administrative centres, these delegations ( with their 2004 Census populations in brackets ) are Djerba Houmt Souk ( 64, 919 ), Djerba Midoun ( 50, 459 ) and Djerba Ajim ( 24, 166 ) – the island's population at the Census thus totalling 139, 544.

Named for the bandmembers ' tendency to stare at their feet onstage, shoegazing acts like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, and Lush created an overwhelmingly loud " wash of sound " that obscured vocals and melodies with long, droning riffs, distortion, and feedback.

Named after King Amanullah Khan, it is said to be the first, the biggest and the most modern city in the history of Afghanistan.

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 Creedmoor, the range opened in 1872, and became the site of the first National Matches until New York politics forced the NRA to move the matches to Sea Girt, New Jersey.

However, his first major stage success was his role as an awkward suitor of Jessica Tandy in " A Streetcar Named Desire ," which also helped make Brando a star on stage.

Named after the Hungarian physical chemist and philosopher Michael Polanyi ( 1891 – 1976 ), Dembski described it as " the first intelligent design think tank at a research university ".

Quinn wanted to play the lead role of Zapata but Brando coming off his recent success in the film Streetcar Named Desire was Kazan's first choice.

Named " Chic-I-Boom ", the craft was built by Cameron England, and was the first special-shaped hot-air balloon ever to fly at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.

Named after Scottish anatomist Charles Bell, who first described it, Bell's palsy is the most common acute mononeuropathy ( disease involving only one nerve ) and is the most common cause of acute facial nerve paralysis.

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

Named the " Radarange ", it was first sold in 1947.

Named after George Washington, first President of the United States of America, the area was first settled by those seeking both economic and political freedoms in this frontier land of vast timber and mineral resources.

During the 1980s, notable players followed in the footsteps of players such as Juan " Pachin " Vicens ( Named Greatest Basketball Player in the World at the Basketball World Championship, held in Santiago, Chile, 1959 ) and Butch Lee, the first Puerto Rican and BSN player to enter the NBA.

Named for Stephen A. Douglas, famous for his 1860 Presidential campaign and debates with Abraham Lincoln, Douglas County was one of the first nine counties formed in 1861 by the Nevada territorial legislature.

Named for Ida Cates, Manitoba's first woman telephone operator in the 1880s, " Project Ida " was part of a wider rollout of advanced cable technologies that MTS had been planning since 1978 to study ways to use up the bandwidth capabilities of newer cable systems.

Named for Andrew Jackson Davis, a St. Louis editor, the county was first settled in the middle 1830s.

Named after the regular poster ' Captain Gym Z. Quirk ' who first raised this.

Named after the first mayor of Greenfield, it will showcase the history of the city as far back as 1905.

Named Constitution Park when first created in 1832, it wasn't until 1857 that the elm trees arrived and with it the park's new name.

Named in honor of Col. Thomas Gardner, the community was first settled in 1764 and officially incorporated as a town in 1785 after receiving land grants from the surrounding towns of Ashburnham, Westminster, Templeton and Winchendon.

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

Named for the first Village Attorney, this park was originally part of the Fant Farm, but was dedicated to the Village to preserve the magnificent vista of the original farmland.

Named after British cellist Jacqueline Du Pré, an honorary fellow of the College, the JdP was the first purpose-built concert hall to be built in Oxford since the Holywell Music Room in 1742.

Named for New York lawyer and railroad capitalist John Stryker, who was the founder of the Michigan Southern Railroad Company, the town was organized on March 30, 1835 by James Guthrie, the first settler in the township and in the county.