Pseudonyms are most usually adopted to hide an individual's real identity, as with writers ' pen names, graffiti artists ' tags, resistance fighters ' or terrorists ' noms de guerre, and computer hackers ' handles.

Pseudonyms are also adopted for other reasons.

Pseudonyms can be used by artists ( Künstlername, " artist's name ") and members of religious orders ( Ordensname ); If a pseudonym is widely known in public it can be added to the passport of that person ( under the weaker legal status of Künstlername ) and be used instead of the original name in most situations.

Two prominent sections, the Bibliography ( complied by Charles Cutter ) and Pseudonyms and Anonyms ( James L. Whitney ), served as reference resources for librarians.

" ( Source: Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises by Cushing, William ).

We Are Fuck You was the debut album by The Finger, a punk band created by Ryan Adams and Jesse Malin under the Pseudonyms " Warren Peace " and " Irving Plaza " respectively.

Pseudonyms are also used to comply with the rules of performing arts guilds ( Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ), Writers Guild of America, East ( WGA ), AFTRA, etc.

Pseudonyms are also used as stage names in heavy metal bands, such as Tracii Guns in LA Guns, Axl Rose and Slash in Guns N ' Roses, Mick Mars in Mötley Crüe or C. C.

According to J. Michael Jaffe, author of Gender, Pseudonyms, and CMC: Masking Identities and Baring Souls, " the Internet was originally established to expedite communication between governmental scientists and defense experts, and was not at all intended to be the popular ' interpersonal mass medium ' it has become ", yet new and revolutionary devices enabling the mass public to communicate online are constantly being developed and released.

Pseudonyms include stage names, screen names, pen names, nicknames, aliases, gamer identifications, and reign names of emperors, popes and other monarchs.

Pseudonyms should not be confused with new names that replace old ones.

The style of life chosen by the beat generation, the rhythm and ritual they have adopted as uniquely their own, is designed to enhance the value of the sexual experience.

When we `` forced '' individuals to assume the corporate structure by means of taxes and other legal statutes, we adopted what I would term `` pseudo-capitalism '' and so took a major step toward socialism.

The few scholars who have adopted the `` shore occupied by '' interpretation, Howorth, Shore, and Wade-Evans, have all been Celtic survivalists.

In this tangle of conflicting claims, the patent-sharing scheme adopted by the A.L.A.M. at its founding proved to be the best device for avoiding or mitigating the burdens of incessant litigation.

They adopted a program by which Louisiana was divided into five districts.

Mr. Notte was responding to a resolution adopted by the Central Falls City Council on July 10 and sent to the state house by Miss Grant.

Police said the boys are natural brothers and were adopted as small children by the Dresbachs.

But an official statement adopted by the 33-man Emory board at its annual meeting Friday noted that state taxing requirements at present are a roadblock to accepting Negroes.

anti-discriminatory statutes in housing have now been adopted by thirteen states and, while specific provisions have varied, the tendency is clearly toward expanding coverage.

the attitude adopted by realtors and their associations, either negative or positive, plays a large part in the public acceptance of such measures and the degree to which they may be effectively enforced.

The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

In their normal gait, only one leg is advanced at a time in the manner adopted by their ancestors, the lobe-finned fish.

Angola changed from a one-party Marxist-Leninist system ruled by the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ( MPLA ), in place since independence in 1975, to a multiparty democracy based on a new constitution adopted in 1992.

The same schema was adopted by James Patrie ( 1982 ) in the context of an attempt to classify the Ainu language.

This wider definition of Anatolia has gained widespread currency outside of Turkey and has, for instance, been adopted by Encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedic and general reference publications.

Nevertheless, the basic idea of the atom was adopted by scientists thousands of years later because it elegantly explained new discoveries in the field of chemistry.

Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.

* 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activities.

Within a people, different means to accomplish the same goal can be adopted by subsets of the larger group.

It has two main features on which its distinction as a major contribution to Avicennan studies may be said to rest: the first is its clarity and readability ; the second is the comparative approach adopted by the author [...].

The urn is erroneously believed by some to be the trophy of the Ashes series, but it has never been formally adopted as such and Bligh always considered it to be a personal gift.

Le Guin's ansible was said to communicate " instantaneously ", but other authors have adopted the name for devices only capable of finite-speed communication, although still faster than light.

The CE / BCE notation has been adopted by numerous authors and publishers wishing to be

A gnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature.

( Many tribes adopted constitutions by the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act model, with two-year terms for elected positions of chief and council members deemed too short by the authors for getting things done )

It should be noted that the ansible has been adopted by several other science fiction and fantasy authors, such as Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Moon, and Vernor Vinge.

Other authors working in Asimov's fictional universe have adopted them and references, often parodic, appear throughout science fiction as well as in other genres.

Saitō suggests that shotacon was originally an offshoot of yaoi, but when adopted by male readers became influenced by lolicon ; thus, he claims " shota texts by female yaoi authors are structurally identical to yaoi texts, while shota by male otaku clearly position these little boys as young girls with penises.

Most authors have adopted the binomial Bos gaurus for the wild species as valid for the taxon.

Since the publication of Michell's book, the spiritualised version of the concept has been adopted by other authors and applied to landscapes in many places around the world.

Over the next few years Dreamweaver became widely adopted among professional web authors, though many still preferred to hand-code, and Microsoft FrontPage remained a strong competitor among amateur and business users.

The character famously appeared in Arthurian literature and has been adapted and adopted by various authors, in cinema and popular culture.

The convention adopted in this article is that multiplication of elements of an algebra is not necessarily associative, although some authors use the term algebra to refer to an associative algebra.

Since cormorants and relatives are probably not actually Pelecaniformes, a solution adopted by some modern authors is to merge the " core " Pelecaniformes with the Ciconiiformes.

This study also, contrary to the authors expectations, found that spiritual beliefs and disease concept beliefs were not prerequisites for attendance of NA and even if these beliefs were adopted they were not found to cause external attributions for previous drug use or possible future lapse events.

The authors and the translators state both in the text and in the sidebars that there is no gender in either Heaven or Hell but they have adopted the convention of referring to characters with gendered pronouns to make things in the translation easier.

" It is a name that has been adopted by dissident authors throughout the history of Islam.

Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger ( 15th century ), authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, adopted an intermediate position.

Note that there have been minor changes in the orthography since it was first adopted: < x > () was originally represented as " th ", and there has been some confusion among authors in the use of " c " and " ch " in representing the phonemes and, with some early works using " c " for and " ch " for and even " c " for different phonemes depending on where it appears in a word.

Azrael, as both a character or a more abstract concept has been adopted by many different artists, musicians, poets, and authors over the centuries to express or evoke a variety of different meanings or emotions in the reader – often drawing on the cultural resonance of the name for effect.

The authors have been adopted as honorary members of the Lenape Pequot.

This technique, the " Peterson Identification System ", was used in most of Peterson's Field Guides from animal tracks to seashells and has been widely adopted by other publishers and authors as well.

The idea of issuing patents was brought to North America by English, French, and Dutch settlers in the 17th and 18th centuries and adopted into Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution authorizing Congress " to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

Some authors have been adopted by their clubs-Jim Munro, once editor of the West Ham United fanzine Fortune's Always Dreaming, was hired by the club to write for its matchday magazine and is now sports editor of The Sun Online.

It has been argued by some authors that when the Vedic Aryans migrated to Orissa, they adopted the local tribal tradition of Jaganata worship, and effected the transformation of the tribal wooden pillar Jaganata to aryanized Jagannath.