`` I don't believe I know you, and I can't understand your quaint brand of English -- it was meant to be English, wasn't it ''??

His failure to make the National Union brand a genuine party made Johnson an independent during his presidency, though he was supported by Democrats and later rejoined the party briefly as a Democratic Senator from Tennessee in 1875 until his death that year.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

Quilmes is the national brand of pale lager, named after the town of Quilmes, Buenos Aires, where it was first produced.

They had planned to sell this engine to motor manufacturers, but having heard that the Aston Martin car was no longer in production they realised that they could capitalise on the reputation of the Aston Martin name ( what we would now call the brand ) to give themselves a head start in the production of a completely new car.

In 1963, Rowney ( now part of Daler-Rowney Ltd since 1983 ) was the first manufacturer to introduce an artist ’ s acrylic color in Europe, under the brand name Cryla.

Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

In 2002, the Beechcraft brand was revived to again designate the Wichita-produced aircraft.

It was relaunched in November 2001 under the BBCi brand and operated under this name until 2008, when it was once more rebranded as BBC Red Button.

The BBCi brand launched in 2001 and was conceived as a cohesive multi-platform brand name for all the BBC's digital interactive services, encompassing the corporation's digital teletext, interactive television and website services.

After three years of consistent use across different platforms, the BBC began to drop the BBCi brand gradually ; on 6 May 2004, the BBC website was renamed bbc. co. uk, after the main URL used to access the site.

As of 2009 the city was ranked Europe's third and one of the world's most successful as a city brand.

The pen was sold in Argentina under the Birome brand ( portmanteau of Bíró and Meyne ), which is how ballpoint pens are still known in that country.

The brand new Dennis and Gnasher was launched separately from The Beano in September 2009.

Bombay Sapphire is a brand of gin distributed by Bacardi that was launched in 1987.

The Bundaberg Rum Distillery admitted it was aware its brand had a reputation of being associated with aggression, and said it may change its advertising to dispel its " yobbo " image.

Bacardi's transition into an international brand was due mostly to Schueg's " business genius "; Schueg " branded Cuba as the home of rum, and Bacardi as the king of rums " and expanded overseas, first to Mexico ( 1931 ), then to Puerto Rico ( 1936 ), under the brand name Ron Bacardi.

The act was aimed primarily at Havana Club brand in the US, which was created by the José Arechebala company which was confiscated without compensation in the Cuban revolution.

Before the Datsun brand name came into being, an automobile named the DAT car was built in 1914, by the, in the Azabu-Hiroo District in Tokyo.

The Maxxas brand name came about because Hoshino Gakki thought that the guitar did not fit in with the Ibanez model range and was therefore named Maxxas by Rich Lasner from Hoshino USA.

The brand of orange juice named after this prefecture Lakonia is based in Amykles.

On his 90th birthday on 10 November 2009, Kalashnikov was named a " Hero of the Russian Federation " and presented with a medal by President Dmitry Medvedev who lauded him for creating " the brand every Russian is proud of.

* The Punch cigar brand was named after Mr. Punch, and features him on the label.

* A cigarette brand by Imperial Tobacco with British American Tobacco is named Peter Stuyvesant.

In April 1985, Nike introduced its own brand of basketball shoe which would become popular in its own right, the Air Jordan, named after the then-rookie Chicago Bulls basketball player, Michael Jordan.

* Trinidad ( cigar brand ), a Cuban cigar brand named after Trinidad, Cuba

In 2009, trucks were spun off into the Ram brand, named after the brand's most popular truck, the Dodge Ram.

Young NMR tubes, named after the brand name of valves most commonly used for this purpose.

In 2008, the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center in Newport News named its brand new 276-seat theater the Ella Fitzgerald Theater.

Steinway won the case on appeal in 1975, forcing their competitor to use only the name " Grotrian " in the U. S. The case set a precedent and established the concept of " initial interest confusion ", in which consumers might be initially attracted to a similarly named but lesser-known brand because of the stronger brand's good reputation.

In Fall 2008, Simmons Jewelry Co. and Sanrio debuted a collection of fine jewellery and watches named “ Hello Kitty ® by Simmons Jewelry Co ." The collection launched with Zales Corporation to further expand the reach of the brand, and it developed accessories to satisfy every Hello Kitty fan.

* Gulden's, mustard brand named after its creator Charles Gulden

Over the ensuing days, Apple named the Wired Tablet Edition " The App of the Week ," making it the first media brand to earn this acknowledgment ; and the Wired App remained the No. 1 Paid Download on iTunes for 5 consecutive days.

Le Nil is another local brand of roll-up paper, named not after the Nile in Egypt but after a small tributary of the Charente.

* The 2010 novel Zero History by cyberpunk author William Gibson features a " secret " clothing brand named Gabriel Hounds.

The ranch was named after the brand, which looked like a pair of scissors.

The ranch was named after the brand, which looked like a pair of scissors.

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The Parliaments were a doo-wop quintet from Plainfield, New Jersey, formed in the back room of a barbershop in the late 1950s and named after the cigarette brand.

Incorporated in 1927, the town is named for a brand name of wool made by William Brumbach.

* Ettore Boiardi ( 1897 – 1985 )-famous for his brand of food products, named Chef Boyardee.