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The family name is based on the genus Tettigonia, which is New Latin ( Linnaeus, 1748 ), and derives from the Greek (), a cicada.
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Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.
When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.
His name was George Needham and he, too, had come from a good family.
Any needy family living in San Francisco can obtain toys by writing to Christmas Toys, 676 Howard street, San Francisco 5, and listing the parent's name and address and the age and sex of each child in the family between the ages of 1 and 12.
Another cue is having the same family name, especially if rare, and this has been found to increase helping behavior.
The family Salamandridae includes the true salamanders and the name " newt " is given to members of its subfamily Pleurodelinae.
The order takes its name from the family Asparagaceae and is placed in the monocots.
The Altai Mountains give their name to the proposed language family.
The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.
Any place called Altenberg may have given rise to Altenberg as a family name, such as:
Allioideae is the botanical name of a monocot subfamily of flowering plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, order Asparagales.
The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.
The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.
The alternative name for the family, Umbelliferae, derives from the inflorescence being generally in the form of a compound umbel.
The name was invented either by Lovecraft, or by Albert Baker, the Phillips ' family lawyer.
The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.
The specific name comes from the Afar word for " basal family ancestor ".
Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.
Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants ( Alnus ) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae ).
The family originally spelled their name " Alcock ", later changed to " Alcocke " then " Alcox ".
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* Albert ( surname ), a family name ( and people with that name )
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`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
We consider a rural community as an assemblage of inhabited dwellings whose configuration is determined by the location and size of the arable land sites necessary for family subsistence.
Engaged as it is in a battle for world trade as a condition of national survival, this country can have little patience with labor's family feuds.
There is little doubt if they had a secret ballot, they would vote for food for their family, in place of ideological purity out on the farm.
The family is largely broken up ; ;
For it is the family that, in China, has always provided social security for the indigent, the sick, the down-and-out members of the clan.
Part of the family should be sleeping while the rest is awake.
The Peace Corps should not pay the expenses of a wife or family, unless the wife is also accepted for full-time Peace Corps work on the same project.
Arriving at the waterside, the boat is launched, the family taken aboard and, that easily, another day afloat is begun.
This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.
Hotei is 23 feet long with an 8-1/2-foot beam and every inch a family boat.
First and foremost: No one -- no, not anyone -- in the family is allowed to issue blanket invitations to his or her own circle.
Follow pool-care instructions to the letter, and be sure that one person ( in the family or not ) is regularly responsible for each aspect of the job, with no chance for claiming, `` It wasn't my turn ''.
They come prepared for family fun because Americans in ever-growing numbers are learning that here is the way to a fine economical vacation that becomes a family experience of lasting importance.
Camping is family fun, and it is helping more Americans see more of the country than they ever saw before.
When a family buys a home the title is subject to a perpetual easement to Tri-State.
In one cartoon a family is shown outside a theater with the head of the family addressing the doorman: `` Excuse me, but when we came out we found that we had left my daughter's handbag and my wife's behind ''.
It is presumed to occur in other members of the Brassica family.
A family of five plans to go together either to the beach or to the mountains, and a coin is tossed to decide.
When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.
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