Other names and forms for this are paper townsites, fictitious entries, and copyright easter eggs.

Gregory Nagy, on the other hand, sees both Persēs (" the destroyer ": / perthō ) and Hēsiodos (" he who emits the voice :" / hiēmi + / audē ) as fictitious names for poetical personae.

Kremvax was originally a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax.

This section features letters both written by the editors and sent in by readers often with ridiculous names, usually in the form of obviously fictitious anecdotes ( one reader claimed that by defecating on the high seas, he was able to expel a single unbroken " monster " turd ; however, nobody wanted to grant him research funds for further attempts ) or various observations, such as the " children say the funniest things " type ( one issue featured numerous variations of a reader's young son making a reference to masturbation during bathtime, such as " playing with pork sword "; in this case, when the reader entered the bathroom, she discovered her son had indeed fashioned a sword out of pork sausages ).

Criminals may use aliases, fictitious business names, and dummy corporations ( corporate shells ) to hide their identity, or to impersonate other persons or entities in order to commit fraud.

Aliases and fictitious business names used for dummy corporations may become so complex, that in the words of the Washington Post newspaper, " getting to the truth requires a walk down a bizarre labyrinth ", and multiple government agencies may become involved to uncover the truth.

Prolific authors for pulp magazines often had two and sometimes three short stories appearing in one issue of a magazine ; the editor would create several fictitious author names to hide this from readers.

Other fictitious names for a person involved in litigation under English law were John-a-Noakes, or John Noakes / Nokes and John-a-Stiles / John Stiles.

The portrayal of the O ' Leary family is largely fictitious down to the names of the characters.

For Philochorus asserts that that Actaeon who comes after Ogyges, and the fictitious names, never even existed.

The McLaughlin organization purchased hundreds of poll tax receipts, many in the names of deceased or fictitious persons, which would sometimes be voted in different precincts.

The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba was compiled in Kenneth's reign, but many of the place names mentioned are entirely corrupt, if not fictitious.

In his years of madness, Hölderlin would occasionally pen ingenuous rhymed quatrains, sometimes of a childlike beauty, which he would sign with fantastic names ( most often " Scardanelli ") and give fictitious dates from the previous or future centuries.

Such names and characters as " Wei-lei Hsu " and " Khang-sang Tze " are fictitious, and the pieces where they occur are not to be understood as narratives of real events.

Bainton and others have put forward the possibility that accounts of, among others, the date, location, names of the ships involved, and circumstances of the accident might have been inaccurate or exaggerated, or that the story might be completely fictitious.

Most of the game's firearms are modelled on real-life counterparts ( although their names are altered ), while others are based on fictitious devices featured in the Bond films, such as the Golden Gun and Moonraker laser.

In April 2005, a high-profile case involving the theft of $ 350, 000 from four Citibank customers occurred when call center workers acquired the passwords to customer accounts and transferred the money to their own accounts opened under fictitious names.

Kraehe alater stated that, " There were some players who didn't want their parents to know they were in the game and some of them used fictitious names.

This celebrated story is told with variations by many ancient authors, and a similar anecdote has been told of Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, and ( if the names be not fictitious ) Panacius and Acestinus.

Calgary Herald reporter Douglas Collins, himself a former intelligence man, tricked Dupre by dropping fictitious names Dupre claimed to recognize.

After a very checkered experience he returned to London and was admitted as a student in the Royal Academy, supporting himself by engraving, and probably issuing a considerable number of caricatures under fictitious names.

On the TV show Bizarre, the turbulent Yankee manager situation was parodied by having press conferences every 10 minutes hiring or firing a fictitious Yankees manager named " Martin Billy Lemon " ( combining the names of Yankee managers Bob Lemon and Billy Martin ).

The princess wrote Aventures de la cour de Perse, in which, under the veil of fictitious scenes and names, she tells the history of her own time.

The distinction between an actual and a " fictitious " name is important because businesses with " fictitious " names give no obvious indication of the entity that is legally responsible for their operation.

* The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov from the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke is powered by a fictitious Sakharov drive.

The fantasy novel The Folk of the Air by Peter S. Beagle was written after the author attended a few early SCA events circa 1968 ; but he has repeatedly stated that he then studiously avoided any contact with the actual SCA itself for almost two decades, so that his description of a fictitious " League for Archaic Pleasures " would not be " contaminated " by contact with the actual real-life organization.

* the fictitious kingdom that is the setting of C. S. Lewis ' novel Till We Have Faces ; or

* Frindle, a children's novel in which a fictitious word passes into common parlance

Arthur Koestler's novel Darkness at Noon ( 1944 ) gives a haunting, if at least partly fictitious, portrayal of the atmosphere surrounding this trial.

Pastiches of fanzine writing ( from fictitious fanzines ) form some of the text of the novel.

* Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day ( 1989 ), set in 1956, explains in flashbacks the dubious history of ( fictitious ) 1930s Darlington Hall and its association with Nazi Germany.

The novel is exclusively set at the ( entirely fictitious " Author's Note ") University of Gloucester, based loosely on the University of York thanks to the author's brief residence there.

The novel deals with its theme of self-reflection also on the level of narratology in that its main topic of mindreading is presented by an omniscient narrator ; a minor ironic twist consists of the novel-within-a-novel motif with the fictitious novelist Helen Reed pondering about the old-fashioned genre of the epistolary novel while her thoughts are presented the very form of letters / emails.

Kent Haruf's to rhyme with " sheriff " novel The Tie That Binds ( 1984 ), is the fictitious story of 80 year-old Edith Goodnough of Holt County, Colorado, as told to an unnamed inquirer on a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1977 by her 50 year-old neighbour, a farmer called Sanders Roscoe.

* The fictitious Kingsbridge Cathedral in TV miniseries, The Pillars of the Earth ( 2010 ) based on a historical novel by the same name by Ken Follett is modeled on the cathedrals of Wells and Salisbury.

Abed-Hamin is a fictitious character, and the " Wars of Granada " is, in reality, a historical novel, perhaps the earliest example of its kind, and certainly the first historical novel that attained popularity.

Thomas Hutter ( Jonathan Harker in Stoker's novel ) lives in the fictitious German city of Wisborg.

Told from the point of view of Professor Bill Reynolds, a scholar in the fictitious discipline of ' micropaloentology ', this novel is set in the 24th and 25th Centuries, when the solar system has been colonised.

It is also the setting for the classic post-apocalyptic novel, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, under the fictitious name of Fort Repose.

A fictitious future Mattapoisett features largely in the 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy.

The name Pequod was used by Herman Melville for the fictitious ship in his novel Moby-Dick.

* The frontier area Deerfield is the first home of the fictitious Gilbert ( Gil ) Martin in Walter D. Edmunds novel, Drums along the Mohawk ( 1936 ), covering the period 1776-1784.

Styron, feeling wounded by his first truly harsh reviews for Set This House On Fire, would spend the years after its publication both researching and composing his next novel, the fictitious memoirs of the historical Nathaniel " Nat " Turner, a slave who led a slave rebellion in 1831.

The Michael Crichton novel Jurassic Park centers on the fictitious Isla Nublar that is off of the west coast of Costa Rica.

* In the fantasy novel series, Harry Potter, the fictitious Irish National Quidditch team use the shamrock as part of their emblem.

Subtitled " A Study of Provincial Life ," the novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830 – 32.