The jacket biography describes him as a former racing driver, and he may indeed have been, although I do not recall having encountered his name either in the records or the literature.

The former uncorrected time scale continues to be published, under the name EAL ( Echelle Atomique Libre, meaning Free Atomic Scale ).

* " Atlas " was the former name for ASP. NET AJAX, Microsoft software, a set of ASP. NET extensions providing Ajax functionality

** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1951 the English High School asked its former students for permission to re-establish the name " Alumni " for a rugby team.

* As part of his actions to strengthen his political ties to Caesar's former soldiers, in 42 BC, following the deification of Caesar, Octavian added Divi Filius ( Son of the Divine ) to his name, becoming Gaius Julius Caesar Divi Filius.

One year later Guthrum, or Athelstan by his baptismal name, Alfred ’ s former enemy and king of East Anglia, died and was buried in Hadleigh, Suffolk.

* American Standards Association, former name of the American National Standards Institute

* American Sunbathing Association, former name of the American Association for Nude Recreation

* Australian Soccer Association, former name of Football Federation Australia

While this went on MCP renamed itself to MCP CHIP but ran into problems with the German computer magazine CHIP, and had to return to its former name.

* ABC Radio, the former name of Cumulus Media Networks, an American radio network ( formerly owned by the American Broadcasting Company )

* American Collectibles Network, former name of the American television network now known as Jewelry Television

She considered the name " Peabodyville ", but " Albion " was selected instead, after the former residence of Jesse Crowell.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Little is known of the family with certainty ; the Chambers Biographical Dictionary records that they arrived in Spain in the 8th century but the name is familiar from the romance by Ginés Perez de Hita, Guerras civiles de Granada, which celebrates the feuds of the Abencerrages and the rival family of the Zegris, and the cruel treatment to which the former were subjected.

The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta ( or Mouhoun ), the White Volta ( Nakambé ) and the Red Volta ( Nazinon ).

* Île Bourbon, former name for the Island of Réunion

" Nonetheless, Edwards joined several others as an original fellow or trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the former name for Brown University ), the first Baptist college in the original thirteen colonies, and now one of the Ivy League universities.

The name " Bollywood " is a portmanteau derived from Bombay ( the former name for Mumbai ) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.

The etymology of the name Benjamin is a matter of dispute, though most agree that it is composed of two parts-ben and jamin-the former meaning son of.

( The studio name derives from a former BJU promotional slogan, " The World's Most Unusual University ".

For example, the English words shirt and skirt are doublets ; the former derives from the Old English sċyrte, while the latter is loaned from Old Norse skyrta, both of which derive from the Proto-Germanic * skurtjōn -.

The term " clipper " most likely derives from the verb " clip ", which in former times meant, among other things, to run or fly swiftly.

The name derives from the frequent mills in former times along the canal which took advantage of the decline between Mühlbach and Amper.

The name of the Edo period derives from the relocation of the Tokugawa regime from its former home in Kyoto to the city of Edo, present-day Tokyo.

* Dan Simmons's Ilium / Olympos novels use the Noosphere as a way to explain the origins of powerful entities such as Ariel and Prospero, the former arising from a network of datalogging mote machines, and the latter of whom derives from a post-Internet logosphere.

Most authorities believe that the name derives from a former hunting cry.

It is from the latter that the former derives its validity and truth value ( Sokolowski: 2000 ).

The royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau, derives its name in part from its former holding, the principality of Orange.

The title reflects its former status as a Collegiate Church, and derives from the requirement that all of the canons of the Cathedral must possess the academic distinction of Doctor of Theology in order to serve there.

The former municipality derives its name from the Anna Paulownapolder, which was laid dry in 1846 during the reign of King William II of the Netherlands and in turn named after his wife, Queen Anna Pavlovna of Russia.

This expression derives from the wearing of school ties by former pupil, to indicate that the wearer is an alumnus or alumna of a particular school or university.

The expression derives from the 1979 trial of Dan White, a former San Francisco, California ( U. S .) police officer and firefighter who later became a city district Supervisor.

It ultimately derives from Ancient Greek lamprós ( λαμπρός, " bright ") + Latin forma (" external form "), the former in reference to brilliant coloration of opahs.

Travertine derives its name from the former town, known as Tibur in ancient Roman times.

The usage derives from " Navvy Jack ", by ordinary name Jack Thomas, a former navvy who used a rowboat to mine good-quality gravel from beaches in West Vancouver and infrequently ran a rowboat-ferry for settlers on Burrard Inlet and English Bay.

The name derives from a former notion that the scribe was the Leinster saint St. Moling ( d. 697 ), founder of Tech-Moling ( St. Mullins, Co. Carlow ), whose subscription occurs in the colophon at the end of St John's Gospel: omen scriptoris Mulling dicitur.

The name derives from a former flight of steps in the chalk cliff, which led from the sands up to the 11th-century shrine of St Mary on the cliff's summit.

Its name derives from cheap, market, with the prefix " East " distinguishing it from the other former City of London market of Westcheap ( now known as Cheapside ).

Winding through fields, the street was formerly called Whitechapel Lane but derives its current name from former brick and tile manufacture, using the local brick earth deposits, that began in the 15th century.

It later becomes evident that York's inability to commit and his instinct for romantic cruelty derives from conflicting feelings about his adoptive mother who is a former prostitute, played by Rebecca Pan ; and his biological mother, a Filipino aristocrat.

It ultimately derives from Ancient Greek osmé ( ὀσμή, " pungent smell ") + Latin forma (" external form "), the former in reference to the characteristic aroma of the flesh of Osmerus.

It ultimately derives from Ancient Greek stóma ( στόμᾶ, " mouth ") + Latin forma (" external form "), the former in reference to the huge mouth opening of these fishes.

It ultimately derives from Ancient Greek aulós ( αὐλός, " flute " or " pipe ") + Latin forma (" external form "), the former in reference to the elongated shape of many Aulopiformes.