There they formed an independent kingdom under the government of a queen named Hippolyta or Hippolyte (" loose, unbridled mare ").

There are various accounts concerning the origin of the settlement's name ; one states that Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of burr oak in the of land they purchased for $ 800 from the federal government at $ 1. 25 per acre.

* Uncle Sam ( initials U. S .) is a common national personification of the American government that according to legend came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers.

In 1808, Concord was named the official seat of state government.

In 2011 the government announced it was planning a new capital in the country, named Djibloho.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

In addition to choosing a primary name for the language, Ethnologue also gives some of the names by which a language is called by its speakers, by the government, by foreigners and by neighbors, as well as how it has been named and referenced historically, regardless of which designation is considered official, politically correct or offensive or by whom.

Emperor Kōbun was named the 39th emperor by the Meiji government in 1870 ; and since the late 19th century, he is known by the posthumous name accorded to him by Meiji scholars.

In 1791, the commissioners named the permanent seat of government " The City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia " to honor Washington.

As of early 2010, AI said that at least two senior military officers named by the United Nations as potentially having individual criminal responsibility for events constituting crimes against humanity, remain in positions of influence in the Guinean Presidential Cabinet, despite the formation of a new transitional government.

He took office on April 13, and his government, composed of 20 ministers ( including eight from the PAIGC, eight from the PRS, and two from the PUSD ) was named on April 17.

The government sidestepped the ruling, however, saying " The government construes this Court ’ s Order as applying only as to the named plaintiffs in this suit.

On 23 February Antonio Tejero, with members of the Guardia Civil entered the Congress of Deputies, and stopped the session, where Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo was about to be named prime minister of the government.

Knowing that the federal government would pay " top dollar ", the employees of a contractor in the Indiana Territory reportedly named Robert Hoosier asked their boss if they could go work for this higher wage in the neighboring state of Ohio.

Some of the NIF policies, such as the war with the non-Muslim south, have been reversed, though the National Islamic Front ( now named the National Congress Party ) still holds considerable power in the Sudanese government.

The Indira Awaas Yojana, a central government low-cost housing programme for the rural poor, is named after her.

In 1917 a group of secular nationalists called the Alash Orda Horde of Alash, named for a legendary founder of the Kazakh people, attempted to set up an independent national government – the Alash Autonomy.

The new king took personal control of the government as prime minister and named a new cabinet.

An early 6 kW version, built in England by the General Electric Company Research Laboratories, Wembley, London ( not to be confused with the similarly named American company General Electric ), was given to the US government in September 1940.

It restored the semi-presidential system of government of the December 1992 constitution ( Third Republic ) in which the president of the republic, elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term, and a prime minister named by the president share executive power.

In 1926, the government of South Africa designated Kruger National Park as the nation's first national park, although it was an expansion of the earlier Sabie Game Reserve established in 1898 by President Paul Kruger of the old South African Republic, after whom the park was named.

* OSI ( band ), an American progressive rock supergroup named after the former Office of Strategic Influence government agency

* 1795 – General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

The army leaders threatened to form a new military government if the parties failed to sign an eight point protocol agreeing on Gen. Gursel as president.

He also promoted a measure requiring the turnover of all government jobs every eight years.

In its temporary dispositions, the document ordered the transition from the former military government, with Augusto Pinochet as President of the Republic, and the Legislative Power of the Military Junta ( formed by the heads of the navy, air force, National Police, and a representative of the army, the head of the Army being president of the republic ), to a civil one, with a time frame of eight years, during which the Legislative Power would still be the Military Junta.

Liberals are also in government in eight other EU member states: Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

The island along with smaller minor islands are split into eight regencies ( local government districts ); from west to east these are: Manggarai Barat ( West Manggarai ), Manggarai Tengah ( Central Manggarai ), Manggarai Timur ( East Manggarai ), Ngada, Nagekeo, Ende, Sikka and Flores Timur ( East Flores ).

The government administers the country through eight regions, 33 prefectures, over 100 subprefectures, and many districts ( known as communes in Conakry and other large cities and villages or " quartiers " in the interior ).

That constitution delineates mechanisms for amending it, but it also declares eight articles immutable and unalterable and not subject to change, which include a guarantees of a republican form of government, and an explicit prohibition against presidential candidacy of anyone who has been president previously at any time or for any reason.

While the 1997 Labour government devolved power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it refused to created a devolved Assembly or parliament for England, planning instead to introduce eight regional assemblies around England to devolve power to the regions.

Then Jibril announced that consultations were under way to form an interim government within one month, followed by elections for a constitutional assembly within eight months and parliamentary and presidential elections to be held within a year after that.

He remained in opposition in the eight consecutive elections ( except for a national unity government around the Six-Day War ), but became more acceptable to the political center.

Estimated to be completed within six to eight months, it had first been proposed and then postponed for 43 years previously by the then government.

* 1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People ( Mosop ), are hanged by government forces.

He was first tried by the federal government in 1997 and found guilty of conspiring to build a weapon of mass destruction and of eight counts of involuntary manslaughter of federal officers.

The administration of George W. Bush provided them and similarly minded acts eight years of conservative government to excoriate.

In fact, Matienzo-Cintrón went from statehood advocate to autonomist to independence advocate as a result of eight years of American civil government in Puerto Rico.

The last minority government was led by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson for eight months after the February 1974 general election produced a hung parliament.

Labor took government with the support of eight dissident liberals in 1905 when Labor gained more seats than the liberals.

The Board is composed of the Chancellor, the President, two student members, two faculty members, one staff member, and eight individuals appointed by the British Columbia government.

Sections eight and nine of the Statute of Westminster preserved the provisions of the Australian constitution and of the limitations on the powers of the Australian government.