The company name in the Road Runner cartoons is ironic, since the word acme is derived from Greek ( ακμή ; English transliteration: acmē ) meaning the peak, zenith or prime, and products from the fictional Acme Corporation are both generic and failure-prone.

The name " Acme " is used as a generic corporate name in a huge number of cartoons, comics, television shows ( as early as an I Love Lucy episode ), and film ( as early as Buster Keaton's 1920 silent film Neighbors and Harold Lloyd's 1922 film Grandma's Boy ).

Ajax, sometimes called the Ajax Corporation, is a name brand which makes several appearances in Mickey Mouse stories ( probably parodying The Acme Corporation from Warner Bros .' s Looney Tunes.

Acme was named by Samuel Parks around 1887 after the name of a hymnal in his possession.

A nefarious supervillain named " Doctor Maybe " ( a pun on the name of Dr Julius No, the villain in the film Dr. No ) has overtaken the ruthless megacorporation Acme Oil Co, and is not only filling the oceans with radiation and toxic waste but even threatening all the world from his underwater lair.

This stage, based on the episode, The Acme Bowl, is set in a football game between Acme Looniversity and Perfecto Prep ( suspiciously not called by name in the game ), with the score at 10-14.

The company operates 117 supermarkets under the Acme name in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.

Each time an infected file is executed, Acme may infect an EXE in the current directory by creating a hidden 247 byte long read-only COM file with the same base name.

In order to register a. co. th domain name the registrar in Thailand requires copies of company documents in the same name as the required domain name, so for example if you required acme. co. th you would need to have a registered company called Acme Co., Ltd.

Its brand name and intellectual property rights were purchased by Acme United Corporation, which re-launched Camillus in May 2009.

The name Acme is derived from the village's railway heritage.

Kellner used the name Acme as a play on the Acme Corporation, featured in Warner Bros .' Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner animated film series and other animated Warner media.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name became synonymous with cold-blooded cruelty.

The region became a province of the Roman Empire, with the same name Asia.

As the name Asia came to be extended to other areas east of the Mediterranean, the name for Anatolian became specified as Asia Minor (" Lesser Asia ", Μικρὰ Ἀσία ) in Late Antiquity.

In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

There, Aaron gained a name for eloquent and persuasive speech, so that when the time came for the demand upon the Pharaoh to release Israel from captivity, Aaron became his brother ’ s nabi, or spokesman, to his own people ( Exodus 7: 1 ) and, after their unwillingness to hear, to the Pharaoh himself ( Exodus 7: 9 ).

On his accession, Antoninus ' name became " Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pontifex Maximus ".

It became an independent degree-granting institution in 1975 under the name École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ).

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

In 1827 Ampère published his magnum opus, Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l ’ experience ( Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience ), the work that coined the name of his new science, electrodynamics, and became known ever after as its founding treatise.

Lucius ’ name was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus and he became Claudius ’ s adopted son, heir and recognised successor.

Originally a cupbearer ( Rabshaqe ) to a king of Kish with a Semitic name, Ur-Zababa, Sargon thus became a gardener, responsible for the task of clearing out irrigation canals.

The Empire in 1180 A. D when Alexios II became EmperorOn Manuel's death in 1180, Maria, who became a nun under the name Xene, took the position of regent ( according to some historians ).

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

Ares was acquitted, and this event is supposed to have given rise to the name Areopagus ( or Hill of Ares ), which afterward became famous as a court of justice.

Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Falier of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

In 1953 Sweet Adelines became an international organization, although it didn't change its name to Sweet Adelines International until 1991.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

The river later became, in Welsh, Gafenni, and the town's name became Abergavenny, meaning " mouth of ( Welsh: Aber ) the Gavenny ( Gafenni )".

Another popular name in English is Feast of All Souls.

As an English name, it has been in use since the Middle Ages, though it was not popular until modern times.

The " Amarantos " is the name of a several-century-old popular Greek folk song:

It is a popular Buddhist and Hindu name, but popular also among Muslims in Indonesia.

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The Black Sands, as the contrasting name would suggest, have a rockier and darker sand, and are also popular with visitors exploring the rock caves and fascinating sea life.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

It is also possible that the name Axeinos arose by popular etymology from a Scythian Iranic axšaina-' unlit ,' ' dark '; the designation " Black Sea " may thus date from Antiquity.

Since the bigger 1 / 4 " tapioca pearls are separately sold as " black pearls " ( 黑珍珠 ) in markets, this name was the logical first choice and is more popular with the consumers of the drink.

The sport is also very popular on the eastern side of the Adriatic, especially in Slovenia ( where it is known as balinanje or colloquial playing boče or bale from Italian bocce or palle meaning balls ), Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina ( in Serbo-Croatian known under the name of boćanje or simply playing boće ( colloquial also bućanje or playing balote ), originating in Italian boccie ).

Nowadays, foreign people occasionally refer to Barcelona as ' Barça ', the name of the popular F. C.

Raphael Holinshed calls her Voadicia, while Edmund Spenser calls her " Bunduca ", a version of the name that was used in the popular Jacobean play Bonduca, in 1612.

In 2002, a tribute album was released under the name Yüreğimdeki Barış Şarkıları (" Peace's Songs In My Heart ", also " Peace Songs In My Heart ") featuring 15 extremely popular Turkish artists of such diverse genres as arabesque, pop and rock ( both Anatolian and western style ) demonstrating his wide range of influence.

It is a popular aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio, and is an important vertebrate model organism in scientific research.

At the time of his birth, Chaplin's parents were both entertainers in the music hall tradition: Hannah, the daughter of a shoemaker, had a brief and unsuccessful career under the stage name Lily Harley, while Charles Sr., a butcher's son, worked as a popular singer.

* In 1981, Attlee again entered British popular culture as one of the famous English people taunted by name in Bjørge Lillelien's legendary commentary immediately after Norway defeated England in a FIFA World Cup qualifier.

It was influenced not just by name of the poem, which was widely popular in the 1910s, but also because he tended to strike out frequently in his early career so fans and writers started calling him " strikeout Casey ".

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese, which is the most popular type of cheese in the United Kingdom.

The West Coast Offense, is the popular name for the high-percentage passing scheme designed by former Bengals assistant Bill Walsh.

Whilst the name pall mall and various games bearing this name may have been played elsewhere ( France and Italy ) the description above suggests that the croquet-like games were certainly popular in England as early as 1611.

Through the popularity of his Superman alter ego, the personality, concept, and name of Clark Kent have become ingrained in popular culture as well, becoming synonymous with secret identities and innocuous fronts for ulterior motives and activities.

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The comedy group Buckner & Garcia released a novelty concept album, Pac-Man Fever, that went gold and produced a hit single of the same name ; all of the songs on the album pertained to popular video games of the time.