The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom what is now called Cape Henlopen was originally named.

The name ' de Klerk ' ( literally meaning " the clerk " in Dutch ) is derived from Le Clerc, Le Clercq, and de Clercq and is of French Huguenot origin, as are a great number of other Afrikaans surnames, reflecting the French Huguenot refugees who settled in the Cape beginning in the 17th century alongside the Dutch, after they escaped religious persecution in France.

Their daughter also had a small role in Cape Fear using the name Domenica Scorsese and has continued to act, write, direct and produce.

Limbaugh began his career in radio as a teenager in 1967 in his hometown of Cape Girardeau, using the name Rusty Sharpe.

However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.

On September 23, 2004 the university's board of governors voted unanimously to rename the institution Breton University, however the proposed name received opposition from a number of groups in the institution and local community over the removal of the word " Cape " from the proposed new name, thus the name Cape Breton University was adopted instead.

The name change became official through the University College of Cape Breton Act ( amended ) which received Royal Assent on May 19, 2005.

" Cape of Storms " was the original name of the " Cape of Good Hope ".

* It is a section of the Table Mountain National Park, within which the cape of the same name, as well as Cape Point, falls.

* It was the name of the early Cape Colony established in 1652, in the vicinity of the Cape Peninsula.

The more important of the two ranges, that of Pantokrator ( Παντοκράτωρ-the ancient Istone ) stretches east and west from Cape Falacro to Cape Psaromita, and attains its greatest elevation in the summit of the same name.

The name is a pun on the nautical phrase for sailing around Cape Horn.

Its present name is the Kalaallisut for " Cape ", from its position at the end of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord on the eastern shore of the Labrador Sea.

An early alternate name was " Cape of Currents.

From 1963 to 1973 the area had a different name as US President Lyndon Johnson by executive order renamed the area " Cape Kennedy.

Although the name change was approved by the U. S. Board on Geographic Names of the Interior Department in December 1963, it was not popular in Florida, especially in the neighboring city of Cape Canaveral.

The name restoration to Cape Canaveral became official on October 9, 1973.

In the United Kingdom, many county names derive from the name of the county town with the word " shire " added on: for example, Gloucester, in Gloucestershire ; Worcester, in Worcestershire.

An incident in August 1817 spawned a rather silly mix-up when a committee of the New England Linnaean Society went so far as to give a deformed terrestrial snake the name Scoliophis atlanticus, believing it was the juvenile form of a sea serpent that had recently been reported in Gloucester Harbor.

* Gloucester Rugby, a professional rugby union team from the English city of the same name

* Riverdale Park, the former name of a public housing project in Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester Township, which took its name from the cathedral city of Gloucester on the banks of the River Severn in England, was further subdivided into four smaller townships, and on June 1, 1695, became one of the first New Jersey municipalities to incorporate.

: See also Monroe Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey for another New Jersey Township with the same name

Glouster was named after Gloucester, United Kingdom, but was misspelled by a clerk when the name was telegraphed to Washington, and the misspelling stuck.

Stephen Yeates ( 2008, 2009 ) has interpreted the name as meaning " cauldron ; sacred vessel " and linked to the shape of the Vale of Gloucester and the Romano-British regional cult of a goddess with a bucket or cauldron, identified with a Mater Dobunna, supposedly associated with West Country legends concerning the Holy Grail ..

A keen photographer, Prince Richard has published three books of photographs under the name Richard Gloucester.

Prince Richard shares a name with another Duke of Gloucester, King Richard III of England, and is the Patron of the Richard III Society.

The bare place name was used formerly to refer to the person who owned it, rather than the land itself ( the word " Gloucester " in " What will Gloucester do?

She received the name Christabel because she was born on Christmas Day like her aunt by marriage Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester.

It is a far cry from the village established by New Zealand's pioneering missionaries, who called it Gloucestertown, or Gloucester Town, but neither name endured.

For others of a similar name, see Gloucester High School ( disambiguation )

In late 1386, Gloucester forced Richard II to name himself and Richard FitzAlan to Richard's Council.

Gloucester took its name from Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

When the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway was completed in 1840 the only buildings already in existence on an 1880 map were Barnt Green House, probably the oldest recorded bearer of the name Barnt Green, the buildings which made up the railway station, and Sandhills Farm which dates from the 15th century ).

The electoral district was created at confederation in 1867, and was known as " Gloucester " until its name was changed in 1990.

After the visit of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester to Sorel in 1787 the town took the name of William-Henry, a name it retained until 1845.

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.

The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

After the Griffin-Byrd political troup has completed the circuit in November in the name of a Pre-Legislative Forum, this is going to be the most politically oriented Legislature in history.

and ( 2 ) such other special funds as may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be required each to be a claims fund to be known by the name of the foreign government which has entered into a settlement agreement with the Government of the United States as described in subsection ( A ) of Section 4 of this Title.

By making inroads in the name of law enforcement into the protection which Congress has afforded to the marriage relationship, the Court today continues in the path charted by the recent decision in Wyatt v. United States, 362 U.S. 525, where the Court held that, under the circumstances of that case, a wife could be compelled to testify against her husband over her objection.

The name `` alkali bee '' indicates that one has to look for them in rather inhospitable places.

The name thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH ) has been given to a substance found in the anterior pituitary gland of all species of animal so tested for its presence.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

it is only after he has involved her emotions in his scheme that he uses her given name, placing himself by implication in the position of a solicitous father.

She teamed up with another beauty, whose name has been lost to history, and commenced with some fiddling that would have made Nero envious.

`` There had been a threesome at the party in the suite's bedroom: Miss Harrington ( this was Diane's choice for a Roman name ), another woman who has figured in other very interesting events and one of your well-known American actors.

So, after the sitting has been held, several readings at one time are mailed, and the distant sitter ( whose name or whose communicator's name was given to the medium ) must mark each little item as Correct ( Hit ), Incorrect ( Miss ), Doubtful, or Especially Significant ( applying to him and, he feels, not to anyone else ).

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began ; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.

Another cue is having the same family name, especially if rare, and this has been found to increase helping behavior.

The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

The name is Medieval Latin for he has declared upon oath.

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.