Clifton is an English surname, place name or given name.

* Clifton, California, former name of Del Rey, California

* Clifton, California, former name of Last Chance, California

* Clifton Hall ( Havertown, Pennsylvania ), another name for the Grange Estate, a historic mansion in Pennsylvania

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News programs interviewed Clifton as Kaufman's opening act, but the interviews invariably would turn ugly whenever Kaufman's name came up.

Clifton claimed Kaufman was using his name " to go places.

The name Clifton honored Clift Wilkinson, town founder.

He also stated in this correspondence that he wanted the patent to be known by " Your name of Cliftons Park ", and the patent was named the Clifton Park Patent.

A shopping center, previously the Clifton Country Mall, shares the name.

Over the years the name was altered to Clifton.

Clifton Township is the name of some places in the U. S. state of Minnesota:

Clifton is the name of some places in the U. S. state of Wisconsin:

By the age of nineteen, using the name Clifton Webb, he had become a professional ballroom dancer, often partnering " exceedingly decorative " star dancer Bonnie Glass ( she eventually replaced him with Rudolph Valentino ), and performed in about two dozen operettas before debuting on Broadway as Bosco in The Purple Road, which opened at the Liberty Theatre on April 7, 1913, and ran for 136 performances before closing in August.

He was educated in England at Clifton College, became a British subject and worked in the grain trade in London before emigrating to the United States in 1925, where he took the stage name of John Houseman.

The village name comes in two parts: the former name ' Clifton ' is Anglo Saxon in origin and means ' Cliff farm ', referring to the village's position on a cliff on a bank of the River Ouse.

Pearlite was first identified by Henry Clifton Sorby and initially named sorbite, however the similarity of microstructure to nacre and especially the optical effect caused by the scale of the structure made the alternative name more popular.

Clifton Hill received its current name, distinguishing it from the remainder of Collingwood, from Clifton Farm, one of the first properties in the area.

The name " Clifton " for the area dates to 1817, when a town by the name, larger in area than the present neighborhood, was laid out along the waterfront.

Clifton is both a suburb of Bristol, England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five council wards.

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).

The name of the team was at first left up to Paul Brown, who rejected calls for it to be christened the Browns.

Not surprisingly, the Chinese Communists always rejected the use of this name and it is not well known in mainland China.

He formed the band Largest Living Things, which was the name rejected by Capitol Records in favour of Crowded House.

The name was chosen from many suggested by Ogilvy and Mather ; it being the name least rejected.

In 1996, the Moldovan parliament, citing fears of " Romanian expansionism ," rejected a proposal from President Mircea Snegur to change the name of the language to Romanian, and in 2003 a Moldovan-Romanian dictionary was published, purporting to show that the two countries speak different languages.

While this attribution is rejected by modern scholars, the name Sæmundar Edda is still sometimes encountered.

Melcher ( who had worked with The Byrds and The Beach Boys and had rejected producing an unknown singer / songwriter by the name of Charles Manson ) was a member of the successful duo Bruce & Terry, also known as The Rip Chords.

Many ancient critics also rejected Theogony ( e. g. Pausanias 9. 31. 3 ) but that seems rather perverse since Hesiod mentions himself by name in that poem ( line 22 ).

The UN mediator Matthew Nimetz proposed another form several months afterward, proposing that the name “ Republika Makedonija ” should be used by the countries that have recognized the country under that name and that Greece should use the formula “ Republika Makedonija – Skopje ”, while the international institutions and organizations should use the name “ Republika Makedonia ” in Latin alphabet transcription, but this form was rejected by Greece.

While this approach, requiring absolute purity, was rejected by other ancient Rabbis, for example ' he who is not for the name of God, will become for the name of God ', and a middle approach was adopted by Jews as standard.

Today, this theory is rejected by the majority of Polish historians, who consider the name Mieczysław to have been invented by Długosz to explain the origin of the name Mieszko.

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The name was rejected by the NFL and on March 23, 1971, the team officially announced they would become the New England Patriots.

Although Roddenberry wanted Kelley to play the character of ship's doctor, he didn't put Kelley's name forward to NBC ; the network never " rejected " the actor as Roddenberry sometimes suggested.

It is widely accepted that Copernicus's De revolutionibus followed the outline and method set by Ptolemy in his Almagest and employed geometrical constructions that had been developed previously by the Maragheh school in his heliocentric model, and that Galileo's mathematical treatment of acceleration and his concept of impetus rejected earlier medieval analyses of motion, rejecting by name ; Averroes, Avempace, Jean Buridan, and John Philoponus ( see Theory of impetus ).

Thus Tantra, especially in its nondual forms, rejected the renunciant values of Patañjalian yoga, offering instead a vision of the whole of reality as the self-expression of a single, free and blissful Divine Consciousness under whatever name, whether Śiva or Buddha-nature.

Use of the Dutch name, " Wim ", a shortened version of the baptismal name " Wilhelm / Willem ", reflected his mother's Dutch provenance, but the Dutch version was rejected by the civil registration authorities in 1945 as " unGerman ".

This minority, which rejected dropping the policy of abstentionism, now nominally distinguishes itself from Provisional Sinn Féin by using the name Republican Sinn Féin ( or Sinn Féin Poblachtach ), and maintains that they are the true Sinn Féin republicans.