Many names were suggested, but the name “ Kallista ” ( in ancient Greek, “ Kalliste ”, meaning “ most beautiful ”) was adopted and the change made on 1 April 1925.

Thus, the Greeks most often associated Apollo's name with the Greek verb ἀπόλλυμι ( apollymi ), " to destroy ".

Plato in Cratylus connects the name with ( apolysis ), " redeem ", with ( apolousis ), " purification ", and with ( aploun ), " simple ", in particular in reference to the Thessalian form of the name,, and finally with ( aeiballon ), " ever-shooting ".

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

* Ada ( name ), feminine given name ( and list of people with the name )

Experiments have been conducted to attempt the synthesis of ununennium ( Uue ), which is likely to be the next member of the group, but they have all met with failure .< ref name =" link "> However, ununennium may not be an alkali metal due to relativistic effects, which are predicted to have a large influence on the chemical properties of superheavy elements.

The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).

The Aethiopian Sea, Ethiopic Ocean or Ethiopian Ocean ( Okeanos Aithiopos ), is an old name for what is now called the South Atlantic Ocean, which is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia.

* John Dobson ( 1915 ), whose name is associated with the Dobsonian telescope, a simplified design for Newtonian reflecting telescopes.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

Later, the Anatolian peninsula was given the name Asia ( Ἀσία ), presumably after the name of the Assuwa confederation in western Anatolia.

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

The name actinium originates from the Ancient Greek aktis, aktinos ( ακτίς, ακτίνος ), meaning beam or ray.

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 the name Rayburn is one of the most dominant in the history of American politics for the last half century.

The drug's chemical name is listed, since most states require feed processors to use this name instead of the trade name on the feed tag.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

He collaborated with many of the big name entertainers visiting Portland, among the most recent being Jimmy Durante and Phil Silvers.

The most famous undergraduate of South Philadelphia High School is a current bobby-sox idol, Dreamboat Cacophonist Fabian ( real name: Fabian Forte ), 17, and last week it developed that he will remain an undergraduate for a while.

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.

However, this name is used to refer to the brown vine snake, Ahaetulla pulverulenta, a slender, arboreal species that grows to five feet ( 152 cm ) at most and feeds only on small vertebrates.

At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

In Slovene, the most established traditional name is mali traven, meaning the month when plants start growing.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

He was nicknamed the " Austrian Oak " and the " Styrian Oak " in his bodybuilding days, " Arnie " during his acting career and more recently " The Governator " ( a portmanteau of " Governor " and " The Terminator "-one of his most well-known movie roles ).< ref name =" IMDb bio ">

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.

Abimelech was most prominently the name of a polytheistic king of Gerar who is mentioned in two of the three wife-sister narratives in Genesis.

In the parallel passage,, the name is given as Ahimelech ; most authorities consider this the more correct reading.

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

He called it Formosa (" beautiful ", a name later applied to Taiwan ), but it quickly took on the name of its European discoverer, albeit spelt " Fernando Po ".

The Targum connects the name with the Persian word for " star ", ستاره setareh, explaining that Esther was so named for being as beautiful as the Morning Star.

Frits Philips wanted to give the people of Eindhoven a beautiful and educational gift to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the company that bears his family name.

In addition to Veronica, the popular clique consists of three wealthy and beautiful ( but deeply unhappy ) girls with the same first name: the malicious leader, Heather Chandler ( Kim Walker ); the bookish bulimic Heather Duke ( Shannen Doherty ) and the weak-willed cheerleader Heather McNamara ( Lisanne Falk ).

They argue that the name khazar comes from the Chechen language, meaning beautiful valley.

The name comes from the Occitan word " merlot ", which means " young blackbird " (" merle " is the French word for several kinds of thrushes, including blackbirds ); the name was thought to have been given either because of the grape's beautiful dark-blue color, or the blackbirds ' fondness for grapes.

Literally " beautiful singing ", bel canto opera derives from the Italian stylistic singing school of the same name.

That's a beautiful name in Navajo.

Fragment 132 reads in full: " I have a beautiful child who looks like golden flowers, my darling Cleis, for whom I would not ( take ) all Lydia or lovely ..." These fragments have often been interpreted as referring to Sappho's daughter, or as confirming that Sappho had a daughter with this name.

The Qabr-er-Rumia -- best known by its French name, Tombeau de la Chrétienne, tradition making it the burial-place of Florinda, la Cava Rumía, the beautiful and unfortunate daughter of Count Julian -- is near Kolea, and is known to be the tomb of the Mauretanian king Juba II and of his wife Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.

The film is set in the village of Nomen Tuum ( Latin, " your name "), which has a well that can heal the sick and make a person more beautiful.

The name Allegany may come from a local Lenape word, welhik hane or oolikhanna, which means ' best flowing river of the hills ' or ' beautiful stream '.

* Paithan-Saint Eknath's native place, famous Jayakwadi dam, and a beautiful garden name as Sant Dnyneshwar Udyan.

As Will Friedwald noted, Unlike any other singer you could name, Fitzgerald has the most amazing asset in the very sound of her voice: it's easily one of the most beautiful and sonically perfect sounds known to man.

The Allegheny River is named as Ohio on a sketch by George Washington. The name Allegheny probably comes from Lenape welhik hane or oolikhanna, which means ' best flowing river of the hills ' or ' beautiful stream '.

The writer – Colonel Colin Campbell, living under a number of aliases including his pen name " Richard Ames "– is joined by a beautiful and sophisticated lady, Gwendolyn Novak, who helps him flee to Luna with a bonsai maple and a would-be murderer (" Bill ").

The name means beautiful hill.

The name " cedar " has more recently ( since about 1700 ) been applied to many other trees ( such as Western redcedar ; in some cases the botanical name alludes to this usage, such as the genus Calocedrus ( meaning " beautiful cedar "), also known as Incense-cedar ).

In his monumental study of Chivalry, The Broad-Stone of Honour, Kenelm Henry Digby offered the following definition: ' Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to heroic actions, and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world.

The name Ehime comes from the Kojiki and means " beautiful maiden.

There are several points analogous in the movie and the Verdi opera of the same name: there is a beautiful daughter, there is fighting with words, and there is a " curse ", but the movie is otherwise unrelated.