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name and Linnaeus
In 1753 Carl Linnaeus created the name Amaryllis belladonna, the type species of the genus Amaryllis.
Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.
' The name may have been used informally to refer to the plants in pre-Linnaean times, and was simply formalised when Linnaeus described Erica in 1753, and then when Jussieu described the Ericaceae in 1789.
The family name is based on the genus Tettigonia, which is New Latin ( Linnaeus, 1748 ), and derives from the Greek (), a cicada.
The same applies to " Linnaean name ": depending on the context this may either be a formal name given by Linnaeus ( personally ), such as Giraffa camelopardalis Linnaeus, 1758, or a formal name in the accepted nomenclature ( as opposed to a modernistic clade name ).
The greatest innovation of Linnaeus, and still the most important aspect of this system, is the general use of binomial nomenclature, the combination of a genus name and a second term, which together uniquely identify each species of organism.
The Ostrich was originally described by Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae under its current binomial name.
In 1758, Linnaeus first described the species in his work Systema Naturae under the scientific name Felis tigris.
He planted the first botanical garden, the one which would eventually be tended by Carl Linnaeus and is kept today as a museum of 18th century botany under the name Linnaeus ' Garden.
It was one of the many species originally described by Linnaeus, who gave it the name Felis leo, in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae.
He was to be the greatest proponent of settlement in New South Wales: in fact, the name " Banksia " was proposed for the region by Linnaeus.
The Banksia genus was first described and named by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger in his April 1782 publication Supplementum Plantarum ; hence the full name for the genus is " Banksia L. f ." The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition.
Thus zoologists will give the name of a particular sea snail species as " Patella vulgata Linnaeus, 1758 ".
The adoption by biologists of a system of strictly binomial nomenclature is due to Swedish botanist and physician Carl von Linné, more commonly known by his Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus ( 1707 – 1778 ).
*( plant ) Amaranthus retroflexus L." L ." is the standard abbreviation for " Linnaeus "; the absence of parentheses shows that this is his original name.

name and tells
Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".
Pliny tells that the wool of Colossae gave its name ( colossinus ) to the colour of the cyclamen flower.
" In the Smallville episode " Masquerade ", Clark tells Lois that Clark Kent is just a name, just two words, and that the Blur is who he really is.
For example, the name Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo carried Cretans over the sea in the shape of a dolphin () to make them his priests.
When she desperately asks to hear the last words Kurtz said, Marlow tells her that his last words was her name.
Being very uncomfortable Marlow tells her that the final words that Kurtz pronounce was her name.
Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America.
A proper name tells us which thing is in question, without giving us any other information about it.
When Polyphemus asks for Odysseus ' name, promising him a guest-gift if he answers, Odysseus tells him "," literally " no one.
Ramses tells us that, having brought the imprisoned Sea Peoples to Egypt, he " settled them in strongholds, bound in my name.
Having connected to the PAD, the dumb-terminal user tells the PAD which host to connect to, by giving a phone-number-like address in the X. 121 address format ( or by giving a host name, if the service provider allows for names that map to X. 121 addresses ).
The novel tells the story through a fictional first-person narrator by the name of Roger Byam, based on actual crew member Peter Heywood.
The 9th-century " Historia Brittonum " sees in Lucius a translation of the Celtic name Llever Maur ( Great Light ), says that the envoys of Lucius were Fagan and Wervan, and tells us that with this king all the other island kings ( reguli Britanniæ ) were baptized ( Hist.
In the movie Léon ( also known as The Professional ), when Léon and Mathilda check into the hotel, Mathilda tells Léon she's filling the form out with " the name of a girl in my class who makes me sick.
Before he dies, though, Valjean makes peace with Marius, with whom he had had uneasy relations, and tells Cosette the name of her mother, Fantine.
Stage Door ( 1937 ) is an RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a boarding house at 158 West 58th Street in New York City.
Lola ( whose name used to be Esteban ), who is dying from AIDS, talks about how she always wanted a son, and Manuela tells her about her own Esteban and how he died in a car accident.
In 1984, again under the Andrew Macdonald pen name, William Pierce published another novel, Hunter, which tells the story of a man named Oscar Yeager, a veteran of the Vietnam War and F-4 Phantom pilot who assassinates mixed-raced couples.
Finally, in the February 6, 2005 episode, " Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass ", Comic Book Guy nonchalantly tells Ned Flanders: " My name is Jeff Albertson, but everyone calls me ' Comic Book Guy '".
She tells him her name is Hildr, and " she is known as Brynhildr, and was a valkyrie ".
Saxo tells of Dan the first king of Denmark who had a brother named Angul who gave his name to the Angles.
When Slocum does not believe their story, Susan tells him that they are members of " The Leopard Gang "; she refers to herself as " Swingin ' Door Susie " and David as " Jerry the Nipper " ( a name Cary Grant's character was called by Irene Dunne in the movie The Awful Truth, also featuring Asta ).
In Homer's " The Odyssey ", when Odysseus is captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus, he tells the Cyclops that his name is Outis ( No-one ).
Livy says merely that the colony was sent in Thurinum agrum, and does not mention anything of a change of name ; but Strabo tells us that they gave to the new colony the name of Copiae, and this statement is confirmed both by Stephanus of Byzantium, and by the evidence of coins, on which, however, the name is written " COPIA ".

name and reader
Jonah, whose name literally means " dove ," is introduced to the reader in the very first verse.
Its name may be attributed to its frequent role as the first real test in the Elements of the intelligence of the reader and as a bridge to the harder propositions that followed.
* The King in Yellow appearing in the book of the same name by Robert W. Chambers purports to be an actual play that is capable of driving the reader insane.
The metre is often denoted by a row of figures besides the name of the tune, such as " 87. 87. 87 ", which would inform the reader that each verse has six lines, and that the first line has eight syllables, the second has seven, the third line eight, etc.
Shaoshi, the peak where Shaolin Temple is located on Mount Song, means " little hall " and thus the name of the peak becomes a play on words for the six gates or doors by which the reader may enter the little hall on Mount Song and find enlightenment.
The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were created by British writers Steve Jackson ( not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name ) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, and provide an original twist on traditional fiction in that the reader takes control of the story's protagonist, being required to make choices that will affect the outcome.
In some forms of fiction, the pen name adopted is the name of the lead character, to suggest to the reader that the book is a ( fictional ) autobiography.
A reader once asked Tolkien whether the name Gondor had been inspired by the ancient Ethiopian citadel of Gondar.
Although Johnny has encounters with many women, he remains fixated on Thumper ( whose real name is eventually revealed to Johnny but never to the reader ) throughout.
In Dreamer of Dune, Brian Herbert's 2003 biography of his father, the younger Herbert speculates that the name " Gesserit " is supposed to suggest to the reader the word " Jesuit " and thus evoke undertones of a religious order.
But they are quite free from the ludicrous doggerel which has made the name libretto a byword, and they have quite enough dramatic merit to carry the reader, much more the spectator, along with them.
The new paper continued in this vein until January 1996 when reader pressure for a shorter title caused the name of the paper to revert to The Daily Telegraph, despite staff concerns that former Mirror readers would now feel disenfranchised.
Honey Bear's imminent arrival was announced in early 2000 in The Birds, the Bees, and the Berenstain Bears, along with a reader contest to name the new bear ; her birth was featured later that year in The Berenstain Bears and Baby Makes Five.
" With her new name, she sat on a stool with a sign around her neck saying " Girl Singer ," did breathing exercises, and soon performed as a reader of poems and plays, while Lester made occasional jokes about her " hidden talents.
After multiple nominations and a reader vote, the verb " peg " was chosen ( despite Savage's aunt bearing the name Peg ) with a 43 % plurality over runners up " bob " and " punt ".
As a parting gift he left Jim a note that he signed with his real name, although the name is not revealed to the reader.
In addition to depicting the map's features in a geographically accurate manner, it is of critical importance to place the names that identify these features, in a way that the reader knows instantly which name describes which feature.
The author is noticeably pro-Greek, portraying Zeus as simply another name for the god of Israel, and while criticism is lodged against idolatry and Greek sexual ethics, the argument is phrased in such a way as to attempt to persuade the reader to change, rather than as a hostile attack.
He and his niece Dorothy Gale ( this is the first of the Oz books in which the reader learns her last name ) are aboard a steamship traveling there when they are caught in a fierce storm and separated.
In this, Borges anticipates the post-modern theory that gives centrality to reader response ; his name appeared in Jaques Derrida's question and answer section that followed his delivery of his 1966 essay " Signature, Event, Context: A communication to the Congrès International des Sociétés de Philosophie de Langue Française.
Azrael, as both a character or a more abstract concept has been adopted by many different artists, musicians, poets, and authors over the centuries to express or evoke a variety of different meanings or emotions in the reader – often drawing on the cultural resonance of the name for effect.
The name of Junius emerged again as a political commentator on a blog written at: http :// JuniusOnUKip. blogspot. co. UK / in November 2008, carrying some 1, 400 postings + many reader comments to date.

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