A former superintendent of the Regional Institute of Ophthalmology in the city of Madras ( the present day Chennai ), India, Kirk Patrick, was the first to have found the adenovirus that caused conjunctivitis, leading to the name Madras eye for the disease.

With the aid of funds collected by his Madras disciples and Rajas of Mysore, Ramnad, Khetri, Dewans and other followers, Vivekananda left for Chicago on 31 May 1893 from Bombay assuming the name Vivekananda — the name suggested by the Maharaja of Khetri, Ajit Singh.

Madras is the former name of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India.

In 1718, the name of the Collegiate School was changed to Yale College in response to a large donation from British East India Company merchant Elihu Yale, former Governor of Madras.

The reference point for flavour and spice heat is the Madras curry sauce ( the name represents the area of India where restauranteurs obtained their spices rather than an actual dish ).

A similar desire to evoke a former age means that archaic place names are frequently used in circumstances where doing so conveys a political or emotional subtext, or when the official new name is not recognised by all ( for example: ' Persia ' rather than ' Iran ', ' Bombay ' rather than ' Mumbai ', ' Madras ' rather than ' Chennai ').

Popham, the brainchild of the steer which would bear his name ( Popham's Broadway ) submitted a plan for the establishment of a regular police force for Madras and for the building of direct and cross drains in every street.

The Standard name endured into the 1980s in India, where Standard Motor Products, Madras manufactured the Triumph Herald with the basic 948 cc engine as the Standard Herald during the 1960s, eventually with additional four-door and five-door estate models exclusively for the Indian market.

As a consequence of national pride, anglicised names have been officially discouraged in many places: Ireland's Kingstown, named by King George IV, has reverted to its original Irish name of Dún Laoghaire ; India's Bombay is now Mumbai, even though this is not the oldest local name ( see Toponymy of Mumbai ) and " Bombay " is still commonly used in the city ; Calcutta is Kolkata and Madras is Chennai.

The specific name is derived from the Indian city of Madras ( now Chennai ).

Fort St George ( or historically, White Town ) is the name of the first English ( later British ) fortress in India, founded in 1644 at the coastal city of Madras, the modern city of Chennai.

A male bird was sent with this Hindi name from Madras by surgeon Edward Buckley to James Petiver, who first described the species ( Ray, Synops.

Early school records and University of Madras, MA Degree certificate show his name as M. Subramanya.

They together performed many avadhanams, composed Dhaturatnakara, made a trip to Adayar, Madras where Annie Besant praised their talent, visited Venkatagiri Samstanam, composed Mulasthaneswara Stuti in Sanskrit and visited Gadwal, Atmakur, Vijayanagaram, Pithapuram samsthanams brought them name and fame.

In the 1960s, Standard Motor Products of Madras, India manufactured Triumph Heralds with the basic 948 cc engine under the name Standard Herald, eventually with additional four-door saloon and five-door estate models exclusively for the Indian market.

On 3 May 1895 the name of the regiment was again changed to 10th Regiment ( 1st Burma Gurkha Rifles ) of Madras Infantry to reflect its now all-Gurkha composition.

Further militating against the name " Chennai ", Chennapatnam was the name in later years of an area explicitetly detailed as having been incorporated of native villages, European plantations, and European merchant houses outside of the combined city of Madras consisting of Fort St. George, and White and Black Town.

Lindwall's poor run continued, scoring two and a duck and taking match figures of 1 / 64 as Australia fell to a nine wicket defeat .< Ref name =" testlist "/> The team travelled to Madras for the first of three Tests in India.

Australia's depleted bowling told in the home side's second innings, as the visitors were only able to prise out five wickets and match ended in a draw, with Indian captain Polly Umrigar batting for six hours for a defiant 78 .< Ref name =" p239 "/> Lindwall finished the tour with scores of eight and 28 in the Third Test in Madras.

The Bank of Madras merged with the two other Presidency banks-the Bank of Calcutta and the Bank of Bombay-on 27 January 1921 and the reorganized banking entity took on the name Imperial Bank of India.

`` Oh, it's that myth, about Orpheus and What is her name??

She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.

`` What is your name, boy??

`` My name is Dandy Brandon, missy.

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 is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

`` What is your name ''??

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

Milton's name being fourth is neither too high nor too low to be assigned to the arbitrary action of vice-chancellor, proctor, master, or other mighty hand.

He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.

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 ; ;

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

But it is tradition rather than the record which balks at the expunging of the Tammany name.

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.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

It is the same ole same, tell me its name.

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

You name it, our industry is producing it, and it probably is made in different models.