After making some stories for the Dutch publisher Oberon, the publishers of an American Disney children's magazine called DuckTales ( based on of the animated series of the same name ) offered him employment.

Via the French Alberon, the same name has entered English as Oberon – king of elves and fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( see below ).

* HMS Oberon, the name of several British navy ships

The name is from the moon of Uranus, Oberon.

In 1824, Weber received an invitation from The Royal Opera, London, to compose and produce Oberon, based on Christoph Martin Wieland's poem of the same name.

The name Oberon was derived from Oberon, the King of the Fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

* Oberon, the King of Amber, is also the name of King of the Fairies from A Midsummer Night's Dream, although Shakespeare did not invent the character.

* Corwin, when describing the royal family to Ganelon in Sign of the Unicorn, says that Oberon had two other sons with Benedict's mother Cymnea, the first being Osric, who shares his name with a courtier in Hamlet.

* Oberon is the French translation of Alberich ( used for the name of the " King of Fairies " in French and English texts ).

* The name Oberon was chosen for the outermost natural satellite of the planet Uranus in 1847, as an homage to William Shakespeare and his literary character.

* Oberon was a popular name for fairy Familiars in 15th and 16th century England.

* A fanciful etymology was given for the name " Oberon " by Charles Mackay in his book The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe along with many other theories on words found in the English language that have not found mainstream acceptance.

Her film career received a major boost when the director Alexander Korda took an interest and gave her a small but prominent role, under the name Merle Oberon, as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII ( 1933 ) opposite Charles Laughton.

Wirth had already moved on to Oberon, but had no problems with Wilkes's team continuing development under the Modula name.

After Brown's murder, Scott Free took up the Mister Miracle name, adopted Thaddeus ' young ward Shilo Norman, and hired his assistant Oberon.

Variously, the name is also applied to the capital city of Oberon, and to the fairy land in which the city is located.

The project code name was " Midsummer ", an arbitrary reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream ; and the two main chips were named Oberon and Puck, references to characters in that play.

According to the play, Harry Cohn fired her over a kiss scene between Merle Oberon and fictitious actor Rose Lindstrom ( in fact the name of a character played by Isobel Elsom in Arzner's last film, First Comes Courage, in which Oberon starred ) in a never completed final film.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

It has also been suggested that the name might be related to the ribat of Waggag ibn Zallu in the village of Aglu ( near present-day Tiznit ), where the future Almoravid spiritual leader Abdallah ibn Yasin got his initial training.

") Judge has stated he got the idea for the name " Butt-Head " from two people he knew during his childhood called " Iron Butt " ( who encouraged people to kick him in the butt to demonstrate his strength ) and " Head-Butt.

The 1868 Hayward earthquake did occur on the southern segment of the Hayward Fault in the vicinity of today's city of Hayward ( hence, how the fault got its name ).

This so-called " register name " ( 譜名 ) is the one under which his extended relatives knew him, and the one he used in formal occasions, such as when he got married.

They gave him the name of Clark Kent, and he later got a job as a newspaper reporter under that name.

The car was first called Solitude, but got its final name from the several long distance speed records it made on the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy in November 1956.

It is from this fanciful etymological musing that Thomas Malory got the notion that Excalibur meant " cut steel " ("' the name of it ,' said the lady, ' is Excalibur, that is as moche to say, as Cut stele.

When he woke up, Odin was surprised to see the disguised women first and asked who these long bearded men were, which was where the tribe got its new name, the Langobards (" longbeards ").

A user made an idea, for ties smelling of fish, and then got people to make an account and vote for it, with a comment mentioning the name of a country.

He demanded and got the following: his name was made part of the title, " John Frankenheimer's The Train "; the French co-director, demanded by French tax laws, was not allowed to ever set foot on set ; he was given total final cut ; and a Ferrari.

Then I got the script and my name was on every page because it was about my car.

" Rare earths " got their name because they were indeed rare as compared to the " common " earths such as lime or magnesia, and historically only a few deposits were known.

In German folklore and old fairy tales, toads are often depicted sitting on toadstool mushrooms and catching, with their tongues, the flies that are said to be drawn to the Fliegenpilz, a German name for the toadstool, meaning " flies ' mushroom ") This is how the mushroom got another of its names, Krötenstuhl ( a less-used German name for the mushroom ), literally translating to " toad-stool ".

The next day, and contrary to the usual customs, Honorius was quickly buried without any pomp or ceremony in the monastery, as the hand-picked cardinals got around to electing Gregorio Papareschi, who took the name Pope Innocent II.

The parade float got its name because the first floats were decorated barges that were towed along canals with ropes held by parade marchers on the shore.

Although it was just a preliminary measure it has got the name of the state out, much like a marketing gimmick.

In 1981, Ze ' evi was appointed director of what was then the Israel Museum in Tel Aviv and got its name changed to the Eretz Israel Museum – the change having political connotations, given the associations with Eretz Israel.

However, Wallace acknowledged that he got the term from an InfoWorld magazine column by that name in the 1970s, and that he considered the name to be generic, so its use became established over freeware and user-supported software.

It got its name from the small, but very old, City of Sigtuna, but the seat was placed in the much larger modern town of Märsta.

Sri Lanka got its old name " Suvarnadwip " or " Swaranadeep " ( meaning Gold Lightlamp )" Sinhale " or " Heladiva " after Sinhalese who built up the civilization of the island.

The drink reportedly got its name because American petroleum engineers in Saudi Arabia secretly added vodka to small cans of orange juice and stirred the mixture with their screwdrivers.

What's its name??

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.

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

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

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

On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

This indicates that this drug is being marketed under one trade name only or state regulatory organizations have approved its use on the feed tag.

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.

The line soon lived up to its name, as local messages of moderate length could be sent for a dime and the company was quickly able to declare very liberal dividends on its capital stock.

The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.

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.

The great column from which the square takes its name was erected by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.

In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

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.