The name Pluto was officially adopted on May 1, 1930.

The name " cubewano " derives from the first trans-Neptunian object ( TNO ) found after Pluto and Charon,.

In June 1957, Wham-O co-founder Richard Knerr decided to stimulate sales by giving the discs the additional brand name Frisbee ( pronounced " friz '- bee "), after learning that Connecticut college students were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, the term " Frisbee " coming from the name of the Bridgeport, CT pie manufacturer Frisbie Pie Company.

The decision to name the object Pluto was intended in part to honour Percival Lowell, as his initials made up the word's first two letters.

The name refers only to the orbital resonance and does not imply common physical characteristics ; it was invented to describe those bodies smaller than Pluto ( hence the diminutive ) following similar orbits.

The choice of the name Pluto and its symbol were partly influenced by his initials PL.

Pluto ( Πλούτων, Ploutōn ) was a name for the ruler of the underworld ; the god was also known as Hades, a name for the underworld itself.

The name Pluton was conflated with that of Ploutos ( Πλούτος Ploutos, " wealth "), a god of wealth, because mineral wealth was found underground, and because Pluto as a chthonic god ruled the deep earth that contained the seeds necessary for a bountiful harvest.

* The two " real " police characters played by Philip Michael Thomas and Lynda Aldon are named Mickey ( Polanko ) and Minnie ( Smith ), respectively, in the film and the police dog's name is Pluto.

'" Gromit enjoys eating " KornFlakes " and reading many books, including The Republic, by Pluto ( a nod to the Disney character of the same name and a pun on Plato ); Crime and Punishment, by Fido Dogstoyevsky ( a pun on Fyodor Dostoyevsky ); and a " how-to " guide entitled, Electronics for Dogs.

Several months had passed between the naming of what was believed to have been the ninth planet, Pluto, on March 24, 1930, and the attachment of that name to the dog character.

Venetia Burney ( later Venetia Phair ), who as an eleven-year-old schoolgirl had suggested the name Pluto for the planet, remarked in 2006: “ The name had nothing to do with the Disney cartoon.

However, they were not produced on a regular basis until 1940, by which time the name of the series was shortened to Pluto.

Cicero in his De Natura Deorum derives the name of Dis Pater from dives, suggesting a meaning of " father of riches ", directly corresponding to the name Pluto ( from Greek Πλούτων, Ploutōn, meaning " wealthy ").

This was because Orcus was sometimes considered to be another name for Pluto, and also because Pluto and 90482 Orcus are both plutinos.

According to Martianus Capella, Summanus is another name for Pluto as the " highest " ( summus ) of the Manes.

* Diademed monkey, another name for Blue Monkey or Pluto Monkey ( Cercopithecus mitis )

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.

Hezbollah leaders reportedly admitted their involvement in IJO's attacks and the nominal nature of " Islamic Jihad " – that it was merely a " telephone organization ," and whose name was " used by those involved to disguise their true identity.

He reportedly kept the " von " name in homage to Erich von Stroheim and Josef von Sternberg, both of whom also added it later in life.

The CIA reportedly received Hazmi's name as part of a list of 19 names that were planning an attack in the near future.

In recent centuries, when a pope was judged to have died, it was reportedly traditional for the Cardinal Chamberlain to confirm the death ceremonially by gently tapping the pope's head thrice with a silver hammer, calling his birth name each time.

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.

The most popular version attributes the naming to Willard J. Daniels, a merchant, who reportedly suggested Toledo because it ' is easy to pronounce, is pleasant in sound, and there is no other city of that name on the American continent.

They invented nonsensical free verse poetry and submitted it to the paper in Ashbless's name, where it was reportedly enthusiastically accepted.

David Selznick invited her to Hollywood, but she refused to agree to the conditions of the contract which reportedly included changing her name to Gilda Christian and pretending to be Austrian rather than German.

On August 23, Israeli Mossad reportedly gave his name to the CIA as part of a list of 19 names they said were planning an attack in the near future.

They reportedly left the library with a third middle-eastern man, thought to be Marwan al-Shehhi, whom Hensmen claimed asked her for the name of a local restaurant.

On 15 December 2011 the Spelthorne Borough Council voted 25-4, with 6 abstentions ( including all of those from Staines ward itself ), to change the name of the town to Staines-upon-Thames with the aim of promoting its riverside location so boosting the local economy and, reportedly, to attempt to discourage association with the fictional character Ali G.

On 19 December 1741 Vitus Bering died on the island, which was given the name Bering Island after him, near the Kamchatka Peninsula, reportedly from scurvy ( although this has been contested ), along with 28 men of his company.

In an uncredited role ( he reportedly did not want his name to appear ), Rayburn played a TV interviewer in the 1959 movie, It Happened to Jane starring Doris Day.

Seeing the " witch " on the run and the " spell " broken, Glasdale's garrison burst out to give chase, but according to legend, Joan turned around on them alone, raised her holy standard and cried out " Ou Nom De " (" In the name of God "), which reportedly was sufficient to impress the English to halt their pursuit and return to the Boulevart.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who appeared in the prologue to the film based on his novel of the same name, reportedly showed a reel of O ' Brien's animation from the film to his friends, claiming it was real footage of living dinosaurs, to try to convince them that his story was based on fact.

The name INC was reportedly coined by public relations expert John Rendon ( of the Rendon Group agency ) and the group was funded by the United States.

The genus name Achillea is derived from mythical Greek character, Achilles, who reportedly carried it with his army to treat battle wounds.

Although his ministry has expanded across three continents and he has become a household name among Christian families in Latin America, he still lives a humble life, reportedly living in the same house he owned and in the same conditions before his ministry began.

Rider reportedly was responsible for naming Hiawatha, taking the young Indian's name from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Song of Hiawatha.

Legend holds that the town was originally called Bear Corners for the many wild black bears crossing nearby Thompson's Creek, and that it eventually took its name from General Andrew Jackson, who reportedly camped there with his troops on a return trip north after the 1815 Battle of New Orleans

Located in the beautiful Middletown Valley that stretches between the Catoctin Mountains on the east and South Mountain on the west, the town reportedly gained its name from its location midway between those ranges.

Fisher chose the name " Smyrna " for the office, reportedly because he wanted to ensure a unique name.

Residents were reportedly looking for a shorter name than Farmington.