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name and Republic
Suggest the following twenty-first-century amendment: By moving the term `` Republic '' to lower case, substituting the modern phrase, `` move ahead '' for the stodgy `` keep '', and by using the Postmaster's name on every envelope ( in caps, of course, with the `` in spite '' as faded as possible ), the slogan cannot fail.
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, beginning on 23 September 1991 the official name of the nation has been the Republic of Armenia ( Armenian: Hayastani Hanrapetut ' yun ).
Ahenobarbus was the name of a plebeian family of the Domitia gens in the late Republic and early Principate of ancient Rome.
* 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
The name " Republic of China " was briefly added on January 27, 2005, but has since been changed back to " none ".
: The Republic of Macedonia is entered as Macedonia, the name used in its first entry in the Factbook upon independence in 1992.
In the 1994 edition, the name of the entry was changed to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as it is officially recognised by the United Nations ( awaiting for the resolution of the Macedonia naming dispute ).
Turkey, which does not recognise the Republic of Cyprus, and the Turkish Cypriot administration of the northern part of the island, do not accept the Republic's rule over the whole island and refer to it not by its international name, but as the " Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus ".
After the creation of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Turkish government began to formally object to the use of Constantinople in other languages and ask that others use the more common name for the city.
In 1863 the name of the Republic was changed officially to " United States of Colombia ", and in 1886 the country adopted its present name: " Republic of Colombia ".
Republic is still an alternative translation of the traditional name of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Commodore brand name resurfaced in late 2003 on an inexpensive portable MP3 player made in the People's Republic of China by Tai Guen Enterprise, sold mostly in Europe.
The Congo was indeed granted its independence on 30 June 1960, adopting the name " Republic of the Congo " ( République du Congo ).
As the French colony of Middle Congo ( Moyen Congo ) also chose the name Republic of Congo upon receiving its independence, the two countries were more commonly known as Congo-Léopoldville and Congo-Brazzaville, after their capital cities.
Kabila named himself president, consolidated power around himself and the AFDL, and reverted the name of the country to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Republic of Dahomey changed its name to Benin in 1975.
It struck an accommodating tone by advocating general use of " Taiwan " as the country's name without calling for abandonment of the name Republic of China.
Indeed the Republic of Independent Guyana, in French La République de la Guyane indépendante and commonly referred to by the name of the capital " Counani ", was created in the area which was disputed by France ( as part of French Guyana ) and Brazil in the late nineteenth century.
* 1932 – The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo ( the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria ) independent from the Republic of China.

name and China
the 1, Heng-Shan in Hopei, North China ( or the mountain with the same name in neighboring Shansi ) ; ;
* 220 – 265: Backgammon enters China under the name t ' shu-p ' u ( Source: Hun Tsun Sii )
This can often be seen on tour buses in China, where the company name customarily runs from the front of the vehicle to its rear — that is, from right to left on the right side of the bus, and from left to right on the left side of the bus.
The Latinized name " Confucius " is derived from " Kong Fuzi ", which was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China, most probably by Matteo Ricci.
Despite the name " Chinese checkers ", the game is not a variation of checkers, nor did it originate in China or any part of Asia.
In 2006, it was estimated that China manufactured 1. 235 billion tonnes of cement, which was 44 % of the world total cement production .< ref name =" NEAA070619b "> China now no.
In the year after April 1927, over 300, 000 people died across China in anti-Communist suppression campaigns executed by the KMT .< ref name =" Barnouin38 "> Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.
In fact, the concept of real or original name is not as clear-cut in China as it is in the Western world.
Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).
Courtesy names in China often bore a connection with the personal name of the person.
Not surprisingly, the Chinese Communists always rejected the use of this name and it is not well known in mainland China.
Linebarger's cultural links to China are partially expressed in the pseudonym " Felix C. Forrest ", which he used in addition to " Cordwainer Smith ": his godfather Sun Yat-Sen suggested to Linebarger that he adopt the Chinese name " Lin Bai-lo " (), which may be roughly translated as " Forest of Incandescent Bliss ".
According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi ( or Lao Tzu, " Old Master "), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China.

name and is
`` 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.

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