* A fictional name for Jesus originally used by Homer Simpson in the Simpsons episode " Missionary: Impossible "

The Simpson Desert is also a large part of the World Wildlife Fund ecoregion of the same name which consists of the Channel Country and the Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields bioregions of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia ( IBRA ).

Rather than abandon his plans to marry Mrs Simpson, he chose to abdicate in favour of Albert, who reluctantly became king in his place on 11 December 1936 under the regnal name of George VI.

Homer Simpson, a character on the animated series The Simpsons, suggests Son of Sniglet as a good book to name as a favorite and a life influence on a college application in the episode " Homer Goes to College ".

In the 1999 episode of The Simpsons, " Marge Simpson in: ' Screaming Yellow Honkers '", Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner try their hand at being Abbott and Costello, but Skinner botches the routine six seconds into the act with delivery of the line, " Not the pronoun but a player with the unlikely name of Who, is on first.

:* Similarly, on The Simpsons, in the 1999 episode " Marge Simpson in: ' Screaming Yellow Honkers '", Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner try their hand at being Abbott and Costello, but Skinner botches the routine six seconds into the act with delivery of the line, " Not the pronoun but a player with the unlikely name of Who is on first.

Eddystone gets its name from William Simpson who was so impressed by the Eddystone Lighthouse on a visit to England that he named the town & print works he'd founded after it.

The " Baldwin Effect ", building in part on the principle of " organic selection " proposed by Baldwin in " Mental Development " did only receive its name from George Gaylord Simpson in 1953.

During 1936, Mrs Simpson attended more official functions as the King's guest and, although her name appeared regularly in the Court Circular, the name of her husband was conspicuously absent.

Simpson also briefly worked with the Wailing Souls, before forming a new version of Uhuru with Errol Nelson ( of The Jayes ) and Michael Rose, the group now taking the name Black Sounds Uhuru.

In 1996 the group fragmented again, with Simpson leaving to tour Europe with dub poet Yasus Afari, because the name Black Uhuru, which belongs to Duckie Simpson, while Carlos and Dennis also toured the US under the same name.

A legal battle over the name followed, won by Simpson in 1997. Don Carlos owes Simpson $ 250, 000. US for illegally using the name of Black Uhuru, determined by a US court judge in Los Angeles, Ca.

In February 2004, it was announced in the Jamaican press that Simpson and Michael Rose had reunited under the name " Black Uhuru feat.

They played themselves in a 1998 episode of The Simpsons ( which includes Ron Howard ), in which Basinger corrects Homer Simpson on the pronunciation of her last name and polishes her Oscar statuette.

Despite this, when the two rival companies merged in 1821 under the name the Hudson's Bay Company, the new governor, Sir George Simpson, requested Grant to head a Métis settlement of some 2, 000 people situated some 16 miles west of the Red River Colony on the Assiniboine River.

He appeared in the HBO Films production of Taking Chance, a film based on a story of the same name written by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, an American ' Desert Storm ' war veteran.

Masada ( Hebrew מצדה, pronounced, from מצודה, metzuda, " fortress ") is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the Southern District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau, or horst, on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea.

Another name for Mecca, or the wilderness and mountains surrounding it, according to Arab and Islamic tradition, is Faran or Pharan, referring to the Desert of Paran mentioned in the Old Testament.

The dry season is accompanied by a dust laden airmass from the Sahara Desert, locally known as Harmattan, or by its main name, The Tropical Continental ( CT ) airmass, while the rainy season is heavily influenced by an airmass originating from the south atlantic ocean, locally known as the south west wind, or by its main name, The Tropical Maritime ( MT ) airmass.

The plant's English name, Boojum, was given by Godfrey Sykes of the Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona and is taken from Lewis Carroll's poem " The Hunting of the Snark ".

Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden yellow.

The buggies built for the US military used to be called Desert Patrol Vehicles ( DPV ) or Fast Attack Vehicles ( FAV ), yet have changed name to Light Strike Vehicles.

The first board of trustees was not formed until months after the facility was opened, and one of its first acts was to change the name to Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

Coffee chose the name Desert Hot Springs because of the area's natural hot springs.

In 1948, the Palm Desert Corporation began to develop real estate, and in 1951 the area was given its present name.

Sun City Palm Desert, California lies on the northern side of Interstate 10 from Palm Desert itself, but is unincorporated and not part of the City of Palm Desert ( the original name was Sun City Palm Springs from 1991 to 1996 ).

This name was given to the four-corner site back in the early 1930s, when local ranchers rode on burros to visit the Desert Inn ( then the local brothel ).

*" The Desert Song " by Nat Shilkret, from the musical of the same name

The name Joshua tree was given by a group of Mormon settlers who crossed the Mojave Desert in the mid-19th century.

Although many believe that the operation was named for German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who earned the nickname " Desert Fox " during the North African Campaign of World War II, this was not the case ; the operational name was one of at least a half dozen contingency plans that U. S. Central Command developed to respond to a range of possible crises involving Iraq.

1996 was the first year a formal partnership was created to own the name " Burning Man " and was also the last year that the event was held in the middle of the Black Rock Desert with no fence around it.

On 20 January 1942, the command was renamed Air Headquarters Libya ; however, on 3 February it reverted to its former name of the Air Headquarters Western Desert.

In the past it was commonly treated as a subspecies of P. aethiopicus, but today that scientific name is restricted to the Desert Warthog of northern Kenya, Somalia, and eastern Ethiopia.

As alternatives to Chatterton or Mr Chadwick as the origin of the name Chad, REME claimed that the name came from their training school, nicknamed " Chad's Temple ", the RAF claimed it arose from Chadwick House at a Lancashire radio school, and the Desert Rats claimed it came from an officer in El Alamein.

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.