A bunch of young buckaroos from out West, who go by the name of Texas Boys Choir, loped into Town Hall last night and succeeded in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience.

The High King of the Elves in the West was Ingwë, an echo of the name Yngvi often found as a name for Frey, whose abode was in Álfheim according to the Grímnismál.

Place name scholars have found a number of place names through the Midland dialect regions of Britain that incorporate the ambre-element: examples include Ombersley in Worcestershire, Ambrosden in Oxfordshire, Amberley in Herefordshire, Amberley in Gloucestershire and Amberley in West Sussex.

The name " Apus " is derived from the Greek " apous ", meaning " without feet ", which referred to the Western conception of a bird-of-paradise as one without feet, a misconception perpetuated by the fact that the only specimens available in the West had both feet and wings removed.

An alternative name for the ACC is the West Wind Drift.

Extreme Unction was the usual name for the sacrament in the West from the late twelfth century until 1972, and was thus used at the Council of Trent and in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

In the Churches mentioned here by name, the oil used ( called " oil of the sick " in both West and East ) is blessed specifically for this purpose.

The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

The naming scheme for " Bollywood " was inspired by " Tollywood ", the name that was used to refer to the cinema of West Bengal.

The Batavi ( the name is believed to derive from a West Germanic root also present in " better " ( possibly meaning " superior men ")) moved into the Betuwe in the late 1st century BC.

This, his maiden Test century in his fifth Test, was the turning point of the series as West Indies won the final two Tests to win the series 2 – 1. Lara went on to name his daughter Sydney after scoring 277 at SCG.

A group of Liberal opponents of the merger with the Social Democrats, including Michael Meadowcroft ( formerly Liberal MP for Leeds West ) and Paul Wiggin ( who served on Peterborough City Council as a Liberal ), continued under the old name of " the Liberal Party ".

" Bongo " is derived from a West African native name.

Until June 2007, The New York Times, from which the Square gets its name, was published at offices at 239 West 43rd Street ; the paper stopped printing papers there on June 15, 1997.

Whatever my mistakes or failings, I could not imagine that I should find myself at the center of such a political campaign as has been worked up round my name in the West.

Cannibalism ( from Caníbales, the Spanish name for the Carib people, a West Indies tribe formerly well known for their practice of cannibalism ) is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.

The West Coast Offense, is the popular name for the high-percentage passing scheme designed by former Bengals assistant Bill Walsh.

At Capitol's behest, the band's name was changed to Crowded House, which alluded to the lack of space at the West Hollywood apartment they shared during the recording of the album Crowded House.

The name " Cheddar cheese " is widely used and has no Protected Designation of Origin ( PDO ) within the European Union, but only Cheddar produced from local milk within four counties of South West England may use the name " West Country Farmhouse Cheddar.

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

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The said ruler's nation logically becomes an " Empire ", despite having no additional territory or hegemony such as Central African Empire or the Korean Empire proclaimed in 1897 when Korea, far from gaining new territory, was on the verge of being annexed by the Empire of Japan, the last to use the name officially.

In many cultures ( particularly in European and European influenced cultures in the Americas, Oceania, etc., as well as the Middle East, South Asia, and most African cultures ), the family name is normally the last part of a person's name.

An associate of Douglass wrote of Grant that African Americans " will ever cherish a grateful remembrance of his name, fame and great services.

The name giraffe has its earliest known origins in the Arabic word zarafa ( زرافة ), perhaps from some African language.

John van Melle ( 11 February 1887 – 8 November 1953 ) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author.

The name itself is a compound of " Kruger " ( the man depicted on the obverse ) and " rand ", the South African unit of currency.

Abu-Jamal was given the name Mumia in 1968 by his high school teacher, a Kenyan instructing a class on African cultures in which students took African classroom names.

According to Abu-Jamal, ' Mumia ' means " Prince " and was the name of anti-colonial African nationalists conducting warfare against the British in Kenya at the time of its independence movement.

As indicated by its hyphenated name, Nilo-Saharan is a family of the African interior, including the greater Nile basin and the central Sahara desert.

Panga is the common South African name for Pterogymnus laniarius, a small, ocean-dwelling fish, native to the southeast Atlantic Ocean and southwest Indian Ocean.

* Phil Masinga ( 1969 ), full name Philemon Masinga, a former South African footballer who played for teams in several countries

Beginning in 2005, portions of the African National Congress wished to change the name of the city to match the name of the Tshwane municipality, however this met with stiff opposition, particularly from Afrikaner civil rights groups and political parties since it denies the history of the city as founded by Pretorius.

Julius Africanus's name indicates that he was an African.

* The album Song for Biko by South African improviser, composer, and bandleader Johnny Dyani ( Johnny Mbizo Dyani ) features a composition written by Dyani of the same name.

The name Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek ( South African Republic ) was adopted as the title of the state, and the new constitution made provision for a volksraad to which members were to be elected by the people for a period of two years, and in which the legislative function was vested.

A 1998 study by historian Carolyn Hamilton summarizes much of the scholarship on Shaka towards the dawn of the 21st century in areas ranging from ideology, politics and culture, to the use of his name and image in a popular South African theme park, Shakaland.

He later wrote a detailed account in the book African Game Trails, where he describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met, and the flora and fauna he collected in the name of science.

Cyprian, Tertullian's North African compatriot, though he nowhere mentions his name, was well read in his writings, as Cyprian's secretary told Jerome.

Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains.