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 became synonymous with cold-blooded cruelty.

The region became a province of the Roman Empire, with the same name Asia.

As the name Asia came to be extended to other areas east of the Mediterranean, the name for Anatolian became specified as Asia Minor (" Lesser Asia ", Μικρὰ Ἀσία ) in Late Antiquity.

In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

There, Aaron gained a name for eloquent and persuasive speech, so that when the time came for the demand upon the Pharaoh to release Israel from captivity, Aaron became his brother ’ s nabi, or spokesman, to his own people ( Exodus 7: 1 ) and, after their unwillingness to hear, to the Pharaoh himself ( Exodus 7: 9 ).

On his accession, Antoninus ' name became " Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pontifex Maximus ".

It became an independent degree-granting institution in 1975 under the name École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ).

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

In 1827 Ampère published his magnum opus, Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l ’ experience ( Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience ), the work that coined the name of his new science, electrodynamics, and became known ever after as its founding treatise.

Lucius ’ name was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus and he became Claudius ’ s adopted son, heir and recognised successor.

Originally a cupbearer ( Rabshaqe ) to a king of Kish with a Semitic name, Ur-Zababa, Sargon thus became a gardener, responsible for the task of clearing out irrigation canals.

The Empire in 1180 A. D when Alexios II became EmperorOn Manuel's death in 1180, Maria, who became a nun under the name Xene, took the position of regent ( according to some historians ).

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

Ares was acquitted, and this event is supposed to have given rise to the name Areopagus ( or Hill of Ares ), which afterward became famous as a court of justice.

Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Falier of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron.

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 1953 Sweet Adelines became an international organization, although it didn't change its name to Sweet Adelines International until 1991.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

The river later became, in Welsh, Gafenni, and the town's name became Abergavenny, meaning " mouth of ( Welsh: Aber ) the Gavenny ( Gafenni )".

The planet was not referred to by name until the 2006 Christmas Special, was depicted in a flashback in " The Sound of Drums ", and played an important role in the plot of " The End of Time ".

As a province, the official name of Jakarta is Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta (" Special Capital City District of Jakarta "), which in Indonesian is abbreviated to DKI Jakarta.

The Knights ' new name changes almost nightly, improvised by the actor playing the lead Knight ( originally Hank Azaria ), but always starting with " Ecky Ecky Ecky F ' tang F ' tang Olé Biscuitbarrel ..." which itself references several famous sketches from Monty Python's Flying Circus, including Election Night Special.

In 1962, the gasoline product lines marketed as Mobilgas and Mobilgas Special were rebranded as Mobil Regular and Mobil Premium in a move to emphasize the shortened brand name " Mobil " in promotional efforts although Mobiloil continued as a single word term until the 1970s.

* Office of Special Investigations, a name shared by several government agencies

Special care must be taken when talking about people who perform under their own name.

SIGGRAPH ( short for Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques ) is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics ( CG ) convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization.

Due to heightened security measures following the terrorist attacks, this Super Bowl was designated a National Special Security Event ( NSSE ) for the first time by the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) ( on December 16, 2002, the DHS would later name each subsequent Super Bowl a NSSE ).

" often figures into jokes, like Special High Intensity Training ( a well-known joke used in job applications ), Special Hot Interdiction Team ( a mockery on SWAT ), Super Hackers Invitational Tournament, and any college name that begins with an S-H ( like Sam Houston Institute of Technology or South Harmon Institute of Technology in the 2006 film Accepted or Store High In Transit in the 2006 film Kenny ).

In 1971, The U. S. Olympic Committee gave the Special Olympics official approval to use the name “ Olympics ”.

The unit was given the deliberately misleading name " L Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade " to reinforce an existing deception of a parachute brigade existing in North Africa.

Special Circumstances is the name given to the " black ops " division of the Culture's Contact unit.

From 1964 to 1971, the name of the category was Best Special Visual Effects.

Its name is the most meaningful pun in the story: outwardly it is an Eccentric ( drop-out from the Culture ) which dedicates its enormous resources to presenting tableaux of historical events ( mainly battles ) populated by passengers in suspended animation ; but in fact it is a sleeping member of Special Circumstances, the Culture's covert operations organization.

The. 38 Special actually has a nominal bullet diameter of ( jacketed ) or ( lead ) while the case has a nominal diameter of, whence the name.

In The Sandman Special # 1, he was also referred to by his Greek name, Potmos.

The Sandman Special # 1 implies that Morpheus is one and the same as the Greek deity of that name ( in DC comics continuity, another version of this god, clearly not Dream, appears in George Pérez's Wonder Woman # 11 ( December 1987 ) — what relation this figure, an old man dressed in purple vaguely resembling Agatha Harkness, has to this aspect of Dream is unclear ).

In 1941, Lieutenant-Colonel D. W. Clarke of the British Imperial General Staff, suggested the name Commando for specialized raiding units of the British Army Special Service in evocation of the effectiveness and tactics of the Boer commandos.

Not long after, Colonel Kawilarang with the use of military intelligence located and met with Major Rokus Bernardus Visser — a former member of the Dutch Special Forces who had remained a peaceful and law-abiding citizen in newly independent Indonesia, settled in West Java, married an Indonesian woman, and adopted an Indonesian name, Mohamad Idjon Djanbi.

More obliquely, a 1908 mystery by Doyle that was named " The Lost Special " features a criminal genius who could be Moriarty and a detective who could be Holmes, although neither is mentioned by name.

On October 1, 2009, C. I. T. Y .’ s name was changed to Special Programming for Achievement Network ( S. P. A. N.

The facilities were renamed the Washington State Reformatory Unit ( WSRU ), Twin Rivers Unit ( providing the state's only male sex-offender treatment program in the prison system ), Special Offender Unit ( for mental health treatment ) and the Minimum-Security Unit retained its name.

In 1941 it received a secret name, the 4th Special Department of the NKVD USSR ( 4-й спецотдел НКВД СССР ).

Throughout the war, the No2 SBS did not use the Special Boat Squadron name but instead retained the name Special Boat Section.