Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

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 ''.

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.

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.

If the first item in the operand is omitted, the symbolic name IOCSIXF will be assigned.

( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

She could have found out my first name, of course -- that wouldn't be difficult.

The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the " Sea of Atlas ".

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

The Osmanli ruler Osman I was the first Turkish ruler who minted coins in his own name in 1320s, for it bears the legend " Minted by Osman son of Ertugul ".

The name " abjad " ( ) is derived from pronouncing the first letters of the Arabic alphabet in order.

The first element of the actinides, actinium gave the group its name, much as lanthanum had done for the lanthanides.

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

Minerva is also the first name of Professor McGonagall, Harry Potter's Head of House, and a very wise witch of Hogwarts, always concerned with the safety of her students.

* Åsa ( disambiguation ), female first name in Sweden

Aventinus, whose name was real name is Johann or Johannes Turmair ( Aventinus being the Latin name of his birthplace ) wrote the Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany and the first major written work on the subject.

And this occurs now, at the refrain of Jacoby's song -- at the point, in fact, of the name `` Lizzy '' -- ; ;

The name occurs in the Refutation of all Heresies ( vii.

The fact that the name occurs on these gems in connection with representations of figures with the head of a cock, a lion, or an ass, and the tail of a serpent was formerly taken in the light of what Irenaeus says about the followers of Basilides:

The difference occurs for all nouns of multitude, both general terms such as team and company and proper nouns ( for example where a place name is used to refer to a sports team ).

Titus was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch and accompanied them to the Council of Jerusalem, although his name occurs nowhere in the Acts of the Apostles.

The name is taken from that of the Amazon River, from which certain green stones were formerly obtained, but it is doubtful whether green feldspar occurs in the Amazon area.

A similar confusion occurs in Gospel of Mark 2: 26: In reporting Jesus ' words, the evangelist confused Abiathar with Ahimelech, a mistake into which he was led by the constant association of David ‘ s name with Abiathar.

The same number however occurs in many other mathematical contexts, where it is denoted by ( often read as " n choose k "); notably it occurs as coefficient in the binomial formula, hence its name binomial coefficient.

" Upham's book runs to almost 1, 000 pages and a quick search of the name Mather ( referring to either father, son, or ancestors ) shows that it occurs only 96 times ; Poole's critique, in book form, runs less than 70 pages but the name " Mather " occurs many times that.

The name Cernunnos occurs only on the " Pillar of the Boatmen " ( Pilier des nautes ), now displayed in the Musée National du Moyen Age in Paris.

It is in the system of Valentinus that the name Dēmiourgos is used, which occurs nowhere in Irenaeus except in connection with the Valentinian system ; we may reasonably conclude that it was Valentinus who adopted from Platonism the use of this word.

It occurs even more in Spanish, e. g., the deformation of names for cannabis: mota ( literally, " something that moves " on the black market ), grifa ( literally, " something coarse to the touch "), marijuana ( a female personal name, María Juana ), cáñamo ( the original Spanish name for the plant, derived from the Latin genus name Cannabis ).

It is not certain what exact changes will happen to ENSO in the future: Different models make different predictions .< ref name =" Merryfield2006 "> It may be that the observed phenomenon of more frequent and stronger El Niño events occurs only in the initial phase of the global warming, and then ( e. g., after the lower layers of the ocean get warmer as well ), El Niño will become weaker than it was.

However, while there are many passages where the Gospel of Barnabas sets out alternative readings to parallel pericopes found in the canonical gospels, none of the references to Muhammad by name occurs in such a synoptic passage ; and in particular, none of the " Muhammad " references in Barnabas corresponds to a " Paraclete " reference in canonical John.

The first record of the name Israel ( as ) occurs in the Merneptah stele, erected for Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah c. 1209 BCE, " Israel is laid waste and his seed is not.

A further exception occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which often drop the word county entirely, or use it after the name ; thus for example internet search engines show many more uses ( on Irish sites ) of " Fingal " than of either " County Fingal " or " Fingal County ".

The name Isaac occurs 32 times in the Hebrew Bible.

The first record of the name Israel occurs in the Merneptah stele, erected for Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah c. 1209 BCE, " Israel is laid waste and his seed is not.

The deity name " Oannes " first occurs in texts from the Library of Ashurbanipal ( more than a century after the time of Jonah ) as Uanna or Uan but is assimilated to Adapa, a deity first mentioned on fragments of tablets from the 15th or 14th century B. C.

The use of the name Camelot and the support of Geoffrey Ashe helped ensure much publicity for the finds, but Alcock himself later grew embarrassed by the supposed Arthurian connection to the site.

Geoffrey of Monmouth Latinised this to Caliburnus ( likely influenced by the medieval Latin spelling calibs of Classical Latin chalybs, from Greek " χάλυψ ", " steel "), the name of Arthur's sword in his 12th-century work Historia Regum Britanniae.

The name was later used in Welsh adaptations of foreign material such as the Bruts, which were based on Geoffrey.

Geoffrey says the sword was forged in Avalon and Latinises the name " Caledfwlch " as Caliburnus.

Geoffrey of Monmouth Latinised the name to Merlinus in his works.

Geoffrey retells this story in Historia Regum Britanniæ with some embellishments, and gives the fatherless child the name of the prophetic bard, Merlin.

Geoffrey of Monmouth presents this legend to explain the Welsh name for Brittany, Llydaw, as originating from lled-taw or half-silent.

In Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Éirinn Ireland's " ninth appellation it received likewise from the sons of Milesius, who named it Scotia, from their mother's name, Scota, who was the daughter of Pharaoh Nectanebo I, king of Egypt ; or perhaps from themselves, they being originally of the Scythian race.

' Q ' does have a name, " Major Geoffrey Boothroyd ".

Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst KCB ( sometimes spelled Geoffrey, or Jeffrey, he himself spelled his name as Jeffery ) ( 29 January 1717 – 3 August 1797 ) served as an officer in the British Army and as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces.

Along the way to his first tournament in Rouen, the trio encounters Geoffrey Chaucer ( Paul Bettany ), who agrees to forge patents of nobility to allow William to compete as a knight under the assumed name of " Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein " from Gelderland.

Geoffrey received his nickname from the yellow sprig of broom blossom ( genêt is the French name for the planta genista, or broom shrub ) he wore in his hat.

In 2005, filmmaker Ken Burns produced a 2-part documentary about Johnson's life, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, based on the 2004 nonfiction book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward.

Sir Geoffrey Pole was arrested in August 1538 ; he had been corresponding with Reginald, and the investigation of Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter ( Henry VIII's first cousin and the Countess ' second cousin ) had turned up his name ; he had appealed to Thomas Cromwell, who had him arrested and interrogated.

The Welsh redactions of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Brut y Brenhinedd, associate him with Ynys Afallach, which is substituted as the Welsh name for Geoffrey's Insula Avalonsis ( Island of Avalon ), but this is fanciful medieval etymology and it is more likely his name derives from the Welsh word afall " apple tree " ( modern Welsh afal " apple ", afalllen " apple tree " cf.

Her paternal cousin was Sir Geoffrey de Havilland ( 1882 – 1965 ), an aircraft designer, notably of the De Havilland Mosquito, and founder of the aircraft company which bore his name.

Geoffrey of Monmouth renders her name Guanhumara in Latin ( though there are many spelling variations to be found in the various manuscripts of his Historia Regum Britanniae ).

The name was misinterpreted by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Historia to mean " dragon's head ", and further misinterpreted in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle to mean " hanging dragon ".

Geoffrey is also the first to mention Hengest de Cantia Regnum and the name of Hengest's daughter, who seduces Vortigern to marry her, after which his sons rebel, as a certain Ronwen recorded Rowena, also called Renwein, neither of which is a Germanic.

The tower story is repeated and embellished by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae, though he attributes it to Merlin, saying " Ambrosius " is the sage's alternate name.

Geoffrey actually seems to have conflated the historical Constantine III with an unrelated Cornish king of the same name, Custennin Gorneu ( the Welsh name Custennin is derived from Latin Constaninus ; it is possible that Geoffrey picked up the name from a Welsh Arthurian genealogy resembling those found in Bonedd yr Arwyr # 30a and Mostyn MS 117 # 5 ), which has led to much confusion among modern scholars ; beyond their names, Geoffrey's fictional Constantine does not resemble the historical one.