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.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

She uses the fanciful name Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV, but an odd encounter with her father reveals that her real name is Françoise Appledelhi.

As the name suggests these are roughly the groups of Lie type over fields of characteristic 2, plus a handful of others that are alternating or sporadic or of odd characteristic.

In particle physics, a fermion ( a name coined by Paul Dirac from the surname of Enrico Fermi ) is any particle characterized by Fermi – Dirac statistics and following the Pauli exclusion principle ; fermions include all quarks and leptons, as well as any composite particle made of an odd number of these, such as all baryons and many atoms and nuclei.

The name ' hellbender ' probably comes from the animal ’ s odd look.

Although the supergroup was never formed, Page remembered Moon's odd expression and later adopted it as the name of a new band.

The creatures co-exist in Teletubbyland ( the name of their home environment ) with a number of odd contraptions such as Nuu-Nuu, the group's anthropomorphic blue vacuum cleaner with the tendency to suck up the Teletubbies ' possessions and the voice trumpets, devices resembling periscopes that rise from the ground and interact with the Teletubbies, serving as either supervisors for the beings who often arise to engage in games with them.

It would have been odd to give a person a defamatory name ( in the Greek or Latin Gospels ) that was not in the native tongue Aramaic, when there were words in that tongue that could mean the same.

But in an odd sense, it was never Isaac Van Nuys's town as land speculators simply borrowed the name of his holding, the Van Nuys Ranch.

This name, however, has not been in use since the 9th century, and it sounded quite odd to French people.

As for the historical reason for the odd name, various legends are told.

The cave opening is large, and this is the most likely reason for the odd name.

In the 13th century David Kimhi interpreted the odd sentence in 1 Samuel 5. 2 – 7 that " only Dagon was left to him " to mean " only the form of a fish was left ", adding: " It is said that Dagon, from his navel down, had the form of a fish ( whence his name, Dagon ), and from his navel up, the form of a man, as it is said, his two hands were cut off.

Enigma is an odd name for a town ; by definition it means a puzzle or mystery.

As Tifts Town ( as it was known until 1890 when the name was changed to Tifton ) grew, Captain Tift and his associates adopted the same town layout that Mystic, Connecticut had, with even numbered streets running east and west as one traveled north from the center of town, and odd numbered streets following the same suit as one traveled south.

The nautical name is a bit odd, considering the city is over twelve miles from the Ohio River.

There are currently three different stories that explain how the odd name of D ’ Lo originated.

This leads us to believe that very early settlers and explorers may have been referring to this area as De leau and therefore that is why such an odd name was originally chosen to be the official village name.

The name pigstick is an odd analogy coming from the verb meaning “ to hunt the wild boar on horseback with a spear .”

This odd regulation was formulated as a Family Law in 1688, but the tradition of the uniformity of name was in practice as early as 1200.

The other day they seized an odd man, who goes by the name of Count St. Germain.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

Thus the week cycle is by itself not a full calendar system ; neither is a system to name the days within a year without a system for identifying the years.

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing, with the crop being transported on the Cheddar Valley line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path.

The name of this metabolic pathway is derived from citric acid ( a type of tricarboxylic acid ) that is first consumed and then regenerated by this sequence of reactions to complete the cycle.

Walsh had no great name recognition during his half-century as a working director, but his noirs White Heat ( 1949 ) and The Enforcer ( 1951 ) had A-list stars and are seen as important examples of the cycle.

Sanskrit priyā " beloved ") and was known among many northern European cultures with slight name variations over time: e. g. Friggja in Sweden, Frīg ( genitive Frīge ) in Old English, and Fricka in Richard Wagner's operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, after the cycle of Grail romances was well established, late medieval writers came up with a false etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for " Holy Grail.

" This name actually refers to a special " ceremony ": the last weekly Torah portion is read from Deuteronomy, completing the annual cycle, and is followed immediately by the reading of the first chapter of Genesis.

However, the preparatory steps that lead up to meiosis are identical in pattern and name to the interphase of the mitotic cell cycle.

ATP levels differ at various stages of the cell cycle suggesting that there is a relationship between the abundance of ATP and the cell's ability to enter a new cell cyle .< ref name = Sweet1999 > ATP ’ s role in the basic functions of the cell make the cell cycle sensitive to changes in the availability of mitochondrial derived ATP.

Indeed, in studies of Saguinus fuscicollis, common name saddle-back tamarin, no monogamous lone pairs have ever been seen to attempt a breeding cycle.

Many of the total of 14 banquet and beer halls had a Wagnerian theme-indeed, the very name of the complex was taken from the Wagner opera Das Rheingold, the first of the four parts of the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, although this name did hark back to the building's planned former role as a concert venue.

Both Gardens were prominent cycling venues, which gave rise to the track cycle racing that ultimately carried their name — and thereby became an indirect tribute to James Madison.

Its name is derived from the frequent shifts in the business cycle although unemployment can also be persistent as occurred during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Examples include K. Ehrenberg's charcoal illustration Gastmahl in Walhalla ( mit einziehenden Einheriern ) ( 1880 ), Richard Wagner's depiction of Valhalla in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen ( 1848 – 1874 ), the Munich, Germany-based Germanic Neopagan magazine Walhalla ( 1905 – 1913 ), and the comic series Valhalla ( 1978, ongoing ) by Peter Madsen, and its subsequent animated film of the same name ( 1986 ).

Prior to the Phanerozoic ( before 544 Ma ), it is believed that microbial or inorganic processes weakly regulated the ocean's silicon cycle .< ref name = grenne03 > Subsequently, the cycle appears dominated ( and more strongly regulated ) by the radiolarians and siliceous sponges, the former as zooplankton, the latter as sedentary filter feeders primarily on the continental shelves.

The name " saros " () was first given to the eclipse cycle by Edmond Halley in 1691, who took it from the Suda, a Byzantine lexicon of the 11th century.

The name was first applied to the creatures in Lovecraft's short story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), elaborating on a reference to ' What fungi sprout in Yuggoth ' in his sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth ( 1929 – 30 ) which described the contrasting vegetation on alien dream-worlds.

However, a quotation from another lost epic in the Trojan cycle, the Aethiopis, gives his father's name as Agrius.

* Terra ( Hainish cycle ), another name for Earth in Ursula K. Le Guin's writings

Under the name Brünnhilde she appears in the Nibelungenlied and therefore also in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

As the name implies, these actions use the force of recoil to provide the energy to cycle the action.