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.

They crowded the small room and peered over one another's shoulders to watch the handless man write his name in the book.

" This term apparently also inspired the name of the alternate history book list, uchronia. net.

" Dr. Silverstein recalls he chose the name after perusing a book of mythology at home one evening, early in 1960.

Amos, however, is the first prophet whose name also serves as the title of the corresponding biblical book in which his story is found.

A person who participates in archery is typically known as an " archer " or " bowman ", and one who is fond of or an expert at archery can be referred to as a " toxophilite ".< ref > The noun " toxophilite ", meaning " a lover or devotee of archery, an archer ", is derived from Toxophilus by Roger Ascham —" imaginary proper name invented by Ascham, and hence title of his book ( 1545 ), intended to mean ' lover of the bow '.

When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Catholic Church as a spiritual City of God ( in a book of the same name ), distinct from the material Earthly City.

AA's name derived from its first book, informally called " The Big Book ", originally titled Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered From Alcoholism

To promote the fellowship, Wilson and other members wrote the initially-titled book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism, from which AA drew its name.

The author opens with a prologue, usually taken to be addressed to an individual by the name of Theophilus ( though this name, which translates literally as " God-lover ", may be a nickname rather than a personal appellation ) and references " my earlier book "— almost certainly the Gospel of Luke.

" The official name is Philotic Parallax Instantaneous Communicator ," explains Colonel Graff in Ender's Game, " but somebody dredged the name ansible out of an old book somewhere.

In 1930, the book was adapted as an Oscar-winning film of the same name, directed by Lewis Milestone.

Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie.

The descriptive term for the smallest living biological structure was coined by Robert Hooke in a book he published in 1665 when he compared the cork cells he saw through his microscope to the small rooms monks lived in .< ref name =" Hooke ">"< cite >...

The Babylonian Talmud was the first attempt to attach authors to the holy books: each book, according to the authors of the Talmud, was written by a prophet, and each prophet was an eyewitness of the events described, and Joshua himself wrote " the book that bears his name ".

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

It was in this period that the Pentateuch ( or Torah, to give the Hebrew name ) was composed, by detaching the book of Deuteronomy from the Deuteronomistic history and adding it to the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers.

Noth maintained that the history was written in the early Exilic period ( 6th century BCE ) in order to demonstrate how Israel's history was worked out in accordance with the theology expressed in the book of Deuteronomy ( which thus provides the name " Deuteronomistic ").

" The only other Biblical book bearing the name of a woman is the Book of Esther.

However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself and Jeremiah's name is not found anywhere in the book itself ( nor any other name, for that matter ), so authorship of Lamentations is disputed.

The book is commonly attributed to a prophet by the name of Malachi.

The chosen name, " Ravens ," alludes to the famous poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there .< ref >

The name “ Dachau ” originated in the Celtic Dahauua, which roughly translates to “ loamy meadow ” and also alludes to the loamy soil of the surrounding hills.

( The name of his TV role alludes to Peter Quince, a Shakespeare character who leads a company of bad actors in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The name of Lamorna's pub, The Wink, alludes to smuggling, ' the wink ' being a signal that contraband could be obtained.

The Cozy Cone Motel design is the Wigwam Motel on U. S. Route 66 in Arizona with the neon " 100 % Refrigerated Air " slogan of Tucumcari, New Mexico's Blue Swallow Motel ; the Wheel Well Motel's name alludes to the restored stone-cabin Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, Missouri.

The passion of Osiris was reflected in his name ' Wenennefer " (" the one who continues to be perfect "), which also alludes to his post mortem power.

It has also been suggested that the name of the temple alludes to the virgins ( parthenoi ), whose supreme sacrifice guaranteed the safety of the city.

Although it is believed that the name " Tekka ", meaning ' red hot iron ', alludes to the color of the tuna flesh or salmon flesh, it actually originated as a quick snack to eat in gambling dens called " Tekkaba " (), much like the sandwich.

The city's coat of arms is an example of canting: depicting a boat, it alludes to the city's name which translates literally as " boat ".

It is to these footprints that the official name of the church alludes: palmis refers to the soles of Jesus ' feet.

In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis in a pun that alludes to metempsychosis.

The name " cedar " has more recently ( since about 1700 ) been applied to many other trees ( such as Western redcedar ; in some cases the botanical name alludes to this usage, such as the genus Calocedrus ( meaning " beautiful cedar "), also known as Incense-cedar ).

However, the NGV was founded some 40 years before the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia, when Victoria was a self-governing British colony ; the name alludes to that period, when Victoria was a discrete political entity.

Its current name alludes to clusters of the fruit on the tree, which often appear similar to grapes.

The genus name is derived from the Greek word sparasso, meaning " to tear ", and alludes to the shape of the floral bracts.

* The town of Ilium alludes to the town of Troy, NY ( Ilium being the Latinized form of Troy's Greek name, Ἴλιον ).

His name in the Nahuatl language is often translated as " Smoking Mirror " and alludes to his connection to obsidian, the material from which mirrors were made in Mesoamerica and which was used for shamanic rituals.

Columbia County was created on March 22, 1813, from part of Northumberland County and named for Columbia, a poetic name for the United States that alludes to Christopher Columbus.

The name Golders comes from a family named Godyere who lived in the area and Green alludes to the manorial waste the settlement was built on.

The fiesta takes its name from the tamale and alludes to the town's local notoriety for a spicier version of the Mississippi Delta style boiled tamale.

The most prominent and famous fairy is Tinker Bell, Peter Pan's companion, whose name alludes to her profession as a " tinker " or fixer or pots and pans.

* A 2002 short story by Glen David Gold entitled " The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter " alludes to the myth and gives the name to the deceitful clown of the story, who cries " heedless crocodile tears.

The title alludes to the hidden and mysterious nature of its subject, as he used to sign his name as Hatzafun.