This refers to what had happened after the Earl of Warwick died in 1590, when the town petitioned Burghley for the right to name the vicar and schoolmaster and other privileges but Greville bought the lordship for himself.

Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

You ain't kidding me -- the kid don't know the name of this town ''??

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

The earliest written reference to the town, under the name of Habensperch, came from this time, in around 1138.

The name of the town was then changed to Anbar (" granaries ").

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

Bœotus ( accompanied by Arne ) went to southern Thessaly, and founded Boeotia ; but Aeolus went to a group of islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea, which received from him the name of the Aeolian Islands ; according to some accounts this Aeolus founded the town of Lipara.

It was granted town status and given its current name in 1931.

Augustus dismantled their native capital Bibracte on Mont Beuvray, and substituted a new town with a half-Roman, half-Gaulish name, Augustodunum ( modern Autun ).

The chief resided at the town of Nowgong, at the foot of the hill-fortress of Ajaigarh, from which the state took its name.

The Seljuq Turks then arrived in 1071 and changed its name to Kara Hissar (" black castle ") after the ancient fortress situated upon a volcanic rock 201 meters above the town.

" The town name is a play on Hyannisport, Massachusetts, where a number of the Kennedy clan have lived.

Thus the discovery report by the Berkeley group reads: " It is suggested that element 97 be given the name berkelium ( symbol Bk ) after the city of Berkeley in a manner similar to that used in naming its chemical homologue terbium ( atomic number 65 ) whose name was derived from the town of Ytterby, Sweden, where the rare earth minerals were first found.

The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of " Johnson " ( including a " Howard Johnson ", a " Dr. Samuel Johnson ", a " Van Johnson " and an " Olson N. Johnson ").

Battles are usually named after some feature of the battlefield geography, such as the name of a town, forest or river, commonly prefixed " Battle of ...".

Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

The name of the Bavarian town of Passau descends from the Roman Batavis, which was named after the Batavi.

His name means " comforter ," and he was from the town of Alqosh, ( Nahum 1: 1 ) which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern ` Alqush of Assyria and Capharnaum of northern Galilee.

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

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

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

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.

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

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

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 ''.

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.

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.

The town eventually became known as Bradleyville, then in 1825 the name of the town would be changed through the unintentional act of a celebrating sailor.

The name Xanth is in itself an unintentional pun, which matches the playful tone of the books.

Anthony has said that the coincidence of the word Xanth sounding like a portion of his name (" Pier-XANTH-Ony ") was unintentional, and in fact he only realized this years after the series was created.

Certain place names have an unintentional funny name.

English as She Is Spoke is the common name of a 19th-century book written by Pedro Carolino and falsely additionally credited to José da Fonseca, which was intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as the given English translations are generally completely incoherent.

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For similar reasons, Kiki's Delivery Service was retitled in Spanish " Niki, la aprendiz de bruja " (" Niki, the witch apprentice "), as the original name of the character has ( unintentional ) adult connotations: kiki is vulgar for coitus in Spain.