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The name originated from the Basic Input Output System used in the CP / M operating system ( released in 1976 ), where the BIOS was loaded from disk, with only a small boot loader program stored in read-only memory.
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The name Pueblo originated with the Spanish explorers, who referred to their particular style of villages.
The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.
The name itself may have originated as a nickname given to women who carried water to men on the battlefield during the war.
On this basis, a related hypothesis holds that the name originated from this Indo-European root via a Baltic language such as Lithuanian.
Black Forest ham originated from this region, and so, by name and reputation at least, did the Black Forest Cake.
The name " Chinese Checkers " originated in the United States as a marketing scheme by Bill and Jack Pressman in 1928.
The traditional English name for Vaccinium oxycoccos, fenberry, originated from plants found growing in fen ( marsh ) lands.
There were two towns in Roman Britain named Camulodunum, Colchester in Essex, and Slack in West Yorkshire, derived from the Celtic god Camulos, and this has led to the suggestion that they originated the name.
The name " dill " comes from Old English dile, thought to have originated from a Norse or Anglo-Saxon word dylle meaning to soothe or lull, the plant having the carminative property of relieving gas.
The Latvian name for the river, " Daugava " originated from the ancient Baltic words for " the great water " ( daudz ūdens ).
The names for the Daugava in other languages ; Dyna – Двина – Дзьвіна – Dźwina-Düna – Dvina ; originated from the Finnic name Vīna-Väinä, for passage-to-the-sea.
The island may have been visited during the Austronesian diaspora around 700 AD, and some say the old Maldivian name for the islands originated from Malagasy.
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.
It originated in sociology under the term " social constructionism " and has been given the name " constructivism " when referring to philosophical epistemology, though " constructionism " and " constructivism " are often used interchangeably.
The Sevier family name originated from the name Xavier.
They were of mostly English descent ; Roosevelt's great-grandfather, James Roosevelt, was of Dutch ancestry, and his mother's maiden name, Delano, originated with a French Huguenot immigrant of the 17th century .< ref >
As the name implies, it seems to have originated from the Spanish region of La Mancha, but it is also popular in other areas in the center and southwest of the country.
In another example, believing the black rock of the Schlossberg at Stolpen to be the same as Pliny the Elder's basalt, Agricola applied this name to it, and thus originated a petrological term which has been permanently incorporated in the vocabulary of science.
It is said to have originated in China with the name Wu Zi Qi ( 五子棋 ).
The unofficial usage of the name " FX " originated within Holden, referring to the updated suspension on the 48-215 of 1953.
The name Irn-Bru is said to have originated during the re-building of Glasgow Central Station in 1901.
It is not known how the name " knapsack problem " originated, though the problem was referred to as such in the early works of mathematician Tobias Dantzig ( 1884 – 1956 ), suggesting that the name could have existed in folklore before a mathematical problem had been fully defined.
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The name presumably derives from the French royal house which never learned and never forgot ; ;
George W. Cable ( naturalized New Englander ), writing in 1889 from `` Paradise Road, Northampton '' ( lovely symbolic name ), agitated continuously the `` Southern question ''.
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 second name was ( Edward ) Kempe, matriculated from Queens' College at Easter, 1625.
Christ's College was well represented that year in the ordo, and the name highest on the list from that college was Milton's, fourth in the entire university.
His words were the more ungracious to come from a man who lent his name to the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships dedicated to the same goal of international understanding.
The facts, he adds, are hidden from public view by squeamish objections to calling bad conditions by their right name and by insistence on token integration rather than on real improvement of the schools, regardless of the color of their students.
The name fell with lazy affectionate remembrance from her lips.
At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.
Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.
Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.
The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.
She was just another freighter from the States, and she seemed as commonplace as her name.
( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.
The Injun's name for beef was `` wohaw '', and many of the old frontiersmen adopted it from their association with the Injun on the trails.
The northern cowboy called all the red Mexican cattle which went up the trail `` Sonora reds '', while they called all cattle drove up from Mexico `` yaks '', because they came from the Yaqui Injun country, or gave 'em the name of `` Mexican buckskins ''.
No matter by what name cattle were called, there was no denyin' that they not only saved Texas from financial ruin, but went far toward redeemin' from a wilderness vast territories of the Northwest.
The great column from which the square takes its name was erected by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
His name was George Needham and he, too, had come from a good family.
Mr. Simpkins made a name for himself as a member of the House of Delegates from 1951 through 1958.
In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery.
A bunch of young buckaroos from out West, who go by the name of Texas Boys Choir, loped into Town Hall last night and succeeded in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience.
Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??
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