After the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish term Antillas was assigned to the lands ; stemming from this, " Sea of the Antilles " is a common alternative name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.

) Thomas named the restaurant after his eight-year-old daughter Melinda Lou, whose nickname was " Wenda ", stemming from the child's inability to say her own name at a young age.

Other expeditions by Spanish and English ships followed, with the islands ' current name stemming from British explorer John Marshall.

The ultimate development of the stemming technique is the parallel turn, a name that is no longer descriptive.

" Miffy " is the English-language name, whereas " Nijntje " ( pronounced nein-che ) is the original Dutch name of the rabbit, stemming from " konijntje " which is the diminutive form of " konijn " ( rabbit ).

The derivation is probably from the Byzantine Greek word souda, meaning " fortress " or " stronghold ," with the alternate name, Suidas, stemming from an error made by Eustathius, who mistook the title for the proper name of the author.

Her name is indigenous to Italy and might even be of Etruscan origin, stemming from an Italic moon goddess * Meneswā ' She who measures ', the Etruscans adopted the inherited Old Latin name, * Menerwā, thereby calling her Menrva.

Its Latin name, stemming from establishment of city rights, is " Neoplanta ".

Älvdalen literally means River Valley, a name stemming from the area around the town Älvdalen, situated along the Österdal River, in the municipality's southern part.

The name ' Band Aid ' was chosen as a pun on the name of a well-known brand of adhesive bandage, also referring to musicians working as a band to provide aid and alluding to the fact that any help stemming from their efforts is likened to a band-aid on a very serious wound.

' Ouse ' is a very common name for rivers in England ( e. g. the Ouse in Yorkshire ), stemming from a Celtic word for water.

* Another is that the minor character Gabriel Grub from The Pickwick Papers was worked up into a more mature characterization ( his name stemming from an infamous Dutch miser, Gabriel de Graaf.

The scientific name for the order, Dermaptera, is Greek in origin, stemming from the words derma, meaning skin, and pteron ( plural ptera ), wing.

Scholar Kathleen Herbert draws a link between Beowa ( a mythical figure stemming from Anglo-Saxon paganism that appears in early Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies whose name means " barley ") and the figure of John Barleycorn.

Ultimately stemming from Proto-Indo-European religion, Thor is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the Germanic peoples, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania, to the tribal expansions of the Migration Period, to his high popularity during the Viking Age, when, in the face of the process of the Christianization of Scandinavia, emblems of his hammer, Mjölnir, were worn in defiance and Norse pagan personal names containing the name of the god bear witness to his popularity.

Thor is frequently referred to in place names, the day of the week Thursday (" Thor's day ") bears his name, and names stemming from the pagan period containing his own continue to be used today.

* Colt 45 ( disambiguation ), various meanings stemming from usage as the name of a firearm

This is still the popular view in China, the image of a quiet Empress Dowager Ci ' an perhaps stemming from the meaning of her honorific name.

It has been linked with Albanian boljë (" snake ") buljar (" water snake "), all terms possibly stemming from the same Thracian root, * bell-or * ber-" beast, monster ", the traces of which can also be found in the name of the Greek mythological hero Bellerophon (" the beast killer ").

The Borgias, also known as the Borjas, Borjia, Borges, were a European Papal family of Italian and Catalan origin with the name stemming from the familial fief seat of Borja belonging to their Aragonese Lords ; they became prominent during the Renaissance.

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??