* 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.

The rest of the United States is the size of the three New York City blocks and is drawn as a square, with a thin brown strip along the Hudson representing " Jersey ", the names of five cities ( Los Angeles ; Washington, D. C .; Las Vegas ; Kansas City ; and Chicago ) and three states ( Texas, Utah, and Nebraska ) scattered among a few rocks for the United States beyond New Jersey.

* May 10 – Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands, which he names Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there.

" These names were chosen because many pilots had trained at Nellis Air Force Base, located in proximity to Las Vegas.

Though names from Big Daddy Kane and the Wu-Tang Clan to Eric B. and K-Solo were mentioned, the label would never be formed ; three days later, Tupac, Knight and others were caught on surveillance camera at the MGM Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas assailing gang member Orlando Anderson who was a Southside Crip ( which was rumored to provide security for Bad Boy Entertainment artists ).

The musicians formed a band called Damnocracy ( after ditching the names FIST, God War, and Savage Animal ) for the show, during which they lived in a mansion in Las Vegas for twelve days and created music.

In 2003, Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith wrote a book titled Of Rats and Men: Oscar Goodman's Life from Mob Mouthpiece to Mayor of Las Vegas, which chronicles Goodman's life, including 35 years spent defending notorious U. S. crime figures, including, among others, Meyer Lansky, Anthony " Tony The Ant " Spilotro and Frank " Lefty " Rosenthal ( The last two were portrayed respectively, and under different names, in the film Casino by Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro ).

The original owner Frank Scott, an early independent casino pioneer in Las Vegas, named his company-Dres Media Inc., and chose KRLR, which contained the first letter of each of his three children's names, for the station's call letters in December 1982.

Furthermore, the band considered Las Armas and The French Letters as names before adopting Interpol.

From these geographical accidents come the first names of the new village: Las Vegas del Pepino ( Cucumber Fields ).

Founded and located in Las Vegas, Nevada, it was created in 1979 by Benny Binion, the owner of the Horseshoe Casino, to preserve the names and legacies of the world's greatest poker players and to serve as a tourist attraction to his casino.

By 1968 he had performed in 47 states and 30 countries, had guested on several television shows, had hosted a summer replacement show for The Dean Martin Show, had sung with his own band in Las Vegas casinos and had been the opening act for bigger names at other casinos.

Enchanted by the valley's natural beauty, the corporal names it Las Pasturas del Cielo or " The Pastures of Heaven.

Chin is one of the names mentioned by Las Casas for a deity said to have introduced homosexual relationships to Mayan noblemen living in the 16th-century Verapaz provinces.

Las Vegas Boulevard in the city of Las Vegas has had several names, including 5th Street, the Arrowhead Highway, Los Angeles Highway, Salt Lake Highway, U. S. Route 91 ( entire segment ), U. S. Route 93 ( from Fremont Street north ), U. S. Route 466 ( from Jean to Fremont Street, including the Las Vegas Strip ) and State Route 6 ( entire segment, not signed ).

While the North American version uses parody names for the Las Vegas / Lost Wages casino, the Japanese version uses the actual Golden Nugget name.

The nickname Bos Vegas has gained popularity in recent years, it occurs with slight spelling variation in the names of two Boscombe businesses and is in common usage on many web forums.

Afterward he went through several other names finally ending his career under the name Big Sky, tag teaming with Vinnie Vegas.

You may do well to take notice, that besides the title to land between the English and the Indians there, there are twelve of the English that have subscribed their names to horrible and detestable blasphemies, who are rather to be judged as blasphemous than they should delude us by winning time under pretence of arbitration ''.

Even in the nineteenth century such accomplished philologists as Kemble and Guest were led into what now seem ludicrous errors because of their failure to recognize that modern forms of place names are not necessarily the result of logical philological development.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

The important people to humanity are not the Khrushchevs and the Castros but the Schweitzers and the Dooleys, and the others like them whose names we will never know.

There are many types of ambiguity and many of them have been described by rhetoricians under such names as amphibology, parisology, and other ologies.

The editor of the Daily Journal warned, `` that if such a demonstration be made, it will not find support or countenance from any of the men whose names are recognized as having a right to speak for Providence ''.

As noted in Appendix C, index words 97 through 99 are never available for assignment to symbolic names by the compiler ; ;

that is, it is known empirically that names beginning with R are more common than those beginning with Z ; ;

In this connection it is worth noting how names are sometimes obtained.

Yes, we know, they're professionals, men paid to play, and they shouldn't care how they're handled, just as long as their names are spelled correctly on the first and fifteenth of each month.

Their names are Mantle and Maris, their team is the Yankees, and their threat is real.

Parts of `` Defeat Into Victory '' are a tangle of Burmese place names and military units, but a little application makes everything clear enough.

To understand American politics is, simply, to know people, to know the relative weight of names -- who are heroes, who are straw men, who controls, who does not.

In the federal courts, the parties ' names always stay in the same order as the lower court when an appeal is taken to the circuit courts of appeals, and are re-ordered only if the appeal reaches the Supreme Court.

Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked ..."

The names and divisions are classification devices based on theoretical perspectives, analytical methods and data available at the time of analysis and publication.

These names indicate the orbital shape and are used to describe the electron configurations.

Orbitals are given names in the form:

In the 18th century the " dominant trend " in Britain, particularly in Latitudinarianism, was towards Arianism, with which the names of Samuel Clarke, Benjamin Hoadly, William Whiston and Isaac Newton are associated.

Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, as well as muttonfish or muttonshells in Australia, ormer in Great Britain, and venus's-ears in South Africa and in New Zealand.

) Diseases affecting the abdominal cavity are dealt with generally under their own names ( e. g. appendicitis ).

Many of these designs are still under patent, and other types are best known by their original trademarked names.

Union soldiers at times used it for sleeping quarters to escape from the rain or other inclement weather, and some of them left momentoes of their stay by carving their names and small tokens on its walls and beams.

The declarative operation EQU is used to equate symbolic names to item numbers ( see page 85 ).

The resultant conflicting usage of index words or electronic switches may be avoided by reducing the number of symbolic names used, e.g., through the proper use of the EQU, XRELEASE, or SRELEASE statements.

These glyphs were used as pronunciation guides for logograms, to write grammatical inflections, and, later, to transcribe loan words and foreign names.

The Phoenician letter names, in which each letter was associated with a word that begins with that sound, continue to be used to varying degrees in Samaritan, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek and Arabic.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

Aphrodite also has many other local names, such as Acidalia, Cytherea and Cerigo, used in specific areas of Greece.

In a genre such as farce or parody, anagrams as names may be used for pointed and satiric effect.

i. 24 ) refers to the ' potent names ' used by Egyptian sages, Persian Magi, and Indian Brahmins, signifying deities in the several languages.

Lists of these " year names " henceforth became a calendrical system used in most independent Mesopotamian city-states.

Their logo of the anchor and dolphin is represented today in the symbols and names used by some modern publishers such as Doubleday.

For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.

The common name " naked lady " used for Amaryllis is also used for other bulbs with a similar growth and flowering pattern ; some of these have their own widely used and accepted common names, such as the resurrection lily ( Lycoris squamigera ).

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

He never used the first two of his given names, preferring to be known as Hermann Kolbe.

The Achaeans (, Akhaioí ) is one of the collective names used for the Greeks in Homer's Iliad ( used 598 times ) and Odyssey.

The other names are the Danaans (, Danaoi used 138 times in the Iliad ), Argives ( used 182 times in the Iliad ) while Hellenes (, Hellenes ) was used only once.

* Variable names were limited to two letters ; they could be made longer, but only the first two letters would be used.

* The () or () order shown in the table below, used where lists of names and words are sorted, as in phonebooks, classroom lists, and dictionaries, groups letters by similarity of shape.