The internal combustion engine was originally selected for the automobile due to its flexibility over a wide range of speeds.

" This is in contrast to the term originally coined by Michael Young in 1958, who critically defined it as a system where " merit is equated with intelligence-plus-effort, its possessors are identified at an early age and selected for appropriate intensive education, and there is an obsession with quantification, test-scoring, and qualifications.

The Nazis regarded the SS as an elite unit, the party's " Praetorian Guard ", with all SS personnel ( originally ) selected on the principles of racial purity and loyalty to the Nazi Party.

The Chargers originally stated that only 50 members would be selected.

The first flight of Columbia ( STS-1 ) was commanded by John Young, a Gemini and Apollo veteran who was the ninth person to walk on the Moon in 1972, and piloted by Robert Crippen, a rookie astronaut originally selected to fly on the military's Manned Orbital Laboratory ( MOL ) spacecraft, but transferred to NASA after its cancellation, and served as a support crew member for the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz missions.

It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais's play and brought it to Da Ponte, who turned it into a libretto in six weeks, rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original's political references.

* Most recursive acronyms are recursive on the first letter, which is therefore an arbitrary choice, often selected for reasons of humour, ease of pronunciation, or consistency with an earlier acronym that used the same letters for different words, such as PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, which was originally " Personal home page ".

The name of the Swedish microsatellite Astrid 1, launched on 24 January 1995, was originally selected only as a common Swedish female name, but within a short time it was decided to name the instruments after characters in Astrid Lindgren's books: PIPPI ( Prelude in Planetary Particle Imaging ), EMIL ( Electron Measurements-In-situ and Lightweight ), and MIO ( Miniature Imaging Optics ).

The site finally selected for the Century 21 Exposition had originally been contemplated for a civic center.

Karzai re-enacted the original coronation of Ahmad Shah Durrani at the shrine of Sher-i-Surkh outside of Kandahar where he had leaders of various Afghan tribes, including a descendent of the religious leader ( Sabir Shah ) that originally selected Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747 as key players in this event.

The 2002 contest took place at the same venue, the Brabazon Course at The Belfry, as had originally been planned and with the teams that had been selected over a year earlier.

It was mostly a compilation of Isaac Watts's Psalms and Hymns that had been originally selected by John Rippon, a Baptist predecessor to Spurgeon.

The settlement was originally named Austin, after Alex Austin, who selected the location as a site for a station along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

Columbiana, originally called Columbia, was selected as the county seat of Shelby County in 1826 over rivals Calera and Montevallo.

Despite originally being selected as the site for both the University of Idaho and Ricks College ( now BYU-Idaho ), according to a USA Today article, Idaho Falls is now the largest city in the United States without a traditional college.

He originally named the town Salina, but this was changed because of an existing Illinois town named Saline ; Francis Dougherty, an early settler, is said to have selected the name Fairmount.

Edna was originally selected as the town's name, but later it was renamed to Rossville after William W. Ross.

William W. Bennett, overseer of the Phelps Estate, was selected as chairman of the first three-man Township Committee, which focused in its early years on " construction of streets and street lamps ( originally gaslights ), trolley lines ( along DeGraw Avenue ), telephones and speeding traffic.

The town was originally to be called Westphalia, but since the name Westphalia, Texas was already taken, Muenster was selected instead in honor of Münster, the capital of Westphalia, but these cities are not sister-cities.

In 1854, O ’ Neill ’ s Mill, as Neillsville was originally called, was selected as the county seat of Clark County.

Monmouth, Illinois, was originally to be called Kosciuszko after that name was drawn from a hat around 1831, until it was decided that Kosciuszko would be too hard to pronounce, so Monmouth was selected as an alternative.

For example, the Rosetta mission of ESA was originally intended for comet 46P / Wirtanen, but a launcher problem delayed it and a new target had to be selected ( comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko ).

At the peak of its success the band was originally selected to perform on the television show that became The Monkees, and also gained an added bit of publicity when Butler replaced Jim Rado in the role of Claude for a sold-out four-month run with the Broadway production of the rock musical Hair.

Just why particular animals or natural things — which sometimes possess no economic value for the communities concerned — were originally selected as totems is often based on eventful and decisive moments in a people's past.

Trumbo won two Academy Awards while blacklisted ; one was originally given to a front writer, and one was awarded to " Robert Rich ," Trumbo's pseudonym.

Burzum (; ) is a musical project by Varg Vikernes ( originally under the pseudonym " Count Grishnackh ").

His book entitled A Grief Observed, which describes his experience of bereavement, was originally released under the pseudonym " N. W. Clerk "

The stories were originally published in the News Chronicle under the pseudonym of “ Flying Officer X ”.

She originally intended for her pseudonym to be " Nelly Bly ," but her editor wrote " Nellie " by mistake, and the error stuck.

The Bell Jar is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath's only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym " Victoria Lucas " in 1963.

Her pseudonym was inspired by her family motto " Deo, non fortuna " ( Latin for " by God, not fate "), originally the ancient motto of the Barons & Earls Digby.

Square Dishes, originally, and also known by the pseudonym Shisui, was a Japanese potter and painter, a younger brother of Ogata Korin.

Johnson Johnson is the hero of a series of mystery novels written by Dorothy Dunnett ( originally published under the pseudonym, Dorothy Halliday ).

He put his views forward in his 1938 book Lenin als filosoof: een kritische beschouwing over de filosofische grondslagen van het Leninisme originally published under the pseudonym J. Harper, translated in English as Lenin as philosopher-a critical examination of the philosophical basis of Leninism ( 1948 ).

Among his novels were The Horses, Ballantyne's Folly, Jericho Road, and Beat the Devil ( originally under the pseudonym James Helvick ), which was made into a film directed by John Huston with script credit to Truman Capote ( the title was later used by Cockburn's son Alexander for his regular column in The Nation ).

* The Semonov Impulse ( 1975 ) originally published using pseudonym " James Meldrum "

Bustos Domecq made his first appearance as F. ( Francisco ) Bustos, the pseudonym under which Borges, in 1933, published his first fictional story, now known as " Hombre de la esquina rosada ", (" Man from the Pink Corner ") but originally titled " Hombre de las orillas " (" Man from the Slums " or more literally " Man from the Outskirts "), Francisco Bustos being the name of " one forefather's forefather ".< ref > Borges ( 1954 ).

Nmap ( Network Mapper ) is a security scanner originally written by Gordon Lyon ( also known by his pseudonym Fyodor Vaskovich )

Author and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, the obvious inspiration for Trudeau's Uncle Duke character ( Thompson originally wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas under the pseudonym Raoul Duke ) said in numerous interviews that he was irritated and unhappy with the characterization.

Rage ( originally titled Getting It On ) is the first novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1977.

It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre ( originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell ).

Though the actual artist behind the pseudonym was originally a secret, some clues were given out about Sue's true identity.

* Snake Bite ( using Bigfoot 4's chassis ) was originally driven by Gene Patterson, under the pseudonym of Colt Cobra.

The theme song, " Cry Little Sister ", was originally recorded by Gerard McMahon ( under his pseudonym Gerard McMann ) for the soundtrack, and later re-released on his self-titled album " G Tom Mac " in 2000.

New journalism's techniques were also applied to less obvious subjects, such as financial markets ( by George Goodman under the pseudonym Adam Smith, in essays originally published in New York magazine and later collected in a book called The Money Game.

Generally going by the name " Aziz Nesin ", this was originally his father's name, used by Nesin as the pseudonym under which he started publishing.

His drawings, made while in prison, were published, revealing his sensibility for the arts, as was also shown by his translation of King Lear by Shakespeare ( edited in his last years, and originally written under the female pseudonym Maria Manuela Serpa ).