The expansion of the railways from Melbourne to most parts of Victoria, as well as improvements to roads and fickle river conditions all combined to lessen Echuca's importance, and by the 1890s the paddlesteamer fleet was in decline.

In 1860 the first paddlesteamer ferries began operation.

Redcliffe became a pastoral district in the 1860s and in the 1880s boomed as a seaside resort town with the paddlesteamer Koopa making regular trips to its jetty from 1911.

Trippers also travelled in their thousands by paddlesteamer or steamship to the many piers around Victorian era seaside resorts.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

The founder of the Junior Showmanship Competition the late Leonard Brumby, Sr. ( for whom the trophy is named after at Westminster ) was an outstanding Handler and believed a Junior should have an opportunity to exhibit in a dog show starting with the Junior Showmanship Division.

In the 1890's the Palace Hotel began serving an oyster dish named after its manager, John C. Kirkpatrick.

Founded in the Ninth Century B.C. it was called Byzantium 200 years later when Byzas, ruler of the Megarians, expanded the settlement and named it after himself.

Here they built huts and a stockade named Fort Daer after Selkirk's barony in Scotland.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

Parnassos, which was then named after her.

Apollo is said to be filled with grief: out of Hyacinthus ' blood, Apollo created a flower named after him as a memorial to his death, and his tears stained the flower petals with άί άί, meaning alas.

Apollo granted the request by turning him into the Cypress named after him, which was said to be a sad tree because the sap forms droplets like tears on the trunk.

* List of human anatomical parts named after people

* In 1984, five Argentines sail in a 10-meter-long raft made from tree trunks named Atlantis from Canary Islands and after 52 days journey arrived to Venezuela in an attempt to prove travelers from Africa may have crossed the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus.

It is named after André-Marie Ampère ( 1775 – 1836 ), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.

The group is named after the Altai Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia.

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 synthetic element nobelium was named after him.

Ancient Anatolia is subdivided by modern scholars into various regions named after the various Indo-European ( and largely Hittite, Luwian or Greek speaking ) peoples that occupied them, such as Lydia, Lycia, Caria, Mysia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, Lycaonia, Pisidia, Paphlagonia, Cilicia, and Cappadocia.

From 2002 to July 2008 under Turkmen calendar reform, the month of August was named after Alp Arslan.

This transuranic element of the actinide series is located in the periodic table below the lanthanide element europium, and thus by analogy was named after another continent, America.

This led to americium being located right below its twin lanthanide element europium ; it was thus by analogy named after another continent, America: " The name americium ( after the Americas ) and the symbol Am are suggested for the element on the basis of its position as the sixth member of the actinide rare-earth series, analogous to europium, Eu, of the lanthanide series.

Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne, and various characters inspired by his son's stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh.

In 2001 Lara was named the Man of the Carlton Series in Australia with an average of 46. 50, the highest average by a West Indian in that series, scoring two half centuries and one century, 116 against Australia.

For instance, in the 55 Cancri system the first planet – 55 Cancri b – was discovered in 1996 ; two additional farther planets were simultaneously discovered in 2002 with the nearest to the star being named 55 Cancri c and the other 55 Cancri d ; a fourth planet was claimed ( its existence was later disputed ) in 2004 and named 55 Cancri e despite lying closer to the star than 55 Cancri b ; and the most recently discovered planet, in 2007, was named 55 Cancri f despite lying between 55 Cancri c and 55 Cancri d. As of April 2012 the highest letter in use is " j ", for the unconfirmed planet HD 10180 j ( HD 10180 h is the confirmed planet with the highest letter ).

* Since the 1950s, the United States Atomic Energy Commission has named its highest honor, the Fermi Award, after him.

Spearman named it g for " general factor " and labelled the smaller, specific factors or abilities for specific areas s. In any collection of IQ tests, by definition the test that best measures g is the one that has the highest correlations with all the others.

Lipponen has declined the honour of being named a Valtioneuvos, the highest honour in Finland, saying that no-one outside of Finland knows what a Valtioneuvos is and that he is satisfied with being " former Prime Minister ".

Several senior judges — Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, judges of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland and judges of the Inner House of the Court of Session ( the highest court in Scotland )— are also named to the Privy Council.

Thijssen named his discovery " Pieter Nuyts Land ", after the highest ranking individual on board.

The Cour de Cassation ( Highest Appeals Court, equivalent to the U. S. Supreme Court ) and the Constitutional Council, the justices of which are named by the President, are the nation's highest tribunals.

Massachusetts and New Hampshire originally named their highest courts the " Superior Court of Judicature.

Additionally the highest court in Maine is named the " Supreme Judicial Court ".

Stanza 33 describes that four harts named Dáinn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr and Duraþrór consume " the highest boughs " of Yggdrasil.

In September 2008, Empire named American Beauty the 96th " Greatest Movie of All Time " after a poll of 10, 000 readers, 150 filmmakers and 50 film critics, the 3rd highest ranked movie from 1999 ( behind Fight Club and The Matrix ).

The drivers are named subwoofers ( for very low frequencies ); woofers ( low frequencies ); mid-range speakers ( middle frequencies ); tweeters ( high frequencies ); and sometimes supertweeters, optimized for the highest audible frequencies.

In 1946 Togliatti became the national secretary ( the highest political role ) of the Party, and called Berlinguer to Rome, where his talents let him enter the national leadership only two years after ( at the age of 26, one of the youngest members ever admitted ); in 1949 he was named national secretary of the FGCI, a post he held until 1956.

The ocean liners and ; the Royal Navy battlecruiser,, which was destroyed at the Battle of Jutland in 1916 ; Queen Mary College, University of London ; Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong ; Queen Mary's Peak, the highest mountain in Tristan da Cunha ; and Queen Mary Land in Antarctica are named in her honour.

Allende was a talented athlete in his youth, being a member of the Everton de Viña del Mar sports club ( named after the more famous English football club of the same name and which regularly competes at the highest level in Chilean football ), where he is said to have excelled at the long jump.

Firstly, a non-commissioned officer named Chenot was the highest ranking French personnel inside Fort Douaumont and the de facto commander of the fort's technical maintenance garrison ( 68 men ).

The second highest peak of the range is in Mongolian part named Khüiten Peak.

Worth magazine has named NRDC one of America's 100 best charities, Charity Navigator has given NRDC four out of four stars as of 2007, and the Wise Giving Alliance of the Better Business Bureau reports that NRDC meets its highest standards for accountability and use of donor funds.

In 1947, the U. S. Treasury named Davis as the highest paid woman in the country, with her share of the film's profit accounting for most of her earnings.