Even strange names seemed to make them feel closer to some kind of civilization when stumbled across out here in this wilderness.

She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.

Adam knew the names of some.

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.

After a while there come initials and names, and he is interested to hear some rather unusual family nicknames.

Instead he brought with him the names of some people he had never met and of whom the medium knew nothing.

The effort produced a valuable record of stage techniques in the early years of the century and some interesting records of great theater figures who would otherwise be only names.

No human being can write fast enough, or long enough, or small enough † ( †" smaller and smaller without limit ... you'd be trying to write on molecules, on atoms, on electrons ") to list all members of an enumerably infinite set by writing out their names, one after another, in some notation.

This led to many townlands being recorded as having two names during the 1824 Ordnance Survey, and some maps today give different names for the same place.

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

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 ).

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek ἄνοδος ( anodos ), ' ascent ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

In addition the archive must also contain some information about at least the names and lengths of the originals, so that proper reconstruction is possible.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

However, Bragning is often, like some others of these dynastic names, used in poetry as a general word for ' king ' or ' ruler '.

There was some concern however that the name might be confused with boron and in particular the distinguishing of the names of their respective oxo-ions bohrate and borate.

Thompson, it is likely that Sidonius, whose purpose was to write a panegyric and not a history, simply added some spurious names to his list, including the Bastarnae.

In some cases, the ' berg ' element in place names has converged towards burg / borough ; for instance Farnborough, from fernaberga ( fern-hill ).

In some of these subdivisions the Cambrian is divided into three epochs with locally differing names – the Early Cambrian ( Caerfai or Waucoban, mya ), Middle Cambrian ( St Davids or Albertian, mya ) and Furongian ( mya ; also known as Late Cambrian, Merioneth or Croixan ).

This practice also spread to street names, names of parks and buildings and some more trivial features.

During the sixth century, some of the most significant names in the history of Irish Christianity studied at the Clonard monastery.

The opening paragraph names a collection of goddesses, some derived from Greek or Roman mythology, others from Celtic or Arthurian legends, affirming a belief that these various figures represent a single Great Mother:

It is not possible to reconstruct fully the arrangements whereby these honors lists were then made up or even how the names that they contained assumed the order in which we find them.

Otherwise, symbolic names may have previously been assigned to these same index words.

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

Having due regard to the magic papyri, in which many of the unintelligible names of the Abrasax-stones reappear, besides directions for making and using gems with similar figures and formulas for magical purposes, it can scarcely be doubted that many of these stones are pagan amulets and instruments of magic.

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

The Maori had several names for what was the constellation Argo, these included Te Waka-o-Tamarereti, Te Kohi-a-Autahi, and Te Kohi.

As the Eudoses are the Jutes, these names probably refer to localities in Jutland or on the Baltic coast, in which case their inhabitants would be Cimbri or Teutones for Pliny.

All of these names are recorded on a war memorial, an imposing white stone cenotaph, which stands in Oak Hill Park in the south of the town.

Later it was found at Montebras, Creuse, France, and at Hebron in Maine ; and because of slight differences in optical character and chemical composition the names montebrasite and hebronite have been applied to the mineral from these localities.

They admit that these are not genuine names.

Some of these names refer to a different kind of knife depending on the region.

Key evidence of Baltic language presence in these regions is found in hydronyms ( names of bodies of water ) in the regions that are characteristically Baltic.

Textual scholars regard these two names as fragments of naming narratives coming from different sources-one being the Jahwist and the other being the Elohist.

Medieval scholars used in the Vulgate the Hebrew rendering of these two verses, and in their eyes the words " Agur " and " Lemuel " were but symbolic names of Solomon.

The incidence of these words as suffixes to place names ( for example, Canterbury, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Gothenburg ) usually indicates that they were once fortified settlements.

The numerous Sumerian names in these catalogues suggest that they build on older, but otherwise unattested, Sumerian traditions of the Early Bronze Age.

Where possible, these modern constellations usually share the names of their Graeco-Roman predecessors, such as Orion, Leo or Scorpius.

Some cultures have discerned shapes in these patches and have given names to these " dark cloud constellations.

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

The first of these symbols were intended to be fully universal ; since Latin was the common language of science at that time, they were abbreviations based on the Latin names of metals – Cu comes from Cuprum, Fe comes from Ferrum, Ag from Argentum.