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unusual facts about Nôm



2009 term per curiam opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States

Belmontes v. Woodford, 350 F.3d 861 (9th Cir. 2003); rehearing denied, 359 F. 3d 1079 (9th Cir. 2004); vacated, sub nom.

Agra gharana

This is the only Gharana that has still continued to sing Dhrupad-Dhamar along with Nom-Tom Alap, Khayal, Thumri, Tappa, Tarana, Hori, Dadra, Ghazal, Kaul, Rasiya etc.

Alangiaceae

The AGP II states that Alangiaceae is a synonym of Cornaceae (the Dogwood family), but still recognizes it as a nom. cons. ( = name to be retained)

Albrecht Penck

In memory of Penck, the painter and sculptor Ralf Winkler adopted the nom de plume A. R. Penck in 1966.

Alexandros Merentitis

In 1908, he participated in the last stages of the Macedonian Struggle, under the nom de guerre Doukas.

Antek

Antek Rozpylacz ("Antek the Arsonist"), the nom-de-guerre of Antoni Szczęsny Godlewski (1923 in Warsaw – 1944, in Warsaw)

Antoine-François Delandine

Nouveau dictionnaire historique, ou Histoire abrégée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait un nom depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours, avec des tables chronologiques, par Louis-Mayeul Chaudon et Antoine-François Delandine, (8e édition, 1808).

Aris Velouchiotis

There he presented himself as Major of Artillery (for gaining extra prestige among the villagers) with the nom de guerre of Aris Velouchiotis (from Ares, the Greek god of war, and Velouchi, a local mountain) and proclaimed the existence of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS).

Artyom, Azerbaijan

The place is named after Fyodor Sergeyev (nom de guerre Artem or Artyom), and for a time in honor of the 26 Baku Commissars.

Augusto d'Halmar

He became widely known in Chile by his adopted nom de plume, Augusto d’Halmar, in honour of his maternal great grandfather the Swede Baron de d’Halmar.

Bitchy Jones's Diary

Both nom de plume and the title of the blog are deliberately adapted from Bridget Jones's Diary, which represents the antithesis of the author's view of female sexuality.

Bradl

Kazimierz Leski (1912 —2000), nom de guerre Bradl, Polish engineer

Bunter

Billy Bunter, a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton (using the nom de plume of Frank Richards).

Community Memory

The record store and its bulletin board brought together drummers seeking fusion guitarists, bagel aficionados looking for sources, and the first poets of the medium, notably one who went by the nom de plume of Benway - the first net personality.

Consulate of the Sea

An excellent translation into French of The Customs of the Sea, which are the most valuable portion of the Book of the Consulate, was published by Pardessus in the second volume of his Collection des lois maritimes (Paris, 1834), under the title of La Compilation connue sous le nom do consulat de la mer.

Diplomorpha

nom. illeg., a taxonomic synonym of Sauropus, a genus of herbs, shrubs and subshrubs in the Phyllanthaceae, and a later homonym of Diplomorpha Meisn.

Epidendrum subsect. Spathacea

E. bangii Rolfe(1907) on page 401 as E. macrostachyum Lindl. (1845) nom. illeg.

Fermán Cienfuegos

José Eduardo Sancho Castañeda, better known by hius nom de guerre Fermán Cienfuegos (born 6 March 1947) was the leader of the Salvadoran organization Fuerzas Armadas de la Resistencia Nacional (National Resistance Armed Forces in English, part of Resistencia Nacional or RN).

Friesia

Parodia, a genus of the Cactaceae family of cacti (synonym by authority: Fric (nom. inval.))

Hoàng Xuân Hãn

He was the first Vietnamese historian to fully study the history of Nôm texts by the 17th Century Jesuits such as Girolamo Maiorica.

Jean Louis Conneau

In the (1978) TV series Flambards based upon the trilogy, Conneau is spoken of as 'Lieutenant Conneau' by the character Mr. Dermot(Anton Diffring) and by his nom de plume 'Andre Beaumont' by Dermot, William(Alan Parnaby) and Christina Parsons(Christine McKenna), the heroine of the trilogy.

Jean-François Fournier

Jacques Villeneuve : au nom du père et du fils (biography), Ed.

John Vallentin

His grandfather Sir James Vallentin (1814–1870) was Knight Sheriff of London, and his cousin Archibald Thomas Pechey, the lyricist and author, adapted the family name for his nom de plume 'Valentine'.

Juan Ignacio Molina

Other authors dedicated Moliniopsis, a genus of Gramineae, as synonym of Molinia Schrank nom.illeg.

Leah Ray

Leah Ray Werblin and her husband raced Thoroughbred horses under the nom de course, Elberon Farm.

Maine Chance Farm

Elizabeth Arden raced under the nom de course "Mr. Nightingale" until 1943 when she adopted the name Maine Chance Farm from her health spa in Mount Vernon, Maine.

Manhasset Stable

The Manhasset Stable was the nom de course for an American Thoroughbred horse racing stable established in the early 1930s by Joan Whitney Payson, founder of the New York Mets baseball team and a member of the prominent New York City Whitney family who have been major figures in the sport for more than one hundred years.

Mariano Trías

Assuming the nom-de-guerre 'Labong' (which means "bamboo shoots"), he recruited troops and solicited contributions from rich Filipinos in Indang and Alfonso, Cavite, to help finance the effect.

Martuni, Armenia

In ancient times it was known as Mets Kznut, but from 1830-1922 it was called Nerkin Gharanlugh and in 1926 it was changed to Martuni in honor of the first Soviet premier of Armenia, Aleksandr Myasnikyan, whose nom de guerre was "Martuni".

Myrddin Fardd

John Jones (1836 – July 27, 1921), better known under his nom de plume Myrddin Fardd, was a Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar born in Llangїan, Caernarfonshire.

N.O.M.

The 2004 Альбом реального искусства (The Album of Reality Art), using Russian oberiu poetry (Oleynikov, Kharms, Tchukovsky and others) was released on NOM's own Yazbetz Records.

National Puzzlers' League

Puzzle professional Will Shortz (whose "nom", WILLz, is a play on his name - Will+"short Z") is a long-standing member and officer of the NPL, currently serving as its historian (since 1992).

Paul Kastenellos

Paul Kastenellos is a nom de plume for the author of two novels of Byzantine: Antonina, A Byzantine Slut about the maligned wife of the famed sixth century Roman general Flavius Belisarius, and Count No Man Happy, A Byzantine Fantasy, which recounts the sad life of the Emperor Constantine VI who was blinded by his own mother in the eighth century.

Pedro Marin

Manuel Marulanda, nom de guerre of Colombian revolutionary, Pedro Antonio Marín

Sándor Kopácsi

"Au Nom de la Classe Ouvrière" was published by Éditions Robert Laffont in 1979.

Sayeed Salahudeen

He then joined Hizbul Mujahideen founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar alias "Master" who later parted from Hizbul Mujahideen was replaced by Muhammad Yousuf Shah who then adopted nom de guerre "Sayeed Salahudeen", named after Saladin, the 12th century Muslim political and military leader, who fought in the Crusades.

Stop! In the Name of Love

Cover versions were later recorded by Margie Joseph, Gene Pitney, Nicki French, Sinitta, Globe, Johnny Rivers, C:Real, Claude François (as "Stop au nom de l'amour"), Renata Pacini (as "In nome dell'amore") and The Hollies (who saw their version peaked in America at #29 and in Canada at #31 in 1983).

Terry Harknett

Some bibliographies list Adam Hardy as one of Harknett's pseudonyms, in fact a nom de plume of Kenneth Bulmer.

The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann

The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann is a 1974 pornographic film starring Barbara Bourbon and directed by Radley Metzger (under his nom de porn "Henry Paris") that is considered one of the classics of the Golden Age of Porn.

Wilfred Feinberg

Feinberg has authored many seminal opinions, including United States v. Miller, which upheld the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting the burning of draft cards, NLRB v. J.P. Stevens & Co, the famous labor union case that inspired the movie, Norma Rae, and Kelly v. Wyman, aff'd sub nom. Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254, 271 (1970).

Włodzimierz Arlamowski

Wlodzimierz Arlamowski (nom de guerre Rys; born 25 May 1923, Lwów — died 30 October 1945, Izbicko) was an uhlan of the Home Army unit from Lwów.


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