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unusual facts about Naming


Naming

Product naming, the discipline of deciding what a product will be called


21540 Itthipanyanan

The asteroid is named for Thai student Suksun Itthipanyanan due to his second place finish at the 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with his experiment on the 'Dehiscence and dispersion of the popping pod Ruellia tuberosa L.' His second place finish allowed his group to be recognized by Intel ISEF for an outstanding interdisciplinary science project, winning the naming rights for the asteroid.

23308 Niyomsatian

The asteroid is named for Thai student Korawich Niyomsatian due to his first place finish at the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with his experiment on the 'The Secret in Mimosa Leaf's Folding Pattern.' His first place finish allowed his group to be recognized by Intel ISEF for an outstanding interdisciplinary science project, winning the naming rights for the asteroid.

65 Cybele

Tempel had awarded the honour of naming the asteroid to Carl August von Steinheil in recognition of his achievements in telescope production.

A Wind in the Door

Meg learns that the galaxy is threatened by beings called Echthroi, who seek to erase the entire universe by un-Naming things.

Bang Attack

The game was originally released under the name Bang!, with the name later changed to Bang Attack to avoid a naming conflict with the existing card game Bang!.

Blue Jay, California

The naming of the town is something of a misnomer: the local variety of jay is actually the Steller's Jay, not the closely related Blue Jay.

Cambridge, Ohio

Both Cambridge, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts have been speculated by historians as having inspired the naming of the town.

Catharine, Kansas

A group of Volga German immigrants founded and settled Catharine in April 1876, naming it after Katharinestadt, the town they came from in Russia.

Charles Nicolas Fabvier

Napoleon rewarded him by naming him artillery major in the VI Corps under Marshal Ney.

Charles X. Zimmerman

Coach Paul Brown did not want the new team named after him, so he looked into naming the club the Panthers.

Claude Johnson

In the winter of 1915-1916 Johnson personally named the first three Rolls-Royce aircraft piston engines, the Eagle, Hawk and Falcon, starting the company's tradition of naming piston aero engines after birds of prey.

Comstock–Needham system

The Comstock–Needham system is a naming system for insect wing veins, devised by John Comstock and George Needham in 1898.

Da Marino

He also described the place as a favorite haunt of "celebrities", citing public statements from people like Mario Lopez, and naming frequent patrons from various television series, other actors, and famed musicians who sometimes take to the piano to spontaneously entertain the crowd like Sugar Hill Gang, Noth, or Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones.

David F. Alfonso

Additionally in 2011, FIU’s Athletic Department and FIU alumnus Alfonso announced a five-year deal for the exclusive naming rights for the Panther Football team’s home field now called “Alfonso Field at FIU Stadium.

Dayal Bahadure

It achieved a measure of success after a period of 16 years when a compromise naming it Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University was accepted.

Doryanthes excelsa

Doryanthes excelsa has also inspired the naming of Doryanthes, the journal of history and heritage for Southern Sydney founded by Dharawal historian Les Bursill.

Eddie Bennett

Bennett's life was mentioned by billionaire Warren Buffett during his annual stockholder report in 2002, saying that Bennett was a key role model during Buffett's career in investing, naming him a "winner at every costs".

Edward Lee Greene

Edward Lee Greene, Ph.D., (August 10, 1843 – November 10, 1915) was an American botanist known for his numerous publications including the two-part Landmarks of Botanical History and the naming or redescribing of over 4,400 species of plants in the American West.

Flinders Street, Melbourne

It is named for the explorer Matthew Flinders, who was (erroneously) credited with discovering Port Phillip at the time of its naming.

Florence Wadham

Her remarkable survival and importance is celebrated in the family by successive generations naming the eldest son Wadham Wyndham, most especially by the Salisbury branch of St Edmund's College founded by Sir Wadham Wyndham.

Frances Brooke

In 1985, the International Astronomical Union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature honoured Frances Moore Brooke by naming a crater after her on the surface of the planet Venus.

Frank Shacklock

Shacklock may have been the inspiration for the naming of Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes.

Gaby Kennard

Qantas has recently announced that they will be naming one of their Airbus A380's after Gaby Kennard in recognition of her contribution to the aviation industry and particularly of her achievement.

Hantzsch–Widman nomenclature

Hantzsch–Widman nomenclature is named after the German chemist Arthur Hantzsch and the Swedish chemist Oskar Widman, who independently proposed similar methods for the systematic naming of heterocyclic compounds in 1887 and 1888 respectively.

Hauke-Bosak

The coat of arms awarded to them received in accordance to the Polish custom of naming arms the name "Bosak" (Grappling hook), which some, but not all, members of the family attached to their surname.

Hubbs' beaked whale

He believed it to be Andrews' beaked whale (a very similar species found only in the Southern Hemisphere), but Joseph Curtis Moore, an expert on beaked whales at Chicago’s Field Museum, reassigned it to a new species, Mesoplodon carlhubbsi, in 1963, naming it in his honor.

Hurricane Easy

There have been several hurricanes designated Easy when the initial naming system was used (the Phonetic alphabet).

Ian P. Griffin

Griffin also discovered (via search programmes using small telescopes) and had the privilege of naming of a number of main belt asteroids including 10924 (Mariagriffin), 23990 (Springsteen) and 33179 (Arsenewenger, named after the Arsène Wenger, the manager of Griffin's favorite football team, Arsenal).

Japanese cruiser Maya

It shares its name with the early Japanese gunboat Maya, and per Japanese naval naming conventions, is named after a mountain, specifically Mount Maya outside of Kobe.

Jeff Cooper

In 1995, Cooper, commenting on the naming of the newly formed Gauteng province in South Africa, said someone suggested they should be referred to as ""Orang-gautengs".

John Scholasticus

Balsamon cites this without naming the author, in his notes on the first canon of the Trullan council of Constantinople.

Jyske Bank Boxen

On October 1, 2010, Danish financial institution, Jyske Bank purchased naming rights to the arena.

La Roux discography

They first collaborated on the acoustic project Automan before opting to switch to a musical style similar to that of Prince and David Bowie, naming their new project La Roux.

Magas

In 1995, President Ruslan Aushev founded Magas just a few kilometers south of Nazran, naming it after the medieval city of Maghas.

Megyeri Bridge

A naming poll to determine the new name of the recently built bridge caused controversy and received media attention when American comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart won.

Morrinsville Sports

2007 was the biggest year thus far for the club, with the naming of Vesi Rauluni (Fiji), Dwayne Sweeney (New Zealand Māori rugby union team), and Brendon Leonard (All Blacks) all in one week.

Mrs. Leslie Carter

In 1887 she filed for divorce on the grounds of physical assault and abandonment, but in 1889, Mr. Carter obtained the divorce naming actor, H. Kyrle Bellew, as co-respondent.

Newport Networks

Founder, Sir Terence H. Matthews has a history of naming companies after places in South Wales, from where he originates.

Nick D'Arcy

On 31 March 2008, D'Arcy was charged with assault after a brawl with former Commonwealth Games triple gold medalist Simon Cowley on the night of D'Arcy's naming in the Australian Olympic team.

Pender, Nebraska

European-American settlers founded the village in April 1885, naming it in honor of the Scottish politician and businessman Sir John Pender, a pioneer of the Transatlantic Cable.

Richard J. Berkley

He was a popular member of the expedition evidenced by the naming of Berkley Island after him.

Rifle regiment

(The use of green was so distinctive that it led to the naming of the Green Jackets Brigade who became the Royal Green Jackets.)

Rolls-Royce Peregrine

The engine was named after the Peregrine Falcon in keeping with company tradition of naming its piston aero engines after birds of prey.

Sela Dingay

According to Antonio Cecchi, Sela Dingay was founded by Wossen Seged in 1804, naming the town after the historic district of Sela Dingay, although the local Debre Mitmaq church had been founded by Emperor Zara Yaqob, where he convened the Council of Debre Mitmaq in 1450 which resolved a rift in the Ethiopian Church over the observance of the Sabbath.

SWALEC Stadium

On 4 March 2008, Glamorgan Cricket Club announced a 10 year sponsorship deal with SWALEC, thought to be the biggest single sponsorship by a county cricket club, giving SWALEC the naming rights to the new stadium, which is worth in excess of £1.5 million over 10 years.

The Family Cat

They also grabbed headlines by naming one of their songs "Bring Me The Head of Michael Portillo".

William Chrisman High School

Margaret Chrisman Swope offered to sell the district land for the new school at the southeast corner of Union and Maple for $1 in exchange for naming the school after her father, William Chrisman.

William John Bates van de Weyer

Working in the nursery of his home, Smedmore House, Corfe Castle, he crossed B. globosa with B. davidii, naming the new hybrid Buddleja weyeriana.

Worcestershire Medal Service

The Elizabeth Cross, produced by the sister company Gladman & Norman Ltd, is administered by Worcestershire Medal Service and the naming of crosses is undertaken by them.

Zarley Zalapski

Zalapski's unusual first name comes as a result of his father, being a golf enthusiast naming him after professional golfer Kermit Zarley.


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