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unusual facts about designation


Certified Public Manager

The Certified Public Manager₢ (CPM) is a United States professional designation established in 1979 for the purpose of improving performance and advancing best practice standards for public sector managers.


2010 KQ

It was given the asteroid designation 2010 KQ by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who identified its orbit as being very similar to that of the Earth.

96189 Pygmalion

96189 Pygmalion (provisional designation: 1991 NT3) is an Amor-type near-Earth minor planet.

Audubon County Airport

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Audubon County Airport is assigned ADU by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned ADU to Ardabil Airport in Ardabil, Iran).

Avenida Rivadavia

Upon the designation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata by the Spanish Empire in 1776, the "Road of the Kingdom of Heaven" leading into Buenos Aires from the east was designated a Camino Real, a "Royal Road" fit for a Viceroy, and afforded improvements and some security.

Blackburn Firecrest

The Blackburn B-48 Firecrest, given the SBAC designation YA.1, was a single-engine naval strike fighter built by Blackburn Aircraft.

Bloomingdale Cornet Band

A "cornet band" was a common designation for wind bands organized during the Gilded Age.

Brigada de Fusileros Paracaidistas

The same year the army moved the unit to its new Headquarters in Puebla, Puebla giving them designation of "Compañía Mínima de Aerotropas" ( Minimum Airtrooper Company ).

China Railways FD

In 1971 the class were returned to the original designation 'FD' of soviet Russian origin (after Felix Dzerzhinsky).

Colorado State Highway 74

From 1923 through the early 1930s, the SH 74 designation was from Echo Lake at what is now an intersection between SH 103 and SH 5 east along Squaw Pass Road to Bergen Park.

DeLand Municipal Airport

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, DeLand Municipal Airport is assigned DED by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned DED to Jolly Grant Airport in Dehradun, India).

Denominazione di origine controllata

Denominazione di origine controllata ("Controlled designation of origin") is a quality assurance label for Italian food products, especially wines and various cheeses (Denominazione di Origine Protetta).

Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos

Domitila (or Domitília) de Castro do Canto e Melo (São Paulo, December 27, 1797 — São Paulo, November 3, 1867), 1st Viscountess with designation as a Grandee, then 1st Marchioness of Santos, was a Brazilian noblewoman and the long-term mistress and favorite of Emperor Dom Pedro I.

Electrification of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad

The significance of this electrification was recognized in 1982 by its designation as a National Historic Engineering Landmark by the ASME.

European route E71

The segment north of Podi interchange near Dugopolje is not physically signposted as the E71, rather the designation is found along the A1 motorway north of the Dugopolje interchange.

Giyesu

Jinggi died in July, 1649, and at the age of five sui, Giyesu became heir to the second degree princedom to which was appended in 1651 the designation, Wang.

H53

Seaplane Hangar H53, original designation of Hangar H, a listed hangar located on Magretheholm in Copenhagen, Denmark

ILCE

Sony ILCE camera, a designation used by Sony since 2013 for mirrorless interchangeable-lens digital system cameras with E-mount

Ilyushin I-21

Further development was halted in 1939 and the I-21 designation was re-used for the Pashinin I-21.

Indiana State Road 237

The redesignation is due to SR 37's designation being transferred to a new route (the Frank O'Bannon Highway) from I-64 to SR 64 and SR 145 between St. Croix and Eckerty.

James Mejia

Under Mejía’s management the project achieved a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) designation.

Jim Lark

On February 19, 2007, the Libertarian Party of Virginia awarded Lark the designation of "Libertarian Leader" for 2007 in recognition of his many contributions to the Libertarian Party.

L23

Beechcraft L-23 Seminole, the United States Armed Forces designation for the Beechcraft Twin Bonanza and Queen Air aircraft in its inventory

Lianxing Wen

He is a recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and a fellow of the Union, a designation conferred upon not more than 0.1% of all AGU members in any given year.

Martlet House

Prior to 2004, the Martlet House designation had been applied to two properties: one on University Street, followed by a move in 1971 to a Mountain Street property built in 1925 by architect Robert Findlay for Alice Hallward.

Marv Tuttle

Born Marvin W. Tuttle, Jr., and known as "Marv" professionally, graduated from Drake University with a degree in journalism, and in 1996 earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).

Mékinac Lake

The designation "Mekinac" was transmitted to several other water body names in the region (see section Mékinac desambiguation article), particularly the river, township, Regional County Municipality (MRC), two municipalities, two Catholic parishes...

Metropolitan Borough of Kensington

A number of street name plaques still bear the designation "Royal Borough of Kensington." Indeed in the 1971 Disney classic, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the sign for Portobello Road is shown fleetingly.

Michael Succow

After 1990, Succow did consulting work in a number of former Warsaw Pact countries as well as in Central Asia and East Asia resulting in the designation of nature reservations (including a number of UNESCO world nature heritage sites) in Kamchatka, the Lena river delta, Karelia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Georgia, Russia and Belarus.

OJS

ISO 639 language designation for the Oji-Cree language, also known as the Severn Ojibwa language or Anishininiimowin (Anishinini language)

Ontario Highway 12

At Waubaushene, the Trans-Canada Highway designation continues north along Highway 400 towards Parry Sound and Sudbury, while Highway 12 continues west towards Victoria Harbour, Port McNicoll, and the Martyrs' Shrine.

Parede

Open and green spaces include public parks and its beachfront coastal spaces, with rocky beaches and strong biodiversity, supporting a Blue flag designation.

Peter A. Jay

The 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House is a National Historic Landmark as well as a Save America's Treasures Project; NHL designation is the highest recognition conferred by the US government for a historic site—out of more than 80,000 places on the National Register, only about 2,430 are NHLs.

Proto-human

Proto-Human language, a designation of the hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages

RAF Trimingham

In May 1996 the Marconi Type 91 'Martello' radar at Trimingham was sold to the Turkish Ministry of Defence and it was replaced by what used to be known as No 86 Signals Unit, with a Type 93 (Plessey type ADGE-305, NATO designation TGRI 50011) that had been moved from Hopton when that base was closed.

Raymond, Maine

Automobile tourists discovered Raymond after designation of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway in 1919 (identified as United States Route 302 since 1935).

Regiment Boland

However, the 1st Battalion fought to regain their original name and this succeeded in 1974, when the two battalions became independent units - the 1st Battalion became Regiment Westelike Provincie and was headquartered in Cape Town, while the 2nd Battalion retained the designation Regiment Boland.

RIM-113

The designation XRIM-113A, indicating an experimental ship-launched interceptor missile, was allocated to the SIRCS project in May 1976, and contracts were awarded to three separate teams of contractors - RCA/Martin-Marietta, McDonnell Douglas/Sperry, and Raytheon/Lockheed/Univac - for initial studies of the SIRCS missile concept, in anticipation of a competitive evaluation.

Round Valley Indian Tribes of the Round Valley Reservation

Between July, 1856, when Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Thomas J. Henley, requested official designation of the valley as Nome Cult farm, and the granting of his request in 1858, Round Valley slowly filled with farms and ranches despite its reservation status.

Sh-Tandem

Designed by Peter Grushin at the Moscow Aviation Institute (hence the MAI designation), the aeroplane featured an unusual tandem wing, with the tail planes as large as 45% of the wing area.

Silver Falls State Park

In January 2008, during the 2008 supplemental legislative session, Fred Girod of the Oregon House of Representatives sought federal designation of the area as a national park via a house joint memorial to the United States Congress, but the bill died in committee.

Spring Creek, Nevada

SR 228, also known as Jiggs Highway, begins at SR 227 in Spring Creek and continues south to Jiggs; the road eventually reaches Ruby Valley after losing its state highway designation.

Texas State Highway Spur 1966

The spur's numerical designation commemorates the championship won by UTEP, then known as Texas Western University, in the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

Title and style of the Canadian monarch

Liberal Member of Parliament Eugène Marquis in 1945 tabled a motion in the House of Commons proposing that a change to the King's title be a subject of discussion at the next Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference; Marquis suggested that the title include each of the King's dominions, giving him the designation King of Canada.

Type 092 submarine

The 6,500-ton Type 092 Daqingyu (United States Department of Defense designation Xia-class, Chinese designation 09-II) submarine was the first ballistic missile-carrying, nuclear-powered submarine class (SSBN) deployed by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy, and the first SSBN designed and built in Asia.

UC-61

Fairchild 24, an airplane with a United States military designation of "UC-61"

UC-92

Funk B, an airplane with a United States military designation of "UC-92"

UR-100

The similar designation UR-100MR actually refers to an entirely different missile, the MR-UR-100 Sotka (SS-17 Spanker).

Virginia State Route 168

The SR 168 designation also formerly applied to a routing on the Virginia Peninsula from Anderson's Corner near Toano west of Williamsburg to the Hampton Roads Ferry landing at Old Point Comfort near Fort Monroe.

Wang Xuan

Surpassing Japan's second-generation optical designation and the third-generation CRT designation, the fourth-generation laser typesetting system he invented has not yet come onto the market in other countries.

Women's College Hospital

The 1935 wing was as 10 storey Art Deco building that is being torn down despite historical designation for WCH.


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