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Foundation for Law and Government: Knight Rider: TV Fourth Echelon: Splinter Cell: Video game G.R.U. Division Psychotronics (GRU-P) A division of the Soviet Union's Main Intelligence Directorate dealing in the research and elimination of paranormal phenomenon. SCP Foundation: Website [1] International Affairs Agency (IAA) Parody of the CIA ...
During the 1960s trend for action-adventure spy thrillers, it was a common practice for fictional spy organizations or their nemeses to employ names that were contrived acronyms. Sometimes these acronyms' expanded meanings made sense, but most of the time they were words incongruously crammed together for the mere purpose of obtaining a catchy ...
This is a list of fictional sports teams, athletic groups that have been identified by name in works of fiction but do not really exist as such.Teams have been organized by the sport they participate in, followed by the media product they appear in. Specific television episodes are noted when available.
In some cases the person named has coined the law – such as Parkinson's law. In others, the work or publications of the individual have led to the law being so named – as is the case with Moore's law. There are also laws ascribed to individuals by others, such as Murphy's law; or given eponymous names despite the absence of the named person ...
Town Name Origin Notes Azure City The Order of the Stick: Fictional capital of a country of the same name, the setting for a large portion of the Webcomic The Order of the Stick. Brigadoon Brigadoon: Brigadoon is a village in the Scottish Highlands, the setting of the musical of the same name. Chako Paul City [24] Chinese press agencies
A true name is a name of a thing or being that expresses, or is somehow identical to, its true nature. The notion that language , or some specific sacred language , refers to things by their true names has been central to philosophical study as well as various traditions of magic , religious invocation and mysticism ( mantras ) since antiquity.
The Futurama film Into the Wild Green Yonder includes Paula Abdul, Samuel Alito, Björk, Snoop Dogg, Janeane Garofalo, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, Katey Sagal, Antonin Scalia's head, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, Clarence Thomas, and Abe Vigoda as Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Earth.
Illyria is also an ancient Greek & Roman name for a part of the Balkans. Illyria is again used as a fictional kingdom in the film, Secret Society of Second-Born Royals; Irania: small European kingdom from the film Trouble for Two. Ingenistan: Small kingdom in Svalbard. The name comes from the youtuber Ingen.