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The name derives from the Latin term lemures, [7] which refers to specters or ghosts that were exorcised during the Lemuria festival of ancient Rome. [8] According to Carl Linnaeus 's own explanation, the name was selected because of the nocturnal activity and slow movements of the slender loris. [ 7 ]
Micah Owings (born 1982), American professional baseball player Nathaniel A. Owings (1903–1984), American architect and co-founder of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Other uses
Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek Νικόλαος, Nikolaos. It originally derived from a combination of two Greek words meaning 'victory' and 'people'. In turn, the name means "victory of the people."
The Welsh name is a cognate and near-homonym of the Irish name Eógan (pronounced, partially anglicised as Eoghan, as noted by Morgan and Morgan, among other spellings). [3] As such, the given name Owney is usually regarded as a diminutive of either Owen or Eoghan.
Carson and other "mountain men" invariably called Owings by the name "Dick Owens". [4] Carson and Owings both spent most of the early 1840s living near Taos, New Mexico , and in March 1845, the two started a joint farming venture fifty miles away in Rayado .
"Gunchester" – name attached to the city by media in the 1990s because of the high incidence of gun crime in south Manchester. [131] [132] "Madchester" [133] – the name arising from a musical scene in the city in the late 1980s and early 1990s; and which has been attributed to Shaun Ryder, of the Happy Mondays [134] "Manc" - abbreviation of ...
A recursive acronym is an acronym that refers to itself, and appears most frequently in computer programming.The term was first used in print in 1979 in Douglas Hofstadter's book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in which Hofstadter invents the acronym GOD, meaning "GOD Over Djinn", to help explain infinite series, and describes it as a recursive acronym. [1]
Owe Jonsson (1940–1962), Swedish sprinter, ice hockey and bandy player; Owe Lostad (1922–2013), Swedish rower and Olympic competitor; Owe Nordqvist (1927–2015), Swedish cyclist and Olympic competitor; Owe Ohlsson (born 1938), Swedish footballer and manager; Owe Thörnqvist (born 1929), Swedish troubadour, revue artist and songwriter