The greed and destruction that characterised America's buy-out boom have given the era a bad name.
But less time than Queen Victoria, whose era also carries her name.
Zbigniew Libera, whose political cartoons had him jailed for a year during the communist era, became a household name last year when he made a model of a Nazi concentration camp from Lego building blocks.
It aims for a prohibition-era New York speakeasy vibe and, as the name would suggest, offers a wide range of martinis.
It said two victims had alleged that a Conservative, Thatcher-era politician, whom it did not identify by name, had been among their abusers.
In the mid-1950s, he changed his name to Bronson, apparently for fear that a vaguely Russian-sounding name would not appeal to McCarthy-era American audiences.
The film, set during South Africa's apartheid era, is adapted from a novel of the same name by Caryl Fere.
Others said it was impossible to pick one name, especially in this post-meltdown era when everyone's keeping a low profile.
Its stated aim is to destroy the global order, annihilate Israel and the US and usher in a Shiite messianic era in which Iran will rule the world in the name of Islam.
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Consider one of the most well regarded writers of the Victorian era, Mary Ann Evans, better known to us by her pen name, George Eliot.
His most recent effort, the sprawling 17-song folk tale My Name Is Buddy, revisits the Dustbowl ballad form and Depression-era road songs.
It is the end of an era for the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band, which is making its last performance under that name at Celtic Connections.
In the post-war era, the research universities he reckons about 260 institutions might now claim the name, of which maybe 100 are key became far larger and more complex.
Instead of the British monarch who gave her name to the Victorian century, Mr Gay suggests a more representative embodiment of the era: Arthur Schnitzler, a Viennese playwright (pictured above).
The American independence movement had inspired Mexican leaders of that era and since Mexico, in fact, also was a territory composed of states, the name stuck and became official in 1824.
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When Jorge Bergoglio stepped onto the balcony at the Vatican on Wednesday evening to reveal himself as the new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he made history as the first non-European pope of the modern era, the first from Latin America, the first Jesuit and the first to assume the name Francis.
Limited-overs cricket - as its name suggests - is restricted to a maximum number of overs, and in the modern era, international limited-overs cricket is divided between one-day internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 internationals.
First there was the original Ponzi schemer of the modern era, Bernard Madoff, then came Philip Barry (aka the Bernard Madoff of Brooklyn), now the name has made it to the west coast with the Bernard Madoff of Beverly Hills, Ezri Namvar.
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The species' name comes from the fact that it was considered the "right whale" to kill during the whaling era.
He joked that he had read in the press that the English translation of his name was "embittered" - making him suited to be the last prime minister of a political era.
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