But what is a Hollywood tradition is for celebrities to change their birth name to a stage moniker.

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Ecompanies has taken 8 companies from birth to the outside funding stage, but only animated-programming site Icebox and photo-sharing site Ememories have actually moved into their own buildings.

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Bowie's innovative approach to creating albums and touring shows centred around fictionalised stage personas, with 1972 marking the birth of his most famous creation Ziggy Stardust - a human manifestation of an alien being.

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It has to become more competitive, better integrate immigrants, reform welfare, reverse plummeting birth rates and learn to punch its weight on the world stage.

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They said teachers could remind themselves that not all children are at the same stage by taking steps like calling the register in birth order rather than alphabetically and grouping children together by age.

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His stage name came from adding the "o" to his birth name, Marc, as a boyhood homage to a soccer star.

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Upon doing so she realized that her public profile, which had been created with her stage name, was updated to include her legal date of birth, information the actress claims was gleaned from her credit card information when processing the payment.

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