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Dr. SCHAWINSKI: Yeah, as discoveries usually are named after their discoverer, it has been named after Hanny van Arkel, but instead of calling it Hanny's Object, it quickly became known in our online community as Hanny's Voorwerp - voorwerp simply being the Dutch word for object but it sounds cooler.
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The 56km of rough, shark-infested waters and the venomous snakes for which the island is named usually put an end to any hope of escape.
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In fact, many companies usually decide to split the CEO and chairman when a new CEO is named.
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In fact, the fasces (after which fascism was named) had been a Roman symbol: sticks bound together, one of them usually an axe, impossible to break.
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Sir Hartley found himself named as a likely future prime minister, a prediction bestowed on many politicians that is usually the kiss of death.
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American accounts usually give the start of the oil age as 1859, the year that a former railroad conductor named Edwin L. Drake drilled his first successful well, near Titusville, Pennsylvania.
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