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** The Australian Navy will have had 5 ships named ''HMAS Sydney'' when the newest Hobart class Air Warfare Destroyers are comissioned in 2013. |
** The Australian Navy will have had 5 ships named ''HMAS Sydney'' when the newest Hobart class Air Warfare Destroyers are comissioned in 2013. |
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** Virtually every submarine of a new or improved type is called ''Nautilus'', in tribute to [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]''. |
** Virtually every submarine of a new or improved type is called ''Nautilus'', in tribute to [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]]''. |
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* Ruth Crowley wrote a newspaper advice column under the name [[wikipedia:Ann Landers|Ann Landers]], passing the name on to Esther Lederer. Lederer's sister Pauline Phillips began a competing column as [[wikipedia:Pauline Phillips|Abigail van Buren]], a pseudonym she passed on to her daughter. Lederer's daughter had her own column, ''[[The Beatles|Dear Prudence]]'', in ''Slate'', having taken it over from a different writer; it is [http://www.slate.com/id/3531/landing/1 now written] |
* Ruth Crowley wrote a newspaper advice column under the name [[wikipedia:Ann Landers|Ann Landers]], passing the name on to Esther Lederer. Lederer's sister Pauline Phillips began a competing column as [[wikipedia:Pauline Phillips|Abigail van Buren]], a pseudonym she passed on to her daughter. Lederer's daughter had her own column, ''[[The Beatles|Dear Prudence]]'', in ''Slate'', having taken it over from a different writer; it is [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928160505/http://www.slate.com/id/3531/landing/1 now written] by Emily Yoffe. |
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* Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the alleged leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network's Iraqi affiliate group, may be one of these. At least two different people have been identified as al-Baghdadi, and he's been killed at least once. This has led some believe it to be an assumed name that each new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq assumes when the old leader is killed, allowing foreign terrorists to pass themselves off as domestic Iraqi insurgents. |
* Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the alleged leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network's Iraqi affiliate group, may be one of these. At least two different people have been identified as al-Baghdadi, and he's been killed at least once. This has led some believe it to be an assumed name that each new leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq assumes when the old leader is killed, allowing foreign terrorists to pass themselves off as domestic Iraqi insurgents. |
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* In a way, a real life historical example is the Roman emperors of antiquity. When Octavian assumed the numerous offices given to him by the senate (who, of course, were effectively obliged to gives them to him) he took the honorary title "Augustus", the military title "Imperator" and had already taken the family name "Caesar" from his adoptive father, the assassinated dictator Julius Caesar. When he died and powers passed to his step-son Tiberius, the new emperor on being "voted" his powers by the senate took all of these honorifics to demonstrate himself both a continuation of Caesar Augustus's position in the state and member of his direct family. The Roman emperors continued to take the titles "Imperator" and "Augustus" until the 7th century AD and, even when the Julio-Claudian line descended from Julius Caesar fell from power in 69AD, the name "Caesar" continued to be adopted since it had become so associated with the position of emperor. Thus what had been a family name became a euphamism for an autocratic office. |
* In a way, a real life historical example is the Roman emperors of antiquity. When Octavian assumed the numerous offices given to him by the senate (who, of course, were effectively obliged to gives them to him) he took the honorary title "Augustus", the military title "Imperator" and had already taken the family name "Caesar" from his adoptive father, the assassinated dictator Julius Caesar. When he died and powers passed to his step-son Tiberius, the new emperor on being "voted" his powers by the senate took all of these honorifics to demonstrate himself both a continuation of Caesar Augustus's position in the state and member of his direct family. The Roman emperors continued to take the titles "Imperator" and "Augustus" until the 7th century AD and, even when the Julio-Claudian line descended from Julius Caesar fell from power in 69AD, the name "Caesar" continued to be adopted since it had become so associated with the position of emperor. Thus what had been a family name became a euphamism for an autocratic office. |
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