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** The Australian Navy will have had five ships named ''HMAS Sydney'' when the newest Hobart class Air Warfare Destroyers are commissioned in 2013.{{verify}}
** Virtually every new or improved submarine type has a boat called ''Nautilus'', in tribute to [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''.
** There have been five ''HMS Black Prince'' ([[She Is the King|all referred to as a "she"]]). [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Naval_Bombardments_on_D-Day.png During D-Day], the [[World War II]] example was assigned to perform what was [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Map_of_the_route_of_Edward_III%27s_chevauch%C3%A9e_of_1346.svg almost certainly deliberate nod to the line's namesake].
* 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.
* 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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