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51Name days in Sweden — This is the old Swedish name day calendar, sanctioned by the Swedish Academy in 1901, with official status until 1972. Some days still refer to traditional or religious feasts rather than personal names. Some of the names below are linked to the… …
52Name Service Switch — The Name Service Switch (NSS) is a facility in Unix like operating systems that provides a variety of sources for common configuration databases and name resolution mechanisms. Such source databases include local operating system files, for… …
53Name days in Slovakia — In Slovakia, each day of the year corresponds to a personal name (the original list was the Roman Catholic calendar of saints). People celebrate their name days (Slovak: meniny) on the date corresponding to their own given names. Slovak culture… …
54Name reaction — A name reaction is a chemical reaction named after its discoverers or developers. Well known examples include the Wittig reaction, the Claisen condensation, the Friedel Crafts acylation, and the Diels Alder reaction. Among the tens of thousands… …
55Name of Quebec City — See also: History of Quebec City The proper name of Quebec City is Québec (with an acute accent), in both official languages of Canada (English and French). This name is used by both the federal and provincial governments. The acute accent… …
56Name of the Game — For other uses, see Name of the Game (disambiguation). Name of the Game Single by The Crystal Method from the album Tweekend Released August 14, 2001 Format …
57Name of Joan of Arc — Joan of Arc dictated her letters. Three of the surviving ones are signed. Joan of Arc did not come from a place called Arc, but was born and raised in the village of Domrémy in what was then the northeastern frontier of France. In the English… …
58Name of Brazil — The etymology of Brazil stems from brazilwood, its earliest commercially exploited product. In Portuguese brazilwood is called pau brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology red like an ember , formed from Latin brasa ( ember ) and …
59Name of Russia (Russia TV) — For the name of the country, see Russia (name). Name of Russia (Russian: Имя России, literally Name Russia ) is the project of the Russia TV channel aimed to elect the most notable personality in Russian history by voting via the Internet, radio… …
60Name days in Poland — In Poland, name days (Polish: imieniny) are widely celebrated, and most calendars contain the names celebrated each day. Name day celebrations in Poland traditionally involve a gathering of friends and family at the celebrant s home at the dinner …
