How did HBO get its name?
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Home Box Office- A movie theater's ticket booth used to be called a "box office" Box referring to the small size.
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The modern English name "Greece" is derived from the Latin word "Graecus," which in turn originates from the Greek word  Γραικός (Graikos). This was the name of a Boeotian tribe ("Boeotian" means that they were originally from the central area of ancient Greece) that migrated to Italy in the 8th century BC.  The name of these people, who inhabited the area that the Romans called "Magna Graecia," (Greater Greece) became the name by which the Hellenes (Greeks) were known in the West.\n\nGreeks do not call themselves "Greeks," nor do they call their country "Greece."  They refer to their country as Έλλάς  (Hellas) and themselves as Έλληνες (Hellenes).
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"Pommel" originally comes from the word for an apple and was first used for a round ornament etc, it then came to apply to the knob at the end of a sword or dagger handle and from about 1450 was also applied to the projecting front part of a saddle and, because the 'handles' on the type of horse you specify resemble those that is why the name arose.
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The Name we use today derives from the Pyramid of Pepy I at Saqqara, which is Mennufer (the good place), or Coptic Menfe. Memphis is the Greek translation. But the City was originally Ineb-Hedj, meaning "The White Wall". \n\nSome sources indicate that other versions of the name may have even translated to our modern name for the country, Egypt. During the Middle Kingdom, it was Ankh-Tawy, or "That Which Binds the Two Lands".
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It originated from Persia. Originally the name was pronounced 'Ba-su-lee' and was the Persian word for 'Interpreter'. A family of Persians devoted their lives to the art of interpretation, and spent their time learning languages and appying their knowledge for the use of Kings and Queens. Eventually they were just called 'Ba-su-lee', and it became a family name.\n\nDuring the Persian Wars of 800 BC, many of the Ba-su-lee family were considered traitors due to their knowledge of other nations languages, and most were executed. Some escaped to the north and west, and settled in European areas where they intermingled with the locals. Eventually the families migrated mostly north, and into England. The Persian Ba-su-lee family eventually died out, as the name was associated with being a traitor, and the southern European Ba-su-lee's married into other family names.\n\nThe England Ba-su-lee's, however, kept their heritage and names, changing it to 'Bosley' sometime around 1400 AD. Eventually they became a major family group in that area.
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This name probably comes from the name Griselda, which is derived from the Germanic elements gris "grey" and hild "battle".\n\nSee the link below for more info.\n\nWK
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I dont think they give it a name
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A century ago etymologists speculated that "story" came from some lost word "stairy," perhaps related to Gaelic staidhir, flight of stairs; or possibly from something along the lines of "stagery," derived from "stage." Others dismissed these as being obviously born of desperation, and for a time the experts settled on Old French estoree, a thing built. But doubts arose when researchers dug up such phrases as una historia octo fenestrarum, "a story of eight windows," from medieval Latin history books. Historia in Roman times meant history or story, and by the Middle Ages had acquired the meaning of "picture." So the charming notion arose that medieval folk were in the habit of installing rows of windows in their buildings called "stories" that were decorated with paintings or sculpture. The theory is that these stories, which for all anybody knows may actually have told a story, eventually came to signify a level of a building. Apparently as evidence of this practice, the authors of the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins cite the fact that they once visited a Swiss-style hotel decorated along these lines in Lake Placid, New York. (Each floor was tricked out with a large hand-lettered slogan, such as "The only way to multiply happiness is to divide it.") At any rate, conjecture has now hardened into conviction. Believe at your own risk.
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Hercules, but I dont know what or who he was named after.\n\nHis real name is Reginald Kenneth Dwight.\n\n\nI FOUND IT....\nThe middle name is after the horse named Hercules on the British sitcom Steptoe and Son!
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My foster mother named her son Dylan back in 1989 when it was original.  I think she got it from Bob Dylan.  Then 90210 came out and it became mainstream.  She still curses Aaron Spelling for that.
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RE: Does your name have some sort of a story behind it? Care to tell?\n\nMike: The story behind the name Lincoln Park is actually a place in Santa Monica, and originally we wanted our name to be Hybrid Theory, but for legal reasons we had to change it. We came up with the name Lincoln Park, but because we had such a big internet fan base, and how much money it would have cost for us to buy lincolnpark.com, we decided to make it Linkin Park, we thought it looked a lot cooler anyway.
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ABC, HBO, USA and MTV2
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The saying started out as a mistaken quote from Shakespeare, but as you state "insert name here", it has become a catch all phrase.  There is:  Vanity, thy name is man (advertising slogan); Vanity thy name is Human (the title of a TV show called Joan of Arc; and so on.
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I remember hearing one time that it comes from the Arab word "Hassassin", which is derived from "Hashish"... It was smoked by a group of fanatics that would carry out assassinations in the name of Allah. I do not know if this is correct, but the History Channel is fairly accurate.\nGood Luck.
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they just showed it on hbo or show time one of them
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because the names we use today come from the names used by the ancient greeks and romans and they tended to name the constellations with characters from their mythology.
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Eric Partridge, in Origins (1983), says OK derives from the OK Club, which supported Martin "Old Kinderhook" Van Buren in 1840. That isn't wrong, but it's only half the story. \n\nWilliam and Mary Morris, in the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins (1977), mention the OK Club and give several other theories as well, including the off-the-wall idea that OK comes from "Aux Cayes," a port in Haiti noted for its rum. They imply the matter is still shrouded in mystery.\n\nBaloney. The etymology of OK was masterfully explained by the distinguished Columbia University professor Allen Walker Read in a series of articles in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964. \n\nThe letters, not to keep you guessing, stand for "oll korrect." They're the result of a fad for comical abbreviations that flourished in the late 1830s and 1840s. \n\nRead buttressed his arguments with hundreds of citations from newspapers and other documents of the period. As far as I know his work has never been successfully challenged.\n\nThe abbreviation fad began in Boston in the summer of 1838 and spread to New York and New Orleans in 1839. The Boston newspapers began referring satirically to the local swells as OFM, "our first men," and used expressions like NG, "no go," GT, "gone to Texas," and SP, "small potatoes." \n\nMany of the abbreviated expressions were exaggerated misspellings, a stock in trade of the humorists of the day. One predecessor of OK was OW, "oll wright," and there was also KY, "know yuse," KG, "know go," and NS, "nuff said."\n\nMost of these acronyms enjoyed only a brief popularity. But OK was an exception, no doubt because it came in so handy. It first found its way into print in Boston in March of 1839 and soon became widespread among the hipper element. \n\nIt didn't really enter the language at large, however, until 1840. That's when Democratic supporters of Martin Van Buren adopted it as the name of their political club, giving OK a double meaning. ("Old Kinderhook" was a native of Kinderhook, New York.) \n\nOK became the warcry of Tammany hooligans in New York while beating up their opponents. It was mentioned in newspaper stories around the country.\n\nVan Buren's opponents tried to turn the phrase against him, saying that it had originated with Van Buren's allegedly illiterate predecessor, Andrew Jackson, a story that has survived to this day. They also devoted considerable energy to coming up with unflattering interpretations, e.g., "Out of Kash, Out of Kredit, and Out of Klothes." \n\nNewspaper editors and publicists around the country delighted in coming up with even sillier interpretations-- Oll Killed, Orfully Konfused, Often Kontradicts, etc.--so that by the time the campaign was over the expression had taken firm root nationwide.\n\nAs time went on, though, people forgot about the abbreviation fad and Old Kinderhook and began manufacturing their own etymologies. Here's a sampling: \n\n(1) It's a derivative of the Choctaw Indian affirmative "okeh." Andrew Jackson, who figures in many stories about OK, is said to have introduced the word to the white man.\n\n(2) Another Jackson story has it that he used to mark OK for "oll korrect" on court documents. In the one example of this that was actually unearthed, however, the OK was found actually to be OR, for "order recorded," a common courthouse abbreviation. \n\n(3) It was a telegraphic signal meaning "open key," that is, ready to receive. Others say OK was used for "all right" because A and R had already been appropriated for other purposes. Big problem with this theory: the first telegraph message was transmitted in 1844, five years after OK appeared.\n\n(4) It stands for O. Kendall & Sons, a supplier of army biscuits that stamped its initials on its product