• prehistory between 1200 and 800 BC was a 'Dark Age'. The Hebrew term has a homonym, tarshish, occurring seven times and translated beryl in older English...
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    in its fleet, including N1217A as CustomAir Obsession. The name, painted on the aircraft just aft of the cockpit windows, was a near homonym of "customer...
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  • Hamilcar — strategus during the First Punic War. Not identical with the homonym officer mentioned by Diod. XXIV 12. ELip Hamilcar — commander during the...
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  • Kinky Boots is a Broadway original cast album for the homonym musical Kinky Boots. It was released on May 28, 2013, less than two months after the show...
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    English is "yes go"; the name is also a play on words with the English homonym "we go." It is composed of two different services: Ouigo Grande Vitesse...
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    location as "a Mecca or Jerusalem within the Star Wars world". It is also a homonym for Jeddah, the principal gateway to Mecca. Jelucan Star Wars: Lost Stars...
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  • Brennus 3rd century BC (died 279 BC) Gallic (Do not confuse with his homonym) One of the Gallic leaders during the Gallic invasion of the Balkans. Notably...
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    variant form Húnn, which is also found close to Honfleur in Honnaville, homonym of the Honneville at Saint-Georges-du-Mesnil. Such a connection between...
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  • fleet in Ancient Sparta. The powers of the navarch were extensive and were not subordinate to the two Spartan kings. The navarch commanded the fleet,...
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    Erasmia, "The terms Albanoi and Arvanitai and the first mention of the homonym people of the Balkans in the 11th century sources", Balkanika Symmikta...
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  • after their home prefecture. If both a prefecture and its capital are homonyms, the club can be said to represent both. Japan Ehime F.C., F.C. Gifu, Tochigi...
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    the brand name is "yes go", but the name is also a play on the English homonym, "we go". France portal Trains portal iDTGV High-speed rail in France TER-GV...
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    in Biblical Hebrew. Acre was known to the Greeks as Ákē (Greek: Ἄκη), a homonym for a Greek word meaning "cure". Greek legend then offered a folk etymology...
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    the deity Jagannath as worshipped by Indrabhuti was just a coincidental homonym with the present Jagannath or referred to the same deity. The 10th century...
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    pronouns used as "variables" in this way are more appropriately regarded as homonyms of the equivalent referential pronouns. The following shows different types...
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    to recognise Turkey by its Turkish name Türkiye, in part because of the homonym, turkey (bird), for the name of the country in the English language. In...
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    "often I remember", "think of me often" and, when spoken (exploiting the homonym souvent me sous vient), "I often pass beneath it" (referring to the inscriptions)...
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  • fictional world. Common changes occur in the Japanese names, as they use homonyms to the names of real life locations. The fictional Jindai High School is...
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    the Byzantine general Belisarius sent general Cyril to Sardinia with a fleet to subdue it. “[Belisario] immediately sent Cyril with the chief of Zazone...
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    the Cao Wei state in 266. The Chinese term for "trough", cao (槽), is a homonym of the family name Cao (曹), while the three horses represented Sima Yi...
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    2023. Retrieved 19 August 2013. Tulloch, A. (2017). Understanding English Homonyms: Their Origins and Usage. Hong Kong University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-988-8390-64-9...
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    (vol.2 p.383 incorrectly identifies Jean-Marthe-Adrien l'Hermite with his homonym Pierre Lhermite. Levot, p. 316 Levot, p. 319 Van Hille (2011), p.338. Troude...
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    with "-ness", such as goodness, freshness, laziness, and nouns which are homonyms of adjectives with a similar meaning, such as good, bad (can also use goodness...
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    Belvoir Castle on 23 April 1603, but whether it was his eldest son or the homonym grandson is not sure. Valentine Browne married secondly Thomasine, daughter...
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    project retracing, through a series of long flashbacks, the life of the homonym Sicilian criminal in the film Salvatore Giuliano. The following year he...
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    Gaimard. Ortmann realised that Stimpson's name for the species was a junior homonym in 1897 and renamed the species Ocypode stimpsonii. Ocypode nobilii, another...
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    mortars. Nearby was the communication transit station nicknamed "04" (a homonym of 'You die' in Chinese pronunciation) on a hill with a 30°-angle blind...
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  • intercept the Genoese ships, while the bulk of the fleet entered the Tyrrhenian Sea. This is not the only homonym one encounters in reconstructing the biography...
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    census of 2011, no resident was living permanently on the territory. Three homonyms using "Lapeyrère" exist: "Lac-Lapeyrère" (unorganized territory), the lake...
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    city of Medellín, in the New Kingdom of Granada, the same arms that its homonym and from whom it took the name, existing in Extremadura. By the aforementioned...
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