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51Name 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… …
52Name 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… …
53Name 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… …
54Name 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… …
55Name 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 …
56Name 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… …
57Name 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 …
58Name 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… …
59Name Your Own Price — The Name Your Own Price (NYOP) system is where a buyer specifies a price and a product and/or service, and asks sellers to match that combination. NYOP is a special type of reverse auction originally pioneered on the Internet by Priceline.com.… …
60Name of Sweden — The name of Sweden was originally a plural form of Swede and is a so called back formation , from Old English Sweoðeod, which meant people of the Swedes (Old Norse Svíþjóð, Latin Suetidi). This word is derived from Sweon/Sweonas (Old Norse Sviar …
