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In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
The following is a List of authors by name whose last names begin with A: Abbreviations: ch = children's; d = drama, screenwriting; f = fiction; nf = non-fiction; p ...
The list does not include a star's name until his or her award ceremony has taken place, not at the time of nomination or an accepted nomination. The stars are ordered alphabetically by surname , and all names are shown as they appear on the stars.
Lists of celebrities. A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a given society and commands a degree of public and media attention. The word is derived from the Latin celebrity, from the adjective celeber ("famous," "celebrated"). Being a celebrity is often one of the highest degrees of notability, although the word notable is ...
Following is a list of comedians, comedy groups, and comedy writers. Comedians (sorted alphabetically by surname) A. Rose Abdoo (born 1962) Raymond ...
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
All approved names are included on the current List of IAU-approved Star Names, last updated on 1 June 2018. [6] The WGSN rules generally discouraged the naming of stars after people, but confirmed the names Cervantes and Copernicus as well as four others:
This is a list of notable women writers. ... Ao–Az. Temsüla Ao (1945–2022, India), ... pen name of Roxanne Longstreet Conrad ...