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  2. Nomic - Wikipedia

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    The game demonstrates that in any system where rule changes are possible, a situation may arise in which the resulting laws are contradictory or insufficient to determine what is in fact legal. Its name derives from the Greek for "law", νόμος (nomos), because it models (and exposes conceptual questions about) legal systems and the problems ...

  3. Legal name - Wikipedia

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    A legal name is the name that identifies a person for legal, administrative and other official purposes. A person's legal birth name generally is the name of the person that was given for the purpose of registration of the birth and which then appears on a birth certificate (see birth name ), but may change subsequently.

  4. Nominative determinism - Wikipedia

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    Nominative determinism, literally "name-driven outcome", [41] is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work which reflect their names. The name fits because people, possibly subconsciously, made themselves fit. Nominative determinism differs from the concept of aptronyms in that it focuses on causality. [31]

  5. Does your name have an accent? Not in California, where they ...

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    A California Assembly bill would allow the use of diacritical marks like accents in government documents, not allowed since 1986's "English only" law which many say targeted Latinos.

  6. List of games with concealed rules - Wikipedia

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    Games with concealed rules are games where the rules are intentionally concealed from new players, either because their discovery is part of the game itself, or because the game is a hoax and the rules do not exist. In fiction, the counterpart of the first category are games that supposedly do have a rule set, but that rule set is not disclosed.

  7. Name games: Ohio's rules on election candidate ... - AOL

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    The state has long had laws about the proper process of altering your legal name. And Ohio law requires anyone who has changed theirs during the past five years — for almost any reason — to ...

  8. Naming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The name entered the top 1000 list for girls in 1985 and has been a top 10 name since 1997. [2] In 2014, the name Arya, the name of a character on the popular series Game of Thrones, saw a dramatic rise to the 216th most popular girls name. [18] [19] Names in popular culture fare better as inspiration if they fit in with current naming trends.

  9. Naming law - Wikipedia

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    The name cannot be a last name or a product, and it cannot negatively affect the child. If the name submitted is denied, it can be appealed; otherwise a new name has to be submitted. A fee is charged for each submission. [19] Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and/or the letter ß in family names are recognized as an important reason for a name change.