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Upon learning her name, Cortés had her christened as Doña Marina, and she became known to everyone by that name, although her Aztec name was Malintzin, which possibly the Spaniards pronounced Malinche, so she was also called by this name.
A staircase by the throne room leads to what Evans christened the piano nobile — an upper floor of the west wing.
Then in the third century, in the era of the Three Kingdoms, it was christened “Jianye.”
Mr Rivers' assistant, Freddie Fly, wrote an Ode to the Grockle and the coaches bringing the tourists were christened grockle wagons .
According to Michael Lee of the University of Sydney and Michael Caldwell of Chicago's Field Museum, the 100-million-year-old fossil, christened Pachyrachis problematicus ("problematic thick-ribbed animal") in the late 1970s, is a proto-snake with two legs.