Although Ten Mile Beach has a pedestrian name, it unrolls into miles of wide firm sand washed by constant surf.
The issue appears in text books and even has its own, rather more pedestrian, name — the divergence problem.
Soon after, a masked man appeared in Beijing presenting himself as a kind of real-life superhero and refusing to disclose his pedestrian name.
First off, it belongs to a red dwarf star with the pedestrian name Gliese 876, a sun that's only about one third as hefty as our own.
The first was found in 1992, going round a neutron star (a strange beast made of matter as dense as that in an atomic nucleus) 1,000 light-years from Earth with the rather pedestrian name of PSR 1257 +12.
But there were countless other shows not as effectively branded: a series titled "Useful Objects" that began in 1938, and exhibitions with more pedestrian names, like "Printed Textiles for the Home" (1946) or "New Lamps" (1951).
Almost as a throwaway, Thomsen Brits mentions elements of Danish life that make them happy yet would go by the more pedestrian name of "social infrastructure": "Denmark's high standard of living, decent health care, gender equality, accessible education and equitable distribution of wealth all contribute to the measurable happiness of the Danish people".
Showalter led the team that used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover Pluto's two smallest known moons, which were announced in 2011 and 2012 with the pedestrian names P4 and P5, respectively.
Designed around a central piazza, with fountains, cobblestone paths, umbrella tables, covered pathways and pedestrian streets named after Italian cities, the Arches supplied a novel diversion, even if I didn't duck into the 16-screen movie theater for a matinee.
He then announced that Carnegie Mellon would build a raised pedestrian bridge named for Pausch in honor of his contributions to the university and to the world.
