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Cosmo (name)

Cosmo is an English/Italian male surname and given name. It means order, decency, and beauty ; this is the English form of Cosimo, introduced to Britain in the 18th century by the second Scottish Duke of Gordon, who named his son and successor after his friend Cosimo III de' Medici. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:

Cosmo (album)

Cosmo is the only solo studio album by former Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford, released shortly after that band's breakup.

Cosmo (dog)

Cosmo is a canine actor. He is a Jack Russell Terrier that is best known for his roles in the movies Hotel for Dogs and Beginners. He was adopted from a breed rescue society by animal trainer Mathilda DeCagny.

Cosmo (restaurant)

Cosmo boasts a chain of 19 buffet restaurants in the United Kingdom. Its branch in Valley Leisure Park, Croydon, was formerly the UK's biggest restaurant.

The first location opened in 2003 in Eastbourne and now the chain operates 19 restaurants: 14 in England, three in Scotland and one each in Wales and Northern Ireland.

The restaurants pride themselves on their live cooking stations where customers can enjoy watching their food being freshly cooked.

Cosmo (parrot)

Cosmo (born 2002/2003) is an African Grey Parrot that by the age of 6, had learned more than 200 words. It lives with Betty Jean Craige, who is a University Professor of comparative literature and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at UGA.

Cosmo is the subject of a book called Conversations with Cosmo, which has Irene Pepperberg listed as the book's preface. Cosmo was the subject of a research study showing the "first demonstration" of an animal using a variety of speech and nonword sounds in a "deliberate, contextually relevant fashion" that goes beyond vocal imitation and approaches functional use.

Usage examples of "cosmo".

This power is created by successful adaptation to the flows of energy of the cosmos.

An ancient spacefaring race the Linyaari knew only as the Ancestral Friends had saved the ki-lin from primitive and brutal humans who were hunting them to extinction on Terra, and brought them through the cosmos to Vhiliinyar, where they had thrived once again.

He had a deep interest in physics, biology and genetics, ridiculed the idea that man had a special place in the cosmos, did not believe in life after death, individual destiny, or that the mind can exist independently of the body, preferring logical explanations for phenomena, based on experience.

Moreover, if we are truly juxtaposed in a close, tenement-house super-universe with another cosmos, one temporarily wider port is not going to increase notably the flow of spiritual energies between cognates in the two cosmoi.

If he had been told that Cosmo Cupples had more than once, after the first tumbler of toddy and before the second, betaken himself to his prayers for his poor Alec Forbes, and entreated God Almighty to do for him what he could not do, though he would die for him--to rescue him from the fearful pit and the miry clay of moral pollution--if he had heard this, he would have said that it was a sad pity, but such prayers could not be answered, seeing he that prayed was himself in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity.

Then in the slow creeping course of eternity the utmost cycle of the cosmos churned itself into another futile completion, and all things became again as they were unreckoned kalpas before.

She preferred Perrier or Pellegrino to champagne and certainly a milkshake or a latte to a cosmo, so the chances she was actually drunk right now were slim.

Over the years I had added border gardens along the stone walls, filled with day lilies and nicotiana, astilbe and asters, and had replaced an acre of untamed weed with a wildflower field that threw up a colorful sea of poppies, loosestrife, and cosmos.

His dazed eyes caught glimpses of another world, an evil megacosm where gods and daemons lived, where wickedness was a way of life, where the humans trapped in that cosmos were tormented beyond endurance every moment of their lives.

The Nomen had struck off on their own millennia ago, abandoning the safety of human civilization for the untamed cosmos.

We are the cutting edge of organismic transformation of matter in this cosmos.

Today, some 15 billion or so years after the bang, we can marvel at both the magnificence of the cosmos and at our collective ability to have pieced together a reasonable and experimentally testable theory of cosmic origin.

When at last we released the vacuole, or it collapsed, released our reprieved lives, the very subatomic particles we were made of would become literally the last things in all the cosmos, and in further trillions and gazillions of frigid years even their feeble few kilos would have evaporated to nothingness.

We swept through space on mighty wings that drove us through the cosmos quicker than light, because we had warred with the kings of Yag and were defeated and outcast.

He pent me in here with this devil-flower whose seeds drifted down through the black cosmos from Yag the Accursed, and found fertile field only in the maggot-writhing corruption that seethes on the floors of hell.