Jackson was nicknamed " Old Hickory " because of his toughness and aggressive personality ; he fought in duels, some fatal to his opponents.

" Hurra Boys " would plant hickory trees ( in honor of Jackson's nickname, " Old Hickory ") or hand out hickory sticks at rallies.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers maintains parks on Old Hickory Lake and Percy Priest Lake.

The Harbor Island Yacht Club makes its headquarters on Old Hickory Lake, and Percy Priest Lake is home to the Vanderbilt Sailing Club.

Two dams within the county are Old Hickory Lock and Dam and J. Percy Priest Dam, operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

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The county was organized February 14, 1845, and named after President Andrew Jackson, nicknamed " Old Hickory.

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A heritage centre in the village pays tribute to the legacy of ' Old Hickory ', the " People's President ".

The Old Hickory council did not integrate until 1974.

( The Old Hickory council did not integrate until 1974.

( The Old Hickory council did not integrate until 1974.

The Old Hickory council did not integrate until 1974.

( The Old Hickory Council in North Carolina did not integrate until 1974.

( The Old Hickory council did not integrate until 1974.

( The Old Hickory council did not integrate until 1974.

The town is named after Andrew Jackson, nicknamed " Old Hickory ," who passed through the area on his way to fight the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.

Forest Hills is bordered by Old Hickory Boulevard on the south, Granny White Pike on the east, Harding Place ( also known as Harding Pike or Battery Lane ) on the north, and Hillsboro Pike ( Tennessee State Route 56 and U. S. Route 431 ) on the north.

Several hills have water towers and cellular towers, and the WSIX radio tower is located on a hill north of Old Hickory Boulevard.

In recent years, the discovery of Native American graves at the southeast corner of Old Hickory Boulevard and Hillsboro Pike is a vivid reminder of their legacy.

The younger McCrory went on to acquire some in Davidson and Williamson counties, including land along what is now Old Hickory Boulevard.

One of the most notable of these is the McCrory-Mayfield House at 1280 Old Hickory Boulevard, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Another 20th century home is " The Hibbettage " at 2160 Old Hickory Boulevard.

Old Hickory Lake, a man-made lake, built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, is located south of the city.

In Old Babylonian astronomy, Ea was the ruler of the southernmost quarter of the Sun's path, the " Way of Ea ", corresponding to the period of 45 days on either side of winter solstice.

Allegiance is formed from " liege ," from Old French liege, " liege, free ", of Germanic origin.

David Roberts, in his book " In Search of the Old Ones: Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest ", explained his reason for using the term " Anasazi " over a term using " Puebloan ", noting that the latter term " derives from the language of an oppressor who treated the indigenes of the Southwest far more brutally than the Navajo ever did.

An amateur ( French amateur " lover of ", from Old French and ultimately from Latin amatorem nom.

At Old Trafford, Australia won by just 3 runs after Victor Trumper had scored 104 on a " bad wicket ", reaching his hundred before lunch on the first day.

The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).

( from Icelandic for " Æsir faith ", pronounced, in Old Norse ) is a form of Germanic neopaganism which developed in the United States from the 1970s.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

Megiddo is mentioned twelve times in the Old Testament, ten times in reference to the ancient city of Megiddo, and twice with reference to " the plain of Megiddo ", most probably simply meaning " the plain next to the city ".

*" Big Dipper ", a song by Jethro Tull from their 1976 album Too Old to Rock ' n ' Roll: Too Young to Die!

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

11 ) identifies Old Norse Baldr with the Old High German Baldere ( 2nd Merseburg Charm, Thuringia ), Palter ( theonym, Bavaria ), Paltar ( personal name ) and with Old English bealdor, baldor " lord, prince, king " ( used always with a genitive plural, as in gumena baldor " lord of men ", wigena baldor " lord of warriors ", et cetera ).

The word battle is a loanword in English from the Old French bataille, first attested in 1297, from Late Latin battualia, meaning " exercise of soldiers and gladiators in fighting and fencing ", from Late Latin ( taken from Germanic ) battuere " beat ", from which the English word battery is also derived via Middle English batri, and comes from the staged battles in the Colosseum in Rome that may have numbered 10, 000 individuals.

The Whig-Radical amalgam could not become a true modern political party, however, while it was dominated by aristocrats, and it was not until the departure of the " Two Terrible Old Men ", Russell and Palmerston, that Gladstone could become the first leader of the modern Liberal Party.

* 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate defeats the British frigate off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname " Old Ironsides ".

The story of Æthelred's notorious nickname, " Æthelred the Unready ", from Old English Æþelræd Unræd, goes a long way toward explaining how his reputation has declined through history.

His nickname Unræd is usually translated into present-day English as " The Unready ", though, because the present-day meaning of " unready " no longer resembles its ancient counterpart, this translation disguises the meaning of the Old English term.

The modern sports nickname of Golden Tornadoes commemorates the " Golden Tornado " of May 11, 1914 when a major tornado struck the college, most notably taking the gold colored roof from the top of Old Main, which was the origin of the associated color.

Old Glory is a common nickname for the flag of the United States, bestowed by William Driver, an early nineteenth century American sea captain.

Supposedly, Stuyvesant was given the nickname " Old Silver Leg " because he used a stick of wood driven full of silver bands as a prosthetic limb.

He was given the nickname " Big Lub " because of his size, but his college friends knew him by the nickname " Old Bill ".

The British shot is said to have bounced off the Constitutions sides, earning her the nickname " Old Ironsides ".

Scott had earned the nickname of " Old Fuss and Feathers " in the military due to his insistence on appearance and discipline, and while respected, was also seen by the people as somewhat foppish.

In a play on his nickname, " Old Blood and Guts ," troops joked that it was " our blood and his guts.

James's father was impressed by his son's " rocklike " character on the rural plantation, giving him the nickname Peter, and he was known as Pete or Old Pete for the rest of his life.

It was a tool particularly used by pattern makers and staircase makers and consisted of a broad-based wooden hand plane with a narrow blade projecting well beyond its base plate gaining it the nickname Old Woman's Tooth.

Its location on the Old Chisholm Trail helped establish Fort Worth as a trading and cattle center and earned it the nickname " Cowtown ".

In the 1950s, sportswriters dubbed him with yet another nickname, " The Old Professor " ( or " Perfessor "), for his sharp wit and his ability to talk at length on anything baseball-related.

This is where he earned the nickname " The Old Perfessor ".

Another explanation, though possibly a late ( re -) interpretation, is that the nickname represented Old Irish bóruma " of the cattle tribute ", referring to his capacity as a powerful overlord.

They were called the " Old Dominions " after the nickname of Virginia ; the " Buckeyes " were those descendants born in Ohio.

The city's informal nickname is Happy Rock, and there is a Happy Rock Park near the northeastern city limits on Old Antioch Road.

According to legend, Theodore Roosevelt got his nickname " Old Four Eyes " in Wibaux, ( Mingusville, at the time ) shortly after moving to the badlands from New York City.

Many people and businesses currently refer to the village by the nickname Old Saratoga, also, Olde Saratoga.

For these contributions, Atlantic became known as " The house that Ruth built " ( alluding to the popular nickname for Old Yankee Stadium ).

His attitude towards the myths, which he claims to have preserved in their simple form ( hence probably his nickname, Old Ragwoman, or " collector of old wives ' tales ", an allusion to his fondness for trivial details ), is preferable to the rationalistic interpretation under which it had become the fashion to disguise them.