Though the nickname does not suggest anything particularly respectable about the king himself, its invective is not actually focused on the king but on those around him, who were expected to provide the young king with god ræd.

It was around this time as the musician's popularity increased that he acquired the nickname, " Soul Brother No. 1 ", after failing to win the title " King of Soul " from Solomon Burke during a Chicago gig two years prior.

* Scopie: A nickname of a bottom feeding fish often found around coves

The shaved head and towel around his waist was similar to Mohandas Gandhi earned him Gandhi as his nickname, which stuck with him for the rest of his life.

While a student at Williams, he earned the nickname " Gadg ," for gadget, because, he said, " I was small, compact, and handy to have around.

He picked up his famous nickname from his friend Bobby Hofman who said he resembled a Hindu yogi whenever he sat around with arms and legs crossed waiting to bat or while looking sad after a losing game.

A much safer nickname to use around him was " Don Peppino ," a diminutive of his original Italian name.

It was during the 1972 – 73 season that the Flyers shed the mediocre expansion team label and became the intimidating Broad Street Bullies, a nickname coined by Jack Chevalier and Pete Cafone of the Philadelphia Bulletin on January 3, 1973 after a 3 to 1 brawling victory over the Atlanta Flames that led Chevalier to write in his game account, " The image of the fightin ' Flyers spreading gradually around the NHL, and people are dreaming up wild nicknames.

Abruzzo's wealth of castles and medieval towns, especially around the town of L ' Aquila, has earned it in some quarters the nickname of " Abruzzoshire ", by analogy with the " Chiantishire ", nickname sometimes used to refer to the Chianti area of Tuscany, but Abruzzo is still off the beaten path for most visitors to Italy.

However, PSV fans took on this nickname, taking pride in their Brabantian heritage, this Brabantian identity also plays a fundamental role in the club's culture with the Flag of North Brabant being incorporated in shirt design and being displayed in and around the stadium.

After World War II, the club briefly considered changing its nickname to the Cockatoos, but this never formally eventuated ; even so, the push was serious enough that newspaper cartoons depicting a Carlton cockatoo were printed around that time.

* Iron Lady, a nickname used to describe female heads of government around the world

Palmdale refers to itself with the nickname the " aerospace capital of the United States ", and has been the site of research, development, final assembly, flight testing and / or servicing / modifications of the Space Shuttle, B-1 Lancer, X-15, B-2 Spirit, F-117 Nighthawk, F-35 Lightning II, SR-71 Blackbird, Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, and many other aircraft that have been used in the United States Air Force, NASA and air forces and airlines around the world.

Finished around 1852, the project led to the nickname " Side-Cut City ".

The nickname Island City has to do with a power canal which diverts a portion of the Kalamazoo River around the downtown area, causing it to be an island.

Gallup's nickname references the huge impact of the Native American cultures found in and around Gallup.

Although he was still known as David Jackson while in Arms & Legs, it was around this time that Jackson picked up the nickname " Joe ", based on his perceived resemblance to the puppet character Joe 90.

In 1908 Sweatman moved to Chicago, playing around the city in places like the Pekin Inn and the Monogram Theater before becoming the bandleader at the Grand Theater, and began to attract notice ; a 1910 article referred to his nickname, " Sensational Swet.

Orderic Vitalis, a medieval chronicler, records that Robert fitzThurstin gave the nickname to Ranulf, because Robert resented the fact that Ranulf, though of low birth, ordered the nobility around.

He adopted the name " Robert Capa " around this time-in fact " cápa " (" shark ") was his nickname in school and also he felt that it would be recognizable and American-sounding since it was similar to that of film director Frank Capra.

At other times the microphone boom appeared in the frame ( giving the show the unintentional nickname " Mic Shadows "), a television camera would appear on screen, a fly hovered around the head of an actor, or window curtains fell down.

In London, she was taken under the wing of the Lyceum Theatre group led by Ellen Terry ( who is said to have given her the nickname ' Pixie '), Henry Irving, and Bram Stoker and traveled with them around the country, working on costumes and stage design.

Having adopted the nickname " the Bad Boy " for himself and developed Bad Boy Furniture into a chain of stores around the Toronto area.

By late 1920, British Intelligence in Dublin, including what was known as the ' Cairo Gang ' ( the nickname came from their patronage of the Cairo Cafe on Grafton Street and from their service in British military intelligence in Egypt and Palestine during the First World War ), eighteen high-ranking British Intelligence officers, had established an extensive network of spies and informers around the city.

The club used the two shades of blue of Oxford and Cambridge Universities as its home ground, Unley Oval, is situated on the junction of Oxford Terrace and Cambridge Terrace, hence the nickname of “ Double Blues ”.

A characteristic mannerism in Rossini's orchestral scoring is a long, steady building of sound over an ostinato figure, creating " tempests in teapots by beginning in a whisper and rising to a flashing, glittering storm ," which earned him the nickname of " Signor Crescendo ".

The nickname, The Stump or Boston Stump, is often used affectionately as a reference to the whole church building or for the parish community housed by it.

Le Bateau-Lavoir is the nickname for a building in the Montmartre district of the 18th arrondissement of Paris that is famous in art history as the residence and meeting place for a group of outstanding early 20th-century artists, men of letters, theater people, and art dealers.

Warren Elementary School operated in the old high school building for many years, its basketball team having adopted the old high school's nickname ; " Lightning 5.

These youth also discover the quonset building just North of town which they " tag " with their name, last name, or nickname.

Harrison immortalised the grand building and its surrounds in his 1976 song " Crackerbox Palace ", which was his nickname for the mansion ( after Lord Buckley's home in California ).

For its opulent design, gilded Byzantine mosaics, and its status as a symbol of Venetian wealth and power, from the 11th century on the building has been known by the nickname Chiesa d ' Oro ( Church of gold ).

After the coins were phased out ( beginning in 1970 ) the building eventually gained a new nickname: the " 50p building ”.

Entitled ' From ATVLand In Colour ' ( referring to the nickname used on Tiswas, and the building being purpose-built for colour broadcasting ), the documentary features presenters, actors, announcers and behind-the-scenes staff talking about their time working in the studios, and the programmes that were made there.

Entitled ' From ATVLand In Colour ' ( referring to the nickname used on Tiswas, and the building being purpose-built by ATV for colour broadcasting ), the documentary features presenters, actors, announcers and behind-the-scenes staff talking about their time working in the studios, and the programmes that were made there by Central, and predecessor ATV.

However, most of the houses are built without the necessary building permits, so population is presumably much higher, especially after the wars in former Yugoslavia and the influx of the refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo and Metohija ( journalists often nickname Kaluđerica the largest illegal settlement in Europe ).

Subsequent to the building earning its present nickname, " Skull ", a secret honor society, inherited the building.

* kingster-an expensive church: George Singley, whose nickname was King George, donated liberally to the church building fund.

Today the building is functional and bears the nickname " Clădirea biscuite ".

During this time, enrollment jumped from nearly 5, 000 to more than 14, 000, new programs such as medicine, nursing, dental, and law were founded, and new facilities such as Mesa Vista Hall, Mitchell Hall, Johnson Gymnasium, new dormitories, the current student union building, the College of Education complex, the business center, the engineering complex, the Fine Arts Center, the Student Health Center, University Stadium, University Arena ( now officially known by its nickname of The Pit ), and the first facilities on North Campus were constructed.

The original building of faculty of engineering ( Building one ) or nickname " the red palace "

Not only does this substantially reduce heating and lighting loads-the mall area is lit entirely by natural daylight in summer, whilst the solar heat generated by the roof means that mechanical heating is only required for a week on average per year-it also earned the building its affectionate nickname " The Glasgow Greenhouse ".

Today it houses the Amsterdam Archives, but it was originally built in 1919-1926 for the NHM and it is decorated with many details reminiscent of Indonesia, most notably the brickwork, which earned the building the nickname " spekkoek ".

Isaac Merritt Singer gave this building the nickname of " The Wigwam ".

The subsequent confusion, from many campers and staff knowing the building and referring to it as the Trading Post for so many years, earned it the nickname " The Handipost.

From the air, the building is seen as a giant unblinking eye, thus the building's original nickname of " The Eye of Government ".

Tillie is the nickname of two murals of a grinning figure that were painted on the side of the Palace Amusements building in Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States.