Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty ( i. e., muddy ) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease ( 1811 ) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel.

Alexander I ( c. 1078 – 23 April 1124 ), also called Alaxandair mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Mhaol Chaluim ) and nicknamed " The Fierce ", was King of the Scots from 1107 to his death.

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

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

Abu Bakr's father's name was Uthman Abu Quhafa ( nicknamed Abu Quhafa ) and his mother was Salma Umm-ul-Khair ( nicknamed Umm-ul-Khair ).

He was nicknamed the " Austrian Oak " and the " Styrian Oak " in his bodybuilding days, " Arnie " during his acting career and more recently " The Governator " ( a portmanteau of " Governor " and " The Terminator "-one of his most well-known movie roles ).< ref name =" IMDb bio ">

It was there that Young retrieved, at the request of mission control, the largest rock returned by an Apollo mission, a breccia nicknamed Big Muley after mission geology principal investigator Bill Muehlberger.

The AVRE version of the Churchill Tank was armed with a Spigot mortar that fired a HE-filled projectile ( nicknamed the Flying Dustbin ).

He was nicknamed Áed of the White Flowers, the Wing-footed () or the white-foot ().

Vietnamese academic and journalist Doan Viet Hoat was nicknamed " the Sakharov of Vietnam " for his criticism of Vietnam's communist leadership and his subsequent imprisonment.

He made his headquarters at Chicago's Lexington Hotel ; after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, it was nicknamed " Capone's Castle ".

He was nicknamed Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous and founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.

The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".

The duo nicknamed her " Diarrhea " but once said she was cool after she asked President Clinton a pertinent question during a school assembly.

He instituted a corporatist constitution nicknamed the Polish, ( because it was said to have been inspired by a Polish constitution ), written by Francisco Campos.

During the tenure of the government from 1995 to 1999, Thackeray was nicknamed ' remote control ' since he played a major role in government policies and decisions from behind the scenes.

( One of her classmates was Leslie Caron ; fellow ballerinas nicknamed Bardot: Bichette Doe ).

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (; 17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976 ), nicknamed " Monty " and the " Spartan General ", was a British Army officer.

Walsh was nicknamed " The Genius " for both his innovative play calling and design.

Twice during the Civil War it was saved from destruction by the opposing armies by the pleas and prayers of a local minister.

Twice a week, Lincoln would meet with his cabinet in the afternoon, and occasionally Mary Lincoln would force him to take a carriage ride because she was concerned he was working too hard.

Twice I have been struck down with illness just as I was on the point of success.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

It was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background.

Their production work as BeMusic was collected on two LTM compilation CDs, Cool As Ice: The BeMusic Productions and Twice As Nice ( which also included production work by Donald Johnson, of A Certain Ratio, and Arthur Baker ).

Twice ousted by the Panamanian military, he was again ousted ( for the third time ) as president by the National Guard after only 10 days in office.

The joke was that " SECAM " stood for " Something exceedingly Contrary to the American Method " versus NTSC " Never Twice the Same Color " whilst " Peace At Last " or " Perfection At Last " could only be obtained through the PAL system.

Twice, in 1933 and 1944, the Uyghurs successfully regained their independence ( backed by the Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin ): the First East Turkestan Republic was a short-lived attempt at independence of land around Kashghar, and it was destroyed by Chinese Muslim army under General Ma Zhancang and Ma Fuyuan at the Battle of Kashgar ( 1934 ).

Twice during his father's lifetime he was viceroy of Norway.

Called Twice Ken is Plenty and intended as a two-man showcase for Horne and Kenneth Williams, the 21st century version was performed by Jonathan Rigby and Robin Sebastian.

He also portrayed Q in a 1967 EON-produced made-for-television documentary entitled " Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond ", which was included in the 2006 special edition DVD release of You Only Live Twice.

Twice it was advanced to the line of the Antonine Wall, at about the time when Hadrian's Wall was built and again under Septimius Severus, and once further north, beyond the river Tay, during Agricola's campaigns – although each time it was soon withdrawn.

Otto Preminger was looking for a theatrical project to direct and first became aware of Vera Caspary's story when her agent offered him the first draft of a play called Ring Twice for Laura.

Although no crime is committed anywhere in the book, the novel was reprinted in 1989 by Random House, alongside Cain's thriller The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1934 ), under the heading " Vintage Crime ".

The goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice, and SPECTRE was working not for itself but for an unnamed Asian government whose two representatives Blofeld speaks to during the movie ; perhaps Red China, who earlier backed Goldfinger.

Stonehill's first album, Born Twice was released in 1971, with financial help from Pat Boone.

Twice Amelia County was reduced in size to form newer counties ; in 1754, Prince Edward County was formed from parts of Amelia County, and in 1789, Nottoway County was formed.

A 2010 study by Sean Aday comparing Fox News Channel's Special Report With Brit Humes and NBC's Nightly News coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2005 found that both underplayed bad news ; it concluded that " Fox News was much more sympathetic to the administration than NBC ", suggesting that " if scholars continue to find evidence of a partisan or ideological bias at FNC ... they should consider Fox as alternative, rather than mainstream, media ".

The line was perceived as a slap at NBC Nightly News main anchor John Chancellor, who due to his background as a foreign correspondent, felt the network should weigh its news more heavily toward world events, and had kept Franco's deathwatch at the top of the headlines.

) His performance on the Monkees song " Daily Nightly " ( written by Michael Nesmith ) from the LP Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. was the first use of a synthesizer on a rock recording.

* The last out of the 1973 National League Championship Series as described by Jim Simpson was played on that night's NBC Nightly News, but other than that the entire game is gone.

After Letterman was introduced on Late Show's very first episode, NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw accompanied him on stage and wished him " reasonably well ".

The launch was shown on NBC Nightly News in a five-minute segment on the bottom of the Sunday broadcast that week.

At the end of Rather's time as anchor, the CBS Evening News lagged behind the NBC Nightly News and ABC World News Tonight in the ratings, although it was still drawing approximately 7 million viewers a night.

Dr. Poe's story was highlighted on NBC Nightly News, the Today Show, USA Today and other forms of national, state, and local media.

The company was featured in magazine articles in such mainstream publications as Rolling Stone Magazine and was featured on the NBC Nightly News.

Pardo squeezed in many other assignments at NBC, including the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade ( until 1999 ), WNBC-TV's Live at Five news program, NBC Nightly News, and Wheel of Fortune ( during two special on-location weeks in 1988, when the show originated from New York and was using substitute announcers after Jack Clark's death ).

NBC Nightly News was shown on CNBC Europe as a part of its primetime lineup until April 2010, due to international distribution changes made by NBC Universal.

By the end of his time as Nightly News anchor, Brokaw was regarded as the most popular news personality in the United States.

He was the last regular commentator on the NBC Nightly News.

With Jennings as lead anchor, World News Tonight was the most-watched national newscast from February 27, 1989, to November 1, 1996, but from then until February 2007, it was in second place behind its main rival, NBC Nightly News.

The Huntley-Brinkley Report was renamed NBC Nightly News in August 1970 upon the retirement of Chet Huntley.

Mudd was dropped from the broadcast and Brokaw became the solo anchor of Nightly News on September 5, 1983, the same day that his ABC competitor, Peter Jennings, became sole anchor of World News Tonight.

On December 4, 2006, Nightly News was presented with " limited commercial interruptions " by Philips.

The Nightly News set, in use since January 27, 1992 ( Studio 3C ), was retired on May 4, 2007.

The newly inaugurated Nightly News studio ( 3C ) was reopened on October 22, 2007, after months of construction, along with cable network MSNBC at Studio 3A.

* " Huntley-Brinkley Report / NBC Nightly News Ticker " ( August 3, 1970 – November 10, 1972 ; the theme had been used since 1962, when the program was still The Huntley-Brinkley Report )

In the Philippines, NBC Nightly News is shown Monday to Sunday at 7: 30 am for the live ( via satellite when DST happens ) broadcast with replays at 11: 30 am and 6: 00 pm local time on Talk TV, it was formerly shown on GMA Network from 1970 to 1993, 2nd Avenue from 2005 to 2007 and C / S ( now Solar TV ) from 2008 to 2011.

In September 2001, a letter containing anthrax was addressed to then NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw as part of the 2001 anthrax attacks.

It was renamed NBC Nightly News in 1970, after Huntley's retirement.