The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.

The nickname " The Big Green ," originating in the 1860s, is based on students ' adoption of a shade of forest green (" Dartmouth Green ") as the school's official color in 1866.

A basin of urban ecology, Metz gained its nickname of Green City (), displaying extensive open grounds and public gardens and the historic downtown is one of the largest commercial, pedestrian areas in France.

The nickname the Green Count refers to his habit of dressing in this colour and appearing in state occasions surrounded by green-dressed escort.

* 1906, Lightship Reserve Sonderburg, 1988 rebuilt at Motorenwerke Bremerhaven to sailing ship Alexander von Humboldt ( nickname „ Green Alex “, because of green sails )

The colony earned the nickname Enfer Vert (" Green Hell "), which it is still trying to shake.

The city is located in Green Country, a popular nickname for northeast Oklahoma that stems from the region's green vegetation and relatively high amount of hills and lakes compared to central and western areas of Oklahoma.

The Green Monster is a popular nickname for the thirty-seven foot, two-inch ( 11. 33 m ) high left field wall at Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

* Green Hornet, nickname for the Bell UH-1F variant of the " Huey " military utility helicopter used in Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War

Green Bay's unofficial nickname is " Titletown, USA ", for the record number of NFL championship titles ( 13 ) the Packers have won, including four Super Bowls in 1967, 1968, 1997 and 2011.

The nickname " Green Mound " ( 青塚 Qīn Zhǒng ) refers to a legend that in autumn, when grass and trees wither, those plants on the cemetery mound continue to prosper.

He murdered numerous women and girls, most of whom were also alleged prostitutes, in Washington during the 1980s and 1990s, earning his nickname when the first five victims were found in the Green River.

So proficient was he that his musician friends bestowed upon him the nickname " The Green God ".

Her grandma's name is Ida Green, and the men's affectionate nickname for her is " Spuds ".

The number of weddings at Thomas Becket increased substantially compared to earlier and later times and the village earned the later nickname of the Gretna Green of the Midlands.

As a result of the hurricane, the Westhampton Beach School District changed its school's nickname from the Green Wave to the Hurricanes.

In 1974 Penrith changed their strip to a jerseys with brown and white vertical bars and again in 1991 they changed the colours to Black with White, Red, Yellow and Green stripes ( drawing another confectionery-related nickname, The Liquorice Allsorts ) until 1997 when Super League had all new jerseys made by Nike.

Vermont not only takes its state nickname (" The Green Mountain State ") from the mountains, it is named after them.

In a publication The Green Dragoon: The Lives of Banastre Tarleton and Mary Robinson by Robert D. Bass ( published in 1952 ) he was given the nickname " Bloody Ban " and The Butcher, which has carried over into popular culture as being his nickname of the day.

Many new residents were unwelcome and existing residents moved away leading to the nickname Snob's Green.

The myriad canals are covered in green duckweed ( hence the Green Venice nickname ) and the drained marsh land is home to a varied fauna.

In addition to being the headdress of the United States Army Special Forces, " Green Berets " is also a well known nickname of the organization.

In Dean's obituary in The Times, Geoffrey Green suggested that the nickname was taken from a " Dixie " song that was in the chart during Dean's childhood as there was " something of the Uncle Tom about his features ".

Almost inevitably, the first result of this technological revolution was a reaction against the methods and in many cases the conclusions of the Oxford school of Stubbs, Freeman and ( particularly ) Green regarding the nature of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

Green lumber was all very well back in the days of wet plaster, when the framing lumber was bound to swell and then shrink as tons of water dried out the gypsum.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

Wilson, shackled and snarling, was thrown with the other prisoners and was soon joined by Green, McKee and McKinley.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

Gen. Beauregard arrived at Johnston's headquarters at Bowling Green on February 4, 1862 and was given overall command of Polk's force at the western end of Johnston's line at Columbus, Kentucky.

For a while in the 1920s and 1930s there was a Green International ( International Agrarian Bureau ) based on the peasant parties in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Serbia.

For its efforts to be a national leader in campus sustainability, ASU was named one of the top 20 " cool schools " by the Sierra Club, was named to the " Green Honor Roll " by the Princeton Review, and earned an " A -" grade on the 2010 College Sustainability Report Card.

Ayckbourn wrote his first play at Wisborough Lodge ( a preparatory school in the village of Wisborough Green ) when he was about 10.

The rest of her time was spent with the Robinsons at Thorp Green.

The following February, Favre was traded to the Green Bay Packers.

They then entered into a three-way deal with the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers: Randy Johnson was sent to the New York Yankees, for Javier Vázquez, Brad Halsey, and Dioner Navarro who was then dealt to the Dodgers for Shawn Green.

A deeper criticism of Green archaeoastronomy is that while it can answer whether there was likely to be an interest in astronomy in past times, its lack of a social element means that it struggles to answer why people would be interested, which makes it of limited use to people asking questions about the society of the past.

A book of Lerner's lyrics entitled A Hymn To Him, edited by British writer Benny Green, was published in 1987.

Although none of the characters from The Beverly Hillbillies ever appeared on Green Acres, an episode of Green Acres was named after The Beverly Hillbillies.

The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299.

The DC Comics character Boodikka, a member of the Green Lantern Corps, was named after Boudica.

Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, his mother Maude Green originally from Ulverston in England was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training.