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The nickname " Foo " came from Cameron's older brother Pete, who pronounced Matthew as " Ma Foo ".
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" Cy Young's nickname came from the fences that he had destroyed using his fastball.
The nickname, now associated with the University of Michigan, came from Michigan's nickname, " The Wolverine State ".
Its nickname came from a surveying error: the initial phase of construction on the fort turned out to be taking place on a point north of the Canadian border.
While " The Wizard of Oz " nickname was an allusion to the 1939 motion picture of the same name, Smith also came to be known as simply " The Wizard " during his playing career, as Smith's Baseball Hall of Fame plaque would later attest.
His nickname Uccello came from his fondness for painting birds.
A nickname that would stick with Bennett for the remainder of his political career, " Iron Heel Bennett ," came from a 1932 speech he gave in Toronto that ironically, if unintentionally, alluded to Jack London's socialist novel:
He was proud of his Highland ancestryhis enduring nickname, Ming, came from, the Scots – and his own preferred – pronunciation of Menzies.
" His maternal grandmother, who had suggested his birth name of Samuel, also came up with his nickname: " heard the name on a soap opera she liked and decided from that moment on he would be Mikey.
The nickname " the Walker ", " Ganger " in Norse, came from being so big that no horse could carry him.
The immigrants came to the Promised Land ( Ziemia obiecana, the city's nickname ) from all over Europe.
The name Montparnasse stems from the nickname " Mount Parnassus " ( In Greek mythology, home to the nine Greek goddesses – the Muses – of the arts and sciences ) given to the hilly neighbourhood in the 17th century by students who came there to recite poetry.
One authority said of the crowd which gathered there, " They had the hair of their heads very few of them longer than their ears, whereupon it came to pass that those who usually with their cries attended at Westminster were by a nickname called Roundheads ".
The team's bearlike nickname also went along with the team's original uniform colors of brown and yellow, which came from Adams ' grocery chain, First National Stores.
The Laker nickname came from the state of Minnesota being the Land of 10, 000 Lakes.
After his major league career began, he acquired the nickname " Casey ", which originally came from the initials of his hometown (" K. C ."), which evolved into " Casey ", influenced by the wide popularity of the poem Casey at the Bat.
Six months later Dude came back without her, drunk ( hence his nickname, " Borrachón ", " big drunk "), but Dude has stopped drinking due to the crisis.
It was during this season that the Reds came to be widely known as The Big Red Machine, a nickname they would carry throughout Anderson's tenure.
Originally known as The Maroons, the Zipper nickname came about in the late 1930s when the school had a fast basketball team that would " Zip " up and down the court.
In December of 1753, George Washington and Christopher Gist came through the area, giving it the nickname " Murdering Town " after being shot at by local Natives.
Taylorsville ’ s nickname is “ Utah ’ s Centennial City ” because it officially came into existence one hundred years after Utah became a state.
This nickname, Lord Haw-Haw, generally refers to William Joyce, who was German radio's most prominent English-language speaker and to whom it gradually came to be exclusively applied.
In 1270, however, the relations with England came to a standstill and the city ’ s economy went into a long decline ; hence the nickname of the Veurne Sleepers.
Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury told the pope that the nickname came from Ranulf's cruelty, which Anselm likened to a consuming flame.
The nickname " The Winter King " appeared shortly after the beginning of Frederick's reign and our first printed reference using the term came in a 1619 Imperial pamphlet that presented the phrase in the context of a royal chronogram.
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" The Abbot " was a nickname of RZA from the Wu Tang Clan.
Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State.
Strictly speaking, the ' Accrington Pals ' battalion is properly known as the ' 11th East Lancashire Regiment ': the nickname is a little misleading, since of the four 250-strong companies that made up the original battalion only one was actually composed of men from Accrington.
The movie's title is from the nickname for the 41st Police Precinct in the South Bronx which was nicknamed " Fort Apache ".
The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the South Bronx section of The Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City.
Composed largely of British World War I veterans, the unit's nickname arose from the colour of the improvised khaki uniforms initially worn by its members.
These uniforms differentiated them from the Army and the Regular RIC, and gave rise to the force's nickname: Christopher O ' Sullivan wrote in the Limerick Echo on 25 March 1920 that, meeting a group of recruits on a train at Limerick Junction, the attire of one reminded him of the Scarteen Hunt, whose " Black and Tans " nickname derived from the coloration of its Kerry Beagles.
A user often has a user account and is identified by a username ( also user name ), screen name ( also screenname ), nickname ( also nick ), or handle, which is derived from the identical Citizen's Band radio term.
The young Gaius earned the nickname Caligula ( meaning " little soldier's boot ", the diminutive form of caliga, n. hob-nailed military boot ) from his father's soldiers while accompanying him during his campaigns in Germania.
The club's historic nickname is gialloblu ( from the club colors of yellow and blue ) although throughout Italian football the team recognised by most fans as " Gialloblu " are the original team from Verona – " Hellas Verona ".
The " flying donkeys " nickname was originally a derogatory term from a match chant sung by fans from crosstown rivals Hellas Verona, which said that " donkeys would fly before Chievo made it to Serie A ".
Partick Thistle are known as the " Harry Rags ", which is taken from the rhyming slang of their ' official ' nickname " the jags ".
) Thomas named the restaurant after his eight-year-old daughter Melinda Lou, whose nickname was " Wenda ", stemming from the child's inability to say her own name at a young age.
Unless Jarma is a nickname for Axum ( hypothetically from Ge ' ez girma, " remarkable, revered "), the capital had moved from Axum to a new site, yet undiscovered.
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.
" It earned this nickname from the troubles that couples have to endure while trying to navigate the many locks by themselves.
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The pious De Ruyter was very much loved by his sailors and soldiers ; from them his most significant nickname derived: Bestevaêr ( older Dutch for ' grandfather '.
He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, and Granville received his nickname during the early years, when he was pushing his older brother, Brownie McGhee, who was stricken with polio in a wagon with a stick.
The station's pink logo led to the derisive nickname " Barbie Radio ", and Booker & Lopez did little more on the air than talk about Jennifer Lopez, Lynda's older sister.
Anne also forms a complex relationship with Gilbert Blythe, who is three years older than Anne but is studying at her level, having had his schooling interrupted when his father became ill. On their first meeting as schoolmates, he teases Anne with the nickname " Carrots ".
He acquired the nickname " Pops " because he was far older than any of the other players in the band.
In later books, their youngest sister Bridget ( originally nicknamed " Vicky " due to a resemblance to pictures of Queen Victoria in old age ; the nickname is dropped in later books as she loses the resemblance as she grows older ) also joins the crew.
The name " Kangaroo Valley " lingers on in the usage of older ex-patriate Australasians and Australasian visitors, as does the alternative nickname " Kangaroo Court ".
He got the DJ nickname from his older sister, because he was so skinny.
As he grew up, Vick, who as a child went by the nickname " Ookie ", learned about football from a second cousin four years older, Aaron Brooks.
A strong Midwestern Minnesota accent is present in the area, especially among the older part of the populace, hence the popular nickname, " Da Range ".
His nickname, " il Balilla ", was given to him in 1927 by his older teammate Leopoldo Conti, who thought " Pepp ", who was only 17 when he joined the senior team, was too young to be associated to the senior team, and was surprised after Inter coach Arpad Weisz decided to give Meazza his debut for Inter in his place.
* Jack Trent: A boy about Philip's age, though older ( about 14 in the series ' beginning ), who has red hair, green eyes and lots of freckles all over his face, the latter of which earning him the nickname " Freckles " from Philip.
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In her modeling career and early film roles, she used the names Jamie King and James King, which was a childhood nickname given to King by her parents, because her agency already represented another Jaime — the older, then more famous model Jaime Rishar.
Hal, although younger, acts like a supportive older brother to Mario, whom Hal calls by the nickname " Booboo ".
The nickname stuck with him all his life, although when his older brother Shemp married Gertrude Frank, who was also nicknamed " Babe ," the brothers started calling him " Curly " to avoid confusion.
His father Ahmed and mother Šefika gave him the nickname " Braco " meaning " little brother " in Bosnian since Hasan has an older sister, hence his current nickname " Brazzo ".
One theory is that, as a very young professor, he was flaunting his youth in front of his older peers or alternatively that he was known by the affectionate nickname of " Young Simpson " and decided to incorporate it into his name.
He was born in Lakeland, Florida, the older brother of John Nemechek, and is nicknamed " Front Row Joe ", a nickname given him by former teammate Wally Dallenbach for his tendency in the late 1990s to be a regular contender for a front row starting position.
He earned the nickname from his older brother who was barely a year old when John was born.
Bär, pronounced ' bear ', is a childhood nickname, given to him by his older sisters.
An older club logoTraditionally Wests are referred to as the " mud and bloods ", due to the design of their jersey, however the use of this nickname has become rarer since the introduction of the Panther logo in 1968.
WFDF experimented with a Top 40 rock format ( using the nickname " Giant 91 ") for a time in the early 1970s, but the station's older listeners disliked the change and tuned out in droves, leading the station to shift its music mix back toward Adult Contemporary by 1975.
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