" 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.

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.

Because they were marked with the letter K ( for Voronezh Komintern Factory ), Red Army troops adopted a nickname from Mikhail Isakovsky's popular wartime song, " Katyusha ", about a girl longing for her absent beloved, who has gone away on military service.

After an incident where her dress caught fire on an iron grate when she was about three, her mother began dressing her in boys ' pants, and she was given the nickname " Jimmy " from the comic strip, Little Jimmy.

Smith's fielding play prompted the Yuma Daily Sun to use the nickname " The Wizard of Oz " in a March 1981 feature article about Smith.

Rhode Island's official nickname is " The Ocean State ," a reference to the State's geography, since Rhode Island has several large bays and inlets that amount to about 14 % of its total area.

The nickname and the garden are among the details about the former Iraqi leader that emerged during a 27 March 2008 tour of prison of the Baghdad cell where Saddam slept, bathed, and kept a journal in the final days before his execution.

Many of his songs are about his experiences in the Dust Bowl era during the Great Depression when Guthrie traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned their traditional folk and blues songs, earning him the nickname the " Dust Bowl Troubadour.

" This nickname however derives not from his casualty figures which were consistently lower than Bradley's, but from his days as Master of Sword when his colorful language about ' blood and guts ' made an impression on junior officers.

According to a frequently-repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname " Buster " at about eighteen months of age.

Especially as titles of works, but also as nicknames and the like, some proper names contain no noun and are not formed as noun phrases ( the film Being There ; Hi De Ho as a nickname for Cab Calloway and as the title of a film about him ).

These cartoon characters in the Daily Mirror were well known to all the soldiers, and in his best-selling book about his small irregular unit " Popski " said "... I was delighted with my nickname ...".

During her successful years, Dutch and international media portrayed her as the perfect mother ( hence her nickname " The Flying Housewife "), who was very modest about her own achievements.

Located in what is now Quincy, Massachusetts, about north of Plymouth, the settlement was officially known as Mount Wollaston, but soon earned the nickname " Merrymount.

His brother and successor, Olaf I, was given the nickname Hunger because he was unable to do anything about the famine that ravaged Denmark for years after Canute's death.

His jokes about his nose included referring to it as a " Schnozzola ", and the word became his nickname.

Another transient nickname for Somers at about that time was Aurora, where for a time a post office operated with that name from the Willis Tavern.

" Also, in an episode of the television show Seinfeld, George receives the nickname ' Koko ' because he was observed flailing his arms about like a gorilla while holding a banana.

Under the stage names " Ann " ( for " Announcer ") and later " Orphan Annie " and possibly " Your Favorite Enemy, Annie ", reportedly in reference to the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, ( or more likely, a reference to " Orphans ", the nickname given to Australian troops separated from their divisions in battle ), Toguri performed in comedy sketches and introduced recorded music, but never participated in any actual newscasts, with on-air speaking time of generally about 20 minutes.

For the 1893 Hamburg and 1894 Weimar performances, Mahler gave the piece the title Titan after the novel by Jean Paul, although Mahler specified that the piece was not in any way " about " the book ; the nickname is often used today, but properly only applies to those two versions and should not be used in connection with the definitive final version.

The nickname " Aga Saga " is sometimes used condescendingly about this type of fiction.

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.

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.

To keep the two straight, the director of the production gave Terkel the nickname Studs after the fictional character about whom Terkel was reading at the time — Studs Lonigan, of James T. Farrell's trilogy.