Polk's oratory became popular, earning him the nickname " Napoleon of the Stump.

Since many of the Meanies were also the senior engineers interacting with developers at the Worldwide Developers Conference ( especially on the Stump the Experts panel ), MacHack, and in other venues, the group came to be well known by its nickname.

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

Other names were sometimes used before Boston officially adopted the nickname " Braves " in ; the club eventually left Boston for Milwaukee and is now playing in Atlanta, Georgia.

For years many sources have listed " Pilgrims " as the early Boston AL team's official nickname, but researcher Bill Nowlin has demonstrated that the name was barely used, if at all, during the team's early years.

Boston is known for, among other things, baked beans ( hence the nickname " Beantown "), bulkie rolls, and various pastries.

* 1908: Boston Americans ( informal nickname ) formally named Boston Red Sox

UMass Boston, known by their nickname: the Beacons, has teams competing in the ECAC, the Little East Conference, and ECAC East Ice Hockey.

On August 25, 1889, the Boston Daily Globe referred to Akron with the nickname " Summit City ".

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.

" The Heights " is a nickname given to Boston College.

* In the episode of Childrens Hospital Staff Dance, Sy Middleton chooses The Boston Strangler as a nickname.

He was bestowed the nickname of " Box " at a Boston antislavery convention in May 1849, and thereafter used the name Henry Box Brown.

* the nickname of former Boston Celtics basketball player John Havlicek

He was the state cross country champion in 1975 and trained wıth the well known Greater Boston Track Club ( whose members ıncluded the likes of Bill Rodgers, Randy Thomas, and Greg Meyer ) where he was given the nickname of " the rookie ".

In the pilot episode, Dr. Mark Craig informs his colleagues that the local Boston media have bestowed the derogatory nickname upon St. Eligius since they perceive the hospital as " a dumping ground, a place you wouldn't want to send your mother-in-law.

A " bucketfoot " hitter ( his nickname was " Bucketfoot Al ") who strode toward third base when hitting, Simmons starred as an outfielder for the Philadelphia Athletics during their heyday in the early 1930s, then went on to play for the Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators, Boston Braves, Cincinnati Reds, and Boston Red Sox.

He was known as " The Boston Bonecrusher ," " The Boston Terror " and, his most infamous nickname, " The Boston Tar Baby.

* an affectionate local nickname for The Boston Globe, a Boston newspaper

But the nickname never stuck and Gehrig was no match for Ruth in `` color '' -- which is sometimes a polite word for delinquent behavior on and off the field.

The title refers to the nickname given his wife by the composer, who is also a member of the National Film Board of Canada.

* Atlas is a nickname for Michael Marra, a Scottish musician ( born 1952 )

As king, Afonso IV is remembered as a soldier and a valiant general, hence the nickname the Brave.

Arizona State University's Division I athletic teams are called the Sun Devils, which is also the nickname used to refer to students and alumni of the university.

* Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, who is generally believed to have been Mary Ludwig Hays McCauly.

Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State.

There is a Mozart reference in the title — A Little Night Music is an occasionally used translation of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, the nickname of Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525.

One well-known association the town has is with the ' Accrington Pals ', the nickname given to the smallest home town battalion of volunteers formed to fight in the first world war.

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.

However, the nickname is also factually accurate, as the city ’ s tree coverage percentage is at 36 %, the highest out of all major American cities, and above the national average of 27 %.

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

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.

A common nickname for the intentional walk is four-finger salute, since most managers call for an intentional walk by holding up four fingers.

Ẓahīr ad-Dīn Muḥammad (, also known by his royal titles as al-ṣultānu ' l-ʿazam wa ' l-ḫāqān al-mukkarram bādshāh-e ġāzī ), is more commonly known by his nickname, Bābur (< big > بابر </ big >).

In the 2006 anime Black Lagoon, the nickname of the local Russian mob boss is " Balalaika ".

According to Hippolytus of Rome, John Mark is not Mark the Cousin of Barnabas, and Barnabas did not dispute with Paul because of personal favor to a blood relative, but due to his character as his nickname Barnabas (" Son of Encouragement ") indicates.

This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline " Found on the Great White Way " in the February 3, 1902 edition of the New York Evening Telegram.

" Great White Way " is a nickname for a section of Broadway in the Midtown section of the New York City borough of Manhattan, specifically the portion that encompasses the Theatre District, between 42nd and 53rd Streets, and encompassing Times Square.

" The Big Apple " is a nickname for New York City.

It is possible that the writer simply understood " Big Apple " as an appropriate nickname for any large city: