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.

With Lajoie gone, the Molly McGuires now needed a new nickname.

The progression of the nickname can be seen in the book The Addicks Cartoons: An Affectionate Look into the Early History of Charlton Athletic, which covers the pre-First World War history of Charlton through a narrative based on 56 cartoons which appeared in the now defunct Kentish Independent.

It is now once again the official nickname of the club.

However, with later successes by Chievo and contemporaneous Serie B and Serie C1 struggles for Hellas Verona, Chievo fans have now largely embraced the nickname as a badge of honour.

In the 1987 season, Earnhardt earned his nickname " The Intimidator " after spinning out Elliott in the final segment of " The Winston ", a non-points event now known as the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race.

That term, shortened to " Dodger " became the nickname for the Brooklyn Dodgers ( now the Los Angeles Dodgers ).

The historical provinces now included in Nord-Pas-de-Calais are Artois, Boulonnais, Calaisis, Cambraisis, French Flanders, French Hainaut and portions of northern Picardy, and the regional nickname Bassin Minier or Meiners-Bassen ( Miners ' or Mining Basin in the region's two languages ) derived from historically large mining deposits.

At the end of the 19th century the club switched colours yet again, to the white shirts and blue shorts which they are now well known for wearing, hence the nickname " Lilywhites ".

Since the 1989 – 90 NBA season the Spurs uniform has remained practically the same, with the road uniform now using the team nickname from their logo ; a minor change included the addition of another black ( road ) and white ( home ) trim to the already silver-trimmed block numbers in the 2002 – 03 season.

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.

In what is still a matter of debate, there are a number of believed origins of this nickname that at first applied to the tower and is now frequently used to describe the whole church.

* The nickname for the now defunct weekday supplement, times2, in The Times of London

Today, Hoboken's unofficial nickname is now the " Mile Square City ", but it actually covers an area of two square miles when including the under-water parts in the Hudson River.

A " Moonraker " is now the official nickname for a native of the village.

But scholars consider now that Lancelot may be a simple nickname for Lancelin.

Puerto Ricans have popularized a nickname for the facility that integrates the Spanish word " coliseo " with the name of Don Cholito ; the arena is now commonly called " El Choliseo " by most locals, and the nickname is sometimes used in formal advertisements of events staged there.

The nickname the tribesmen is now used for the county and its people and is derived from this term.

Wavell and O ' Connor now faced a formidable foe under a commander whose cunning, resourcefulness, and daring would earn him the nickname " the Desert Fox ".

One oddity caused by the AHL's 2001 expansion is that the league now has two teams with the same nickname: the Milwaukee Admirals and the Norfolk Admirals.

Like so many medieval princes, Edmund gained his identifying nickname from his birthplace of Langley, now Kings Langley in Hertfordshire.

The team nickname was a play on the name of the NBA's Phoenix Suns, which played at the Coliseum for decades before moving to the America West Arena ( now U. S. Airways Center ) in 1991.

The modern sports nickname of Golden Tornadoes commemorates the " Golden Tornado " of May 11, 1914 when a major tornado struck the college, most notably taking the gold colored roof from the top of Old Main, which was the origin of the associated color.

Still many, however, continue to find the legends more memorable than the history, seeing her as a traitor, as may be assumed from a legend that she had a twin sister who went North and the pejorative nickname La Chingada associated with her twin.

* Big screen, a nickname associated with the motion picture industry

Onarga is often associated with its tree and shrub nurseries that have been in business for over 100 years, earning Onarga the nickname, " The Nursery Capital of the Midwest.

Citadel Hill and the associated harbour defence fortifications afforded the Royal Navy the most secure and strategic base in eastern North America from its Halifax Dockyard commanding the Great Circle Route to western Europe and gave Halifax the nickname " Warden of The North ".

The HY-2 was widely exported to the Middle East, and was the missile most associated with the silkworm nickname.

* Juba ( sniper ), a nickname associated with a supposed sniper involved with the Iraqi insurgency

The game attracts huge crowds to Jacksonville, and the associated tailgating and other events earned it the nickname of the " World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party ".

As a result the game and associated revelry have been known as " the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party ", a nickname first coined in the 1950s by Bill Kastelz, sports editor for The Florida Times-Union.

Historically, in North American and European usages the names Dahlia, Delilah, Delia, and Adele are sometimes associated with ' Cordelia ', and share the common nickname of " Dilly ".

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.

The site, at the foot of Beeston Hill beside the A643 road to Elland, was owned by Bentley's Brewery and was called the Old Peacock Ground, after the pub which faced the land, hence the nickname the Peacocks associated with both Leeds City and United.

An active sympathizer of Nazi Germany, he took part in German-produced propaganda broadcasts and is known as one of the persons associated with the nickname Lord Haw-Haw.

* The name Verdolaga, associated with the plant that grows in South America is a nickname for Football clubs with green-white schemes in their uniforms, such as Colombia's Atletico Nacional and Argentina's Ferrocarril Oeste.

The nickname is also associated with the Argentinian club Ferrocarril Oeste, that shares the same color scheme. The purslane plant or verdolaga ; the white variety is associated with the club's color scheme.

Levi Addison Ault ( November 1851 – February 1930 ) was a Canadian-born businessman and bureaucrat whose career was closely associated with the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he earned the nickname " Father of Cincinnati's parks ".

In New Zealand the name Tapanui is closely associated with the mysterious ailment chronic fatigue syndrome, which – until it became an accepted ailment – rejoiced in the nickname of " Tapanui ' flu ".

Traditionally, the nickname is also associated with the laboratory work done by the many Medicine students among the club's early members.

Janner is a British regional nickname associated with people from Plymouth or people who live in areas near the sea, both as a noun and as an adjective for the local accent and colloquialisms.

Club Deportivo Estudiantes de la UAG ( often referred to by its nickname " Tecos ") is a Mexican professional football club associated with the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara AC.

That nickname would later become primarily associated with the University of Maryland, College Park sports teams called the Maryland Terrapins.

The nickname " The Puck Goes Inski " is associated with Buzinski, but there are no contemporaneous uses of the moniker, which appears to have been coined by hockey writer Stan Fischler sometime in the 1970s.