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.

As the athletic nickname of Indiana University Bloomington, the Hoosier is the subject of debate, primarily concerning the term's meaning and origin.

Carter's unusual nickname is accounted for by his origin.

The beret was the origin of the German nickname for British airborne troops, The Red Devils.

A Scandinavian origin has been proposed ( compare, for example, Norwegian slengenamn, which means " nickname "), but is discounted by the Oxford English Dictionary based on " date and early associations ".

The origin of the nickname " Wobblies " is uncertain.

The London underground is nicknamed " The Tube " A nickname is " a usually familiar or humorous but sometimes pointed or cruel name given to a person or place, as a supposedly appropriate replacement for or addition to the proper name ", or a name similar in origin and pronunciation from the original name.

The M letter stands for Molotovets (' of Molotov's fame '), it was the origin of the car's nickname, M ' ka ( Эмка ).

Name etymologists classify European surnames under five categories, depending on their origin: given name, occupational name, location name, nickname, and ornamental name.

The origin of the nickname also has been attributed to Stan Musial.

The true origin of the nickname could be traced back to either or both of these conditions.

He also has nicknames for individual players such as The Nash Rambler for Steve Nash, Captain Kidd for former Suns Captain Jason Kidd and the Matrix for now-former Sun and current Dallas Mavericks player Shawn Marion ( although the origin of that nickname is generally attributed to former NBA player and TNT analyst Kenny Smith, not McCoy ).

The origin of the town name is different from the nickname given to the State of North Carolina.

Moreno was born in Sacramento, California to a Mexican father and a Spanish / Chinese mother ; the latter being the origin of his Spanish nickname Chino, which means " Chinese " in Spanish.

As a young man, Cantinflas performed a variety of acts in travelling tents, and it was here that he earned the nickname " Cantinflas ", although the origin of the name is obscured by legend.

Certain sources cite this series as the origin of a nickname used by some anime fans,, although it should be noted that Tomino had directed and worked in a number of series in which the vast majority of the protagonists survive .< ref >

The Skyline GT-R later earned the nickname " Godzilla ", for its a play on its " monster " track performance and country of origin.

Fifth-billed after the remaining first-tier stars Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry and Jack Hawkins, Rennie was specifically cast as 13th century King Edward I, whose 6 ' 2 " ( 1. 88 m ) frame gave origin to his historical nickname, " Longshanks ".

The rough felt used in the production process is the origin of the term " Owdham Roughyed " a nickname for people from Oldham.

Brown Bess is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives.

It is possible that Dixon's name was the origin for the nickname Dixie used in reference to the U. S. Southern States.

The origin of the Revés nickname may have been that a member of a ( probably distinguished ) family living in Villanueva with the surname Revés established blood ties with the Serveto family, thus uniting both family names for the next generations.

The origin of the nickname is uncertain, but it may have come from the Leicestershire Regiment ( which became in 1946 The Royal Leicestershire Regiment ).

In etymology, they are generally classified into four groups, based on the origin of a nickname: given names, job designations, bodily attributes, and geographical references ( including references to named buildings ).

A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain Uru-Malik, whose name appears to indicate his Canaanite origin, was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian.

The name Accrington appears to be Anglo-Saxon in origin.

It is the most widely copied Old English poem, and appears in 45 manuscripts, but its attribution to Bede is not absolutely certain — not all manuscripts name Bede as the author, and the ones that do are of later origin than those that do not.

Experiments and computational models in Multimodal integration have shown that sensory input from different senses is integrated in a statistically optimal way, in addition, it appears that the kind of inferences used to infer single sources for multiple sensory inputs uses a Bayesian inference about the causal origin of the sensory stimuli.

The art of beekeeping in ancient China has existed since time immemorial and appears to be untraceable to its origin.

It is noted for the curl at the bottom of the minuscule ( lower case ) l, which other sans-serif typefaces have discarded, and for the diamond-shaped tittle on the lower case i and j, whose shape also appears in the full stop, and is the origin of other punctuation marks in the face.

Luthor's current origin appears to be a synthesis of aspects from the Silver Age continuity and the The Man of Steel mini-series.

The term Christians appears only three times in the New Testament, the first usage ( Acts 11: 26 ) giving the origin of the term.

In France " arabesque " first appears in 1546, and " was first applied in the latter part of the 17th century " to grotesque ornament, " despite the classical origin of the latter ", especially if without human figures in it-a distinction still often made, but not consistently observed,

From the dialogue, it appears that the word had an origin in the Platonic and Hellenistic tradition long before the group calling themselves " Gnostics " -- or the group covered under the modern term " Gnosticism " -- ever appeared.

The term " morrell " is somewhat obscure in origin and appears to apply to trees of the western Australian wheatbelt and goldfields which have a long, straight trunk, completely rough-barked.

A story of the origin of fairies appears in a chapter about Peter Pan in J. M. Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, and was incorporated into his later works about the character.

The name of the city in Hungarian ( Bécs ), Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian ( Beč ) and Ottoman Turkish ( Beç ) appears to have a different, Slavonic origin, and originally referred to an Avar fort in the area.

This supposed origin of euxanthin appears to rely on a single, anecdotal source, and Indian legal records do not outlaw such a practice.

However, it now appears that they may be formed de novo, contradicting the idea that they have a symbiotic origin.

The origin of the counterweight trebuchet is obscure, but it appears to have been invented somewhere in the Mediterranean basin in the twelfth century.

It appears that the alveolates, the dinoflagellates and the heterokont algae acquired their plastids from a red algae suggesting a common origin of this organelle in all these clades.

The combination of the origin point and the perpendicular component of the velocity defines a plane of rotation in which the behavior of the particle ( for that instant ) appears just as it does in the two dimensional case.

The term Japhetic was also applied by the early linguists ( brothers Grimm, William Jones, Rasmus C. Rask and others ) to what later became known as the Indo-European language group, on the assumption that, if descended from Japheth, the principal languages of Europe would have a common origin, which apart from Uralic, Kartvelian, Pontic, Dagestanian, and Basque, appears to be the case.

The term " topographic surveys " appears to be American in origin.

Artemis ( to whom the Ceryneian Hind was said to have been sacred, causing her to draw an arrow at Hercules, just like the constellation Sagittarius appears to be doing ), is a key player in the myth discussing the origin of Scorpio and death of Orion, and so has an association with this area of sky.

The same root is thought to be the origin of the Latin praenomen Tiberius, and its Etruscan cognate, Thefarie, and it may be noted that Tiberinus appears to be derived from Tiberius, which may have been the original form of the name.

One appears to be lesser divinities of an indigenous origin: Catha and Usil, the sun, Tivr, the moon, Selvans, a civil god, Turan, the goddess of love, Laran, the god of war, Leinth, the goddess of death, Maris, Thalna, Turms and the god Fufluns, whose name is related in some unknown way to the city of Populonia and the populus Romanus.

This rhyme often appears in such publications as almanacs ; its origin is uncertain.