A nickname (also moniker) is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing. Commonly used to express affection, a form of endearment, and sometimes amusement, it can also be used to express defamation of character.As a concept, it is distinct from both pseudonym and stage name, and also from a title (for example, City of Fountains), although there may be …

The city of Chicago has been known by many nicknames, but it is most widely recognized as the "Windy City".. The earliest known reference to the "Windy City" was actually to Green Bay in 1856. The first known repeated effort to label Chicago with this nickname is from 1876 and involves Chicago's rivalry with Cincinnati.The popularity of the nickname endures to this day – 126 …

"Gu Zhi Zhaohu 古之昭虎" (Chinese, "Like the ancient Zhaohu"; Zhaohu itself is a nickname for Duke Zhaomu of Zhou, who defeated 40,000 Dongyi of the Jianghuai with his 7,000 strong army) – Zhang Liao, general of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Cao Wei serving under the warlord Cao Cao, for his victory at the Battle of Xiaoyao Ford

A kunya (Arabic: كُنية) is a teknonym in Arabic names, the name of an adult usually derived from their oldest child.A kunya is a component of an Arabic name, a type of epithet, in theory referring to the bearer's first-born son or daughter.By extension, it may also have hypothetical or metaphorical references, e.g. in a nom de guerre or a nickname, without literally referring to a …

Everton was founded as St. Domingo's FC in 1878 so that members of the congregation of St Domingo Methodist New Connexion Chapel in Breckfield Road North, Everton could play sport year round – cricket was played in summer. The club's first game was a 1–0 victory over Everton Church Club. The club was renamed Everton in November 1879 after the local area, as people …

Old Man Eloquent or The Abolitionist: famed for routinely bringing up the slavery issue against Congressional rules, and for his role later on in the Amistad case.He is the only American president to be elected to the House of Representatives after his presidency. The nickname gained currency as a result of his campaign against slavery waged as a congressman, and as …

"La campanella" (Italian for "The little bell") is the nickname given to the third of Franz Liszt's six Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141 (1851). It is in the key of G-sharp minor.This piece is a revision of an earlier version from 1838, the Études d'exécution transcendente d'après Paganini, S. 140.Its melody comes from the final movement of Niccolò Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 2 …

Никне́йм (ник; англ. nickname /ˈnɪkneɪm/ — первоначально «кличка, прозвище», от древнеанглийского ...

A "Aggy" – Noel Agazarian, British, Battle of Britain ace "Assi" – Hans Hahn, German fighter pilot during World War II B "Bake" – V. H. Baker, British pilot and aircraft designer "The Balloon Buster" – Frank Luke, American World War I fighter ace "Bam" – C. S. Bamberger, British RAF World War II pilot "Barron" – John Worrall, British World War II RAF pilot

Shangri-La is a fictional place in Asia's Kunlun Mountains (昆仑山), described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by English author James Hilton.Hilton portrays Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a …