They have also been observed feeding on bits of skin from living a dead whales which earned them the nickname of whalebird. |
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Abulafia is also the nickname given by deuteragonist Jacopo Belbo to his home computer in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. |
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Our trains are much more punctual and people are a lot happier, the old nickname seems to be gradually disappearing altogether. |
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If Megale couldn't identify an undercover G-man, you have to wonder exactly how he earned his nickname. |
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Quicksilver, liquid metal, nickname for Mercury, keeper of eloquence and dexterity, protector of roads, deliverer of the messages we need. |
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Stay quiet, and you can learn who's dating whom, who uses what online nickname, and which kids dye their hair. |
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On each side of the nose is painted a rather generous unit badge with the flight's nickname of Banners. |
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Warhol in his platinum wig posed as Christ, although his nickname at the times was Drella, a compound of Cinderella and Dracula. |
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After all, not only does he have a silly nickname but he also insists on wearing a white polo-neck top under his jersey, even in clement weather. |
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Several Seahawks fans have been clamoring for a new nickname for the up-and-coming defense. |
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Matt had christened Jerry with that nickname when they were boys because of his friend's Celtic heritage. |
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Goatfish sometimes go by the nickname surmullets and their 40 or so species are widespread throughout the tropics. |
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He had acquired the nickname ' Bobbing John ' from his habit of frequently changing sides. |
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It may have been based only on looks or alliteration, but it was a great nickname, spot on for the young Vaughan with his steely studiousness. |
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That's the affectionate nickname for the hearty folks who will be on the pier on the coldest, most bone-chilling day of winter. |
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Sometimes a carefully crafted given name simply gives way to a sticky nickname. |
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We've got better things to do than to try and distort what is now a harmless nickname. |
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Many Vikings also had a nickname which was used instead of their family name. |
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Bob Clarke gave me the nickname and instead of discouraging it, I went along with it. |
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Amara is not my real name, it is a cruel nickname forced upon me by the spoiled daughters of the master. |
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But then I also have trouble changing from a full name to a nickname for people. |
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It is not uncommon for an estate owner to be known by a nickname or abbreviated name. |
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These people, most of them serious, brainless people with no sense of humour, have to think of an insulting nickname for me. |
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If the name is unfamiliar to you perhaps his childhood nickname, Mundy, will jog your memory. |
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It is thickset, with a large mouth, thick white lips and a large blunt head, hence the nickname Loggerhead. |
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The fact that my blood brother's nickname is Mikey is a coincidence to bizarre to contemplate. |
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I flushed at the childish nickname, but crossed the room quickly to my mother's side. |
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They also didn't want it to have a shorter nickname like Jenny, short for Jennifer. |
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Sam, in fact, was short for Sambo, a nickname he accepted with the grace and good humour that characterised the man. |
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He got his nickname from the brutal way in which he battled his foes, often winning through sheer might and endurance. |
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At this point, I still haven't settled on a name for her, but I keep leaning towards Valentine, with Tiny being her nickname. |
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He replied adding a bit more melodramatics that were absolutely necessary and also using the nickname I had acquired from him when we first met. |
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I've always longed for a sweet and affectionate, yet unbelievably cool, nickname. |
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It was our Americanized nickname, because we couldn't pronounce his whole name and get anything else done. |
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Dennis Wyness enjoys playing for Steve Paterson, the manager he invariably refers to by his nickname. |
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Use a handle or nickname if you must but keep to the same one, it gets silly otherwise. |
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Could your DS choose a special nickname for the baby just for him as big brother to use? |
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And what does this lady do for a living to get a nickname like that? |
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My login is my junior-high aol screen name, which I always told people came from a nickname on the basketball team. |
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He was generally considered the number one fighter in the game, going by the nickname of The boogeyman. |
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All would attest to the manifest goodness that inspired the perfect nickname for the boy who would become a perfect cop. |
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She has a very well known nickname, chupacabra, which she was very proud to flaunt around the division. |
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At one time quite a lot of country folk were better known by nickname for the jobs they did or callings they followed rather than their proper or full names. |
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Suddenly, alcohol's nickname, firewater, has become especially apropos. |
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His nickname, given to him at the Battle of Gettysburg and which he kept for the rest of his life, was Stonewall Jim. |
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He went by the nickname Link at our gym for, like, a year, because of that. |
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His fellow clansmen try to persuade him to join them for a swift saki or two but he always declines, earning him the nickname of The Twilight Samurai. |
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Johnson indicated the school was in no hurry to unveil a new nickname or logo. |
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This absorption in such pursuits, totally unintelligible to his schoolfellows, who were then totally ignorant of mathematics, procured him a not very complimentary nickname. |
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He acquired his nickname singing the bass harmony second voice. |
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Arthel Watson got his nickname one night in a furniture store in Lenoir, N.C., in 1951, when he was just 18 years old. |
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Beers was chairman of Ogilvy Mather and earned the nickname Queen of Madison Avenue. |
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The Queen's first family nickname was Lilibet, short for Elizabeth. |
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The range got its nickname because, in normal use, technicians fire chicken carcasses at a test target at varying speeds to simulate a direct bird-strike during flight. |
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Their Dutch nickname, putterje, comes from the verb putten, meaning to draw water from a well. |
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The voters of North Dakota had to decide whether or not to keep the nickname. |
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The staff restaurant in work serve fish once or twice a week, so generally now I have it at least once a week, and the nickname brain food is well deserved. |
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It's a sadly sticky nickname that was given to me by my best friend. |
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The gas counter was run by an ornery, old-west character who got his nickname from the vodka cases he stored in a hidden cave across the highway from his filling station. |
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That day, however, he didn't counter with some snappy nickname of his own. |
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He earned his nickname playing near a muddy creek as a child. |
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His style during later life fulfilled the nickname he received in childhood, Old Thunder. |
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With his nickname, he could have been a lager lout but opted for the high life, though he once saw red in France. |
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The battles came to an end in 182 when Emperor Commodus took the victory nickname of Germanicus Maximus. |
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The nickname Tijuas is increasingly popular among residents and visitors alike. |
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One of many popular theories suggests the common broom, planta genista in medieval Latin, as the source of the nickname. |
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Josef Strigl, a teacher at the local gymnasium, the family giving him the nickname Luki. |
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His cartoon first appeared on May The characters were supposedly named by Payne after his wartime batman who went by the nickname Pip-Squeak. |
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How did Moonie get his nickname? He told us it had something to do with him being born during a full moon. |
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Members of the NYPD are frequently referred to by politicians, the media, and their own police cars by the nickname, New York's Finest. |
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A Soviet journalist dubbed her The Iron Lady, a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. |
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Her nickname is Golden Girl and in 2003 she was named as the BBC Midlands Sports Personality Of The Year. |
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These achievements granted the king the nickname of the African or Africano. |
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Is considered by some as the most representative festival of the city that lives up to the nickname he carries. |
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The English word terrible is usually used to translate the Russian word grozny in Ivan's nickname, but this is a somewhat archaic translation. |
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Pyanda was a nickname, meaning a fur brim of malitsa, which was a kind of Samoyedic clothes made from reindeer skin. |
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In the first third of the 17th century there were two men in Yakutia with the nickname Pyanda. |
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He inherited Gao's nickname and command of the rebel army after Gao's death. |
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The expression La belle province is still used mostly in tourism as a nickname for the province. |
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The punning nickname Colossus of Roads was given to Telford by his friend, the eventual Poet Laureate, Robert Southey. |
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Others picked oakum using a large metal nail known as a spike, which may be the source of the workhouse's nickname. |
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The nickname Wormtown is synonymous with the city's once large underground rock music scene. |
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Its buildings, mostly constructed with the local grey limestone, have earned it the nickname Auld Grey Town. |
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That may account for their popular nickname, Wendigo, after the supernatural cannibalistic demon of the Algonquin Indians. |
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My nickname was captain, though I was a private, first class. |
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Although he adopted the name Augustus upon his accession, he is better remembered by his derisive nickname Augustulus. |
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The term Christkindl evolved to Kriss Kringle, another nickname for Santa Claus. |
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Born Hi'ilawe Mitchell in Hawaii, she grew up in Eugene and went by the nickname Lawe in school, and later by Ruby when she sold her art locally. |
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On my first day at Canton other officers were calling me Leatherneck, the time-honoured nickname of the US Marines. |
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Daisy is used as a girl's name and as a nickname for girls named Margaret, after the French name for the oxeye daisy, marguerite. |
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And I'm sure not many people outside Liverpool know that the locals get their nickname from the traditional seaman's dish Lobscouse. |
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At Crystal Palace, Ian Wright was Satchmo because that was Louis Armstrong's nickname and the pair of them looked alike. |
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Manchester acquired the nickname Cottonopolis during the early 19th century owing to its sprawl of textile factories. |
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But Larry Harris has a nickname for didemnum, one particular kind of sea squirt that is anything but cute. |
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The Volunteer State is the nickname most commonly associated with our state. |
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His heartbroken sister Rhiannon, 17, said, 'He loved snacking on breadsticks so it became his nickname. |
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I ought to explain that the Great Panjandrum was the nickname for Lord Elkindale, the then Foreign Secretary. |
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Each house also has an informal name, which is more frequently used in speech, usually based on the name or nickname of an early housemaster. |
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A tagger is someone who adopts a nickname, or tag, and then writes it on as many surfaces as possible, usually in highly visible locations. |
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The Scot is now unbeaten in 21 fights, including 12 knockouts, and outclassed Csala who failed to live up to his Furioso nickname. |
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The seat bears a plaque in memory of sports enthusiast Colin and the nickname Smoggy, a reference to Middlesbrough fans. |
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The regional nickname and dialect for people from Newcastle and the surrounding area is Geordie. |
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This commonly used nickname originally related to his consistent political resolve rather than to any particular incident. |
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Mosquito was given her nickname as a child when she experienced an allergic reaction to a mosquito bite. |
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Becki, as we knew her, then had corkscrew ginger curls that earned her the nickname Spuggy after the popular character in TV show Byker Grove. |
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Every competitor has to have a nickname, usually something suitably classy like Squits, Snake Hips or Urine. |
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It acquired its nickname after being sung in Paris by volunteers from Marseille marching on the capital. |
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The duck is also the nickname of the University of Oregon sports teams as well as the Long Island Ducks minor league baseball team. |
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People from Birmingham are called Brummies, a term derived from the city's nickname of Brum. |
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This led to the duck becoming the nickname and mascot for the eventual National Hockey League professional team Anaheim Ducks. |
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He has criminal status of underboss, and is known by his nickname Altukha, the press service of the Ministry reported. |
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During the Exclusion Crisis, the word Tory was applied in Kingdom of England as a nickname to the opponents of the bill, called the Abhorrers. |
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In 1936, Vince Leah, then a writer for the Winnipeg Tribune used Joe Louis's nickname to refer to the Winnipeg Football Club after a game. |
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The Scarlets took their name from the nickname of Llanelli RFC, their main feeder club. |
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The state nickname is its oldest symbol, though it has never been made official by law. |
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The dolphin became infamous for killing a swimmer and injuring many others, which later earned her the nickname killer dolphin. |
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His nickname is said to have derived from two old Danish words 'ble' meaning dark skinned and 'tan' meaning great man. |
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The Dulux dog, first played by an animal called Shepton Dash, was so well known it became a common nickname for old English sheepdogs. |
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The customers sometimes called him Bluto. He earned the nickname by his tremendous build and great strength. |
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Silicon Glen is a nickname for the high tech sector of Scotland, the name inspired by Silicon Valley in California. |
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The Doonhamers is also the nickname of Queen of the South who represent Dumfries and the surrounding area in the Scottish Football League. |
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Dumfries got its nickname 'Queen of the South' from David Dunbar, a local poet, who in 1857 stood in the general election. |
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Other notable additions include freegan, fracking, and Yooper, a nickname used for a native or resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. |
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The name is derived from the nickname of Hugh, the first Capetian King, who was known as Hugh Capet. |
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Caesar brought mounted soldiers of the 10th legion, who joked that they had been promoted to knights, which was the origin of the 10th legion's nickname Equestris. |
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The Wales international playfully gave himself the nickname 'bomb defuser' for his unflinching willingness to put his body on the line when dealing with up-and-unders. |
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To faff about is to waste time doing tasks of very little significance, such as trying to work out the deeper meaning of someone's nickname when there really isn't any. |
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Under the lone operating streetlight, Whispering Jack comes into full view.... In his usual low tone,... Jack speaks in the manner that earned him his nickname. |
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It was staled to be called Pinky's, Justin Timberlake's nickname for her. |
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Sad Sack was a US Army nickname in World War II for a loser. |
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The blue preshrunk 100 percent cotton shirt boasts a flaming heart and anchor design on its sleeve that can be personalized with a name or nickname. |
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The California legislature, taking a page from Iowa and Ohio, has approved a bill to change the Golden State's official nickname to the Cockeye State. |
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Memories also turned to those who have been lost since last year's 70th anniversary commemorations, including Bernard Jordan, who earned the nickname The Great Escaper. |
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In June, Bernard's trip to Normandy from his nursing home in Hove, Sussex, to honour his fallen comrades earned him the nickname The Great Escaper. |
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His nickname reflects the traditional image of him as unworldly and pious. |
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Her eyes are still all over the shop hence her new nickname Gogglebox. |
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Bob explained how the nosy old man had got the nickname because he was a right Peeping Tom who had even spied on Bob's wife by drilling holes in the back garden fence. |
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Nantes citizens soon gave the nickname omnibus to the vehicle. |
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Very few dart players had their own nicknames until the Professional Darts Corporation circuit made it almost customary for every player to acquire a nickname. |
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Thus, Hugues plus Eidgenosse by way of Huisgenoten supposedly became Huguenot, a nickname associating the Protestant cause with politics unpopular in France. |
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Universally referred to as Smiler the squad have created a purple smiley face to represent his nickname and chose the colour to show support for testicular cancer charities. |
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Some supporters even wear face paint or crazy costumes or they dress up as their favourite player via their trademark attire or customary nickname. |
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Clapton's nickname of 'Slowhand' came from Giorgio Gomelsky, a pun on the slow handclapping that ensued when Clapton stopped playing while he replaced a string. |
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Long, straight roads characterise Catalunya, but as the Corsican race's nickname, the 'Rally of 10,000 Corners' suggests, tight and twisty stages are the order of the day. |
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The nickname has now become used to refer to the city itself. |
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Afonso IV's nickname the Brave alludes to his martial exploits. |
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Derek Thompson is a veteran ice hockey player who has acquired the nickname Tooth Fairy because of his aggressive play, which frequently deprives rivals of their dental work. |
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