Nickname
81Scarfie — Nickname for a student of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Derived from the cold local climate and the tradition of wearing gold and blue striped scarves [ [http://www.otago.ac.nz/about/history.html Otago University History] ] .… …
82cod hauler — nickname for a fisherman engaged in the Newfoundland cod fishery …
83fishapod — nickname for the late Devonian fossil Tiktaalik roseae, a sarcopterygian from Ellesmere Island, Canada, an ancient fish with a mobile neck, limb development, lungs and ribs like tetrapods. As an intermediate form between fish and tetrapods, it is …
84salmon-thirty-salmon — nickname of an Alaskan airlines 737 jet painted to look like a salmon. The U.S. Congress subsidised the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board in 2003 with $500,000 and the money was spent on painting the jet …
85Swedish Nightingale — nickname of Jenny Lind. * * * …
86Perugino — Nickname for Pietro Vannucci (ca. 1450 1523), an Um brian painter who began his training with the conservative school of painters active in Perugia but was early subjected to Florentine influ ence by an apprenticeship to Andrea del Verrocchio; …
87Bart's — Nickname of St. Bartholomew s Hospital in London, where hemoglobin Bart was first isolated from a patient …
88La Barca (municipality) — { = |nickname = |motto = |image skyline = |imagesize = |image caption = |image flag = |flag size = |image seal = |seal size = |image shield =Smdb escudo.jpg |shield size = |image blank emblem = |blank emblem type = |blank emblem size = |image map …
89Finmins — Nickname given to the finance ministers from various countries who meet at global trade summits. Finance ministers are appointed and, depending on the country, the position can be given to an elected representative or to a non elected official.… …
90Silicon Valley — Nickname for the region in North California (around San Jose) that contains a huge concentration of computer and internet companies. In case you were wondering, silicon is the semiconductor material used to produce the computer chips that have… …
