Showing posts with label nicknames. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nicknames. Show all posts

Friday, November 25, 2011

Nicknames of People - I

1. The Bard of Avon – William Shakespeare

2. The Blind Poet – John Milton

3. The Light of Asia – Buddha

4. The Iron Chancellor – Prince Otto Von Bismarck

5. Little Corporal – Napoleon

6. The Mad Monk – Rasputin

7. The Sage of Concord – Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. The Lady of the Lamp – Florence Nightingale

9. Father of Biography – Plutarch

10. Father of History – Herodotus

Nicknames of Places - II

1. The Land of the Thousand Lakes – Finland

2. The mother-in-law of Europe – Denmark

3. The Roof of the World – Tibet

4. Iberian Peninsula – Spain and Portugal

5. Robinson Crusoe’s Island – Juan Fernandez. Tobago

6. The Golden State – California

7. Silver State – Nevada

8. Copper State – Arizona

9. The Queen of the Adriatic – Venice

10. The Barbary States – Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya

Nicknames of Places - I

1. The Emerald Isle – Ireland

2. The Pearl of the Antilles – Cuba

3. The Land of Oat Cakes – Scotland

4. The Land of the Golden Fleece – Australia

5. The land of the Midnight Sun – Lapland, Norway

6. The Land of the Flying Fish – Barbados

7. The Land of the Rising Sun - Japan

8. The Land of the Dykes - Holland

9. The Land of the Tulips - Holland

10. The Land of the White Elephant – Thailand