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City nicknames can help in establishing a civic identity, helping outsiders recognize a community or attracting people to a community because of its nickname; promote civic pride; and build community unity. [1] Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community "ideology or myth" [2] are also believed to have economic value. [1]
Hollywood-inspired nicknames, most starting with the first letter or letters of the location and ending in the suffix "-ollywood" or "-wood", have been given to various locations around the world with associations to the film industry – inspired by the iconic Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, whose name has come to be a metonym for the motion picture industry of the United States.
The list of regional nicknames used in English language includes nicknames for people based on their locality of origin (birthplace, place of permanent residence, or family roots). Nicknames based on the country (or larger geopolitical area) of origin may be found in the List of ethnic slurs .
The city's nickname "CLE" is derived from the IATA code for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. "The Forest City" is Cleveland's oldest nickname, as used here for the Forest City Bank Building in the Ohio City neighborhood. There have been several nicknames for the City of Cleveland throughout its history. These include:
Bill Farmer (left) and his alter ego, Goofy, attend the premiere of A Goofy Movie with the film's director Kevin Lima. (Photo: Courtesy Bill Farmer)
With a cover sporting the King Records legend of "A James Brown Production," the album is now one of the most coveted Shreve (and Brown) collectibles; only two or three thousand copies were pressed. When The Schoenling All Night Theater was unceremoniously canceled by WCPO in 1970, it was quickly picked up by WLWT, Shreve's old stomping grounds ...
Fictional farmers, persons engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock.
David Jerome Rollins (September 2, 1907 – August 6, 1997) was an American actor and later farmer who had a short but prolific career in films, including at least 16 full-length films between 1927 and 1932. [1]