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Old Hickory, Tennessee, a town named for Jackson, near to the site of The Hermitage; Old Hickory Boulevard, the name of several roads in Nashville, Tennessee, named for Jackson; Old Hickory Lake, a man-made reservoir along the path of the Cumberland River in Middle Tennessee, named for Jackson
Old Buck, from a shortening of his last name, used later in life. [66] Old Public Functionary, [67] used by Buchanan in his December 1859 State of the Union address and adopted by newspapers. [66] Ten-Cent Jimmy: derogatory, as a reaction to Buchanan's campaign statement that ten cents a day was decent pay for a worker. [68]
Formerly ClarisWorks Word Processing, also an older and unrelated application for Apple II. Succeeded by iWork. Amí: Windows: developed and marketed by Samna: Apple Writer: Apple II, Apple III: SuperWriter: Apricot Portable: Built-in word processor in Apricot Computers devices Authorea: word processor for students and researchers AstroType ...
Jackson refused to disband his troops; instead, he led them on the difficult march back to Nashville, earning the nickname "Hickory" (later "Old Hickory") for his toughness. [85] After returning to Nashville, Jackson and one of his colonels, John Coffee, got into a tavern brawl over honor with the brothers Jesse and Thomas Hart Benton. Nobody ...
This nickname suggested that Jackson was tough and enduring like an old hickory tree. Jackson was particularly admired by the residents of remote and mountainous areas of the United States, people who would come to be known as "hicks." Another explanation of the term hick describes a time when hickory nut flour was used and sold. Tough times ...
”The Eight-Up Division” (play on words and the design of the patch alluding to the Army term “ate up” which means incompetent) 9th Infantry Division "Varsity" "Old Reliables" – origin unknown, but some possibilities recorded here "Psychedelic Cookie" – Used during the Vietnam War in reference to its shoulder patch. 10th Mountain ...
Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves. Many of these products (new versions of Windows in particular) are of major significance to the IT community, and so the terms are often widely used in discussions before the official release.
Toshiba JW-10, the first word processor for the Japanese language (1978) The Wang was not the first CRT-based machine nor were all of its innovations unique to Wang. In the early 1970s Linolex, Lexitron and Vydec introduced pioneering word-processing systems with CRT display editing. A Canadian electronics company, Automatic Electronic Systems ...