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Big Three, The Three Tenors, GOATs= Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal,Novak Djokovic Boom Boom Boris, The Lion of Leimen, Baron von Slam = Boris Becker [8] The Barcelona Bumblebee = Arantxa Sánchez Vicario [9] [10] [11]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 February 2025. This is a list of monarchs (and other royalty and nobility) sorted by nickname. This list is divided into two parts: Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epitheton necessarium, or Roman victory titles. Examples ...
Death of Lion Queen, Wombwell's Menagerie, Illustrated London News, 1850. Ellen Eliza Blight (1833–1850), also known as Helen Bright, was an English lion tamer, known as "The Lion Queen", who was killed by a tiger while working in her uncle George Wombwell's menagerie, aged 17. Her shocking death made her a media sensation.
The city's name became reduced from Legion(em) to Leon(em), and in this form developed an unetymological association with the word for ‘lion’, Spanish león. In Spanish it is also a nickname for a fierce or brave warrior, from león ‘lion’. Leon is also found as a Greek family name from Greek leon ‘lion’. [1]
Ariel is a given name from Biblical Hebrew אריאל Ariel that literally means "lion of God". The female form is אריאלה (transliterated as Ariela, Ariella, or the alternative English and French spelling Arielle). In modern Hebrew, Ariel is primarily used as a male name. It also appears as a surname.
Queen Letizia, wife of King Felipe VI, is the current queen consort. This is a list of the women who were queens as wives of Spanish monarchs from the 16th century, when Spain was unified, until present. Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz is the only King Consort, as the husband of Queen Isabella II.
It also ranked among the top 100 names for girls born in Sweden in the early years of the 21st century, and was formerly popular in France. [1] The name "Cecilia" applied generally to Roman women who belonged to the plebeian clan of the Caecilii. Legends and hagiographies, mistaking it for a personal name, suggest fanciful etymologies.
The royal supporters of England are the heraldic supporter creatures appearing on each side of the royal arms of England.The royal supporters of the monarchs of England displayed a variety, or even a menagerie, of real and imaginary heraldic beasts, either side of their royal arms of sovereignty, including lion, leopard, panther and tiger, antelope and hart, greyhound, boar and bull, falcon ...