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"The Angel warrior" – Angelo Polli, anti-Nazi Italian General Commander of Bersaglieri, first Italian high officer prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps captured on 9 September 1943 in Malles. Chronicles tell that he was directly tortured by Hitler to make him swear under him by giving a signal to the Italian rebel prisoners IMI.
Many Army divisions have over the years earned nicknames; some laudatory, some derogatory, but mostly colorful. Sometimes, the nicknames themselves have overshadowed the actual name of the division, e.g. the "Screaming Eagles" for the 101st Airborne Division.
This is an incomplete list of U.S. college nicknames. If two nicknames are given, the first is for men's teams and the second for women's teams, unless otherwise noted.
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
"The Blue Ghost" – USS Lexington (CV-16); nickname supposedly bestowed by Japanese radio propagandist Tokyo Rose because of the color of her camouflage painting and because she repeatedly disproved reports that she had been sunk. Some crew used her predecessors nickname of "Lady Lex" [17] "Bonnie" – HMCS Bonaventure [18]
Chase Center – "The Gatehouse" (Name of the front entrance to the stadium) [260] (Warriors moving from Oracle Arena as of 2019/2020 season) Chesapeake Energy Arena – "Loud City" [ 261 ] Chicago Stadium – "The Madhouse on Madison (Street)"
A pun of the portmanteau of Phil Lester's and Daniel Howell's names—"Phan"—and the word "fandom". [90] Danny Gonzalez: Greg YouTuber In one of his videos, Gonzalez looked up "Strong Names" on Google and found the name "Gregory," which he shortened to Greg, and declared it a "good, strong name." [91] DAY6: My Day Music group [92] Deadsy: Leigons
Jerry was a nickname given to Germans mostly during the Second World War by soldiers and civilians of the Allied nations, in particular by the British. The nickname was originally created during World War I. [13] The term is the basis for the name of the jerrycan. The name may simply be an alteration of the word German. [14]