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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 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 ...
The Research Triangle, or simply The Triangle, are both common nicknames for a metropolitan area in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina.Anchored by the cities of Raleigh and Durham and the town of Chapel Hill, the region is home to three major research universities: North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
County Durham: Land of the Prince Bishops: From the Bishops of Durham. [2] County Down: The Mourne County: From the Mourne Mountains: County Fermanagh: The Maguire County: From the Medieval Lord, Baron Maguire: County Londonderry: The Oak-Leaf County: Derry, an anglicisation of Doire, is Irish for oak grove, leading to an oak leaf being used on ...
Anadolu Agency / Getty Images. Nickname: My Love, H, Spike Almost every couple has pet names for one another, and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are no exception.. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex ...
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Some, but not all, of these nicknames may be derogatory -especially those exchanged by post-industrial towns too close to each other. Many derive from sports clubs, especially football ones. Involved demonyms tend to attract offensive parodies, for example "Bumholian" for "Dundonian" (an inhabitant of Dundee). Owing to the oral nature of the ...
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; 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")
Earl of Durham is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1833 for the Whig politician and colonial official John Lambton, 1st Baron Durham . Known as "Radical Jack", he played a leading role in the passing of the Reform Act 1832 .