Author : Laurence Urdang
Publisher : New York : H. W. Wilson
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Contains the nicknames of well-known people, miscellaneous items, roads, restaurants, government agencies, companies, other organizations, and equipment and weapons.
Author : Edward Latham
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Names
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Nathan Kane
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
First published in 1965 under title: Nicknames of cities and States of the U.S.
Author : Elsdon Coles Smith
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780806311500
Surnames. We all have them, but whose names were they originally? Whose are they? What do they mean and where do they come from? Elsdon Smith, America's leading authority on names, is the one man who definitely knows, and his book, American Surnames, is designed to answer these questions and more ...
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN :
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Americanisms
ISBN :
Author : Albert Romer Frey
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Gary Hudson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2019-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1796072575
This book explains the history behind how colleges derived their nicknames, mascots, and school colors. Gary Hudson chose to focus the attention of his book on schools that have Division 1A Football programs, because all the athletic programs at those schools will also compete in Division 1A sports. Consequently, those schools tend to get more exposure in the media, thereby drawing more attention and curiosity to the college sports fan.
Author : Henry Louis Mencken
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : 0394400763
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 1890
Category : United States
ISBN :
