Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Sobriquet ,nick names, Indian leaders nick name

Sobriquets
Places
Bengal's sorrow - River Damodar

City of the Golden Gate -San Francisco (USA)

City of Golden Temple -Amritsar

City of Dreaming Spires -Oxford ,UK

City of Seven Hills/Eternal City-Rome

Cockpit of Europe-Belgium

Dark Continent-Africa

Emrald Island-Ireland

Empire City/City of Skyscrapers-New York (USA)

Garden City-Bangalore

Gate of tears -Bab-le-mandab

Gateway of India- Mumbai

Gift of the Nile-Egypt

God's own country -Kerala

Herring Pond-Atlantic Ocean

Holy Land-Palestine

Hermit Kingdom /Land of morning calm -Korea

Island of cloves-Zanzibar

Islands of Pearls -Bahrain

Key of Mediterranean -Gibralter

Land of Cakes -Scotland

Land of Humming Bird-Trinidad

Land of Kangaroo/LAnd of golden fleece-Australia

Land of the golden Pagoda-Myanmar(Burma)

Land of Lilies/Land of Maple/Lady of Snow-Canada

Land of the midnight sun-Norway

Land of the rising Sun-Japan

Land of Thousand Lakes-Finland

Land of Thunderbolt-Bhutan

Land of the white elephants-Thailand

Never Never Land-Prairies of N.Australia

Pink City-Jaipur

Playground of Europe -Switzerland

Queen of the Adriatic -Venice ,Italy

Queen of the Arabian Sea-Kochi

Roof of the World -Pamirs

Sickman of Europe-Turkey

Sorrow of China /Yellow river-River-Hwang Ho

Spice garden of India- Kerala

Sugar Bowl of the World-Cuba

The sea of mountains-British Columbia

The spice island of the West-Grenada

Venice of the East-Alappuzha

Venice of the North-Stockholm,Sweden

White city-Belgrade

World's Bread Basket-Prairies of N.America

World's loneliest Island -Tristan Da Cunha
Sobriquet (Persons)
Adi Kavi- Valmeeki

Anna-C N Annadurai

Badshah Khan/Frontier Gandhi -Abdul Gaffar Khan

Bard of Avon -William Shakespeare

bard of Twikenham-Alexander Pope

Deenabandhu -C F Andrews

Deshbandhu-C R Das

Desert Fox-Gen.Erwin Rommel

Ike Dwight -David Eisenhower

II Duce -Benitto Mussolini

J.P ,Loknayak-Jayaprakash Narayanan

Kaviguru -Ravindranath Tagore

Lady with the lamp -Florence Nightingale

Mahamana-Madan Mohan Malaviya

Mahatma - Gandhiji

Man of Blood and iron-Bismark

Netaji-Subash Chandra Bose.

Panditji -Jawaharlal Nehru

Rajaji-or CR-C Rajagopalachari

Saint of the gutters-Mother Teresa

The Cincinnatus of the Americans -George Washington

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