Thursday, August 06, 2015

Nicknames - People

1. The Bard of Avon – William Shakespeare

2. The Blind Poet – John Milton

3. The Light of Asia – Buddha

4. The Iron Chancellor – Prince Otto Von Bismarck

5. Little Corporal – Napoleon

6. The Mad Monk – Rasputin
He was a Russian peasant who grew to wield enormous influence over the Tsarina of Russia. He proved to be one very difficult guy to kill. Read this if you are interested in these kinds of things. ;)

7. The Sage of Concord – Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. The Lady of the Lamp – Florence Nightingale

9. Father of Biography – Plutarch

10. Father of History – Herodotus

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