Faut-il encore appeler Louise Michel la Vierge rouge ? by Sidonie Verhaeghe

“…From the nickname of Red Virgin, associated with Louise Michel, the objective of this article is to retrace the itineraries of the sexual question in the celebrity and posterity of this anarchist figure. …”
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“I am a freak of nature”: Tourette’s and the Grotesque in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn by Pascale Antolin

“…The specificity of the novel lies the first-person narrator and leading character suffering from Tourette’s syndrome and appropriating the nickname “freak of nature” he was given as a child. …”
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Shoot Straight, You Bastards! Australians in the Boer War: the Breaker Morant Case by Martine Piquet

“…English-born, he had migrated to Australia in 1883 or 1884 and made a reputation for the two oddly juxtaposed aptitudes of taming wild horses (which earned him his nickname) and writing bush ballads. When the second Boer War of 1899–1902 broke out, he joined the South Australian Second Contingent and later joined the Bushveldt Carbineers in the rank of Lieutenant. …”
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Berço manuelino from the wreck of Santiago by Pawel Kardasz

“…Manuel I and earned the nickname ‘manuelino’ after this ruler. A berço manuelino marked Durr 876 is housed in the KwaZulu Natal collection in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. …”
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Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers” by P. Marbaix, P. Marbaix, P. Marbaix, A. K. Magnan, A. K. Magnan, A. K. Magnan, V. Muccione, V. Muccione, P. W. Thorne, Z. Zommers

“…Since its Third Assessment Report (AR3), released 2 decades ago, the IPCC has developed a synthetic representation of how risks increase with global warming, with risk levels reflected by the colours used, including shades of yellow and red, which led to the nickname “burning embers”. While initially designed to illustrate five overarching Reasons for Concern, these diagrams have been progressively applied to risks in specific systems and regions over the last 10 years. …”
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Barn Owl (Tyto alba) by Jason M. Martin, Richard N. Raid, Lyn C. Branch

“…Their ghostly appearance and blood-curdling shriek have led to their incorporation into folklore and myth and have earned these birds a variety of nicknames, including "ghost owl" and "monkey-faced owl." …”
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Barn Owl (Tyto alba) by Jason M. Martin, Richard N. Raid, Lyn C. Branch

“…Their ghostly appearance and blood-curdling shriek have led to their incorporation into folklore and myth and have earned these birds a variety of nicknames, including "ghost owl" and "monkey-faced owl." …”
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Du rat-toto fils du porc-épic, de la panthère et de la nandinie by Claudie Haxaire

“…The origin of the most beautiful and most complete expression of the Guro art, that of the Zamble mask and its masquerade, combine poetry of tales and precision of encyclopedic knowledge.Taking at its words the animal nicknames given by the Guro of Zuenoula to the masks of the Zamble family, namely Zamble himself, his wild brother Zàùlì and their wife Gù, we show how the habits attributed respectively to the panther, to the Gambian pouched rat and to the African palm civet, encyclopedic knowledge on which the tales are based, illuminates the warlike origin of these cults. …”
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"Out there in that cabin in the middle of nowhere in Montana": Narrating the Geographical and Mental Deviance of the Unabomber by Robert Winkler

“…In 1996, the mathematician-turned-terrorist Theodore J. Kaczynski, nicknamed the Unabomber, was arrested in his self-built cabin in the woods of Montana after having terrorized the nation for over 20 years. …”
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This is Not a Nest by Jean-Pierre Chupin

“…We first dig into a sample of competition projects nicknames (Crystal, Birds’Nest, DNA, Cloud, Lace, Stealth, etc.) to confirm that these tropes have a paradoxical status at the intersection of architects’ intents and the public expectations. …”
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Orality in the cultural area of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Ćurguz Jelena

“…Also, the old oral literature and expressions are still alive today, which are passed down from generation to generation - e.g. songs, fairy tales, proverbs, sayings, anecdotes, curses, rhymes and lullabies, and many people have specific nicknames. Cultivating orality is one of the ways of preserving heritage, maintaining close interpersonal relationships and strengthening ties in the community, which is especially important today, when human communication is increasingly mediated by different technologies, which can lead to loneliness.…”
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Implicit Forms of Ethnic Insult for Europeans (as Found in Rhyming Slang) by E. Y. Gorshunova, Y. V. Gorshunov

“…Along with the explicit, direct, offensive and non-politically correct ethnic labels and nicknames there are quite a few with a deceptive, innocuous shape that conceals their offensive content. …”
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THE SPECIFICS OF TRANSLATING THE FICTIONAL LANGUAGE "NADSAT" INTO FRENCH by Margarita N. Sadovnikova

“…It was found that the strategy of partial foreignization, which preserves individual lexical units from the "nadsat" in their original form, helps to recreate the unique stylistic coloring of the work and emphasizes its foreign cultural character, while the localization of anthroponyms adapts the names and nicknames of the characters to the host culture. Particularly difficult is the transfer of onomatopoeias, which have a clearly expressed national and cultural specificity. …”
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Ground-based Characterization of (98943) Torifune 2001 CC21, the Target of the Hayabusa2# Space Mission by Marcel M. Popescu, Eri Tatsumi, Javier Licandro, Miguel R. Alarcon, Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez, Miquel Serra-Ricart, Julia de León, Joaquín Fernandez Martin, David Morate, Gabriel N. Simion, Bogdan Alexandru Dumitru, Daniel Nicolae Berteşteanu, George Pantelimon Prodan, Masatoshi Hirabayashi

“…The near-Earth asteroid (98943) Torifune, previously designated 2001 CC _21 , is the flyby target of the Hayabusa2 extended mission, nicknamed Hayabusa2 # (Small Hazardous Asteroid Reconnaissance Probe (SHARP)). …”
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Jovens e os Stories do Instagram: estudo netnográfico durante a pandemia da Covid-19 by Alan César Belo Angeluci, Brasilina Passarelli, Carolina Gois Falandes, Milena Possar Garcia

“…The use of hashtags in Dix occurred in only 8.3%, and the majority of profiles used the carousel feature, with 72.4% on the main profiles and 58.3% on Dix. The use of nicknames was less common on the main profiles (24.1%) compared to the majority of Dix (83.3%). …”
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