Fine. You're not invited https://t.co/oTPtZwM5s2... ...lively week responding to a viral tweet about the names of villages on the island of Kiritimati.Emmanuel... ...tury French priest and entrepreneur, provided the names of the villages when he leased the island. Wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/20/Kiribatis-Lazy-Naming-Practices/Now that we finally know what Pluto and its moon C... ...the stuff we see there. And so we have maps with names . And what names ! Pluto gets craters, plains, and other features n... ...storical figures like Hillary and Norgay, science names like Sputnik and Challenger, and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/28/Labeled-Maps-of-Pluto-and-Charon/(Photo: Peter Eimon)There’s a town in Texas... ...macabre, then Sarah Black of Atlas Obscura has 7 places with names with dark implications. Sadly, they’re marr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/14/Bucket-of-Blood-Street-and-6-Other-Terribly-Dark-Place-Names-in-the-USA/place names , but in the Native American languages they were d... ...hey were derived from, they meant something. Even names like York and Carolina that were imported from Eu... ...ephan Hormes and Silke Peust of The Atlas of True Names created a map of the US that translate all...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/06/20/Stink-Onions-US-Map-of-Literal-Names/From Shag Point, New Zealand, to Humptulips, Washi... ...ton state, this map fills you in on rude-sounding place names . Quite a few of them are due to language differen... ...are under-represented, considering the many great place names in those provinces. Click on a flag at the link t... ...flag at the link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/22/Vaguely-Rude-Place-Names-Of-The-World/You knew there were some provocative place names in the United Kingdom. Now we have a definitive (... ...Now we have a definitive (and long) list of funny place names in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland... ...Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland all in one place...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/26/funny-and-rude-uk-place-names/There's a street in Macon, Georgia that's named "Lustful Court". Residents are tired of the jokes they hear and want to change it: Michelle Washington, a resident of Lustful Court, Macon, says the name sparks laughte...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/09/09/residents-of-lustful-court-want-to-change-the-name-of-their-street/Ben Goulding of Pig Jockey has a list of the w... ...g of Pig Jockey has a list of the world's longest place names , including Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaha...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/15/the-worlds-longest-place-names/Why is it called The Hague instead of just Hague?... ...e Ukraine become plain Ukraine? It turns out that place names with definite articles all have a different story... ...heir own peculiar rules and exceptions for naming places . Those who live in The Hague never stopped using... ...ed using an old-fashio...
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