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  2. List of ethnic sports team and mascot names - Wikipedia

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    Many sports team mascots are named for an ethnic group or similar category of people. Though these names typically refer to a group native to the area in which the sports team is based, many teams take their names from groups which are known for their strength (such as Spartans or Vikings ), despite not being located near the historic homes of ...

  3. Major professional sports teams in the United States and ...

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    This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).

  4. List of football clubs in England - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of football clubs that compete within the leagues and divisions of the men's English football league system as far down as Level 10 (Step 6), that is to say, six divisions below the Premier League/English Football League. Also included are clubs from outside England that play within the English system (suitably highlighted).

  5. Medieval runes - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the 10th century, or the early 11th century, three stung runes were added in order to represent the phonemes in a more exact manner. Rather than create new runes for the /e/, /ɡ/ and /y/ phonemes, stings were added to the i, k and u runes. [5] Around the mid-11th century, the ą and the ʀ runes took on new sounds.

  6. Elder Futhark - Wikipedia

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    The Elder Futhark (named after the initial phoneme of the first six rune names: F, U, Þ, A, R and K) has 24 runes, often arranged in three groups of eight runes; each group is in modern times called an ætt [2] (pl. ættir; meaning 'clan, group', although sometimes thought to mean eight). What the groups were originally called remains unknown.

  7. List of college team nicknames in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of U.S. college nicknames. If two nicknames are given, the first is for men's teams and the second for women's teams, unless otherwise noted. Generally, athletics are mainly branded by their common name , meaning words like "University of" or "College" are usually omitted and only the unique name elements are used.

  8. List of Southern League teams - Wikipedia

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    For the 2021 season, the league was named the Double-A South before switching back to its previous moniker in 2022. Over that 62-season span, its teams relocated, changed names, transferred to different leagues, or ceased operations altogether. This list documents teams which played in the league.

  9. Esoteric insignia of the Schutzstaffel - Wikipedia

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    The names of the ᛋ-rune (on which the Siegrune was based) translate as "sun", however, von List reinterpreted it as a victory sign when he compiled his list of "Armanen runes". [ 2 ] It was adapted into the emblem of the SS in 1933 by Walter Heck , an SS- Sturmhauptführer who worked as a graphic designer for Ferdinand Hoffstatter, a producer ...