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  2. List of Old Norse exonyms - Wikipedia

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    Many historians assume the terms beorm and bjarm to derive from the Uralic word perm, which refers to "travelling merchants" and represents the Old Permic culture. [4] Bjarneyjar "Bear islands". Possibly Disko Island off Greenland. [5] blakumen or blökumenn Romanians or Cumans. Blokumannaland may be the lands south of the Lower Danube. Bót

  3. Enclave and exclave - Wikipedia

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    Later, the term enclave began to be used also to refer to parcels of countries, counties, fiefs, communes, towns, parishes, etc. that were surrounded by alien territory. This French word eventually entered English and other languages to denote the same concept, although local terms have continued to be used.

  4. Topophilia - Wikipedia

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    Yi-Fu Tuan employed the term for the feeling-link between person and place as part of his development of a humanistic geography. [3] James W. Gibson, in his book A Reenchanted World (2009) also argues that topophilia or "love of place" is a biologically based, close cultural connection to place.

  5. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United ...

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    soft bread roll or a sandwich made from it (this itself is a regional usage in the UK rather than a universal one); in plural, breasts (vulgar slang e.g. "get your baps out, love"); a person's head (Northern Ireland). [21] barmaid *, barman a woman or man who serves drinks in a bar.

  6. Every state's nickname and where it comes from - AOL

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    The term appears to have gained popularity around this time in Judge David Rorer's writings and by James G. Edwards, an editor who changed the name of his newspaper to include the word "Hawk-Eye ...

  7. Here’s the synopsis for the “Virgin River” holiday-themed mobile game: You’re a writer with a deadline to finish your novel by Christmas and a bad case of writer’s block, so you escape ...

  8. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    Also amphidrome and tidal node. A geographical location where there is little or no tide, i.e. where the tidal amplitude is zero or nearly zero because the height of sea level does not change appreciably over time (meaning there is no high tide or low tide), and around which a tidal crest circulates once per tidal period (approximately every 12 hours). Tidal amplitude increases, though not ...

  9. Prolific Ohio artist wanted to leave life on her own terms ...

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    Trish Parker, a healthy 90-year-old, went with her sons to Switzerland, where she chose to die by assisted suicide rather than risk a lingering end.