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  2. Albion - Wikipedia

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    The White Cliffs of Dover may have given rise to the name Albion. Albion is an alternative name for Great Britain. The oldest attestation of the toponym comes from the Greek language. It is sometimes used poetically and generally to refer to the island, but is less common than "Britain" today.

  3. Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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    After World War I it returned to its original name. Then it was known as Stalislav (1939–41), Stanislau (1941–45) and again Stanislav, until 1962, when it has been renamed to its current name, to honour Ivan Franko. İzmir – since 28 March 1930, formerly Smyrna (under Roman and Ottoman rule).

  4. List of alternative country names - Wikipedia

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    State of Palestine (official, English), מדינת פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (Medinat Pālēśtīnā) (Hebrew name), دَوْلَة فلسطين (Dawlat Filasṭīn) (official Arabic name), the Holy Land (ארץ הקודש, الأرض المقدسة) / Eretz Yisrael (ארץ ישראל) (Bible), فلسطين (Filasṭīn) (common name ...

  5. The meaning behind every TODAY anchor’s name, from Al ... - AOL

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    Savannah Guthrie may have a name synonymous with the famous city in Georgia, but the TODAY anchor is Australia-born. The name Savannah, according to Nameberry, means “flat, tropical grassland

  6. List of continent name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    As a name for a part of the known world, it is first used in the 6th century BC by Anaximander and Hecataeus. [18] The weakness of an etymology with εὐρύς ( eurus ), is 1. that the -u stem of εὐρύς disappears in Εὐρώπη Europa and 2. the expected form εὐρυώπη euryopa that retains the -u stem in fact exists.

  7. List of national capital city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Canberra: The word "Canberra" is derived from the word Kanbarra meaning "meeting place" in the old Ngunnawal language of the local Ngabri people. Alternatively, the name was reported to mean "woman's breasts", by journalist John Gale in the 1860s, referring to the mountains of Mount Ainslie and Black Mountain. [13]

  8. Retronym - Wikipedia

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    This column about "trucks and cars" from Popular Mechanics in 1914 was written when the word truck did not necessarily connote a motor truck or the word car a motor car. The same things today would most likely be respectively called hand trucks and railroad cars , terms that existed in 1914 but were not yet required for clarity.

  9. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    "alternative", unconventional ("alternate lifestyles") (n.) an alternative *; a substitute amber: orange-yellow traffic light (US: yellow light) orange-yellow colour fossilised resin a material used in the construction of some tobacco pipes' stems (Amber) female given name (sealed in amber) state of being oblivious to changing circumstances