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  2. Weird City - Wikipedia

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    Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas is a non-fiction scholarly text by Joshua Long published in 2010 by University of Texas Press.The book uses the "Keep Austin Weird" movement as a central focus to discuss the social, cultural and economic changes occurring in Austin, Texas, at the beginning of the 21st century. [1]

  3. Category:Series of geography books - Wikipedia

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    Scientific Geography Series; W. Weird US (book series) This page was last edited on 30 August 2023, at 17:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  4. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...

  5. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A town in Texas famous for its unusual name after painter Cohn Cohen Hoover was hired to paint two bells, with one saying "Ding", and the other bell saying "Dong". This town is also located in a very "resonant"-sounding area of its U.S. state. Dingle: A town in County Kerry, Ireland, it is the only town on the Dingle Peninsula.

  6. List of online encyclopedias - Wikipedia

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    Ukraine, its history, people, geography, society, economy, and cultural heritage, based on the five-volume print Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Free Gazetteer for Scotland: English Articles on the geography and locations of Scotland: Free Historical Dictionary of Switzerland: French, German and Italian Articles on the history of Switzerland.

  7. Wikipedia:Contents/Geography and places - Wikipedia

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    The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes (275-195 B.C.). Four historical traditions in geographical research are the spatial analysis of natural and human phenomena (geography as a study of distribution), area studies (places and regions), study of man-land relationship, and research in earth sciences. Nonetheless, modern ...

  8. When Nature Gets Weird: 50 Odd Facts That May Leave You ... - AOL

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    Here’s one for your weird nature facts: the red parasol moss Splachnum rubrum grows only on moose poop. This pretty little moss, less attractively known as dung moss, makes its life on animal ...

  9. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Places and infrastructure

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    The blotchy, angular borders between these divisions seem almost arbitrarily strange. The UAE's are similarly weird. Museum of Broken Relationships: Zagreb is home to this collection of things left behind by break-ups. Neitokainen: This isn't just any pond in Finland, this is a pond in Finland that looks exactly like Finland! Nelson's Pillar