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Three-word names for two-part entities are often ambiguous. For example, it may not be clear whether North Rhine-Westphalia is an amalgamation between the north part of the Rhine Province on the one hand and Westphalia on the other (true) or the northern division of some pre-existing place called Rhine-Westphalia (false). While this problem ...
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
The American lobbying industry [68] Langley: A small suburb of Washington, D.C., in Virginia The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency [69] Madison Avenue: A street in Manhattan, New York City: The American advertising industry [5] Main Street: Shopping street of a town, traditionally the site of shops, banks, and local businesses
A type of diamond interchange in which the two directions of traffic on the non-freeway road cross to the opposite side on both sides of the bridge at the freeway. DLT. See continuous-flow intersection. Drawbridge. See moveable bridge. Driverless car. See self-driving car. Driver's license or driving licence
The first stack interchange in the world was the Four Level Interchange (renamed the Bill Keene Memorial Interchange), built in Los Angeles, California, and completed in 1949, at the junction of U.S. Route 101 and State Route 110. [3]
Two routes of the Trans-African Highway network cross Kenya: the Cairo-Cape Town Highway and the Lagos–Mombasa Highway. Roads in Kenya are divided into classes: Class S: "A Highway that connects two or more cities and carries safely a large volume of traffic at the highest speed of operation."
Bakersfield, California. To kick things off, apparently Bakersfield, California doesn't have a whole lot going for it. At least according to Redditor u/Confused_Penguin5, who writes, "Bakersfield.
Jaywalking is an offence in many cities, U.S. states and Canadian provinces, although prohibitions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. [30] [31] Nonetheless, jaywalking remains the cultural norm in some cities such as New York and Toronto. [32]: 216, 222, 224 [30] 'Jaywalking' is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary from 1917.