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  2. List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.

  3. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    Calle Boulevard is a street in Bayamón, Puerto Rico (calle = "street" in Spanish) Calle Road is a street in Torrance, California; Calle Street is the name of streets in Leander, Texas; Taft, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Victoria, Texas and Warwick, Rhode Island; El Camino Way in Palo Alto, California (The way way – Spanish) [3] [34]

  4. Commonplace book - Wikipedia

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    Commonplace books (or commonplaces) are a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They have been kept from antiquity, and were kept particularly during the Renaissance and in the nineteenth century.

  5. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1]

  6. Loci communes - Wikipedia

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    Loci communes or Loci communes rerum theologicarum seu hypotyposes theologicae (Latin for Common Places in Theology or Fundamental Doctrinal Themes) was a work by the Lutheran theologian Philipp Melanchthon published in 1521 [1] (other, modified editions were produced during the life of the author in 1535, 1543 and 1559).

  7. List of countries and territories where Spanish is an ...

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    Ñ-shaped animation showing flags of some countries and territories where Spanish is spoken. Spanish is the official language (either by law or de facto) in 20 sovereign states (including Equatorial Guinea, where it is official but not a native language), one dependent territory, and one partially recognized state, totaling around 442 million people.

  8. Commonplace - Wikipedia

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    Literary topos, the concept in rhetoric based on "commonplaces" or standard topics; The everyday life of commoners; Commonplace, ... at 20:10 (UTC).

  9. Hispanic America - Wikipedia

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    Spanish is the official language in most Hispanic American countries, and it is spoken by the vast majority of the population. Native American languages are widely spoken in Chile , Peru , Guatemala , Bolivia , Paraguay and Mexico , and, to a lesser degree, in Panama , Ecuador , Colombia , and Venezuela .