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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as ...
New York has a number of places named after other states or countries. Alabaster, Alabama: Who's talking crap now, SHELBY?! Aladdin: A place in Wyoming probably filled with street rats. Also a ghost town in California. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Lake: A reservoir in South Carolina that apparently needs an intervention. Renamed to "Village Lake" in ...
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 ...
50. Wyoming. Riverton’s slogan, “The Rendezvous City,” may need a bit of clarification.The city was originally used as a meeting point, or rendezvous site, for Native Americans. As white men ...
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history and psychological variation using approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology. In the book, Henrich explores how institutions and psychology ...
A weird phenomenon in Russian history for all the fake kings that they once had. One, in reality, did become a ruler. Glass delusion: Believing oneself to be made of glass was quite in vogue among Renaissance-era European nobility. Gilles de Rais: Friend of Joan of Arc, and convicted serial killer. Loveday
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Name No. Location Language Translation Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä: 35: Bog region in Lapland, Finland: Finnish (northern dialect) Unknown etymology ...