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St Trinnean's Academy for Young Ladies was one of the real-life inspirations for the fictional girls' school of St Trinian's The squalid Dotheboys Hall in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby was inspired by a real school in Bowes. [1] This is a list of fictional schools as portrayed in various media. Universities and other degree-granting institutions ...
It is a rural town founded in Douglas County, Wisconsin as a logging settlement in 1887. It was renamed following the 1890 disappearance of founder and storyteller Jackson Sloth and his family, said to have fallen in a sinkhole that no-one can find twice. The town is rich with folktales and paranormal activity, especially around holidays.
A small town in Oregon that, in December, 1999, changed its name for a year to receive $100,000, computers for its public schools, and other financial considerations from its corporate namesake at the height of the dot.com bubble.
The new name came about in 1950 when, for the 10th anniversary of NBC radio's Truth or Consequences game show, host Ralph Edwards suggested there might be a town willing to adopt the name as their ...
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Estately Real Estate Search recently put together a map and created a list that they are dubbing "The Master List of the Most Obscene Town Names in America." Don't be shy.
By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Most of the more than 30,000 incorporated towns and cities in the U.S. listed by the Census Bureau have names that wouldn't get a second glance. But there are more than ...