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  2. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.

  3. Far Away Places - Wikipedia

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    "Far Away Places" is an American popular song. It was written by Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer and published in 1948 . The recording by Bing Crosby & The Ken Darby Choir was recorded on November 25, 1948 [ 1 ] and released by Decca Records as catalog number 24532.

  4. Far Away Places (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Far Away Places or Faraway Places may refer to: Far Away Places, an American popular song; Far Away Places (album), an album by 2nd Chapter of Acts; Far Away Places (Mad Men), an episode of the TV series Mad Men; Faraway Places, an American indie rock band

  5. Orient - Wikipedia

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    Originally, the term Orient was used to designate only the Near East, but later its meaning evolved and expanded, designating also Central Asia, Southwest Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, or the Far East. The term oriental is often used to describe objects and people coming from the Orient/eastern Asia. [1]

  6. Mirage - Wikipedia

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    The word comes to English via the French (se) mirer, from the Latin mirari, meaning "to look at, to wonder at". [ 2 ] Mirages can be categorized as "inferior" (meaning lower), "superior" (meaning higher) and " Fata Morgana ", one kind of superior mirage consisting of a series of unusually elaborate, vertically stacked images, which form one ...

  7. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    Also amphidrome and tidal node. A geographical location where there is little or no tide, i.e. where the tidal amplitude is zero or nearly zero because the height of sea level does not change appreciably over time (meaning there is no high tide or low tide), and around which a tidal crest circulates once per tidal period (approximately every 12 hours). Tidal amplitude increases, though not ...

  8. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    As for place names, there is Mucsaröcsöge or Csajágaröcsöge, little villages or boonies far out in the countryside, and Kukutyin [21] or Piripócs, villages or small towns somewhere in the countryside. A general place reference is the phrase (az) Isten háta mögött, meaning "behind the back of God", i.e. 'middle of nowhere'.

  9. Tarshish - Wikipedia

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    Tarshish (Phoenician: 𐤕𐤓𐤔𐤔, romanized: tršš; Hebrew: תַּרְשִׁישׁ, romanized: Taršiš; Koinē Greek: Θαρσεῖς, romanized: Tharseis) occurs in the Hebrew Bible with several uncertain meanings, most frequently as a place (probably a large city or region) far across the sea from Phoenicia (now Lebanon) and the Land of Israel.