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The first group of 58 names appears to be settlers of Pocasset (later Portsmouth), while the second group of 42 appears to be settlers of Newport. These two lists come from Bartlett's Records of the Colony of Rhode Island, and apparently they were compiled and incorporated into the town records of Newport on November 25, 1639. The actual ...
People born in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo are called this nickname Carioca (Brazil) A person from the city of Rio de Janeiro. Candango (Brazil) Nickname given to construction workers, who came mainly from the Brazilian Northeast, who worked in the construction of Brasília. [citation needed] Catracho (Central America) A person from ...
Chillicothe – from Shawnee Chala·ka·tha, referring to members of one of the five divisions of the Shawnee people: Chalaka (name of the Shawnee group, of unknown meaning) + -tha 'person'; [67] the present Chillicothe is the most recent of seven places in Ohio that have held that name, because it was applied to the main town wherever the ...
The colonists requested that White return to England, with the expectation that he would come back to Roanoke with fresh supplies in 1588. [5] When White finally returned in 1590, the site of the colony was abandoned. [6] The exact number of people in the "Lost Colony" is disputed.
Chairboys (from the football club, and the town's former industry), Willyous (Wycombe as an acronym: "Will You Come Over, My Bed's Empty") Highlands and Islands (of Scotland) Teuchters, used by other Scots and sometimes applied by Greater Glasgow natives to anyone speaking in a dialect other than Glaswegian Hinckley Tin Hatters [50] Holmes Chapel
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Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Biblically sourced names are widespread and are sometimes the result of naming a settlement after its church. Names from ancient history can also be found in a number of places, although a concentration of them can be found in upstate New York. Names from these two sources can be found in the Ancient World section below the list of countries.