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  2. Agloe, New York - Wikipedia

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    Agloe was originally a fictional hamlet in Colchester, Delaware County, New York, United States, that became an actual landmark after mapmakers made up the community as a phantom settlement, an example of a fictitious entry similar to a trap street, added to the map to catch plagiarism.

  3. Phantom settlement - Wikipedia

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    Agloe, New York, was invented on a 1930s map as a copyright trap. In 1950, a general store was built there and named Agloe General Store, as that was the name seen on the map. Thus, the phantom settlement became a real one. [3]

  4. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Placeholders for personal names include variations on names Иван (Ivan), Пётр (Pyotr / Peter), and Сидор (Sidor), such as Иван Петрович Сидоров (Ivan Petrovich Sidorov) for a full name, or Иванов (Ivanov) for a last name; deliberately fake name-patronymic-surname combinations use one of them for all three ...

  5. List of Google Easter eggs - Wikipedia

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    In early test versions of Google Maps, searching for a route between locations separated by expanses of water (for example, Paris and New York City) provided road directions to the coast of the embarkation country (in this case, the west coast of France) before suggesting "Swim the Atlantic Ocean (3,500 miles)" or another ocean for a different ...

  6. List of places in New York (state) - Wikipedia

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    The following is a series of lists sorted alphabetically of current cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of New York. They also include information on the number and names of counties in which the places lie and their lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable. Click a letter to ...

  7. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    Florida, New York: It snows a lot in Florida, New York. Flushing: The name of this neighborhood in Queens, New York City historically came from a town in the southwestern Netherlands. Also a village in Cornwall, a town in Ohio, a town in Pennsylvania, and a town in Michigan. Fly: Unfortunately, this Ohioan town has no wings. Föckinghausen

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  9. Module:Location map/data/USA New York - Wikipedia

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    Module:Location map/data/USA New York is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of the U.S. state of New York. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.