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  2. List of city nicknames in Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Braham – Homemade Pie Capital of Minnesota [8] Duluth. The Zenith City [9] The Twin Ports (with Superior, Wisconsin) [9] Elk River – Where City and Country Flow Together [10] Hanover – The Little City on the Crow [11] Hermantown – The City of Quality Living [12] International Falls – The Icebox of the United States [13] Lake Benton ...

  3. Weird Town Names: 10 U.S. Areas With the Oddest Monikers - AOL

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    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 ...

  4. The weirdest town names in all 50 states, from ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  5. List of city nicknames in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Reno, Nevada proudly displays its nickname as "The Biggest Little City in the World" on a large sign above a downtown street.. This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...

  6. List of ghost towns in Minnesota - Wikipedia

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  7. Funk, Boring and Other Oddball American Town Names - AOL

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    Gu-Win, Alabama. Faced with annexation by the nearby town of Guin, the community of about 150 known as Ear Gap decided to incorporate in 1956. Residents adopted their new name from the Gu-Win ...

  8. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    A town in Texas famous for its unusual name after painter Cohn Cohen Hoover was hired to paint two bells, with one saying "Ding", and the other bell saying "Dong". This town is also located in a very "resonant"-sounding area of its U.S. state. Dingle: A town in County Kerry, Ireland, it is the only town on the Dingle Peninsula.

  9. 12 American towns' unusual claims to fame - AOL

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