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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...
Cities and towns across the nation have terrifically dirty-sounding and laugh-inducing names. From Intercourse, Pennsylvania to Rough and Ready, California, you're sure to have a few laughs where ...