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This is a list of US places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.
This is a list of place names in the United States that either are Dutch, were translated from Dutch, or were heavily inspired by a Dutch name or term. Many originate from the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
Amsterdam Island, Spitsbergen; Amsterdam Island, Southern Indian Ocean; Bear Island, Norway; Bedloe's Island, now Liberty Island, New York-NJ, USA; Block Island ...
In California, Streets and Highways Code Section 101.10 directs the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to place and maintain memorial signs along state highways that read "Please Don't Drink and Drive" followed by "In Memory of {victim's name}." Caltrans places signs at the request of victims' relatives when there is a fatality ...
Sixes, Oregon, US, named after the Sixes river (accounts vary as to how the river got its name; one local postmaster said Sixes was named for a Native American chief) Six Hills in Stevenage, England; Six Mile Bottom, village near Cambridge, England; Six Mile Creek (disambiguation), several places; Six Shooter Canyon, Arizona; 6th of October, in ...
Five out of six names were either renamed or forgotten or their locations were lost. [1] Other places were named after the early Dutch explorers by later British explorers or colonists, for instance the Australian state of Tasmania is named after Abel Tasman. Australia itself was called New Holland by the English and Nieuw Holland by the Dutch.
March 28 – Philippines – A bus collided with a 10-wheeler hauler truck in Naga, Cebu, killing 14. [70] May 28 – Bulgaria – Yambol bus crash. A bus crashed into a group of pedestrians, killing 18 and injuring 20. [71] July 24 – Russia – Rostov-on-Don bus crash. A bus collided with a petrol tanker, killing at least 21.
Just off the Lakewalk is a park named Gichi-Ode' Akiing; the name is Ojibwe for "a grand heart place". [112] The Duluth City Council approved the name change from Lake Place Park in 2018. [ 113 ] A memorial to Kechewaishke , also known as Chief Buffalo, honors his symbolic petition carried to president Millard Fillmore in 1849. [ 114 ]