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  2. List of regional nicknames - Wikipedia

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    (US) A person from Oklahoma, used in California to refer to migrants from areas affected by the Dustbowl. Ossi (Germany) The informal name that people in Germany call former citizens of the German Democratic Republic before re-unification, while the counterpart for former citizens of West Germany is Wessi. It is said to imply a lack of ...

  3. List of demonyms for US states and territories - Wikipedia

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    The Associated Press Stylebook restricts use of "Hawaiian" to people of Native Hawaiian descent. [22] Hawaiian: Kamaʻāina Idaho: Idahoan Illinois: Illinoisan Illinoisian, Illinoian, Flatlander, [23] Sucker, Sand-hiller, Egyptian [24] Indiana: Hoosier: Indianan (former GPO demonym replaced by Hoosier in 2016), [1] Indianian (archaic) [25] Iowa ...

  4. List of rivers of Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Beech River: Tennessee River: 38.3 mi (61.6 km) Lexington: Big Sandy River: Tennessee River: 60 mi (97 km) Bruceton: Big South Fork of the Cumberland River: Cumberland River: 76 mi (122 km) none (Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area) Blackburn Fork River: Roaring River: 14.5 mi [2] none (Cummins Falls State Park) Blood River ...

  5. Name of Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    The town was on a river of the same name (now known as the Little Tennessee River) and appears on maps as early as 1725. It is not known whether this was the same town as the one Juan Pardo encountered, but recent research suggests that the "Tanasqui" Pardo recorded was at the confluence of the Pigeon River and the French Broad River , near ...

  6. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    The river was originally named Bakká, "Bank River", and then a farm nearby was named Bakkárholt, "Bank River Hill". The river was then later renamed after the farm as Bakkárholtsá, which translates to "Bank River Hill River" [4] Most river names in the Sundanese portion of Indonesia start with the prefix ci-, which is Sundanese for "river

  7. Naming in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, the right to name one's child or oneself as one chooses has been upheld by court rulings and is rooted in the Due Process Clause of the fourteenth Amendment and the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, but a few restrictions do exist. Restrictions vary by state, but most are for the sake of practicality.

  8. Stones River - Wikipedia

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    The Stones River (properly spelled Stone's River) [2] is a major stream of the eastern portion of Tennessee's Nashville Basin region [1] and a tributary of the Cumberland River. It is named after explorer and longhunter Uriah Stone, who navigated the river in 1767.

  9. Category:Rivers of Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Snake Creek (Tennessee River tributary) South Fork of the Forked Deer River; Spring Creek (Roaring River tributary) Steele Creek (Hardin County, Tennessee) Stinking Creek (Campbell County, Tennessee) Stones River; Styx Branch; Sugar Creek (Duck River tributary) Sweetwater Creek (Tennessee River tributary)