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  2. Use of nigger in proper names - Wikipedia

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    nigger. in proper names. Group photograph of an early 20th-century baseball team from Ohio. The word nigger has historically been used in the names of products, colors, plants, as place names, and as people's nicknames, among others, but has fallen out of favor since the 20th century.

  3. List of chemical compounds with unusual names - Wikipedia

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    C 8 H 8, the name derives from the resemblance to a barrel. [ 6] Basketane. Basketane. pentacyclo [4.4.0.0 2,5 .0 3,8 .0 4,7 ]decane (C 10 H 12 ), a polycyclic alkane with a structure similar to a basket. [ 3] Bowtiediene. Bowtiediene. Spiropentadiene, a polycyclic alkene with a 2D projection similar to a bowtie.

  4. List of nicknames for McDonald's - Wikipedia

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    Restaurant Den Gyldne Måge. Denmark. Comedic nickname to make McDonald's sound like an expensive restaurant. It means "Restaurant The Golden Seagull" (referring to the infamous logo of McDonald's). Макдак (McDuck) Russia. The slang nickname is similar to the family name of Clan McDuck. It was proposed as the new name for McDonalds after ...

  5. List of unusual biological names - Wikipedia

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    Lunatic Fringe, Manic Fringe, and Radical Fringe. MAP kinase kinase kinase and MAP kinase kinase kinase kinase. MinosPhrime [ 5] Named after Minos Prime from the video game ULTRAKILL. Found in flower beds outside of college dormitory building, dug 2 inches deep into the soil. Soil was woodchip-heavy. bacteriophage.

  6. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name on a website. Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge ...

  7. List of pen names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...

  8. List of paracetamol brand names - Wikipedia

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    List of paracetamol brand names. The medication paracetamol ( INN) ( / ˌpærəˈsiːtəmɒl / or / ˌpærəˈsɛtəmɒl / ), also known as acetaminophen ( USAN) ( / əˌsiːtəˈmɪnəfɪn / ⓘ ), is sold around the world under a number of different brand names. Common brand names include Tylenol, Excedrin, Calpol, and Panadol.

  9. Pub names - Wikipedia

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    Peter & Paul. [ 3] Eagle and Child, Oxford, derived from the arms of the Earls of Derby, was a meeting place of the Inklings. Rampant Horse (earlier Ramping Horse), Norwich : horses are popular pub signs and names. [ 46] Red Lion is the name of over 600 pubs. It thus can stand for an archetypal British pub.