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  2. Ladysmith, British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    Pamela Anderson, a Canadian-American actress, model and animal rights activist, was born and lived in Ladysmith until the age of 12. She returned to live permanently in Ladysmith in July 2019. [23] Stef Lang, a Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer. Lang grew up and attended Ladysmith Secondary School. Kayla Lorette, actress and sketch comedian

  3. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    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 especially short or long names. These names often have an unintended effect or double-meaning when read by ...

  4. List of U.S. places named after non-U.S. places - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. St. Marks Is Dead - Wikipedia

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    St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street is a nonfiction book by Ada Calhoun about the history of St. Mark's Place, a three-block stretch of East Village, Manhattan. Calhoun, who grew up on the street, shows how disillusioned bohemians of every era have declared "St. Marks Is Dead" when their era on the street passed.

  6. Numbered street - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia's 10th Street written in English and Chinese. A numbered street is a street whose name is an ordinal number, as in Second Street or Tenth Avenue.Such forms are among the most common street names in North America, but also exist in other parts of the world, especially in Colombia, which takes the system to an extreme, and the Middle East.

  7. List of irregularly spelled places in the United States

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    Name of multiple places New Berlin: New BUR-lin / ˈ b ɜːr l ɪ n / Name of multiple places New Orleans: new OR-linz / n j uː ˈ ɔːr l ɪ n z / [n 27] New Madrid, Missouri: New MAD-rid / ˈ m æ d r ɪ d / New Prague, Minnesota: New PRAYG / ˈ p r eɪ ɡ / New Tripoli, Pennsylvania: New trih-POH-lee / t r ɪ ˈ p oʊ l i / Noel, Missouri ...

  8. List of renamed places in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. ISBN 1-55670-068-7. Shorto, Russell (2004). The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan & the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385503490

  9. Ladysmith, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Ladysmith is a city and the county seat of Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Flambeau River. The population was 3,216 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ]