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  2. The Gutenberg Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man is a 1962 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which he analyzes the effects of mass media, especially the printing press, on European culture and human consciousness. It popularized the term global village, [1] which refers to the idea that mass communication allows a village-like mindset to apply to ...

  3. List of fictional towns in animation - Wikipedia

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    Pretty Cure. TV Asahi. The main location of the series, and where the five main Cures live. Arlen, Texas. King of the Hill. FOX. Arlen is a small fictional town in Texas approximately 96 miles outside of Dallas and has an area code of 409 that includes Beaumont and Galveston. Aron City, Washington. Johnny Bravo.

  4. List of ancient Egyptian towns and cities - Wikipedia

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    Rhacotis, Rakotə, Eskendereyyah. Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient world for some time; capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Khito (Rosetta) 3rd. Rashid. Bolbitine, Bolbitinum, Bolbitinon, Trashit, Rakhit, Rexi. Where Rosetta Stone was found. Ptkheka (Ptkheka) 4th.

  5. List of fictional towns in television - Wikipedia

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    Salem, Illinois is the location of the Daytime Soap Opera Days of Our Lives. Sandicot, New York Billions: Showtime: Small upstate New York town, the location for a proposed casino that Bobby Axelrod visits in an effort to persuade a landowner to accept a deal. Sariola Lapsi: A village located on an eponymous island in Karelia, Russia. The ...

  6. St Mary Mead - Wikipedia

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    The house on the left served as the title character 's home. St Mary Mead is a fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 ...

  7. Llanfairpwllgwyngyll - Wikipedia

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    Llanfairpwllgwyngyll or Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll (Welsh: [ɬan.ˌvair.puɬˈɡwɨ̞n.ɡɨ̞ɬ]), often shortened to Llanfairpwll and sometimes to Llanfair PG, is a village and community on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. It is located on the Menai Strait, next to the Britannia Bridge. At the 2011 Census the population was 3,107, [3] of whom 71% could ...

  8. Annagassan - Wikipedia

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    County. County Louth. Population. (2022) [1] 189. Annagassan (Irish: Áth na gCasán, meaning 'ford of the paths') [2] is a village in the townland of Ballynagassan, County Louth, Ireland. It sits where the River Glyde enters the Irish Sea. As of the 2022 census, Annagassan had a population of 189 people. [1]

  9. Village (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Village (United States) A Shaker village's main street in Massachusetts. In the United States, the meaning of village varies by geographic area and legal jurisdiction. In formal usage, a " village " is a type of administrative division at the local government level. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the ...