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	U.S. State Encyclopedia Article @ TXbase.com (TX Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Many states' names are those of Native American tribes or are from Native American languages: Nebraska, Kansas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Mississippi, Texas, Utah, Ohio, Michigan, Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee, Alaska, and others.
		Additionally, the name of Idaho was presented as a Native American word by eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing, though it was later revealed that he made it up.
		Illinois while named for the Illiniwek, is the French name for the Illiniwek and can thus be said to have joint French and Native American origin.
	www.txbase.com /encyclopedia/U.S._state (3735 words)

	County (United States) - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		By area, the largest county in the United States is North Slope Borough, Alaska at 94,763 square miles (245,435 km²) and the smallest county in the United States is Kalawao County, Hawaii at 13 square miles (34 km²).
		The most populous county (or county equivalent) is Los Angeles County, California with 10,226,506 people as of 2005, and the least populous county is Loving County, Texas with 67 people as of 2000.
		County government was abolished in Connecticut in 1960, although the names remain for geographical purposes.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=88366 (1365 words)

	U.S. state - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		At the time of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain in 1776, the 13 colonies became 13 independently sovereign states, which became 14 in 1777 with the formation of the Vermont Republic; for a brief period, they were in effect legally separate nations.
		Many states' names are those of Native American tribes or are from Native American languages: Kansas, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Connecticut, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Mississippi, Texas, and others.
		The origins of the names of California, Oregon, Idaho, and Rhode Island are unknown, although various theories exist.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/u/s/U.S._state_5a68.html (1510 words)

	21ma.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Each county is run by a commissioners court consisting of four elected commissioners and a county judge elected from all the voters of the county.
		County government is similar to the "weak" mayor-council system; the county judge has no veto authority, but votes along with the other commissioners.
		The term metropolitan division is used to refer to a county or group of counties within a metropolitan area that has a population core of at least 2.5 million.
	www.21ma.com /mod3.php?title=Texas (5534 words)

	jimbones.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Counties are responsible for local services and law enforcement for areas within their borders that are not within incorporated cities, as well as providing local-level courts.
		Klamath County was created in 1851 from the northern half of Trinity County, but in 1874 it was divided between Humboldt and Siskiyou counties.
		Pautah County was created in 1852 out of territory which, the state of California assumed, was to be ceded to it by the United States Congress from territory in what is now the state of Nevada.
	www.jimbones.com /mod3.php?title=List_of_counties_in_California (1055 words)

	Who Was Who in Name Study
		In 1951, she was present in Chicago at the organizing of the American Name Society and served on its Board of Managers from 1952 to 1956, regretfully refusing the nomination as president in 1956.
		He was convinced that a comprehensive study of family names, including their linguistic and geographical origins, and evidence of both their early and contemporary distribution in Newfoundland, was a fundamental exercise in deepening knowledge of Newfoundland place names.
		He was the guiding light in the creation of the American Name Society in 1951, arranged its first meeting on December 29 of that year, wrote the Society’s constitution and bylaws, and served as its first president from 1951 to 1954 (and again in 1970).
	www.wtsn.binghamton.edu /onoma/Default.htm (14251 words)

	U.S. state
		Many later states reflect the names of indigenous Indian tribes: Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas, Mississippi, and more; half the state-names have such origins, not counting Hawaii.
		Many states in the southeast and southwest have Spanish names since Spain or Mexico controlled these territories at some stage: California, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Texas, and perhaps Arizona, as well as, of course, New Mexico.
		List of state capitals and former capital cities in the United States
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/u/u_/u_s__state.html (754 words)

	Eusebius of Caesarea, Onomasticon (1971) Introduction. pp. i-xl.
		Also included are the Arabic places and names that were italicized in the body, but I have decided for ease of sorting alphabetically to eliminate the italics throughout the index.
		Whether it included an etymology of the place-names (and perhaps some personal names) as in the more technical sense of an onomastical list cannot now be determined.
		New settlements and kibbutzim are taking biblical names, sometimes from a nearby tell, sometimes on the basis of a biblical atlas or geography of the 30's, 50's or later, and other times sentimentally chosen, but most frequently not exactly on the original site.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/eusebius_onomasticon_01_intro.htm (15224 words)

	Texas - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The state name derives from a word in the Caddoan language of the Hasinai: táyshaʔ, tecas, or tejas (the Spanish spelling); meaning "those who are friends", "friends", or "allies".
		Each county is run by a commissioners court consisting of four elected commissioners (one from each of four precincts drawn based on population) and a county judge elected from all the voters of the county.
		In smaller counties, the county judge actually does perform judicial duties, but in larger counties the judge's role is limited to serving on the commissioners court.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Texas (8806 words)

	Posts tagged with names \| MetaFilter
		In Jamaica the buses are named a little more irreverently but this whole naming tradition doesn't seem to be as popular as naming trains with the late Joe Strummer one of the latest in a long line.
		This list of Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names (one NSFW image) proves that scientists can be funny, as does this Stuffy Scientists page, and Mark Isaak's terribly thorough Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature (see, especially, Puns).
		And if your name isn't there, you can try Behind the Name, which depends on submissions from readers and so is spottier, but has (for example) Nixon ("son of Nicholas"), which vitalog omits.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/names (825 words)

	Lists of U.S. county name etymologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of Alaska borough and census area name etymologies
		List of North Carolina county name etymologies--Under construction
		List of people who have more than one county named for them in one U.S. state
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lists_of_U.S._county_name_etymologies (143 words)

	U.S. state information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Many states' names are those of Native American tribes or are from Native American languages: Nebraska, Kansas, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Mississippi, Texas, Utah, Ohio, Michigan and others.
		Maine is also named after a historical region in France of the same name.
		The origins of the names of Oregon and Rhode Island are unknown, although various theories exist.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/U.S._state (2716 words)

	Genealogy Collection At The Main Library - Jacksonville Public Library
		Volume III is a listing by place of birth and town before the war, and volume IV lists survivors by location during the Holocaust.
		Information on where within the Kingdom of Poland the name was prevalent at the turn of the 20th century, all likely etymologies of the name, spelling variants and derivatives of the name.
		Analysis of name use and derivation of names, followed by a dictionary of surnames listed alphabetically according to modern Polish spelling.
	jpl.coj.net /collection/genealogy/jewishguide.html (1949 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The name "New York" can refer to any one of three geographical levels: a state, a city in that state, or a
		Only two states have state capitals named for the state (however, such name-sharing occurs commonly with states and provinces in some other countries, where the state or province actually often takes its name from a capital city): Oklahoma, with capital
		Many states' names are those of Native American tribes or are from Native American languages: Connecticut,
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/U.S._state.html (935 words)

	Washington - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Washington is the only state named after a president, who was George Washington.
		The battleship USS Washington was named originally for President Washington, but was later renamed in honor of the state.
		Captain Robert Gray (for whom Grays Harbor county is named) then discovered the mouth of the Columbia river and, beginning in 1792, he established trade in Sea Otter pelts.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/w/a/s/Washington.html (2053 words)

	seattle bellevue redmond weather directory washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		According to the Prison Policy Initiative, of the 21 counties in the United States where more than a fifth of the residents are prison inmates, 10 are in Texas.
		Known for the vibrancy of its visual and performing arts, the Houston Theater Districtâ”a 17-block area in the heart of Downtown Houstonâ”is ranked second in the country (behind New York City) in the number of theatre seats in a concentrated downtown area with 12,948 seats for live performances and 1,480 movie seats.
		Although located in the middle of the service areas of DART, the Fort Worth Transportation Authority, and the Trinity Railway Express that connects the two, the city of Arlington remains the largest city in the United States that is not served by a public transportation system.
	www.coolpup.net /mod3.php?title=Texas (6647 words)

	Cannabis Strains - CannabisPhotography.com \| The Green Stock Photo Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Captain Robert Gray (for whom Grays Harbor county is named) then discovered the mouth of the Columbia River.
		According to the U.S. Census as of 2005, Washington has an estimated population of 6,287,759, which is an increase of 80,713, or 1.3%, from the prior year and an increase of 393,619, or 6.7%, since the year 2000.
		Washington is the location of many Indian reservations, with some placing prominent casinos next to major interstate highways, and residents have adopted many of the artwork themes of the northwest coast Indians who were noted for totem poles, longhouses, dugout canoes and pictures of animals such as the design used for the Seattle Seahawks.
	www.cannabisphotography.com /cannabis-strains.php?title=Washington (3647 words)

	Redneck - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
		A popular etymology says that the term derives from such individuals having a red neck caused by working outdoors in the sunlight over the course of their lifetime.
		The effect of decades of direct sunlight on the exposed skin of the back of the neck not only reddens fair skin, but renders it leathery and tough, and typically very wrinkled and spotted by late middle age.
		From Pennsylvania to Georgia, the western counties engaged in a campaign of harassment of the federal tax collectors.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Redneck (3760 words)

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		There is a list of existing electronic corpora, including French, German, Italian and a number of other languages, in the appendix of Jane Edwards and Martin Lampert's Talking Data: Transcription and coding in discourse research (Erlbaum 1993), so a look there might satisfy these and other potential text seekers.
		Moreover, they present data and analyses that support the claim that verbal dueling is among the interactional primitives of mankind - and a rather persistent one, indeed -, and they directly or indirectly evidence the ethological substratum of this type of human communication.
		The list of presentations and demonstrations is tentative.
	www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.4/no.951-1000 (13402 words)

	ABCgenealogy: Regional/United_States
		List of extinct U.S. counties - This is a list of U.S. counties that were established by a state, provincial, colonial, or territorial government, which no longer exist, for one reason or another.
		Lists of U.S. county name etymologies - Alphabetically and by State.
		The purpose of this site and mail list is for the submission of newspaper abstracts (or links to other sites with newspaper abstracts) from United States newspapers published prior to 1923.
	www.abcgenealogy.com /Regional/United_States/more3.html (848 words)

	Dappled Things
		A Fairfax County judge who believes Virginia's drunken driving laws are unconstitutional has begun dismissing cases, including five DWI cases in a week, and has threatened to throw a veteran prosecutor in jail for arguing with him....
		One final note is to point out the irony, as one blogger already has, that the arresting policeman who nabbed the lady in Georgetown is named Dennis Fair, "Officer Fair." May not be fair, but it is darkly funny.
		Etymologies -- Vernon Dent has an interesting etymological look into the roots of the English words for the elements of fire, water, and air.
	donjim.blogspot.com /2005_10_01_donjim_archive.html (11880 words)

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		Before this I taught classical and biblical Greek at various universities and institutions (I was previously a member of the list teaching at the U of Calif., Riverside).
		Along with any other effect you can name, I am interested in the changes of pedagogy, student/teacher relationship, and type and length of writing that comes from teaching in a computerized environment.
		I used to think that they were too complicated to make and that they required a big budget, but I have seen some examples of works that gave me the idea that it is possible to make them, even with limited resources.
	lists.village.virginia.edu /humanist/data/humanist.rdb.queue (16060 words)

	Sizing Down Sisters 31st March - Bootcamp Buddies - Weight Watchers Support Forum
		A county budget crisis left the bathrooms in a municipal office building with empty soap dispensers, paperless paper towel holders and bare cardboard toilet paper rolls.
		Over the years, some 'folk etymologies' have grown up around this symbolic gesture.
		It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird".
	www.healthdiscovery.net /forums/showthread.php?t=80663 (2790 words)

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