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Topic: List of North Carolina county name etymologies


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  U.S. state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Two state names can be typed with one hand on a QWERTY keyboard Texas (left) and Ohio (right).
List of U.S. states that were never territories
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._state   (3216 words)

  
 GERMANIA: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Vikings, Orkney, etc.
The name of Burgundy became primarily associated with the French Duchy of Burgundy (which bestowed its name on the wine of the region) and its subsequent possessions in the Low Countries.
The peninsula was fragmented into the main Lombard kingdom in the north (Lombardy), a Roman salient from Rome to Ravenna and Venice, a couple of semi-independent Lombard duchies in the south (Spoleto and Benevento), and Roman footholds in the south at Naples, Sicily, and other points.
The County of Middlesex, occupied by the City of London, tended to be part of Essex, but this was the area where three Kingdoms came together and the border moved around a good bit.
www.friesian.com /germania.htm   (6326 words)

  
 Barton College Library Other Online Resources by Title
Provides access to listings of poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction that make significant use of electronic techniques or enhancements, including hypertexts and other interactive works, kinetic or animated poems, multimedia works, generated texts, and other works that permit reader collaboration.
The North Carolina Teacher Academy is a professional development program for teachers established and funded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
Made possible by a partnership of the State Library of North Carolina and the North Carolina Library Association (NCLA), this project is supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
library2.barton.edu /librarydatabases/databasetitle.asp   (12116 words)

  
 GenealogyTips: "E" Genealogy Books Resource -- Companion Site to The Unofficial Guide to Online Genealogy
Early records of Fishing Creek Presbyterian Church, Chester County, South Carolina, 1799-1859, with appendices of the visitation list of Rev. John Simpson, 1774-1776, and the cemetery roster, 1762-1979
The early settlers of Georgia: a list of the file headings of the loose headright and bounty land grant files in the Georgia Department of Archives and History
An every name index to the 1871 census returns for Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia: an every name index to the nominal return of the living: nominal return of the deaths within last twelve months, and the return of industrial establishments
www.genealogytips.com /books/e.html   (3097 words)

  
 languagehat.com: April 2004 Archives
In the early '90s, a coworker (and good friend) of mine at a North Carolina newspaper interviewed a local fellow who used an unusual faux-past tense form of the verb "squeeze." The fellow was being interviewed because he had chased down a criminal and restrained him with a headlock.
And when I checked the street names in the Madrid section of the book, I found that two that were supposed to be contiguous were in fact far apart, and a third does not exist.
This name was accepted by the prospectors and homesteaders, and apparently also by W.C. Mendenhall of the USGS.
www.languagehat.com /archives/2004_04.php   (12281 words)

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