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- Don’t erase industrial heritage, embrace it!
- Dawn-to-dusk-to-dawn city/town names
- The worst failures of American urban planning
- Worlds largest “ton” suffix cities
- Iconic ironmaking furnace stacks of stone
- Once roaring iron furnace or iron forge named towns
- Tuesday tunes: Male solo artists who belong in the Rock Hall of Fame
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- Tuesday Tunes: Women who Belong in the Rock Hall of Fame
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Category Archives: Communications
American TV situation comedy geography
While many television shows are situated in unnamed or imaginary places, many others are located in specific cities and towns across the county. This following list identifies the metropolitan areas where TV situation comedies were/are located geographically. Not surprisingly, Greater … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, art, cities, Communications, culture, entertainment, geography, history, Television
Tagged comedy, geography, humor, sitcoms, TV
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Everyone loves an adorable tugboat!
From Canada to Australia, from Russia to the United Kingdom, and from South Africa to the USA, the entire world loves an adorable tugboat. The varied images of youth-oriented book covers, animated television series, poems, and motion pictures provided below … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, art, book reviews, books, Canada, civility, Communications, culture, education, entertainment, environment, fun, geography, Great Lakes, historic preservation, history, humanity, infrastructure, Language, movies, pictures, planning, Poem, rivers/watersheds, Russia, shipping, Television, tourism, Trade, traffic, transportation, Travel, tugboats, UK, underwater preserves, urban planning, water trails
Tagged Alice, Annie, Bill, books, Chubby, Doug, Hercules, love, Mavis, Mickey, Mighty, movies, Noah, Pip, poems, Pug, Sam, Scout, Scuffy, ships, Spike, Tambov, Tank, Tessie, Theodore, Timmy, Toby, Tommy, Toot, Tough, Tubby, Tuffy, tugboats, Tugga, tugs, TV, Walter
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Tuesday Tunes: “Folklore” by Taylor Swift is outstanding
http:// (*see note at bottom of post) Until last Friday (July 24), I was not a big Taylor Swift fan. I enjoyed an occasional song, especially since the release of her album 1989, but I would never have been considered … Continue reading
Posted in art, Communications, culture, entertainment, fun, music, music reviews, video
Tagged albums, Bon Iver, Folklore, indie music, music, music reviews, Taylor Swift
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Roadside Americana: Atomic age stops, sights, and oddities
This blogpost is a little adventure through the sights and sounds of America’s roadside culture to depict how the Atomic Age has impacted it since 1945. A whole variety of businesses have adopted the term “atomic” or some variation thereof … Continue reading
Posted in adaptive reuse, advertising, archaeology, architecture, art, atomic age, branding, brewpubs, cities, coffee shops/cafes, Communications, consumerism, Cuisine, culture, economic development, entertainment, entrepreneurship, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, land use, Maps, marketing, military, place names, placemaking, Science, Science fiction, signs, technology, theaters, third places, toponymy, tourism, Travel
Tagged advertising, atomic, atomic age, Atomic City, branding, infrastructure, marketing, military, motels, neon, restaurants, roadside Americana, services, shops, signs, trademark, weapons
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Cities with three (3) or more matching letters in their name
The following list identifies those cities around the globe that have at least three (3) of the same letter from the English/Latin alphabet in their name. Those cities shown in bold contain at least two (2) sets of three (3) matching … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, cities, Communications, Europe, fun, geography, history, Language, Latin America, North America, Oceania, place names, South America
Tagged Bill Cullen, English alphabet, language, Latin alphabet, place names, repeating letters, Three on a Match, words
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Nuclear nomenclature that’s now commonplace in English
As I have been researching a variety of Atomic Age topics for this blog, it became apparent that there are common terms we now use that arose from that time period. As a child growing up in a nuclear … Continue reading
Posted in books, civics, civility, Communications, culture, futurism, history, Language, literature
Tagged atomic, Cold War, communications, Critical Mass, fallout, going nuclear, half-life, language, meltdown, mushroom cloud, nomenclature, nuclear, nuclear family, nuclear option, nuke, nuke 'em, nuked, terms
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Tuesday Tunes: Numeric band names
Oops – posted a day early. Oh, well. A little music trivia and fun. Included are rock, punk, folk, country, jazz, reggae, pop, metal, hip-hop, soul, R & B, rap, big band, and any other band names one could find … Continue reading
“Queen City” nicknames dotting the map
Apparently being a queen city was big deal at one time in history given the number of cities that have used that moniker in some manner or another during their history. The list does not include cities with the … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, branding, Canada, cities, civics, Communications, culture, economic development, economic gardening, fun, geography, historic preservation, history, Maps, marketing, Mexico, North America, place names, placemaking, tourism, Travel, Welcome
Tagged branding, monikers, nicknames, queen, Queen City, slogans
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Favorite movie roles by actors(resses) past and present
Just a little fun on a rainy day. Below is a lengthy listing of my favorite film for each actor (male and female) past and present. Those not included have either not been in a film Iv’ve seen, were an … Continue reading
Posted in art, Communications, culture, entertainment, film, fun, history, movies, theaters
Tagged acting, actors, actresses, film, movies
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You know you live in a starter castle when…/Sabes due vives en un castillo inicial cuando …
Note: – first try at a completely bilingual post. Sincerest apologies if Google Translate and/or autocorrect mess up the translations. Nota: – primero prueba en una publicación completamente bilingüe. Sinceras disculpas si Google Translate y/o autocorrección estropean las traducciones. —— … Continue reading
Posted in Communications, culture, entertainment, fun, Housing, land use, Language, satire
Tagged bilingual, fun, language, Mcmansions, rich, sarcasm, satire, starter castles, wealthy
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