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Playing “Boggle” With City Names Inside City Names

Posted on August 10, 2018 by

Taking a page from Peggy Hill’s championship playbook for the classic word game “Boggle,” the following list identifies those cities or towns whose name contains the names of other cities and towns. A minimum of three (3) other city or … Continue reading →

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Largest Cities/Towns That Incorporate Other State Names

Posted on July 23, 2018 by

The following list of cities and towns containing the names of other states is presented in order by size of the city/town using 2016 population estimates, unless otherwise noted. While some of the websites that are listed at the end … Continue reading →

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Namesake Cities With The Most Compass Point Suburbs

Posted on July 20, 2018 by

The following list identifies those cities and towns in the United States and Canada that have at least two (2) suburbs that use the namesake city’s title along with a compass point direction. Not included are communities in New England … Continue reading →

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Sweet and Clever Donut Shop Names

Posted on July 4, 2018 by

Here’s some sweet fun for Independence Day. Below is a list of iconic, as well as newer doughnut/donut chains across America, including their hometown and the year they were founded (if known). Those doughnut/donut chains shown in bold are our … Continue reading →

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Cities With Single Letter Name Differences

Posted on May 5, 2018 by

Just for fun, below is my list of cities with nearly the same name, except for one (1) single letter. Most commonly, the (1) letter difference arrises from these sources: Plural versus singular, such as Danville versus Danville Use of … Continue reading →

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Geography/variety of dropped objects on New Year’s Eve

Posted on December 29, 2017 by

It appears that dropping various objects is the vogue thing to do in the United States for New Year’s Eve. Here’s a list of the variety and geography of the items being dropped for 2018. This list only includes those … Continue reading →

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Candidate cities for orange clown’s future lie-brary

Posted on January 27, 2017 by

Here’s a list of candidate cities for the new president’s future lie-brary or alternate fact-ory. Given that he doesn’t like to read, one assumes it will be filled with decrees, rants, tweet-storms, and love letters between him and Vladimir Putin. … Continue reading →

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Canaries in the climate change coal mine

Posted on January 19, 2017 by

I challenge any partisan climate change denier to travel to Alaska and tell the residents of the 31 communities shown on the map depicted above that climate change isn’t real. It’s easy to sit behind a microphone and blow steam … Continue reading →

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America’s largest mega-suburbs by land area

Posted on November 20, 2016 by

 The following list identifies those American suburban cities that as of late last week occupied a land area of at least 50 square miles – water area is not included in the area calculation.  Also not included are “towns” as … Continue reading →

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Suburban USA “cities” that occupy more land area than the core city

Posted on November 17, 2016 by

The following list identifies those suburban cities in the USA that occupy more land area than the core  city in the same metropolitan area. Any additions or corrections are most welcome. Please note that “towns” as found in the Northeast … Continue reading →

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