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Screaming Left Hand Turn
While I continue to try and fail to write something with substance for this blog here are a few silly maps. Once I got the GNIS database into ArcGIS I was able to query it for place names with any wor… more →
Toponymia
Screaming Left Hand Turn
pfly wrote 1 week ago: While I continue to try and fail to write something with substance for this blog here are a few sill … more →
More GNIS maps
pfly wrote 1 week ago: Following up on my previous post about the geographic distribution of creek and brook place names in … more →
Creeks and brooks
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pfly wrote 2 weeks ago: Some years ago I made a series of maps showing patterns in place names in the United States. The mos … more →
The Rhetoric of Israeli Road Signs
Hercules Celticus wrote 4 months ago: In The Rhetoric of Motives, Kenneth Burke creates an entirely new theory of rhetoric, one based on n … more →
Forty words for 'hill'
uninformedcomment wrote 7 months ago: The Anglo-Saxons had forty words for “hill”. That sounds like the claim you sometimes … more →
Negro Amaro, false friends, and folkloric etymologies
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Do Bianchi wrote 7 months ago: Above: Paolo Cantele and I poured wine and spoke at an Italian wine dinner last night at Jimmy … more →
Mapping history, and naming two dolmens.
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richard wrote 1 year ago: Is it so strange to have a favourite map? Like a special book or painting it may be rich in personal … more →
Bringing sexy back: Buckenholt boogie
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Tom Van Hout wrote 1 year ago: My man Danny and I conquered Buggenhout Bos (BB, pictured below) this weekend with a spirited interv … more →
toponymy and last names
slouchpotato wrote 2 years ago: I was in the UK for a while and enjoyed hiking various places like Wales, Lake District, Peak Distri … more →
Juniata ?
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slouchpotato wrote 2 years ago: I did one of the hikes mentioned previously in my Nice Hikes Around Central PA post, the Thou … more →
