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    Harper (2023). "Manhattan". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved December 30, 2024. Kraft, Herbert C.; Kraft, John T. (1985). The Indians of Lenapehoking...
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    Manhattan (/mænˈhætən, mən-/ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive...
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    Albert Anthony (category Alumni of Anglican seminaries and theological colleges)
    Anthony is the source of the etymology of Manhattan, which was named after a stand of hickory trees used for bows in the south of Manhattan. Goddard, Ives (2010)...
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    Peter Minuit Plaza (category Event venues in Manhattan)
    southern tip of the island before Lower Manhattan expansion, that headland possibly being the etymology of Manhattan. State Street was formerly known as Copsey...
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    The area of present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post founded...
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    17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. The initial...
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    Autumn (redirect from Fall (etymology))
    Etruscan root autu- and has within it connotations of the passing of the year. Alternative etymologies include Proto-Indo-European: *h₃ewǵ-, lit. 'cold')...
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    abbreviated as LES, is a historic neighborhood in the southeastern part of Manhattan in New York City. It is located roughly between the Bowery and the East...
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    Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha) public park located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing New York Harbor. The park is bounded by...
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    Knickerbocker Hotel in Manhattan. During the early 1900s, the hotel was pink-and-cream-colored, and well-known to the denizens of New York. After it closed...
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    is the name of both a small, fenced-in private park, and the surrounding neighborhood (which is also referred to as Gramercy), in Manhattan in New York...
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  • Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Google eBook). Routledge. p. 760. ISBN 978-0415212595. Retrieved 25 February 2015. Etymology for the word...
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    (New Amsterdam), on present-day Manhattan Island. The colony of New Amsterdam extended from the southern tip of Manhattan to modern-day Wall Street, where...
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    Housing portal Harper, Douglas. "penthouse". Online Etymology Dictionary. "Kneen, Orville "Manhattan's $300,000 Rooftop Apartments" Modern Mechanics and...
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    Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names. It...
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  • planet (see etymology of mercury). ** - Phosphorus was the Ancient Greek name for the planet Venus. (see etymology of phosphorus). List of chemical elements...
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    hub of the American theater scene is the Theater District in Manhattan, with its divisions of Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway. Many movie and...
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    Pacific Fleet fought Japan at sea. British scientists contributed to the Manhattan Project whose task was to build an atomic weapon. Once built, it was decided...
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  • 86 (term) (section Etymology)
    Its etymology is unknown, but the term seems to have been coined in the 1920s or 1930s. The term has been more generally used to mean getting rid of someone...
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    Poland (redirect from Etymology of Poland)
    word *pleh₂- indicating flatland. The etymology alludes to the topography of the region and the flat landscape of Greater Poland. During the Middle Ages...
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  • of the blacks may refer to the following places: Land of the Blacks (Manhattan), an historic area in New York City Akal n-Iguinawen (Berber, 'land of...
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    Sirloin steak (category Cuts of beef)
    the cut of meat is called aloyau or faux-filet. A fictitious etymology explains the name as being derived from an occasion when a king of England knighted...
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    an entertainment and red-light district in the heart of the New York City borough of Manhattan during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The area...
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  • Sobriquet (section Etymology)
    Amharic)[citation needed] Elegant variation Moniker Epithet "sobriquet | Etymology of sobriquet". www.etymonline.com. Retrieved 24 February 2024. "SOBRIQUET :...
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    Spuyten Duyvil Creek (category Rivers of Manhattan)
    Harlem River. The confluence of the three water bodies separate the island of Manhattan from the Bronx and the rest of the mainland. Once a distinct...
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    Church of St. Clare is a former parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, at 436-438 West 36th Street in Manhattan, New...
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    Aimé Leon Dore (category Chinatown, Manhattan)
    the brand's flagship store is located on Mulberry Street in Nolita, Manhattan. The company was founded by Teddy Santis in 2014 with the original plan...
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    coextensive with New York City's five boroughs. They are New York County (Manhattan), Kings County (Brooklyn), Bronx County (The Bronx), Richmond County (Staten...
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    Bohemianism (category History of the Romani people)
    16 November 2013. Harper, Douglas (November 2001). "Bohemian etymology". Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2008-12-27. Bohemian Archived 2018-08-14...
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    building in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is located on the western side of Grand Army Plaza, after which it is named, just west of Fifth Avenue, and...
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