In Minneapolis' name, polis is Greek for "city" & minne is an Indian word meaning this substance
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jeopardy/2041_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE TWIN CITIES | In Minneapolis' name, polis is Greek for "city" & minne is an Indian word meaning this substance | Water. right: Kathy. Wrong: Value: $500.
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Full text of "A history of the origin of the place names connected with ...  Minnesota is a Sioux Indian word meaning "muddy water," "cloudy water" or ...... The Greek word, Akron, from which the Ohio city was named, means ...... American Indian," says of the word "Wisconsin in substance: "The name was first given to .... is a combination of the Indian word Min- ni  "water" and the Greek polis "city.
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List of special law enforcement units - Wikipedia  Karhuryhm (Special unit of the Helsinki City Police Department but used nationwide) .... heavy firearms, explosions, hazardous substances and/or suicidal gunmen. ... (Marines Intervention Unit), also known by the name of its main component, ..... Special Operations Group (SOG); Minnesota State Patrol Special Response...
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Minneapolis travel guide - Wikitravel  The name "Minneapolis", meaning "Waterfall City" in a mash-up of the Dakota word minne and the Ancient Greek word polis, refers to St. Anthony Falls. ..... artists, musicians, and the accompanying scenesters, substances, and subculture.
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A Heinlein Concordance - The Heinlein Society  Manhattan: Borough of New York City, coextensive with New York county. ... The substance "was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with .... Its name is derived from the Dakota word minne (water) and the Greek polis (city). ... the settlement legal, and the village of Minneapolis was incorporated in 1856.
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J! Archive - Show #2844, aired 1997-01-02  Chemist Paul Lecoq de Boisbaudran named gallium after the Latin word for this country .... This word is from the Old English for "the farmer who lives near you"...
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Nicknames of Philadelphia - Wikipedia  It is popularly referred to as The City of Brotherly Love, which comes from the literal meaning of the city's name in Greek (Greek:  ([piladelpea], Modern Greek: [filaelfia]) "brotherly love", compounded from philos () "loving", and adelphos () "brother").
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"How do you spell 'miniscule'?" - English Forums  Both were among the choices, but the 'correct' answer given on the ... It's from "minium", a Roman-era lead-based pigment, used in the painting of ... "minor" and "minimus" (and so "minuscule") came from the red pigment, too. ... That's surprising. ... the "small" meaning under the influence of the resemblance to "minimum.
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Winnipeg, Manitoba - The Robinson Library  the capital city of Manitoba, and Canada's third largest city, behind Montreal and ... north, whose name is from the Cree words win nipee, meaning "muddy water.
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Jeopary Questions page 1002 - BORN IN THE WINDY CITY ...  The Mitchell, South Dakota "palace" seen here is built of & named for this ... Meaning "superior ones", it's the Tibetan Buddhist term for monks, like the ones seen...
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State the Facts: Unit 4 - edWorksheets.com  They go to the Empire State Building and the United Nations. ... North Dakota is named for the Sioux .... The name means ..... 2) northern part of U.S. 3) The Land of 10,000 Lakes 4) pink and white lady's slipper 5) Norway ... meaning sky-tinted waters 8) St. Paul 9) Minnesotans 10) corn, wheat, sun  ower seeds, sugar...
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'The nucleus of a great city'  Twin Cities  Nov 13, 2015 ... He was the man after whom our first humble church, and the settlement ... Saul of Tarsus is how he was known when he was among the ... It was, he said, a log building so poor that it would well remind one of the stable at Bethlehem. ... The name Saint Paul, applied to a town or city, seemed appropriate.
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Re: Orienteering in Olympics? - Princeton University  Jul 22, 1996 ... They may not necessarily want to report what we are up to, but at least when they ... So maybe our media have a sort of "I wouldn't want to do it, but I can see why they ..... hectares] STATE BIRD: Common Loon NAME: Minnesota means "sky-tinted waters" in the language of the Native American Sioux Tribe.
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Origin of State Names - Infoplease  The islands may have been named by Hawaii Loa, their traditional discoverer. ... Minnesota, From a Dakota Indian word meaning sky-tinted water ... Oklahoma, From two Choctaw Indian words meaning red people. Oregon, Unknown. However, it is generally accepted that the name, first used by Jonathan Carver in 1778,...
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A Heinlein Concordance  In the 1930s it began to carry feature articles on other subjects, and its editorial and opinion pages ... (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) .... Winnipeg: Capital of the province of Manitoba, Canada. It is ... [Cree win nipee, "muddy water"]: (Friday) .... Its name is derived from a Delaware Indian word meaning "land of vast plains".
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Walla Walla - Cosmeo  City, seat of Walla Walla Co., SE Washington, on the Walla Walla R., in a wheat- ... recorded the Indian name Walla Walla, which means either many waters or small, ... was known as Steptoeville until the present name was adopted in 1859.
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The name 'Minnesota' comes from Dakota Indian words meaning ...  Minnesota State Parks map. maybe someday I will visit all the state parks. State park map: .... Minnesota: Lake Itasca State Park - The official headwaters of the Mississippi River. Minnesota: Lake ..... Canoeing on One of the 10,000 Lakes in Minnesota ... The river got its name from the Sioux Indian word "Minisota." That word...
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Show #4577 - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - J! Archive  One of the Twin Cities, its name literally means "water city" .... Under this name Angelo Siciliano was billed as "the world's most perfectly...
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Twin Cities Integrative Medicine - Integrative Medicine  Lyme is called The Great Imitator, because its symptoms mimic many other diseases. .... The Twin Cities has all that you need, from sports to nightlife to community ... St. Paul Winter Carnival, the Minnesota State Fair and a Cat Video Festival. .... land south of Saint Anthony Falls, thus a town known as Saint Anthony grew...
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Metropolis - definition and synonims of metropolis in english ...  From Late Latin from Greek: mother city or state, from mtr mother + polis city. .... metropolis superman ... Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term metropolis appears in digitalised printed .... professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about...
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East Stoner Avenue - Google+  Indianapolis hosted Pan American Games X in 1987 and Super Bowl XLVI in 2012. ... with polis, the Greek word for city; Indianapolis literally means "Indiana City". ..... Based on U.S. Census data from the year 2000 for the fifty largest cities in the ..... On January 1, 2007, a new agency, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police...