how did festus, mo get it's name?
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According to one web site, it was named for a character in the Bible. There is a Porcius Festus mentioned in the book of Acts in the New Testament.
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Etymology of 'York'\nThe place where the city now is was originally named by the Celts as Eborakon, which may mean "place of yew trees". The name of the Yew is Efrawg in Brythonic, Efwr in Welsh, Iobhar in Irish Gaelic, Iorc in Scottish Gaelic, Evor in Breton . The Gaulic equivalent Eburos is the basis for toponyms as far as Eburobrittium (Évora) among the Lusitani, or Ebura in Hispania Baetica, for the Celtiberian gens of the Eburanci or peoples like the Eburones or Eburovices in Gaul [1]. As York was a town in Roman times, its Celtic name is recorded in Roman sources, as Eboracum and Eburacum, with the ending -acum Latinized instead of -acon in celtic.\n\nAfter 400, Anglo-Saxons took over the area and adapted the name by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc, which means "wild-boar town". The Proto-Germanic form of Old English eofor is *eburaz. York became Northumbria's centre of power later on. The Vikings, who took over the area later, in turn adapted the name by folk etymology to Norse Jórvík meaning "horse bay", like a town in Bohuslän at the time. This was reduced to York in the centuries after the Norman Conquest.
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Your question is a perfect example of why first impressions can be wrong.  At first I thought this sounded like a mistake,  but it turns out you're right.  (And, it's a really interesting question.)\n\nHere's a couple of sentences from the Mid-Region Council of Governments' website (first link below):  "Founded in 1706 as the Villa of San Francisco de Alburquerque by Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdez in honor of the Spanish Duke of Alburquerque. The name was soon changed to San Felipe de Alburquerque and in the 19th century the spelling was changed to Albuquerque."\n\nThere's some more on the city and its founding and history at that site.  See also the second site below for some more background.\n\nThanks for helping me learn something today.
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I'm not a guy, but just wanted to point out that there is a Peoria Illinois too, alittle north east of Springfield Ill, which is two hours north east of St. Louis and Springfield Mo is four hours southwest of St. Louis. Any other Springfield's or Peoria's? You don't have to be trying to pick up someone to answer the question!
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It was NOT named after a newspaper.\n\nI dont know how many times this question gets asked, and people still say it was named after a newspaper.\n\nIT WAS NOT!
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There may be a problem with the text here.\n  "mario" looks like is comes from "marius" but that was only used with a capital letter in Latin as it was a common Roman name. \n\n In that sense the sentence would translate as\n"You are surprised that an ear smells more strongly than Marius"\n which doesn't sound very satisfactory.\n\nThe only other possibility is that Auriculam is being used in the horticultural sense as a name of the flower rather than the word for "ear"... but we still have problems with "mario".
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I honestly don't know but you could get a definite answer if you go to google.com!  I go there all the time to get answers to my questions!  Just type in the question box thing "Missouri public court case sites"...if that doesn't help then try reducing your wording.
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Tre means town or farm.
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Massilia is the Italian name for the French city of Marseille.\nOnce upon a time Marseille was a Italian city.\nMarseille was founded in 600 BC by Greeks  as a trading port under the name Μασσαλία (Massalia). It was overrun by Celts and then conquered by the Romans. During the Roman times, it was called Massilia.
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In Maryland:\n\nFounding of the town of Springfield\n    [5F02] As early as 1649, the Maryland town of Sprynge-Fielde was inhabited by obvious ancestors of the people of Springfield, the Flanders and the Simpsons.\n\n    [3F13] In 1796, a fiercely determined band of pioneers leaves Maryland after misinterpreting a passage in the bible. Their destination, New Sodom. [4F03] Marge says these pioneers were circus freaks.\n\n        * Jebediah: "People, our search is over. On this site we shall build a new town, where we can worship freely, govern justly, and grow vast fields of hemp for making rope and blankets."\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "yes, and marry our cousins."\n        * Jebediah: "What are you talking about Shelbyville? Why would we want to marry our cousins?"\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "Cause they're so attractive. I thought that was the whole point of this journey."\n        * Jebediah: "Absolutely not."\n        * Shelbyville Manhattan: "I tell you I won't live in a town that robs men of the right to marry their cousins."\n        * Jebediah: "Well then, we'll form our own town. Who will come and live a life devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavorless mush I call rootmarm?" \n\n    [2F22] The town of Springfield was born on that day. And to mark that sweet moment, our people planted this lemon tree. Lemons being the sweetest fruit available at the time. [4F15] In 1797, the town charter was created;\n\n        * [9F10] "...as chief constable, ye shall receive one pig every month and two comely lasses of virtue true."
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There was no definite name, it was just referred to as "The Burning Bush"\n\nExodus 3:1-3\n\nNow Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. \n\nThere the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. \n\nSo Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up."\n\nThe bible doesn't mention what type of bush it was.\n\nExact identification of the particular kind of bush in which God appeared to Moses is impossible. Attempts have been made to identify it with the blackberry bush, as by the Septuagint and also by the monks of the Convent of Catharine on Mount Sinai who grow the blackberry there in token of their tradition. \n\nThe cassia has also been suggested. Both identifications are failures, the former because the blackberry does not grow in that region unless imported and tended, the latter for philological reasons. Nothing in the language used gives any clue to the species of the bush. The generally accepted view that it was some kind of thorn bush is an assumption with scarcely other ground than that there are so many thorny bushes in that region. This fact does, however, give to the assumption much probability
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Are you talking about the City of Holton, TX?\nIf yes, here is the city history:\nhttp://www.holtonks.net/city/history.html
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According to Merriam-Webster Online, the origin of the word "city" comes from: "Middle English citie large or small town, from Old French cité, from Medieval Latin civitat-, civitas, from Latin, citizenship, state, city of Rome, from civis citizen"\n\nSo, "civis" is the first word in that chain, referring to a citizen of Rome.
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This name probably comes from the name Griselda, which is derived from the Germanic elements gris "grey" and hild "battle".\n\nSee the link below for more info.\n\nWK
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Arkansas-The early French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to the Quapaw people and the river along which they settled.\n\nKansas-The state is named after the Kansas River that flows through it, which in turn derived its name from the Siouan word Kansa meaning "People of the south wind."
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It's originally Gelaye, and is from France.  It was a Huguenot name.
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the literal translation is 'Roquefort the bridge'\n\nhowever inxs may have been using this in reference to the legend surrounding the discovery of the cheese Roquefort. Legend has it that the cheese was discovered when a young shepherd, eating his lunch of curds, saw a beautiful girl in the distance. Abandoning his meal in a nearby cave, he ran to meet her. When he failed to catch her, he returned to his now moldy lunch and ate it out of pure hunger.\n\nRoquefort, or similar style cheese, is mentioned in literature as far back as 79 AD, when Pliny the Elder remarked upon its rich flavor. Cheese making colanders have been discovered amongst the region's prehistoric relics.