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Hazelton was intended to be the borough's name, but a clerk misspelled it during its incorporation, and the name "Hazleton" has been used ever since. The borough's first fire company , the Pioneer Fire Company, was organized in 1867 by soldiers returning home from the American Civil War .
The naming of the Americas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus 's first voyage to the Americas in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal. However, some have suggested other ...
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March (Martius) was named for Mars, the god of war, because this was the month when active military campaigns resumed. May (Maius) and June (Junius) were also named for goddesses Maia and Juno. April (Aprilis) is thought to stem from the Latin aperio, meaning “to open”—a reference to the opening buds of springtime.
Mar 1, 2024 · The first half of the name “Pigeon Forge” comes from passenger pigeons, which once were plentiful around the area’s river. The second half of the name came from an iron forge, which was founded by the kin of one of the area’s first settlers. IN THIS ARTICLE. Half of its name comes from The Pigeon River. How Pigeon Forge got the rest of ...
Jun 18, 2018 · The modern-day name for Russia (Rossiya) is derived from the Greek word for the Rus’. As the Kievan Rus’ was evolving and separating into different states, what we now know as Russia was being called Rus’ and Russkaya Zemlya (the land of the Rus’). Finally, when the rulers of the Grand Duchy of Moscow united, some of the former Kievan ...
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The Old Town of Gaza (1862–1863). Picture by Francis Frith The known history of Gaza spans 4,000 years. Gaza was ruled, destroyed and repopulated by various dynasties, empires, and peoples. Originally a Canaanite settlement, it came under the control of the ancient Egyptians for roughly 350 years before being conquered and becoming one of the Philistines' principal cities. Gaza became part ...
Aug 9, 2019 · The city’s 1783 charter famously shortened its colonial name, “Charles Town,” and the surviving manuscript contains a curious spelling anomaly that provides new insight in the evolution of the familiar name, “Charleston.”
