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4 days ago · What is the significance of Kasur’s name, and how did the city originate? Kasur derives its name from the Arabic and Persian word “qasur,” meaning “palaces” or “forts.” While legend attributes its founding to Prince Kusha of the Ramayana, historical records trace its establishment back to 1525 as a fortified settlement.
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3 days ago · Bartle, nicknamed "Chief" due to his involvement with the Boy Scouts and other civic organizations, inspired the new team name. 1963-71: Establishing Early Success
4 days ago · Apparently strangers, they shared the same T-shirt—bright red, emboldened with the words: “It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City.” The words refer to the title of the closing track from Springsteen’s 1973 debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park .
1 day ago · The word is already attested in Mycenaean Greek Linear B from the 2nd millennium BC, as po-ni-ki-jo. In those records, it means "crimson" or "palm tree" and does not denote a group of people. The name Phoenicians, like Latin Poenī (adj. poenicus, later pūnicus), comes from Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē).
2 days ago · The previously separate towns of Buda, Óbuda, and Pest were officially unified in 1873 and given the new name Budapest. Before this, the towns together had sometimes been referred to colloquially as "Pest-Buda". Pest is used pars pro toto for the entire city in contemporary colloquial Hungarian.
1 day ago · Compton is a city located in the Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, [9] situated south of downtown Los Angeles. Compton is one of the oldest cities in the county, and on May 11, 1888, was the eighth city in Los Angeles County to incorporate.
2 days ago · Its name is derived from the Tamil words tiru (“holy”), nel (“paddy”), and veli (“fence”), referring to a legend that the god Shiva protected a devotee’s rice crop there. Tirunelveli was a commercial centre during the Pandya dynasty.
