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  2. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially ...

  3. List of controversial video games - Wikipedia

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    The game was released on Steam two days prior to the October 2018 Brazilian general election, where one of the candidates in the election was Jair Bolsonaro, thus inspiring the game's name. Bolsonaro was considered a far-right candidate in the election, and led after the first round of voting.

  4. Steampunk - Wikipedia

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    Steampunk. Original illustration of Jules Verne 's Nautilus engine room. "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century. Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired ...

  5. List of banned video games by country - Wikipedia

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    Name Reason Alliance of Valiant Arms: Banned because it contains blood, gore and vulgar content. Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Animal Crossing: New Horizons was banned in mainland China since 10 April 2020. The game was pulled from Taobao as players created and posted anti-government messages in-game with a custom pattern tool. There has been ...

  6. List of LNER Class A1/A3 locomotives - Wikipedia

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    List of LNER Class A1/A3 locomotives. LNER A1 No. 2553 waiting to be named Prince of Wales by the Prince of Wales in 1926. Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the LNER Gresley Classes A1 and A3, that ran on the Great Northern (GNR) and latterly the London and North Eastern Railway network.

  7. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    Chevy Chase. A township and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland near Washington, D.C., originally called "Cheivy Chace". One source mentions that actor Chevy Chase was nicknamed after this town, but both actually have associations from a historic English ballad called The Ballad of Chevy Chase .

  8. List of SR West Country and Battle of Britain class ...

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    Unrebuilt Battle of Britain class No. 34072 257 Squadron, as preserved, pictured at Swanage, Dorset in 2019. Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the Bulleid light pacifics, the West Country and Battle of Britain classes of locomotives that ran on the British Southern Railway network.

  9. Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., known in Japan with the subtitle Lincoln vs. Aliens [a], is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. [3] [4] The story is set in an alternate steampunk -based history and features a Silver ...