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Friday, 21st January 2011 by Chris Hannigan
Here at Google Sightseeing we’re absolutely fascinated with the more unusual names that places have been given. There’s so much choice in this field that today we’re able to bring you another post about creative place names – but this time themed entirely around things you’d find in the kitchen. You have to imagine that quite a bit of work goes into naming a new place. I wonder what early…
Here at Google Sightseeing we’re absolutely fascinated with the more unusual names that places have been given. There’s so much…
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