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The history and etymology of place names.
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Who named San Andreas, California?
San Andreas was named after its church.
The first Catholic church, constructed mostly of canvas, was erected at San Andreas in 1850. It was from this church, dedicated to St. Andrew, that San Andr …
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When was the "New Kingdom" of Egypt first called that?
According to the Oxford Companion to Archaeology, the term New Kingdom was introduced by the German historian Eduard Meyer in his Geschichte des Altertums. English Egyptologists adopted his usage, dis …
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