What's In A Nickname? City & State edition
Your Brain on Facts
English - September 11, 2018 10:00 - 34 minutes - ★★★★★ - 156 ratingsHistory Education factoid facts history trivia truestory Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What’s in a name? That which we call a city by any other name would smell as sweet. Some nicknames are obvious. Denver, CO is the Mile High City because it’s precisely one mile above sea level. Dallas, Texas is The Big D; everything’s bigger in Texas. But which American city can also be called The Emerald City, which state is the Land of Lincoln and what’s a buckeye or a Sooner?
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What’s in a name? That which we call a city by any other name would smell as sweet. Some nicknames are obvious. Denver, CO is the Mile High City because it’s precisely one mile above sea level. Dallas, Texas is The Big D; everything’s bigger in Texas. But which American city can also be called The Emerald City, which state is the Land of Lincoln and what’s a buckeye or a Sooner?
Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
Music by Kevin MacLeod.
Links to all the research resources are on the website.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices