Nickname - Cities. See also: list of city nicknames for a more comprehensive list. Heart of America (It's in the Heart of America), City of Fountains (It has the most public fountains of any U.S. city), & the Emerald City(After the 1939 Film) - Kansas City, KS & MO The Big Sweet Grass Basket, The Palmetto City, The Holy City, The Big C-H-S, The Marina City & Chucktown - Charleston, South Carolina Charm City - Baltimore, Maryland The Big Apple - New York, New Yor ...

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Nickname - Australia. Melbourne Cricket Ground - the 'G Woolongabba Cricket Ground - the 'Gabba Subiaco Oval - 'Subi ...

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Types of personal nickname: Also known as pet name, shortened name, truncated name, alternate name, name derivative, associated name, hypocoristic form of a name, diminutized name, or diminuted name. Sometimes related to "alias." Nickname - Relating to given names. 1. A nickname may be a hypocoristic form of a person's first name. This is often a simple abbreviation of the name. For most English names the shortened form is taken from the first syllable e.g. Walt for Walter. However in many other languages ...

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List of serial killers by country - Australia. Paul Denyer Peter Dupas John Wayne Glover - known as the "North Shore Granny Killer" found dead in his cell in 2005. Eddie Leonski, the "Brownout Murderer" killed at least 4 John Lynch William MacDonald Ivan Milat, the "backpack-murderer" killed at least 7 tourists Christopher Worrell, the Truro murders, killed 7 victims James Milller, the Truro murders, convicted of killing 6 victims< ...

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A global city, also known as a world city, is a prominent centre of trade, banking, finance, innovations, and markets. The term "global city", as opposed to megacity, was coined by Saskia Sassen in a seminal 1991 work. Whereas "megacity" refers to any city of enormous size, a global city is one of enormous power or influence. Global cities, according to Sassen, have more in common with each other than with other cities in their host nations. Bangkok, Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Kolkata, London, Madrid, Moscow, ...

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Towns and cities have a long history, although opinions vary on whether any particular ancient settlement can be considered to be a city. The first true towns are sometimes considered to be large settlements where the inhabitants were no longer simply farmers of the surrounding area, but began to take on specialized occupations, and where to trade, food storage and power was centralized. Societies that live ...

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A city is an urban area that is differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. City - Introduction. In most parts of the world, cities are generally substantial and nearly always have an urban core, but in the United States many incorporated areas which have a very modest population, or a suburban or even mostly rural character, are designated as cities. City can also be a synonym for "downtown" or a "city centre". A city usually consis ...

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country's national radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Société Radio-Canada (Radio-Canada or SRC). The umbrella corporate brand is CBC/Radio-Canada. The CBC is the oldest broadcasting service in the country, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, La Première Chaîne, Espace musique, and the in ...

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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC Bureaus
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Public versus private ownership Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Issue of bias Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Nicknames Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Labour problems Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Presidents Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Famous people who got their starts on the CBC

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In most parts of the world, cities are generally substantial and nearly always have an urban core, but in the United States many incorporated areas which have a very modest population, or a suburban or even mostly rural character, are designated as cities. City can also be a synonym for "downtown" or a "city centre". A city usually consists of residential, industrial and business areas together with administrative functions which may relate to a wider geographical area. A large share of a city's area is primarily taken up by ho ...

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The difference between towns and cities is differently understood in different parts of the English speaking world. There is no one standard international definition of a city: the term may be used either for a town possessing city status; for an urban locality exceeding an arbitrary population size; for a town dominating other towns with particular regional economic or administrative significance. Although city can refer to an agglomeration including suburban and satellite areas, the term is not appropriate for a conurb ...

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The geographies of cities, both physical and human, are diverse. Often cities will either be coastal and have a harbour or be situated near a river giving economic advantage. Water transports on rivers and oceans were (and in most cases still are) cheaper and more efficient than road transport over long distances. Older European cities often have historically intact central areas where the streets are jumbled together, seemingly without a structural plan. This quality is a legacy of earlier unplanned or organic development, and is often perceived by t ...

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City - Traditional approach. A universal linear approach to cities has been in place and accepted for a long time. As this approach falls short of explaining a number of aspects of city life, such as the diversity between cities, new ways have been sought. Influenced by post-structuralist thinking a new approach was born: using spatial thinking it is possible to not only fill the g ...

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Modern cities are known for creating their own microclimates. This is due to the large clustering of hard surfaces that heat up in sunlight and that channel rainwater into underground ducts. As a result, city weather is often windier and cloudier than the weather in the surrounding countryside. Conversely, because these effects make cities warmer (urban heat shield or urban heat islands) than the surrounding area, tornadoes tend to go around cities. Additionally towns can ...

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Main article: Inner city In the United States, United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, the term "inner city" is sometimes used with the connotation of being an area, perhaps a ghetto, where people are less educated and wealthy and where there is more crime. These connotations are less common in other Western countries, as deprived areas are located in varying parts of other Western cities. In fact, with the gentrification of some formerly run-down central city areas the reverse connotation can apply - in Australia the term "out ...

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People may change their names for a variety of reasons. In many countries there is a mandatory or voluntary official procedure. Popular reasons for changing one's name include: too common or uncommon. too hard to spell or say. too long. too "foreign-sounding". one feels that a nickname is more "oneself" than the given name. is unisex. is not unisex. conflicts with one's spiritual belief (popular in Asian countri ...

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People may change their names for a variety of reasons. In many countries there is a mandatory or voluntary official procedure. Popular reasons for changing one's name include: too common or uncommon. too hard to spell or say. too long. too "foreign-sounding". one feels that a nickname is more "oneself" than the given name. is unisex. is not unisex. conflicts with one's spiritual belief (popular in Asian countries). escaping from the p ...

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Critics, often led by private media, sometimes accuse the network of cultural elitism, liberal bias, or bias in favour of the current governing party. The CBC is also sometimes thought to have an unfair advantage in the Canadian television marketplace, because it competes with private broadcasters for advertising dollars, while simultaneously receiving the subsidy of a government grant. Many believe the CBC acts as a necessary counterbalance to what they perceive to be the conservative bias of private networks, or that it preserves Ca ...

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Canals are so deeply identified with Venice that many canal cities have been nicknamed "the Venice of..." The city is built on marshy islands, with wooden piles supporting the buildings, so that here it is not so much the waterways which are man-made, as the land. The islands have a long history of settlement, and by the 12th century Venice was a powerful city state. Amsterdam was built in a similar way, with buildings on wooden piles. The pace of draining of fenland and polder in the Low Countries quickened in the 14th century and canalization made the village of Amster ...

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The CBC's predecessor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC), was established in 1932 by the government of R.B. Bennett after an intense lobbying campaign by Graham Spry and Alan Plaunt of the Canadian Radio League which had been set up in 1930 to campaign for the implementation of recommendations by the Aird Commission on public broadcasting. A major concern was the growing influence of American radio b ...

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