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Help me fill this in: Biggest cities that start and end with the same letter of the alphabet. Here's a starter:
Atlanta GA
B
Cedric AL
Deadwood SD
Emeryville CA
Flagstaff AZ
Gering NE
Heyworth IL
Isanti MN
J
Keokuk IA
Lowell MA
Mangum OK
Needham MA
Oswego NY
Puyallup WA
Q
Radnor PA
St. Louis MO
Traveler's Rest SC
U
V
Winslow AZ
X
Yazoo City MS
Zzyzz CA
Don't know if it's the largest one, but Gaithersburg, Maryland (Population 59,933 at 2010 Census) is far larger than Gering, Nebraska.
Pittsburgh was originally to have been pronounced as in Edinburgh (pits-bur-uh), but to this day Americans think Edinburgh Scotland is pronounced as in Pittsburgh (and Edinburg, Texas), so that didn't catch on..
Sir William Pitt, who never visited America, was still alive when Pittsburgh was named for him, and shortly thereafter Pitt fell into disfavor with the king, for his staunchly colonialist leanings regarding the Americas, perhaps making the founders quickly regret their choice. The reason you don't name places after living people. Hastert, Illinois, anyone?
Washington Island has its own school, and we used to occasionally play them in high school. They would have every girl/guy in school (9th-12th) on the basketball team, which was still like 11 kids, and they would get POUNDED by everyone else. It was national news when I was a kid...a traditional power (Lux-Casco in women's basketball) beat Washington Island by over 100 points.
Largest Icelandic settlement outside Iceland, I believe. Also had a place that legally served booze throughout Prohibition (Bitters Pub) by having bitters classified as a "health" product. That, plus who was going to go police them out in the middle of Lake Michigan in the early 1900s? You can go to Bitters and do a shot (nasty!) and get a shirt or whatever. There were many places in the northwoods (think Hurley, WI) that openly and without any back rooms kept serving, but they weren't officially OK'd, which means (according to the bar) that they were the only legal spot in the country to sell alcohol in those years.
They would have every girl/guy in school (9th-12th) on the basketball team, which was still like 11 kids,
Powhattan, Kansas, suited up girls on the HS football team as long ago as the 70's, and it passed unnoticed. The school district included an Indian Reservation with high dropout rate, and there weren't enough boys to have 11 in uniform every Friday night. A few years later, some 8-man football conferences were formed in Kansas, which sometimes had 88-0 final scores, if a school happened to have one good player.
Well, I played in a Catholic school football league in middle school during the early 80s, and one of the best linemen was Donna, a big farm girl. She was bigger in the way that girls develop faster, from 4th-7th grade or so, and big/strong as well, but once 8th grade came around she went over to softball.
One time we were getting beat at halftime, and the coach was steaming (like usual) and screamed at us, saying, "YOU'RE ALL PLAYING LIKE A BUNCH OF #&*&*@#! GIRLS"...breathing hard, red-faced, looking around..."EXCEPT YOU, DONNA!!"
The only road that crosses the North Carolina/South Carolina border going north to go into South Carolina and going south to go into North Carolina is the Lake Wylie Bridge on the route 49.
French Guiana and Haiti are typically left out of Latino designations despite the fact that languages spoken there are based in Latin (French, like Spanish is a Romance language).
French Guiana and Haiti are typically left out of Latino designations despite the fact that languages spoken there are based in Latin (French, like Spanish is a Romance language).
Is it because the majority of the population is Black?
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