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Can Trump Rename the Persian Gulf?

May 11, 2025Farnaz FassihiComments Off on Can Trump Rename the Persian Gulf?

His suggestion to call the body of water the “Arabian Gulf” has apparently done the impossible: Unite Iranians.

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‘The Gulf of America’? Here’s What Mexicans and Cubans Think.

January 28, 2025January 28, 2025James WagnerComments Off on ‘The Gulf of America’? Here’s What Mexicans and Cubans Think.

Following President Trump’s order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, at least in the United States, Mexicans and Cubans expressed annoyance, defiance, confusion and even amusement.

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Can Trump Change the Name of the Gulf of Mexico?

January 8, 2025January 8, 2025Eve SampsonComments Off on Can Trump Change the Name of the Gulf of Mexico?

Presidential naming powers usually stop at the water’s edge.

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Indonesian Tribe Adopts Korean Hangul to Preserve Ancient Cia-Cia Language

November 4, 2024November 4, 2024MUKTITA SUHARTONOComments Off on Indonesian Tribe Adopts Korean Hangul to Preserve Ancient Cia-Cia Language

The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, the Korean script.

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An English Town Drops Apostrophes From Street Signs. Some Aren’t Happy.

May 10, 2024May 10, 2024Jenny GrossComments Off on An English Town Drops Apostrophes From Street Signs. Some Aren’t Happy.

The move has prompted some resistance, with someone writing an apostrophe on a sign for St. Mary’s Walk. “What’s next?” one North Yorkshire resident asked. “Commas?”

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G20 Invitation Called India ‘Bharat,’ Setting Off Debate

September 6, 2023September 7, 2023SAMEER YASIRComments Off on G20 Invitation Called India ‘Bharat,’ Setting Off Debate

Group of 20 leaders who’ll meet in India got a letter from the “President of Bharat,” a politically charged name for the country that’s popular with Hindu nationalists.

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For the State Department, Now It’s Türkiye, Not Turkey

January 5, 2023January 5, 2023Christine ChungComments Off on For the State Department, Now It’s Türkiye, Not Turkey

The department will use the Turkish-language spelling in “most formal, diplomatic, and bilateral contexts” after a request from the country’s embassy, a spokesman said.

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When Did the Anthropocene Start? Scientists Closer to Saying When.

December 17, 2022December 17, 2022RAYMOND ZHONGComments Off on When Did the Anthropocene Start? Scientists Closer to Saying When.

A panel of experts has spent more than a decade deliberating on how, and whether, to mark a momentous new epoch in geologic time: our own.

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Could New Zealand Change Its Name?

August 19, 2022Natasha FrostComments Off on Could New Zealand Change Its Name?

A petition before Parliament asks that the country be called “Aotearoa,” which loosely translates from Maori as the “land of the long white cloud.”

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The Site Called ‘Machu Picchu’ Had Another Name First, Researchers Say

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022Maria CramerComments Off on The Site Called ‘Machu Picchu’ Had Another Name First, Researchers Say

For decades, the ancient Incan ruins in Peru have been called Machu Picchu. But the original name was Picchu or Huayna Picchu, according to two researchers.

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