Ciekawostka: Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable

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Umbagog Lake is a wilderness lake located in Coös County, New Hampshire, and Oxford County, Maine. It is one of the most pristine lakes in the state of New Hampshire. It lies in the towns of Errol, New Hampshire, and Upton, Maine, as well as the townships of Cambridge, New Hampshire, and Magalloway, Maine. The name Umbagog is properly pronounced with the stress on the second syllable (um-BAY-gog) and is said to come from the Abenaki word for "shallow water". Both "Lake Umbagog" and "Umbagog Lake" are commonly used and accepted when referring to the body of water.

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Slaves in Name Only. The chapter considers concubines of the ruling Timurid house of 15th-century eastern Iran and Transoxiana. Conventional wisdom holds that concubinage was a legal arrangement in which slave owners enjoyed licit sexual relations with their female property. This understanding of concubinage fails to account for other ways in which it was practiced in history. One notable counterexample of this kind is found in the households of Timurid princes, who ruled collectively over regions of Central Asia following the reign of Temur, or Tamerlane (1336–1405 CE). Timurid sources from the later period list numerous women as royal concubines who were not slaves. Instead, they belonged…

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The Name of the State of Maine: An Irish Perspective. AbstractThe three current theories of the origin of the name of the American state of Maine are reviewed and rejected. The connection of the colonist Sir Ferdinando Gorges with Ireland is explored, and a possible origin is proposed in the circumstances of the Anglo-Irish wars of 1594–1603 and their impact on his thoughts and motives.

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