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The origins of professional sports team names
Do you know why the Los Angeles NBA team is known as the Lakers, despite the lack of lakes in the Los Angeles area? Or why the NHL’s team in usually-cold Calgary is known as the Flames? Read on for the origins of those team names and many others below!
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The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
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- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
