This is very cool! Maybe you could add Puerto Rico as well.
A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, "city" is one of the fields in your postal address, which is not necessarily related to what your particular state decides to call its "cities". If you live in Phoenix but your postal address says "Glendale, AZ", then you would put "Glendale" on that form. If you are genuinely confused about this and write "Phoenix" instead, (or, for example, "New York, NY" even though your address says "Brooklyn, NY"), I would…
> So I would be surprised if there is any federal form that requires you to put the "city" you live in, outside the context of a USPS address. Forms that ask for separate physical and mailing addresses often use the shape of a USPS address for the physical address (including ZIP code), even though many of the fields may not apply. “Physical locations all have addresses shaped like postal addresses” is a common belief…
I would describe the issue here, though, as "Federal government believes everyone has a USPS address (mailing and/or physical)", as opposed to "local political divisions within a state are particularly meaningful to the federal government".
The thrust of my point is the same -- the feds don't ask you to write a city outside the context of an address. The fact that they assume addresses exist is a separate issue, IMO.
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#163Danny DeVito upsets The Boss in Asbury Park! Did not see that one coming. Any other notable upsets?
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP here. This idea was from looking at this map. https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/music/products/u-s-...
Huh, it looks like the author of that older map might not have realized that "Pennsylvania 6-5000" is about the telephone number of a hotel in New York City (whose telephone exchange was named after Pennsylvania Station, which was named after the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was named after the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_6-5000_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEnnsy…
"Washington Bullets" isn't about Washington state either, which seems like a thing he'd be likely to know, so maybe he wasn't trying to be that strict.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP here. This idea was from looking at this map. https://www.wearedorothy.com/collections/music/products/u-s-...
Huh, it looks like the author of that older map might not have realized that "Pennsylvania 6-5000" is about the telephone number of a hotel in New York City (whose telephone exchange was named after Pennsylvania Station, which was named after the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was named after the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_6-5000_(song) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEnnsy…
I'm amused that in the blowup of New York State, Canajoharie is called out.
I lived in upstate New York for about 15 years and would not have been able to identify the town -- until a few years ago when They Might Be Giants wrote a song with that title.
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B-list is pretty harsh. She has an Oscar nomination (albeit 10 years ago), and the Pitch Perfect movies made $$$.
Most people can't name her. She's a great actress. That's not contradictory.
see: https://worldwidevitalpr.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/learn-the-...
Nicholas Cage is definitely more famous than Anna Kendrick, for differing reasons.
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#167They've got an interesting definition of city... Seattle is all one city, but DC has Georgetown, Capitol Hill, and Dupont Circle in addition to a label for the entire city.
It's based on what wikipedia pages exist. Several neighborhoods in my city are on this map, but nearby incorporated cites are not.
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> Even the US Postal Service doesn’t necessarily respect local political boundaries. I grew up in Phoenix, close to the Glendale border, and my address said “Glendale, AZ”. Oh what the heck! How does that even work? So the official city you live in is not the city that USPS considers you to live in? If a federal form asks you what city you live in, what do you put down (without committing perjury if there is such a r…
Nope, the "City" in the address is the name of the Post Office that delivers the mail. So you may be on the west end of one town, and the post office that's closest to you is in another town (or is just named after another town, the name of the post office can be arbitrary as well). That's your address. It even affects property values. You can look at boundaries between post offices and people will pay more to have a…
> So you may be on the west end of one town, and the post office that's closest to you is in another town (or is just named after another town, the name of the post office can be arbitrary as well). That's your address.
it isn't even that consistent. when living in a rural area, the city in my address was the (very nearby) city. my post office was located in a rural area on the other side of that city, and its address had the name of a small town that maybe legally it was in, but wasn't thought of as being near there.
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#169I'm not opposed to renaming Minneapolis, "Prince Town"...
He shows up twice though, once for Minneapolis and once for Chanhassen.
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#170Interesting.. I've literally never heard of Anna Kendrick before.
She's a B-list movie star who does some indie stuff. * She was in two of the Twilight films. * Pitch Perfect (trilogy). * Mr. Right. The Accountant. (hitmen with a heart of gold movies). * A Simple Favor. (stepford wife mystery). * Drinking Buddies (a brewery drama, it's great) * Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Up in the Air is her biggest movie. Nominated for an Oscar.