Also, thanks for suggestions on how to translate "I used to walk 5 miles to school..." into something more tech-contemporary.
Trivia I discovered: Linares, Hasting, Zurich, Cairo, New York, Chicago, Monaco, Geneva were the names given to the original bitmap fonts for the Mac. They were designed for easier screen reading.
Acapulco (as in gold... :) Armageddon Auschwitz Babel Balkanized Bantustan Bay St. Beltway Berlin Wall Bible Bikini Blarney Boetian Bohemian Bordeaux Brazilianization Bronx Cheer Brummagem (denotes goods of shoddy quality, from Birmingham) Bungalow Burgundy Byzantine Canary Carthaginian (peace) Caucasian Champagne Chautauqua Cheddar China Chinese Wall Continental Breakfast Coventry Cuban (sub sandwich in Florida) Denim Detroit Dijon Dixieland Dollar Donneybrook Doolally Dunkirk Eden El Dorado Essex (nouveau riche sensibility) Fez Frankfurter Georgia (font) Gibraltar Greek (all Greek to me) Gypsy (from Egyptian) Hamburger Havana (smoke a...) Hell Hicksville Hollandaise Hollywood Indian Java Jersey Khyber Pass (rhyming slang) Labyrinth Left Bank Lesbian Lilliputian Madison Ave. Magenta Manhatten Marathon Madeira Madras (plaid) Manila Marseillaise Masada Mausoleum Mecca Mocha Mongoloid Motown Neanderthal Nuremberg (defense) Olympian Paisley Palookaville Pantheon Pax Romana Peking Duck Peoria Peyton Place Port Rubicon Rugby Salisbury Steak (many more British foods named after places) Sardines Seltzer Shambala Shanghaid Shangrai-la Siamese Siberia Silicon Valley Sodomy Solecism Stalingrad Surrey Timbuktu Trojan Horse Trojaned Utopia Vietnam Wall St. Watergate Waterloo Wellingtons Wild West Woodstock Zion
Events/Agreements:
Hiroshima Kyoto Munich Oslo Potsdam Seattle Yalta
Cheese:
Colby Munster Swiss American Cheddar Gruyere Limburg(er) Parme(san) Roma(no) Aveyron(nais) Roquefort Gloucester Cheshire Lancashire Leicester Wensleydale Caerphilly Derby Monterey (Jacks) Gorgonzola Tilsit Gouda
Elements
Americium Californium (California) Europium Francium (France) Gallium (Gallia, Latin name for France) Germanium (Germany) Polonium (Poland) Ruthenium (Ruthenia, Latin name for Russia) Scandium (Scandia, Latin name for Scandinavia) Thulium (Thule, ancient name for Scandinavia) Indium (India)
Berkelium (Berkley, home of Univ. of California) Erbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden) Hafnium (Hafnia, Latin name for Copenhagen) Holfrlium (Holmia, Latin name for Stockholm) Lutetium (Latetia, old name for Paris) Magnesium (Magnesia, district in Thessaly) Rhenium (Rhenus, Latin name for Rhine) Strontium (Strontiun, town in Scotland) Terbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden) Ytterbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden) Yttrium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)