From Blubberhouses to Crackpot and Fryup to Sexhow, North Yorkshire is a festival of funny place names, with many a hamlet ...

Part of a continuing weekly series on Alaska history by local historian David Reamer. The most common type of history question people ask me can be summed up as: “Why’s it named that?” Everyone lives ...

Many theories have been floated about the origin of the name "Oregon," but one has emerged as the most likely.

The first in our list of state name origins, Alabama is named after the river that European explorers named for a local Native American tribe, according to the Alabama Department of Archives and ...

Like Christmas trees, Santa and reindeer, the poinsettia has long been a ubiquitous symbol of the holiday season in the U.S. and across Europe. But now, nearly 200 years after the plant with the ...

Lydia — Meaning "woman from Lydia," this name holds Greek origins. Luella — With French and German roots, Luella means ...

President Donald Trump called on the Cleveland Guardians to restore their former name during the weekend and thrust a decades-long debate about the franchise’s former mascot and identity back into the ...

When Kyley Majmudar learned she was pregnant, she was clear about one thing: her baby would have her last name. If she and her boyfriend eventually married, she reasoned, the name could always be ...