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A compilation of fascinating and interest-arousing United States place-name origins and their meanings. The thoroughly researched content includes such naming factors and sources as 1) names of historical events and person note 2) geographic features as determiners 3) Native Americans (Indians) 4) foreign language derivations 5) commemorative and commendatory 6) national and ethnographic 7) literary influences 8) unknown beginnings 9) possessive and personal 10) religious, mythical and classical 11) manufactured and contrived 12) humorous and odd.
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About the Author
Abraham Resnick, a native New Jerseyan, is a noted author and educator specializing in elementary and secondary social studies education. Prior to his retirement, he served for many years as a professor of education at Jersey City State College. He was the Director of the Instructional Materials Center at Rutgers University Graduate School of Education from 1956 to 1968. In 1975, he received that school's Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to Education. His most recent books treat the contributions of 105 lesser-known Americans to its country's history and a volume about the multiplicity of United States place-name origins. Dr. Resnick has had an outstanding career writing many student-level and professional books. His titles, include an array of subjects, including books about countries of the world, maps and globes, weather, money, American holidays, the Holocaust, the state of New Jersey, and ideas for teachers. He has received two writing awards from the National Council for Geographic Education as well as numerous honors. The author enlisted in the armed forces during World War II and served as a weatherman in the United States Army Air Corps. Dr. Resnick has received extensive field research opportunities from an array of countries including Japan, Bulgaria, Romania, the Soviet Union and its Siberian region. His experience and findings led to the publishing of a number of texts and enrichment books used in schools and libraries throughout the United States. Additionally, he has lived and worked on an Israeli kibbutz. Presently handicapped with a walking impairment, he enjoys reading, television watching of sporting events, visiting of friends and family and participating in stimulating discussions around his condo pool.
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- PublisheriUniverse
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1469758059
- ISBN 13 9781469758053
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages156
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