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 === Europe ===
-=== Iceland ===
+=== === Greenland  & Iceland ===
 === Mid East ===
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 === Indus, India, Indonesia ===
-* "Indus" is the name for the river that gives the name for India
+*'''Indus''' is the name for the river that gives the name for India
 ** the Indus River is in Pakistan
 ** "indus" = indo-european word for "river
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 ** "Indonesia" therefore "islands of India"
-=== Greenland ===
+=== United States ===
+* '''Accident, MD'''
+** early settlement in western Maryland
+** a competing survey of property "by accident" made a claim of the other's property
+** people from Accident call themselves, "Accidentals"
+** source: [[https://digital.whilbr.org/digital/collection/p16715coll6 Pictory History of Accident, Maryland, (WHILBR)]]
+* '''Telluride, Co'''
+** named for the mineral "tellurium"
+** located amidst the largest concentration of 14,000 ft mountains in the U.S.
+** the apocryphal origin is that, due to the treacherous mountains, miners warned those who wanted to strike gold there, "To Hell You Ride!"
 == Political geography fun facts ==