Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Alaska on Norton Sound and the southern coast of Seward Peninsula. It was founded as a gold-mining camp in 1898 and became a boomtown during the gold rush.
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- proper noun
seaport in WestAlaska - proper noun
cape in WestAlaska
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Examples
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Marjorie Tahbone, a student from Nome, is one of the lucky ones who received scholarships.
Despite questions over ANCs, many pay out millions in dividends, scholarships, charitable donations Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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Sitnasuak, an Alaska native village corporation with offices above a gas station and convenience store in Nome, had struggled for years to remain afloat.
Bethesda consultant made millions with Alaska firm Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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The Alaska natives, in Nome and elsewhere in the state, continue to lag far behind the rest of the country in measurements of their overall health.
For many with a stake in Alaska native corporations, promise of a better life remains unfulfilled Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer 2010
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The Alaska natives, in Nome and elsewhere in the state, continue to lag far behind the rest of the country in measurements of their overall health.
For many with stake in Alaska native corporations, promise of better life remains unfulfilled Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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Marjorie Tahbone, a student from Nome, is one of the lucky ones who received scholarships.
Despite questions over ANCs, many pay out millions in dividends, scholarships, charitable donations Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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The Alaska natives, in Nome and elsewhere in the state, continue to lag far behind the rest of the country in measurements of their overall health.
For many with stake in Alaska native corporations, promise of better life remains unfulfilled Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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None of the footage (the reenactments or “actual footage”) were filmed in Nome Alaska.
Is “The Fourth Kind” real or fake? Secrets revealed » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Since the 1960's there have been an unusual number of disappearances in Nome, Alaska.
Jenna Busch: The Fourth Kind Review Jenna Busch 2010
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The Alaska natives, in Nome and elsewhere in the state, continue to lag far behind the rest of the country in measurements of their overall health.
For many with stake in Alaska native corporations, promise of better life remains unfulfilled Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
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The Alaska natives, in Nome and elsewhere in the state, continue to lag far behind the rest of the country in measurements of their overall health.
In Alaska, a promise unmet Robert O'Harrow Jr. 2010
chained_bear commented on the word Nome
"When the miners registered the town with the U.S. Post Office to receive mail, they initially named the mining district Anvil City after a nearby rock that looked like the blacksmith's tool. The postal authorities, however, rejected the name because another Alaskan mining camp had already claimed the title, and so instead the boomtown was called Nome, after the cape of the same name thirteen miles to the east. The naming of Cape Nome is widely believed to have been the result of a cartographer's bad handwriting. A draftsman aboard HMS Herald, which was in search of the missing crew of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, had apparently written '? Name' on his map when the ship passed by a cape on the Seward Peninsula that had not been marked. When the map was later drawn in permanent pen, the cartographer mistook the question mark for a C and the 'Name' for 'Nome.' Some locals in Nome believe in another version. The Eskimo expression kn-no-me means 'I don't know' and is thought to have been the answer Natives gave when foreign visitors landing on the shore asked the likely question, 'What's the name of this place?'"
--Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic (NY and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 14n
(I'll add only that almost every place in America has that story told about how it was named--the Native inhabitants told the Europeans "I don't know" in their own language and the "name" stuck. But that doesn't necessarily mean it didn't happen.)
January 24, 2017