Opinion
Why Is Trump So Obsessed With McKinley?
And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...
Louisiana schools to adopt ‘Gulf of America’ name in updated social studies standards
Louisiana is one of the first states to formally update social studies standards to reflect the renaming of the Gulf of ...
Louisiana Department of Education adjusts framework to reflect Gulf of America name change
According to LDOE, the Freedom Framework for social studies standards references the Gulf in two areas -- fourth and fifth grade. These changes will be enacted in the 2025-2026 school year and schools ...
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MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want
The companies say they follow the naming conventions from the US Geographic Names Information System. In tweets, the decades-old MapQuest joked that it had lost the ability to update itself when ...
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Journally Speaking: The Gulf
While the US government can change the name of US geographical features in official domestic documents, and other countries could change their terminology, there is no obligation for the latter to ...
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It’s not just the Gulf of Mexico. Why is so much of America named after foreign countries?
We began our search for clues in the Geographic Names Information System, a mother lode of almost 2.3 million officially designated streams, summits, seas and cemeteries. We used a lengthier list ...
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Greater Cincinnati park Voice of America changes to Voice of Mexico on Google
In the U.S., the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has officially updated 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of America.' As we announced two weeks ago and consistent with our longstanding ...
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Louisiana Department of Education adjusts framework to reflect Gulf of America name change
Other organizations such as the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, National Weather Service (NWS), National Hurricane Center (NHC) and U.S. Geographic Names Information System have ...
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Mexico presses case against Google over Gulf of America name change
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum accused Google on Monday of violating the country’s sovereignty, leaving open the possibility of a lawsuit over the tech company labeling the Gulf of Mexico ...
The Indianapolis Star23d
'Gulf of Fragile Masculinity.' MapQuest allows users to rename the Gulf of America. Here's how
The Geographic Names Information System, which is part of the United States Geological Survey, supplies the designated names used in Google Maps. The gulf name will appear differently for people ...
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Louisiana schools to adopt ‘Gulf of America’ name in updated social studies standards
Since the order, federal agencies such as the National Weather Service (NWS), National Hurricane Center (NHC), and U.S. Geographic Names Information System have adopted the new name for hurricane ...