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Lillehammer

Written by . Posted on February 18, 2010. Filed under Cities & Towns, Places. Tagged , , , , , . No comments.
The Lillehammer Coat of Arms

Host of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, Lillehammer, Norway, has a much easier name to track down than Nagano, Japan. According to Wikipedia Lillehammer was named after the old Hamar farm that was already there when the town was established on January 1, 1838. There … Read More →

Turin

Written by . Posted on February 15, 2010. Filed under Cities & Towns, Places. Tagged , , , , , , , , . No comments.
The Coat of Arms of Turin

While the Winter Olympics are on in Vancouver, we’ll be exploring the origins of the names of former host cities of the winter olympic games, working more or less in reverse chronological order. Today we’re looking at Turin, Italy. Turin, (Torino in Italian), was originally … Read More →