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What’s in a Name?

The story behind America’s 26 towns called Moscow

Many of the places called Moscow in the US are tiny and with no apparent connection to Russia. So how did they get their name? Plus why residents of Berlin, New Hampshire don’t pronounce Berlin like the rest of us. And a failed socialist colony is commemorated in a Dallas skyscraper.

Image: A road sign in Moscow, Ohio in 1987. Credit: Ren Vasilyev

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Christmas Eve 201618:32GMT

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