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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:30, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

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Barren Island, Brooklyn

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  • ... that horse carcasses and trash from three of New York City's boroughs were once processed at Barren Island? Source: NY Times. "the accumulated daily animal dead of the nation's largest city ended up there. .... And then, on top of all that, was the endless stream of garbage, all the household waste of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx combined." These are three of the five boroughs of New York City.
    • ALT1:... that New York City's Barren Island was named after bears, not after its geography? Source: Same NY Times article as ALT0. "The name was apparently a corruption of an old Dutch word indicating the presence of bears, and became aptly descriptive as an English name only in later years."

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 05:42, 7 January 2018 (UTC).

  • 5x expanded, in time, long enough, sourced, inline hook citations check out, no apparent copyvios. Epicgenius, QPQ needed. --Usernameunique (talk) 07:49, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
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