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From the Periodic Table

Elements named after countries or regions:
  • Americium: (Am): The Americas
  • Europium: (Eu): Europe
  • Francium: (Fr): France
  • Gallium: (Ga): Latin name for France (Gallia)
  • Germanium: (Ge): Germany
  • Hassium: (Hs): The German state of Hesse
  • Nihonium: (Nh): Japan (Nihon)
  • Polonium: (Po): Poland
  • Rhenium: (Re): Latin name for the Rhine river and region (Rhenus)
  • Ruthenium: (Ru): Latin name for Russia (Ruthenia)
  • Scandium: (Sc): Scandinavia (Scandia)
  • Tennessine: (Ts): The US state of Tennessee
Elements named after cities or locations:
  • Berkelium: (Bk): Berkeley, California, USA
  • Californium: (Cf): California, USA
  • Darmstadtium: (Ds): Darmstadt, Germany
  • Dubnium: (Db): Dubna, Russia
  • Hafnium: (Hf): Latin name for Copenhagen, Denmark (Hafnia)
  • Holmium: (Ho): Latin name for Stockholm, Sweden (Holmia)
  • Livermorium: (Lv): Lawrence* Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California
  • Lutetium: (Lu): Ancient name for Paris, France (Lutecia)
  • Moscovium: (Mc): Moscow Oblast, Russia
  • Strontium: (Sr): Strontian, Scotland
  • Terbium: (Tb), Ytterbium (Yb), Erbium (Er), Yttrium (Y): The village of Ytterby, Sweden
Elements indirectly named after places:
  • Indium: (In): Named for the indigo line in its spectrum, related to India
  • Magnesium: (Mg) and Manganese (Mn): Named for the Magnesia region in Greece
  • Thulium: (Tm): An ancient Greek name for the remote northern land of Thule, likely referring to a location in Scandinavia
*with Lawrencium. a synthetic, highly radioactive chemical element with the symbol Lr and atomic number 103, named after physicist Ernest Lawrence. .
 
There has been some outrage over both the axing of Stephen Colbert and more recently Jimmy Kimmel , i did not want to clog up the threads where they were placed with off topic stuff.
This seems like the perfect place.
If you look at the ratings charts, one can see that the ratings for the big three in late night wasteful TV have been consistently falling for some years.
These figures are a bit dated, but the trend was well in place.

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