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 Alternatively, it could be a reference to Ironhook Prison, from the default setting of the 2017 tabletop role-playing game Blades in the Dark.
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-| The Thousand Spires || The City of a Hundred Spires / City of Dreaming Spires|| Prague / Oxford.
+| The Thousand Spires || The City of a Hundred Spires / City of Dreaming Spires|| Prague / Oxford OR Kredik Shaw from the Mistborn novels(known as the Hill of a Thousand Spires).
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 | The Graveyard of Kings || The Graveyard of Champions / City of Kings / Graveyard of Empires || ''Graveyard'': Court 2 at Wimbledon, where former champions are often defeated (the playing environment is very different from Centre Court and Court One, which are larger and where games involving highly-ranked players are preferentially located). The comic was released one day after the 2017 Wimbledon Championships were finished. ''Kings'': Nickname of [[wikipedia:Lima|Lima, Peru]] and [[wikipedia:Palermo|Palermo, Sicily]]. The {{w|Valley of the Kings}} in Egypt is literally a graveyard of kings, namely the Pharaohs.

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 | The Winged City
 | The Windy City
-| Chicago. Possibly also [http://www.airport-technology.com/projects/incheon-international-airport/ Incheon International Airport (ICA/RKSI), South Korea].
+| Chicago. Possibly also [https://www.airport-technology.com/projects/incheon-international-airport/ Incheon International Airport (ICA/RKSI), South Korea].
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 | The Hot Tamale
 | {{w|Hot Tamales}}
-| Possibly a reference to the term [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=big%20enchilada big enchilada] (something of great importance).  In the movie <i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film) Independence Day]</i>, the phrase "Big Tamale" is used in a similar manner as "Big Enchilada" to describe the alien fighter held at Area 51.
+| Possibly a reference to the term [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=big%20enchilada big enchilada] (something of great importance).  In the movie <i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film) Independence Day]</i>, the phrase "Big Tamale" is used in a similar manner as "Big Enchilada" to describe the alien fighter held at Area 51.
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 | {{w|Old Ironsides}}
 | Old Ironsides is a nickname for the USS Constitution (docked in Charlestown, MA). Ol' Ironhook may be a conflation of Old Ironsides (also a nickname for English Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell) with Old Hookey (a nickname for Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, English general and PM, who was also nicknamed The Iron Duke) or Old Kinderhook (a nickname for US President Martin Van Buren).
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 | The Thousand Spires || The City of a Hundred Spires / City of Dreaming Spires|| Prague / Oxford.

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 | The City of Many Daughters || {{w|City of Daughters}} || Might be a reference to the {{w|City of Daughters|''City of Daughters''}} album by [[wikipedia:Destroyer (band)|Destroyer]].
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-| Big Mauve || [[wikipedia: Big_Red|Big Red]] || "Big Red" is the name of both a [[wikipedia: Big_Red_(drink)|soda]] and a chewing gum by Wrigley's. The Cornell teams are known as the [[wikipedia:Cornell Big Red|Big Red]] as is Western Kentucky's mascot [[wikipedia:Big Red (Western Kentucky University)|Big Red]].  The Dartmouth football team is the Big Green.  IBM is sometimes known as Big Blue.
+| Big Mauve || [[wikipedia: Big_Red|Big Red]] || "Big Red" is the name of both a [[wikipedia: Big_Red_(drink)|soda]] and a [[wikipedia: Big_Red_(gum)|chewing gum]] by Wrigley's. The Cornell teams are known as the [[wikipedia:Cornell Big Red|Big Red]] as is Western Kentucky's mascot [[wikipedia:Big Red (Western Kentucky University)|Big Red]].  The Dartmouth football team is the Big Green.  IBM is sometimes known as Big Blue.
-{{w|Mauve}}, meanwhile, is a pale purple color named after the French word for the {{w|malva}} flower.
+{{w|Mauve}}, meanwhile, is a specific pale purple color named after the French word for the {{w|mallow}} flower.
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 | The Glass Cradle || [[wikipedia:The Glass Menagerie|The Glass Menagerie]]  || A play by Tennessee Williams. Or Golden Cradle, referencing  Mesopotamia.

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 | Treasurers || || A {{w|treasurer}} is a person in charge of running the treasury of an organization, for example a governmental department.  The Auditors were characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books who did the book-keeping for reality, and wanted to simplify the universe by destroying life.
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-| Swamp Watchers || ||
+| Swamp Watchers || || Possibly a reference to the {{w|Watcher in the Water}}.
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 | Dream Farmers || The Dream Factory || Hollywood, California, in its role as the center of the American film industry.

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 | The Road Source ||{{w|Rome}} || From the saying that {{w|All Roads Lead to Rome}}. Possibly Rome's antipode (in the Pacific Ocean, a little east of New Zealand), since the saying makes Rome the Road Sink.
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-| London Prime || London || In the DC comics, to incorporate multiple continuties, there were multiple universes. London Prime would be "real  London" on Earth Prime. Various cities named {{w|New London}} in the United States and elsewhere are imagined as London in alternate continuities. Alternatively in mathematics, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)#Use_in_mathematics.2C_statistics.2C_and_science prime mark], x' can be the next iteration of variable x.
+| London Prime || London || In the DC comics, to incorporate multiple continuities, there were multiple universes. London Prime would be "real  London" on Earth Prime. Various cities named {{w|New London}} in the United States and elsewhere are imagined as London in alternate continuities. Alternatively in mathematics, a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol)#Use_in_mathematics.2C_statistics.2C_and_science prime mark], x' can be the next iteration of variable x.
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 | Hamtown || {{w|Boston}}, {{w|Hamburg}}, {{w|Toronto}}  || Boston is known as [[wikipedia:Boston nicknames|beantown]], pork and beans are commonly cooked together (as in {{w|Boston baked beans}}), and ham is a form of pork.  The German word ''Burg'' means castle or fort and is often used as suffix for town names. The origin of the prefix ''Ham'' is uncertain, but the food {{w|Hamburger}} derives from this city and ''Hamburger'' in German is the demonym of Hamburg. Toronto is sometimes nicknamed Hogtown.

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	The title text contains made up {{w\|demonym}}s in the same pattern. A demonym is a word for the people who live in a particular place. They are typically derived from the name of the place (e.g. "St. Louisan" for people from St. Louis, or New Yorker for those from New York), but some regions have an {{w\|Demonym#Informal\|informal demonym}} that can be used colloquially by those familiar with the place to refer to its residents (e.g. Hoosier for people from Indiana).		The title text contains made up {{w\|demonym}}s in the same pattern. A demonym is a word for the people who live in a particular place. They are typically derived from the name of the place (e.g. "St. Louisan" for people from St. Louis, or New Yorker for those from New York), but some regions have an {{w\|Demonym#Informal\|informal demonym}} that can be used colloquially by those familiar with the place to refer to its residents (e.g. Hoosier for people from Indiana).
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		+	Though Black Hat may have forgotten, it is more likely that he is messing with those around him

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