You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?
 
�            There’s a town in New York and one in Ontario named Swasti­ka as
well as a lake in Wyoming and a moun­tain in Ore­gon. The swasti­ka
was a pop­u­lar sym­bol long before the Nazis appro­pri­at­ed it.
 
�       Although Eric II, King of Nor­way (ruled 1280–1299), was nom­i­nal­ly
a Chris­t­ian, he had prob­lems with the Church. So, he earned the
nick­name “Priest Hater.” Why did peo­ple in Nor­way not like Eric
Blood­axe? Eric’s rule was reput­ed­ly harsh and despot­ic and so he fell
rapid­ly out of favour with the Nor­we­gian nobil­i­ty.
 
�       “Bald Knob” is always good for a chuck­le or two when you pass one
on the high­way. There are two towns named Bald Knob in the US and
one in Aus­tralia.
 
�       “Grant Bal­four” isn’t the best name if you’re a base­ball pitch­er. Still,
Grant Bal­four not only had a nice career as a Major League pitch­er,
but he’s also the all-time save and strike­out leader among Aus­tralian
MLB play­ers.
 
�            What Cheer, Iowa is notable for its name but lit­tle else. The town
was giv­en the name in 1865, although the rea­son for it is debat­ed.
Pop­u­la­tion 607 in 2020.
 
�            If you trav­el through Coun­ty Essex, Eng­land, you may vis­it the
vil­lage of Ugley. And if you go a few more miles to the west to
Coun­ty Here­ford­shire, you’ll end up in the ham­let of Nasty.
 
�       A nom de plume is just a fan­cy, French term for a “pen name.” Many
notable authors have used them, includ­ing Stephen King, who
some­times wrote as “Richard Bach­man.”
 
�            Swasti­ka Mukher­jee is the name of a pop­u­lar Indi­an actress born in
1980. The word swasti­ka, as well as the sym­bol, goes back to India
more than 3,500 years ago.
 
�       Lan­cast­er Coun­ty, Penn­syl­va­nia is home to the towns of Inter­course,
Par­adise, and Blue Ball, which is inter­est­ing con­sid­er­ing it’s the heart
of Amish coun­try.
 
�       Half­dan the Mild was a Viking king who got his nick­name for being
stingy with food but gen­er­ous with gold. His father was Eystein
Half­dans­son, or Eystein Fret.
 
�            Embar­rass, Min­neso­ta gets its unique name from the French word,
embar­rass, which means “to hin­der with obsta­cles or dif­fi­cul­ties.”
Appar­ent­ly, even the hearty voyageurs found the town’s extreme cold
a bit too much.
 
�       In the 1960s British sci-fi spy thriller TV show, The Pris­on­er, every
char­ac­ter had a num­ber for a name. Num­ber 6 was the name of the
main char­ac­ter.
 
�            Richard Braine was a British politi­cian with the UK Inde­pen­dence
Par­ty (UKIP). His oppo­nents liked to refer to him as “Dick Braine.”  
 
�            The town of Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! has the dubi­ous dis­tinc­tion of
being the only town in the world with two excla­ma­tion marks in its
name. It’s right ahead of West­ward Ho!, Eng­land.
 
�       A nom de guerre (“name of war”) is some­times used by gueril­las and
ter­ror­ists. “Car­los the Jack­al” was the nom de guerre of Venezue­lan
ter­ror­ist, Ilich Ramírez Sánchez.
 
�            Tau­ma­ta whakatangi­hanga koauau o tamatea turi puka­ka piki maunga-
horo nuku pokai when­ua ki tana tahu is the longest place name in the
world. It’s a Māori name for hill in New Zealand, which locals just
call “Tau­ma­ta.”
 
�            Har­ry Baals was the may­or of Fort Wayne, Indi­ana from 1934 to
1947, and again from 1951 until he died in 1954. His descen­dants
pro­nounce the name “Bales.”
 
�            The nick­name “Lefty” is quite pop­u­lar in the US with left­hand­ed
base­ball pitch­ers, but also some notable gang­sters. Mob­sters Frank
“Lefty” Rosen­thal and Ben­jamin “Lefty” Rug­giero  were two
noto­ri­ous left­ies. 
 
�            Llan­fair­p­wll­gwyn­gyll is the name of a quaint Welsh town on the
Island of Angle­sey. If you think you’ve mas­tered that, try its full
name, Llan­fair pwll­gwyn­gyll gogery chwyrn drob­wll llan tysilio gogo-
goch.
 
�            Iron­ic nick­names cross cul­tures and lan­guages. Men nick­named
“Slim” or “Tiny” are almost always large, as is the case in Span­ish-
speak­ing coun­tries with the name “Fla­co.”
 
�            Pick­away Coun­ty, Ohio has a num­ber of places named “Hitler,”
includ­ing Hitler Road and Hitler Park. The names come from an
influ­en­tial Ger­man Amer­i­can who was not relat­ed in any way to the
Hitler.
 
�            Alfon­so IX was the king of the Span­ish king­doms of Leon and
Gali­cia from 1188 to 1230. He played a major role in the Recon­quista,
but he’s best remem­bered as “The Slob­ber­er.”
 
�       Although Eng­lish-speak­ing tourists prob­a­bly gig­gle when they trav­el
through Con­dom, France, the French word means “field of the
con­flu­ence.”
 
�       Kash Reg­is­ter is the name of a man who was con­vict­ed of mur­der in
1979 but exon­er­at­ed in 2013. Reg­is­ter then cashed in when he was
award­ed $16.7 mil­lion for his wrong­ful con­vic­tion.
 
�            If you ever make it to Per­ry Coun­ty, Ken­tucky make sure to dri­ve
through Hap­py Val­ley before vis­it­ing the towns of Hap­py and Dwarf.
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OUT OF THE WATER AND INTO THE FRYING PAN
 
 
�            The whale shark is the largest fish in the world. Whale sharks can
grow to 50 feet long and despite the “whale” in its name, it’s 100%
fish.
 
�            Chica­go May­or Richard J. Daley gift­ed 18 bluegills — the Illi­nois
State fish — to the crown prince of Japan in 1960. Once in Japan, the
bluegills spread and became an inva­sive species.
 
�       Fish breathe oxy­gen through their gills. The gills dif­fuse the oxy­gen
through the fish’s mem­branes.
 
�            The coela­canth is a fish species that was believed to have been
extinct for 65 to 66 mil­lion years until one was caught off the coast of
South Africa in 1938. There are only two known species of
coela­canths: one that lives near the Comoros Islands off the east coast
of Africa, and one found in the waters off Sulawe­si, Indone­sia.
 
�            The con­sump­tion of fish on Fri­days dur­ing Lent is a Catholic
tra­di­tion that dates back to the Mid­dle Ages. Inter­est­ing­ly, beaver and
alli­ga­tor were exempt­ed.
 
�            Every US state has at least one “state fish.” Those in the
Cen­trar­chi­dae (sun­fish) fam­i­ly are the most pop­u­lar, which include
bass, bluegill, and crap­pie.
 
�       The bel­u­ga stur­geon is the largest fresh­wa­ter fish in the world. These
beasts can grow to 24 feet long and weigh 2,500 pounds but are only
found in the Caspi­an and the Black Sea basins. The world record was
3,463 lbs. and 23ft 7in long!
 
�            When the Nubian King Piye con­quered Egypt in 728 BCE, he
refused to meet with all but one of the chief­tains and “kings” of
Low­er Egypt­ian because they were “fish eaters.”
 
�            The name Fish Kill or Fishkill actu­al­ly means the oppo­site of what
you think. “Kill” is derived from the Dutch word for a creek so it
means “Fish Creek.”
 
�            A fish’s age can be deter­mined by count­ing rings on its scales or
those on its ear bones, which are known as otoliths. These are sim­i­lar
to the rings on trees.
 
�            “Pan fish” is the term in the US for fish that can fit neat­ly into a
fry­ing pan. Although many species can tech­ni­cal­ly fit the def­i­n­i­tion,
it’s gen­er­al­ly reserved for sun­fish, crap­pies, and perch.
 
�            The  muskel­lunge, or “muskie,” is the largest mem­ber of the
fresh­wa­ter pike fam­i­ly and native to North Amer­i­ca. Fero­cious
preda­tors, muskies have even tak­en bites out of swim­mers!
 
�            When fish gath­er for social rea­sons, such as mat­ing or pro­tec­tion,
they are “shoal­ing.” When that group begins mov­ing togeth­er in a
syn­chro­nized way then they are “school­ing.”
 
�            In Japan­ese mythol­o­gy, Namazu was a giant cat­fish that lived
under­ground and caused earth­quakes. He was espe­cial­ly asso­ci­at­ed
with Lake Biwa.
 
�            Unlike most fish, which give birth by lay­ing eggs, some shark
species — such as ham­mer­heads, bull, and blue sharks — give birth to
ful­ly formed “pups.”
 
�       Starfish and jel­ly­fish are not fish. A starfish is an echin­o­derm, while
a jel­ly­fish is cnidaria.
 
�            “Shore lunch­es” are pop­u­lar with recre­ation­al fish­er­men in North
Amer­i­ca. It sim­ply involves fry­ing any fish you caught that day in a
pan over a fire when back on shore or at a camp.
 
�            Carp includes a num­ber of oily fish species native to Eura­sia but
con­sid­ered inva­sive in most oth­er parts of the world. Gold­fish and koi
are mem­bers of the carp fam­i­ly, Cyprinidae.
 
�            Except for sharks, most fish don’t have eye­lids. Fish do, though,
have a rest cycle where their brain activ­i­ty and metab­o­lism are great­ly
reduced.
 
�            All fish have ver­ti­cal tail fins, while aquat­ic mam­mals, such as
dol­phins and whales, have hor­i­zon­tal tail fins. This is prob­a­bly due to
a strange quirk of evo­lu­tion.
 
�            The bur­bot is often referred to as an “eel-pout,” but it’s actu­al­ly in
the cod fam­i­ly. The bur­bot is the only fresh­wa­ter mem­ber of the cod
fam­i­ly.
 
�       Sea­hors­es are the only species of fish that swim upright. They’re also
notable for the male car­ry­ing the eggs and giv­ing birth to the brood.