Miranda's Miranda Fest: Places

• Public Places and Roads
• Other Places Within the United States
• Other Places Outside the United States
• Businesses

• Miranda, New Zealand... located near the Firth of Thames wetlands, and home to the Miranda Shorebird Centre.
• Via in Miranda... a road in Rome, Italy that runs near the Forum. My friend Sharon took this photo when she was traveling with Ian.
• Miranda-bad... a swimming pool in Amsterdam, I think on de Mirandalaan (-laan is a suffix meaning "avenue"). de Miranda was an important alderman or mayor in pre-WWII Amsterdam. de Mirandalaan 9, 1079 PA Amsterdam, the Netherlands (thanks Marc de Vries)
• Miranda Ave... a street in Palo Alto, CA
• Miranda Trail... one of the many trails at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, New Mexico. The trail was named after Miranda, a Mexican who Beaubian got to partner with him to secure the 1.5 million acre land grant from Mexico in 1846 that includes the current 127,000 acre ranch (from A Little History Lesson). There's also an Unofficial Philmont Scout Ranch Web Page. (Thanks Stu Margrey of Denton, MD, who says that he named his daughter after this trail.)

• Miranda, CA ...a tiny town in Southern Humboldt County, CA with population only a couple of hundred people, somewhere deep in the redwoods. (thanks GOLDJL@axe.humboldt.edu for the initial tip, and Andrew Jones, webmaster@humguide.com, for the URL)
• Miranda Beach, Florida... the setting for the movie Body Heat (thanks wgirl@primary.net)
• Miranda, South Dakota... (thanks, Miranda Lynn Marmorstein, chex12@hotmail.com)
• Miranda Green... a floodzone in Palo Alto, CA

• Miranda, Spain ...a tiny village in northern Spain (thanks lfrensen@xs4all.nl)
• Miranda, Spain... a region of Nothern Spain, from which the Count of Miranda originates. (Thanks, Albert Ron, who is descended from the Count of Miranda and is putting information about his family history on his website)
• Miranda, Portugal... a region in north-eastern Portugal, from which we get the language Mirandés, the cattle breed Mirandesa, and the wine Mirandés. (see Miscellaneous for more info)
• Miranda, Venezuela... a state in Venezuela, capital is Los Teques.
• Miranda River, Vancouver... (thanks, Miranda Lynn Marmorstein, chex12@hotmail.com)
• Many other Miranda Towns... from the Entisoft Extra page about Miranda, including Brazil, Colombia, and Puerto Rico (thanks to Andrew Jones, webmaster@humguide.com)
• Puerto Miranda... Venezuela

• Miranda Technologies, Inc.... A Canadian company (St-Laurent, Quebec), and owners of miranda.com
• Miranda Video ...a video rental store in Manila, Arkansas. At the time I thought it was in Oceola, because that's what the highway exit was marked, and it turns out there is another one nearer downtown Osceola, but this one was in Manila. Rob and I were driving back from Memphis in my brand new Honda, and it had gotten dark because I'd blown a tire outside of Graceland late on a Sunday afternoon and we were driving on my spare and couldn't go above 50 and we had stopped to get gas and a flashlight and anyway they were very nice people, and let me have this blank membership card.
• Hotel Miranda... a hotel in Majorca
• Miranda Homes... "To provide well built and stylish homes at the best possible prices", in Australia.
• Miranda Gardens Resort & Market... a motel in Miranda, California
• Miranda Hotel a hotel in Sydney, Australia
• Cafe Miranda... a restaurant on Oak Street in Rockland, ME, one of the food recommendation from the Old Granite Inn overlooking Rockland Harbor. Miranda Jane Fillebrown of Tenants Harbor (which is right next door to Rockland) says that the food at Cafe Miranda isn't that great.

I'm always looking for more Miranda trivia, so if you have any drop me an email. (I used to have a guestbook, but it got too much spam.)

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