In June Mr. Berlusconi's Mediaset created a home-grown version of "Jersey Shore" called "Tamarreide," a play on "tamarro," slang that loosely translates as "white trash".
SPACE COAST SAVINGS Hotels in the Florida cities of Titusville, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne and Palm Bay, a stretch of Atlantic shore calling itself Florida's Space Coast, are offering special rates this summer.
North Wildwood, known for its beach, dining and nightlife, is in a resort area on the South Jersey shore called the Wildwoods.
And there's no hotel in the world where you can wake up, moored in the Ushkany Archipelago, four islands on the eastern shore called the Holy Nose, like something out of Gogol.
Gathering in its passage vast quantities of rock, soil and vegetation as it pushed southward, the glacier, like a retreating bulldozer, left in its wake quantities of debris that eventually formed the rich and spongy topsoil of eastern Long Island's south shore, called an outwash plain.
Concrete piles 30 metres deep are being cast in the ground, while 90,000 tonnes of rock is being brought on a barge from Norway to reshape this wave-battered stretch of shore, called Shakespeare beach, and build a solid new structure.
For an additional 90 minutes, destroyer crewmen rowed their boats along the shore calling out again and again to make sure no one was left behind.
In 1850, William Heath Davis promoted a new development by the Bay shore called "New San Diego", several miles south of the original settlement; however, for several decades the new development consisted only a few houses, a pier and an Army depot.
South (right) of the city is the island of Södermalm, where a cluster of buildings (see image of the southern city gate above) lined up along the shore called Tranbodarna were used to burn train oil (e.g. seal lard).
Portuguese sailors who risked washing up on its deadly shore called this desolate region that runs north from of the coastal resort town of Swakopmund to the Angolan border the "The Gates of Hell".
