Gotham
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Gotham (gŏth´əm) is a a town in Nottinghamshire, England. It is also a sobriquet for New York City first used by Washington Irving in the Salmagundi Papers (1807), as a satirical reference to the tales of the "Wise fools of Gotham" told about the English town.<ref name="ce">“Gotham” The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001–04. www.bartleby.com/65/. Accessed on 2006-10-22.</ref> The nickname was later appropriated by Bob Kane for Gotham City in his Batman series of comic books.<ref name="ce" />
Gotham may also refer to:
- Gotham, a poem by Charles Churchill written in 1764
- Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, a pulitzer prize-winning book by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
- Gotham!, an album by Radio 4
- Gotham, an album by Bauhaus
- Gotham Awards, an independent film advocacy organization based in New York
- Gotham Gazette, a journal in New York City
- Gotham, Inc, an ad agency operateed by Interpublic Group
- Project Gotham Racing, a video game
- Gotham Records, an independent record label founded in 1994
- Gotham (typeface), a typeface by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones.
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