Tag: New York
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America in Five Cities
It dawned on me recently how the names and locations of the top 5 most populous cities in the United States tell the story of the nation: New York, in the east, with the English name, representing the history of our relationship with England. Los Angeles, in the west, with the Spanish name representing the…
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Thurlow Weed
Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. This guy, for better or worse, was like the Karl Rove of his time. The sources differ on the details about his life, but we know that before he turned into the Turd Blossom of the mid-19th century Weed apprenticed as a printer and editor of various…