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Within 10 miles of where I'm currently sat, in the North-East of
England, are Washington, New York and Philadelphia.

Obviously we just can't think of place names of our own and had to rip
off yours.

 

Don't forgot, Toronto and Quebec are just down the road.

But ripping off Canadian place names is really dredging the bottom of
the barrel, eh?

 

IIRC, Philadelphia was what the Greeks called Amman in the 3rd century BC.

 

I'm no expert on ancient Greek society, but I don't think they made it
as far as Newcastle.

On the other hand our Washington is the original one, and is so named
because it was once the family estate of some guy called George who
was briefly famous for being a filthy traitor to his country and then
was never heard from again.

 

I can see why, crap weather and it's full of geordies.

The bitterness is strong with this one.

 

The Romans did but they weren't impressed.
http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk

 

But why is there a Moscow near Glasgow?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow,_East_Ayrshire

HTH

 

They stole it from the state of Idaho of course.

Harry K

 

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Considering the predominance of antipodean accents in the Robin Hood (or
should it be renamed "The Ned Kelly") I think you could be right

 

bit of a cheesy answer that, innit

 

Yes, in the company of several UKRM people, perhaps including
yourself, and Molly in her pre-Molly days. That might have been the time
Bear drove me home to Barnet. I must have got there on the 307 and 313
buses.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

It's amazing, too, that those in the UK named their capital city
after a place in Canada...

Bob M.

 

Ten or fifteen years ago Channel 3 or 4 had a series on about car
design - halfhour shows, midweek. Can you remember this, the name &
suggest somewhere where copies might be avaiable? I have a multi-
format video, so anything except French, using the same physical
cassette will do. I want to contribute it to an auto museum, after
transfer to proper format, if needed. Thanks

 

Because Wishaw (Russia) if nearby. (Don't blame me, that's
how my FIL pronounced the name of his place of birth.)

 

Go to the library and look at a map of Massachusetts (US) and you'll
see that most are named after Briish cities /

 

Who were swept into SE Victoria and Tasmania by a second wave of
immigrants who took over their land.

20,000 years later European settlers arrived.

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005
WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".

 

yup - 23rd December 2001.

 

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never ...

you're pulling the old todger there, aren't you ?