To: Red Badger
Calcutta ain’t Calcutta, either........Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
234 posted on
11/26/2008 1:17:26 PM PST by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: dfwgator
Wasn’t Bombay the name the Brits gave the city? Like Peking was the Brit name for what was renamed Beijing. IIRC. It sounds like the Indian people prefer their own names for their own cities :)
241 posted on
11/26/2008 1:19:36 PM PST by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: dfwgator
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way I just can't picture Frank Sinatra singing......."New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam!...."
2,646 posted on
12/01/2008 5:32:43 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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