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To: alancarp
But having a street named for a notorious English King sounds bizarre, just on general principles.

My thought, too. There are a lot of things named "Charles" in Boston, though, because they didn't rename the river.

Some place names were changed after the Revolution. Charleston, SC was originally Charles Town, and just changing the spelling was enough after the Revolution. Boston's State Street was once King Street. Crown Street in New York became Liberty Street. A King Street became Pine Street and Queen Street became Cedar, but as the city grew there was room for more King and Queen Streets.

There was this, though:


4 posted on 09/05/2017 6:52:32 AM PDT by x
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To: x

I’ve always thought that woman in the hat was over-dressed for the occasion.


7 posted on 09/05/2017 7:30:52 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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