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To: Mears

“His mother’s maiden name was Tonkin,which is Welch.”

Then why is the Gulf of Tonkin off Vietnam?


46 posted on 05/13/2016 4:52:34 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: PLMerite

Tonkin is a corruption of Dong Kinh, the name of Hanoi during the Le Dynasty.


48 posted on 05/13/2016 6:06:41 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (The Cheater and the Eater got their asses beat by the Tweeter!)
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