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To: presidio9

Chad. The only country in the world named after a guy.


3 posted on 08/18/2006 8:52:23 AM PDT by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." - Douglas MacArthur)
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To: RexBeach

"Chad. The only country in the world named after a guy " and China was named after a women wrestler!


32 posted on 08/18/2006 9:07:55 AM PDT by BubbaBobTX (I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
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To: RexBeach
Chad. The only country in the world named after a guy.

I thought Kofi Annon renamed it that after George Bush stole the 2000 election.

49 posted on 08/18/2006 9:56:04 AM PDT by presidio9 (“The term ‘civilians’ does not exist in Islamic religious law.”)
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To: RexBeach

Not the only country. Togo West was former Secretary of the Army.


52 posted on 08/18/2006 10:57:29 AM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: RexBeach

"Chad. The only country in the world named after a guy."

Wasn't he hanged?


66 posted on 08/20/2006 7:09:54 PM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: RexBeach
Chad. The only country in the world named after a guy.

I always learn by reading FR posts. Here I was, all along thinking that the country was named after a hanging part of a ballot ;-)

82 posted on 08/21/2006 1:44:41 PM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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