[stuckincali]

Columbia (/kəˈlʌmbiə/; kə-LUM-bee-ə) is the female personification of the United States. It was also a historical name applied to the Americas and to the New World. The association has given rise to the names of many American places, objects, institutions and companies; such as: Columbia University, the District of Columbia (U.S. capital), "Hail, Columbia" (unofficial national and official vice-presidential anthem), as well as the ship Columbia Rediviva, which would give its name to the Columbia River. Images of the Statue of Liberty (erected in 1886) largely displaced personified Columbia as the female symbol of the United States by around 1920, although Lady Liberty was seen[by whom?] as an aspect of Columbia.[1] Columbia is a New Latin toponym, in use since the 1730s with reference to the Thirteen Colonies which would go on to form the United States. It originated from the name of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and from the ending -ia, common in Latin names of countries (paralleling Britannia, Gallia, and others).

[11th_VA]

Columbia

Isn’t she on the Capitol? She needs to go, tear her down

[stanne]

Thanks stuckincali.

Sometimes those autocorrects are Freudian slips.

I was stationed at Columbus AFB twice. Columbia, Columbus. Ever intertwined in Americana. Which is under assault