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To: headstamp 2
When I heard he had renamed a mountain that is what I feared.

Mt Obozo if I had my way.

Denali is a good name, I'm OK with that.

29 posted on 08/30/2015 6:32:07 PM PDT by Ditter ( God Bless Texas!)
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To: Ditter

Info:

“In 1896, a gold prospector named it McKinley as political support for then-presidential candidate William McKinley, who became president the following year. The United States formally recognized the name Mount McKinley after President Wilson signed the Mount McKinley National Park Act of February 26, 1917.[21] The Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed the name of the mountain to Denali, which is how it is referred to locally. However, a 1975 request by the Alaska state legislature to the United States Board on Geographic Names to do the same was blocked by Ohio congressman Ralph Regula, whose district included McKinley’s hometown of Canton.[22]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali


35 posted on 08/30/2015 6:35:59 PM PDT by TexasGator
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