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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
There's the Potsdam Dutch and the Rotterdam Dutch
And the Amsterdam Dutch...

Interestingly, Amsterdam and Rotterdam were named after dams, but the name Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin located about 400 miles from the other two cities, is of Slavic origin.

18 posted on 03/27/2010 7:35:01 AM PDT by Taft in '52
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To: Taft in '52

Tell someone to gives a damn ;)


20 posted on 03/27/2010 7:37:24 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The naked casuistry of the high priests of Warmism would make a Jesuit blush.)
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