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To: Cowboy Bob

I guess that is why the opriginal settler named it ‘New York” after that ancient african tribal village of “York”


13 posted on 02/27/2014 11:43:12 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Mr. K

Actually, the original European settlers named it New Amsterdam, after the ancient African city of Amsterdam. The English renamed it after their conquest.


25 posted on 02/27/2014 11:53:04 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Mr. K

That’s “Yoke” to you muthaf@cka :o)


37 posted on 02/27/2014 12:23:38 PM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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To: Mr. K
I guess that is why the original settler named it ‘New York” after that ancient african tribal village of “York”

LOL

60 posted on 02/28/2014 9:48:12 AM PST by GOPJ ({David} "Gregory, usually as alert and twitchy as a squirrel, flat-lined." Richard Cohen NYT)
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To: Mr. K

LOL!


61 posted on 02/28/2014 9:48:44 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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