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Re: What's new?

Posted By: Lucky Wizard, on host 71.111.130.20
Date: Friday, April 21, 2006, at 00:29:10
In Reply To: Re: What's new? posted by Sam on Thursday, April 20, 2006, at 14:20:43:

> - The largest city in Maine and the largest city in Oregon are both named Portland.

As a sidenote, there is a story behind this one. Asa Lovejoy and Francis Pettygrove, the founders of Portland, Oregon, each wanted to name it after his hometown. Lovejoy was from Boston, and Pettygrove was from Portland (the one in Maine, obviously). They decided to flip a coin to decide the name, Pettygrove won, and we know the rest.

Lucky "Of course, even if Lovejoy had won, we'd still have that little statistic, only we'd change 'Maine' to 'Massachusetts' and 'Portland' to 'Boston' in that sentence..." Wizard

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Message:	> > - The largest city in Maine and the largest city in Oregon are both named Portland. > > As a sidenote, there is a story behind this one. Asa Lovejoy and Francis Pettygrove, the founders of Portland, Oregon, each wanted to name it after his hometown. Lovejoy was from Boston, and Pettygrove was from Portland (the one in Maine, obviously). They decided to flip a coin to decide the name, Pettygrove won, and we know the rest. > > Lucky "Of course, even if Lovejoy had won, we'd still have that little statistic, only we'd change 'Maine' to 'Massachusetts' and 'Portland' to 'Boston' in that sentence..." Wizard
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