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Thread #103764   Message #2124531
Posted By: JohnInKansas
12-Aug-07 - 10:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions
Subject: RE: BS: Infrequently Asked Questions
London, England, and Paris, France is considered redundant ... ...

My DeLorme CD roadmap shows 17 "Londons" in the US in:

AL(2), AR, CA, IN, KS, KY, MI, MN(2), OH(2), PA, TN, TX, WI, WV.

Paris could mean any of 27 places in:

AR, CA, IA(3), ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NH, NY, OH(2), OR(2), PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI

Even Cairo and Rome each appears in 22 different places here.

For a large portion of the US population, when you say "Rome" without specific other qualification, it always means Rome, NY - the locale for Griffiss AFB, which is a major training, research, and maintenance base where, seemingly, everyone who's ever been in the US Air Force has "done some time."

John