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- From: datepper@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Aaron Tepper)
- Subject: Re: 'Springfield' is NOT a city in all states!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.034116.2565@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:41:16 GMT
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- Jonathan Papai (PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu) writes:
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- Multiple townships with the same name in one state is
- >common. In Ohio, there are at least 20 of Washington, Jefferson,
- >Adams townships, along with lots of other dead white men, as well
- >as a lot of dead Indians having n>1 townships named after them.
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- And in Virginia, there are _two_ Richmonds!
-
- I should add that in Virginia, cities are politically separate
- from counties. So there is the City of Richmond in central VA, and
- Richmond County which is (I think) on the Chesapeake Bay.
-
- ObUL. Ummm, oh... Richmond does have the _real_ Santa Claus. Went to
- see him over break too.
-
- Tep
- --
- Did you really think I spoke for anyone else? Boy, you're gullible!
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