11 Places Whose Names We Eat or Drink

January 17, 2012 / / History, List

PLACE FOOD or DRINK 1. Alaska, USA […]

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5 Places with Unlikely Names

January 13, 2012 / / History, List, Uncategorized

1. Cape of Good Hope When the Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias discovered the southern tip of Africa in 1488, the seas were so violent he called it the Cape of Storms. The nickname was hardly likely to encourage business through this new gateway to India, so Portugal’s King John II changed it to the Cape […]

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