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    Default 05-19-2012, 06:07 PM
    Christopher Houston " Kit" Carson
    Otto Eduard Leopold, simply known as Otto von Bismarck
    Stephen Fuller Austin
    Alexandrina Victoria
    John Tyler
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    Default 05-19-2012, 07:11 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Odysseus View Post
    To be fair, the city was named after George, not the other way around. Similarly, most Franklins, Jeffersons and Lincolns were named after the people.
    I never said anything about origins, just that the name be a place as well as a name.

    Alexander Hague
    Bing Crosby
    Olivia Newton John
    Aaron Poole
    Troy Donahue
    Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
    When the delegates emerged from the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got?” Franklin replied, “A republic, madam, if you can keep it.”
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    Default 05-21-2012, 09:04 AM
    Chelsea Clinton.
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    Default 05-21-2012, 09:24 AM
    Santa Claus
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    Default 05-21-2012, 10:16 AM
    Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón
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    It is said that branches draw their life from the vine. Each is separate yet all are one as they share one life giving stem . The Bible tells us we are called to a similar union in life, our lives with the life of God. We are incorporated into him; made sharers in his life. Apart from this union we can do nothing.
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