Blue3
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« on: August 30, 2015, 04:49:50 PM » |
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« edited: August 30, 2015, 04:52:01 PM by Blue3 »
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President Obama to restore Mt. McKinley's name to Denali on visit to Alaska (it's the highest mountain in North America, Denali is its native name, meaning "the High One.")
Apparently Alaska changed its name back to Denali officially decades ago, but politicians in Ohio have been blocking the federal government from doing the same ever since. Why Ohio? Because it's named after Ohio politician William McKinley when its discoverer found out he won the Republican nomination in 1896 (he went on to become President).
Why am I posting this here? Because this was inevitably get a Republican backlash and become a side issue of some kind.
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