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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I kind of romanticize the Age of Exploration. It must've been interesting to sail somewhere and land at a place that is not on any of your maps and say, "We shall name this place 'Rainmania'". And then you camp there and you're not sure if you're going to get swarmed by natives or eaten by giant heretofore unknown creatures or find a city of pure gold.
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I don't know if you're an Eddie Izzard fan, but in his Dressed to Kill video he has some very amusing comments about exploration, exploitation and empire building. Very liberal, but hilarious regardless of your political point of view I think.
Alot of names didn't take. One option for a recent day was the landing of, apparently, Swedish folks in the Delaware area -- the first to do so. They named their little place "New Sweden".
Obviously -- "New York" is famous, while "New Amsterdam" didn't hold except as a trivia question.