Wasn't there some small mid-western town which named itself Bismarck in the 19'th century?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/02/google.kansas.topeka/ ----------------------------------------snip At 79, Bill Bunten doesn't exactly understand the Internet boom. The Topeka, Kansas, mayor has an e-mail account, he said, but his assistants take care of most of his online communications and tend to search the Web for him. But Bunten believes so firmly that younger residents of Kansas' capital city will benefit from faster Internet connections that he wants Topeka -- which he describes as a place of many lakes and the site of a burgeoning market for animal-food research -- to change its name for a month. In a formal proclamation Monday, Bunten announced his city will be known as "Google" -- Google, Kansas. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
