Bismarck is the capital of North Dakota a couple of hundred miles or so to the south of me. It is a small city.
Cheers, k hanly Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html --- On Tue, 3/2/10, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > From: raghu <[email protected]> > Subject: [Pen-l] heights of absurdity > To: "Progressive Economics" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 4:38 PM > 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 > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
