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Old 10-July-2009, 09:43 AM
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Default Who named these places?

Some humor: First Iceland, a land of ice, was discovered, but perhaps few went there at first due to the ice; then another icy place was found, but was named Greenland as an advertising ploy, it being worse than Iceland. Then a new found land was discovered, called Newfoundland. Then they improved the naming somewhat, as Vinland maybe has vines.
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