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As a Brit that map at the bottom is very confusing. A Bristol not to far from a Glastonbury, ok yeah, that makes sense but the map mustn't be north-oriented. Oh, and what's Manchester doing so close to Glastonbury, and that's not where Durham would be, or Norwich, or New Haven. Hmm.. and I didn't think we had a _New_ London.

https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/da3386ad-a465-4e41-834e-354...

Also, Cheshire is a county in the north of England so the whole article was very confusing from the get go as to where this station was located. Here it is on Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aEWT2L6QYqntYDDz5

Bolton, Kensington, Oxford, Coventry, and—slightly left field—Berlin are also nearby.

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The 42 degrees north goes through the northern US and northern Spain, but is well south of England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_parallel_north The New is also a hint aka New York, New Jersey, etc.

It’s a map of Connecticut, USA.

There’s a reason they call the area New England. New York was New Amsterdam before the Brits took it over.

Old New York was once New Amsterdam...

Why they changed it I can't say

People just liked it better that way

… Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

Been a long time gone, oh Constantinople

Why did Constantinople get the works?

That's nobody's business but the Turks

For these wondering, this is the song

https://youtu.be/0XlO39kCQ-8?si=SPHrV99reR579yPn

Very catchy, it was re popularized by a netflix series a few years ago, j don't remember the name lf the series tho

Umbrella Academy? And Tiny Toons many years earlier.

Byzantion!

Byzantium

It's a Thracian settlement, and it had probably once been called Lygos too.

There were probably humans living here, although perhaps not in a large settlement, much earlier, it's a pretty nice place for humans to live.

Zoom out a bit and you get a whole bunch of Manchesters, and none of them had a Factory Records.

That's why it's called New England. Here out west, most of the anglo town names are the names of settlers (with exceptions like Richmond née upon Thames.)

I'm with you. I started reading and was like "wait.. this is not the Cheshire I know of - where has this been hiding".. Then on the map: Lebanon and Brooklyn.

Also Wallingford. I bet thats nothing like the Wallingford I know of (Oxfordshire Town)

So many places in the USA have matching British names I had to check to see if Brooklyn was one of them, but looks like it's named for a Dutch town, which makes sense.

Yeah, that’s a funny spelling of Breukelen, now an exurb of Amsterdam, NL.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/8o6xc5/r...

This sign is just for the singular state of Maine. Notice the two distinct "Sweden"s, and that ignores "New Sweden" we have way up north.

The colonists were not creative with names.

I stared at Google Earth for a while, using the 41:30 and 73 as a guide, but wasn't able to pinpoint the location of the site. With these huge vents, it shouldn't be too hard to find where this site was located.

Anyone an idea?

Well we wouldn't want the Russians to find out too would we.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/SpeEBjSmiDFAeqr17

Would guess you don't have a Mohawk either.

Wait until you find out how to correctly pronounce “Worcester.”

Wait until you learn we here in Connecticut also have hundreds of miles of stone walls, just like England!

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