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Oxford

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September 10th 2006
I believe that the people from Oxford should receive the New Zealand prize for literal naming. We are proud of our naming abilities. We have: One Tree Hill: so called because it had... one tree North Island: because, you know, it's North. I'm sure we can all think of many other examples. However years before we even got going on the literal naming thing which we mark as part of our national ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more