^ Thanks Mr Downtown.
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Originally Posted by Pilton
An explanation. Don't know how accurate it is.
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Great find - it even (tangentially) brings up the cow. Well it sounds accurate, especially if Cecil Adams's research includes that detailed input from Dennis McClendon.
Speaking of Dennis McClendon, I have a question. I was recently embarrassed by a gaggle of twelve-year-olds when I watched the National Geographic Bee and saw the kids rattling off obscure mountain range and water feature names, all for rather big money. At the conclusion of this mild torment, one of the co sponsors came to the stage, and it was a guy who heads Google's mapping endeavors - and his name is
Brian McClendon. Could anybody here tell whether this is just cartographic coincidence, or whether Brian (originally from Kansas) and Dennis both are in fact from a first family of midwest mapmakers?