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aaronbrethorst 50 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony

And New York was new Amsterdam before the USA and a lot more people came through new Amsterdam

Why they changed it, I can't say, people just liked it better that way.

eliasson 50 days ago [–]

Haha, clever!

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