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Naming Bridges etc For Marginal Historical Figures Based On Gender

SafeSurfer · 2019-09-26 15:19:42

A new bridge over the river Barrow has been named the Rose FitzGerald Kennedy Bridge. A different name received more votes from the public. Rose Kennedy is, at best, a very marginal historical figure. The mother of a dead US president and senator. She was never elected to office, didn’t invent anything or discover a cure…

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#92 28-09-2019 04:02PM

whisky_galore

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ohnonotgmail wrote: »

a connection is a connection.

Desperate local angle.
Second generation gentrified "lace curtain Irish" i.e. a Yank.

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