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Sedino
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illinifan1987
skyIdub said:
Good news.....it looks like I'll go to work again and not take time off to watch our beloved Illini.


But, I will be able to watch from my hotel in Phoenix.

I'm not really sure how to wield these powers.
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You are the chosen one! Not watching this game live is your destiny...
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AZILL
I'm curious, and haven't bothered to even check, but who is the 'Official' that assigns names? It's very late here now, bedtime, and I'll likely forget about it tomorrow so figured I'd just throw it out there, lol.
 
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Brosky
I remember it well. Wysinger punched his ticket to big-time recruiters based on his sensational performance in state tournament games that spring. P.S. there is no gulf of america. It will always be referred to as the gulf of mexico. This is such a childish game.
 
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CompSciIllini
IlliniFaninHoosierLand said:
Gulf of Mexico is still the official name, no matter what Google Maps may say.
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Actually, "Gulf of America" is the official name by definition. Off topic, but this is something interesting I learned a couple weeks ago -- the US Geological Survey curates the official names of places. When someone uses Google Maps in the US, they will see the official names from this database. For example, when the Obama administration changed Mount McKinley to Denali, it changed in this database and was then reflected in Google Maps. A fun way to waste a few minutes is to look up your last name in the database to see which places have been named to specifically honor you. ;)
 
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Heisenbobble
CompSciIllini said:
Actually, "Gulf of America" is the official name by definition. Off topic, but this is something interesting I learned a couple weeks ago -- the US Geological Survey curates the official names of places. When someone uses Google Maps in the US, they will see the official names from this database. For example, when the Obama administration changed Mount McKinley to Denali, it changed in this database and was then reflected in Google Maps. A fun way to waste a few minutes is to look up your last name in the database to see which places have been named to specifically honor you. ;)
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It was known as Denali by the state of Alaska forever until the federal govt. changed it to Mt. McKinley in 1917. It was unofficially named that by a gold prospector in 1896. So really, the only thing the Obama Admin did was give its name officially back as Denali.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali–Mount_McKinley_naming_dispute

And it's the Gulf of Mexico.
 
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texillwek
Heisenbobble said:
It was known as Denali by the state of Alaska forever until the federal govt. changed it to Mt. McKinley in 1917.

And it's the Gulf of Mexico.
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But, uh, Alaska became a state in 1959.

And nobody that lives on or around the aforementioned body of water calls it the gulf of mexico or gulf of america. It's just "the gulf".

Looking forward to the new season starting tomorrow! GO ILLINI!!!
 
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Guest
CompSciIllini said:
Actually, "Gulf of America" is the official name by definition. Off topic, but this is something interesting I learned a couple weeks ago -- the US Geological Survey curates the official names of places. When someone uses Google Maps in the US, they will see the official names from this database. For example, when the Obama administration changed Mount McKinley to Denali, it changed in this database and was then reflected in Google Maps. A fun way to waste a few minutes is to look up your last name in the database to see which places have been named to specifically honor you. ;)
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I know I will get pounded for this, but actually Gulf of America makes more sense since “America” does not just refer to the United States but is all the land from the top of Canada and Alaska to the bottom of South America. I always wonder how the United States came to be known as America since the official name is the United States of America (note the “of” part), as in “part of America". So, technically we should be called United Statesians. Okay, commence the flames.
 
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WolfpackIllini
Everything aligns except for Mexico's full name being the United States of Mexico.
Go figure
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NarrowJ
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I know I will get pounded for this, but actually Gulf of America makes more sense since “America” does not just refer to the United States but is all the land from the top of Canada and Alaska to the bottom of South America. I always wonder how the United States came to be known as America since the official name is the United States of America (note the “of” part), as in “part of America". So, technically we should be called United Statesians. Okay, commence the flames.
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I don't care what they call it, so my feeling on the matter is that even $1 of taxpayer monies spent on renaming it was too much lol
 
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21ChampaignSt
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I know I will get pounded for this, but actually Gulf of America makes more sense since “America” does not just refer to the United States but is all the land from the top of Canada and Alaska to the bottom of South America. I always wonder how the United States came to be known as America since the official name is the United States of America (note the “of” part), as in “part of America". So, technically we should be called United Statesians. Okay, commence the flames.
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It goes back to colonial times when the "United States of America" was in its infancy and the inhabitants of this country needed a term to distinguish themselves from the British.

Also, and I can't stress this enough, people are lazy.
 
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RML
21ChampaignSt said:
It goes back to colonial times when the "United States of America" was in its infancy and the inhabitants of this country needed a term to distinguish themselves from the British.

Also, and I can't stress this enough, people are lazy.
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Interesting!!! And I suppose, back in the day, folks also referred to their state when identifying their citizenship. You were a Virginian or a New Yorker, etc. I seem to recall that there's some famous quote about the civil war changing "the United States" from a plural to a singular.

(Lol, even though it was assigned plural at birth. (Ducks head))
 
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RabidDawgClassic
Going back even further, none of it was called America until 1507 — named after an Italian, no less. Before then, European explorers called those land masses “the Indies” while some natives referred to their homeland as Zuania or Abya-Yala.

So… Gulf of Abya-Yala, anyone?
 
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