Who Named the United States?

[Sid327]

 

[pgf_666]

Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and the other guy--John Adams?

The Declaration uses the phrase, although, I think, the 'united' wasn't capitalized. Corrected in the Constitutuon...

 

[Gnomey]

Interesting!

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Here's a little more trivia. Which State of the United States had its own embassy in London?

 

[Shortround6]

Amerigo Vespucci

 

[pbehn]

Here's a little more trivia. Which State of the United States had its own embassy in London?

Texas Hawaii or Louisiana are my guesses.

 

[Peter Gunn]

I can not tell a lie...


It was me.

 

[Valdez]

The Republic of Texas -

 

[Marcel]

Who named the United States? Someone with not much creativity.

 

[pbehn]

Who named the United States? Someone with not much creativity.

And a poor marketing background.

 

[Marcel]

And a poor marketing background.

We have got a couple of states. When we'll unite 'em we'll call 'em... Eh.. United States... Of eh...eh.. where are we again? North America? Ok eh.. United eh.. States o'.. eh America, 'ow does that sound?

The guy who thought that up must have had Dutch blood in his veins.