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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I had no idea that so many places were named after him. It's interesting that all (I think) of the first hits on Google, when I did a cursory search of his name, were about the little town in Mississippi. The mountain in Australia is certainly larger. More people might see the general's name from the street sign in _downtown_ Los Angeles than see it concerning the town in Mississippi. But the town gets all of the first few(?) hits. Being Winfrey's hometown probably helps.
Koscius(z)ko really must have been "somebody" in his day. I'm glad that Charles River Editors has, in effect, acknowledged that by creating this book about him. Thanks, Little.Egret, for posting it, and all of the CRE books that you do.
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How could there be a discussion of things named after Kosciuszko without a mention of the Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens? Especially when the bridge was rebuilt recently, and the old one was blown up in a controlled explosion just last fall.
No one knows quite how to pronounce the name of the bridge (Polish pronunciation, American pronunciation, hybrid pronunciation)--it was amusing to listen to various news anchors and reporters and officials with their varying takes on the name (there was some controversy about the explosion, so it was in the news for a bit).