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Old 04-30-2018, 07:49 AM   #980
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And then, of course, there's the Midnight Oil song titled Kosciusko, although it's about native Australian rights (or lack of) rather than the mountain or the Polish hero.

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Originally Posted by Little.Egret View Post
It's also the name of the highest mountain in Australia, Main Range of the Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kosciuszko

It was named by the Polish explorer Pawel Edmund Strzelecki in 1840

And when Elizabeth Moon needed a name for a huge spaceship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_a_Hero_(novel)

She selected Koskiusko
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